VN Ren'Py Special Request: In the Web of Corruption [v2.6] [Nemiegs]

[zaqrwe]

For one thing, this game does not take place in America. It takes place in a small country just out of a dictatorship, where broad swaths of society (and especially the instruments of power, like the police and the government) are irredeemably corrupt and where organized crime basically runs the place. Before you say that couldn't happen, it happens ALL THE DAMNED TIME. Many countries are that way now. Hell, Russia was run lock, stock, and barrel by organized crime for almost a decade. So she can't go to the FBI because it doesn't exist there, and what law enforcement exists, exists to enforce the will of the criminals.

It's pretty plain that her husband is in on it, as is her best friend. How? Why? We don't know. But right now the only person in the whole game I trust to be on Laura's side is her dad. Everyone else is either actively working for the bad guys or hopelessly compromised by the bad guys.

The husband's story is weird thing, but I do not see him as part of the scheme. He's more likely in some kind of vitness protection and it's still just a guess. But the best friend is definitely somehow involved.

 

[doccop63]

For one thing, this game does not take place in America. It takes place in a small country just out of a dictatorship, where broad swaths of society (and especially the instruments of power, like the police and the government) are irredeemably corrupt and where organized crime basically runs the place. Before you say that couldn't happen, it happens ALL THE DAMNED TIME. Many countries are that way now. Hell, Russia was run lock, stock, and barrel by organized crime for almost a decade. So she can't go to the FBI because it doesn't exist there, and what law enforcement exists, exists to enforce the will of the criminals.

It's pretty plain that her husband is in on it, as is her best friend. How? Why? We don't know. But right now the only person in the whole game I trust to be on Laura's side is her dad. Everyone else is either actively working for the bad guys or hopelessly compromised by the bad guys.

Yeah, I could accept that Except that there's a little agency called Interpol. She could still go to a powerful LE agency. If that can't happen, then this story should be tagged with a "dystopian" setting.

 

[Senor Smut]

Yeah, I could accept that Except that there's a little agency called Interpol. She could still go to a powerful LE agency. If that can't happen, then this story should be tagged with a "dystopian" setting.

Despite what you have seen in movies, Interpol has no law enforcement officers attached to it, and it certainly has no jurisdiction to interfere in sovereign states. Interpol is essentially an information clearing house where member states can go to learn about criminals who are causing trouble in more than one country, and it provides a ready-made framework for LE agencies from different countries to cooperate when authorized by said countries, in said countries.

Law enforcement agents from any foreign entity require an invitation from the national government of the country to enter said country; doing so without invitation is a little international faux pas we like to call "invasion." The US and Russia always feel free to invade other countries at a whim, but it's frowned upon in civilized lands. And I say this is a US citizen.