Thanks for the feedback Varka.
I still have no clue what was going on, but I'll just have to find peace with that. Difficult for me since curiousity is my middle name.
As to the fact that we gained so little ground on the last quest. It happens, our position wasn't easy to begin with. There wasn't an obvious solution at hand and due to the groupsize and spreading, it was difficult to come to a consensus.
I think this should be a good learning experience. Next episode things might go a lot smoother.
It usually happens in quest series, that it takes a group some time to get used to each other.