forum Help fixing potential plot holes

Started May 24, 2019 by @NobleWolf

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I'm the writing a story about the protagonist who was vacationing/researching at this mansion, owned by a rich but secluded man and the residents. The protagonist is the son of somebody famous, but the mansion residents don't know him because of their seclusion. The villains of the story target the mansion (for plot reasons), but one of them (bearing a grudge against the protag's father) goes against orders and mobilizes an attack on the household earlier than planned, and pins the blame on one of his colleagues.

Meanwhile, the protagonist escapes with a couple of others but is seriously injured. When the rogue villain (whose treachery has gone unnoticed) asks to go after the protagonist, his leader refuses and the rogue is forced to hunt him down himself. The problem with that is, the villains know who the protagonist is and his escape makes him a key witness to what happened at the mansion, so capturing him would make more sense. But I want the main organization to leave him alone for now, and the rogue to start acting alone.

Any way to rectify this? (takes place in the medieval era btw, with some magic involved)

I'm also looking for ways the framing can go down, as the person being framed dislikes the rogue, but is very capable and always follows orders, so the attack on the mansion would seem very OOC for her

Actually, I think it would be best if the organization does let the rogue follow the protag, they just give him the ability to spearhead that small operation because he has some form of emotional attachment. Instead of amassing all of their forces to attack one person, however, the rogue gets to take along two or three of his colleagues.

In terms of the framing, the lady being framed should be against the operation but is shut down by the leader. Then, as the rogue's mission continues, the leader can begin to form doubts in his mind of "Why would she do this? She's so loyal and capable! This seems very out-of-character for her," and then realize who screwed up their plan by the end of the book. When the leader and the rogue are sitting in jail or something, then you can have the rogue shivved or something like that, I don't know.

How does the protagonist know the attack wasn't an accident? And maybe there's a reason that nobody would believe him, so the villains don't see him as a threat.

I assume that he wouldn't know if it was it was an accident or anything, he would just assume that someone was after him and was going to continue to attack until he did something.

Those are interesting ideas! Thanks for that!