In our campaign, the PC's ended up hauling Tsuto to the brig as well, and when by the time the sheriff return the jail also had Lyrie and Orik captive. With the Sheriff's blessing they escorted him, Lyrie and Orik all the way to Magnimar to meet Justice Ironbriar for sentencing prior to beginning of book two.
This provided some great foreshadowing of things to come in Magnimar and I played up a resemblance between Ironbriar and Tsuto. The PC's began to suspect/infer that Ironbriar could be Tsuto's long-lost father.
In my game Lyrie and Orik(reluctantly) rescued Tsuto after they escaped the attack on Thistletop.
Yes, he has the card in his possession. Unfortunately for him, it will be confiscated upon incarceration!
If you want to spring him, spring him. Lyrie could have sent a couple of goblins to play jailbreak in the dead of night.
In my campaign, Tsuto died, but Lyrie was captured. I had the PCs escort her to Magnimar for trial by Judge Ironbriar prior to Chapter 2, then escort her and three other convicts all the way to Fort Rannick to be inducted/geased into the Black Arrows - and then they returned to go through Chapter 2. Great foreshadowing opportunities...
Yes.
In my campaign, Tsuto was spared a death sentence for treason, because he was so plainly under the witch Nualia's charm. There's a paladin in my group who knows Tsuto is evil, but is unable to prove in a court of law that his action wasn't actually magically ordered by Nualia.
Protection from crime committed while charmed is guaranteed under the Magnimar Carta. (bah dum cha)
Anyway, I stole someone else's idea off the forums, and had his sentence commuted to service at Fort Rannick. It was a great chance to foreshadow how awful ogres are, because many onlookers accepted the punishment as worse than death.
Heh . . . in our campaign the two half-orcs talked to Ameiko about how Tsuto had brought dishonor to her family and might reveal even more, and they took this as a cue to "do her a favor," and they convinced the watchmen to give them a few minutes alone with Tsuto while still in the glassworks.
The half-orcs then proceeded to stuff Tsuto, alive, into the furnace in the glassworks. Then they beat each other up and told the guards that Tsuto had escaped them . . .
The running joke in the campaign was that NPCs from Sandpoint would often mention that Tsuto is "out there, somewhere." To which the half-orcs would silently nod in agreement.
Then again, the AP says that he commits suicide if he gets jailed (p. 24). Are you asking what the AP says about him, or what you can get away with doing? :D
So! During a colorful excursion into the glassworks last night, the party managed to subdue Tsuto and - acting as responsible deputies, since the sheriff is off to Magnimar - they tied him up and took him to the local clink. Is he doomed to rot there? The party has just settled outside of Nettlewood, and I'd love to spring him out while they're gone so that I can continue to use him as a thorn in their side. Is this reasonable / possible? Tsuto isn't in good standing with anybody in town so he won't be able to talk his way out, and I'm not using the Catacombs of Wrath, so the quasit queen won't be able to rescue him. Thoughts?
Well, as the GM, he can always get a "get out of jail free card" if you need him to for plot reasons.
However, think carefully before you do so. Unlike the Comics, "Cardboard Prisons" will encourage Fantasy genre characters to solve such "problems" more directly.
Nice stuff! :D
RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16
|
If I recall, Tsuto had monk levels and a good bluff score, not to mention rogue levels, sneak attack and a high initiative. I simply decided that if he bluffed the guard at the jail, he'd be able to get a sneak attack in, or 2 if he won initiative. I rolled a few dice behind the screen, and he was able to lure the guard in, hit twice while the guard was flat footed, and take the keys from the knocked out guard and escape all on his own.
If he had failed, then he would have hung himself, but he lived to show up in the goblin lair.
In our campaign Tsuto was captured too. The Sheriff arranges for him to be sent to Magnimar. End of story... or so one would think.
While at Habe's Sanatorium one character discovers Tsuto in one cell. A short exchange of words ends with Tsuto asking the PC to tell Ameiko that he is well.
Actually Ameiko has arranged for Tsuto to be spared by the sheriff and to be sent to a secure place. Ameiko has a lot of influence and while she is heartbroken at her brother's actions she understand the pain he has been through and can not bear to think of him being executed.
I plan for the sanatorium (or part of it anyway) to be burnt down, with Tsuto presumed dead. He will probably return. Whether he does so as a recuring vilain or an anti-hero helping the party depends on where the campaign is headed and the actions of the party.
|
Tsuto was taken alive in our game as well. I intend for Ameiko to travel with the party as they escort Tsuto and Sherriff Hemlock to Magnimar to stand trial, as she will need to file paperwork to legalize her claim to the Kaijitsu family holdings. Along the way, Ameiko will offer Tsuto hope that he "might be assigned to the Black Arrows instead of life in the Hells". Of course, the party will be called upon to testify at Tsuto's trial, which will be presided over by none other than Justice Ironbriar. The good judge will assign Tsuto to the Hells to contimplate where his life went wrong (after comparing Tsuto's upbringing as an outcast to his own as a Forlorn Elf; "I too was raised as an outcast in human society, and look where my choices in life led me!"). Of course, Tsuto will be encountered again at the Seven's Sawmill along with his daddy.....