VN Ren'Py Hillside [v0.15.1] [DarkBlue]

[NewTricks]

"The chief" is what the FBI agents call their superior. If that is confusing then I can change it to something else. And the DA (now SAG) was not giving him an order. They called him and pressured him.

Hopefully some of this will be made clearer in the next update when Fox confronts her superior.

FBI loves their alphabet soup of acronyms, but the people who make the decisions are usually called Directors. Usually something like Assistant Director of Southwest Operations or something similarly impenetrable. "I just got word from the ADSO and they're pulling the plug" Just make something up and you will be fine lol.

 

[Slick Bean]

This game features a very strong local ”grass roots” corruption ring:
corrupt detectives getting the cases of importance for the criminals and
doing in them what the stabby detective has been shown to be doing.

No arm of the FBI, NSA, PENTAGON, CIA or whatever shadow govt agency anyone would coin,
none of those would ever be able to unmuddle the waters, unless they actively
investigate the corrupt detectives and their criminal masterminds to connect the dots.

FBI so far is telling MC they are actively investigating the criminals and the corrupt cops.

What anyone with access to the ear of the FBI investigators can do,
they can pull on them to stop, suppress, delay, escalate or let go of one or another threads
of the investigation - consider this guy or that crime a cold trail and move on to someone
or something else.
Agent Fox had to cut the stabby detective trail out of the case in order to pursue active,
living and kicking leads she can investigate further and later propose
to a Grand Jury/judge/attorney that they would prosecute, she needs to convince them.

In the course of one ongoing investigation, anyone in law enforcement can and does chime in,
because if it were to go tits up, nobody wants to be the poster child of that fiasco.

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If the operation turns out a success, everyone wants a share of the laurels.

 

[ReallyNotTimmy]

It was changed in v0.14.1 to the State Attorney General, thanks.

It was meant to be just a shorthand for "someone powerful" who might interact with the SAC on behalf of someone even more powerful.

FBI investigations are unstoppable. By design. The United States needed an unstoppable interstate agency to fight organized crime, domestic terrorism, spies, and corruption in state, local, and federal governments. This doesn’t mean the FBI itself is unstoppable—if it ever goes rogue, the Congress can shut it down. But no other outsider can stop it. You may recall some years ago President Trump tried to interfere with an FBI investigation and got nowhere. Even when he fired the FBI Director, it didn’t stop the investigation. It wouldn’t.

So if a state AG intervened or interfered in an FBI investigation, it’d no longer be a small investigation of a local corruption case. It’d immediately turn into a large investigation of state government corruption. Attorneys general know this; even the stupid ones. Knowing what falls under FBI jurisdiction is part of the bar exam.

The only thing that could stop an FBI investigation would be no evidence (including destroyed evidence), or be someone corrupt within the Bureau—a corrupt investigator or corrupt superior. Like NewTricks said, some obscure Assistant Director will do.

Of course after the FBI does its duty and arrests a suspect, its arrest could be nullified. A corrupt federal prosecutor could refuse to prosecute (or bungle the case), or a corrupt federal judge could refuse to convict (or find any excuse for a mistrail), or a corrupt president could issue a pardon.

And if the suspect didn’t commit any federal crime, but only a state crime, the FBI would have to hand them over to the state prosecutor—and corrupt state prosecutors, state judges, and governors can likewise undo everything.

Yeah, having multiple governments makes things a little complicated in the United States. We’re used to it.

 

[HillsideVN]

The only thing that could stop an FBI investigation would be no evidence...

Which is why the criminal ring that runs Hillside called the FBI Special Agent in Charge and made him order Agent Fox to stop looking for new evidence.

Nobody involved in the story has the AUTHORITY to stop the investigation. But the criminal ring has the POWER to bribe, threaten, blackmail, or otherwise coerce people to do what they want them to do.

The FBI SAC has received an offer he can't refuse and issued an illegal order to Agent Fox. The question is, what is she going to do about it?

 

[rudy007]

Which is why the criminal ring that runs Hillside called the FBI Special Agent in Charge and made him order Agent Fox to stop looking for new evidence.

