Coldstone 2: Fear And Loathing

Kid Ego suggested to Katanga, and he passed to me, that there could possibly be a thread of my character (Elmore Pantuso, Columnist for the Coldstone Times)'s columns. That way, I could comment on the action going on in the game and reference the columns in the game.

I seized upon the idea and am busily coming up with various columns. They will consist of both columns for the Coldstone Times, and excerpts from Bulls in a China Shop, Gone By Dawn, his unfinished European bank robbery book, and his book on the Coldstone Mafia and the survivors of Coldstone 1, which he's lovingly nicknamed "Silent Spring."

I already have one written, and am working on another. They have to go through Katanga to make sure that they don't conflict with his plot for the game, so as soon as I hear back from him the first one should be up later tonight.

Also, if there is any particular topic that you would like to read a little bit more about from Coldstone 1, please feel free to comment here.

Thanks!

-Brendan

The Railroading of Roman Carvaggio
By Elmore Pantuso
Columnist for the Coldstone Times

“The paths of glory lead but to the grave,” wrote Thomas Grey in the eighteenth century. Roman Carvaggio’s path of glory, which has woven its way through Coldstone’s underworld in one form or another as long as this reporter can remember, has finally ended, not to the grave, but still towards granite. The noble captain of the city’s once noble mafia family was sentenced yesterday to sixty years at Granite Hill Penatentary for his connections with the Capella-Cannery murders three weeks prior.

Mr. Carvaggio continued to prove his nobilty and honor after his sentencing, when he refused to play the role of “guilty thug” my fellow members of the press labeled on him during the ensuing media circus. Coldstone, a city virtually built on the power and prestige of the mafia in the Roaring Twenties, was quick to turn on one of its own, whose only crime was attempting to bring back that very power and prestige. My colleague at the Coldstone Gazette was particulary vocal about Mr. Carvaggio’s crimes, publicly advocating the death penalty. Had this honourable man been executed, Coldstone would have committed the gravest sin of all.

The execution of an innocent man.

This reporter has learned, through research the Gazette chose not to do, that Mr. Carvaggio was not responsible for many of the deaths which began in a small strip mall outside of town and laced a trail of blood through a confrontation with Police Commisoner Graves’ new helicopters (Commisioner Graves is currently looking for replacements for said helicopters) at the former mansion of Don Marco Capella, whom Mr. Carvaggio was rumored to replace after his unfortunate assassination, into a final showdown with the assasins of Don Capella at the cannery. Those assassins turned out to be none other than the city’s Triads, led by a woman whose recent arrival in the city set off this round of violence, working in tandem with the very members of the mafia family who replaced the noble Don Capella. As of this writing, they were among the victims found among the Cannery dead.

Indeed, the killing spree was more a quest for honor and a quest to clense the family so that they could begin anew. Begin anew they shall, as nearly all remaining members of the Capella family who fought for their honor, are dead or out of the buisness. Left only is an unknown soldier in the Capella empire, the man rumored to take over what remains of Coldstone’s once honorable family.

I, for one, hope that he brings honor back to this city. With the sentencing of Roman Carvaggio, there are few men willing to pay for such things as that.