The shops and homes that enclose the town square are decorated with limp, tattered garlands and painted wooden boxes filled with tiny, dead flowers. Around the sides of the square, peasants in patchwork clothes eye you suspiciously as they use cups and vases to draw water from a few small crumbling stone fountains. In the dead center of the town square is a massive raised platform… stocks line the edges, side by side forming a barrier of shame around the stage… locked in which are several men, women, and children wearing crude, plaster donkey heads. In the center of this platform is an empty gallows, and a trio of nooses dangling in the breeze. All around the square are posted fliers with proclamations (that are out of date and the event already happened)

Come one, come all, to the greatest celebration of the year: THE WOLF’S HEAD JAMBOREE! Attendance and children required. Pikes will be provided. ALL WILL BE WELL! —The Baron—

1st Time NPC Encounters

• First few NPC’s = “All will be well!” - leave and ignore the PCs
• Next NPC = “Get lost!” - hates trouble causing adventurers
• A townsfolk carrying a HUGE stack of fliers begins taking down the “Wolfs Head Jamboree” and whispers to you [Scared whispers of caution] “careful there new comers, things arent as happy as they seem” They continue to hang up new fliers that read:
  • COME ONE, COME ALL,to the greatest celebration of the year: THE FESTIVAL OF THE BLAZING SUN! Attendance and children required. Rain or shine. ALL WILL BE WELL! —The Baron—

PC interacts with the STOCKS or steps on the STAGE

• Scared NPC… hey… what do you think you are doing?!?! You trying to get us all killed?

• PC doesnt stop = Guards call attention to them and go to arrest them.

  • PC’s DEFY the Burgomaster

• Donkey-Headed Criminals & Townsfolk

  • Arrested for “malicious unhappiness” (spreading negative opinions about the upcoming festival)
  • An iron padlock secures each set of stocks (Izek Strazni has the key)