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

[christuschristus at cox.net]

> From: Chad Eagleton <ceagleto at yahoo.com>
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I'm sure someone reported this...
> 

The shotgun shot was reported. I can either have Jason identified or decide that the drunks and druggies from down the street saw a white guy fire off a shot. He was kind of short, but in a tall way, you know. Leaning towards this.

> >
> 
> I'd have the Dad call the cops about the incident. I
> know you said you didn't want to see anyone put away
> for it, but don't overlook the hassle factor. One of
> the things I enjoyed so much about the last UA game I
> ran was having the cops be a factor. In my experience,
> and the players, most games view the cops as a sort of
> non-entity. Nameless, and able to be gunned down. Not
> so with UA...
>  

I definitely don't have a problem with hassling them. They need to be, after this. And I'm a big fan of actions-have-consequences. Up to and including death. Random fate has consequences, too.

Dad is almost certainly going to do a follow-up. His estranged son just died on the doorstep. Even if that investigation doesn't immediately connect to the kidnapping, it will shortly, because of this:

> 
> I'd imagine she'd call the cops too. Which would there
> names in the radar yet again.

Yes. This is the stickiest of the widgets. No matter what Sascha's grandmother thinks of the young men who spoke with her, she's going to talk to the police to find out if they've found anything out about what Jason was talking about. It's been three weeks of heartache.

> > 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. 
> 
> Did they rescue her quietly or loudly. If loudly, I'd
> sock it to the guy...

Well, it was quite the media event, that. They are the ones who found the missing kids. The kids were "hallucinating," so the details are murky. But it's a weird (and unintentional on my part) coincidence. "So, Mr. Keeyop, can you tell us why you seem to be around kidnapping investigations so much?"

> For an Amber Alert to go out there has to be a bit of
> corroborated info about the child being missing and in
> danger...

There's a four-year-old girl who's been missing for three weeks. Her father, the only suspect up to this point, appears to have been murdered. Jason recently relocated to Bremerton, WA, and there has been no investigation there subsequent to the Feds finding out about Jason. So, do Puget Sound media, authorities, and missing-child databases start getting the word out that she might have been brought to the Washington area? This probably doesn't cause Jason any grief; it might actually help him if he gets wind of it before the cops come knocking.

Thanks,
Christopher Smith Adair