RPG Campaign Tour: Day 8 - Tell Us About the Local People & Cultures

Day 8 of the #RPGCampaignTour is a healthy challenge: "Tell us about the Local People & Cultures." 

The people, plants, and animals of Gamma World can be lumped together a number of ways: their hometowns, shared mutations, secret society membership.

But no group is as recent, as homogenous, or as obvious as the Kirothians. 

Blue skin can be an occurring mutation, as well as blue hair. Pointed ears aren't as rare as you think, and it's suprising how many "normal" humans hide and iridescence so long as their not exposed to moonlight.  

All those traits are natural to all sixty of the Kirothians who appeared in the region last winter.  

The first known group were discovered by Lathar Bracken and the rest of the De Facto Explorers beneath KIA Academy.  The Explorers had been hired mid-winter to scout out the territory downriver of the Academy, and fell upon this group when they emerged en masse from the forest.  Their clothing suggested they were prepared for the cold weather, but lack of supplies said they were not prepared for the long-term.  

The Kirothians are so named by Dr Sonny Helianthus, a mutant sunflower, after conversations revealed that they all came from the village of Kirothia.  

"They were confused that it was perfect weather only a day or two ago, they had dug out their cold weather gear, and now some group of wizards had chased them out of their village  'Bad men, they shot first, and second' ....  Their village appeared to be two days travel up the tributary to the main river.  The Kirothians were also worried they hadn't encountered any of the other expected villagers...  None of them remember seeing the obvious blue lights in the sky the past few nights and none of them were familiar with the "Big River. "

It should be noted, that despite a few forays into the region, some following the Kirothians directions perfectly, no one has found so much as a charred ruin for their village, much less anything else. 

The Explorers had just learned of the dark undercurrent of KIA Academy that either denied or exploited mutants, animals, and refugees in general, so it was decided by famed Riverbend weasel scout "Sneaky Pete" to go around KIA Academy and find these folks a home and a better shot at Fair-Town.  Along the way, the discovered another, smaller enclave of Kirothians, and rescued some of their kidnapped brothers and sisters from a terrifying entity they seemed familiar with called a "demon."

Finally the Explorers and the refugees reached Fair-Town, where the generosity of the town gave them supplies and shelter from the weather in a series of small warehouses that the Kirothians have turned into their own ethnic style neighborhood.  

They made such an impact on the town that, despite some intense debate, the town council has recently voted to grant them the status of full citizens, counted in the census, and even granted them one seat on the council.  

The vote had an extra level of controversy as it was reveled that town council member (and two-time Queen's Joust champion) Lathar Bracken had a previous full-on relationship with new town council (and leader of the Kirothians) Elona.  This (and a few of the Kirothian woman using their bodies for domars) has confirmed the Kirthoians and Humans are biologically compatible, along no relations have resulted in pregnancy... yet. 

Elona

This new, obvious group has it's own listing of rumors and legends, as well as biases.    They can predict floods, wars... they can influence love and romance.   Their day-to-day society skews towards matriarchy, although there's been limited information to see if that changes when the group, nor the any of their people wage war, joined the town's guard, or anything overtly violent.  

GM Notes: Always subject to change, the Kirothians are essentially Pure-Strain Humans with largely physical, non-mutation differences.   Once they give birth on Gamma World, or encounter a glow zone, all bets might be off. 

Kirothians first appeared in the campaign in episode #66 - "Where'd You Get the Hats?"

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