Well, it's a new day in Fay Jee. Prince Yorge finally died after making his daugther Anika (!!!) his successor, after a lot of jockeying by the PCs. Of course her no-good brother Stepan, whom the PCs have had every reason to despise from day one of this campaign, went and triggered a putsch, with support of the local rokari and a local magnate called Bogani, an afandjani exile who lent his hundred of armed slaves to the cause.
During a very harrowing game session, the PCs stopped the putsch and captured Stepan, the mercheant PC Ysgrin having clobbered him with Saint Caselain's thighbone, a holy relic no less, in the cathedral. I gave him the opportunity to finish him off, but he got cold feet and brought the prisonner to the Princess, who had him locked in a deep dungeon.
Now the players are baying for Stepan's blood. They are so worried he'll escape and go to Jhoraz, and come back to make their lives difficult, they do want to get rid of him. Since they are so nervous (they know I love recurring bad guys), I have kept him alive so far. But is a death sentence by his own Sister appropriate ?
Stepan betrayed his family, fought the legitimate (?) successor designated by their own father, allied with foreigners and pagans to do this and profaned the Cathedral of Ashara. As result of his actions, many died and the whole House has been weakened, and stands on the brink of collapse.
So what do you think ? Is a death penalty appropriate ?
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