I'm having a lot of trouble following along here, Razgrey. I'm not sure if it's your GMing or how I'm reading it, but I could use some help understanding it. Things are happening that seem jarring, disconnected, and random. I mean, I like a good mystery, but I also don't want to feel like things are pulled with no continuity, if that makes sense.
And they're happening frequently. In two posts, we've had: a sudden, uncharacteristic tantrum and fleeing from your NPC, right after and equally uncharacteristic, sudden onset of head pain. Then the NPC is back to his normal dodgy self immediately.
In addition, he's introduced a book with whose subject has no seeming relevance, you're making cake appear from thin air, and, our characters haven't even gotten time to fill out our job applications before you dropped this on us.
I hope that sheds some light on why we're finding it difficult to respond adequately to your RP, it's just too many irregular, arbitrary events happening very fast and defying my sense of logic...and we have no clues regarding the circumstances.
And let me be totally clear here, I want to do my best to make this constructive criticism, not just complain. I was hoping to recommend better spacing of your surprises throughout the pacing of the story you want to tell.