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False Witness
Item 0Uncommon Source Dark Archives (Remastered) pg. 84
There comes a time in every thief's life when they need a friend, an ally, a boon companion who will look a judge straight in the eye and swear over a stack of holy books that the two of them were out drinking—yes, your honor, all night, never left my sight for more than a minute, you have my solemn oath. Lucky thieves have a friend who is willing to be an alibi; for everyone else, there's the false witness, a professional in the art of fraudulent testimony.
Some false witnesses are truly freelance, willing to claim to have seen someone for the price of a round of drinks. More respectable witnesses, however, tend to be associated with thieves' guilds, secret societies, and other conspiracies. Such organizations can match a person in need of an alibi with a witness with no apparent connection to them, and they often have large enough numbers that no one witness appears before law enforcement often enough to arouse suspicion. The most expensive and professional false witnesses use memory charms or similar techniques to render their Third Eye Crowntestimony foolproof. Typically, a false witness charges per incident, providing a false alibi and, if necessary, hiring other witnesses to back themselves up and thus foul an investigation.
False witnesses generally know better than to ask questions, but depending on their background, might refuse to protect—and might even turn in—someone involved in a particularly heinous crime. A tavern keeper might have no qualms about covering for burglars and footpads but will gladly send a child murderer to the gallows.
Detecting False Testimony: To defeat a false witness's testimony, an investigator must succeed at a check against the DC listed in the entry. The check used depends on the investigation: Perception to
Sense Motive versus spoken testimony,
Society to determine forgeries, and so on. A false witness can sometimes stymie an investigation where the lead investigator is sufficiently lower level than the false witness, and they might be able to delay or befuddle a more serious investigation.