Hey everyone, I've landed into a smidge of a pickle, in that due to a series of narrative choices and our current homebrew story arch, I'm on the run. I may have been involved in a tavern bombing that killed 40+ people, set the town square aflame, and killed a kid's dog.
It's a low magic campaign, I'm a level 4 rogue who so far managed to get out of town, realize I was heading the wrong way, snuck back through town, and am now on the outskirts. We ended the session with me hearing the provincial guards asking around about where the Halfling (Me!) went.
I'm thinking of either returning to town to face the music and rely on my social skills to get out of it and playing the victim (Jeepers, I have no idea what's going on, what just happened? I'm so confused because of this random explosion which I know nothing about) or I can become the fugitive.
If I go the latter route, what are some good tricks to keep in mind for staying off the radar, if they try tracking me with magic, how can I defeat it. Should I hang around the area and link up with the rest of the party, or should I head somewhere like a safe house in our home town? Our DM is pretty flexible in handling our unexpected decisions, so I don't think there's any sort of railroading but he probably won't make life easy while it's unresolved. We've basically likened the situation to terrorist bombing, and I think we all know that terrorists aren't forgotten about when they skip town. Where do I go from here?
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Buddy if your gm is cool any of those roads would be a good one to take. My bottum line thought about what you should or would do but what your halfling would do. Based on his actions and passed deeds, what would he do. Is he honorable so would fess up, is he so brazzen and smoth he dare go back and play stupid, or is he a panic stricken fox high tailing for a safe hole somewere.
Hmmm, good point, he'd likely do a bit of column a and column b. He's cocky and arrogant, egocentricity is his specialty so he's likely figuring he's good enough to get away with anything. He's also smart though and knows when to cut and run, so I could see him trying to just get the hell out of dodge. He tries to make everyone think he's self-interested, but when it's crunchtime, he's the first to volunteer to take the plunge.
He feels guilty about his dead partner, and he won't want the rest of the party to suffer because of this... hmmm, thanks for the input, I'll put it to use!
Your dead partner, did they die in the blast? If so, blame them as hard as you can if you get caught.
Depending on the leathalness of your game this is a constantly useful method and often even true.
But yeah, what would the halfling do in this situation?
Yep, she failed the reflex roll. Turned out to be a DC 30 reflex save. Mine is 9, hers was like 4 or something. Fortunately I rolled a Natural 20, so heroic success on my part regardless, dead alchemist on hers.
He'll protect her memory so he'll likely spin her as a victim too instead of the perpetrator. Maybe I'll borrow from Skyrim and try to convince people it was a dragon!