> I've had a little salutary lesson in getting what you ask for too...
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Doug likes getting other people to write his adventures for him!
In case you get bored...
I was playing KoDP over Christmas, and my Clan Ring kept telling me how much better off we'd be if we had Chalana Arroy and Uralda worshippers on the ring, even though I didn't appear to have any in the clan.
Now since "No one can make you do anything" and the diety chooses the worshipper rather than (or at least as much as) the other way around, I don't think the clan can just walk up to Fred or Freda Orlanthi and say to them "OK, You are going to represent diety 'X' from now on" (Well they probably 'can', but not to any great effect, and I'm not sure I'd want to trust my Clan Rituals to a standby of the street). But there must be times when a clan finds it is short of a representative of some diety whose representation is required. If it is just to take part in some ritual or ceremony then you can probably "borrow" someone from a nearby ally (or other friendly clan) - You see this sort of thing in KoDP when other clans come and ask you to use your Clan Magic to aid them to either repay a past favour or in anticipation of a future one.
But for a longer term presence you may very well want to adopt someone into the clan - maybe as a "permenant" member of the clan, or maybe for an agreed, fixed period of time (with the intention that they will "train up" and "initiate" a number of the clans young adults in that period). Typically I'd guess that these adoptions take the form of a marriage between the new member and an existing clan member, although they could also be adopted into the Chief's household (or maybe appointed to a clan temple as a priest of some kind?)
This sort of activity suggests a number of potential scenarios, with the PC's sent out to visit a neighbouring clan to seek out someone suitable to fill a vacant position within their own clan, or to negotiate with such a person and/or their clan, or performing some task or duty for such a clan to prove the worth of their own clan to adopt/marry someone from this clan.
Or maybe they could be tasked with delivering some gift/payment or tribute to the originating clan, and have to deal with the consequences of it being mislaid.
Or maybe the new clan member isn't all they seemed at first - perhaps they bring some sort of fued or curse with them to their new home, or have a secret lover who follows them and tries to persuade them to return home...
Feel free to add more suggestions of your own, or to expand on any of these...
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