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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5480616" data-attributes="member: 19675">He didn't have a chance- we were in the building and arrested him within minutes of the reveal.Again, there was enough evidence to hang him- it wasn't merely my words of accusation.That could have been done, yes- but it would have had to have been a foreign power of some kind, given the status if the BBEG.  If so, that's still the end of this arc because PCs don't go to war with countries...and assassination attempts are best left to trained pros.There WAS a power behind the BBEG, though.  The problem was that it was extraplanar in origin: the evil being the BBEG and his cult worshipped.  After the arrest of the BBEG, mopping up the cult was a dawdle...but we were NOT going into the nether regions of the cosmos.  We were good, but we were nowhere near that good..The Prince would not have been complicit in the attempts on his own life and the lives of his family, for a wide variety of reasons.There really wasn't anywhere else for the plot to go.  The reveal took in some of the false leads that the cult had planted.It's not insulting- you weren't there, you didn't see it happen, and its damned unusual- you have a right to be incredulous.</blockquote>