I appreciated this scenario. I played it as an introduction to Cairn for 5 "expert" players and we used pregens from the author's pregen list.
I found this scenario a good introduction to forest-crawl and to the exploration procedure. We rushed in a single session one-shot, but I think it requires at least two sessions to be fully enjoyed.
At the end of the game, we found the monster; I think it is too tricky to fight him directly but we figured it out no other ways to stop him and so we fought.
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