Ramble 5: So you were caught and sent to jail. What now? Explanation and compliant way to get out
When enemies catch and bind you helpless, they will leash and drag you to jail after a stop at cage.
What happens when you are jailed?
- bringing you to a jail strips you of all of your items and puts you on prison outfit. Some keys and lockpicks might remain, if you were carrying large sum of them.
- You gain a state "Prisoner". During this state enemies will not attack you, as long as you remain inside the jail.
- You will be visited by guards who will apply restraints. How many and how tough the restraints are depends on your Security level. I will explain security below eventually.
You can get out by being compliant, or by force.
Compliant way:
With security below 50, you can get out for good behaviour.
Wait inside the jail and let them restrain you however they do and do not resist. You will gain submissiviness during captivity.
Eventually guard will tell you are free to leave.
Your prisoner state changes into a "Submissive" state
What does Submissive state do?
- During submissive, faction enemies are not hostile to you and treat you as non threat. Any npc can decide to come bind and play with you
- trying to free yourself from bindings can activate nearby npcs to play with you too.
- Enemies will strip you of your weapon if they see you holding one.
- ANY aggressive action, shrine use or opening chest within presence of a hostile enemy will make them turn on you and attack before raising an alarm.
- Submissive ends when enemy raises an Alarm for witnessing you doing anything of the above. you will also gain security.
- Regardless, you can recover your items on next floor. Now you have choice of either continuing normally, or upkeeping "Submissive" state.
- Keeping the state up lets you ambush enemies through dialogue, while they are less observant of you.
- Gagging enemies stops them raising the alarm if they spot you.
Explanation of security and High security Prison
Security is the stat affecting your jail experience.
Security can be seen from journal and it is affected by your initial number and your relations with a faction controlling the floor.
How does security increase and what does it do?
- Security increases anytime you open a chest (1% normal chest, 2% white chest and 3% gold chest) belonging to a faction without eyewitnesses and escaping from cages and jail after capture.
- Violent escapes increase security by 10%, while just being detected without attacking increases it by 5%. You may gain bonus security if you defeated lots of enemies before hand.
- resisting guard, when they are taking you to high security prison increases by 10%
- Entering a brand new floors lower security by 5%, and you can bribe the first guard that comes check on you after imprisonment with money to reduce security huge amounts.
- rescuing prisoners increases security by 0.5%
Security Determines numerous things:
- stricter Restraints to tie you with inside a jail.
- Time spent inside jail.
- above 50 security you will be sent to high security prison.
- Possibly more Wardens
What is a High security Prison?
High security prison works in same way as regular jail, but with some critical changes.
- It is completely separate area that is filled with faction members of whoever is running it.
- You WIll not be freed, unless you bribe yourself out or depending on your restriction settings. At strict it is up to you to get out.
- If your Security level is above 100, you can no longer pay bribes to get out and some factions will use way stricter restraints. Beware the cult of Bast and Nevermere!
- Old Guardians instead of high security will take you to Doll processing, special area where they will keep you in cyber and try to coat you in latex to make cyber restraints become nigh impossible to remove via struggling and cutting.
The hard way out
Now that security is covered, getting out the hard way:
this could be just as simple as running out while punching anyone to the face and slinging spells, but you are most likely currently limited by bindings.
Ways to get out mostly depend on your perks and difficulty. This will be with assumption, that you have been sent to High security Prison.
- Use the Bed. In the jail and high sec prison, your bed uses regenerate after couple guard visits, use that to recover mana and willpower as resources.
- free yourself little by little. Be wary of struggling in presence of prison inhabitants can activate them to play with you. Collect some restraints this way.
- If you are hard bound and struggling cant get your hands free enough, look at your resources for spells and upgrades that could help you, if you got spell points available or your already purchased ones.
- Next option is to scout the Prison for ways to free yourself. You get a chance to scout when guard is taking you out for a walk. You can get a chance to interact with furnitures and other things while you are passing them. Possibly buy more time by them with struggling, triggering the guard holding the leash play with you.
- Look for following:
- Hooks
- adventurer ghosts
- sharp furnitures
- Bondage goddess shrines. be careful using them before making your escape.
- If you can free your hands. You can start going loud by punching and spelling your leash holder down. Just prepare for a fight.
- Stealthier approach is to be taken back to your cell and waiting for next guard. If your hands are free, you have a chance to dialogue sneak attack on her and use Truss em up to bind her.
- Now you can try sneaking your way out, or be a devil and take down the entire Prison. Some factions carry magic keys, so you can take the risk and turn misfortune to a fortune.
- enter exit or entrance to leave High sec prison.