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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skinnydwarf" data-source="post: 1647682" data-attributes="member: 7024">So I am at a bit of an impasse with my group.  The situation is, near the end of tonight's game, three of the five party members basically abandoned the party, and went off on their own.Here is what happened: the players had been hired at the end of the previous game to escort a centaur and his servant to a village a little over a week away, since Orc raids had become more frequent along the roads that run by the mountains.Nothing really happened the first day.  They slept at a small village that night, most of them with the centaur in the stables, since they were supposed to be guarding him.In the middle of the night, a ruckus was heard in the Inn.  The inn keeper was being beaten for information about a boy named "Elkar."  The PCs stopped this, taking care of the thugs with non-lethal means.  They learned the "thugs" were men in the service of the local lord (Mahon), and Elkar was the son of a neighboring lord (Renthar), one favored to be the next king.  (There is currently a dispute brewing over who will ascend to the throne, as the king and his heir were recently slain).  They surmise that Mahon wants to hold Elkar hostage to keep Renthar from ascending to the throne, so he can do so himself.So I thought this was an interesting sub-plot, and so did some of the players.  The centaur NPC, their current employer, wanted to stay around the area and investigate for a day.  Three players didn't want to, two did.  There was some arguing over what exactly their contract was, and whether they should get extra pay for going along.  Eventually the centaur said "fine, you who don't want to look around stay in town, the rest can come with me."So while the centaur and the two players who wanted to investigate were investigating, the other players took the packhorse and all the supplies and left town, headed back to the monster lands to try and raise an Orc army.I told them "well, I don't have anything planned for you guys now, so you can go home," then finished up with the other players.Now my party is split, and I don't know what to do.  I am thinking of just saying that those that left town simply are out of the campaign.  I am baffled about why they did what they did.  I've gamed with one of them since I started gaming, another for almost five years.  They've never done anything like this before.Any thoughts, advice?</blockquote>

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