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Message: <blockquote data-quote="twofalls" data-source="post: 2151375" data-attributes="member: 23718">I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer your questions John, but I can offer an example from the same game that started this thread. The overall story arc is that the PC's showed up in Shadowdale because they wanted to become Harpers. They were looking to contact Storm Silverhand herself and petition her to enter her organization. While there they discovered three girls had been kidnapped (this from a Module I downloaded and adapted called "Ruins of Castle Grimstead" and the only name I have for the author is Sean '98). The PC's decided that this was a perfect way to prove their worth and did some investigating and tracked the kidnappers to a ruined castle. They were Zhent slavers but the girls had already been shipped out. The slavers leaders escaped, but many of the soldiers were taken captive and returned to the Twisted Tower in Shadowdale for justice.Lord Morngrym's (the Paladin ruler of Shadowdale and now the PC's Lord) justice was to order them hanged until death. The prisoners begged for mercy as they claimed they had no choice but to be part of the military of the Zhentarim and preform these evil acts as their familys were forfiet in Zhentil Keep if they failed their state duty (this being a hint that not all Zhent soldiers are evil). Lord Morngrym then asked for a champion for the slavers amoung his court, and the PC's stepped forward. This then was then the Lords decision. The Slaver's were to be imprisioned, working indentured service to the families they had wronged (under guard to insure they weren't abused) for two years. The champions (being the PC's) had that time to recover the enslaved girls and return them to their families. If the girls could not be found and brought back, or if they were found slain in their service the lives of the soldiers were forfiet. If the girls were found and returned the soldiers lives would be spared, and their sentences altered to 20 years service, upon which time they would then be freed.Though a lot of other things have happened in the game, the PC's are closing on the known location of two of the girls (in Darkhold), and have information that one of them has been killed already. In truth, all three remain alive. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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