GMed in low tier.
All of my players had an absolute blast with this one. They were already invested from the previous entry (#3-11), which is always a good start, but the skill challenge in particular jumped straight off the page - I barely had time to keep up with all of the ideas players were throwing at me! The encounters were both challenging and interesting, and they repeatedly rewarded player choices and ideas. My only complaint, and this is truly minor, is with the decision posed to the players at the end:
Ending Dscision:
Muesello says he's bailing out, and asks what he should go off to research. All of my players said "neither, stay in because these people are out killing Pathfinders to steal *your* wayfinders" and like... I honestly agree? It seems lame for him to just bail on an ongoing investigation like this, and leave Gloriana to pick up his slack.
However, this didn't take much away from the experience, which my group already declared one of their favorites.
Played once, GMed once. Great hook, both groups got *very* invested in the investigation, and the dungeon crawl was reasonably challenging. However, it's worth warning that both of my groups also ran long - I had to cut out one of the encounters entirely, just so we could finish before closing time of our LGS! That's really my only problem with the scenario, that running it in the future will probably need me to block out 5 hours rather than 4.
