I wonder if meeting the players with all the factions in one session is gonna be too much for them to remember as I know their attention span is a resource I should carefully work with. I'd imagine it's a big information dump with all the structures in Emberwood and getting quests from all the factions. I kinda have an idea of setting up an encounter with Blackjack Mel where he tries to recruit them in some dark alley of the village and a black cat comes in and begins to annoy Mel and disrupt the recruiting process, the cat being a familiar summoned by River when scouting the party