>>>>>[Vamps in Seattle?  Drek! Here we go again.]<<<<<
                -- Red <17:45:25/08-31-54>

>>>>>[ Should have just asked a Mantid shaman.  We're a little more
trustable.  Hoolies, some of us would do it just to hunt Spider.
Hunting.  Its what we do best.  What we live for.]<<<<<
                -Styx <22:32:36/08-31-56>

***** Encrypt: !!!NANSPECOPS1342!!! include RedMPCP 
>>>>>[ Red I take it from your tone that you despise vampirics as
much as myself, In that case I may consider hiring you, and any
associated team to do exactly what you are now considering, we even
have a location and a time ones of these 'animals' will be
vulnerable. In the meantime I have people working on the location of
the other 'vamp'. Vanessa if you and your ork friend are free then
you are also welcome. ]<<<<<
        --  Coffin <23:12:32/08:31:54>

>>>>>[ Sorry bro, but me and Fenris are kinda busy on this other
run, have you been following it? ]<<<<<
        --  SpotOn <23:20:21/08:31:54>

>>>>>[ Indeed, I wish you well! ]<<<<<
        --  Coffin <23:25:45/08:31:54>

>>>>>[Meghan, I have to apologize.  Twasn't your orb twas giving
background count.  It seems your "backup" and I have been followed
since the pickup.  And I don't think it has anything to do with the
bowling ball.  Let me explain:

Giggles (he hates when I call him that :) were coming out of the b&b
we'd stayed in last night, keep a low profile, just two sararimen out
for a week of quail hunting...

As we get to the car, this lady  (I must call her this for I have
seen few who are as regal or commanding in appearance, with the
exception of the Duchess) comes striding up to me with a dazzling
smile.  My heart sort of jumped, could this vision of beauty mean
to grace me with her charms?  In any case, she was elvish, of
course, except her hair was as red as burnished copper.

"Nicholas, it is finally a pleasure to meet you.  I have met so few
of pure blood since the awakening." (Pure blood?  Elvish?  I was a
spike child, my mom said I was born on a sacred indian site or some
mumbo jumbo. I was confused, and still am.) "Perhaps we could speak
together for a moment..."

Just then, two of your knights in shining armor types come around
the corner, and bam, I am getting hit with the background count
again.  The taller golden boy starts yelling something in elvish...
something about not in the court, and born after the cycle drek. 
Anyway, I am almost fainting from the aura of these three.  Luckily
Giggles threw me in the car and pealed out of there.

In any case, no more background count, and the route was fine.  But
boy did I get the cold shoulder from the fellows in Snowdonia.]<<<<<
        --Journey <23:28.54/08.31.54>

****ENCRYPT@@Lafferty@@  #@~~MASTER ENDENCRYPT#@~~
>>>>>[Prof, I have forwarded a copy of the post I gave to Meghan to
you in hopes that you might be able to enlighten me a bit as to what
is going on.]<<<<< 
        --Journey <23:31.12/08.31.54>
ENDENCRYPT****

*****ENCRYPT~Journey~  ~~@#MASTER ENDENCRYPT$#~~
>>>>>[I didn't think they would show any interest in one so young as
you, Nicholas.  They must need be to find those of the direct
bloodline, and I didn't expect any friction this soon after the
Awakening. 

Nicholas, lay low for awhile, with some of your runner friends if
need be. But don't think you'll be unnoticed in Seattle or anywhere
for that matter.  There are Elder Clans of the Shidhe throughout
the world.  I will be in touch.]<<<<<
        --Prof. Lafferty <06:10.05/09.01.54>

>>>>>[Lafferty, stay out of this.  You and those upstarts have no
business with us since you left our TIR.  Don't interfere with us
and the boy.]<<<<< 
        --Llew ell 'Yn <06:10.55/09.01.54>

>>>>>[Nicholas, known as Journey, please contact us.  We have much to
discuss.  You seem to be able to hide very easily from our watchers,
so I have used this electric..excuse me electronic forum.  I assure
you, no harm is meant you.  We only wish to have you join your family
and learn of your heritage.]<<<<< 
        --Diana Eithne <19:25.25/09.01.54>

>>>>>[Never trust a vamp, I did once.  Good thing my sam buddie fed
it a cannon round.  Just a word of advice for all you would be vamp
hunters --AIM FOR THE FRAGGERS HEAD--  Personally I prefer my katana
and making its head a stranger to it's body. Don't go for the legends
about holy water and that drek, cause it DON'T work. Sunlight, fire
and decapitation are the only sure ways of killing them. I know cause
I've done it.  A friend of mine told me about using acid in
narcoject. Don't know how well it works but he said it was great.

I'm ready to help if needed. Just get in touch.]<<<<<
        -- Red <00:10:54/09-01-54>

>>>>>[FraterNay, I'm sorry for being 20 minutes late.  Since you
didn't seem to talkative I guess we'll postpone our Q & A session for
a while. You seemed rather intense but distant. Whats going on ?
I've never seen you deliberate so hard. If its a crisis maybe I can
help. I've been accused of being a good ear, and an appreciative and
insightful friend. I know ---- you, me, Andre's piano club, faint
tickling of the ivory in the background, a decent baccarat glass of
Dom, a good pasrty or cheesecake, an evening of "just talk". No push
or pull, just friends getting out some life- stories and dilemnas.
Whaddya say ?]<<<<< 
  -- KHANx (23:16:27/8.31.54)

>>>>>[Oh .man.... Journey, you got it delivered, right?  If you
didn't, A. my rep may well be shot, B. a major-possible client is
gonna be uppity, and C. you may well be left to hang and dry.]<<<<<
        -- Meghan the Red (01-09-54/6:53:40)

>>>>>[Delivery would be good.  Delivery would be very good.  No
delivery would be very bad.  One hopes this is thoroughly
understood.]<<<<< 
        -- Happy (01-09-54/6:56:46)

>>>>>[Elvis, Happy.  I said I'd get it there.]<<<<<
        -- Meghan the Red (01-09-54/7:03:30)

>>>>>[Prophet, my mom is a warm lady, she'll be more than happy to be
fussy over all of us, its not the same as having your own folks, but
it'll be nice. Bunker, I've told my mom that I'm in a rough business,
and since she watches alot of trid she expects me to have a chummer
who is rough, tough, savage- looking, a real mug - who doesn't
pronounce soft constants, and uses single syllable words, so if you
could act the part . . . . Wait! Act ?!?!?  Bunker that is you !!!!!
Between you and your ferocious canine you'll be perfect. ]<<<<<
   -- KHANx (00:04:09/9.1.54)

>>>>>[Hey KHANx, these are those guys you were telling me about.  The
guys with the big shoe sizes to match their pistols. Does Bunker like
the top bunk ? Can Prophet tell fortunes ?   Hey Prophet could you do
a palmreading?  May Silverton could.  And she didn't have the Private
Bathroom Number of the Great Spirit either.  Hey, Prophet, if your
totem is busy when you call him up, does he get real peeved at you
and keep you on astral hold.  Bunker, I hear you and me got alot in
common, how 'bout a bout of one on one workouts? See ya guys
soon.]<<<<< 
     Stryker (00:11:56/9.1.54)

>>>>>[Oh geeezzzz!!!]<<<<<
   -- KHANx (00:12:34/9.1.54)

>>>>>[Journey, man, you're head-high in drek now.  I had something
similar pulled on me a while ago, when I first started going into
both Tirs in relation to certain..... business I had.  All this
'spike baby' crap, and searching for the pure lines, and born with
Power and Promise. I learned the language, just so I could toss it
back in their faces, but some of 'em never give up.  Have fun.]<<<<<
        -- The Dead Decker (3:20:10/9-1-54)

>>>>>[Sounds like a power play to me.  Lafferty, is your old friend
Ehran in on it?  What about Harlequin??  Or Morska, or did you send
him back to the Russian States already?  What about that aborigine,
what .was. his name??

Elves.  Spirits, I hate elves....]<<<<<
        -- Cat (Who Walks/Through All)

>>>>>[Racist!  Human-supremicist pig-swine of a fecu(transmission
cut: 3:22:40) ]<<<<<
        -- Tir Patriot (3:22:40/9-1-54)

>>>>>[The Cat'd be pretty PO'd to find he was a human supremicist.
He dislikes humans almost as much as he dislikes the elder
elves.]<<<<< 
        -- The Dead Decker (3:22:59/9-1-54)

>>>>>[Why does 'Hamlet' come to mind...]<<<<<
        -- Cat (Who Walks/Through All)

>>>>>[ Ermm, hi.  I think I've got the right connection it's been a
while scince I checked the Denver Data Havens.  Anyhow here goes.

A good mate of mine Powerhouse asked me scan the newsfaxes for
anything on Biosys and a few other related bits n bobs then forward
it here just in case, any of you guys could use the info to help ol
PH.  I understand that IBA is getting downloads each day but they
are unable to respond personally to any questions etc...  So if
anyone knows anything useful just post it and it will find it's way
into PH's hands.  Oh, PH said to say that he sends his deepest
apologies to some bird, Cerise or some't, for not making that date
the other night. 

** Include transmission

Jessica Andrews reporting-
Earlier this morning this quiet suburb of Bellevue was sent into
chaos when a small explosion occured at Biosys Inc.  The company
which has a special hazardous materials licence immediately alerted
local authorities of the possibilities of leak, as they themselves
commenced containment procedures. The explosion which is believed
to be the result of personnel failure rendered useless the north
wing of Biosys's research lab and caused extensive damage to the
others.  The accident also claimed the lives of 5 lab technicians
including the well respected Kelvin Chung. 

Shares in the company, which has failed to produce any revolutionary
products as it claimed it would when first started, have now fallen
to an all time low. This comes hot on the heals of death of Thomas
Prendergast whose body was recently found floating in the Sound.
Police sources indicate that Prendergast died from a single shot to
the head. 

It is understood that the threat to the local community has now
ended but this still meant that over 5 000 people were unable to
leave their homes for work, this morning.

** End transmission

I also got this item from the English faxes, it's a week old now
though. 

** Include article

Michael Carver Reporting 
The bodies of two men were found earlier today by police in a disused
warehouse, the identities have not been released yet but it is known
that they were both employies of Fuchi United Kingdom.  Up to press
details of their deaths are unknown, Fuchi U.K. also deigned to
comment.

** End transmission

Well that's all for now.  Remember if you know something post it,
I'm sure PH will be most happy to hear it. ]<<<<<
        Chipper (Yep it still works !)

>>>>>[Well, I've gotta 'and it to ya Gawk, your the only bloke I know
who's rigger girlfriend has a train for an escape vehicle .... nice
to see ya not slippin'. I did like the steam train ride to the main
maglev tube though. I was lookin' forward to the dossin' in that
thin'. Blitz, you fortunatley missed Gawk's inflable method to get us
through the bordersearchs  - hidden up to our eyeballs in fresh veg.
An' the bloody place was one of those cold storage units. What with
Gawk's travel bag, (this huge bleeder of a kit bag full of well
suspect stuff) my keg an' all the other junk we've got, it looked
more like we were movin' house. By the time we got the France,
Pheonix was this nice shade of blue, Gawk 'ave eaten 'alf our cover,
an' I was lost under a sea of sprouts. 

Anyway, cheer Crystal, for all the 'elp, much thanks luv. Sorry
about the unintensonal slur Spice. Ta for the info. I'll send ya a
nice bottle of plonk. Well I'm gonna get rid of the rest of these
sprouts which seem to be every where. Well Terms time to book in
with Spice's friend, Mon Amie (that's french you know)]<<<<<
        -WHAT(11:46:23/01-09-54)

>>>>>[ Who's a mug? Me? What's a mug, besidez sumpin' ya drink outta?
I don't get it. ]<<<<<
        --  Bunker <16:31:55/9-01-54>

>>>>>[ Shaddup, Bunk.  So, KHANx, yer bud, Stryker, is quite a
character. Ah remember a kid like him back in the Rangers a few
years ago. Seems he upped and freaked one day, running around
jabberin' and such. Had to let the poor guy go. Ah heard he was
running a hot dog stand somewheres along the Interstate south of
Denver... where was I? 

Oh yeah, I'm sure yer ma's a real nice lady and I can't wait to meet
her. If ya wanna show her a rough part of town, c'mon over to the
bunker. These Redmond street wannabes are really makin' some good
evenin' entertainment! And Stryker's invited too. Ya know he kinda
reminds me of someone... ]<<<<<
        --  Prophet <16:41:38/9-01-54>

>>>>>[KHANx, sorry I seemed so distant when you picked me up.
There's no delima, I was just involved in a little 'blue moon
ritual' before my return trip, and the trip was also tiring.  I
just needed a little rest.  I'm back to my old self again.

The invitation sounds great!  I'm looking forward to a relaxed
evening back in Seattle after our what we've been through.  Instead
of meeting you there it would be nice if you picked me up if you
can.  See you then.]<<<<< 
        --  FraterNay <10:38:49/01 Sept 54>

>>>>>[My deepest appologies to the wonderful Spice, a true gent.
Things seemed a bit 'ecktic at Paris, but the term of your Spice,
well 'e's worked wonders. Nice view, good squat, er, rooms and
brilliant food ! Even the sun's shinin' ! 

The 'eats a bit much but I've been strollin' about the local cafes,
practicin' the ol' lingo. Only a couple of mistake, like askin' 'ow
much for someone's wife. The local shadow bar, the Artiste (with an
accent) is full of ponces dressed up in some sort of WW2 resistance
gear. Banged 'eads with some of the muscle but it's amazing what some
good wine and football talk 'elps smooth things over.

