They meet up in the tavern, where they were supposed to try and look around town for their first quest. All four buildings I described to them as they walked out of the tavern had either a quest or pointed into another building that had a quest.

Nope! "Hey how close is the nearest city?" And so they went to the nearest city. I threw a giant spider at them so at least one of the encounters I had planned would be used.

Once they get to the city, I'm making things up on the fly because I hadn't planned anything beyond the starting town. It has been fun, we stopped for the summer because we are students, but man I wasn't ready for them to just leave town.