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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phoamslinger" data-source="post: 913237" data-attributes="member: 2342">one of my best went something like this,the party arrived in a new town (in Ravenloft), strangers but their money bought them some respect.  shortly thereafter, a series of grisly murders began taking place.  the party was questioned, but cleared of charges.   one of the players began getting friendly with a couple of the local girls.  later he's found at the scene of the next murder, covered in blood with no memory of what happened.  he's imprisoned and the killings stop.  (I then isolated the player from the rest of the group.)  while the party scrambled to find the true killer, the PC is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.  the town erected a gallows outside his cell.on the night before his hanging, as the rest of the group set a trap for the killer, the killer (who was essentially the local sheriff) stopped by the jail and offered the convicted player a small vial."I can't help you in this, but I can offer you a Gentleman's Honor." a vial of poison.then he left.having given up hope of a rescue or to have his sentence cleared,the player wrestled around for almost an hour with a roleplaying dilemma trying to decide if his character would take the poison to avoid the disgrace of a public hanging.he was |-| this close to actually doing it when the group finally beat the villain and cleared his name.</blockquote>