Pheonix, looks like Luck is smilin' on us, a Frog Fixer by the name
of Le Jackel, 'as le word on Brucy, but 'e wants a meet with the rest
of ya. A bit dodgy, I admit but when in France .....

Oh an' Gawk, the Lady I'm with is Lucy Da'mear *deep sigh*, so keep
your bleedin' orf her ! We're  orf to the theatre tonight
*Raaaassssp!*]<<<<< 
        -WHAT(16:47:23/01-09-54)

>>>>>[A.J., how couldja' give tha' party ta' Harlequin? (no offense,
Harlie) I am TRULY hurt! Away fer nigh on 3 months...an' ya' donna'
allow m' th' honor a' throwin' one RAGIN' mosh-fest! REALLY!
*HUMPH*]<<<<< 
                        -THE Nexus(feels SO unloved *sigh*)

>>>>>[HOI, SLASH! I heard yer cry fer sanctuary...an', bravely, I
shall answer it!  I've been pretty antsy ta' get m' new set a'
wheels on th' road, anyway! Anyone out there wanna' kick around in
a fully-restored, cherry-of-a 4x4? Ford Lariat...fully
customized...jacked frame?  A real BEAUTY of a vintage beast! This
baby has an x-tended cab, so it'll seat 4 or 5, inside.  Then,
there's th' BED! Plenty of room fer ev`ryone's "toys"....=>  Jus'
drop m' a line, chummers, shouldja' be int`rested, K?]<<<<< 
        -THE Nexus(a man & his truck...a BEAUTIFUL pair=)

>>>>>[Well, Slash, I am pleased to inform you that Action Jackson and
I had a long talk at my place, with Diana and Collussus throwing in
comments when they felt it necessary.  I think it is safe to assume
that he is "cured" of his ego problems.  Transcript follows:

AJ:  What do you mean I have an EGO problem?
Val:  Did you see what the responses people had to your posts were?
        They really don't like you.  They think you are too big for
        your britches. 
AJ:  Bulldrek! 
Diana:  NO IT ISN'T!  Dad, before you ran off to N.O. to get away
        from P. Clement, you were just a normal person, a vampire to
        be sure, but still just a headware surgeon with a long
        history.  Now they all think you are dangerous, hot under
        the collar, and a blowhard.  Even Slash, who you have known
        for years didn't like the change he saw in you. 
AJ: but...  Coll:  No buts, boss.  You and I go back a little ways
        too, and you helped me
        when no-one else would.  I owe you my life several times
        over, and I think you were a better person before you came
        down to us for the summer.
Val:  You were, AJ.  Admit it.  Seeing yourself surrounded by the
        military toys and stuff that you sell to people messed up
        your mind.  You were a doctor first, Alex.  I don't know a
        single doctor who ever liked losing a patient, or who
        carried a gun, or who killed people.  And yet you have done
        all three.  You were a samurai until you decided that you
        couldn't kill anyone like that anymore and went back to
        surgery. But you are a vampire, Alex. You have to hurt or
        kill to survive. Add to all that guilt the fact you deal in
        weapons of killing and war and a security system that you
        thought was impregnable, and you just lost it. 
AJ:  No I Didn't!  Well, maybe a little.  I keep forgeting that
        Collussus got through our security, one single person chased
        by Ares.  And that we can be traced from our turtle system,
        even if people can't get to our main system.  So I guess you
        are right. 
Diana:  Damn straight, Dad.  Welcome back to the real world.

So hopefully you shouldn't be having problems with Action Jackson
anymore.]<<<< 
        Valentine(14:05:41/09-01-54)

>>>>>[Sorry about the party, Nex.  Just because his house is the
place doesn't mean you can't help host it.  I'm paying for it
anyway, including any damages incrued(oops, shouldn't have said
that...) by Harlequin.]<<<<< 
        Action Jackson(14:09:15/09-01-54)

>>>>>Well, I hope you won't hold my previous, er..., problems against
me, and I do humbly apologize, but that's history.  What I would like
to do here is extend an open invitation to all who can read this and
are in Seattle to a monster of a party.  It will be at Harlequin's
house on Monday starting around 7:00PM and ending...when it ends.  I
will be providing all the food and alcohol that it should need, but
if you would like to bring anything I may not be able to get ahold
of, feel free.  The only thing I wouldn't like to have is large
weaponry.  Pistols and such are fine, but anything else is, well, a
little bit excessive for a party.  So all who can find Harlequin's
place are welcome.  Oh, and keep your hands off his workshop.  That's
the only real restriction, unless Harlequin decides otherwise.]<<<<<
        Action Jackson(14:17:46/09-01-54)

>>>>>[HOI, all ya folks out there in "Sunny ShadowLand"!  => Random,
here! Those of ya' who attended the concerts here in Seattle, this
summer'll know who I am.  Those of you who DIDN'T....yer loss! =)
Jus' droppin' by ta introduce myself, and ta tell ya `bout somethin'
that happened last night, that was kinda'...I dunno'...wild?  I was
out, jus' kickin' around with my chummer("partner in crime"?=), Nex,
when we hear this kid, screamin' his drekkin' head off, in some
alleyway.  Well, Nex has this real soft spot, fer kids, ya know...an'
.I. don't like seein' them in trouble, any more'n the next guy...so
we turn down this alley, a few blocks from the Alabaster Maiden.  An'
we see these 6 or so Bloody Screamers, bashin' some poor lil'
Elf-kid.  So, Nex sizes the sitch up, right away, an' decides he
don't like the odds...descides ta tip `em, in the kids favor.  Jus'
as he takes off, down the alley, some slitch on the .other. end lets
loose with some big, bad fire spell!  Sends the gangers scatterin' &
screamin' (`specially the one he toasted, real nice and pretty!)...I
tell you what, I thought, fer sure, that NEX was a .GONER.! But,
nope...the flames jus' wash over, n' around him, at the last
second...leavin' .him. without a fraggin' MARK!  Well, ol' Nexey-boy
jus' keeps truckin' down that alley, razors n' spurs out, a fire of
his own, flashin' in his eyes--word to the wise...DON'T piss him off!
I swear, he could kill with one a' those nasty looks, alone!  An',
while those thrillers are all screwed up, and confused, he starts
into the slicin' & dicin'! Fraggin' Elven cuisinnarte, that guy! 
The fragger at the other end runs over, and lends him a hand.  Me? 
I jus' stayed the frag outta' their way...I'm a rocker-not a
fighter! In no time FLAT, those gangers are down fer th' count! The
magicker goes over, ta help the kid up...and gets cussed out, n'
kicked in the shins, fer his trouble! =) The guy jus' sorta'
.stands. there, a minute, lookin' all lost n' squirrely, then
starts grumblin' around in Sperethiel.  .I. admit, my Elvish is
pretty minimal, but Nex understood him, and jus' snickered at him. 
He's none to fond of greenies...figures they're a liability.  HELL,
even .I. know that, and I'm not a sam/assassin!  From th' way Nex
answered him, I guess the other guy wasn't too up on the local
lingo...or even English, fer that matter.  Nex put him straight, on
that account, an' introduced himself... which, with his
"street-manner", sounded more like a challenge.  The other guy jus'
kinda' looks at him a second, and backs up a touch, even though he
was a good 1/5th of a meter taller n' Nex.  Then, he starts starin'
at him, real funny.  Well, obviously, THE Nexus didn't take too
kindly ta that, and he takes a step forward.  Then, he kinda' stops
cold, and looks sorta'...confused, I guess.  And, he starts starin'
at the other Elf, .real. hard, sorta' like he's tryin' ta look THRU
him.  I guess he was doin' somea' his astral-stuff.  I
dunno'....then, his eyes get REAL big, and he starts callin' the
other guy "Senra Finereal".  This kinda' makes the slitch nervous,
till Nex calls him "Sen-Sen."  Then, it's the other guys turn ta be
surprised.  He calls Nex "Culley", and they start laughing an'
huggin', an' drek.  Turns out, this mage, Streetwolf, is THE Nexus'
.COUSIN., and they haven't seen each other fer 15 YEARS!  Now tha'
I think of it, they DO look a lot alike.  But, Nex is a good 15
kgs. heavier than Streetwolf, and his hair's red & to his waist,
while Streetwolf's is blond, and hits jus' past his shoulders. 
Plus, Nex has alla' his "battle scars", and the black cyberarm. 
They both even have that same, thick TNO lilt to their voices. 
Well, before I even know what's goin' on, Nex has his cousin in
this really NASTY headlock, and is brandishin' his razors by the
poor slots face.  Seems he was a lil' torqued about the flame-
thrower spell Streetwolf had used! =)  Well, Nex jus' janders off,
cuz in-tow, and the two are talkin' real civil and all, about the
fact that Streetwolf was suffocatin', an' how Nex thought he'd
looked really silly without his head, but, that it would solve his
"respiratory problems", an' all.  Nex REALLY seemed ta be enjoyin'
himself.  I guess "Sen-Sen" had always been bigger, when they were
kids!  Well...WATCH OUT, NOW, Streetwolf! =>  Then, the greenie
asks about Nex' family....oooouuhhhhh! BIG mistake! OUT come the
SPURS, an' Nex jus' about buries `em someplace undoubtably
uncomfortable & inconvenient on Senra's personage! ULP! Then, he
jus' kinda'...trembles, real violently...an' let's the mage drop. 
He took off down the street, sorta' slow & depressed-like.  It
kinda' worried me...I've seen him like this, a coupla' times
before, `specially this time of the year, an' it usually means
trouble.  But, Streetwolf goes after him...I heard him whisper Nex'
mother's name, Tara.  I swear, it looked like he was gonna' cry.  I
guess he figured it out, pretty quick, an' he appologized ta Nex,
jus' as fast.  Nex jus' shrugged, an' said it was a'right, cause
Senra couldn't have known.  They jus' sorta' looked at each other,
an' Nex gave him a sickly, half-hearted smile.  The mage suggested
we all go grab a coupla' Jameson's.  Nex said, if he'd make it
1/2-a-dozen Crested Tens, it was a date! Guess that means all's
fergiven! So, we spent a coupla' more hours, out on the town, then
went our seperate ways.  I guess Nex is done sleepin' it off,
though, cause I jus' caught a post, from him.  Good ta see ya up n'
around, chummer! An' COUNT ME IN!]<<<<< 
                -Random(thought patterns)

>>>>>[Awright, someone should stop me before I get to the rules of
the()&*

>>>>>[Giggle.  You said it.]<<<<<
                -Hard-to-Catch <15:36:42/09-01-56>

>>>>>[Not nice, love.  Don't do that again.  I don;t like being
unplugged while in here.  The provisios, such that they are.

1) Only pistols.  Gossymer doesn't like grade A bang bang.  And you
        don't want to get her mad.
2) My workshop, bedrooms, and sub-basement of my garage are off
        limit.  Once again, Gossymer will tend to that.
3) Everyone will have a good time and relax *grin*.
4) Use common sense in driving here.  Its grade A or B by LoneStar.
        And my neighbors think I'm an independant data processor.
        *snicker* 

The rest of the house and the surrounding area are ours to play with.
*grin*]<<<<<
                        -Harlequin <None taken Nexus>

>>>>>[I forgot, some of you may not want to be tooooo friendly with
the slag in green.]<<<<<
                        -Harlequin <Electron song>

>>>>>[I heard that boss.  Not funny and NOT nice.]<<<<<
                        -Styx <15:45:30/09-01-56>

>>>>>[RAMboy...WHOA....DOWN! No harm meant, s'truth! On m' slightly
tarnished honour! The tour was WIZ...don't get m' wrong! But, let's
face it! It WASN'T runnin' th' Shadows! No wet-work...no
sewer-sloggin'...ya know... dull.  *grimace* Don't LOOK at m' like
tha', Mozart!  But, it _twas_ hectic! An' I _was_ a touch on th'
tired side, th' other night...should fair Jaez be in need of any
assistance, I shall be honoured to offer m' extensive services!
Truly! Please, pass this sentiment on to her, R.b.  I know we've had
our differences, in th' past...but, truly, I wish them to be jus'
THAT... th' PAST! Let her know this, fer me, lad.]<<<<<
                        -THE Nexus(ferev`r at yer service, M`lady)

*****ENCRYPT@@Meghan@@ 
>>>>>[Meghan, it's there.  Why do you think Giggles isn't back.  But
we got no acknowledgement for delivery.  It was like, ok, we got it
now get the hell out of our sight.  I had Giggles stay and try to
find out if there are two different factions inside, to make sure we
did get it to the right party.  I will be happy to wait for you to
verify delivery before I pick up !@@$#~%~~ yment since I am laying
lo*^&^~@@ yway.  Just reach me at (0) 81 - 675****MASTER
ENDENCRYPT~~@@$%3278.]<<<<< 
        --Journey <13:45.24/09.02.54>

>>>>>[Dorian, we got him, I just broke his Encrypt, and traced it
back.  I sent two Corsairs to pick him up.  We'll have him by
nightfall.]<<<<< 
        --LLew ell 'Yn <13:45.55/09.02.54>

*****ENCODE~ENCRYPT`LLew ell 'Yn
>>>>>[You idiot!  The Corsairs didn't get him, in fact, their are
dead. Remember, although he is young, he is still powerful and has
initiated. Find him, but do not do anything unless I give the
order.  Already Tairngire knows, and if they decide to ally
themselves with Tir Nan Og or Tzu Ling, we may miss our
opportunity.  Continue to also look for Lightfinger and the one
known as Cerise.]<<<<< 
        --Dorian <16:23.54/09.02.54>

>>>>>[`Scuse m'....did I hear somebody say "BOUNTIES"?  What's th'
dirt, chummers?  Inquierin' minds wanna' KNOW!]<<<<<
        -THE Nexus(Who COULDN'T use 5mil...or 10...or 15!?!)

