Unable to control the flow of time while waiting for a refugee to be dealt with

The Mud Glugs.Save 54.octsav.gz

Nobeo escaped the Knife Hams. I captured them, and then the Knife Hams showed up to collect them. But now I'm sitting here at what feels like slow motion, with no ability to change the speed or pause.

When I reloaded from the save, it started in Pause and still didn't allow me to change the speed of time, so it's totally frozen. :(