Wait...so you're saying this wasn't in the book?

[John Mechalas]

Because dressing up like Apostles of Pain, kidnapping Belimarius's corrupt tax collector, burning down their home as their guards flee, interrogating them, killing them, then burying their body on the cultist's campus in order to frame them for the murder, so it would provoke a confrontation with the Emerald Guard and draw out captain Xoxl so that we could ambush and kill him in order to obtain the cooperation of the rune giants all seemed like the obvious course of action to me.

(Our GM suggested that we had, perhaps, taken the AP somewhat off the rails.)

[Bjørn Røyrvik]

Some of the best stuff happens when things go off the rails.

[Davor Firetusk]

Only somewhat, most of the volume is designed as a sandbox. That said I concur when your group can put a fun spin on the solutions that is usually the most memorable.