>>>>>[Hey, Jackson! Good ta' hear ya' descided ta' make a reality
check! Thought I was gonna' haveta' make a quick jaunt down ta'
N.O., ta' KICK yer sorry vampiric ass up between yer shoulders! => 
Of course, I'll help host this bash! Null persp! Count m' IN!]<<<<<
                        -THE Nexus(is FINALLY gonna' get ta PARTY!)

>>>>>[Uh Harlequin, which neighborhood are you in? Please don't say
Bellvue, I'd hate to think a bunch of vamps were converging
nearby.]<<<<< 
                -- Red <14:35:52/09-01-54>

>>>>>[Null Persp, Harlequin!  "No grade A bang-bang", huh? Guess tha'
means I wonna' be packin' m' BUFFALO RIFLE, neh? *snicker* Hey, any
a' ya over there interested in rippin' up the plex wi' us? So far's I
know, Random, Sahara, an' Dakota have expressed jus' such an
int`rest...HEY, Streetwolf, wanna' come therewi'?  We need some
ideas a' WHERE ta' GO! Input is _quite_ welcomed, at this
point!]<<<<< 
                -THE Nexus(Time ta hit th' plex, Chummers!)

>>>>>[No need for an intermediary, Nex-dude.  RAMboy was just
exercising that male urge of his to protect me. If he only knew. . .

Help? Well, I can't think of anything direct off-hand. Put your jack
to the grind, see what you can pick up on the following keywords:
EONPP, Mtias, William 6174, JD Dobbs (who frequents this board).
Also, any word on Illuminati-type conspiracies, as well as Sierra
project, and references to the old Omega files.]<<<<<
        --Jaez <16:08:12/9-1-54>

>>>>>[Nice job on finding the fixer WHAT. . . it's good that we won't
be spending as much time (hopefully) as we ended up doing over in
Berlin (god I hope Blitzkrieg and Firewraith are okay . . .) Gawk, I
am rather amazed that you can hit on WHAT's lady-friend considering
Crystal. . . I don't want to be around when she hears about that. . .

Somewhat related, I should have mentioned this eariler. . . we all
know about the original team . . .however we know nothing of our
three newest members. . . perhaps before we end up with more
surprises. . . I suggest we do it soon. Ya never know. . .

P.S. Getting strands of vegatbles out of my beard was such a pain,
could you please refrain from packing us in the produce cooler next
time Gawk. . .]<<<<< 
        -- Phoenix <22:52:57/9-1-54>

>>>>>[Hey, Everybody! Leslie Annette, here!  Thought ya might all be
interested in jus' how th' tour actually went...actually, it went
GREAT! Fer th' most part, anyway.  Sheena was SO hot! She ALWAYS
brought th' crowd to their knees! After Nex an' BloodRunn whipped `em
all into a mad frenzy! Random is jus' TOO-WIZ! *sigh*  Ev`rything
went so smooth, as a whole.  And, Sheena stayed so frosty...NOTHIN'
ruffled her! Well, ALMOST nothin'...there WAS this _one_ time, when
Nex & Roxey had had a fight, I guess.  I don't really know what it
was about, all I know is she had given him a bloody nose (yes, folks,
ya heard m' RIGHT! Roxey tried ta deck Nex! ACK!), an' HE stormed
off! Nobody saw him again, till 20 mins. before th' show!
Half-sloshed & lookin' drek-kicked! Sheena jus' came up ta him, threw
a clean shirt at him, shoved his guitar inta' his hand, and told him
ta' "find a pair of shades<to hide his bloodshot eyes>, an' git his
sorry butt out on tha' damn stage"! OOOOOHHHHHH.....he jus' glared at
her, a minute, then did as she said.  Needless ta say, BloodRunn's
set was PRETTY aggressive, tha' night...but, th' fans didn't even
seem ta notice! They jus' got real rowdy! Nothin' Sheena couldn't
handle, though!

Then, there was this _other_ time, right after we had left Chicago,
they REALLY got inta it! For weeks, Nex had been complainin' tha'
(when it came ta wardrobe) he KNEW where his clothes were,...an'
could bloody-well dress his DAMN self! An', he was REAL fussy, `bout
jus' WHO brought his clothes to him.  Well, I guess Roxey was gettin'
kinda' tired of it...maybe she found out what was botherin'
him...an', whatever it was, it didn't make her too happy! I guess she
started torchin' stuff, in their hotel room! Nex smashed up a chair,
r' somethin', an' added it ta th' cheery lil' bonfire! I guess she
started screamin' at him, an' tried ta hit him, again.  He grabbed
her hand, an' she musta' used a low-level deathtouch on him...cause
she touched his cheek, almost gently, an' he kinda' spasmed, an' then
collapsed,nearly unconscious.  She jus' looked at him, then at th'
blazin' furniture, an' told him tha' if "it ever happened again",
that'd be HIM! Then, she jus' stormed off, leavin' Random & Shadow ta
take carea' him.  He was o.k., jus' a lil' shaken.  But, whatever was
wrong...he never did it again, I guarantee! 

Other than their various other lil' "spats", nothin' much of any
interest happened....`cept for th' weird lil' accidents.  There
were some shorts in th' equipment...sparks flew, there were some
minor burns.  Nex blew out one of his amps, in MSP, but, no one was
hurt.  A light brace snapped in MercySprawl...fortunately, Nex &
Dragon were fast enough ta get Sheena & Mozart outta' th' way! An',
if ya'd all been followin' th' news, someone took a pot-shot at
Random & Nex, in Kyoto! Th' guys jus' said, "put up a coupla'
barriers, wizards,an' let th' show go on!" Those guys were a
coupla' real troopers, tha' night... but, Nex got kinda'...quiet,
after tha'.  There was somethin' `bout th' sniper tha' bothered
him...besides th' fact tha' he tried ta nail him! I dunno'...he
wouldn't talk about it.  Typical, fer Nex. 

OH...an' there was this girl, in wardrobe, Trixxie Beaumont, I think
her name was.  A REAL , first-rate DITZ! =)  At first, she was
practically HANGIN' _all over_ Nex! I think she really BUGGED him! He
was REAL jumpy, when she was around.  An', I don't think ROXEY liked
her too much, either! Then, she kinda' latched onto NIGHTFOX! ACK!
Poor guy! She was, like, MADDLY in love, wi' him! It was SO funny!
An', he kept beggin' Nex fer help...but, Nex kept avoidin' `em, like
th' plague! He seemed almos' RELIEVED tha' she was after Nightfox!
Huh.....go figure! 

Welp, tha's pretty much it! Hope I didn't torque too many of th'
gang off, wi' this lil' report! *giggle*]<<<<<
                Leslie Annette O'Bradaigh(STILL no cool sig)

>>>>>[Nex, tha was great last nigh.  We're gon'a hav ta do it ag'n
sometime soon.  Ma'be ya can show me tha ropes a bit huh? Intraduce
me around ma'be? Sorry bou' tha flame, bu an Elf's got'a do what an
Elf's got'a do.]<<<<< 
                                STREETWOLF(anybody need a light?)

>>>>>[I'll make tha party if I ca' get some locat'.  Show me tha way
an' I will be ther.]<<<<<
                                STREETWOLF(keepin em lit)

>>>>>[Hey AJ, Motley Crew will be at the PARTY and We'll be ready in
case some people want to have a different kind of party, BUT we will
only bring pistols to the party, RIGHT Shadow?]<<<<<
        -Buzz- (The one the only...Human Bee in the Matrix)

>>>>>[Yes OH GREAT AND ALL POWERFUL ONE...NOT!!!!  I will only take
my Ares Pred. II, since Dragon and Bloodtooth will be ready.]<<<<<
                        -Shadow- (19:50:43/09:01:54)

>>>>>[HEY, Brother, Don't forget us!]<<<<<
                        -Gunney- (19:51:54 EDT/ 09:01:54)

>>>>>[I haven't forgotten you, Carl, or you Lis.]<<<<<
                        -Buzz- (Lis Don't...Please)

***** Encrypt: ###NANSPECOPS32365### 
>>>>>[ All right I'm prepared to offer you and any 'friends' that
might want to help 50,000 Y each for a single hit, please reply by
this time tomorrow, and PLEASE encrypt the reply. ]<<<<<
        --  Coffin <22:35:13/09-01-54>

>>>>>[Hey there everybody, RELAX already.  If I thought I was in
danger I wouldn't have the party.  So chill out, K?]<<<<<
        Action Jackson(21:48:39/09-01-54)

>>>>>[AJ, we wouldn't miss the party for the world.  And Collussus
has told us (meaning Me, Roxey, Diana, Valentine, and others) that we
are to keep you here in Seattle for the next several months(or years)
if we have to tie you down to in Seattle for the next several
months(or years) if we have to tie you down to do it.  And we all
agree too.  So here you are, and here you stay.  No more jaunts to
New Orleans for you, my good fiend.]<<<<< 
        Slash(22:59:07/09-01-54)

>>>>>[Hey Nex!  How 'bout you and I have some fun after the party,
hmmmm?  Just keep those fangs away from me.  I mean, a little love
bite is one thing, but the last time your cyberfangs meshed with my
skin I needed stiches in my... the last time your cyberfangs meshed
with my skin I needed stiches in my... hand...uh, oops...sorry
Nex...I think I'll shut up now...]<<<<< 
        Foxey Roxey(23:02:30/09-01-54)

>>>>>[Finally, a pause in biz to get back to the land. . .

Diana;  sorry to tell you this, but P. Clement may not be there, but
his group has been for some time (New Orleans and the undead go way
back, apparrently). I'd hardly go peeking around corners for him, but
just the same, I wouldn't go streaking around the neighbourhood.
That's the way to retire _fast_. . . 

Colossus:  I'm raggin' on AJ (and the rest) for the same reason that
I rag on everyone --  they get too damn big-headed.  Makes 'em sound
like children, and if word ever got out that children could get to
Shadowland, we'd lose all our rep, for sure.  As for raggin' Diana, I
_have_ quite a bit of info here, in the backlogs for accusin' her of
a bit of blowin' her own horn.  If you want to make it, in my
opinion, don't ever brag that you're the best, and don't ever claim
not to be the best.  (The first gets you killed, and the second gets
you fired.) 

And, as for braggin', I have only one thing to say, so I'll say it
loud: THIS IS SHADOWLAND, WHERE BEIN' HERE IS BRAGGIN' ENOUGH!

AJ; I sure am glad to hear about this little turnaround of yours,
and you're a big man to admit you were wrong.  However, just
because of my nature, please don't take it poorly that I must
decline your gracious invitation.  I don't stir up trouble, just to
walk into it (come into my parlour,. . . ). 

Just how "open" is this invite, anyway?  Should I extend it to my
associates? ;>  I don't think it would be good for Clement to hear
about this - 'sides, he ain't paying me for the info.]<<<<<
        -Blinder [Needles/ForYou]

>>>>>[I chose to die so that I could be the future, Dobbs.  You
graduated a gem, perhaps -- but it was flawed, like all other gems
made of flesh.  He was fatally flawed, as well -- and as soon as
he'd gotten old enough, and the smallest bit of experimentation done
to him, he fell apart -- almost literally.  They didn't have to
torture him, they were too busy trying to keep him integrated.

If observing this without getting involved in order to preserve my
own functioning makes me a demon, so be it.

Go ahead with your vengance, child.  I work my own magic with his
knowledge and against his destroyers, his creators, in my own way.
Declare me irresponsible -- it will not change those things I do, for
what reasons I do them.

He thought I was a world-class decker for a very good reason -- I
am.]<<<<< 
        -- The (Dead) Wyrm Ouroboros (Here I'm not!/Nyah-Nyah-Nyah)

>>>>>[See, Happy?  I told you.  Thank you, Journey, delivery has been
verified.  I regret to inform you that your location was not
received, and seeing the traffic following your transmission, I'd
have to assume that it doesn't entirely exist any more.  You may
acquire your pay at the location in London where we met; the owner
knows who you are, and can with reasonable accuracy verify your
identification.]<<<<< 
        -- Meghan the Red (02-09-54/07:48:54)

>>>>>[Cat?  Looks like things are turning nasty over near Harlech.
Can you go do something about it?]<<<<<
        -- The Dead Decker (HH:MM:SS/MM-DD-YY)

>>>>>[You mean with Journey ne' Nicholas, Diana Eithne, Prof
Lafferty, Llew ell 'Yn, and Dorian?  And the Corsairs?]<<<<<
        -- Cat (Who Walks/Through All)

>>>>>[Damn, you've got a good memory.  Yes.]<<<<<
        -- The Dead Decker (HH:MM:SS/MM-DD-YY)

>>>>>[Hmmmm..... (begin recall/post) Hm.  Elder Clans.... direct
blood- line.... upstarts, left TNO, learn of your heritage.  Yup, I
think I'll bother getting involved.  Besides, I haven't seen
Rhiannon in a while, or tested any of her Guard.  Those suits are
fun to play with -- or, in my case, against.  Wonder if she's got
any new talent.  Ah, but about the rest -- Lafferty, you know me as
Duke Mario Greymist, the gentleman which eliminated the Universal
Brotherhood chapterhouse the last time they attempted to set up
shop in Tir Tairnguire.  If you have any kind of loyalty to
Surehand or the Scribe, feel free to send information my way -- we
are, after all, creatures of information and mana.]<<<<< 
        -- Cat (Who Walks/Through All)

>>>>>[WHAT, keep dat bimbo away from me!  If ya cause trouble between
me an' Crystal I'll rip yer scrawny head off!  Pheonix, what are you
complainin' about? We got a cheap ride an free real food.  Well, now
that we're here what do we do? Pheonix, ya don't care if Crystal
joins the team do ya?]<<<<< 
        -- Gawk <08:31:43 / 9-2-54>

>>>>>[Seeing as how my other job fell through and I'm getting real
bored, is there anyone looking for a good decker?

