If the intimidation check had included the danger of the orcs, I would give a bonus on Nature checks.
It looks like doing diplomacy is your best bet.
Do you want to make seperate rolls or appoint a 'leader'?
Hint: If William succeeds, we will only need one more success from Para. And if he fails, I can go further with the story...
I'm sorry, if I upset you. But we agreed to stay with the old rules for this one. And I would have give you a bonus, if the rolls were really narrow (and I didn't count the second intimidate failure). But the rolls were to bad.The thing that I find ridiculous is that you can roleplay your heart out, come up with plausible and well-founded reasoning, and still roll a 2. You know what, screw the villagers and Invisible Castle. If they leave, let em leave.