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Depends. Uratha can't cross Gauntlet at just any location. They can do that through a Locus or a Verge. Other than that, they have to resort to rare Gifts, Fetishes or help from powerful Spirits. The room the prey is hiding in might not allow entry through the Gauntlet.

Other than that, Werewolves do use the Shadow to circumvent obstacles. They can try to wreck all doors in the Hisil, without obvious effect in the material world. However, those will be Spirit doors that can wreck them right back. Negotiation might be necessary.

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I'm so sorry! I missed your response. I'm at work, so I can only repost another "boss battle" you could use:

(The Link won't show up. Look on the last page of "[2ED] Boston & New England setting")

You could repurpose this and have the Cultists transform the brother into a living Iris into the Prince. There would have to be some way to heal him, and a specific trigger that would make him go haywire.

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I must concede that point!

You have to get extra evil to make that work. Have families forced to sell grandma because they can't afford the next meal, never mind a funeral. Or have debt-slaves for whom death wasn't a way out....

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There are two additional methods you can use:

1) Scale down the evil. You can depict: injustice in civil courts, effects of gentrification, toxic work environments, cronyism in academia... Look for Reddit threads about worst things that happened to average people, and find something your players can handle.

2) Scale up the fantasy. Making sure the evil is supernatural in nature allows for greater emotional detachment. replace child soldiers with Myrmidons, prostitution with Hollow ones programmed to enjoy it, slavery with zombies, make Seers tamper with ephemeral realms...

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I suspected it might be yours, but I wasn't sure. They're both good names. Still, since Frodo used the pseudonym of "Underhill" verbatim in possibly the most famed fantasy story of modern times, one that influenced many others, including D&D and Warhammer, people's minds won't go "I wonder if there are more obscure references beneath that"....

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There have been behind-the-scene upsets during development of Changeling 2nd. At first, Olivia Hill was the developer/writer, but those duties ended up with someone else, and her material remains unpublished. It's still available if you look for it, and the fandom nicknamed it as the Underhill version. It means "Changeling under Olivia Hill" and it also sounds like a name of a Hobbit....

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What sort of challenge do you want the Acamoth/Gulmoth to pose?
• A physical threat, possibly to be faced in the final battle?
• A puzzle that needs to be solved, that otherwise keeps some options closed from the players?
• A social interaction, that needs to be convinced or manipulated to give way to the PCs?
• A moral conundrum? It could be an unsolvable one, designed just to make players squirm.

How did the Intruder get there, and what is its relationship with the Cult?
• Do you want it to be a discrete entity to be confronted, or more of...