Game Update 5
Game Update 5
OK, so I've been slacking on the updates. I've got three sessions to write up and I'll break them out into separate posts for clarity. The first one is the trial session.
I started with having the characters booted out of bed at an early hour by Renomas and a squad of guards. The group was placed under arrest for kidnapping and murder and all were put in anti-magic bracers in addition to standard manacles. Noone tested the bracers but they would have done 1d6 * spell level damage to the caster. After being hauled to the courthouse and striped of their belongings they stewed for a couple of hours.
Eventually a bailiff came and escorted them to the courtroom. Padraic was present as the plaintiff. The judge was wearing a ring of Zone of Truth and a ring of Discern Lies. Anubis and Ashtar both resisted the Zone, but the others let it pass. Padraic presented his case and then I gave the players the chance to do the same. (There was much amusement at my handpuppeting of the conversation between the judge and Padraic.)
There was much hemming and hawing about how their actions were necessary for the good of Havenholt and the insistence that Moridia had attacked them. Padraic disputed this but as his back was to Moridia when she cast the spell he was unaware of the truth of the matter. Next, the events at Gabriella's tomb were related. All was well until the claim that Moridia again attacked them. I immediately interrupted and corrected Ashtar's player (who had been drinking when the murder happened, not a coincidence) and reminded the group that Moridia and Padraic had done nothing more threatening than leave. At no point did either of them take any action that could be reasonably taken as threatening.
After this, they made their claim that Padraic was enspelled. He protested, but agreed to magical examination. Naturally, the examination showed that he was enspelled and the enchantment was removed. Padraic continured to press charges however as even without the enchantment she was still his wife and had been killed without provocation. The judge sentenced Ashtar and Slerak to 2 years in prison and 1000gp fine. The others got 1 year and 750gp. We then set to making new characters!
I was relived that they took it as well as they did. Dana and Chris (Ashtar and Slerack's players) still insist that what they did was necessary and right, but both got into the new character process and came up with something they liked. We now have a half-dragon warmage, a frey rogue, a deep halfling cleric of Wee Jas, an asherake scout, and a human samurai/kensai.
OK, so I've been slacking on the updates. I've got three sessions to write up and I'll break them out into separate posts for clarity. The first one is the trial session.
I started with having the characters booted out of bed at an early hour by Renomas and a squad of guards. The group was placed under arrest for kidnapping and murder and all were put in anti-magic bracers in addition to standard manacles. Noone tested the bracers but they would have done 1d6 * spell level damage to the caster. After being hauled to the courthouse and striped of their belongings they stewed for a couple of hours.
Eventually a bailiff came and escorted them to the courtroom. Padraic was present as the plaintiff. The judge was wearing a ring of Zone of Truth and a ring of Discern Lies. Anubis and Ashtar both resisted the Zone, but the others let it pass. Padraic presented his case and then I gave the players the chance to do the same. (There was much amusement at my handpuppeting of the conversation between the judge and Padraic.)
There was much hemming and hawing about how their actions were necessary for the good of Havenholt and the insistence that Moridia had attacked them. Padraic disputed this but as his back was to Moridia when she cast the spell he was unaware of the truth of the matter. Next, the events at Gabriella's tomb were related. All was well until the claim that Moridia again attacked them. I immediately interrupted and corrected Ashtar's player (who had been drinking when the murder happened, not a coincidence) and reminded the group that Moridia and Padraic had done nothing more threatening than leave. At no point did either of them take any action that could be reasonably taken as threatening.
After this, they made their claim that Padraic was enspelled. He protested, but agreed to magical examination. Naturally, the examination showed that he was enspelled and the enchantment was removed. Padraic continured to press charges however as even without the enchantment she was still his wife and had been killed without provocation. The judge sentenced Ashtar and Slerak to 2 years in prison and 1000gp fine. The others got 1 year and 750gp. We then set to making new characters!
I was relived that they took it as well as they did. Dana and Chris (Ashtar and Slerack's players) still insist that what they did was necessary and right, but both got into the new character process and came up with something they liked. We now have a half-dragon warmage, a frey rogue, a deep halfling cleric of Wee Jas, an asherake scout, and a human samurai/kensai.