Editing Baroque Blue (section)

=====Vincent Lorenzo===== 

This guy is the Mafia boogeyman. According to the bedtime story, back in '77, Johnny-Boy Lorenzo and his wife, Maria, were taking a trip out to rural Kansas to pick up some... supplies... when they came across a kid. Now, unverified rumour has it that Johnny-Boy, he was sterile, and back in the day, that disqualified you from being a player. Less of a real man, and all that. So he saw the opportunity and he pretended the kid was his. Nine months he slapped his wife around when she begged to leave Kansas, see her family, get away from the strange kid she wasn't sure she wanted.

According to the story, Vince became the Made Man of all made men. He can't be hurt by bullets. He can cook people with his brain. He can hurl trucks. He can even make robots that look just like him so he can be in more than once place at a time.

Whenever any of the old families in America or the Old Country have trouble with masks getting uppity, or new gangs, they can call in Vinnie. This is a huge loss of face, and if the man exists, he is surely busy. Everybody in Baroque has met a guy who claims to have met the guy. So you shrug, say it is just a story and get on with business. But sometimes, when an old time mobster looks too confident at a meet, and he whispers to his consiglieri, you're sure you hear the name 'Vincent Lorenzo'...