Re: Adventure Seeds--Title Tag
15 Minutes...Or It's Free!
Joey Camacho seems like your average guy, just an everyday Joe trying to make an honest living. But appearances can be deceiving. Joey has a secret, something that makes him beyond ordinary. Joey is a psychic, a man gifted with precognitive abilities. Well, sort of, it seems Joey precognitive abilities are very limited, he can only predict who is going to call him on the phone and what they are going to tell him and only some twenty-minutes or so before it happens.
For several years Joey’s tried to come up with a way to make a living off his gift, but Joey’s a scrupulously honest guy, so he didn’t want to do anything illegal or even unethical, he was also hampered the fact that while he’s basically a decent guy, he isn’t a very imaginative one.
This all changed one day when his cousin Louie called him on the phone, of course, Joey knew what the call was going to be about, and he was ready to take him up on the offer. You see, for years Louie tryied to get is cousin to help makes bets on the track but Joey would never go for it, but now Louie had come up with a way to make some money off Joey ability in way that he didn’t think Joey would find objectionable. Louie had a line on buying pizza parlor from some guy who was retiring, with his cousins abilities they could easily guarantee a pizza delivered in fifteen minutes, beating all the other places 30 minute guarantee.
For a while, things went smoothly, the pizza parlor was successful and even though Joey had to work long hours, he didn’t mind it, because he liked what he was doing. But as fate would have it, crime boss Vincent Gambini owned the other pizza parlor in the neighborhood. Now Vincent didn’t really care if business was down at his pizza parlor, to him it was just one of several place to launder his ill-gotten gains. However, he was curious how Joey and Louie were managing to deliver pizzas consistently in fifteen minutes or less. So he sent one of his boys to work at the place and before long, he learned Louie’s secret.
Vincent can think of a lot of better things to do with Louie’s abilities than schlepping pizzas around the neighborhood. So he’s pressed Louie into his service, forcing him to help with gambling, the stock market, and even reports on hit that have gone wrong. The usually honest Joey is being torn apart by all this graft, but there’s not much he can do, Vincent has one of his goons with at all times and to make matters worse he kidnapped his dear mother and is keeping her in a undisclosed location. And even if he could somehow notify the police, he knows that Vincent has several cops on his payroll.
But Louie has a plan; he’s been passing out coupons offering great deals on pizza around the neighborhood making sure some get delivered to the local heroes’ headquarters. When they call for some pizzas, he’s going to hide a message in the pie explaining their predicament.
But the heroes will have to be careful, storming the pizza parlor will just get Louie’s mother killed. Also, Vincent Gambini didn’t rise to be a crime boss by being a fool, he usually tries to steer clear of run ins with super-types but he’s has contingencies for when it happens, including a few low-rent supervillains in his employ. But his ace in the hole are two experimental guns, one which slow people down for a short period and one that lowers their defenses, making the heroes much more vulnerable to his boys’ guns.
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