Dealing with the aftermath of the Dream Pollen Pods

[Ravingdork]

Our party barbarian got a big whiff of the dream pollen, went crazy, ran over to Mordaine the Magician as she was talking to the other PCs by the campfire, and cut her down with a single swipe of his hefty axe. (I rolled randomly of all the nearby targets.)

Though the confusion has run its course, and the party managed to save Mordaine and subdue the barbarian, there are many NPC witnesses who don't understand what is happening, and now think that the barbarian may have also been responsible for Myron's murder as well!

How will he ever be able to be trusted again? How could the once bautiful--now maimed--Mordaine ever forgive him upon reawakening? How should I, the GM, handle the situation?

[Volusto]

The players should present the destroyed dream pollen pods and with a nature and diplomacy check that the barbarian was under these effects. Alternatively you may replace these checks with how the party wishes to resolve the situation.

Mordaine will likely demand to keep her position of a diva with having the big number reserved to her only. Or be traumatized by the barbarian and the rest of the circus seeing him as a unstable threat.

[Ravingdork]

They didn't destroy the pods, which is probably for the best. They threw a heavy blanket over one, cinched another pod shut with a belt, put a big book to hold the lid shut on another, and stuck the final one in a sealed box.

So, they got some evidence in their favor...and quite possibly a deadly weapon to use against their enemies.