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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3217937" data-attributes="member: 7883">In this particular case, the characters had been in a town in Montaigne, in the middle of another series of quests.  They encountered an NPC, an archaeologist, who was seeking an escort to a local ruined castle once belonging to an ancient order of knights who had been wiped out a few centuries before.A local inquisitor found out about their quest.  The inquisitors don't like anyone tampering with the ruins, and they have some authority in the region.  It's not like orcs or something, where there's a license to kill them.  Anyways, the inquisitors tracked them to the ruins, and tried to trap them inside a room underground by blocking the entrance, and leaving them to starve.  The PCs escaped through a secret passage, encountered the Inquisitors, and the Inquisitors tried to capture them.  The PCs fought back, successfully, and defeated the Inquisitors.  But after disarming them, getting them to surrender etc. one of the PCs, who is a former priest who has decided that he hates the Inquisition, gets it in his head to not just let them surrender, but kill them.  Then, the character run by the problem player joined in, and together they executed the survivors, against the wishes of two other party members, who weren't so sure that was a good idea.A few Inquisitors had escaped, and they came back, realized what had happened, and reported the PCs to the local authorities.Banshee</blockquote>

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