I really liked this one. I also played the first part so I knew the location already.
The story is pretty nice, but I have to admit that I was surprised because I did not expect what happened at all.
The challenges were a nice mix of skills checks and combat, and included skills challenged to avoid combat.
I played a druid and was versatile enough to be able to attempt every challenge.
Our party had a lot of martial characters so all combat encounters but one were easy for us.
Overall a nice and well written scenario (And thanks to the developer to allow us an action to prevent certain effects for one round).
I played this scenario as a player in a high tier group with a level 4 Cleric. We had people at dying 2 or 3 in every battle.
The challenge level of the opponents simply does not match what a group on this level can overcome with average difficulty. Encounters aren't supposed to be easy, but not every encounter should be a live of death challenge. Added to this issue is the fact that everything happens on the same day, so your spells etc. are depleted fast.
On the story progression side: We found out pretty early what was going on and who was responsible, but the scenario neither gives you the option to use that info there and then nor does it give you and advantage later in form of an advantage in a later encounter.
And I'd seriously advice to look at the final encounter again. Scenarios should not be designed in a way, that only fully optimized characters which are prepared for EVERY eventuality can complete an encounter.
If not for our awesome GM, we'd probably all be dead.
