Thhbhbhbbhbhht. This particular issue was sorted by me six months ago. I'd just started writing it up and forgot about it until I found it, bored, last night. So I finished it up and posted it. This one has a solution/semi-happy ending.Good luck, KB. Not to stroke your ego too much, but you're fucking brilliant and seem to be a phenomenal problem solver and people person so I have no doubt that you can get through and come out on top with whatever shitstorm flies your way.
I thought you were crowdsourcing complex problems to a small community you respect, hoping we could find something you had missed. kleinbl00 is asking for advice? not leaving it for others? But what you really did was set up a chess match mid-game, and let us have a go. Have you already written the ending? I can't wait to check the back the book for the answer.