Missing NPC onscreen dialog

[Lycia]

Okay, I am feeling really stupid here. I am missing the onscreen dialog for NPC's. Like Rommies "I AM NICTUS!", that onscreen dialog. Not sure what happened to it. Just stopped showing up one day and I can't seem to get it back. Did I change something somewhere, I never remember that being a thing you could turn off. Suggestions?

[starro]

maybe Menu -> Options -> Windows tab -> Chat section -> check the chat balloons option and others in this section.