I've made a 17th-level mind breaker mystic, who is meant to be something like the Joker, in that he is incarcerated, but keeps getting out to wreak mayhem across the solar system.
Unlike the Joker, no one knows, believes, or can prove that he committed any violent crimes. Everyone know he's completely insane, and potentially dangerous, and that's why they keep him locked up, but they've never been able to definitively connect him to any of his actual murders (he relies on his psychic attacks or summons to kill his victims, leaving no physical evidence behind).
For this to really work though, I'll need help with a few things:
1) Advice on how he is able to essentially walk out of a high security asylum at will, for days at a time, without anyone realizing that he's gone.
2) Advice on preventing things like divinations and security surveillance from outing him for his murder sprees.
In short, I'm worried the concept falls flat on its face and I'm looking for advice on how to make it work within the context of the Starfinder setting.
A powerful Patron could do both those things... or legal loopholes like need more specific evidence to justify permanent incarceration and paperwork always getting tossed around so a lot of people don't realize he's out.. personally I like the idea of the patron someone's down for some chaos lol
He needs a double if people aren't going to realise he's gone. Planar binding might do for that. For actually getting out suggestions and subjective reality might help.
Disguise self will help some but I'm not sure what the limits of divination and security surveillance are in Starfinder. It might help if he's crazy in a way that makes him believe he didn't commit any of these murders, and people have read his mind and so 'know' he wasn't involved.
Nondetection helps against surveillance, Disguise Self helps against thing like Retrocognition. Most other divination isn't all that helpful unless they're Mind Probing him, which might face legal obstacles.
For walking out, Shadow Walk or Ethereal Whatever are 6th level spells on his list. Maybe they don't know he has access and haven't done the dimensional lock equivalent on his cell.
Dominate person, charm monster, and modify memory might help him to get in and out without reliable witnesses as well.
He could be a Technomancer with the Divine Champion Archetype and connection to a deity with the Mindbreaker connection. That gives him access to teleportation and holographic images, and still keeps the Mind Thrust and the other connection spells available to him (as spell likes).
...or is this simply a concept you've come up with because you're just doing it?
More this than anything at the moment, though hopefully I will get the chance to play it someday. Thanks for all the awesome advice! :D
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I read this bit in the Pact Worlds book and I’ve been dying to have fun with it. I think it could enhance your character, if it works with your idea. The Divine Blessing feat gives a different benefit based on your deity. Worshippers of Weydan can select a new appearance for themselves whenever they arrive on a new planet.
I could see an insane genius criminal using that his advantage. Commit a crime in space and then get sent to a planetary prison. Get a new face when you land and then make-up a story of how the criminal swapped places with you and escaped! You don’t even look anything like him after all. You can escape in the confusion then. That’s good for a few jails at least before they catch on.