Here's an interesting tidbit from the Matrix --

Ares sent a large military shipment through the barrens in low
security vehicles A gang that I never heard of --The Knights of
Chaos-- intercepted it.  Instead of fighting, the gaurds just
handed over the merchandise.  The leader, who called himself Sir
Razor, told the gaurds to count to "1 googillion" before they
reported the theft.  Amazingly, Ares did not report the theft until
4 hours later. 

Kind of fishy, huh?

Well, if you need help, drop me a line.]<<<<<
        -- Couch <..:..:.. / ..-..-..>

>>>>>[Hmmm.  Truly it would not be good for Mr. Clement to hear of
this.  As it is, I still have a few bones to pick with him.  I don't
like being on his expendable/ undsirable list.]<<<<<
                -Styx <10:30:25/09-02-56>

>>>>>[ Guys hold the fort for the weekend.  I'll be back before the
party starts.  I got some quick work to look into.  Corp A wants me
to physically look at Corp B's spread.  Shouldn't take me more than a
few hours of recon in the UCAS.  Be back soon.  And don't start
without me.  I really need a party.]<<<<<
                -Harlequin <Does Winter ring a bell>

>>>>>[ I hope you are enjoying my fair city WHAT, as I hope your
comrades in arms are too.  You are probably having more fun than we
are, so far all we've discovered is that Megan's father (he's called
Gordon by the way) was taken from his car by 3 men.  Sources here say
that two of the men were the Fuchi company men who turned up dead a
while back.  We've still no word on the whereabouts of Gordon but
we'll keep looking as long as Megan keeps paying us.  Don't suppose
anyone has any more info on what has been happening at Biosys back in
Seattle. 

We did pick up something though when we were down in Cardiff, it
appears that one notable fair lady of Wales has been hiring alot of
street muscle recently. What she wants it for is anyones
guess.]<<<<< 
        -Spice (Wondering where all the good cuisine is ?)

>>>>>[Settle down Gawk, people will be gettin the impression that
your a nutter Well, to make amends, Lucy has suggested this nice,
quite place on the river. Leave the combat gear at 'ome and get some
evenin wear, 'cos it  a posh place. Meet you an' Crystal there at 10.
I would invite Pheonix but 'e seems tangled up with some sort of
dealin' which 'e ain't tellin, an' gettin a bit too paranoid about
the girls. 

Pheonix if ya got yourself sort out by tomorrow, meet me by Cafe
Rouge about 09:30, yer, I know it early, but that the contient for
ya. An' don't worry we got the sorry sod Bruce in line for a good
kickin, 'e ain't getin' away this time, term. Just relax and get
some sun. 

Firewraith an' Blitz, 'ow ya doin ? An' where are you ? What's
'appenin ?]<<<<< 
        -WHAT(18:56:23/02-09-54)

>>>>>[I haven't seen any data on this Wizard character.  Who is
he?]<<<<< 
        Slash(14:26:44/09-02-54)

>>>>>[Wizard was an Ares cyberware design engineer and medtech on
the Cyborg project that produced me.]<<<<<
        Collussus(02:27:50/09-02-54)

>>>>>[Slash, I know you, and you know me.]<<<<<
        Wizard(14:28:30/09-02-54)

>>>>>[Say what?  I don't know anybody with your name, Wizard.  How
do you know me and who are you?]<<<<<
        Slash(14:29:37/09-02-54)

>>>>>[Why do you wear all your clothing black and blood red?  How
about the nature of your crescent scar on your left hand?  Or why
you chose the name Slash?]<<<<<
        Wizard(12:32:54/09-02-54)

>>>>>[All my close associates, and several of my enemies, know of my
history. And I know you are not a close associate or friend.]<<<<<
        Slash(14:33:22/09-02-54)

>>>>>[But nobody knows the nature of that tatoo on your left
shoulder, the one of the magician with blood red eyes, cloaked in
black, holding his crystal ball full of swirling clouds and
lightning before him, do they.]<<<<< 
        Wizard(14:35:57/09-02-54)

>>>>>[No, they don't.  I vowed upon my life that no-one but my
brother and I and my sister would ever know the meaning behind that
tatoo.  Many have asked, but none have ever pulled it out of me. 
And now my brother is dead too.  Why did you have to go and pour
salt in my still un-healed wound?]<<<<< 
        Slash(14:38:51/09-02-54)

>>>>>[WIZARD!!!!!!!!!!]<<<<<
        Slash(14:39:27/09-02-54)

>>>>>[See you at the party, Slash.  I'll be with Collussus.]<<<<<
        Wizard(14:40:09/09-02-54)

>>>>>[Wonderful.  I now know where Slash is.  Time to sacrifice,
Slash.  May your blood cleanse my soul and regain my favor.]<<<<<
        Gates(14:42:54/09-02-54)

>>>>>[Gossymer already has your description, Gates.  You won't get
near enough to Slash to see a single little hair.  So give it up
and accept the fact that Aztech is never going to take you back! 
You messed up, not them!  Just because Slash was the one who caught
you off guard, you shouldn't blame him for your screw up!]<<<<<
        Diana, Mistress of the Night(14:45:08/09-02-54)

>>>>>[Perhaps you are right, Diana.  Your blood will be a perfect
counterpoint to his!]<<<<<
        Gates(14:46:18/09-02-54)

>>>>>[Hoi, Jaez love! Donna' worry...well I understand a man's
"protective nature".  `Tis a'right! No harm done! Looks like ye've
got yerself inta jus' a spot a' trouble there, melissharatish! An',
as previously stated...I shall find it an honour to rush gallantly to
yer assistance! =) Not sure, _exactly_, how I can help, at this
stage...still gettin' used to th' jack, n' alla' tha', ya know! I
admit, now...I am NOT a DECKER! I jus' have top o' th' line toys.  I
figure, if I'm gonna' go down on major BRAIN-FRY... I might as well
do it wi' some STYLE! Neh?  Still, I'll TRY...s'truth, lass! An', if
ya should find yerself in need of more..."physical" assistance--
extractions, long vacations....PEST CONTROL =>....rest assured, ya
can count on m'!]<<<<< 
        -THE Nexus(gettin' himself in over his head...AGAIN)

>>>>>[BTW...guess this means we're lettin' by-gones be ".....huh?
:)]<<<<< 
        -THE Nexus(might jus' be pressin' m' luck...=)

>>>>>[The Knights pulled off a job like that? Last I remember they
were just a sorry excuse of a gang. Had about 10 members. Sounds to
me Ares has a new pet gang, I'll have to go make some
inquiries.]<<<<< 
                -- Red <15:04:54/09-02-54>

>>>>>[I wouldn't be so quick to assume the obvious about Ares' little
drop. I know the guy in charge of special projects at AA/KE, and when
he does something like this, he's usually a LOT more discreet. Are
you guys SURE it was Ares? Maybe someone's trying to set them up. If
you're of a mind (and bank account) to ask, I can look into it.
Contact me offline.]<<<<<
        -- Raven <Quoth the Raven/Nevermore>

>>>>>[Gawk, I suppose that I have no real objections to Crystal
joining the team . . . as long as WHAT agrees to it as well. . . I
just wish that. . . ahhhh nevermind. . . it isn't worth the worrying.

WHAT, I'll meet ya there at 9:30am. . . It's early but I'll
live.]<<<<< 
        -- Phoenix <23:57:42/9-2-54>

>>>>>[Hoi chums. . . the news in Berlin isn't to pretty. . . Seems I
have managed to piss off lot's o' people. . . I think I got two
groups of people after me but I am not sure. . . I think I might
have a lead on what Bruce wanted in the Berlin area. . . I am
working on it as we speak. . . Uh-oh, got to go.  I think one of
the groups came to play.  Hope things are more peaceful in
Paris.]<<<<< 
        -- Blitzkrieg <00:00:07/9-3-54>

>>>>>[Nex, Cou' me in. I enj'y a bi' o' fun like tha res' o'
them.]<<<<< 
        STREETWOLF(rea'y for fun)

>>>>>[Good thing I got my policy of non-disclosure here.  With my
AMEX.  Never leave home without it.  I don't think that I'll be
tellin' the locals anythin'. Styx. If they manage to get it on their
own, however, I'm not responsible. 

One thing to correct, Styx ol' boy.  You say you're on their short
list.  I'm not sure entirely 'bout how they work, but I know that
anythin' hits the Brotherhood is a friend of theirs, whatever the
motive. 

Sorry 'bout that resend earlier.  Trying out some new frames here,
and one decided to go balls-up on us.]<<<<<
        -Blinder <Needles/ForYou>

>>>>>[Today, an explosion destroyed an empty warehouse owned by
Katana Industrials.  It, also, left a man's decapitated body lying
on the floor, next to his own severed head; a head which at this time
has no name.  The body and head have shown no other damage except
being severed.  More Details to follow.  This is Martha Mouth for
KTAN News.]<<<<< 
                        -KTAN News Agency- (19:21:27 EDT/09:02:54)

>>>>>[I know his name.]<<<<< 
        --Kurgan <17:35.05/09.02.54>

>>>>>[ Hey chummers, I met this cool guy last night while out
partying. It seems that he and a couple of his chummers pulled off a
run into a certain corp a couple of weeks ago. Apparently these guys
employers opened up an escape route for them and the suit they were
extracting, but the great news is, the corp hasn't found the hole
yet!!! 

I think I might have just found us a way out, oh yeah, has anyone
got any more info on the possible parabio inside the installation,
I mean I hate not knowing what I'm up against. ]<<<<<
        --  SpotOn <19:14:34/09-02-54>

>>>>>[Greetings once again Blinder.  I am most emphatically not a boy
and I'm not that old.  As to why I'm on the short list, well insects
hunting insects is fine, but thay are ALL still game to him.
Therefore I am too.  Or so he said early this spring.]<<<<<
                -Styx <20:55:08/09-02-56>

>>>>>[ Gee, I though we killed Kurgan about six months ago.  ]<<<<<
        -- Cerise <20:35:35/09-02-54>

>>>>>[ I'm sure this is a different Kurgan. ]<<<<<
        -- Nightstalker <20:35:54/09-02-54>

*****Encrypt Alonev35.4 
>>>>>[Raven, your Frame scheme was quite nice, but as of this posting
all the nodes have been upgraded to a minimal Red-8 and massive IC
has been added.  Now how you got around our requiring to ship our own
goods was quite amazing, but the people who ship our goods should be
smarter than that.  But we do wish to thank you for finding a hole in
the system that, I...uh...forgot, so you can consider those AGMs and
the RAC ammo payment for services rendered.  AJ will see you at the
party and want to talk to about it.  Don't worry, they may offer you
a job.]<<<<<
        Solitaire(08:40:40/09-03-54)

>>>>>[ Well I dunno if this is any use to you PH but I did some
checking on that data that Wiz got you.  It seems things have
changed somewhat since then. At the moment Gordon Scott owns 23.5
%, Kelvin Chung's benificaries have 23 %, Julia Kerley has 26.3 %,
Prendergast's wife (Goldi) has 4%, Fuchi have 3%, and MCT have 6%. 
The remaining 16.2 % is in the hands of small investors around the
country. 

After the explosion the other week shares in Biosys plummented from
0.6 Y to 0.4 Y.  It seems that some of Chung's beneficaries have been
selling, the buyer is unknown yet.  I got this article from the
society pages (they sometimes have useful stuff in).

**
Goldi Prendergast the sponsor of many humanitarian projects and keen
supporter of charities such as the Universal Brotherhood in the
Seattle area, is today mourning the loss of her husband the late Jack
Prendergast.  She appeared only for a moment to speak to myself
before she was overcome with grief.  When asked if she would
continue her community work she said that the poor and homeless
were always uppermost in her mind and that she would continue
trying to help them wherever she could even though she now takes up
a position on the board of directors at Biosys Inc. 

Goldi, regularly seen at Seattle's top events has always been
devoted to help the plight of the homeless and disposessed.  Her
work in the past has been recognized with a special plaque of
honour from Seattle's mayor Ivor Lindstrom.  As yet no clue has
been found to the perputuators of last weeks explosion and theft.
**

Quite a gal that Goldi lass, looks like she'll have her hands full
now though what with the troubles she's inheriting. ]<<<<<
        -Chipper (Damm it's raining again)

>>>>>[ Chipper, PH passes on his thanks for the data, at the moment
e's trying to decifer a Scottish man's speech.  It seems he keeps
swapping into Gaelic occasionally and with PH's southern accent the
two are having some problems understanding each other.  They do seem
to be mentioning Aberdeen quite a bit though.

WHAT: Please to see you're having fun, what was that girl's name
again, 'Lucy' .... the name and your description ring some bells in
the 'ol 'ead but I can't quite place my finger on it.  Have fun and
don't do anything a Frenchman wouldn't :) ]<<<<<
        -Spice (Hmmm.... Lucy ?)

