d100 What are those wild people up to now?

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When you live close to the frontier the neighbors can be a little wild and rambunctious. This could be applied to barbarians, humanoids and beast folk tribes also. It is also handy for frontier gossip and might in fact be exaggerated and wrong. It might be a pretext used to persecute them. Maybe they are in fact even worse than the gossip. These could be clues to find treasure if graverobbing is your bag.

Some could be customs not understood by commoners or they could be adventure hooks. Maybe the tribals are doing strange things to drive off some evil force. This assumes a frontier or borderland where cultures clash. Civilised people assume they are righteous and are clumsy when dealing with others.

d10 Quick Shennanigan Types
1 Season rituals

2 Martial rites

3 Revelry

4 Sacred ceremonies

5 Violence

6 Monsters

7 Allies

8 Trade

9 Grusome signs

10 Supernatural

d100 What are those wild people up to now?
01 Chanting by bonfires late at night and leaping over fires naked

02 Beheading bulls and swine on a hill then feasting

03 Having orgies in the forest

04 Erecting stone monolith 

05 Erecting a wicker man to burn in a ceremony

06 Procession chanting on a route around local barrows and standing stones 

07 Making sacrifices on a hill celebrating an ancient ruler buried there

08 Wallowing in water and covering themselves in mud while chanting

09 Procession with a wagon carrying an idol to various local shrines

10 Renacting mythic story of a deity killing a dragon and quartering a convicted criminal
11 Berserks by night screaming like animals by night in rituals with blood-drinking

12 Druids and warriors testing and blessing new blades with sacrifice

13 Practicing manoeuvres in a ritualised training exercise in barbaric finery

14 A contest for warriors in a grand melee where the winner gets chosen for a chest

15 Having a competition in spear throwing and wrestling, winner gets a potion from druids

16 Two tribes warriors fight over a pig stomach stuffed with peas all day while other tribesfolk watch. Druids treat injuries and award winners with wreaths

17 Two famous tribal champions have a fight over a point of honour according to customs

18 Women warriors have a man in a cage they will release and hunt for crimes against women

19 Tribal warriors gather for a ritual animal fight for divination d4 1=horse 2=dog 3=bul 4=bear

20 Village gathers for a trial by combat to prove someones innocence

21 Having a days long feast with magic mushrooms and strong drink

22 Women holding wild rites and drinking will tear apart men who see them, foolish people hear wild stories and are killed yearly spying on them

23 Tribe in a stupor high from mushrooms and herbs, most lay about having visions 

24 Cheif giving gifts and making youths swear allegiance before a feast

25 Several tribes gather for peace celebrations and a wild party
26 Elaborate dances with strange costumes like monsters 

27 Bonfires all over the plains with chanting and feasting

28 Dancing in the path of people dressed as a dragon or tarrasque

29 Marrying two frogs to ensure rain with spectacular wedding feast

30 Dancing competition with competing village bards
31 Druids gather by standing stones in robes sacrificing animals 

32 Druids with a spectacular cauldron making potions for tribe

33 Druidic sacred marriage between two senior priests

34 Druids perform sacred rites in secret, outsiders are forbidden

35 Bardic graduation ceremony held by druids

36 Coronation on a sacred stone of a tribal chieftain who makes various oaths

37 Druids meeting the tree folk, tree spirits and dryads in an exchange of gifts to renew ancient pacts

38 Druids meet the chieftains of the animals and discuss their complaints against humans

39 Druids call land divinities to renew ancient pacts of the spirits

40 Druids call spirit of the green to inhabit a figure made from vegetable matter 

41 Intertribal raiding for months often is sight of civilised commoners 

42 Exited warband has been raiding and stealing livestock and scaring people

43 Berserks waiting by crossings on roads and rivers challenging warriors to duels

44 Fueding with other tribe screaming abuse and throwing spears, when someone hurt both sides flee

45 Kidnapping victims for slaves from local villagers to marry

46 Raiding for metal items to take to tribal smith, snatching farm tools and anything

47 Raiders on arson spree burning farmhouses and barns

48 Raiders taken hostages and insist on payments of food for their safe care

49 Threaten to attack unless supplied with livestock

50 Stirring up violence with another tribe with murders and leaving evidence it was villagers
51 Breeding monsters and releasing them in wild

