Encouraging Detect Evil (May Contain Spoilers)

[LankyOgre]

I am running my wife through Crown of the Kobold King alone. She is playing a Dwarven Paladin who left the Five Kingdoms because her father tried to restart the cult of Droskag. She has no idea what is coming. On to the advice part. She has just started and has met Jeva.

Spoiler:

Jeva is a little girl who is a werewolf and burned down an orphanage that was taking care of her. The headmistress had tried to purge the evil from her with nightly ministrations of silver and whippings. Jeva is supposed to stalk the characters and spring on them at some opportune time. If she is detected, she cozies up to the characters and offers to help them out a bit.

Jeva doesn't want most people knowing what she is, so she will hide it in general and will not be forthcoming. My wife doesn't want to be too suspicious, but has wondered how a little girl is able to survive for 2 or 3 months alone in werewolf infested and otherwise dangerous woods. She has picked up that the girl has been mistreated and has not been telling her the entire story, but she's not sure what she is missing.

Spoiler:

In the orphanage, there was a silver dagger and some wolfsbane that would have been some clue, but my wife ran away from a spider swarm and didn't investigate too much.

Just recently, my wife encountered two bugbears dragging a dead lumberjack in the forest and was able to defeat one before the other knocked her out. She woke up with Jeva and a campfire. I think right now she assumes that I hand-waved the other bugbear wandering off. Jeva has made one reference to looting one of the bugbears. The human lumberjack's body is still around, but the two bugbear bodies are not. If she asks, Jeva will be evasive. This could lead to her finding out if she finds the other bugbear body.
If she doesn't find any clues from the bugbears, I will wait until the next time she camps and have Jeva wander off while she is sleeping. She will find remnants of a wolf's meal near the campsite. Things could get solved easily if she detect evil, but I don't know if she thinks she has a reason to and if I come out and suggest it, she will know something is up.
There is also the side that she will possibly try to redeem the little girl, which could be interesting. She is slightly starved for attention.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully I spoiler tagged the right things and all.

[Piccolo]

so what do you want with us?

[asthyril]

have an npc notice something odd about her

[jerrys]

they mostly come out at night.
mostly.

[AnnoyingOrange]

If Jeva is less than 5HD, which I suspect she is, she will not show up on detect evil radar anyway.

[Piccolo]

better study up on poison rules, and have a means of getting wolfsbane handy, mr DM!

[LankyOgre]

Looking at the 3.5 version of the module, she was 4HD; 2 levels of rogue and 2 HD for lycanthrope. 3.x also did not have the "none" entry on the detect evil table. I haven't actually noticed that before, just assumed it was the same as before. Those little changes always rear their ugly heads. Also, another change was the targeted detect evil from normal radar style. The same paladin in 3.5 could have used detect evil on anything or at anytime and happen to catch part of the girl, now you have to target them first.

Currently, she is wandering through Darkmoon Forest alone with the werewolf, so there aren't many NPCs nearby. I figure that as long as she isn't hungry, she won't have reason to eat my wife. I'd like to give her a few clues before the girl turns on her, so it doesn't seems like a complete surprise.
So I guess I'm asking, what kind of hints or clues can be dropped that don't look like up giving it away, but can continue to lead her towards, "something's not right."?

[Piccolo]

easy. do you know the signs of what being a werewolf is? there's tons

watch lon chaney jr in "The Wolf Man" with your wife

[Thanis Kartaleon]

LankyOgre wrote:

Also, another change was the targeted detect evil from normal radar style. The same paladin in 3.5 could have used detect evil on anything or at anytime and happen to catch part of the girl, now you have to target them first.

Focusing on a target with a move action is an additional option for paladins - they can still use detect evil as a 'radar', as before. Whether you have to activate the detect evil ability as a standard action before honing in as a move action is currently a point of contention - do whatever works best for you on that note.

You could have her wake up one night to hear a wolf howling close by. The girl is gone, though when she moves to investigate, she shows up again quickly enough.

You could mention the girl's nose twitching before trouble strikes, as if she smells it coming.

[Knight Magenta]

+1 to the girl not sowing up on detect evil since she has less than 5 HD. Probably good that your wife has not scanned her yet :D

[Piccolo]

try hair on palms, eyebrows meeting together, sharp, pointed fingernails, red teeth, might flinch from silver, the pentagram on the palm, waking up with strange wounds and muddy hands and feet, etc.

PS real medieval werewolves only turned into large wolves, not wolf-men.

look it up on wikipedia, and watch that movie I told you about, its a classic