US Law Enforcement Response, Time, Scale and Coordination (Galveston, TX)

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Verjigorm

Even better, it tends to be the people of Galveston that I'm not too fond of.

You would have to truly hate the people of Galveston with the fury of a thousand suns to want them at the mercy of what might be unleashed by the forces Alice was playing around with.

Sergeant Buddy Duke, a veteran police officer of more than four decades, witnessed something slip into the suspects' truck and over the next five seconds, heard raw, agonized screaming from the cab competing with the noise of the car horn. When Buddy got to the ajar truck doors, there was no one there but the driver, screaming from a ruined throat spraying blood, with both hands nailed to the steering wheel by a long knife in an obscene parody of stigmata. Several screwdrivers were stuck in the driver's abdomen and legs, one of them jammed through the knee, and the face had been slashed and disfigured, removing both eyes, ears and lips. Blood was spraying from arteries in both thighs and both arms.

The sight caused Buddy's gorge to rise even though he would have executed every one of these cop-killing illegitimates himself if he could. What's really going to bother him later is that whatever did this somehow accomplished what looked like hours of gruesome mutilation and torture in five seconds, less however long took it to disappear before Buddy caught a good look.

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If you have personal experience with people from Galveston, by all means drop into the Caribbean by Night thread and share impressions, anecdotes and useful local colour. In the event that there are still PCs and still a Galveston after next session, no doubt the yacht Penemue and the PCs shall moor there again. I can use NPCs based on real people (or actual fictionalized people), descriptions of real places, anecdotes of what makes people from Galveston annoying, etc.

The current thread would be an appropriate place for noting how local law enforcement might make lives difficult for PC Reserve Deputies who are merely IBC ('Islanders By Choice') and not BOI ('Born On the Island').

Granted, Sergeant Buddy Duke will loudly extoll the PCs as heroes and the fact that the dead suspects have killed three Galveston cops and wounded two more (not to mention the two Galveston EMTs who are dead or in critical condition) means that any arriving peace officers will be inclined to overlook any possible irregularities in stopping them from killing more. But still, this is a disaster and while at least three suspects were arrested alive, there will be senior Galveston law enforcement figures looking for someone else to shoulder some of the blame and dead officers are not the best scapegoats. So, the PCs should be in for a ticklish investigation.

Any hints on how to portray Galveston natives, aside from the ones the PCs have already met?