52 Making normal animals hostile to villagers

53 Stole monster eggs and parents on a rampage in area

54 Have been capturing monsters to train for war which scares people

55 Holy ones of tribe have been making undead as hazards for travellers

56 Tribe has been keeping a troll and cutting bits off to leave near landmarks like bridges 

57 Tribe has awoken an ancient woodland nature spirit and told it slanderous tales about the spread of civilisation

58 Tribal druids planted dangerous monstrous vegetation and thorn hedges to hinder civilisation

59 Tribe has been locating ancient monolith prisons holding demons and setting them on innocent farmers

60 Tribe has been using lycanthrope heroes to menace civilised folk and infect them as thralls
61 Chieftain inviting humanoids to settle to help hinder the colonisation of the frontier

62 Tribes have been meeting to plan an alliance for war on civilisation

63 Tribes have been getting superior weapons from demihuman allies

64 Tribes work with faeries to spread the forest and make it more hazardous, the tribe protect the magically grown trees and chases loggers and woodcutters

65 Tribes who used to fight each other have united against the civilised folk of the borderlands who threaten their traditions 

66 Slavers have made a deal with tribe to pay them for captives for gold

67 The tribe have made a pact with a feral sorcerer from beyond the wasteland and the locals have seen strange signs

68 A coven of witches has made a pact with the tribe and have been cursing livestock and villagers 

69 The wild folk have made contact with a even more frightening tribe of ancient kinfolk, who wear only leaves and are hairy all over. The worship the wild hunt and the supernatural procession has been seen and heard closer to villagers

70 The frontier tribe have made a pact with beastfolk and together they have been kidnapping victims, robbing travellers and ambushing millitary patrols 
71 The wild folk will trade skins and fur for cheese and wine, they can't get enough

72 Tribal folk demand payment for their land the village is on, claiming ancient rights

73 Tribal people demanding prospectors and miners hand over half their finds as a tithe to their chieftain

74 Local tribal chief demands merchants pay them for safe travel

75 Local tribe declare they own all the fish in waterways, lakes and streams

76 Wild folk seem to want to trade but don't speak the common tongue, but they are also intimidating and people are wary of offending them

77 Local wild folk have been wanting to trade some spouses or children to make peace and the villagers are uncomfortable with this offer

78 Tribal folk came one day and burned a pile of trade goods by the village, waited and left in anger and people have no idea what they want 

79 Tribal people keep trying to sell us trinkets and ugly idols but nobody wants them or can understand them. They seem to be very earnest

80 Tribal people healed a sick child and now demand payment that the village cant afford
81 Tribes leaving mutilated corpses on poles near roads to scare away settlers

82 Tribe warriors collecting human heads so priests can place them in stone niches in ancient monoliths for some reason 

83 Tribe have been seen flensing bodies and leaving horrible messes at crossroads and taking the skeletons

84 Tribe seemed to be assembling a meat colossus from corpses in the forest 

85 Tribe keep decorating local roadside trees with human skulls and villagers do not like it

86 Wild folk have been parading about their dead ancestors in processions and its a bit creepy lay commoners

87 Tribals have been robbing the village graves and taking bodies somewhere else and nobody knows why and want them back

88 Tribals have been burying decorated skulls around the village and people are afraid it is some dark magic

89 A local priest went to convert the savages and they nailed his flensed skin to the local church

90 A visiting merchant tried to trick the savages and sold them bad grog and some got sick. When the merchant returned they killed him in some ritual and now his corpse wanders the area moaning and scaring people
91 Tribals are having strange ceremonies and weird creatures are roaming the night

92 The savages have been turning people into trees and local settlers are frightened

93 Wicked priests of the wild folk have been torturing travellers by the roadway and leaving frightening angry spirits making travel by night dangerous

94 Haunted cries from the forest spirits have been getting closer and people say the wild folk have been calling them or know how to calm them

95 The tribal folk where seen making some kind of ceremonial marriage but with only one of the parties at the ceremony. Since then a powerful land spirit has been killing locals crops and made livestock run into the woods and food is short

96 Strange monoliths have been moving around the village and some drunks have disappeared going home by night. The tribal folk used to worship the stones and know what to do but past dealings went poorly and they demand gold just to talk

97 A stranger came to town and caused troubles and it turned out they were some trickster spirit sent by the wild folk. The stranger was killed but people have seen them near the village. The wild folk who sometimes trade wont speak of it and seem scared like they know something 

98 Locals report dreaming of tribal folk rituals and some ancient spirit they draw on for power. Everybody in village is struggling to sleep and wonder what the wild ones are doing to them

99 Spirits of ancient tribal folk have been seen more frequently and sometimes dozens are seen. Commoners fear tribals are amassing an army to repel settlers 

100 Local hostile tribe has started to all become berserkers. Scholars fear some ancient land spirit they have summoned has been turning tribal folk into dangerous berserks, even the elderly and children