Puzzle time limits or failure mode?

[AeroncaChamp]

A friend and I just started this game and twice, within a few minutes (10 or 15? we had just finished the second puzzle with the weird bird portraits ) we got kicked out with the message "Darkness Took Over" and a picture of the walkie-talkie, and the options to "restart from the last checkpoint" (but we hadn't reached any checkpoints yet) or quit. Does this mean we're going too slow? Making specific mistakes? I searched and am not finding an answer to this. We weren't able to make the walkie talkies work, so we're using a separate voice chat -- probably not related, but thought I'd mention it. Help!

[Beat]

Yes, there is a time limit to most of the stages except dungeon maze and maybe one else . The ticking of the clock in that room is getting faster and faster to remind you. The walkie talkies only work when you hold down V and it mutes the other person when you have V held down, just like a real walkie talkie. So only one of you can talk at once.

[AeroncaChamp]

Thanks! We weren't able to get voice working at all (even in the lobby), so I don't think that part was user error. Good to know everything else is on a timer. I didn't hear any ticking of the clock -- maybe I had my audio too low. I'll have to turn it up. My teammate has never used WASD to get around before, so we were definitely slow getting around to work the puzzles at times.