Basically, we’ve got a couple of options for this week’s game:
1. We rule that you all (somehow) made it out of Thalgrim’s stronghold alive.
The assumption here will be that you fled at the next possible opportunity and probably evaded a few orcish warbands on the way back. As Caer Hwarnsvalon isn’t under any immediate threat, you’ll be free to escort the caravan back south to Bridhvale and we can pick things up from there (unless there’s anything else you’d like to do in the mountains first).
Here’s the small print:
- As things stand, your characters don’t actually know whether Thalgrim’s dead or not. He may very well be, after all surely no one could take that much punishment and survive (he was at -14 at the end of the adventure). But you don’t *know* for sure.
- As things stand, your horses are currently loose in the woods. It seems unlikely that you’d have the time to mount a search for them on the way out. The exception here will be anyone who didn’t actually tell me they were bringing their horse along in the first place (Jozan1 and Stryke).
- The chest’s currently lodged in a tree in the woods. Again, it seems unlikely that you’d have the space to retrieve it on the way out.
2. Alternatively, if any of these points are particularly important to you we can just pick things up from where we left off last Friday. I’ve still got your current status saved on my computer somewhere.
(And if anyone particularly cares…)
Pretty sure that last week's game was my worst one yet. Basically, I screwed up at the planning stage and was too tired on the night to improvise properly.
The original plan was that if you decided to rest somewhere near the mountain without a very sound plan then Thalgrim’s wolves would try to hound you back through the mountains. I had a few encounters worked out, which we should hopefully get the chance to use again at some point. Then I realised that this would be the opening game for at least one new player and chickened out. What you got was a couple of planned encounters and a couple more which were pretty much off the top of my head. The next game should be better or I’m hanging up my DMing badge.