"choice 1" did cause it to manually select the first option. You were being asked if it should choose Vlad, Isabelle or Masqurade and you told it to chose the first option, so it did. You only told it to answer 1 to the first option. After "choice 1" sent you to Vlads, there was another choice for "Visit the Castle", "Stalk the Night" or "Skulk in the Cemetary" so it consulted choiceAdventure546 to for the answer to that question and found it's goal was set to mysticality which was not an option for Vlad, so it aborted.
That's not exactly what happened, you should see from the output I posted that
choice 1 just puts me back to choosing from "choice 1: Visit Vlad's Boutique". I didn't post the rest, but this will repeat ad infinitum. The only way out of it is to go to the relay browser and select the choices manually.
Edit: Am I misunderstanding what
choice actually does? Am I supposed to do like
choice 1 2 3 2 2 3 or something? I thought the way it worked I could do
choice 1, then it would offer me the next set of choices (ie. visit the castle, etc.) and then I could type
choice 2 to choose which place to visit etc.