Hello, Interesting question and story. As we're talking about attitudes, I don't think you'll get any right answer but here are a few suggestions. With rural Ireland your often talking about parishes. Even today villages tend to revolve around the local church & graveyard, national school, shop, pub and GAA clubhouse. The parish priest is still an important figure but mass is attendance is getting older. Generally thought people born in the 60's and 70's are still attending. People are in no way overtly superstitious. However they will respect such things as sacred wells, fairy trees and dun's. If a woman were to reappear in such a fashion, people will tend to be supportive. And nosy. Old women talk. However how much of a scandal it would cause would depend heavily on how protective her family are. If the family is popular and tight net it won't become an issue. People in the same area also tend to have plenty extended family who can close ranks. Privacy is still respected.
Those are just some generalities. Ones I've experienced firsthand mainly. I'm from the same part of the world. --- In [email protected], "Buck Marchinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm running a game in the US, and looking for some input on a > situation with some NPCs for a Werewolf: the Apocalypse game. > > The setting is the western part of Co. Galway. Some 20 years ago, a > young woman is brutally murdered and her sister disappears. Seven > years later, the mother of the women, unable to put it behind her, > walks into the countryside and disappears. The neighbors assume she > went mad and maybe even committed suicide. > > Thirteen years later, she reappears, looking the same as when she left. > > [Behind the scenes: All involved are Kinfolk with varying degrees of > knowledge about the werewolves. The family has a bean sidhe, and the > whole family knows it. Siobhan's husband lost his temper and ripped > Shan apart. Siobhan ran to the bean sidhe and was told that she must > leave the country; she did so without so much as a goodbye. Later, > Colleen (the mother) asks the faerie to take away her pain, and is > turned into a tree. The glamour has now ended.] > > My question: what happens now? I imagine this will cause a > sensational scandal, but I don't want to make life untenable for the > NPCs. What are the likely reactions? > > Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I would appreciate any > input you could give me. > > FBM >
