I am also going to start the first flashback encounter soon. Working on the map for it. Will take place from the few nights pirior when the town was attacked. Should help explain how the new characters got thrown together. Venn and Shadow can also participate and run some quick NPCs with class templates if you would like (random townsfolk, townguards, or other mercenaries/caravan guards) for this one shot encounters.
I will start a flashback thread for the purposes of running these. Will have one or two encounters for that night. I will also likely have an encounter set while traveling to the ruins if you want. Being a flashback though, it would be messy if anyone dies so lets not wipe the party on them
. These just go toward getting more used to each of your characters and building relationships with each other.