I do the same. My peeps dismantled The Knowing Totem, with the help of 4 yellow masked peeps chasing after her; ever sooo slowly.

I thought, "Finally, a good use for non-runners!" and tried to use mine as a slow decoy, in the same way as mentioned above for elderly peeps. Alas, he took off running.

At least he might be consistent.

Use an elderly peep, they can't run. I will usually lure the yellow gang as far away as possible. I do it by hovering my peep slightly above the gang. When I have them where I want, I release my elderly peep, and the yellow gang takes over; slow motion style.
It works like a charm.

See, I used butterflies. Bring the kids around and the yellow masks are too busy chasing them to chase the adults nearby.

I use butterflys to keep my kids and rascal busy and away from any key work areas. Or, sometimes I put them near the yellow masked adults so that they have to put up with the kids. LOL.

I have villager who dislikes learning but still has mastered farming and devotion, go figure.

I dismantled Blocking Totem with help of old villager who disliked running, she kept Heathens nicely away while my builders demolished totem. It was quite fun to watch but probably bad for her health.

I can see the face!!!! Well part of 2 actually!
Different ones!

Not by the chief though but by the pools.

Back of the pools -right hand side, there are 3 tall pink flowers, by the 3rd flower is a trunk with half a face and the next tree again the same!!!

But having looked again by the chief the first trunk has a sort of pair of closed eyes on it?!!

I put my children in the pond as shown in the babysitting picture and then used butterflies to get rascal to the area. When the butterflies ended he stayed by the pond making noises at the children. the children eventually escaped except for one who was still there distracting Rascal for quite awile.

2 of my tribe's babies have got stuck on water, 1 at near farm and 1 at lake, no slightest clue how they ended on those places and they didn't come out of water on their own, I had to pick-up them.

Ha, VVCX, I read your post about babies stuck in the water last night, and this afternoon my rascal got stuck under the waterfall! Result ;-)