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Humakti Initiation Heroquest

Humakti Initiation Heroquest GM Introduction This is an initiation quest for Six Seasons in Sartar, for characters who want to join Humakt. Barring a few NPCs and the location, it should be generic enough for anyone to use.  This Heroquest goes hand-in-hand with the myth of How Death came into the World  (also on this blog).  The quest is very centred on the Humakti player, so I have created NPCs for the other players to take on. We discussed this beforehand and everyone agreed - figuring they’d get their moment in the sun when they get initiated. The biggest problem with Heroquests is that, with the myth being written up, the players follow the dots and lose any sort of agency. One way around that is that players write their own myths, but my players are brand new to Glorantha and weren’t confident about that.  The path I took is that the myth tells you the “What” but not the “How”. The intent is that this leaves the player free to use their creativity to devise the...