I haven't finished reading through the adventure yet, but I liked that part. To me it immediately implied a formerly high tech, small population cut off from their civilization that haven't regained many of their TL0 survival and manufacturing skills yet. Given the reported mild changes from summer to winter covered well during the survey portion of the mission, I thought it was a clue toward the origin of the natives and that the population hadn't been there all that long and their needs simply didn't extend to manufacture of clothing. That and the hint that one of the players recognize a species of bird their from their homeworld, indicating prior contact between this world and the Imperium at large. 



A population that did have to deal with periodic winters would have had to learn to manufacture clothes and therefore would be less likely to be naked even during the mild seasons, so the nudity did imply that the population never had to deal with dramatic changes in climate. 
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On January 27, 2018 4:00 AM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:


>Oh my, how sexist!   ;-p

Also a fair point.  (Though to be fair the village was male and female and *all* naked...)  (As a percentage of the several times I've run it, I'd say NPCs have been equal opportunities male/female naked - as well as old and young.)  I imagine it will never get filmed...

In my defence (and admittedly feeble), the original idea for the set up came to me when I was an 18/19 year old living for a year in Nigeria.  Living in the bush for all that time and that scene pretty much happened down at a small river (not a blonde though).  And we regularly went into villages where clothing was either very minimal or non existent.

The original text I submitted to Mongoose actually had a note to the effect that actually it's Western culture's obsession with skimpy (non)clothing that is sexy or sexually provocative, not total nudity which is anything but.  I was always quite glad that they edited that comment out as it was perhaps getting away from the point somewhat.

tc