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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshgenti" data-source="post: 6031598" data-attributes="member: 54077">I ran into a bit of a self-imposed problem.My group is currently causing all kinds of mischief in Aldencross (Act 4: Book 1) and once they found out about Sir Havelyn's past (They got a really good knowledge Nobility roll or else maybe a diplomacy check to gather information, don't remember which) they were very interested about the death of his wife.  They did find out with their check that she died in child-birth, but they weren't sure & wanted to investigate.  They already knew he felt guilty about something (from the rumors) and assumed it was her death, in particular, being involved some how.Since Sir Havelyn is the "Lord of Aldencross" I figured (without thinking) that he'd likely have his wife buried near the town he is the lord of.  What I didn't take into account was the following:1)  Sir Havelyn is probably Lord because he's running the watch tower so the town probably comes along with it.  So in fact his family's crypt or at least his wife's remains would likely NOT be in Aldencross but probably down south somewhere.2)  My group is EEVVIILL.  No keeping people alive, no nice talk.  Nope.  Just evil.  They killed the Sargent in Act 1 by branding him.  In the mouth.  They're evil.  I've had to tone it down to keep the recommended PG-13 rating.  So of course they found out she was buried & they immediately wanted to desecrate her grave.So, I tried to handle it this way.  Fortunately only one guy went searching, the sealthy rogue elf, who's super LAWFUL, little Evil.  He found the crypt, broke in & before he could bust open the coffin, I had Thorn show up & stop him.  And told him he could not tell the rest of the group.  Citing clause 2 of the PC's contract.  (This PC is super Lawful & so will honor it)  I did this for one reason.  If Thorn didn't stop them but found out after the fact, he'd likely destroy his own knot, all of them, given his backstory.  That's the one button that I could see Thorn responding to savagely.Does that seem an alright way to handle it?  Should I leave it as is?  The guy was on his own & I handled the end off to the side, so I can change it without alerting the whole group.  And the one guy is very good about separating in-character/out-of-character.  So I could change it.  Maybe have Tiadora stop him instead of Thorn?  Tiadora has the spells & would do Thorns bidding (I think, but it is Thorn's love & I'm not sure the back story between Tiadora & Thorn, maybe she wouldn't care about that, or maybe Thorn wouldn't want to reveal his "human" side to the handmaiden...Maybe let the PC grave-rob & assume Thorn cares more about his revenge then the remains of his love (not sure if that's in character for Thorn...)Just looking for suggestions on how to un-screw myself.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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