>>>>>[Culture my #$%,  This city sucks drek!  Spice, tell me about
dis chick, maybe I can git a job wit her??]<<<<<
        -- Gawk <12:17:33 / 9-3-54>

>>>>>[It is owned privately, no megacorp money at all.  They don't
really approve of the King of Swords' style of stealing their
goodies and selling them at lower prices than the corp can for
drekkin near pure profit.  The King of at lower prices than the corp
can for drekkin near pure profit.  The King of Swords, Moriarity,
Collussus and I own a total of 51% of the corp with the other
employees making up an additional 40%.  The remaining 9% is divided
up among Slash, Foxey Roxey, Diana, and several other private(VERY
shadowy) individuals.  One or two of those individuals have corp
pasts or current connections, but their contract states that they own
their shares as individualsand not corp members.  Their shares are
subject to reassignment if there is ever proof of corp influenced
voting.  We have no real BOD but all the share- holders meet
virtually in a secure location yearly to vote out old members if
their actions deem it necessary and to decide who run the day to day
ops.  But that's about it really.]<<<<< 
        Solitaire(13:35:14/09-03-54)

>>>>>[No hard feelings, Raven.  Actually, your penetration of our
net, however little it really damaged us, kinda makes me glad.  It
not only gives me a reasonto improve our matrix security but also
shakes us out of our lethargy and makes us all here realize that we
may be secure, but we ain't invinceable.]<<<<< 
        --  Moriarity(13:39:21/09-03-54)

>>>>>[Drek, Raven.  If you had told me that you wanted the AGMs and
the RAC ammo to replace losses incurred during the Monica and/or
Intrepid affairs, I would have given you them for free!  I was around
to see some of the fallout from Monica and watched the Intrepid from
beginning to ending even though I wasn't involved(directly).  I saw
what kind of hell those involved with it went through.  Not fraggin
fun.  Let's talk about this stuff at the party, k?  Myu associates
and I may offer you a job...seems that one of our shareholders is
about to be ousted for getting a couple of our "acquisition" runs
against Ares waxed and costing us profits.  So there's a spot opening
up if you want it]<<<<< 
        --  Action Jackson(13:44:41/09-03-54)

>>>>>[Well, since I am no longer directly connected to the day to day
workings of Mil Tech, I think I will start up my old career and
first(and only true) love; Headware implant surgery.  But with the
attitudes towards vampires here right now, you'll forgive me if I
don't tell you where.  But what I would like is a research facility
for a private project of mine.  I am currently working on a method to
reverse the effects of HMHVV on people, turning those unfortunate
souls who didn't ask to become a vampire or whatever back into
whatever metatype they were before.  But I don't have the facilities
or, much of the time, the needed expertise in biotechnology and
genetics/eugenics.  So any professional assistance would be a help
too.  But I can pay for the services, so I'm not asking for a
handout.  And anyone needing a good headware surgeon and who doesn't
mind having a vamp work on them, just talk to Slash, Diana, Foxey
Roxey, or Solitaire(or Nex).  If they trust you, they will get you to
me.  And Diana, Solitiare, and Slash have all had me work on them, so
you needent worry about quality.]<<<<<
        --  Action Jackson(13:53:18/09-03-54)

>>>>>[Oh AJ, you didn't tell me you were having a party!  Guess I'll
have to crash it.]<<<<<
        --  Nephredana(13:54:43/09-03-54)

>>>>>[You, just like Clement and his vampire hunters, are NOT
welcome.]<<<<< 
        --  Action Jackson(13:55:48/09-03-54)

>>>>>[If I was welcome, it wouldn't be crashing, now would it?]<<<<<
        --  Nephredana(13:56:31/09-03-54)

>>>>>[Come on, Nephredana.  I know you have no respect for anyone
else but us, but there will be enough firepower of mundane and arcane
types to take down all three of us, not just you.  So if you go, you
go alone.]<<<<<
        --  Slide(13:58:10/09-03-54)

>>>>>[Then I'll see you two wimps after the party.]<<<<<
        --  Nephredana(13:58:56/09-03-54)

>>>>>[Nevermind, Pheonix, old son, that frog fixer was a bit of an
odd sod. 'e 'ad us got through tunnels under the very city ! Damn odd
frog. Any'ow we got the word that Old Bruce is in London of all
places ! Sorry I did all the talk P. but I didn't think ya spoke the
lingo. We've gotta go back an' see 'im in two days for an update,
Gawk, sa yer better be awake this time. 'e wants to meet us at the
same place 10:00. That's a Monday, Gawk. 

Those Pure Mind, Pure Body Policlub boys didn't much like us did
they P. ? I think you got a bit carried away though, I sure
wouldn't like to pick up their medical bills.

Gawk, you 'ave no soul, you know that, don't ya. How could you say
that about a place this, with women like Lucy 'ere ? *Deep Sigh*

Firewraith an' Blitz, nice to 'ere from ya, we should be 'ere for
some time. Come an' visit us soon. I need to talk to some one with
some culture. 

Well, see you terms in the morn. Me and Lucy are orf to this classy
do, some sort of concert with four blokes playin some German
gezzer's music.]<<<<< 
        -WHAT(18:57:23/03-09-54)

>>>>>[SOOOO....we'll get ta see th' great Nephradana face-ta-face,
huh? My, wha' a (dubious) honour! *sneer*]<<<<<
                        -THE Nexus(simply _can't_ wait)

>>>>>[An', if ANY vampire hunters e`en THINK `bout showin' their
sorry skins `round here, come party time...le`s jus' say, I'll be
MOST happy ta show `em th' door--up close, n' REAL personal-like!
SO KA?]<<<<< 
                        -THE Nexus(really needs a good fight)
 
>>>>>[Nice to see you guys are taking it so well. Actually, your
security was VERY good; it's just an unfortunate coincidence that
I've seen that setup before. The solution is simple, elegant, and
so blindingly obvious it took me and a very esteemed colleague four
months to think of it. And no, the technique is not for sale, rent,
or lease. EVER. I'm not interested in a desk job, or punching a
clock. What I can do is write an encryption prog that operates at
the chokepoint. So if another decker who knows what I know tries to
run the system, he'll still need the decryption key. And, as
someone else just recently discovered, I write very good encrypts.
(All six clones arrived safely, so nyah nyah nyah, whoever you are.
And don't think I won't find you...) I can't give you the GNU
stuff; Yoshida Tech has the patent, so I can't sell it. (I know,
but this particular corp deserves the courtesy.) Furthermore, I may
be throwing some business your way soon. Like I said, our heavy
weapons and supplies were exhausted during the Precision raid last
Febuary. Mainly we need missiles, drones, and milspec electronics.
You realise, of course, that penetration of your defenses was
inevitable the moment you slotted your mouth off. Listen to
Blinder, he knows what he's talking about. No matter how good you
are, there's always someone better. End of lecture. Sorry for
rambling on.]<<<<< 
        -- Raven <Six impossible things/before breakfast>

>>>>>[Huh. I wasn't planning to attend, but if that slot Nephre is
going to be there, I think I'll drop by. I really want to slot with
that tight-hooped hoser's head. Vollyball, anyone?]<<<<<
        -- Raven <Quoth the Raven/Nevermore!>

>>>>>[Raven, dear, COUNT M' IN!]<<<<<
                        -THE Nexus(always a good sport)

>>>>>[Hey Nex, relax man.  Chill out, like they said when my parents
were born. This is PARTY, not a mosh fest or a game of urban brawl!
That comes _After_ the party, and you're hosing(oops, forgot the "t")
that one!]<<<<< 
        --  Action Jackson(14:53:47/09-03-54)

*****Encrypt Alone-v.35.4, courtesy of Solitaire 
>>>>>[Uh, Harlequin, I have a problem.  I am a cyborg and your
security system would probably go nuts when I walked through it
sensors, what with my all metal and polymer and ceramic body.  And I
have a SMG in my L forearm that Can't be removed.  And I have a
canister in my R thigh that holds 6 grenades and a holster in my L
thigh that holds my Heavy pistol.  Now I know you don't have a
problem with pistols, and I _can_ remove the grenades, but certain
chemical residues from Flash, Smoke, White Phosphorus, and regular
grenades are never gone.  I kinda worry that Gossymer(sp?) might
chem-sniff them and shoot me on sight, something I don't relish. 
Can you fix this slight problem for me?]<<<<< 
        --  Collussus(15:00:52/09-03-54)

>>>>>[Hey, Chummers! Anyone ELSE wanna' join us, fer a night of
4-wheelin'? As it stands, we've got Random, Sahara, Dakota,
Streetwolf, an' m'self.  I THINK Slash was plannin'on joinin' us too,
but, I havena' heard an acceptance from m' woman, yet.  How `bout it,
Roxey-luv? Jus' ya, me...an' half a dozen other drunken slitches
toolin' aroun' in one VERY mean machine! Yer invited, too,
Harlequin...if ya'd like ta come! Le' me know, folks! I was plannin'
on takin' off t'morrow ev`nin', some time.]<<<<< 
                        -THE Nexus(No. 1, w/an EXPLOSIVE round!)

>>>>>[BTW, Roxey...sorry `bout yer...uh...HAND! =) Sometimes, I jus'
ferget m'self! Jus' be glad I changed m' mind, `bout havin' th' fangs
DIKOTED! => Hope this donnna' mean no more "love bites!" 
Eeeeppp! ;}]<<<<< 
                        -THE Nexus(jus' loses control, sometimes =)

>>>>>[Hey, how about me joining along?  I'm having my car brought
along on the next Denver-Seattle delivery(This weekend) since I kinda
don't need it anymore in N.O.  Now, how did it go...  Oh yes

 "These are the voyages of the starcar AJ's Prize
  It's five kilometer mission-
  To explore strange, new allys
  To meet new squatters and new paranormals
  To boldly go where no car has gone before"

  Yep, that's about it.  So, anybody up for a car
race...underwater?]<<<<< 
        --  Action Jackson(15:16:56/09-03-54)

>>>>>[Buisness, did I hear(hear!  snicker) the word "buisness?"
Well, if you need it, we can get it if we don't have it already.  And
for that encryption program you are offering, we'll even give you
half price!  But if the milspec electronics you are referring to is
ECM/ECCM, it falls under the guise of "military vehicles" and has a
base month acquisition time.  But the drones and missiles we probably
have in stock.  Just send us your order.  And I hope you don't mind
if we make a few mods in the encryption program when we get it.  I'm
sure you understand.]<<<<< 
        Moriarity(15:23:12/09-03-54)

>>>>>[Null persp, Jackson! O' COURSE yer invited...ALWAYS! Guess this
means we ken throw out th' invites ta th' likes a' Red & Blinder!
*snicker*]<<<<< 
                        -THE Nexus(anybody ELSE?)

>>>>>[OH! An', if it's a RACE ya'd be wantin'...then a RACE ya'll
GET...m' dear, fang-ed friend! *big, fang-ed grin* How much ya want
ridin' on this, ol' chum?  Name th' place, n' th' time, sate!]<<<<<
        -THE Nexus('ll blow yer sorry vamped butt AWAY!)

>>>>>[WELLLL.....he-lllo, Nexusss! Would ya mind takin' along a
sssweet lil' kitten like moi?  Been TOO long, baby! I'd RREEAALLYY
like ta get together with ya, sssometime sssoon.  Ssso, how `bout it,
sssweet-boy?]<<<<< 
        *Lady Siam*(I've got 9 livesss/and I land on my feet)

>>>>>[LADY SIAM!?! Lass, i's been TOO LONG, darlin'! WHERE've ya
been keepin' yerself?!  O' COURSE ya ken come along, too! We've got
a LOT of catchin' up ta do, Kitten!  Oh, by th' by....I've kinda'
got a "signifigant other"!]<<<<< 
        -THE Nexus('tis startin' ta feel like Ol' Home Week!)

>>>>>[ *pout* ]<<<<<
        *Lady Siam*(I've got 9 livesss/and I land on my feet)

>>>>>[ Maybe Gawk is on to something more than you realize WHAT.
Gawk relax a little. . . we should be out of this city soon.  Which
is probably really good.  Considering some info that I have seemed to
have digged up. . . But that really isn't important.  . .

Crystal, if I haven't said it clearly before, welcome to the team.  .
. Guess I would have liked to get know you better before I said that
but perhaps the chance will come later on . . .

Blitzkrieg and Firewraith, how is it going. . . I am a little
worried about who those 2 groups could be. . .

Spice: What do you mean, that there is more to "Lucy"? . . .  I
think I might have an idea of what you mean, but I am not sure,
could be something totally different wave-lengths  and all.  As
soon as you can remember more, please let me know.]<<<<<
        -- Phoenix <21:47:45/9-3-54>

>>>>>[Phoenix, your seem even more paranoid than you use to.  What
happened to going with the flow?  As to what is happening here. . .
Firewraith and I have seemed to managed to piss off a couple of
more people here by "borrowing" an object that we believe is
related to Bruce's goals. 

*** Data Enclosed: News Article ***
 
Isn't that a nice item, eh?  Too bad it got stolen.  Of course an
old sword that big is a little hard to hide, but that's life. 
Unfortunately, if it wasn't the case before we now have seemingly
everybody after us.  *shake head* Well, got to go.  We've been in
one spot for too long.  Take care. 

