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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThoughtBubble" data-source="post: 2213455" data-attributes="member: 9723">Only one session last month.The rogue makes plans for gathering all the 'head chiefs' of the thieves' guild together and there do a dramatic unveiling of the culprit behind the attempted frame. Except... they don't know who did it. Oh yeah... they've got a prisoner. But now the clock is ticking.The party interrogates their prisoner with a decent good-cop, bad-cop scenario (and a couple of broken fingers), and he agrees to tell them everything provided safe passage granted by the #1 or #2 of the orginization. Thanks to everyone here who helped me work that out. The rogue decides that this means the #2 was responsible and accuses him of being the culprit. One wisdom check later, and it's pointed out that the cuprirt may have asked for him because he handles the day to day stuff. Since it'd been a month since the last game we were all rusty. We smoothed it over, made a few diplomacy rolls and moved on to actually interrogating the prisoner.Anyway, the plan was to cause a stirr in the ranks, and create more rapid action by bringnig down the heat. They get names, investigate, do more questioning, and eventually get it down to one of the top members of the guild, 'Slice', who has a lot to profit from any sort of change. They had a little evidence and 2 testimonies that Slice was the brains behind the plan. However, there was piece of evidence (falsified document--which the party knew was falsified) that implicated Buckle, the major voice towards more action.  Well, the meeting gets called, and findings are reported, and accusuations are flying of the "You did it! Admit it! You're guilty!" type. Buckle was insulted on multiple occasions, and got into an arguement with the rogue. "I've been here from the beginning, and you just think you can walts in and take over? I don't think so. This is a place about loyalty, about trust!""What have you contributed? You run away at the first sign of trouble, and have the nerve to come in and accuse me? I've worked day and night to help build this orginization! What have you done? This entire thing is ridiculous!"And so on for several vollies. Buckle finally is completely enraged and storms out of the room.  Sense motive checks reveal that he is angry, and not trying to hide guilt. But, just in case, the ninja/detective sneaks out of the room to make sure buckle isn't going to run out of town, taking the  sense motive check with her.Slice, on the other hand, says that 'It was all Buckle's idea. He wanted power' and so on, in classic greasy villian style. At the back table an interesting discussion takes place between our druid, swordsman, and the two proisoners. It essentially ends up with:"Why are you guys just passing the blame along?""It's better to stay out of the way of big problems and let it hit the biggest target. Hopefully everyone will just forget the little guy."The swordsman gets that Slice is doing the same thing, but really doesn't care enough about the situation to mention it. The rogue agonizes for about 20 more minutes trying to come up with a good solution before I say that the session is a wrap.  Now, I'm unsure as to what to do, but it's likely to be at least a fortnight until the next session, so there's some time left to plan. I figure I'll try to spin it in the most positive manner possible, so that the party doesn't feel that social or political situations are to be avoided at all cost.</blockquote>

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