Hi Mage! Welcome to the forum.
Unfortunately I don't have any experience with this game. Hopefully someone who does will come by and post some ideas for you.
However, I've had trouble with Sierra games where the text goes by too fast to read - it's related to the CD not being in the drive (or, not in the right drive). Assuming you are playing from a CD, you might make sure it's in your D: drive (if you have two drives) or look around for an .ini file that installed with Kryandia, open it in notepad, and see if it gives a path for the CD drive. Don't know if it's the same issue as with the Sierra games but it's worth a try.
emily