Where once the locals were having problems fending off the attacks of invading melts prior to the latters' assault and failure on the treecity capital of Tador, they're now stuck with the problem of assorted gangs of gorilla corps soldiers bivouaced in and around their property - and often on top of said property. The gorillas, sent out from Tador to seek out the last mutants resident in the county have, since finishing their duties, decided to take an extended leave and are currently lounging around drinking and eating the population out of house and home. One half-pissed gorilla with armour and a sword would be more than enough trouble for most villages, but when there's a whole platoon of the great hairy banana-eating buggers, things tend to get a little out of hand. And it's not as if you could even tell them all to bog off back home; would you argue with several collective tons of primate after twelve pints of heavy?

In other places the gorillas are actively looting and pillaging a number of the smaller and more isolated settlements, the official line on this being 'requisitioning of aid' for the rebuilding of the county's capital. That's all very well, but for your average farming family or trader near the borders or on the far side of the Darkhald, unlikely to see the bloody capital more than once in a lifetime, there are a damn sight many more things they'd rather put their hard-earned into.

Local magikal practitioners are still trying to pin down the high levels of background mana-radiation permeating much of the county now, having narrowed down its source to being demonic in origin. This doesn't exactly improve the image of said mages in the public popularity stakes, but then what's a few points in a poll when you believe the future of the Uurth might be at risk. Mind you, when has any wizard ever been over- concerned about his public image, short of making sure he's got the regulation number of familiars, the correct cabalistic symbols stitched into his Y-fronts, and strange-smelling unguents covering his natural repulsive smell to keep up the corporate identity?

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