Rappan Athuk book 1: session 2

So anyways. 2nd session of Rappan Athuk book 1 today (well, we played on 4/13/08).

It went smoothly, I wanted to sorta speed past these early level because I had ran this module before for two of the five (sometimes six) players, and while I changed some things on those levels, I didn't really alter a lot because last time I ran it it was already altered, and because Rappan is a huge dungeon and I want to get to the very bottom, or at least significantly far, into the this book (third book offers several endings and good end points and creative jumping off points, the second book also has several ways to convert the campaign to a different setting (this is very useful)if need be. So i wanna give em a running start because I can see several points where they will hit some painful (but not necessarily slowing walls). I'm working on everyone making full fleshed (or primordially so) so I can have insertion points for them.

They started at the entrance, and was surprised/failed to guess that they genuinenly had forgotten (except one guy) where the key to the entrance was, I was almost sort of hoping they would decide to go down the well (entrance to level 4, which has an entrance to level 6 and 9) but they were too conservative for that.

I killed off the guy who wanted it (he a had a last minute change of heart) and handled the death quite mysteriously, thereby prodding them forward with sense danger. I really got a kick out of the furtive glances I was receiving from the other players while they were fight some of the green gargoyles as each round I quietly asked the PC who was away from the party (out of field of vision for rest of the party) what his fortitude save was. After the round he said 13 I stopped asking and after the battle the others went to look for him, but could find no trace.