Coldstone 2: The Cast Thread

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1. Paulie "the Jester" DiVialoso
2. Italian-American
3. Cleaner
4. As the nickname implies, Paulie DiVialoso is a real joker. He's known for making sure to crack some sort of twisted joke before making a hit, and sometimes his sense of humor rubs his superiors the wrong way, but he's so good at what he does that they're willing to humor him. For now.

He's also famous (or infamous, depending on who's listening) for his apparently infinite number of cousins who seem to occupy almost every possible position in town. If you've set foot anywhere in Coldstone, chances are Paulie will tell you you ran into a cousin of his.

When we last left the Jester, he was the owner and manager of Tony's Tiger, a popular strip club in Coldstone he ... acquired during the family's recent troubles. But this respectable occupation doesn't prevent him from using his other talents should the family need them.

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1. Full name: Othello Redman, Esq.

2. Nationality: American

3. Occupation: Businessman.

4. Personality: Changed by his experiences in Coldstone, gone is the thug, the hardass, the one man army. In his place stands a business man, one that you would still be ill-advised to cross.

A deep sense of personal honor colors all of his dealing as does a love for the underdog. He is extremely loyal to those he deems friends. Erudite, professional, urbane, sarcastic, ruthless, avaricious, and unpredictable are all words that have been used to describe this man.

At the close of Coldstone Othello was headed west to pursue a quieter, but no less interesting life in the glitter of Vegas.

5. Description: 6'3" 205 lbs. Solidly built. Very black skin. Hair cut short. Clean shaven. Always wears very tasteful custom made light suits. Uses an ebony cane with a silver dragon's head.

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1. Full name: Viglio Leonardo Della Rocco aka "Lio Leo"

2. Nationality: (Sicilian) Italian

3. Occupation: Self-Styled Ninja Assassin

4. Personality: Viglio was raised in Sicily by a distant widow mother and an adopted Uncle Carlo--a store clerk and gun collector that was tragically killed in a botched theft attempt. At only fifteen years of age, the silent Viglio fought back against the thugs, using implements from the store to hunt and kill the four armed men before they were aware of his presence.

He disappeared that day, walking the distance from Milazzo to Palermo, where he found work as an errand boy. After a few successful runs for a mafia hitman, Viglio was sponsored on a trip to Japan. While in Kyoto, the young man matured, studying the art of the assassin, and remaking himself into a modern day ninja.

With loyalties only to the “family”, he adopted the nickname he was once taunted with. “Lio Leo” entered adulthood as a trained killer for hire, an elite agent who specializes in traceless killing. A man of few words, Viglio is equally as calculating with actions.

He has deep loyalties back home, and has adapted to life in The United States, though he secretly longs for the shores of Sicily, and to make amends with the mother he left behind. He has no other family, and no real friends. He is infinitely patient and skilled, two factors which put this relative newcomer in high demand among the “family”.

5. Description: Viglio is 6' even with a lean build. He has jet black hair, and strives to be immaculate in appearance. He is tatooed on his torso and arms with reminders of his training in Japan, but outwardly dresses in pristine black pinstripe suits and leather boots and gloves--all Italian-made garments. He owns a fully authentic set of ninja garb among the rest of his elaborte collection of assassin's tools.

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1. Elmore Adrastos Pantuso ("El", "Elmo", "Big Man")

2. Italian-Greek American

3. Straight (Investigative Journalist)

4. Author of Bulls in a China Shop , a searing big buisness expose, the Coldstone Times columnist and reporter next turned to the world of international assassins with Gone By Dawn . The book became an international success, the film (starring Sean Bean, Jeremy Irons, and Tcheky Kayro, directed by John McTiernan) likewise, and elevated its author to the status of "celebrity journalist" alongside the ranks of Nicholas Pillegi and Pete Hamill.

However, tragedy struck while Pantuso was in France researching the wave of European bank robberies that had swept the continent in the early nineties. His Aston Martin crashed, killing his wife and leaving Elmo shattered. It took him nearly three years to recover, indeed, before he was even able to make it back home to Coldstone. In that time, the book fell to the wayside and his brief status as a celebrity journalist was lost.

He returned to a different city than the one he left, yet picked up his column with the Times like he had never been gone. His coverage of the Roman Carvaggio trial brought him brief celebrity, but the events leading the trial reminded him too much of events from own childhood...and further investigation led him to begin work on a third book. One that aims to accurately capture Coldstone's mafia life and those involved in what he's dubbed "Silent Spring."

Virtually finished with the Coldstone section of the book, Elmore has moved west to Vegas to pursue some leads.

