I start at the portal, talk to the greeter and walk to the building behind him, which takes about 6 clicks total, if that helps. The building I reach says "new arrivals welcome" or something similar.
Maybe I will restart with a new party, because I don't remember this ever having happened on previous playthroughs (granted those were over a decade ago).
My other thought was that my system is speeding up game-time, but that doesn't seem likely as--like you said--time passes in clicks.