You shouldn't have skipped the rest; you didn't make it to the scouting point in one turn, but everything looked fine on day one. As a result, the respawn was minimal, and you had little money. The shifted guard prevented you from going down the road to the Dungeon (although there was nothing to find there, as the exploration revealed). You couldn't reach the computer; there were blockades on the roads, and the Psionic creatures wouldn't have stood a chance, plus the opponent had a bugged path, and they took the computer on day two. Overall, there was no point in continuing.