Ask questions

If this is the first time the players visit a known landmark in play (like the Stream or the Crossroads), ask the characters questions about the place. The Book II entries for each locale include questions you might ask, and you can always ask questions like:

• What's the most striking thing that you notice about this place?
• What here tells you that this is a place where/of/that __?
• What have you heard about this place?
• When were you here last? How has it changed?
• How does this place make you feel?
• What are you thinking/worrying about?

Build on the answers they give you, reincorporating them into the fiction and asking follow-up questions as they occur to you. Take notes, and call back to these details later in play.