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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5535464" data-attributes="member: 90804">I have a few thoughts. First, why bother with the extra encounter? I long ago abandoned tracking XP encounter by encounter, and I just level the party when I feel it's appropriate to do so.But assuming that you feel strongly that the party needs to earn their levels, I have two ideas from my own running of Shelter, though both of them came up for me AFTER the party had gotten to Seaquen.The first, described <a href="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/meet-the-monster-vault-solo/" target="_blank">here</a>, involved an expansion of Tiljann's side quest to find out what happened to Etinifi the bard. I believe the adventure as written contains an encounter with some biomantic beasties (squid, crab, mer-man), which I modified and used. However, it's said that Etinifi was looking for some magic fountain in the undersea temple, so I added a room with that fountain... as well as with a dragon and some drakes. That ended up being an awesome encounter.Now, I know that you said the party did not pick up Tiljann, but you could still have someone come to them to ask if they would be willing to investigate what happened to Etinifi.The other side quest I ran was described <a href="http://onlinedm.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/add-a-new-player-and-the-adventure-moves-on/" target="_blank">here</a>, and it involved Laurabec and the pantheistic temple. I decided that Laurabec would be searching for a suitable building to use for her temple, rather than constructing one from scratch, so I had her ask the adventurers to clear out some undead creatures from an old temple near the ruins. I used this as a one-shot for our potential new party member to "audition," and it worked out just fine.</blockquote>

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