If I click during the story cutscene, the one that plays if you click the story box on the opening splash screen, it ends the cutscene. Would it be possible to give us some way to advance the text one line at a time as we finish reading, as opposed to either waiting for new words to come up or exiting the cutscene entirely?

Yep, that's reasonable! Not a super high priority right now but I'll put it on the list. Thanks for the suggestion!