@joel I was reliving the quickstart session I had a week and a half ago reading your playback. You ran into some things we never did, which is awesome!

The way we handled the giant Pug was we waited until we had the skeleton join our party, then he pulled one of his ribs out and one of the players attached some of his rations to the bone and threw it in the lake with the giant leaches (the one your party skipped), and the pug chased after it and we locked the door behind him.

I like that your party used a skull as his favourite toy and just kept him distracted, even from his owner.

The beauty of TTRPGs is no two playthroughs of the same adventure will be the same. The dynamics between your players are all unique.

Welcome to Eem!