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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 8244522" data-attributes="member: 54364">The River Spirit may want a dam destroyed. Or an irrigation system effed up. Or a bridge knocked down. Treat these as being insults to the River Lord, or possibly even threats to his health and well being.As a feudal lord there may be people who owe him (or whom he feels owe him) some service or payment and he needs the PCs to collect. Either legitimately or not.An example scenario from the Exalted 2e game has a river spirit who is upset because the local human village used to send all their youths up to a sacred waterfall to sing to him once a year but they have stopped doing it (due to reasons outside of everyone's control.) Now the river spirit is inconsolable and their tears are causing floods all along its course. Which compounds the problem by making it impossible for the villagers to get to the sacred waterfall. He wants his estuary dredged and will be mean and irritable until it is. Treat it like a bad case of constipation making an old and irritable relative even more irritable than usual.As a feudal lord he owes protection to his people. Something or someone is eating all the fish/water rats/swans. Hmmm. What's your group's tolerance for puerile humour? I ask because the following has just occurred to me: The River Lord has called you to his demense.  As you approach him he leans forward on his throne and says in voice like the roar of a torrent over a waterfall, "Something is eating my beaver!"Or maybe his beaver have a rash. It could be caused by the classic:"a factory is polluting the river." For a less silly option the pollution may be killing him. Or transforming him into an evil spirit. (Think black kryptonite or a toxic elemental from Shadowrun.)How big is this river? Because I have just remembered a factoid that the Amazon River still has a distinct flow and fresh water for many kilometres out into the ocean. Perhaps the River Lord is having a dispute with a sea spirit about who owns the river at that point. The PCs must act as ambassadors, and if necessary heavies, for the River Lord.Hope some  of these are useful. :-D</blockquote>

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