Aarklash B/X follow-up

I thought I'd mention how a season of B/X set in Rackham's Aarklash setting went...

Well... I was playing with kids... 13yr olds mostly... and most of them newbies to D&D... as if that's an excuse. Anyway, they pretty much took any hook I presented as evidence NOT to go looking that direction. Some of them wanted to loot the Keep, which led to a split in the party and those Players going off under another GM (which was good, because 10 Players is just too much).
So the ones that were left poked around the Keep and got embroiled in trying track the bandits who raided it (the other group of PCs).
The girls in the group banded together and wandered out into Tir-Na-Bor territory, avoiding any sign of life the came upon and eventually ending up near the chasm of Mid-Nor... but were taken in by guardian dwarfs and shunted off to one of the main dwarf cities. They tried to buy magic items there to beef themselves up but couldn't afford any. Quests were offered, quests were refused. The girls wandered off to find better shopping opportunities.
It all went on that way for a while... presenting situations that the kids generally would turn away from for safer pastures.
Eventually they ended up on the docks of Cadwallon... but were loathe to enter the city for some reason.
So the gist was, they were looking for magic items, but had no money, and were not willing to do any of the things offered that would have gained them treasure/fame/experience.

During this time, various Players dropped out for various reasons... mostly having to do with school work. One kid got kicked out for calling another kid a name. One boy was picked on mercilessly by the girls and eventually dropped out (yes, I tried to intervene... no, he didn't come back).

Not really a success... though I did feel that Aarklash was a great setting for running an RPG.
I also learned that we really need to break up cliques when D&D club starts... because that became a problem, with some kids not wanting to play with other kids and such.
Oh well, it was the first try. Most everyone seemed to have fun with it... most of the time.