Just to get you all up to speed, I'm leaving on a business trip tomorrow and will be back Thursday.  I'll still be able to post at the end of the work day, but I won't have the program that I need to coordinate a battle.  As such, your characters will be meeting with Crassus before encountering the bandits, which is just as well because that will act as the spring board for the next phase of the story.  So until then, we'll be working on character development.<br/><br/>Edit:<br/>I left an opportunity for the group to great their belated sister.  If you choose to pass at this opportunity, let me know and once everybody is accounted for I'll press on.