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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FreeTheSlaves" data-source="post: 2180591" data-attributes="member: 9952">No clerics as such, I'm nearly the only paladin, my concience is my only guide - no miraculous signs from a distant God.Well murderous thoughts is a bit misleading as it was an execution without the benefit of the prisoner already subdued.King appointed by default as the hierarchy of legitimate law has defaulted to me.Umm, he didn't really think on this - my character has 8 int but I guess the DM would slap down a Himalayan mountain range to justify his ad hoc statement. No probs with me. There will be a representative but we don't know how far the Mayor's reach is, so far it seems more than local. We don't get XP for battles in this campaign and the injuries linger, also we lose as often as we win so the assumption that we'll win any given battle will eventually result in bleached bones. We beat the Carlos brothers only just as they outclassed us but we played on their confidence.The decision to execute him was made during the journey back to town, after I mulled through the legal and moral issues. I'm just saying that it wasn't a spur of the moment decision but very deliberate. We couldn't burn his house initially because of the indiscriminate killing but as he was escaping I roused the house (only 1 of his sons was home) by calling "fire!" several times and then battled for my life vs the wrathful son. Out of the desperation of being boxed in by the flames did the Mayor jump to safety but my deputies scrambled swiftly to intercept.</blockquote>Well the Carlos brothers were all hired bounty hunters that we had to fight in self defence. We couldn't flee as we hadn't rested fully and further travel was a forced march with fatigue slowly killing us and putting us at further disadvantage. They also had mighty bows and so outclassed us in both (average) riding skills and missile fire. We had to fight and in melee we won, just. Legally speaking, after he was subdued, there was no reason to detain, him he didn't shoot his mouth off with threats and looked quite grief-stricken and despondant. We had been on 1/2 rations ourselves, thus the reason for fatigue, and so we took most of their food to fill our rumbling bellies. Lie in the sun for no less than 3 days to be exact. We were badly beaten up and nothing less than 3 days bed rest was going to get us travel worthy - the deputy nursing us said no heavy exertions so we had to tolerate the bad smell on the wind by end of day 1 (in the sun). I would have done last rites but they mean more from someone who cares more, so the surviving son was more suitable.Umm I don't think so. The people are largely cowed into submission and don't want to be publicly seen helping us due to the trouble that'll come their way. OoC, the DM discussed with us the campaign setting and the king doesn't give a rat about some ill defined frontier and thus my low ranking character bing sent. We're largely on our own - the previous lawman was killed, and we're still facing the Mayor's sons (2 brothers + 7(?) goons) and the Cavalry commander with his 50 odd company. With the goons in a straight up fight, we'll win or loss 50/50, the brothers will tip that to 20/80 so that's the deal.[/QUOTE]

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