Ok, so I am running a game where at the start of the adventure the players (who are all level 5 )were in Galt and they saw a young girl executed by a Final Blade. Apparently she was a evil witch who had tried to start another revolution out of a desire to spread chaos. Later they were approached by a friend of the girl who said she was framed. They made sense motive rolls and believed her (FTR, it's true she was framed). Now, my INTENT with this adventure/campaign hook was for them to plan and adventure and maybe come back in a few levels to help her rescue her friend from the final blade. However, they decided to make a surprise assault that night during the changing of the watch. Long story short, each round more and more level 3-7 guards (as in 2 guards, then 4 then 6 etc) poured out of the keep to stop them as more sleeping guards got woken up and their armor and weapons ready, but they managed to destroy the final blade right before I was about to have some much higher levels come out.
So, once it blew up and the spectres manifested, of course the players were out of spells/near death and ran away and let the guards deal with the spectres/wraiths.
So, my question then is... What can I do to show them the consequences of that unplanned assault and running? At the very least, should I consider an alignment shift/warning for letting lose a bunch of nasty undead to plague a town? I already have them being hunted by the ghost of the girl they are trying to save (the final blade helped her not move on, but she might not have anyway, as the reason I made her a ghost is she's terrified of death and the way to "lay her to rest" as a ghost is to resurrect her at this time.)
have them pay for her ressurection.
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there was a ritual that would free a soul from the final blade, I kind of figured that destroying the blade would work too.
the gag is that they destroyed a blade of galt, the grey guardners are going to be looking for them, and they are being haunted by the girl they are supposed to have saved... well at this point they would have had to likely raise her anyway. They must now escape Galt taking the girl's ghost and her living friend with them or risk being put to the final blade as well.
So where in GAlt re they?? Near Taldor, River Kingdoma or Numeria???
They blew it up, they will have to flee or die
Oh yeah they were right up near the border so they managed to get across the border to the River Kingdoms while the Grey Gardeners were dealing with the spectres. As for the ritual, that would have required them to convince the Grey Gardeners the girl was innocent, which would be unlikely as the person that did the framing was very thorough.
And yes, they do need to figure out how to pay for a resurrection, which in fact will probably have to be a True Resurrection as they don't really have a body.