

Shit like this is why I shake my heads at dumbasses going “Just you wait ICE agents! Things didn’t work out too well for all the former Nazi’s who tried to say they were ‘just following orders’!”
Yes things actually did turn out just fine for the overwhelming majority of Nazi’s. Only like a couple dozen faced any sort of consequences. The rest quietly returned to their lives as machinists, butchers, office workers, farmers, etc.










I had my characters experience a bit of the opposite of this in a DnD campaign. As part of the story, they had to break into a museum to steal an artifact. They went in when it was closing and met Doris, the sweet old lady at the entrance who told them “I’m sorry sweeties, the museum is closing for the day. But I’d be happy to arrange a tour for you tomorrow, my dears!”
Now, my characters had been getting a lot of runarounds from people in the city. Basically dealing with beuracratic headaches that were designed for them to get frustrated and just strong arm past to show how the seemingly oppressive government running the city was actually pretty ineffectual and many officials could just be brushed off or ignored with little consequence.So my frustrated characters, thinking they’re meeting yet another roadblock, decided “screw it, let’s just tie her up and ransack the place.”
But Doris was different. Doris had a backstory. Doris was a druid. And she was the head of security for the museum.
So when they attacked, instead of dealing with a frail old woman, they found a 12ft tall, pissed-off, Kodiak bear who FAR out leveled them. No one causes trouble in Doris’s museum.