Elmore is a friendly guy, yet those who are not close to him call him cold. He's passionate about his writing and capturing the mafia life with respect and dignity, but above all, honesty. He knows almost everyone from his days on the beat for Coldstone, and knows where to go for the right information or "unnamed source", be it Coldstone or Vegas.

The one thing he will not take is corruption or intmidation. Try and fix his take on a story or push him around, and he'll kick your ass six ways to Sunday. Then he'll write a story about you. The one thing he won't do is carry a gun.

Both big buisnessmen and low-level hoods know that Elmore Pantuso is not a reporter to be fucked with.

5. Tall, big, and muscular. Greying crew cut and beard. Kind of slow, he takes his time getting from place to place (unless, of course, there is a story on the line). His grey eyes burn behind a pair of thick glasses with a passion commonly reserved for painters, poets, and prophets. Which he also considers himself.

His "uniform" is a pair of comfortable slacks, walking shoes, dark shirt, Regis tie, blazer, the Russian KGB jacket he got in Russia while working on his bank robbery book, and a tired old black corderoy fedora.

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The Coldstone Times' publicity photo for their star collumnist, Elmore Pantuso

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1. Full name: Thomas Conroy Dahl

2. Nationality: Norwegian (75%)

3. Occupation: Cop (Formerly NYPD)

4. Personality:

Having been in service with the NYPD for nearly 24 years, Dahl is a veteran cop. He is tough as nails and will not take much shit from anyone. His years on the street with scum have given him a rough look and a tough build, one that exudes a quiet pissed off and ready to launch into a spree at any time. He has recently left the NYPD Homicide Decective Division under questions stemming from his career and suspicious involvement with peoplen outside the department. Thomas has little patience for much of anything that isn't what he wants and he carries a bat and gun at regular or tandem to make his point known.

He is loyal and does not dissapoint. After all, he knows what is expected. He was last heard going to Coldstone, a town whose past is riddled with the mob and ghosts of the dead. Somehow, his father left him a summer house there. Unknowing and full of mystery, Dahl begins his journey to the dark end of the world.

5. Description:
6'3 250 lbs
Built, strong and muscler
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1. Full name:

Frank Tobiasi

2. Nationality:

Italian-American

3. Occupation:

Cleaner

4. Personality:

Once legendary hotheaded and unpredictable, Frank has mellowed out over the years. However, he is still guided by honour.

And an unerring skill for killing.

5. Description:

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At the end of Coldstone, Frank had gone through a lot. He had served under his great friend and mentor Roman Carvaggio, and at great pain saw him go to jail. The woman he loved had been murdered by a mook, and by the end of it all, he seemed weary. But not too weary. As a thunderstorm rained down on a remote cemetary, Frank Tobiasi secretly vowed revenge...

1. Full name: Carlone "Jack" Veretta

2. Nationality: Italian-American

3. Occupation: Businessman - Lawyer - Cleaner

4. Personality:

Very little is known about Veretta’s true nature. A quiet man most of the time, he is known in FBI circles as “the one that got away with it”. Rumors still persist, describing the gruesome brutality he exacted on 5th Avenue that afternoon, so long ago. Once an up-and-coming Special Agent, now a simple businessman, Carlone Veretta is secretly one of the most revered predators in the mob-culture.

Few people outside the upper echelon of Don Spirazzoni’s criminal organization can even guess his age, much less his count. He keeps his life of crime a secret, known only to his employers and his trusted assistants. With a finger on the pulse of law enforcement, and another on the trigger, Carlone now has the time and patience to accept only the jobs he finds suitable for his skills. Cold, lethal and vicious are his methods. He finds no pleasure in killing, but he finds no pain either. Crossing Carlone Veretta is a mistake few even attempt...and with good reason.

5. Description:

Exceptionally clean. Mostly shades of Black and Grays. Lightly Tanned with Dark black hair and eyes. Business Formal attire unless "working".

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1. Full Name

Charles Wellstone, PhD

2. Nationality

American by birth, but his family was British down the line.

3. Occupation
Statistician (Straight)

4. Personality

Charles (some kids called him Chuck, but the nickname didn't really stick) is a stat man for a government organization who's existance probably will not be disclosed for the forseeable future. He spends 8-10 hours a day determining how many people will die if a bomb gets dropped on Moscow or Baghdad or DC or Cut-n-Shoot.

Very little brings joy in to his life: his dog Patches is about the only living being he has any attachment to. So yeah, little joy, except for gambling. Vegas, Cayman Islands, Wall Street, it doesn't matter. If there's uncertainty involved, he's all over it. If he were married his wife would call him a degenerate. He's never heard of Coldstone.

