Actually, I think what I may do is just shift the adventure that originally seemed like describing the same events to make them more differentiated from each other!  It sounds like you all have some questing you need to do before you go back to your homelands!  Perhaps the magical artifacts you seek are along one of these quests!<br/><br/>I think if we jump STRAIGHT into saving the people of one of our heroes, we risk losing some of the drama of that moment! If we do some adventuring and heroics leading into it, then you can come back stronger and ready to handle this. Does that sound cool?