Nobody involved in the story has the AUTHORITY to stop the investigation. But the criminal ring has the POWER to bribe, threaten, blackmail, or otherwise coerce people to do what they want them to do.

The FBI SAC has received an offer he can't refuse and issued an illegal order to Agent Fox. The question is, what is she going to do about it?

That smell like fake Weinstein... He's the highest authority we know among other Hollywood Hillside criminals. Is there someone higher in hierarchy? It should be, probably someone high in politics, a congressman probably or director of some tree letter agency?

 

[HillsideVN]

That smell like fake Weinstein... He's the highest authority we know among other Hollywood Hillside criminals. Is there someone higher in hierarchy? It should be, probably someone high in politics, a congressman probably or director of some tree letter agency?

Agent Fox asked herself how high up the corruption goes and mentioned the (state) governor. I guess we will find out who else is involved in due course.

 

[rudy007]

Agent Fox asked herself how high up the corruption goes and mentioned the (state) governor. I guess we will find out who else is involved in due course.

Choices are very limited there, there aren't many people who have the director of FBI on speed dial...

 

[Joshy92]

All this talk of the FBI
And I'm over here fantasizing about marrying Emma and starting a family
We would live happily ever after

 

[rudy007]

All this talk of the FBI
And I'm over here fantasizing about marrying Emma and starting a family
We would live happily ever after

We would never expect anything less than that from you, Joshy92 ...

 

[Bombmaster]

We would never expect anything less than that from you, Joshy92 ...

We need to chaperone his ass around Emma, just in case.

 

[yossa999]

All this talk of the FBI
And I'm over here fantasizing about marrying Emma and starting a family
We would live happily ever after

No Joshy, you will not live happily ever after with Emma until the Wolfenstein situation is resolved. The dude is after her mom and possibly her entire family. So you'll have to deal with 3-letters guys, and it's good to have some of them, like Agent Foxy on your side. No bum-bum with Emma for you, until Harry's methabolic processes are history.

 

[KoGa3]

And I'm over here fantasizing about marrying Emma and starting a family
We would live happily ever after

 

[rudy007]

No Joshy, you will not live happily ever after with Emma until the Wolfenstein situation is resolved. The dude is after her mom and possibly her entire family. So you'll have to deal with 3-letters guys, and it's good to have some of them, like Agent Foxy on your side. No bum-bum with Emma for you, until Harry's methabolic processes are history.

Or Suzi finds out about them... Then even Agent Fox could do nothing. Or simple say Suzi the story about Jason, Frank, fake Weinstein and all corrupt cops... And drink coffee somewhere outside Hillside for a hour and then prepare the whole Hillside for a big funeral...

 

[JJ1960]

All this talk of the FBI
And I'm over here fantasizing about marrying Emma and starting a family
We would live happily ever after

Emma will be placed in the witless protection program.

 

[StingerWolf]

Was there no update info this Saturday as usual? Or am I missing something?

 

[HillsideVN]

Was there no update info this Saturday as usual? Or am I missing something?

My Patreon is paused this month while I take some time off for personal reasons, so I'm not making the usual posts.

Work is continuing, however.

 

[sahadeva]

All this talk of the FBI
And I'm over here fantasizing about marrying Emma and starting a family
We would live happily ever after

So who's gonna be the father of the children in this family you're fantasizing about starting?

 

[Dessolos]

You know after replaying the game It got me wondering if the father might show up in the story and be part of the corruption or involved with Harry Wolf.

 

[Bombmaster]

So who's gonna be the father of the children in this family you're fantasizing about starting?

This is a very interessing question, this game is one of the few i could just be happy being Emma step-uncle/father.

The only thing true is that however it may be, is going to know Mc is a trained killer.

 

[StingerWolf]

My Patreon is paused this month while I take some time off for personal reasons, so I'm not making the usual posts.

Work is continuing, however.

Oh my, no need to explain yourself, thought someone else would answer not you in person. Thank you, even if it is not for pleasure, try to enjoy your time off.