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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 4161677" data-attributes="member: 36150">The players were told by a dead woman that the Arbiter was not to have her child.  The Arbiter commanded the PC's to hand the child over to him.  The PC's tried to reason with the Arbiter, and failed.  This left three choices: Fight, Flee, or Surrender.  The PCs chose to Fight, and won.  They burned the body to conceal their "crime", and next encounter, much higher NPC soldiers appear to defeat the PCs.I have a number of questions about this scenario.* How (and how quickly) did the King's Men find out about Vincent's death?* How (and how quickly) were they able to successfully ID and track the PCs?* Are the local laws just, or is there a veneer of law to a corrupt government?  I am of the opnion that any totalitarian-type government is open to corruption by definition; a system of Law that restricts the basic rights of its people "because we say so" is Lawful, but definitely NOT Good.Given the above, I would think that the clever PCs COULD have fought to subdue, but they would have ended up in the same boat, and so they preferred to do what they felt had to be done until more information could have been uncovered.  Clever-er PC's may also have demanded that they hold the child until such a time as that non-magical proof of the Arbiter's fatherhood could be produced - magic can be flawed, and since the PC's already knew the answer, the burden of proof would have fallen on the Arbiter.  At worst, the PC's would have been carted into court and an investigation be launched into the reasoning behind the wife's desire to prevent the Arbiter from claiming the child.But that's not how it went down.And so, my question is this: Where are the high-powered "Evil" people the players can go to for assistance? <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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