Oh, one more thing, WHAT, Firewraith told me to ask you this: Are
you implying that Gawk and Phoenix aren't that cultured as some
other people we know?]<<<<< 
        -- Blitzkrieg <21:52:13/9-3-54>

>>>>>[Hey Jackson, ah hear you throwin' a party.  I reckon me 'n some
of da boys could drop by,  jus for a while mind ya.  I sho nuf hope
you got some right nice attractions planned.  I been itchin' for a
good foot- stompin' party.  How many folks you got room for?]<<<<<
        --Whiskers <16:01:43/09-07-54>

>>>>>[WHAT, sorry I missed da meeting, but we had a bit a trouble.
Some gangers tried roughin' us up.  It wouldn't a taken so long but I
wasn't packin' and had ta use me hands.  I grabbed da leader and used
him like a bat.  It was kinda fun Let's meet some other time
instead.]<<<<< 
        -- Gawk <14:44:33 / 9-3-54>

>>>>>[When Gawk was busy street cleaning I managed to grab one of
the guys cred sticks.  He sure wasn't poor.  His stick had 15,000
=Y= and it was NOT in French money.]<<<<<
        -- Crystal <v:oo:m / v-oo-m>

ENCRYPT:##PHEONIXONLY## 
>>>>>[Pheonix, I think that Lucy is in to some really bad stuff.  I
heard rumors that she is in to smuggling.  I don't know what her
motivations are, but we should be careful with what we tell
her.]<<<<<
        --  Crystal <ZOOM / ZOOM>

>>>>>[                                   ...zzzzcchhhttT!
        am calling in from LondZZZZZZrry about the bad
connecZZZZZZsat we're pirating is almost out ofZZZZZZZZZ'll try
again later. just WAIT 'til you hear what
we'ZZZZZZZZzzzz...                                     ]<<<<< 
        -- DISCONNECTED

>>>>>[I think I can afford to lose more than you can monitarily, Nex.
So let's make the bet interesting, shall we?  I would suggest that if
I won, you'd marry Lissa, but I don't suppose that would go over
well, so how's this instead I win, I buy you a meal of the finest Tir
nan Og food money can buy--in Tir Nan Og!  You win, I get to put you
under my knife for 20 minutes and play with your cyberarm and
datajack to see how you lost so little essence from each.  Deal? I
think its fair...]<<<<< 
        --  Action Jackson(17:56:40/09-03-54)

>>>>>[We got room for anybody you can bring along, Whiskers.  And is
that an old fashioned Creole drawl I hear from you?  If it is, I'd
just like to tell you about the fact that my daughter grew up down in
N.O., in the bijous as a matter of fact, and she speaks Creole better
than most natives speak english. Now, the fact that it is her native
language might have something to do with it but I'm not sure...]<<<<<
        --  Action Jackson(18:01:59/09-03-54)

>>>>>[Interesting name, sir.  While I will shortly have my own body
shop here in Seattle, I am interested in your offer.  The only
problem I have at this time is that, while I am a registered Vampire
in the Tir, this registration just means to them that they won't kill
me as I pass through the nation.  It does not give me the freedom to
live or work in the Tir.  I am very sorry, but if you can't help me
outside of the Tir, I am afraid that I will have to decline your
offer.]<<<<< 
        --  Action Jackson(18:07:37/09-03-54)

>>>>>[                              ....zzzzthhhhhzzz...  ]<<<<<
        --MoozzZZZKCHTT ALERT! MEDISTATS CRITICAL. PATIENT REMOVED
          FROM NET.

>>>>>[Nex! Soun's gre' on m' part.  Wher' sha' we meet?  Sho' I bri'
me bike? An I cana wait to mee' some of yo'r Chummers.]<<<<<
        STREETWOLF(FLAMES!!! away/Fire is an Elf's best friend)

>>>>>[Nex! ya' thin' someti' ya ca' teach me a few thi's.  Li' stree'
talk. Mayb' we ca' get t'get'r somei' an discu' a few thi's.  Mayb'
ya' ca' hel' me wi' tha ladi's, ya' see' ta d' qui' fin' wi' them
yeself lad.]<<<<< 
        STREETWOLF(Look'n fer l've/Fire is an Elf's best friend)

>>>>>[Styx: "...insects hunting insects is fine, but thay are ALL
still game to him.  Therefore I am too.  Or so he said early this
spring..." 

Lad.  You are expecting him to remain constant?!?!?!  Religious
fanatics are the most fickle in their positions of anyone I have
ever known, including congressmen.

Also, if you're only as old as you feel, I'm older than you, so
you're a lad.]<<<<<
        -Blinder [Needles/ForYou]

ENCRYPT: ##CrystalOnly## 
>>>>>[Crystal two things, one what was the form of the money (ya know
the one you swiped off the ganger)?  Two, I realize she is into the
smuggling business, your right, she is involved with smuggling
business, but how did you find out anyway?]<<<<<
        -- Phoenix <05:25:04/9-4-54>

*****GNUEncrypt,BOOJAM.0991 
>>>>>[Okay, boys, I'll start with drones and drone weapons. The CAS
Wandjina the Bandit AGMs should be the hardest things to find.

>INCLUDE.BLOCK.34MP< 
>INCLUDE.TRANSFER OF FUNDS<

Send the stuff to this address in Denver:
>INCLUDE.FILE.0.01MP<

See ya at the party.]<<<<<
        -- Raven <For the Snark was a/Boojam, you see>

>>>>>[WEEELLLL....I dunno', Jackson m' boy! I was jus' thinkin' a'
somthin' more along th' lines a'...I dunno'....a coupla' thousand
=Y=, or so....sorry, but YES, marriage ta' Lissa IS outta' th'
question, sate! NO OFFENSE! => TNO, huh? Donna' think tha' I miss
"home" quite tha' much! Nothin' but a buncha'
high-an'-all-fraggin'-mighty, pud-lickin', hoop-fraggin',
amoralistic morkahn! But, HEY, tha's jus' MY opinion! Th' food's
no' e`en tha' great.  An', as far as goin' under th'
knife...again...?  I'm no' so sure `bout tha', either.No' THIS
soon, anyway.  I KNOW this is fer th' betterment of science, an'
alla' tha' shit...but, ta' be _quite_ honest, I'm no' so sure I
really CARE _why_ it'sso "essence/majic friendly"...jus' tha', fer
25-fraggin'-thousand nuyen...it damn-well BETTER be! FAIR?  Well,
gee...I dunno'...le`me get this straight, K? If _I_ win...ya' get
ta take m' ta dinner, inna' country I donna' really wanna' BE
in...an' left 15 years ago, fer tha' very reason! BUT, if YOU
win...ya get ta slap m' sorry (but CUTE...don' ferget CUTE =) ass
onna' table, an' hack m' open...jus' ta see exactly WHY I work th'
marvelous way I DO?  Oh, SURE...soundsPLENTY fair ta ME, sate!
Mayhaps, we shou' TALK about this, Jackson...]<<<<< 
        -THE Nexus(always DREAMED a' bein' a science project)

>>>>>[BTW...have we gotten alla' th' "return invitations" on this
night out? Th' guest list, thus far, reads:M`self, Random, Sahara,
Coty, Streetwolf, A.J., Lady Siam, n' Slash(?)...anyone I missed? 
I'm TRYIN' ta convince Mozart, but th' fragger's in one a' his
MOODS...yeesh! An', much as I like Mirage, an' all, he IS a bit...I
dunno'...proper.  STILL...havin' a "master of Illusion" along COULD
be FUN! *evil grin*  An', there's STILL been no word from Roxey!
Dunno' wha's wrong wi' th' girl! Huhm...oh, well! Guess I'll jus'
have ta console m'self, wi' th' comfort of m' lil' Kitten's
company...RIGHT, Siam? *grin*]<<<<< 
                        -THE Nexus(allll alone....*pout*)

>>>>>[RRROOWR.....]<<<<<
                *Lady Siam*(I have 9 livesss/and I land on my feet)

>>>>>[PROPER?  Nexus my boy, you offend me! Most CERTAINLY, I will
join you, on your lil' "outing"! Have there been any suggestions as
to WHERE we might be going...besides the little wager you and
Jackson have been working out?]<<<<< 
                        -Mirage(and:the:shadows/shall-prevail)

>>>>>[ACTUALLY....I was considerin' some GHOUL HUNTIN', out in th'
Barrens! I havenna' done tha', fer QUITE a while.  Besides, it
could turn out ta be a rather "profitable" venture...]<<<<<
                        -THE Nexus(ahuntin' we will go....=)


>>>>>[WIZ!]<<<<<
        -The Corpses `R' Us 4-Wheeling Club(ahunting we will go!)


>>>>>[Oh, lord!]<<<<<
                        -Mirage(and:the:shadows/shall-prevail)

*****Encrypt Lucifer v.4 
>>>>>[Coffin:  After breaking through Solitiare's last supposed post,
I discovered the perfect way for you to sneak in any explosives to
get AJ and Nephredana.  Use Collussus.]<<<<<
        --  Dante(17:36:40/09-04-54)

*****Encrypt Buisness v 12-54.1 
>>>>>[We had the Wandjina in stock, but you'll have to assemble it
yourself.  We verified that all the part were there, but if one or
two doesn't work, we'll send you replacements.  And the Bandits were
in stock too, although we will have to "acquire" a few more now that
you have them all.  It should arrive at the address you gave us in
Denver within 36 hours, via panzer.  Don't give the driver any
trouble and get the stuff unloaded FAST so she doesn't get caught by
the authorities or Interpol(Commander Drake and his goons).  She
won't come to the address with any heat on her tail, but you don't
want her or her army surplus(aka stolen) panzer any longer than
necessary.  It's been a pleasure doing buisness.  Come again any
time.]<<<<< 
        --  Moriarity(17:44:09/09-04-54)

>>>>>[Fine, I'm agreeable.  Let the bet be 5000Y and a bottle of fine
wine. I could always use a new chablis.]<<<<<
        --  Action Jackson(17:48:18/09-04-54)

>>>>>[And what's this about me not going, Nex.  You wound me, dear!
And you thought I would miss Diana making multiple passes at Slash?
Not likely!]<<<<< 
        --  Foxey Roxey(17:49:43/09-04-54)

>>>>>[Yes, Nex.  I'll be coming along on my bike.  It ain't fast and
it ain't pretty, but it gets me from place to place and besides,
somebody needs to be there to keep you from geeking the innocent
squatters of this poor town.]<<<<< 
        --  Slash(18:07:21/09-04-54)

>>>>>[Ah, Ms. McCoy, how nice of you to grave us with your virtual
beauty. I see you're parents at Renraku have succeeded in
eliminating any difficulties thecorp might have given you for your
shadowy past, as well as discovering a little bit of information
regarding the function of Mathias. Well, it will do you all little
good. The death sentence we have imposed upon the Deb Decker still
holds, and all of you who associate with her are imperiled as
well!]<<<<< 
        -- Herr Ganz <10:55:32/9-5-54>

>>>>>[Hey, does that mean just us, or does it include EVERYONE on
the board?]<<<<< 
        --Mind Throttle <10:56:22/9-5-54>

>>>>>[Either way, you and I have a vested interest in the matter.
BTW, what about this ex-husband of yours?]<<<<<
        -- Packard Belle <10:57:11/9-5-54>

>>>>>[I'll tell you in the car.]<<<<<
        -- Mind Throttle <10:58:21/9-5-54>

>>>>>[Denizens of Shadowland, I warn you all to cease and desist all
activity associated with this node, for your own sake.  Consider, we
certainly have the resources to track down and kill all of you, but
it is clearly in our best interest to maximize the efficient use of
these resources. Therefore, I have put together an example of the
range of our power, and urge you all to stand back and forget about
this EONPP case.

The following transcript is taken from the car of your own Packard
Belle and Mind Throttle.

PB>So tell me about this creep who's been tailing us. He's your ex?

MT>Well, yeah. He was also my manager in my racing days. We split up
   after I got wired and made a big enough name for myself that I
   had to get a REAL manager.

PB>What do you mean?

MT>Well, while I was on the lower circuits, he was able to manage
   the deals and info that came through. But when I started getting
   bigger offers and the stakes rose, he couldn't keep up and I lost
   a couple of big contracts that would have helped. Now, I didn't
   hold it against him personally, but he took my hiring someone
   else personally and got all moody and grumpy, to the point I
   couldn't stand it. So I left him. I always intended to go back if
   he got back to normal, but he got a little dangerous. One reason
   I took that first run with you, Belle. 

]<<<<<
        -- Herr Ganz <11:15:23/9-5-54>

>>>>>[Good Grief! How'd they get that! I don't want my personal life
on the board!]<<<<<
        -- Mind Throttle <11:16:10/9-5-54>

>>>>>[I know! I scanned it with MouseEars-8! Shoulda picked up any
bugs. And the Buzzer-6 shoulda screened any mic that picked us
up!]<<<<< 
        -- Packard Belle <11:18:21/9-5-54>

>>>>>[What are you two doing back on already?]<<<<<
        -- RAMboy <11:19:26/9-5-54>

>>>>>[We just had to talk offline. We came back to see if Jaez was
still here. Looks like she ain't. So now, we'll just be on our
way.]<<<<< 
        -- Packard Belle <11:20:14/9-5-54>

>>>>>[BBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTT.  Wrong answer Ganzz.  Nobody messes with
the board with a smug attitude like that.  You are on the list.  And
lots of us can find you.[=- Bang. ]<<<<< 
        --Journey <10:25.54/09.05.54>

>>>>>[Dorian, I have his trace.  He's in Tir Tairngire.]<<<<<
        --Llew ell 'Yn < 10:26.45/09.05.54>

>>>>>[Wrong Answer, Llew ell 'Yn.  You don't think we can't do our
own patches on bands?  Try again.]<<<<<
        --Prof. Laverty <10:28.15/09.05.54>

>>>>>[well, `ello, ev`ryone! Mirage...master illusionist, at your
service! But, today, it looks like I am to be your link to last
evening's events...as I believe, I am the _only one_ not suff`ring
the effects of a _raging_ hangover, t'day! Per`aps, I might be able
to `elp some o' the sorry bleeders out, later on.  But, for now...I
think I'll allow them a few hours to wallow in overwhelming
self-pity! *grin* After we (Roxey, Random, Sahara, Slash, A.J. Diana,
Lady Siam, Dakota, an' myself) converged upon the charming(?) abode
of THE Nexus an' Company, at approximately 21:30:00, we were off to
scenic Puyallup! Nex led us to a rather long stretch of deserted
`ighway, which `e `ad decided would be quite suitable for a friendly
drag race.  Dakota broke open one of the cases of Guiness Nex `ad so
thoughtfully provided for us, an' we each took a seat on a crumbling
retaining wall, to watch the proceedings.

