When you say the wicker people didn't attack, you mean none of them attacked at all after you walked to the campfire? I haven't been able to reproduce that. The few standing in the woods are decoration
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I haven’t played again yet but I suspect it is because some guy came running from around a rock with a torch and sword in his hands. I assumed he was a bandit and promptly murdered him mid stride. He was headed in the direction of about five wicker people who just stood there. They weren’t there when I arrived, and eventually I attacked and killed them while they stood there.