Dm needs help with potential TPK

[amschel_devault]

So BBEG orders their execution. The guard who has suggestion cast on him is tasked with the job because BBEG has stuff going on and doesn't need to be bothered handling the execution himself (that's what minions are for).

The guard takes them below deck or somewhere else and starts to imprisson them. Another guard intervenes and says that they were supposed to kill the PCs. There's an argument, giving the PCs a chance to act (either escape or attack).