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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vandaexpress" data-source="post: 6610262" data-attributes="member: 6790472">I really think the key delay is their inability to take the keep. They invest resources into trying to get into it (sally port), kill people in it (dragon attack), surrounding it, etc. throughout the course of the night. Why would they do that if they didn't want to get into it? Again, remember that by the time the PCs reach the keep at the end of "Seek the Keep" the adventure makes a point of stating the cult has surrounded it and continue to surround it for the duration of the episode (which is why they need to use the tunnel to facilitate egress). This tells me that the cult was serious about taking the keep, they were basically waiting on Lennithon the dragon to break the siege so they can get in (to no avail, hopefully). Also, the mission where Nighthill asks the party to capture a cult leader has the adventure suggesting he point out Mondath, which means she's there, within easy sight of the keep. Why would she be there? I figure she was most likely coordinating the siege.They were probably hoping to take the entire town's possessions, including those kept in the keep, before dawn. One might argue that was their core objective, in fact. If you were raiding a town with a keep, where would you expect the most valuable treasure to be found? In the keep. If the PCs weren't present, the attack on the sally port would have been uncontested and the keep would have fallen. If the PCs weren't present, the Dragon would have wiped out the keep's defenders and the Cult would have taken the keep.It's the fact that the PCs are there that drags the siege out for six hours.</blockquote>

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