What a ride, nice quest! loved/hated it, I mean, the journey is awesome, It forces you to do a good and depth enumeration on every place that you land… If not, it’s easy to fall in the feeling of f**k this guessing game.
Apart, It’s nice not being alone along the ride, saying this for all the hints,notes, etc. laying all over the place, the 90% of this, it’s a direct help for the next step.
The only problem, for me (IMHO), It’s the balance between the user and root. At least, in the Reddish quest, the user pops up at the “middle” of the road… Here appears right at the beginning of the journey, and when the "You've done well to come upto here human..." comes, you’re already with a fried-brain hoping not to see/need a new jump (at least, this is what happened to me ■■■■ 
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btw, good box, learned tons of new things, but I must vote for the “totally not a 40pts box” thing… 
Cheers!