Missing Detective Prologue
████████████
1959
"On a quiet morning in the town of ███████, a plot was being readied by a group of men. Moving in harmony as they quietly loaded the 1954 Bonhomme’s trunk with a few thousand dollars worth of god-knows-what. These men actioned in a way not just done by some ragtag team of thugs, these men were full-blown organised crime members, but to the untrained eye, just men in suits loading packages into an old car.
Finishing their smooth work in loading up the black Bonhomme, they all hopped into the sedan, and briefly looked around.
The coast was clear.
They were ready.
The plot was to be performed.
Or was it?
Out of a corner nearby, a small police sedan zoomed into the clearing. In the driver seat, a coated figure. Who could it be? The police sedan slid in front of the black Bonhomme in almost perfect sync, the men stared at the driver and the car in front of them. It was seemingly out of nowhere where this small sedan came from, and now it was right in front of them, interfering with the potential plans.
In a burst of intuition, the driver of the black Bonhomme shifted into reverse, hopping the curb behind it and stopping right before a wall. With some skill, the police car was evaded and lost in the corners. The Bonhomme was too fast for the commissioned police mobile, and their plans were continued with precision and haste.
Out of seemingly nowhere though, the police car came barrelling in front of the black Bonhomme, stopping the car without a scratch and saving the day! Until a giant tentacle came out of the port’s waters and smashed both the police mobile and the Bonhomme to bits and causing the nearby shops collateral damage! And as you can see! I was lucky enough to survive thanks to my brilliance!"
Everyone stared at the Detective as ███ put on a smug face as ███ began giving an explanation for this morning’s little accident. People nearby both sighing and clapping to ███ little story that might’ve slightly been twisted to ███ own words.
“Well, that’s what I remember happened anyway- Ouch! Could you be a bit more gentle?”
███ said as the nurse tended to ███ wounds. The Chief was next to the nurse, rubbing his forehead to make sense of what the detective was saying.
“Detective, you’re arguably the best in this police force, but in this past month, with the cases you’ve been solving that involved chasing the Mafia, you’ve managed a lot-”
Before he could continue, the Detective cut him off almost in sync with the phone that began ringing.
“Hey, better catch that call if you don’t want kidney stones! Owie-!”
“Detectiv-”
"Look! I did my bloody job! That’s the fifth shipment I’ve cracked down on!
“De-”
“Oh, and if you noticed, It was only one shop that was damaged this time! Only one! No one else got hurt, too!”
“For Pipegod’s sake, Detective █████████! Could you bloody listen for once!?”
“O-okay… sorry… Ah~!”
The nurse finished up her work, and the Chief signaled for everyone to leave to give himself and the Detective some privacy.
“Detective. Police mobiles, shop fronts, and this town in general is not expendable. You’ve gone through 2 assigned cars this past year. You’ve caused thousands of dollars in damage to the surrounding area. Almost all of the criminals you’ve caught came locked up with an injury of some sort. You need to pay attention more to what kind of collateral damage you have been causing.”
The Chief sighed, the Detective just stared at the floor in shame and remained quiet.
“We’ve decided this a long time ago, if you made one more slip like this, we’d have to take disciplinary action.”
A moment of silence happened as the Detective looked at the Chief, and braced for what was to come.
“As an initial warning, we’re no longer providing a police car for you. You are to spend your own earnings on what you’ll need for work. You cannot claim your returns for whichever you purchase either. See this as a learning opportunity to care for what is provided to you. When you unnecessarily write off those police cars, you’re wasting the taxpayers’ money. Money that could’ve been spent elsewhere other than your reckless shenanigans. Do you understand?”
Yet another moment of silence arose as the Chief’s words settled into the Detective’s mind.
“… why?”
Detective █████ ███████ is among the top detectives in Gasmea. The Detective has been known for ███ reckless exploits with cases assigned to ███, and one of these cases has finally brought annoyance to the Chief, and now the Detective is forced to purchase ███ own vehicle for police duty.
Being able to buy ███ own vehicle for police duty is a double edged sword.
███’d be able to purchase whatever would suit ███ tastes, but ███ unfortunately would have to service it ███self if it ended up damaged or whatnot.
General Requirements:
Model Year: No lower than 1951
Trim/Variant Year: 1952-1959
Body style: Sedan, Coupe or Convertible only
Tyres: Cross Ply
Maximum Loudness: 40
Race parts are forbidden.
Maximum Engine ET: 80
Maximum Trim ET: 65
Maximum Approximate Price: Soft cap of 20,000$, Lower is obviously better.
Naming Scheme:
Car Model/Engine Family: CSR 133 - < your username here >
Trim/Variant: Car name/Engine name
Sidenote: Please double-check the rules before submitting! Furthermore, be sure to check for any realism discrepancies you may encounter. Being instabinned for something that could’ve been remedied with a rulecheck is no fun!
Priorities:
- High priority
Realism and Looks - Of course, who wouldn’t want to be seen driving in a pretty looking thing?
Driveability - Detective wants a vehicle that’d be easy to throw in and out of a corner, as you will never know what kind of scenario you’d accidentally toss yourself into. This car will also be the Detective’s new personal daily driven car, as ███ had always used ███ assigned vehicle as a personal car.
Service Costs - ███ can’t file ███ tax returns on this vehicle, better to spend less on dealing with the car’s problems if ever one actually does pop up.
Reliability - Better to break down less than to not have a working car at all. ███ can’t simply hop into another policemobile replacement if this one goes bust. ███ also prefers manual transmissions, as ███ fears harsher driving, like the exploits ███ has planned for every mission, might ruin an automatic’s longetivity.
- Medium Priority
Sportiness - As seen with the earlier encounter, the policemobiles are too slow for what ███ might encounter, higher tier organized crime members would likely be driving larger cars with powerful engines. ███ also desires something with a little bit more fun to bring some sense of life into a case.
This will be judged using both the Sportiness stat, and the car’s general handling characteristics according to the Test Track tab.
Vehicle Size - After the encounter with the Bonhomme, ███ figured a larger car might be a bit better. Though in some cases, such as that one incident in ████████, ███ might ███████ ██████████.
- Relatively Low Priority
Comfort - ███ absolutely hated the uncomfortable shitspec seats of the police sedan, and thus, ███’d be looking for something not horrible to drive, but not exactly a boat.
Practicality - ███’s not hauling criminals or anything major in this car, so it only really needs to hold ███ and maybe an assistant, as well as ███ files and equipment. Stuff like that could maybe fit in a smaller coupe.
- Very Low Priority
Fuel Economy - Gas is not that expensive, but ███ doesn’t want something that runs out of fuel immediately after a chase.
With such all said and done,
The games shall begin by the middle of the night.
II.X.MMXXI
Forbye, the deadline shall occur by the middle of the night.
II.XVII.MMXXI
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Round will open on 00:00 February 10th PST if no other rule changes are needed.
Deadline is on 23:59 February 17th PST.
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