The party met two barbarians at the Octogon society's Adventurer's Aid Hostile. Fagor threw the tall one out the window and has persuaded them to join the party. 
Party is filling out waiver forms before entering the dungeon.
The bard got turned into stone after the fighter graciously bent bars on the prison cell to let the Shambleau out. She got hit by a magic lava lamp javelin, orco-Turkish grappled, and then finally her head got chopped off.
Any other group would have picked with either of our main threads. The time effects indicated we would do something totally different... giving me more time to prep for the interesting stuff while continuing to develop the campaign and the cast o' characters. GENIUS!
Needed a new location that could explain new adventurers being instantiated outside of Trollopulous so I created the Adventurer's Aid Society and placed an octagon conveniently near a new megadungeon. This worked perfectly.
This is the farthest west the players have travelled in the campaign so I let drop that they were near to Tharktopia. Also not too far from the metropolis of Hobgobiton. The world just keeps getting fleshed out. Having two active parties REALLY helps with that.
The medusa didn't have any treasure because she WAS the treasure. Could the players capture a dangerous monster girl? Well they had a chance. Body count would have been higher but the snakes didn't get a chance to bite. Lone monsters outnumbered 6-to-1 are easy pickings.
The big problem with not doing "stop time" is that it takes a lot of time for the players to decide what they want to do and form new parties as needed. The focus of the game shifts from a "fellowship" of characters to the campaign as a whole, which causes it to really develop.
Oh, the Pegasus completely ruins the Outdoor Survival game. All the monsters can be seen a mile away. The party can't really get lost. Aerial encounter will happen eventually, though.
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