Glad to be able to come back and play a second time.

Welcome! I play mostly PF2e as well

I thought there was a section in the Collaborative Campaign Design book on it, but couldn't find it last night.

SESSION 16 - A chaos session. The party split up and explored the aftermath of their failed rescue and death of three alley cats. I tried two new bits for this session. - NPC Vignette - I posted a dialog between two NPCs that would have occured outside of their sight. A risk of meta gaming, but it certainly raised the stakes and made things fel like they were moving. I heard this on a pirate actual play podcast and loved how it reinforced a tone for the game. In this case the priestess they rescued was reporting to the boss about what happened. Let them get a feel for the title that has been given by the god to their cleric and gave them a heads up on several faction goals. - Events as part of Faction Goals - I worked on moving faction goals into a format more consisent with my prep and decided to add a section on things likely to happen on the next five days or so. It worked well as the session played out at the table. Things like wanted posters show up, or this rumor is heard among the guards. Easy to adjust on the fly, but was an actionalble form of faction goals and activity. Might have gotten too many things moving, but it was a fun and exciting session.

SESSION 17 - A rough session. We had a player missing and it was very awkward to work around her parts of the story. I am not sure it makes sense to play this game with a missing player. It is possible the root of the problem was too many options on the table that felt urgent, but we have been at points like that in the story before. That said, a rough session was still as good or better than my other games, so I need to be careful of my expectations.

Ohio is a very long drive from California. I do hope it goes well though. https://www.originsgamefair.com/