speaking of the grotto I remember being back there with
@chronos and
@deathwolf negotiating them to grind cans so I could make and sell USPs back to them
some random player walked in and started talking about how he was gonna talk about what he heard so we just shot him dead and dumped the body (?) somewhere
that was my introduction to the italians
reminds me of one of my favorite tong vs kobayashi gang war moments
we were in the middle of some completely unrelated rp in the tong hostel when suddenly the japanese showed up and immediately started brawling us on the staircase like it was a jackie chan movie because we sent them their doctor's head in a box over a misunderstanding (long story). somewhere along the line someone yelled that the cops were coming - so like true asian gangsters, we mutually agreed to drop what we were doing immediately and ran upstairs to the gambling room so we could sit down and pretend to be having a good time playing deathroll instead. someone talked the cops off at the door, the moment had passed, etc.
then one of kobayashi's associates, a polish restaurant owner, spoke up and said that she had called the cops on purpose so that we could stop fighting and 'speak like businessmen'. effectively she had snitched both her own gang
and her rival gang out just to stop a petty brawl and make a point.
i gave one look at tatsuo, he gave one look at me and nodded back, then i stood up and stabbed her to death in front of a dozen people
at least she got her wish; we bonded over her death just enough to start negotiations