I'm afraid I have to back out. I'm currently in a traditional, weekly CoS campaign, and seeing that the opening post contains a lot of information not yet known by our party even at the point where we are at-- I fear that continuing with this would spoil the exploration aspect of the regular campaign. I avoided reading parts of the OP for that reason, and that cannot bode well. 

This is totally my bad, I should've taken that into account sooner.

I wish you luck, hope you have fun!