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This is specific to Beyond the Vault of Souls but I think can be useful to DMs in General:

There's a part in BtVoS where the players approach a Demon town and have to get in. In my game the players totally blew all their bluff/diplomacy checks and are now fighting a bunch of the town guards. The guards are strong and numerous enough that they will be able to overwhelm the party.

Suggestions for how to run this?

I want it to be fun for my players but I also can't really think of a way out of this for them. A couple options:

1) The party manages to flee (this is the easiest since they can regroup and try something else).
2) The guards "kill" the players and the players wake up in jail and have to figure it out from there (this is a bit cliche and they just went on a major shopping trip so I feel bad about taking away their stuff).
3) They die and we start with new characters (not a great solution: we have been playing with these characters for years now).

Thanks in advance for your help!