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Re: 1980s American Cars, Guns, Gadgets and Consumer Goods [Atmosphere, look, minutiae
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04-20-2016, 08:33 PM | #272 | |
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Re: 1980s American Cars, Guns, Gadgets and Consumer Goods [Atmosphere, look, minutiae
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04-24-2016, 01:22 PM | #273 | |
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Re: 1980s American Cars, Guns, Gadgets and Consumer Goods [Atmosphere, look, minutiae
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I don't think semi auto rifles were common in any of those cartridges at that time, most of them were old blackpowder cartridges and .221 fireball was used in a bolt action handgun Hmm , you can get the Weatherby in .22-250 as early as 1980 I think and of course it could always have been rechambered |
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04-24-2016, 02:40 PM | #274 | |
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Just so. 'Tenderloin' being a subset of 'loin' cuts.
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12-11-2016, 02:03 PM | #277 | |
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The Reading Material of One Suspect for the Big Bad Wolf
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The PCs are trapped in there due to a storm with pretty much every suspect the players have as the 'Big Bad Wolf', the hypothetical older man who might have acted as Victor Dufresne's mentor as a serial killer. Naturally, their car radio cannot reach anyone, the phone in the cabin is down and the radio in the cabin seems to be broke. The hospitable hunters in the cabin blame the storm and weight of snow on the phone lines for the lack of dial tone, but the damage to the radio is unexplained. In any event, Special Agent Frank Corelli has a powerful hunch about Dr. William Pinault, a Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon who owns this luxury cabin in Maine with his close personal friend, Dr. Harvey Allen (brother of local big-wig Clayborn Allen and uncle to suspect-in-custody Victor Dufresne). Corelli believes Pinault to be a ruthless killer, a belief largely derived from looking into his eyes and seeing nothing staring back, just the vast emptiness of a sterile vessel without a soul. Also, Corelli is pretty sure that Dr. Pinault and Dr. Allen are homosexual lovers, which not only makes them more suspicious in general, but also connects with a theory that Victor Dufresne may be homosexual or bisexual and that he might have suffered sexual trauma of some sort in his youth. Dr. Pinault is precise, poised, methodological and calm. He is also cosmopolitan, erudite and effeminate. At the moment, he is in the kitchen, wearing an apron with a purple flower print and a hairnet, decorating a cake for dessert. He moves with a gliding grace that appears languid, but is deceptively swift, and Corelli cannot help but notice how preternaturally aware Dr. Pinault seems to be of his surroundings and his own body at all times. While it is only Corelli who has this powerful hunch, the other two PCs admit that they have no trouble imagining Dr. Pinault's long, well-manicured surgeon's fingers making what investigators remarked upon as very workmanlike, competent surgical incisions on several of Dufresne's alleged victims to remove choice cuts of meat. Agent Corelli is in the study of the cabin, presumably used either by Dr. Allen or Dr. Pinault (or possible shared by both). The book cases contain both literature and medical books, but with an unusual focus on true crime in the case of literature and forensics, pathology and abnormal physchology in the case of the scientific textbooks. On the desk, Corelli can see five books, apparently the last five that were being used, read or consulted: Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives by Robert Ressler et al. Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death: Guidelines for the Application of Pathology to Crime Investigation. 2nd edition. Bram Stoker's Dracula. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris.
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12-11-2016, 02:32 PM | #278 | |
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Re: The Reading Material of One Suspect for the Big Bad Wolf
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Dracula is far too fantastic & fictional (IMHO) to provide any use for a 1980s psychokiller. While Silence . . . is fun, it's not terribly authentic (again, IMHO) an account of investigative methodology. (Note that Lecter in the both has maroon eyes and twelve fingers, which makes going incognito rather difficult. Again, IMHO, more to the point in Red Dragon. |
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12-11-2016, 02:56 PM | #279 | |
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Re: The Reading Material of One Suspect for the Big Bad Wolf
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As a neurosurgeon, he has no obvious professional reason to consult pathology textbooks, anyway. Even the abnormal psychology is a stretch for anything directly related to his work as a neurosurgeon, though it may be of some interest to his co-owner, neurologist Dr. Harvey Allen. Of course, the fact that Dr. Harvey Allen's nephew was arrested on the 14th of December, just six days ago, and is suspected of killing up to nineteen people, mostly with knives, is a pretty good reason for Dr. Allen and the man who might be his domestic partner to sit up in their study, drink Scotch and try to figure out whether such a shocking thing could be true, what the news reports about the murders mean, if the evidence really does point to the young man and, just possibly, if he really did it, if there were signs that they should have seen while he was a regular guest in their home all through his childhood. Of course, this doesn't really answer why Dracula, Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs were on top of the two textbooks. Unless Dr. Pinault decided that having his pseudo-nephew accused of being a serial killer reminded him of favourite books he'd like to re-read. Or maybe Pinault had already been planning to read the new Thomas Harris book when his next vacation came up and simply decided to stick with his plan despite the shocking news. And maybe he re-read Red Dragon first. Dracula might have been there for a while or maybe there was some connection between this specific copy of the book to Victor Dufresne that led to them taking out it out while discussing his arrest.
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Re: The Reading Material of One Suspect for the Big Bad Wolf
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"Oh," they said, "Maybe we shouldn't leave that in the guest bedroom, it might upset some people." "Eh? This is my own copy, I didn't notice yours in there."
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