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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tzarevitch" data-source="post: 86439" data-attributes="member: 1792">There better not be any paladins or good characters in that group. Don't let the PCs get off making relatively trivial amends for what they did. The rogue in particular, killed an innocent person simply to get at the baddie. I can see if the PCs were unable to stop the baddie from killing the hostage, but the rogue actually killed one of them willingly and it sounds like none of the others objected. He hit her the first time, then did it again and killed her. That is manslaughter at least in modern jurisprudence. Under medieval criminal codes that is murder. The fact that they raised her later might mitigate some of the penalties, but it doesn'd absolve them of the crime. Note also that it is not the girl's choice whether or not to pursue muder or manslaughter charges, that is the local law's decision. Also, I can't see why the cleric's deity (unless he is an evil deity) would be anything less than livid at the conduct of the cleric and his companions at willfully killing an innocent person because it was more convienent than coming up with a better plan.  I would have the deity consent to raising the girls then impose a idvine quest for the PCs to learn the true value of an innocent life. An even better idea could be for the deity to have demanded that the PCs journey to the land of the dead and retrieve their souls themselves, sort of greek hero-style. Since the girl's have already been raised, they can still be sent on a quest into the "underworld" to recover the soul of some other slain innocent. Let them see first hand what the dead go through and by implication, what they forced the girl's soul to go through before they raised her. In the future, you could also come up with some reason why the dead person can't come back then let the person's restless ghost haunt them until they make amends. Above all, don't let good or neutral PCs get off lightly for doing such things. Tzarevitch</blockquote>

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