Hi there,
I'm running "Secrets of the Soul Pillars" with my players and I've reached a very delicated point.
This point is that they've just attacked the Temple of Wee Jas, the most important faith in Cauldron city, and they've just killed everything inside. Everything but Ike Iverson. They've managed to capture him alive!!
They are going to interrogate him and try to get the maximum amount of information from him. It's easy for me to play his role as a character that doesn't matter to die for an unknown cause. He's not going to tell them anything at all, or maybe he could try to guide them to a trap in the soul pillars place. But I think that such an important character as Ike deserves more role-playing.
Furthermore, I know that the players are going to leave him alive (there's an apostol of peace in the group!), probably incarcerating him in the temple of St.Cuthbert...
I'd like to hear any suggestion about the "what to do" with Ike.
Come on DMs...
I'd try to reward the party in some way for capturing a minorly important player. Maybe Ike can give a couple clues to where Elastani (the priestess) is. Once matched up with the info from Lords of Oblivion the players can find the fiery sanctum. Do the players know anything about the cagewrights? The opening gate? The missing people? If not, I'd have Ike tell them this sort of information.