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1. Full name: George "Kennedy" McClure
2. Nationality: Irish-American
3. Occupation: "Cop" - FBI
4. Personality: George is from a line of "boys in blue," his father, grandfather, and older brother were all police officers. It's the life he grew up in, a life that may be crooked or deceitful to some, but to George, that's the way it should be. He never has seen it any other way, never had any misconceptions about what he had to do. George's natural instincts to try and top the family came out in his decision to be an FBI agent. He didn't want to do the ground work: he wanted to wear the suit, to be a big player, to talk the talk with the big boys. He didn't want to haul off the drugs or other contraband -- he wanted to lead a team to bust down doors, and then try to make his own deals before making the papers. He has an accent that he turns on and off at will, proud to be Irish but also deeply patriotic, even if it is sometimes for the wrong reasons. The nickname comes from his favorite president, the one who talked the best and got the ladies he wanted.
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1.Full name: Virgil "Seraph" Abrizza.

2.Italian-American (French mother).

3.Occupation: former cleaner, now security agent.

4.Personality: The events that unfolded in Coldstone took their toll on the former Angel Face. First by costing him his looks, making him into Razor Face, and second by making him rethink his life. After leaving Coldstone, he underwent laser surgery to remove the scars on his face, keeping only one as a reminder of both all that had happened and of his own carelesness. Then he travelled for a while, seeing the world and its many wonders. He went for the first time of his life to his mother's homeland, and it was there he find love. He took her back to the States, and with the help of Othello, settled in a regular life. Now aged 27 and far more mature, he works in a security agency that specializes in protecting battered women from their husbands. Wife beaters being the worst kind of sinners in Virgil's book, he redubbed himself Seraph and had a fiery flying serpent (which is what Seraph stands for in Hebrew) tattooed on his back, as reminders of what he now thinks of as his own crusade. And since old habits die hard, it so happens that a few of Virgil targets disappear never to be seen again...

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1. Name: Wesley (nicknamed the Iceman by others)

2. Nationality: American mutt

3. Profession: Wetwork (not a mafia assassin)

4. Personality:

The boogeyman. The thing under the bed. Stories parents teach their kids safe in their belief that monsters aren’t real.
They were wrong.
Rumor says Wesley wasn’t birthed as much as he was unleashed upon this world. Some say Wesley was “born bad.” Others say that he’s living proof that parents are necessary in the development of children. The whisper stream says Wesley was passed from orphanage to orphanage, foster home to foster home, but this is unconfirmed. What is confirmed is that somewhere he learned the meaning of pain, the cruelty of this world… and he vowed to never become a “victim” again.

Wesley is not imposing physically. Of average height and build, Wesley is deceptively strong. His lean upper body, while not heavily muscled, makes him more than a match for most professional fighters. Wesley has piercing gray eyes and whitish hair cut short.
Vegan, despises “polluted” foods. Has acne scars on his face and a number of deep scars on his body. He sleeps very little, no more than 2-3 hours per day.

Wesley is a skilled hitter, with no signature or calling card. He will use whatever it takes to get the job done but prefers distance work to up close work. Expert with demolition materials and sniper rifles. Prefers knives to pistols for up-close work. Trained by the CIA in Afghanistan at an indeterminate age, picked up by Mossad and given more training. Known as Mossad's greatest failure.

No sexual desire.

Not interested in games…suicidal but determined to go out with as big a bang as possible, and nothing less.

Completely amoral when it comes to innocents. Rumored to have blown up an elementary school when a target went to pick up his kid. Our "human" concept of honor is foreign to him.

All of the above is conjecture and rumor. Some even doubt that Wesley exists, like an ephemeral ghost of criminal dreams. Is he for real? Coldstone is going to find out.

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1. NAME: Ray Priest

2. NATIONALITY: British

3. OCCUPATION: Straight (Lounge Singer at various casinos)

4. PERSONALITY: Ray Priest used to be a bouncer in England in his youth but preferred the joys of singing and entertaining audiences. Moved to Vegas with his wife, Amelia. Shortly thereafter, his wife was accidentally shot in a shootout in The Strip.

This had affected Paul severely and had become an alcoholic, a chain smoker, and part-time peddler of pornographic literature. If given the chance to make money via unscrupulous means, he would -- but after serious and thoughful consideration.

His main weakness are women. After Amelia's death, he's unconcerned about his welfare and sexual relations. Just as long as he sang, then life was worth living.

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1. Giacomo "Guy" Marlioni

2. Nationality: Italian-American

3. Occupation: Soldier

4. Personality: Giacomo ("Guy" to his friends) was born in Naples, Italy, but his parents immigrated shortly after his birth to New York, where he was raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. His father was the butcher at a local Italian market and Guy spent countless hours there as a child, learning how to cut meat and use a knife. Guy's mother was a master seamstress who made some of the most beautiful clothes you could ever lay your eyes upon.

