Well I just tried to recreate the same events, but no matter what I do to which character I cannot reach game level 2 at the beggining as its on the second last picture. I tried 3 different new games and even tried to copy the skills and parameters of the hero in question to no avail. I thought the bug appeared because of some of my parameters were above 100 and hearing set to 1 but no.
I tried it with Cameron but everything seems normal, the game level stays at 1 after helping the lovely "ladies".
I try it once more with Kurt this time and see if it helps(I doubt it though)