The announcement that they sent from the Airbase got all the villages outside the Forest on high alert. Nobody knew how many of the curses the Witches' army had sent out, only that they had started sending them, so the braver villagers were doubling their patrols and going hunting for any monsters they could find, intending to keep their region clear of the side effects of the curse by the simplest method possible.
If there were no monsters to curse, the amulets would fade without ever having an effect on anything.
It would be a problem later, they were sure, as many of those same monsters were a regular food source, so most had told their hunters only to go for the most aggressive species to start with while they searched for the Cursed Talismans, but others were already living a vegetarian life and would rather never see a monster again.
