Editing User:Bill/Thunderspire Mountain Enhanced (section)

===Session 2 - June 1, 2011===
This week only four players were in attendance. The weakness of the Encounters program is that it is an open game where the group composition can and will vary dramatically from week to week. In the previous season we had weeks with as many as a dozen players and one week with only three. In this instance it worked out well. The session was exclusively made up of roleplay, the closest thing to combat we had was a brief drinking contest. While I can manage a larger group for a roleplay intensive session, it becomes a bit confusing and players inevitably split up. It's also not the most exciting thing for some folks and it would have undoubtedly turned off somebody entirely that we didn't have any combat. I guess I could have thrown in a bar fight if necessary.

Over the course of the session a great deal of information was gathered and one of the important NPCs from the module was introduced. In the original material Brugg is a brutish ogre in charge of the enforcers who manage the Seven-Pillared Hall for the Mages of Saruun. As part of the upgrade for the module, I have revised the character to be an earth genasi who is as cunning as he is powerful. He's still a thug and a murderer, but now he's also smart. 

Helfyn, played by Dylan, and Thomas's cleric of The Raven Queen, Rook, ended up in an impromptu drinking contest with Brugg at Rothar's Taproom while Auden, played by Andrew, looked on and Seleme observed through her arcane eye. I probably should have run this as a skill challenge based on endurance. Instead I ended up just rolling a couple 12 sided dice and calling it non-lethal damage. It worked out and the guys played along well. The cleric passed out quickly and Dylan let his resistance to questioning falter as Helfyn got more and more drunk. In the end Brugg robbed both characters and learned that the group of adventurers is seeking the Bloodreavers. The party learned that Brugg is a dangerous and important person.

The remainder of the session consisted of Auden putting the drunks to bed after pickpocketing in the open-air market around the custom house and Seleme doing some exploring. The open-air market is my first addition to the Seven-Pillared Hall, but I can see some potential story opportunities there. Auden also managed to meet Bennik the Wanderer, a traveling minstrel, who referred him to Terrlen Darkseer to guide the party to the Chamber of Eyes.

Everyone received about equal screen time this week, though I think I might have shortchanged Andrew a little. He was a mostly regular attendee last season, so I expect he'll be back and I'll have the opportunity to give him more time.