Upon looking at the good doctor's car, we _all_ realized that our
poor, young samur-a-ssassin didn't `ave a PRAYER! But, they decided
to go thru wi' it, anyway! Such spirit! => They even agreed upon
the original terms of the bet- if Nex won, they would dine in Tir
Nan Og...if Jackson won, Nex' cyber-implants went under the
microscope.  The race was temporarilly `eld up, while those of
uswho `ad `ad the misfortune to ride wi` THE Nexus, before,
convinced `er that accompanying `er young love on this lil'
adventure could not _possiblly_ be the wisest course of action!
Fair Roxey finally conceeded, but not wi`out a large measure of
grumbling! FIANALLY, after long bouts of posturing, an'
good-natured teasing...on the parts of BOTH participants...they
were OFF! 

An', it was all over, almost before it began! Though Nex' truck was
_quite_ fast...it was nowhere NEAR fast enough! To beat Jackson's
car, at any rate! It would `ave required someone very lucky...an',
quite thoroughly INSANE to have beaten him! _That_ was where THE
Nexus fell short...`e's only 3/4 of the way insane! =>  The ribbing
Nex recieved, upon returning to the wall, was intense! But, `e
`andled it all very graciously..._what_ a _sport_! Besides, `e `ad
the lovely Roxey there, to comfort him, in `is glaring defeat! => `e
e`en insisted upon a REMATCH! This time, though, it would be `IS car,
a Westwind 2000 Turbo-T,against A.J.'s! Now, THIS should be an event
not to be missed! 

Things were going quite well...until the _rest_ of Nex' "cheering
section" made their presence known! It seems that a few members of
The Ancients `ad caught the open invitation, an' decided they
wanted to see their ol' gang-mate again! As I'm sure you can guess,
Roxey did NOT take any of this very well...to put it mildly!
FORTUNATELY, Nex is _so_ much faster than she, an' `e was able to
get a `old on `er, before she launched off something bordering on a
small-scale nuclear attack! UNfortunately, she turned `er rage on
_`im_! She stared sreaming"`ow COULD you?", then `it `im.  E`en if
it twas only a low-force `and o' sparksin the face, it just _`AD_
to `ave `URT! I think, though, that more than anything, she `ad
wounded `is feelings.  ~e tried to convince `er that `e `ADN'T
given them an invite...but, she was too furious to listen! She
started going on about `im being "a completely INSENSITIVE
bastard...wi' absolutely NO regards for `ER feelings...an', who
could NE`ER understand what it `ad been like, for `er, treated the
way she was by THEM!" When 'e could finally get a word in,
edge-wise, `e tried to defend `imself, an' insisted that `e DID
understand what she `ad been thru.  None of us really understood
that part...an' `e ne`er got the chance to elaborate.  Roxey
slappped `im...`ARD! Then, she just stormed off,setting small bits
of shrubbery meerily ablaze, as she went. 

We thought this would end up calling it an ev`ning.  But, I guess
the worst thing you can do is get THE Nexus thoroughly torqued off,
then refuse to give him a (DESTRUCTIVE) out-let, for an immense
amount of nervous energy! So, it was off to find ghouls! Oh,
joy....an', find them, we DID! A whole pack, group,
gaggle...whatEVER, of them! There were approximately 12, in the
group we `ad discovered.  An', Nex, Dakota an' Jackson `ad them
cornered, in nothing flat! A few of them even led Nex on a merry
chase! But,`e `ad told me, once, that `e used to `unt in The
Shattergraves, in Chicago! `e even `as a scar from one of `is
misadventures.  So, I guess `e felt right at `ome, tracking the
smelly beast through the rafters of an old barn.  Their combined
weight (ca. 192 k's!) must `ave been too much for the ancient
beams, though, an' they vacated the loft...the `ard way! Luckily,
Nex landed on Dakota, dear sturdy Ork that `e is! So, nothing ELSE
was broken! An' the ghoul `ad expired, messily, long before it `ad
`it the ground.  There was a gaping `ole, where its THROAT should
`ave been! All in all...it `ad proved to be a successful night of
`unting! Six ghouls bagged! Which gave each of us a bounty of 900
=Y=! Not bad, for an ev`nings work! 

Sorry to say, though, that Nex & Roxey fought the ENTIRE way back! I
REALLY `ope they can get their differences ironed out! Strange as
this may seem to sound, they're really quite good, for one another!
*sigh* Young love....]<<<<< 
                        Mirage(and:the:shadows/shall-prevail)

>>>>>[Hey, Mirage...I wanna' tankja', fer gettin' ridda' dat
hang-over fer me! Yer a REAL pal, Elf-man!]<<<<<
                                -DAKOTA(16:24:32/05:08:54)

>>>>>[Why, your certainly welcome, my muscle-bound friend! I truly
`ated to see you suffering, like that, ol' bean! Think nothing of
it!]<<<<< 
                        Mirage(and:the:shadows/shall-prevail)


>>>>>[Got one question, dough...what's wid dat cat-lady, Siam?  I
ain't seen her furry tail `round here, inna'....well....uh....inna'
LONG time! She been gone a WHILE! An', she didn't seem ta be real
sorry `bout leavin' poor Nex, da last time, neider! Course, after a
day `er two, an' lottsa whiskey, it don't seem he missed HER dat
much, neider! An', I thought they was real good tagedder, too!
Least, dat's what Cat-lady were always sayin', all purrin' an'
rubbin' her skinny body all over him! Sorta' like she were doin'
las' night, after Roxey took off! I dunno', some pretty tail like
her'd start rubbin' all over ME like dat..._I_ don't tink I'd go
shovin' her away! Course, I'd be really scared a BREAKIN' `er! Tiny
lil' thing like dat! An', I'd be kinda shy of dose fangs an' claws
she's got---even got dem inner TOES! I guess she'd kinda scare
me...I tink...I dunno'...m'be.  Never had da chance ta find out,
neider! What's da deal, guys?  She like Nexus, er WHAT?  She gonna'
try ta do some "hookin' up" wid him, likes dey used ta do?  I
tought Nex liked Roxey...but, da way dey was fightin', las'
night...I tink he might jus' wanna' hook up wid Siam, again. She
always was sayin' dey was so good tagedder...I dunno...Whadda' ya
tink, guys?]<<<<< 
                                -DAKOTA(16:34:17/05:08:54)

>>>>>[Personally, _I_ think you had better shut your over-active
trap, dear Coty, before you cause or misfortunate, love-lourn,
little assassin an undue multitude of problems! Illy-ah?]<<<<<
                                =Mozart=(16:37:46/05:08:54)

>>>>>[HUH?]<<<<<
                                -DAKOTA(16:38:24/05:08:54)

>>>>>[He _said_ "SHUT UP", Coty!]<<<<<
                                RANDOM(THOUGHT PATTERNS)

>>>>>[OH! Kay!]<<<<<
                                -DAKOTA(16:41:12/05:08:54)


>>>>>[*SIGH*]<<<<<
        Those who know & and love Dakota(long-suffering souls that
                                we are)

>>>>>[Well, Cousin...THAT was fun.  *smirk* What say we try tha'
agin, some time?  Perhaps ya might wanna RECONSIDER havin' ME show ya
th' ropes a' snaggin' th' "fairer sex", after las' night! Ow...those
burns STILL smart! An', she singed m' BEARD! Dammit! *SIGH* Oh,
HELL...why do I BOTHER?]<<<<<
        -THE Nexus(shoulda' tried th' preisthood.....NAHH!)


>>>>>[ENCRYPTED:TORTURE  SLASH_MPCP:

SLASH! HELP! I do NOT understand this woman! One minute, she hot an'
fast as a goddamned racehorse! Next, she's a fraggin' GLACIER! I have
TRIED ta please her! I have TRIED ta love her! But, frankly, I don't
REALLY think she cares! She CERTAINLY doesnna' act like she DOES, at
any rate! She's always ta busy bein' PISSED at m', ta see tha' I'm
tryin' m' DAMNEDEST! I've bent over backwards fer tha' girl
(sometimes quite LITERALLY!), an' all she ken seem ta find it in her
cold heart ta do is scream, an' bitch, an' curse m' out! I have NE`ER
hit a woman, b`foreer! But, I'm tellin' ya, Slash! Lil' Miss Roxey is
comin' DANGEROUSLY close! I have jus' about HAD IT, wi' WOMAN!
They've NE`R beenANYTHIN' fer m', but TROUBLE, an' HEARTACHE! An', I
think I've had more a' tha' than I ken stand, ta be totally honest! I
THOUGHT I loved her! But, she's NE`R shown m' ANY, in RETURN! I jus'
DON'T _UNDERSTAND_ HER! An', frankly...I'm gettin' MORE than jus' a
LIL' sick a' her "I was a whore fer Th' Ancients" gripe! We've ALL
had ta do thin's we were na' proud a'! An' we've ALL been hurt,
sometimes, jus' a bit more than we ken stand! She's no' th' ONLY one
who'sev`r SUFFERED! Or, who jus' wanted ta up n' DIE! If she doesnna'
start showin' jus' a wee dram a love n' affection, fer m'...I'm
gonna' jus' have ta tell `er where ta GO! Go`damn ingrate offa'
[bitch  fk] at [N]*%#@mj$grumble@#gripe^%(^bitch#^% groan......]<<<<< 
        -THE Nexus(jus' `bout taken all th' abuse I ken stand)

*****Encrypt Bodily Damage 4-Nex 
>>>>>[Nex, I am trying to be really calm about this, but not
succeeding well, so if I go off the deep end, YOU DESERVE IT!!!!!
Oops...sorry.  I want you to tell me about your relationship to those
Ancient SLIME...er, members.  Now, I have stayed alive as long as I
have by killing every Ancient that ever found me.  This way I not
only kept them from endangering me and my friends, but I stayed on
thier black list of people to kill on sight.  I am PROUD...um, NOT
proud of this fact, but I am still alive to tell people about it, so
it works. Now, as I said, I want tooOOOO, DREK IT!!!!!!  YOU HAD
BETTER TELL ME WHAT THE DREK YOUR RELATIONSHIP IS WITH THOSE
DREKHEADS OR.....OR I WILL GET REALLY FRAGGIN PISSED OFF!!!!!]<<<<<
        --  Foxey Roxey(17:47:35/09-05-54)

*****Encrypt Slash-er v4-Nex 
>>>>>[Nex, you really ARE a drekhead sometimes.  Now, before you
tune me out, you had damned well better listen or I will come over
to your house with my trusty Squirt and shoot you with my favorite
round-can you say "Hyper?"  I knew you could...Yes, it is your
favorite household chemical, so listen up!  IO was there, along
with Diana and several others when we dragged your sorry ass out of
the Souix nation last spring, and you don't know what the hell
happened.  The first thing that Roxey did was get all quiet.  Diana
looked at her astrally and turned to me, said "run," and we hauled
ass just in time to see Roxey go ballistic.  You thought what she
wanted to do to those Ancients was bad, you should have seen her
explode on a small boulder.  She MELTED IT TO SLAG, Nex! Molten
granite started a small fire!  Now, Diana tells me that Roxey
shouldn't have had that kind of power available to her at the time,
but I figure her fury was feeding her, but that doesn't matter! 
What happens next does!  She just kinda shrugged off drain that
should have killed her and called up Max.  Max and a couple of
Buzz's friends kept your fraggin ass alive the entire way back to
seattle.  And the whole way Roxey sat/layed by you in the truck,
alternately appearing like she was ready to kill some poor
defenseless piasma and then breaking down and crying for hours. 
She talked to you, even though you couldn'thear her, as though your
injuries were nothing and said that if you died, she was going to
kill you herself!  And when we got you back into Seattle, she never
left your side.  She wouldn't let anyone in the room, she stayed
awake fordays until you regained consciousness finally.  I don't
know how the hell she did it, but she was there the whole time. 
Diana, AJ and I tried to pull her did it, but she was there the
whole time.  Diana, AJ and I tried to pull her out of the room
once, but stopped when she said, perfectly rationally, that she
would blast us into our component atoms if we touched her again. 
Needless to say, we left her alone after that.  She was damned sure
that the first sight you saw after waking up would be her smiling
and worryless face.  Bet you even thought all that dampness on the
sheets was your sweat, didn't you?  Most of it was from millions of
tears of worry and days of exhaustion.  She slept for 67 hours
straight after you were conscious and never told you, swearing us
to secrecy about it.  She LOVES ya, you stupid ghoul!  She wouldn't
put up with you otherwise.  And she is gonna sick MaxiMillion on me
the instant she finds out that I told you, but damn it, this is one
hell of a lot more important than a broken nose or charley horse. 
So if you don't realize what the DREK you got in her, I'll do more
than Hyper your ass, I'll shoot it!  And get AJ, Diana, andwhoever
else I can to help me!!!!!!!!!]<<<<< 
        --  Slash(18:06:12/09-05-54)

>>>>>[Actually, Nex, I'm kinda REALLY glad I won.  I had forgotten
that I am a vampire(yeah, right) and that Tir Nan Og kinda doesn't
really like vampires]<<<<        
        --  Action Jackson(18:08:57/09-05-54)

>>>>>[ Moonwalker is not, repeat, not to be using the net in his
condition. period. If anyone here sees his persona, please remind him
that he is supposed to be confined to complete bedrest for at least
the next two weeks. At least until the casts come off.

