A Captive Audience

An adventure scenario suitable for most fantasy settings.

Some villagers have been captured by raiders, and the PCs have been hired to rescue them. How can they make their way into a camp full of hostile enemies? Why, by being smuggled in by a travelling circus.

This set-up puts the PCs in a situation where they can role-play both their interactions with the circus, and with the tribe they're infiltrating, and allow any characters with performance skills to shine in the ring.

Meanwhile, there's the tactical challenge of finding the hostages, freeing them, and stopping the tribe from simply taking revenge on the village.

How will the PCs solve things? Will they solve things, or does it become more of a 'damage limitation' problem?