Encounters
The characters provided with this Quickstart adventure are not overly suited to combat. A couple of them are fairly tough, but as a group they are designed with a broad range of skills and abilities intended to enable them to resolve some of the more complex and nuanced parts of the mystery.
With this in mind, the encounters included in this Quickstart are intended to be diverse and challenging. The Director should take the time to read the encounters carefully so they can bring out the full potential of the encounters and the creatures and characters involved in them. If the characters end up mindlessly trading blows in the encoutners provided here they will have much less fun, and are much more likely to meet an unfortunate end.