Well, my players finally did it. It took them awhile, but they managed to reach 0 Trust Points in Ravengro. I put up warning signs, I gave them options to avoid all this, I explained that all actions have consequences, but they managed to make an entire town of people hostile towards them. After the town hall burned to the ground, there was no way around it. The people grabbed their torches and pitchforks and chased them away into the night.
I've never been so proud.
Now I've got to figure out how to run the rest of the adventure, because we are WAY "off script". Right now the PC's are level 2, in the woods/fields outside of Ravengro, with nothing in their inventory but manacles (attached) and the clothes on their backs. Before the town hall fire, they had been arrested for breaking into Harrowstone, stealing from the Restlands, and some other trouble around town, so all their gear is in the Ravengro jail.
What should I do? If they go back to town to get their stuff, they are almost CERTAIN to get spotted by the townsfolk and the mob will start up again. If they try to finish Harrowstone, they'll be doing so with no gear. If they leave for Lepidstadt, they'll leave Ravengro to die a horrible ghostly death AND be very low leveled.
I'm honestly stumped by this one. I'm not a terribly cruel or hard DM, so I'll try to reasonably accomodate their plans, but this is a pickle. Any advice?
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How's Kendra and what does she think of them? She can always sneak in, grab their gear, and bring it out to them. Assuming she isn't dead or desiring them to die.
You can also have things go on for a few nights until things progress from bad to very very bad (3/4ths of the way through the name on the statue). Then have the Sheriff, the Mayor, and Grimbarrow meet them in secret as a "please do something about Harrowstone because we can't... then leave and never come back and we'll forget all about what has happened."
You could have the next night be the Zombies Attack! event and allow the players to sneak back in to get their stuff during the confusion, but they may just decide to leave and not come back, allowing the prison to destroy the town.
If they like Kendra, you can also add a "she's been kidnapped and taken to the prison" hook for any of the above scenarios.
Heck, you could just have the Father show up with their stuff and a "Pharasma says get in there and clean it up... so do it and I'll square things with the townsfolk." Or something like that.
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Andyou can have a variety of encounters on the way to lepidstadt, if you want them to level up.
Thanks guys! Kendra got run out of town with them, she's hanging out with the oracle and rogue currently. If any one has a chance of getting back into town its Kendra, but we'll see if they send her.
I like the idea of the town getting bad enough for the sheriff or father to contact them, might do that.
I also talked about having a certain aristocrat come into town to pay his respects to his old friend, Prof. Lorrimor. A man by the name of Adivion Adrissant...