Kingmaker Begun

The first Kingmaker session went off without a hitch.  One player short, but that's OK because the table, large as it is, seems to shrink once the players gather.  To the right is an image of the last moment of the evening, marking the characters' places on the map.

Storywise, the party managed to complete the initial encounter with the bandits hassling Oleg's.  It was your basic early level encounter, but I see I'm going to have to ramp up the difficulty a little.  Not only did the players easily best the bandits, they could have atrociously slaughtered them all (as it happens, only a couple were cut down like trapped beasts).  A couple of the characters didn't even get in on the action, it all happened with such ruthless efficiency.  There were two captives in the end, two that quite likely soiled themselves just before hastily throwing their hands up in surrender.

I'll designate this a good start.