Post by maxvale76 on Oct 7, 2013 22:06:33 GMT -6
Gentlemen....Chapter 2 of the Gangbusters game begins! The date will be March 1st; 1928; six months after the events of the previous chapter of the game....
Quick recap:
In the fall months of 1927 in the 1st Ward of Lakefront City a small band of Honest Prohibition Agents took down a Still operated by the Tolino Mob AND got involved in a bloody shootout with members of the O'Connor gang after catching a trio of trucks being loaded with illegal hooch. Their valiant leader; Carl Beck; and one of their fellow Agents; Sal DeLucia; were killed in the line of duty in this shootout; but the fallout from their efforts led to the dismissal from office of their corrupt overall boss; District Commissioner Michael Anthony. Another of their small band; John Band; was reassigned to "elsewhere" on "Special Assignment"; and those still in the 1st Ward now have a new boss and some new recruits and continue their quiet war against both criminal syndicates.
Speaking of which....the Tolino Mob and the O'Connor gang; previously having agreed to a shaky truce; are currently involved in an all-out war against each other after several low-level 'break-up' actions against each others Speakeasies has since exploded into shoot-outs and rub-outs. The cold winter months brought about a "quiet time" in the war; but with spring right around the corner....the action looks as if it is about to heat up yet again. O'Connor members Johnny "Rocky" Rocco and Brian McMurphy have taken a couple of newcomers to the game under their wing; and will soon be sent into the front-lines of the mob war again....
Finally; a disparate group consisting of a pair of Private Investigators who partnered up for business reasons; a Cub Reporter and a "Flapper" with a knack for getting into all manner of exciting adventures finds themselves looking into a murder mystery....
Okay: For the first scenario; we'll use the Independent character per several people's votes; we've got 2 P.I.s (which I've made the obvious decision of having had partnered together as a way to form connections between characters); a Newspaper Reporter and Del the Flapper. The scenario will start with Janet Farmer (Del's friend and co-worker at the bank) having recently discovered her fiancé; Tim Henson having been killed by numerous stab wounds and the police basically writing it off as a burglary gone bad. Janet believes there's more to it than that; which leads her to both the Private Investigators and the Reporter. (Gus; the P.I. will know both Janet and Del from having been at the Bank when Cody Powers and his gang attempted to rob it 6 months back. I will leave it up to Kipper and Mr. Tinkles to decide if anything more than casual knowledge of each other occurred after this event). Danny Jensen; the Reporter will have been good friends with Janet's brother Jonah Farmer; and upon her call to meet her at the offices of the P.I.s; he'll be eager to get in on the story.
So that's where we'll start....everybody in the Detectives' office; about to hear Janet's story. Del can be there just to lend support to Janet....may have been the catalyst for the trip in the first place after the Police pretty much just "solved" the case and don't seem particularly interested in looking into it....or may be there for some other reason. (Nothing else really comes to my mind...but I'll leave that to you Kipper!
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Before I get started....quick notes....all new Threads will start with UPDATED to let you know it's the New stuff. Also; I need Sammarlow and cleverkobold to please choose 1 skill for each of their characters and then make a roll modified by the same table for MU, AG and OB. The skill may be chosen from the following list:
Auto Theft
Fingerprinting
Lockpicking
Photography
Pickpocketing
Public Speaking
Shadowing
Stealth
Wiretapping
Finally: Cleverkobold: I could use a little background for your characters....nothing major just a few blurbs. Thanks fellas!
-Max
Quick recap:
In the fall months of 1927 in the 1st Ward of Lakefront City a small band of Honest Prohibition Agents took down a Still operated by the Tolino Mob AND got involved in a bloody shootout with members of the O'Connor gang after catching a trio of trucks being loaded with illegal hooch. Their valiant leader; Carl Beck; and one of their fellow Agents; Sal DeLucia; were killed in the line of duty in this shootout; but the fallout from their efforts led to the dismissal from office of their corrupt overall boss; District Commissioner Michael Anthony. Another of their small band; John Band; was reassigned to "elsewhere" on "Special Assignment"; and those still in the 1st Ward now have a new boss and some new recruits and continue their quiet war against both criminal syndicates.
Speaking of which....the Tolino Mob and the O'Connor gang; previously having agreed to a shaky truce; are currently involved in an all-out war against each other after several low-level 'break-up' actions against each others Speakeasies has since exploded into shoot-outs and rub-outs. The cold winter months brought about a "quiet time" in the war; but with spring right around the corner....the action looks as if it is about to heat up yet again. O'Connor members Johnny "Rocky" Rocco and Brian McMurphy have taken a couple of newcomers to the game under their wing; and will soon be sent into the front-lines of the mob war again....
Finally; a disparate group consisting of a pair of Private Investigators who partnered up for business reasons; a Cub Reporter and a "Flapper" with a knack for getting into all manner of exciting adventures finds themselves looking into a murder mystery....
Okay: For the first scenario; we'll use the Independent character per several people's votes; we've got 2 P.I.s (which I've made the obvious decision of having had partnered together as a way to form connections between characters); a Newspaper Reporter and Del the Flapper. The scenario will start with Janet Farmer (Del's friend and co-worker at the bank) having recently discovered her fiancé; Tim Henson having been killed by numerous stab wounds and the police basically writing it off as a burglary gone bad. Janet believes there's more to it than that; which leads her to both the Private Investigators and the Reporter. (Gus; the P.I. will know both Janet and Del from having been at the Bank when Cody Powers and his gang attempted to rob it 6 months back. I will leave it up to Kipper and Mr. Tinkles to decide if anything more than casual knowledge of each other occurred after this event). Danny Jensen; the Reporter will have been good friends with Janet's brother Jonah Farmer; and upon her call to meet her at the offices of the P.I.s; he'll be eager to get in on the story.
So that's where we'll start....everybody in the Detectives' office; about to hear Janet's story. Del can be there just to lend support to Janet....may have been the catalyst for the trip in the first place after the Police pretty much just "solved" the case and don't seem particularly interested in looking into it....or may be there for some other reason. (Nothing else really comes to my mind...but I'll leave that to you Kipper!
)Before I get started....quick notes....all new Threads will start with UPDATED to let you know it's the New stuff. Also; I need Sammarlow and cleverkobold to please choose 1 skill for each of their characters and then make a roll modified by the same table for MU, AG and OB. The skill may be chosen from the following list:
Auto Theft
Fingerprinting
Lockpicking
Photography
Pickpocketing
Public Speaking
Shadowing
Stealth
Wiretapping
Finally: Cleverkobold: I could use a little background for your characters....nothing major just a few blurbs. Thanks fellas!
-Max