In high school, Guy got into trouble for petty theft and other small crimes, which eventually led him to work as a gopher for the men who worked for mob boss Giancarlo Budacheci. As the years progressed, he worked his way up in the ranks of the Budacheci crime family and though he never rose above the rank of a soldier, he earned the respect of a made man.

He has been married to Carla Palladino (a girl who grew up across the street from him) since 1971 and they have two children: a son, Paolo (age 27) who works for the Port Authority and a daughter, Gabriella (age 22) who is studying to be a professional tango dancer.

Guy and Carla moved to Coldstone after he received permission to leave the family service from the boss. He quickly found work as a soldier for one of the local bosses once there and continues his life of dedication as a "jack of all trades."

Guy is usually an even-keeled fellow, despite his harried looks. But, just so you know, you DO NOT want to upset him, because he is handy with a butcher knife.

5. Description: Mid-to-late 50s, slicked-back black hair with white highlights here and there. As a boy, he was chubby, but once he reached adolescence, he trimmed down and has stayed that way ever since.

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Timofei "Tima" Barkov

"Tima" is Othello Redman's personal bodyguard. Not an imposing figure physically, the man is effective more due to his presence and experience.

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Ladies, Gents, and Transsexuals, here's Mrs. Priest.....

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And this is the pic Ray keeps staring at:

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FUCKING A.

Natalie, Virgil's girlfriend.

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Carl "Lurch" Luchinsky, bartender at Tony's Tiger
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Edward Dewey

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Patches

Katherine Tobiasi

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Latisha "Foxy" Brown-Redman

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1. Full name: Jaquez Mosanto

2. Nationality: Born in Senegal, current U.S. Citizen

3. Occupation: "Wild Card" – hacker

4. Personality:

Jaquez was born just outside of Dakar, Senegal in 1974. Three years later, he found himself on the shores of America, along with his mother and infant sister (their father had been killed in a bar fight just prior to Jaquez’s birth). Much of Jaquez’s childhood was spent in solitude—his status as a “weird exchange student”, coupled with the fact that he suffered from mild gigantism, gave him an unshakeable social stigma. As a result, he became sullen, quiet and withdrawn, traits that he exhibits to this very day.

As a teen, Jaquez discovered computers, and reveled in the connectivity, the ability to reach out and interact with people and affect their lives without having to actually meet them. Eventually, as his prowess with the mouse grew, he explored the art of hacking, of truly affecting people’s lives, and has been addicted to that sense of power ever since.

At the age of eighteen, Jaquez was already one of the world’s premier hackers, and as a result, was drafted into the ranks of Veretta Systems, Inc., where he worked between 1991 and 1993 as an “information acquisition specialist” (read: data extractor). In ’93, Jaquez was a pivotal part of a plot to hack into the United States Federal Reserve—a plot which was, to say the least, a rousing success. Jaquez and his three co-conspirators walked away from the job without a scratch on their record, and split upwards of thirteen million dollars in the process…which may or may not have led to Jaquez’s resignation from Veretta.

That job was off the record, but events surrounding it culminated with the shutdown of Veretta (so the government couldn’t track the reserve job back to the company if Jaquez and his partners were ever found out) and the liquidation of all company assets through multiple off-shore accounts and child-companies. Jaquez has been a free agent ever since, a “hired gun” of sorts, willing to lend his talents to the highest bidder.

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(I'm sorry, this was the best I could find...I may change it to someone else later)

Ryan,

Welcome to the boards. As for your character, it would be interesting to have a hacker in the gam. Did you run this by Katanga? (he's the gm)

Thanks for the welcome.

Yeah, it's all been cleared. Laugharn brought me in, ran it by Ktanga, etc.

Excellent. If I wasn't playing Othello from CS1 I was gonna do a hacker or a little nobody (someone easily underestimated). Glad to see those spots filled by you and Laugharn.

You bast... Oh, you meant in the game. Nevermind!

Wesley's weapon of choice... the XM25 Sniper Weapon System!

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Nikki Cruise

Belisarius

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Agent Luiz Sanchez, Director FBI Field Office in Las Vegas, NV.

Acquaintance to Carlone Veretta, and George McClure.

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...and the now running-gag that is Marie Catherine Flannery...

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...and this is the occasionally-mentioned Micheal Reeves, approximately 3rd in command of the casino security and scheduling coordinator for Hotel Operations.

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Talon

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One Killer

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Hardcastle (Hey I didn't pick the name, OK?)
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Yakov Sorkin

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Eli "Red" Linkov

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1. Full name: Aaran Campion
2. Nationality: English
3. Occupation: Professional Gambler
4. Personality: As sarcastic as they come with a
rather melancholic outlook on life.
5. Description: 6' tall, slim and athletic.

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