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marycatelli) wrote2022-10-15 10:12 pm
marycatelli) wrote2022-10-15 10:12 pm
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oops -- about that
So the story has to stall.
Which means that one set of characters have to have a motive to not press an issue. A relatively heroic reason, given their characters.
Indeed, they probably have to have a plan. They could have fumbled along up this point, but here any amount of time will give them time to plan, and also they have enough facts on the ground to plan. (Before they could excuse themselves by ignorance meaning that the plan would not only not survive contact with the enemy, it would likely hobble them with assumptions.)
I have set up that they are more or less convinced that the man they were after is more or less innocent -- at least, they would have a hard time convicting him of the worse charges (and have serious doubts if they did manage to convict him), and there are sound reasons for the lesser ones -- but he is still, for reasons they fully fathom, extremely touchy and stand-off-ish.
And one of them has be able to get close to him during this time.
Perhaps she will propose watching and seeing if they can get him to help at some point impressive enough that they can wangle a pardon for him. She can point out that they know he's foiled a kidnapping.
Which means that one set of characters have to have a motive to not press an issue. A relatively heroic reason, given their characters.
Indeed, they probably have to have a plan. They could have fumbled along up this point, but here any amount of time will give them time to plan, and also they have enough facts on the ground to plan. (Before they could excuse themselves by ignorance meaning that the plan would not only not survive contact with the enemy, it would likely hobble them with assumptions.)
I have set up that they are more or less convinced that the man they were after is more or less innocent -- at least, they would have a hard time convicting him of the worse charges (and have serious doubts if they did manage to convict him), and there are sound reasons for the lesser ones -- but he is still, for reasons they fully fathom, extremely touchy and stand-off-ish.
And one of them has be able to get close to him during this time.
Perhaps she will propose watching and seeing if they can get him to help at some point impressive enough that they can wangle a pardon for him. She can point out that they know he's foiled a kidnapping.