You could make up for the XP loss with a flat reward for everyone, plus a little more for Nala and Aerlon's antics to make up some of the shortfall which could include any appropriate hooks :) So Rob, we killed (and by we I mostly mean a shitload of lucky rolls by some NPCs on the roofs). A firetrap in a big ditch took out a few and some good AOE effects by our lovely and talented Bard and humble priest, along with an NPC druid killed or incapacitated a good group. I got off Hold Person on the Orog I pummeled from range before he got into the fight that took him out for 3-4 rounds while the rest of the party were dealt with - he ended up doing nothing to anyone before he got mobbed. An Eye of Gruumsh knocked out Derwin and almost killed our spiffy new dwarf battlemaster but he rolled a 20 for his last death save, woke up and killed him with one HP remaining. Dandy basically acted like a little bitch for several opening rounds and did nothing because he didn't get paid first, then managed to take out a few before he went into the house for the remaining 2-3 rounds. I'm interested to see how that works out in the future. A good fight we got lucky enough to win without any deaths.