Getting the Detectives Together

[narrativedilettante]

Player attempts to get Holmes and Poirot together caused you to send them on the run earlier than planned. When would that have happened, otherwise? And how would their relationship have evolved if the metaguards hadn't made such an effort to have them be friends?

[Rick Healey]

Well, they went on the run 12 hours ahead of schedule. Not exactly the most radical shift we had to deal with.

[narrativedilettante]

Oh, then I guess it wasn't as significant as I'd thought.

[Connor Fallon]

Well, they were going to hate each other for much, much, longer than they did. Masquerade Ball originally depicted Holmes tracking down Poirot for very different reason.

Raikes would have to speak to that.

[Connor Raikes]

Well, they were going to hate each other for much, much, longer than they did. Masquerade Ball originally depicted Holmes tracking down Poirot for very different reason.

Raikes would have to speak to that.

Yeah, the original plan was much more friction between Holmes and Poirot - they were going to ride the framer-coaster a lot longer than they ultimately did, thinking that they were being framed by one another. Your surprisingly responsive organized campaign to get the two detectives on the same side, however, convinced us all to at least stop explicitly distrusting each other.

I still had to delay their joint partnership for a long time, however; I just had to come up with different reasons. Holmes left Paris not because he wanted to set up a trap for Poirot, but because he had a case and he got insulted after Poirot refused to believe he was Holmes; Poirot followed Holmes not because he wanted to confront Holmes once and for all, but because Poirot had a revelation about Holmes. Then they were going to work together, but Holmes was forbidden by Mr. A, and he couldn't tell Poirot in time. A similar result, but the motivation behind it was radically changed.

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