Reaction Writing - the Heroes of Paupuroats
You re-enter Hulstrr after navigating its length for a few hours, finding a cut path through the trees alongside the slippery banks of a stream. The water leads you underneath the canopy of tended branches that defines Hulstrr proper, and falls twenty feet into the ravine where short rows of stone houses are laid out next to the pool formed where the stream lands in the ravine.
Wardijanz in the trees watch over this ravine, as its center is the purple tent of the Hulstri Runewife, and Hari’s den, dug into the ravine’s southerly wall. Opposite Hari’s Den, against the other wall, is another stone building where an authoritative older Yuman stands on a stone and addresses a rabble clad in spare bronze. There are a lot of audible protests, but the general tone seems to calm as the older Yuman talks over them.
Among all this noise, a quiet voice seems to ring out. The fighter at the side of the old he-Yuman exclaims something, echoed by the old Yuman, then as a wave in a sea of faces, all turn to look at you four, ragged and weary, dragging behind you some freshly slain nightmare that is novel to this World.
The reaction seems...mixed, but no one is happy.
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If the PCs arrive in Hulstrr with the Ize’s body in tow, they will slowly attract attention away from the Faþzla, who has gathered everyone to organize “Hari’s folk” for the defense. If/when they interrupt, the Faþzla will reward them [after some questioning] with Magic Items? And re-route them to Gabrille with a guide.
If they bring it to Claudi, he will detect magic and be blown away by the sheer magic of it, then say “go away, come back l8r”. Give them a guide to Gabrille?
Flashback ideas -K and friends finding something in the Arshwilds... -????