There are 30 episodes planned for this game, for the record, with a break between episodes to make it into two distinct parts, if I remember reading about it right. The red door thing is not a bug, it's a deliberate choice, as far as I can tell. Standings change based on actions and choices you make throughout the game - I've stuck with Aether for everything so far, and so her bar's the highest, but I've been kind of mean to Liza, so hers are the lowest. Think of it as a relationship bar.
You get one skill point for every fifty feet ran, for the record, and it goes 5/10/30/50/90 for the 5 main skills, 20 each for the extras. So... 965 skill points. 20 skill points every 1000 feet, 100 skill points for every 5000 feet, so approximately 50,000 feet total (less than, really) to buy all the skills.
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