| Dijkstra |
Story
We're halfway through Book 2: Rivers Run Red (with the trolls). Grigori came along and started smack talking the kingdom just like the book says. Eventually the council of PCs voted to execute him. The General took up the executioners axe and just before he could swing, Grigori cast charm person on him and the General failed his save.
Now the General was having second thoughts. Sure Grigori did terrible things, but executing their good friend was no solution.
It was already established that Grigori was using magic in his speeches so the PCs were wise to the fact that Grigori must have used magic again here. A second PC tried to execute him, and was also charmed. Finally a third PC tried, made the will save and performed a coup-de-grace auto crit... with a dagger. Even with the low damage it was save or die, but Grigori rolled a 17 and made it.
I decided he would try to bluff his own death rolling against all PCs sense motives (which I have on a card hanging from my DM screen). With PC sense motives ranging from +0 to a staggering +1 it wasn't hard for Grigori to beat them all.
Question
Now I have a very alive Grigori, who has a vengeance against the PCs, that the PCs do not know is alive.
How can I use him against the PCs?
He is certainly not going to speak out publicly against them again - that did not go well. But I am excited to bring him back for a surprise appearance in this or a future book.