OOC

So, what is the current plan? You may easily post thoughts here to speed matters up.

Florina & Davros sneak ahead to get the lay of the land, others can follow a reasonable distance behind so they can reach is in a round or two should a fight break out?

Don't think we want to wait until nightfall, personally...

spinningdice. Nice thinking plan but has one small flaw. If both Forina & Davos both go into Stealth mode then I'm nice to let each track the other when next to each other with no rolls but the party cannot track them in order to follow them short of perception rolls defeating their stealth rolls. And this is further complicated by adding distance. Say two rounds of 30' movement is 120' with double movies. Best to put numbers on this. Some party members do not move at 30'.

Should the party be following them. Lucky to see them. Then that fact so can the monsters see the party. If the party can see 120' then so can the monsters and the following party is not invisible. Hense any distance the party is away from viewing the two, then the party is fully visible to the monsters. Only the two stealth would have possible advantage. This is to say the following party would spoil the operation.

Not saying you can't do that all but I give some realization of what will probably happen.

That's fair enough, longer for our allies to get to us in an emergency - but they could wait at the road and I could throw up a silent image 60ft in the air, if we need them to come to us (assuming that's above the treeline?), or blast something with a Thunderwave if we're too busy to silent image).

Sounds good although, Davros is a ranger right? Would he be able to make convincing bird noises as a signal? Since we're in a forest I'm assuming bird noises are the kind of the thing that would get ignored, so that might be also be a goodwill to signal us without alerting the orcs.

Party will lose track of the two rather fast. Davros has a signal whistle which is the correct device for signaling. Of course, everyone in the area will know it too.

What I require to understand right now is how much distance that the full party has agreed to let these two explorers to travel before returning back to the waiting party. (How far to travel into my evil and awaiting clutches. Gotta love appetizers.)

As best I can gather. No one is in personal stealth so, all of you can witness each other's demise. The front two (Davors & Florina) are 90' ahead of the other three (Garrosh, Selbi, & Danika) as you traverse the light forest. You have lots of time before sundown still. Party movement speed is 25'. You travel this way so both groups know where the other group is.

What is the distance the party wishes to travel in miles?

If either group is in stealth, then you may not keep any gap per say. As each group doesn't know where the other is all the time.