Former Slave

[HappyPurging]

I got captured briefly by a slaver group near my camp but the rest of my party saved me. I've technically been branded a slave on this one character. If that one character goes into town, will he be recaptured as a slave by the town guard or only by the slaver group that attempted to take him?

[LazMon]

Yes for as long as that character is branded as an "Escaped Slave", city guards from United Cities or any other slaver groups will attack you on sight.

I think you can see in the character inventory screen to which faction you are a slave to or hovering over the "Escaped Slave" label will let you know, plus how long more before you are fully free from slavery.

Edit:You can also try to disguise that Escape Slave through certain means such as fully covering the face, haircut and etc to lower the chance of getting discovered.

[balalaika86]

Also, don't go dressed in slave clothes, i.e rags and loincloths.

If you see any guard or anything saying something like "come here and let me look at you", run. That dialogue means they are on to you and there's a big chance they will see that you're an escaped slave.

And each time you are discovered as an escaped slave, the timer for Escaped Slave status is reset. So have the escaped slave lay low and stay out of cities and away from Slavers, Manhunters, etc. Have the other squadmembers do the shopping in town.

[BlitzBob NoPants]

The swamps and mongrel are both save havens for escaped slaves. The only problem is getting there without being eaten. Although this is only an issue at the lower levels if you insist on dragging heavy gear that slows you down with you.

[Papasaurus Rex]

Originally posted by SBasbvg:

Yes for as long as that character is branded as an "Escaped Slave", city guards from United Cities or any other slaver groups will attack you on sight.

I think you can see in the character inventory screen to which faction you are a slave to or hovering over the "Escaped Slave" label will let you know, plus how long more before you are fully free from slavery.

Edit:You can also try to disguise that Escape Slave through certain means such as fully covering the face, haircut and etc to lower the chance of getting discovered.

not entirely true, after a day or so they will often not see your a slave unless ya press your luck and spend too much time running around the guards. I have often had escaped slave tag and walked right past gate guards ect. If you just recently were escaped then yes. they will attack

[LazMon]

Originally posted by Papasaurus Rex:

Originally posted by SBasbvg:

Yes for as long as that character is branded as an "Escaped Slave", city guards from United Cities or any other slaver groups will attack you on sight.

I think you can see in the character inventory screen to which faction you are a slave to or hovering over the "Escaped Slave" label will let you know, plus how long more before you are fully free from slavery.

Edit:You can also try to disguise that Escape Slave through certain means such as fully covering the face, haircut and etc to lower the chance of getting discovered.

not entirely true, after a day or so they will often not see your a slave unless ya press your luck and spend too much time running around the guards. I have often had escaped slave tag and walked right past gate guards ect. If you just recently were escaped then yes. they will attack

Your "Looks like a slave" meter was probably low hence the reason that prevented you from being recognised. Lowest you can go with the meter is 1% chance of being recognised. By not trying to lower the "Looks like a slave" meter and keeping it at 100% will always get you attacked.

[krugg.the.gamer]

How do you get rid of the escaped slave status?

[Papasaurus Rex]

Originally posted by SBasbvg:

Originally posted by Papasaurus Rex:

not entirely true, after a day or so they will often not see your a slave unless ya press your luck and spend too much time running around the guards. I have often had escaped slave tag and walked right past gate guards ect. If you just recently were escaped then yes. they will attack

Your "Looks like a slave" meter was probably low hence the reason that prevented you from being recognised. Lowest you can go with the meter is 1% chance of being recognised. By not trying to lower the "Looks like a slave" meter and keeping it at 100% will always get you attacked.

I agree with your last statment made however that is different from your first and that is what my comment referred too

[Izuela]

Originally posted by krugg.the.browser:

How do you get rid of the escaped slave status?

time

[Cenderi]

If you live in that city, or wanna avoid being detected- just have someone pick up your "slave" and carry them. The AI wont check it, and I just RP it as they ignore it because you are clearly returning the slave :P

[krugg.the.gamer]

lol nice trick! I'll be using that for sure.... I do more RP than accomplishing anything anyway :D

[Brown Man]

i always escape capture by ticking off the slave job, walking myself out of their carry, and just slowly follow the slavers. and then i just sit still, press sneak, and they go ahead

really saves time if you don't feel like waiting for them to carry you to their base and escape there

if you are wellfed you can survive the entire slave-timer duration without needing to shop for food to avoid getting detected. getting slaved usually only happens to new characters so i just use that time for training other skills, maybe hoarding copper or something while sneaked so when im free i can cash in

there is a problem that persists even after your slave timer is gone and you become free again, the faction that enslaved you will sometimes recognize you regardless of being free/no slave, and they try to subdue you. so just watch out for the slaver faction and you can go into towns fine once free

[Bill Garthright]

Will a plastic surgeon make a huge difference in how likely you are to be identified? Or not so much?

Admittedly, plastic surgeons seem to be extremely hard to find. (They used to be in every bar.) But if you did know where to find one, you could have a party member carry your escaped slave into the bar for a makeover...

[chiaheed]

Immediately after escapeing slavery, your "looks like a slave" is locked at 100% for 10 hours (if my memory is correct). After that you can put on good clothes/armor/hat and it will drop to 1%. This lasts for 100 hours. I'm not sure if it resets if you are clearly identified as an escaped slave because I would always run like heck if guards/slavers tried to talk to me.

[balalaika86]

It resets if you are discovered, and your status will clearly indicate if you are.

[Bill Garthright]

I wasn't sure how this worked, so I entered Port North, far to the north in the United Cities, at midnight and started releasing slaves.

They didn't actually do anything after I unlocked their shackles, so I kept it up. Then I realized that they were following me (sneaking, as I was) - or that some of them were, at least. I got them out of town, thanks to some skimmers who drew off most of the guards, and we all ran west along the shore.

And yeah, pretty soon, as individuals, they either joined my faction or ran off, but then I had a bunch of starving ex-slaves to try to get to safety. That was fun! We made our way south through UC territory on the west, where the desert and badlands meet (into Sinkun, briefly, before that looked too dangerous to continue), through bands of manhunters, slavers, and assorted bandits.

I thought we were doomed when trying to get over the mountains into Holy Nation land, south of Okran's Fist. I've never seen so many skimmers in one place! Not to mention patrols of both sides in the war. (I did reload a saved game once, when skimmers completely wiped us out.)

I'd deliberately released some Shek from slavery (and I'd recruited a Hive drone in the UC), so we had to watch our step in Holy Nation territory, too. But that was simple compared to the effort it took just to get there!

And now, my slaves are only a few hours away from complete freedom, we're loaded up with building supplies looted from a ruin, and we're looking to found a settlement for freed slaves.

Wow, this was fun! Next time, I suppose I'll just try emancipating some Holy Nation slaves, but the Traders Guild in the UC really pissed me off (I tried stealing from their nobles, but... well, they've got a LOT of guards), and I'm glad my first attempt was such a challenge.