From the RtL rulebook
"The Portal
Beyond the red rune-locked door on each
level is a portal leading to the next level.
Once a hero steps onto the portal map piece,
he is removed from the board and becomes
invulnerable to harm. Heroes remain thusly
in transit until all of them either enter the
portal or move to town, at which point all of
the heroes are moved to the next level. "
We were playing (RtL) over the weekends, the heroes decided to have Landrec battle to clear a path for the other heroes to run to the portal, leaving Landrec to die. The heroes argued that once he died, he would go back to town, and he could then go to the next level. According to the rules (above) I could not really argue against them.
So it seems that as long as one hero makes it to the portal, and the rest can make it back to town somehow, the whole party advances to the next level.
Is this correct?
Thanks in advance.