Yes it did, and Here's how it's gonna go down.

Alright, well thanks to all the guys who've checked the blog and left comments and suggestions.

From those I've come to a plan - it's blunt but I'm just going to break down some options for you for next session and I'll try to have some things prepared for each of those situations, but ultimately it will boil down to a good deal of winging it again (another of those bare with me situations).

So last time you guys were caught by a random NPC in the catacombs below what you now know to be the Headquarters of the Cercators, the NPC closed a multitude of security gates behind him as he fled -

NOW FOR THE OPTIONS:

If any of you are concerned about the time line for the captains being executed you can at any time reveal yourselves to the cercators which will essentially give them cause to resume using them as hostages to force you to proceed doing what they want - though you all will also know that you've already broken the cercators ability to ever reproduce the cycle by freeing the Raven Queen, but have no idea what would happen to the Captains if the Cercators find out that they can never again try the cycle again (kind of the point of this second story arch).

You all know that after the hand of fate, if you move forward into the catacombs you will find one of the captains you seek, but I will remind you that going forward directly into the catacombs will lead to your revealing yourselves to the cercators and your margin for error will be very small (this amounts to every challenge you face being at the highest possible difficulty allowable for your level, which means it is completable, but likely not everyone will make it through to see the results)

As a freebie you guys will recognize that the drainage gates in the first room of the catacombs that I mentioned last time may lead into the sewers, this would get you into Rygenhijo the city through the sewers, but won't immediately lead to the captain you seek - downside the sewers may only be slightly less perilous than the catacombs.

Another option is to return to the lolth tower and seek out the dryad along the primary flow of the river, and hope she will be willing to show you a way to the next captain or Rygenhijo - but more likely if you recall the portal she had showed several locations that would each mostly match to a gatekeeper, as in perhaps this path would only lead you to another gatekeeper (and if Crusio was to be watching over you all again, he would likely be around one these gatekeepers waiting for you all to show up, and you might be able to find him) This will likely reveal yourselves to the cercators, but if you believe Crusio is a captain you might be able to find him there as well (warning, you have no idea how he will take the loss of his sister Lotus), but if you don't confront or find Crusio and just fight the gatekeeper this will likely be the path of least resistance.

Ok so you guys have a decision to make, you can do your chat on here or however, just try to have an idea in mind before next session.