[UA] Help! Dumb PC investigated for kidnapping (Bi3P)

[RFD]

The FBI would trace the phone number, question Jason about the events.
If he's cooperative and his story checks with the known facts, it will
stop there.

But... there are other things here. Firstly, there are the two missing
cops, Sascha and Don's corpses and the dead Bill Toge at his father's.
Plus, depending on how the third scenario finished, there may be a Bill
Toge also in custody who was known to have been hundreds of miles away
in New Mexico at the time... Now there is one thing you need to know
about law enforcement: they have LOTS of available man-hours to check
things like this out and with modern computers cross referencing stuff
is easy.

So, if the FBI are following up on a kidnapping lead, they question him
informally. If they are looking at two dead cops and a dead kid, they
will probably be a bit more emphatic, but again, cooperation and a good
story and the PC is probably fine. If they are able to cross check with
Bill-3, they are going to be less understanding.

Now, if you REALLY want things to go weird, have the FBI get in touch
with Jason's evil twin instead of him...

Some other fun evil-twin stuff would involve the whole identity theft
deal, except the signatures would check out. Sorry sir, your account was
closed yesterday...



On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 09:13 -0800, Christopher wrote:
> Okay, a PC has gotten in a sticky situation in the aftermath of Bi3P.
> I’ve googled FBI procedures in kidnapping cases, but haven’t found how
> an investigation is mounted. Hopefully, someone here can help. Let me
> set it up first:
> 
>  
> 
> My group went through Bi3P. The only Bill who wasn’t stopped was the
> second one, the epidiro. One character, Jason, tried a last ditch
> effort of stopping him as he drove away, by firing a shotgun blast at
> the vehicle. Moments later, he saw his double drive by. At the end of
> the scenario, when Bill the epidiro and the double drove by, another
> character, Marvie, jumped into his car and tried to catch up to no
> avail. He asked if he caught the license plate number. He had never
> asked before, but with his obsession being numbers and his
> photographic memory, I let him roll for it. Got a Major success so I
> gave him some of the numbers. He then kicked in the bumper of another
> PC’s car (his own was a rental) and called the cops to report a
> hit-and-run by a blue Hyundai. After a little more searching over the
> next day, they called it quits.
> 
>  
> 
> Marvie kept looking into it via the internet, discovering that the two
> Bills stopped seemed to be erased from reality, slowly but surely. He
> finally figured out the license plate and the address it had
> originally been registered to. The phone number for the property was
> under the name Jonathan Toge. Going to scenic Ellensburg, WA, they
> found a blue Hyundai and a grieving father. Jason and Marvie spoke to
> him, telling him about the hit-and-run and the desire to keep
> insurance companies out of it, but find out that Bill had made it that
> far before saying, “Hey, Dad, I’m home,” and collapsing and dying from
> blood loss. (I was hoping that would be the end of it.) Jason asked a
> lot of questions about Bill and his past and about Bill’s daughter. He
> also asked if Bill was with a guy who looked an awful lot like him,
> who goes by the nickname, “Jason.” Jonathan implores them to talk to
> the cops with what they know. Then they left. They do not talk to the
> cops.
> 
>  
> 
> Then they decided to hightail it to Yuba, CA, which is where Bill the
> epidiro had been living. Looking through birth records finally turned
> up Sascha Delillo and her mother’s name. They found her phone number
> and one of them, Adriano, called her. It did not go well. So, Jason
> and Marvie head over and are met by Delilah’s mother. They try to get
> more info about Bill. The mother is barring access to Delilah, so
> Jason tells her that he saw Bill with Sascha, in violation of the
> restraining order. She asks him if he’s talked to the police about
> this. He lies and says, “Yes.” Then, as a last ditch effort, he hands
> the mother his cell phone number and impresses on her that he knows
> Bill has been near Sascha and to call him when ready to talk. Heavily
> implying, of course, that he knows useful information. Then they
> leave. That was pretty much the end of the session.
> 
>  
> 
> Oh, and I should mention that Jason’s niece went missing two months
> prior in their first adventure, while he was visiting for
> Thanksgiving. The group rescued her and others, but Under Very
> Mysterious Circumstances. 
> 
>  
> 
> Now, I really don’t want to put Jason away for this, but I obviously
> gotta do something. The FBI will get Jason’s cell phone number. What
> do they do next? I figure they talk to Jonathan Toge. Do they show up
> on Jason’s doorstep? Do they question him there, or do they have
> enough to haul him in? Does a possible missing child alert hit the
> area? Really, I’m hoping my player does some dazzling bluffing and
> talks his way out of it. There’s no evidence on him or his belongings.
> I could have the street people who saw him shoot off a shotgun in
> Don’s neighborhood give enough of a description to implicate Jason,
> but I think I’ll rule that they weren’t close enough, they were
> surprised, and they give conflicting reports.
> 
>  
> 
> Anyway, thanks for any help you can give.
> 
>  
> 
> Christopher Smith Adair
> 
> 
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