The Warehouse

**The Warehouse** is a location appearing in *Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2*, serving as the game's 1st stage. It is the main storage and hideout of the Syndicate City branch of the Dark Don Gang.

## Background

The Warehouse is a large storage ground consisting of multiple buildings located in Syndicate City. It has been reappropriated by local mobs, now primarily used as a gang hideout, as well as a storage unit for their likely stolen goods. A couple of copper-colored machines resembling stills can also sparsely be seen inside the buildings. The Dark Don seems to be the current owner or at least renter and has his paid goons headquartered there.

## Guns, Gore & Cannoli

In 1944, 16 years after his marvelous escape, Vinnie Cannoli is abducted and brought to The Warehouse by two of the Dark Don's thugs, Louie and Tony. They check up on him later that night, with Louie, clueless about his importance nor that place Thugtown that he is constantly connected with, asking his friend Tony about it. Tony is surprised at his buddy's lack of knowledge on the matter, asking in disbelief if he had heard about the "Thugtown Incident back in '28", which he hadn't. Tony roughly summarises the events of the first game, from the suspected role the local gangsters played, the unconfirmed reports of "zombies" and the actions the government took to prevent information from leaking, ending by saying that the only known survivor was let off by the court due to lack of evidence and intervention by officials to hinder the man's testimony from contradicting the cover story. Louie finally asks who that survivor was, with the slightly frustrated Tony pointing to the tied-up Vinnie.

Louie does not let the stories of Vinnie's temper and violent nature he was told ruin his fun and mocks Vinnie's current situation. Vinnie angrily threatens Louie, who brushes it off and tells Tony of his intentions with the chainsaw he brought, snidely remarking that it would be a "Night to Dismember", cracking up both. Tony sternly reminds his partner that their boss wants their prisoner alive but reaffirms that they would are probably allowed to beat him up without consequence. As the two smugly grin at Vinnie, the latter calls the duo "hilarious" and when asked to clarify, Vinnie responds that their knot tying skills were subpar, breaking free with relative ease and runs at the quivering gangsters, striking Tony with a powerful punch in the face, sending him flying back into a wall. Louie lets out a quiet "wow", before being hit by the same force, this time in the opposite direction into a stack of crates. As he recovers from the flight, Vinnie picks up Louie's chainsaw and starts it up while he taunts the downed wisecrack and jumps at him, blade first. Louie cries out in fear and is brutally killed.

Vinnie continues his killing spree inside the hideout, dismembering waves of incoming mobsters before he runs out of fuel and starts bashing heads with a baseball bat. He acquires a gun from a Pistol Gangster and shoots his way out the warehouse into the street, entering the second building with the help of a conveniently placed wrecking ball. He soon re-amasses the majority of his lost arsenal through his rampage.

Vinnie also crosses a make-shift chop-shop and is attacked by the mob hired workers with an explosive surprise, falls through a roof into the bathroom of a mob-owned cinema that is then stormed by police, goes through a torn-open film screen to find a hidden storage hall behind it, both for film rolls and movie equipment and goods illegally acquired by the mob, and a shooting galley back alley, but nevertheless fights his way into a building with a phone, to call his friend Joe to get him out of town. Joe, sensing the area Vinnie's in is too dangerous for a car to send into, simply directs him to meet him at his bar at the Old Airfield, warning of a police raid in the district he's in. Vinnie leaves The Warehouse behind and enters the erupting shootout in Lower East Side.

## Trivia

* When Vinnie crosses through a large chimney tunnel to get to another room, once he exits, a googly-eyed skeleton in a Santa Claus costume falls down from above.
* Climbing on the wrecking ball and getting onto the roof of the warehouse then moving left, eventually will lead to a Sleigh and a chimney where the skeleton dropped down.