IC-Chapter 1-My Death(Cole Brocco only)

[Mr. Handy]

Jimmy Salvatore's Apartment Building - South Philadelphia
7:50 PM - Thursday, July 17, 1969

Cole Brocco finally reached his destination, a run-down apartment building. His regular fence had told him that there was a special job waiting for him in Philly. He wouldn't go into details, but the promised pay was good, so Cole hadn't really cared what it was. He'd been told to look up a local fence in South Philadelphia named Jimmy Salvatore, also known as Jimmy the Hand, an old friend of the fence in Boston. Jimmy would give him the details of the job. He'd been told to use a special knock: five knocks in a row, a short pause, and then two more. The apartment was up on the fourth floor, and a light shone in the window.

[Garrett]

Well looks like he's home. I exit the car and take a small swig of my flask to warm myself before heading up to his room, I knock as instructed and wait for an answer.

[Mr. Handy]

There was no answer.

OOC,[b]Cole[/b], please roll Listen.

[Garrett]

I pound my fist on the door very loud before repeating the secret knock.

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[Mr. Handy]

There was still no answer, and he heard nothing beyond the door. This was starting to get on his nerves. On the other hand, five hundred bucks was a lot of money.

[Garrett]

Dammit the lights on he should be in there, shouldn't he? Ugh, knowing the fence type he's likely strung out in the bathtub or some shit. I thought, honestly though it might have just been an excuse to force myself in, which I did.
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[Mr. Handy]

It only took Cole a few minutes to jimmy Jimmy's lock. It wasn't a particularly sophisticated model. He pushed open the door and looked into the living room. There was a door in the left wall and a small kitchenette area on the right side of the room. The living room contained a threadbare couch and a leather armchair facing a television set at the back of the room, the screen dark. The back of the chair was to Cole. Sticking above it was the back of a man's head, curly brown hair atop it. He couldn't see any more from this angle. But why hadn't the man (Jimmy?) answered the door? And who watched a TV that was not even turned on?

[Garrett]

"Hey are you jimmy Salvator?" I say shutting the door behind me and approaching him, looking at the situation I began thinking my originaly assumption was correct. I might be able to wake him up but chances were I was just gonna have to wait for him to come down. Oh well, $500

[Mr. Handy]

Once Cole got close enough to the chair to see the front of it, it was immediately apparent that nothing would wake up Jimmy Salvatore, if that was indeed who he was, until Judgment Day. The young man was naked, with bruises and burns all over his body. His eyes looked like they were bulging out of his head, but they were utterly vacant. He had no visible wounds, but someone had seriously gone to work on him before killing him.

OOC,[b]Cole[/b], please roll Sanity. Sanity loss is 1/1d4+1. If you lose 5 Sanity, you must roll Idea. Success at that roll means you go temporarily insane. Otherwise, you may act freely.

[Garrett]

HOLY FUCK, WHAT HAPPENED HERE? I think as I step away. I was freaked but I brought myself under control. It didn't look like the guy got robbed so this was defiantly just a murder, but who would kill a guy so gruesome? I better let my regular fence know what had happened, maybe he could shed some light on this; or at least tell me the job Jimmy was gonna give me. I turn to leave and go back to my car, and back to Boston.

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[Mr. Handy]

OOC,Before you leave, you need to make the Sanity roll I asked for in the above post. Also, if you do not go insane, please make an Idea roll. This may mean you'll have to make two Idea rolls, the first to avoid temporary insanity if you lose 5 Sanity points, and the second in the event that the first one fails, which would mean you don't go insane after all.

[Garrett]

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[Mr. Handy]

OOC,I still need an Idea roll.

[Garrett]

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[Mr. Handy]

Cole hesitated with his hand on the doorknob. His criminal mind was always working, and he realized that his fingerprints were on the doorknob, both on the inside and outside of the door. If he left now, those prints would be found when the murder scene was eventually discovered. He had been arrested before, which meant his fingerprints were on file. Once the police turned up a match, he would naturally become a suspect.

It also looked like the man had been systemtically tortured before he had been killed.

[Garrett]

Shit thats right, my prints are in the database, I need to wipe off this door handle. I quickly move to his kitchen looking for a rag of some sort to use for this task.

[Mr. Handy]

Cole found a washcloth in the kitchen and used it to carefully wipe off the knob on the inside of the door, making sure there was no trace of his prints.

OOC,[b]Cole[/b], please roll Listen.

[Garrett]

Okay, I'm good; there's no way this death could be linked to me, I'm safe. Still losing this job sucked, big scores like this didn't come often. I took one last look at the body, it was really fucked up, this was brutal even for mobsters.

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[Mr. Handy]

There was a thin red line stretching around the dead man's neck - blood. It looked like he had been throttled to death, possibly with a garotte judging by the cut. The man's hands were also bound behind his back with electrical cord.

As Cole was examining the body, there was knocking on the door: five short knocks, a pause, and then two more.

[Garrett]

.......Holy crap what do I do? Who else was even supposed to be here? I wasn't told of anyone. I hide myself somewhere trying to stay close enough to see and hear what this new man does.

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