Tonio Giovanni

### **DOSSIER**

**Aliases:** Antonio Mateo Giovanni-Giovanni (full name), Tapioca Tony, Fish-knife Tony, (*by neonates:* Tony-Matt-John-John)

**Threat type:** Giovanni

**Haven(s):** North Tower townhouse; Rental Commercial Office Slip in the Italian Neighborhood "near Downtown" (ie. the Rack)

**Known associates:** Other Giovanni; Mr.'s Pecker & Clamm; Jimmy the Shit; Big-Mouth Paulie

### ***La diceria***

**All characters may have heard these rumors:**

* His "cargo haulage" network runs South all the way to Newport Beach, and North as far as Oakland.
	+ Word is, he can get you to Vegas via Bakersfield, but it's not cheap.
		- It wouldn't be. The *old blood* is still in Vegas, dude. It costs what it costs, and you *pay* what you *owe*.
	+ Why would I pay someone to drive me a couple of hours down the 99?
		1. Giovanni are diplomatically Independent, so it's *technically* illegal for The Bronze to skin him *or* his guests.
		2. A couple of those hours are through lonely, Lupine territory. They frequently attack licks in cars, but Tonio's got protection.
		3. Maybe *you* can't think of any benefit to getting inside the LA domain without anybody but the Giovanni knowing you'd arrived...
	+ Can source as much "100%" "Italian" "Extra-virgin" "Olive" Oil as you think you can shift.
	+ Likewise for shrink-wrapped kilogram bricks of non-branded low- or un-scheduled medication.
	+ If you need to set up a meeting, ask for an appointment at that one car dealership on Blackstone. *You know* the one... the one with all the *pinstriped suits*.
		- Oh yeah, he can *also* sell you a car. They're stupid cheap, 'cause he's only doing it to launder cash.
* Eats dead people's eyeballs. That's how he controls their ghosts.
	+ *Pero...* you know if you *really* got to talk to your dead tio, he's not using his eyeball *now*...
	+ Limited time offer, though. Think of what you want to say *quick*, the eyes are the *first* to decomp.
	+ You get to talk for as long as there's any chew left in that eyeball.
		- So the fresher, the better!
	+ Has performed this service for Shadow Lords twice, under the following conditions:
		- You come with Jimmy the Shit and absolutely. *nobody*. else.
		- I get to have up to four physical "assistants" present, six maximum.
		- Jimmy has to vouch for you. Out loud. Yes I'm serious.
		- You don't mention whatever silver I have around or on me or where I'm pointing it.
* 'Giovanni-Giovanni', in his words: "It celebrates a union between two people incidentally both named Giovanni. For *clarity*. That there were two of them, see. Anyway, it usually only lasts one generation, the name thing, so my kids, if I ever have any, Saint Rocco protect me, would just be Giovannis."
	+ I *g u e s s* ... unless *he* marries a Giovanni.
		- Then they could both be Giovanni-Giovanni-Giovannis.
	+ The only way he's having kids now is Embracing them: *of effing course* they *"would just be Giovannis"* dude.
		- that's the joke
* Is Mr. Pecker's "cousin".
	+ Is Pecker a Johnny, too?
	+ Well I don't know, but they seem to know each other from *somewhere*...
		- Church.
		- Bumped into each other burying corpses.
* Says he's seen the ghosts of the Bronze in hell himself and he'll let you talk to one for blood-money.
	+ Makin' no promises to *control* that ghost for you, unless you find an eyeball for him to chew.
	+ Tonio says *he* knows, because a bunch of Deputies got elders' vitae "from somewhere" and he managed to let them talk to each other for what he says was like several minutes, "like the Don calling from prison."