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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8206389" data-attributes="member: 20564">I'm putting together a challenge where the party is in the feywild in a forest realm that's claimed by the Court of Gloaming and are running to a locked portal to get them to another Court.  They have angered the local Lord by rescuing the guide (who knows location & how to open the portal), who was slumbering for a thousand years for a past slight.  The session ended with the horns of a (not THE) Wild Hunt echoing through the perpetual twilight of the sky.We have a guide who's been sleeping for over a hundred years, the party unobserved but their general proximity known, and I am looking to fill about 60-90 minutes with an escape sequence., with hopefully one battle with other goals than just winning.I do group checks for things like the whole party sneaking, and between many stealthy characters and Pass without Trace, I expect that they will be able to hide fantastically.  I don't want to handwave that ability away, but I also don't want it to trivialize this.  So what else can I throw at them to leverage other abilities they have.Couple of ideas I already have<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Need to find a particular flower (or other MacGuffin) to open the portal.  Which may lead to splitting the party and changing the stealth checks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Guide getting lost due to things changing in the 100+ years he's been asleep and needing navigation help.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Multiple valid paths, one emphisizing speed/direct route and and another stealth.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Detection of forcing waiting for them at a bridge and needing to either fight or detour.</li> </ul>(Don't want to do a running battle to get through the portal - did one of those 2 sessions back for them to get to the feywilds.)So, what ideas do you have?  How would you improve the ones I have?  Especially ideas that play up on how fantastical the feywilds are compared to the mortal realm.</blockquote>

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