I've been running CoT for a couple months now, my players have made it through the six trials, and are already 5th level.
It seems like the story awards aren't supposed to be divided... If I divide by the number of players, they're 4-5k xp behind where they should be, but if I don't divide, they're 3-4k ahead of where the module thinks they should be.
Part of that is them managing to get every single story award so far. I've been good about not softballing anything; other than the diplomacy award for Thesing in the first bit. That one I softballed, since the diplomacy dc is based off of Thesing's stats, which weren't included. Cleric got rolled in the high 20s so I gave it to them.
What am I doing wrong?