Quest Issue: Sky: Druid Test of the Bear quest NPC unresponsive

[Mellyn]

Will Treewalker (spawned when you hand in the tome to the efreeti standing there in his place) does not respond to hails or any other combination of the following words, phrases, punctuation, and capitalization that I tried (too many to list - this is just an example):
druid
test
bear
i want to be tested
test me
test of the bear
what is the test
holy cow talk to me please or i'll cry

I did hand in the 3 items anyway, and he gave them right back:
Copper Disc
Mantle of Woven Grass
Nature Walker's Sky Emerald

Attempted this yesterday afternoon - to my knowledge nobody else has the items required to turn this in, so it may just be I got unlucky being the first to test it out on the (live) p99 server =\

When I handed him a copper coin though, he took that. He was also happy to attack me to help me make a corpse =p

I have screens of some of the one-sided conversation I had with Will, but they don't appear to be particularly helpful.

Thanks!
Melly~