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There are some innovative mechanics in the combat and a pretty cool item on the chronicle sheet, but everything that's fun about this adventure is undermined by the 'choice' that happens at the halfway point.
Whatever decision your party makes locks you out of the other and the mechanics that make the choices mutually exclusive feel extremely contrived (Oh these locations just happen to be an hour away in opposite directions. Oh taking one path just happens to create shockwaves that would make the other impossible. Oh there just happens to be Plot-School magic that creates a barrier that forces players in or out) If you want an object lesson in bad Railroading look no further than this sort of arbitrary nonsense that doesn't respect the players enough to even give them the illusion of agency.
Furthermore if your party is divided (as mine was) it pretty much guarantees that half of your party won't be having fun. That could potentially become more than half if one party member isn't feeling sporting and decides to leave off on their own effectively cutting off the encounter that most of the party wanted to play. In any event it's very easy for things to become hostile if your party isn't in agreement. Especially once, after you've made your choice, the scenario might ask you to be complicit in a war crime because you didn't already have enough reasons to fight with your party members. I've seriously never come so close to asking the GM for a ruling on PvP than I did with this adventure and I really hope I don't come that close again.
If you plan on running/playing this make sure your party is one that generally sees eye to eye on things (if such a party exists). Don't PUG this at a con if you can help it.
