Love the random encounter flare, it's a nice change of pace for a wilderness area :-)
With The Lost Villager encounter, I found it irritating that the villager stopped to kill ever bird, squirrel, fox and deer, often causing me to lose track of her. But then I just found it disturbing watching her mow through an entire herd of deer saying "did you hear something?" and acting all scared when she's apparently a murderous lunatic. I felt less like I was leading her to safety and more like I was being chased by an schizoid axe murderer, lol.
I also don't think anything happened when I got her back to Eveningstar, but I may have missed it, as I jumped in quick without paying close attention to see if the quest was completed.
Can't wait til it goes live!!