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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 164486" data-attributes="member: 232">THe fun of playing with the conscience of the party.The NPC was named Jackson.  He was helping the party by transporting them to a port City State on his boat.  Jackson was affiliated with the crown nad the party liked him.  When they got tho the city, Jackson tried to secretly make a deal with the people of the city to sell the party into slavery (he was paid to do this by the parties enimies).  The group found out ands escaped into the wilderness.  After months of traveling and adventuring and really working themselves into a great anger over this.  They got back into civilization and found out Jackson told a different story of events.  He said the aprty attacked the citizens of the town (which they did do killing inicents) and convinced the crown to put a price on their head to help the build an alliance with e city state. At this point in time Jackson was also rewarded for seeking this alliance and given a prominate position in the goverenrment.  He used this power to send many of the friends of the PCs who were in the army on dangerous missions and got them killed.  The party hated him even more.So, the day finally came when the aprty would be able to seek out their revenge.  Jackson was having a secret meeting with someone.  Jackson went with no gaurds to a remote area.  THe group waiting in ambush.  However, the meeting was set up by another one of Jackson's enemies.  The Daughter of one of the people he sent to die set this up and attacked him with poison arrows.  They paralyzed Jackson but kept him conscience and then she pulled out an acid dagger.  The party came out and questioned her.  She told them everything and her plans to torture him to death.THe group was all good and did not condone torture.  So, for the next 4 hours of game time the defended Jackson's actions so she would not torture and kill him.  They wanted him brought to justice and to pay for his crimes.  In the end they just killed him and left the body in the woods.  But Having them hate and want the death of an NPC and then having them spend the whole adventure agrueing to save his life was priceless.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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