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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wolff96" data-source="post: 3537371" data-attributes="member: 342">Our party was on the run from the Red Wizards of Thay.  They had put a *VERY* substantial reward on our heads and we were constantly being targetted by assassins and other ne'er-do-wells out for the bounty.We set up camp outside a moderate-sized city and were somehow discovered.  When the local lawman (who we knew was working for the Wizards) showed up with a posse and tried to arrest us -- for camping on protected lands, I think -- I cooked 99% of his low-level men with a single empowered chain lightning.  The lawman managed to escape alive.The party rogue, Arclite -- our face man, master of disguise and king of BS -- left camp, taking a horse and saying "Trust me".  Somewhere between leaving our camp and catching up to the out-classed lawman, he paused to strip a (scorched) uniform off a dead man and disguise himself as another survivor.After catching up, Arclite spent the evening commiserating with the lawman over alcohol.  Then he excused himself, changed his appearance AGAIN, and used the intelligence he had gathered in their earlier conversation to convince the lawman that he was a bounty hunter.  He offered to drop the PCs and share the reward with the lawman.Fast forward to when he comes back to camp.  Arclite took four of the dead men's heads, disguised them in a mundane manner, then had me enchant them beyond that.  When done, we had exact copies of the four party members that could stand up to most any scrutiny...  for a while.We went back to town -- the whole group in disguise, now -- and sold the lawmen OUR OWN HEADS.  In anticipation of the reward, he paid our share of the bounty to us right then and there -- mostly so he could screw this naive bounty-hunting group out of part of their money.--------------------------Long story short:  We sold the crooked lawmen some of his own men's heads for 25,000gp.  We obtained a bunch of intelligence about how the Red Wizards were tracking us and just how badly they wanted us.  *AND* we got that lawman in trouble with the Red Wizards when he tried to turn over a bunch of fake heads to them.  Good times.  I only wish I'd had the brains to pull THAT one off.  <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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