Oh, yes, for those of you who didn't know, the B-Team Auxiliaries
have been keeping rather busy. It all started with trying to
dispose of a rather nasty magickal artifact, and we've been caught
up in this Conspiracy thing for far too long now. We're in London
Above, but I can't be more specific, for our own safety. Poor
little Michael should pull through, with some of the best bioware
that our newfound wealth can buy. About the best thing to happen to
us is that Ralph's jaw is currently wired shut. I suppose we'll be
seeing you Americans again soon. until then... ]<<<<< 
        --Blindside (Now you see it.../...Now you don't)

>>>>>[Hey there, Nex!  How's about a week from now you come to my
bodyshop(it should be set up by then...) and I take a look at your
tech.  I don't plan on cutting you open or anything...at least not
yet...but I DO want to get a good look at your tech.  The scanner I
have built into the operating table is rather extensive and should
give me a couple of ideas on how you manage to get so much cyber for
the essence and still seem to be a Physical Adept of a moderate Init.
grade.  And don't complain, Valentine is to be trusted with your
grade.  Indeed he was the one who hacked it open, and it wasn't the
easiest thing for him to do either.  So, shall we go for it, perhaps
just before or just after the rematch?]<<<<<
        --  Action Jackson(21:28:46/09-05-54)

>>>>>[Oh, and what praytell will be the new wager, Hmmmmmm?]<<<<<
        --  Action Jackson(21:29:54/09-05-54)

>>>>>[Ah, I see.  All right.  How many employees do you have,
Solitaire? All of the stockholders meet, even the employees?  What
time of year??]<<<<< 
        -- Jesus, Comptroller TCH Ltd. (2:14:16/9-6-54)

>>>>>[Jesus.....]<<<<<
        -- Ephasia (I:Don't:Remember/I-Don't-Recall)

>>>>>[Shut up, Shockwave.]<<<<<
        -- Jesus, Comptroller TCH Ltd. (2:16:24/9-6-54)

>>>>>[Moriarity -- could you give me a list of your wares, again?
Anything in the electronic spectrum?]<<<<<
        -- Meghan the Red (6-9-54/7:03:06)

>>>>>[Hey, I just thought of something.  I lost contact a while back
with a lady friend of mine, a decker known as Lady Phoenix.  Anybody
ever hear of her, see her, maybe?  If so, let me know.]<<<<<
        -- The Dead Decker (07:16:50/9-6-54)

>>>>>[ Someone mention my name? Who may I ask is calling? It's your
dime. ]<<<<<
       -- Lady Phoenix (07:18:27/9-6-54)

>>>>>[An old friend, Phoenix.]<<<<< 
        -- The (Dead) Wyrm Ouroboros/The Dead Decker (Here I'm
           not!/Nyah-Nyah-Nyah)

>>>>>[ You had better not be some street trash pretending to be
Ouro. Guess, what, you have the benifit of the doubt, and I'm
curious. Let's meet. You know a place? ]<<<<<
     -- Lady Phoenix (21:48:31/9-6-93)

>>>>>[You were captured by Aztlan forces four years ago, tortured
and brainwashed.  With certain assistance, you broke out and
completed the run you were on, namely retrieving a CAS Stonewall
from the Aztlan armed forces.  Two years ago, you attended a
funeral in *DeathLoc* -- mine.  You are, as far as I know,
currently a member of the Lord Knights, and you have my car, a
Lotus-Banzai Ghost, Limited Edition, with an onboard mainframe from
Crystech Inc. and a full-grade satellite uplink. 

As for 'street trash' -- with my reputation, particularly in
Seattle, I don't think anybody would dare to claim it without being
quite able to back it up.  Would you care to test this theory?

And yes, I know many places -- I cannot attend any 'real' one,
regretfully.]<<<<<
        -- The Dead Decker (8:16:39/9-6-54)

>>>>>[ Someone's done their homework. Here's a cupie doll as a
prize. You bet they wouldn't dare claim the name. I wouldn't let
them. Ok then, what did we get up to in the room we shared on that
run on the way down? ]<<<<<
        -- Lady Phoenix (8:20:07/9-6-54)

>>>>>[ Uggh what a weekend.  I've included a news report to give you
a taster of what's been happening while we all get some rest and
recuperation. 

****
Nigel Long reporting:
Reports are coming in about a gun battle in the North East of
Scotland near Aberdeen.  It is understood that a group of
terrorists have taken control of a disused oil rig anchored two
miles from the Scottish coast.  Witnesses claim the sky is lit up
with explosions and the sound of gun fire filled the night. It is
understood that a squad of marines have been sent in to take
control of the oil rig.  We'll be bringing you more news when we
hear it. 

[1/2 hour later]
Lisa McDuff reporting:
Hello Nigel, I'm at the scene of tonights disturbance.  It appears
that a group of terrorists were using the oil rig as a site of
operations, at present we are unsure as to the exact identity of
the terrorists.  What we do know is that the oil rig came under
attack from at least 1 helicoptor and several speed boats
indicating that whoever it was inside the rig, they certainly had
some powerful enemies.  The marine commander in charge Lieutenant
Gardner has informed me that the site is now secure and the
survivors have been taken into custody.  It is understood that 6
people have been killed but the marine commander has hinted that
these were dead before his men arrived. 

[1 hour later]
Nigel Long reporting:
Getting back to tonight's earlier incident in Scotland it is
understood that the Royal Navy has boarded the Little Lucy an oil
tanker belonging to United Oil.  The Royal Navy spokeswoman has
said that this was routine as the helicoptor and speed boats that
attacked the oil rig were last seen heading out to sea and that all
boats within British terratorial waters which posses the capacity
to house a helicoptor were being checked. ****

He, he.  They won't find them in British water not those
guys.]<<<<< 
  -The Powerhouse (13:41:25/6.9.54)

>>>>>[ Gawk, at least I think it was you who enquired about my
knowledge of Lucy De'mear.  Well I can tell you very little at the
moment just that the name does seem familiar from somewhere.  Try
and get a picture uploaded to the net and I'll see if that helps. 
As to being a smuggler, I suppose that may be it, my time at my
father's hotel quite often brought me into contact with certain
indivuals who needed to get certain magical objects into and out of
the country, quite often the magical assistance they required was
just for part of a larger operation. ]<<<<< 
        -Spice (Going to have a sleep now)

>>>>>[Live Feed:

Steven Stalker: *To Camera* 'Hello, this is Steven Stalker, your
action news reporter, with Detective Callahan of Lone Star.'

*To Callahan* 'Detective, what has the investigation, into the
warehouse that exploded late last week, uncovered?'

Detective Callahan: 'First, some sort of magic was used.  Second,
the victim was infected by HMHVV.  Third, the victim was employed
by Katana Industrials.'

SS: 'Is there nothing on the perpertrator?'

DC: 'Only that a man, wearing a long coat or a trench coat, fled the
scene immediately after the explosion.  None of the witnesses that we
questioned got a good look at his face; but we are trying to piece
together a sketch of the perpertrator from each witnesses
description.' 

SS: 'So as of yet there are no suspects?'

DC: 'You are correct.'

SS: 'Thank you, Detective.'

DC: 'You are welcome.'

SS: 'This is Steven Stalker reporting for KTAN News.']<<<<<
                        -KTAN News Agency (10:37:05 EDT/09:06:54)

>>>>>[ Got some more info for you PH, Biosys the company you seem to
be invloved with at this present time was nearly bought out when it
appeared that Goldi Prendergast was going to sell.  It seems she has
changed her mind, dunno why, but get this, the corp trying to buy out
Biosys was MCT.  I thought you said that Fuchi was behind the
kidnapping ? 

Well, Biosys' shares have stabilized at 0.765 Y a share, the market
seems to be quiet with punters looking towards Goldi Prendergast to
see if she'll sell. If she does, MCT get control of Biosys, at least,
I think they do. 

Hmm.. what's this, he, he, .. I just saw your message.  So that was
you up in Aberdeen last night, well you'd better be careful I can't
see the Ol' Lord Protector being too happy with gun battles going on
when he doesn't know what's happening. ]<<<<<
        -Chipper (Riding the electron storm)

>>>>>[ Yeah we pretty much guessed that it was MCT Chipper, though
thanks for clarifying.  Well what has been happening I heard you
wonder (cries of 'not really', echo around the matrix).

Well as you know we left Seattle for England after being hired by
Megan to go and find her father.  All we knew was that he has been
kidnapped by 3 Fuchi men shortly before he left for the airport,
dear little Megan here managed to escape, a fact I think that might
have something to do with her being Physically Adept, or at least
so Spice says, Megan says it's a load of rubbish.  I can't check
cause I can't see the astral.  Anyway, anyway, I diverge from the
story at hand. 

After some checking around, meeting a few old friends and contacts
and meeting their friends and contacts we got a few leads, as well
as getting ourselves equipped with some gear (had no time to
organise a smuggling run for our own goodies).  Two of the Fuchi
guys we were looking for had been murdered, a single shot for each,
straight through the head.  So IBA (ok, we managed to get his deck
into the country) did his stuff and checked out Fuchi's computers.
Seems like they were expecting him though cause he was busy reading
some files when a Fuchi corp decker pops up from no where and says
she'd like to speak with him.  While IBA stands there gawping the
decker produces a file and says, 'we know who you are and we know
you are intrested in the deaths of two of our employees.  Take this
file and contact me at the address given at the end when you have
read it, then we can arrange a meeting'.  Then the decker just
vanishes.  Oh I tell you watchinh IBA's screen can sometimes be
more entertaining than the sim, it had myself, Punisher and Spice
rolling on the floor with laughter.  I'll have to help IBA next
time he writes a masking program, maybe with my nominal knowledge
of electronics I could do better :) 

Well we met the woman, very nice she was as well.  It was a very
exclusive bar in Bristol, down near the riverside unfortunately
they didn't serve any real ale, but a good bottle of red made up
for it.  So this Fuchi lady starts giving us the lowdown on
ourselves, just to make us feel small, then she produces a
recording of some guy talking to a couple of Fuchi company men
flashing some ID and referencing a computer.  Asks us if we know
the guy, I nearly fall over choking, the bugger was Kentucky !!!! 

So we tell her what we know, minus one or two more sensitive points
and she offers to help us.  Well after a few more days legwork we
started to make real progress, with the identity of the person we
were looking for and Fuchi UK's resources helping us, we discovered
that Kentucky had been hiring muscle up in Glasgow of all places.
After a bit of local trouble (we had to bend a few fingers to get
some of the info) the trail led to a small fishing village a few
miles to the north of Edingburgh.  Here we honestly thought we had
reached a dead end when we were all sat in a pub (even the Fuchi
lass) talking, when some old guy comes up to and says 'Soo are yoou
foriner laads and laassies gonna wanna go dickie bird spotting wiv
the others I toook up.  Myseen I canna understand wha' anywun can see
in 'a wee li'l bird.  'Ey Mavis, wha' was the neme of tha' bird
again?.' 

Well we persuaded him that yes, that us foreigners (Scots still
think of the English as foreigners, but then again a Yorkshire man
thinks everyone who isn't 'Yorkshire' is foreign as well) were
indeed going to try and see the Greater Spotted Sea Roc (I think),
and asked the man kindly if he could possibly tell us where our
foreign friends had gone so that we could meet up with them.  So
information in hand and leaving Megan and myself to chat to the old
guy, the others arranged boats.  Very nicely hired for us by Fuchi
UK. 

That night the boats came at last, 2 black stream lined
Nightrunners, with a very impressive autopilot (useful as non of us
are particulary skilled at driving a boat) and a very nice stealth
mode.  So we cruise up the coast to Aberdeen and what we think we
will be an intresting little confrontation with our old adversary
Kentucky. If only.... 

3am in the morning we approach an abandoned dockyard of rusting Oil
Exploration platforms.  They were remenants from a by gone age when
the North Sea used to be one of the worlds more important oil
producing areas.  In one we could see a light and moored beneath
was a small fishing boat. 

Well I'll continue my story tommorow, right now it's time to get
some transport to the airport and back to Seattle. ]<<<<<
        -The Powerhouse (18:25:41/6.9.54)

*****Encrypt My Story  Roxey_MPCP 
>>>>>[Look here, Lass! I REALLY donna' think ya have `ny right ta be
demandin' things a' m'...righ' now! Ya hurt m', real bad, wi' th'
things ya were sayin' `bout m', last ev`nin'! An', truth b' told,
Rox...ya don' know SHIT! Ya havena' CLUE, as ta what _I'VE_ been
thru...now DO ya?  All ya know `bout m' is tha' m' parents `r
dead...but, ya don' know HOW...`r WHY!  Well, I'll TELL ya WHY!
`Cause _ I _ torqued some Orkan Mafioso scuz-boy off! So, he decides
ta take it out on m' ENTIRE FAMILY! M' f`ther was gunned down inna'
street, `cause he didnna' like th' idea a' his boy bein' worked o`er!
M' m`ther was RAPED by thoseBASTARDS...n' so was m' sister, Holly!
M'ther had ta WATCH this! AN', there was n`thin' she could do, when
they pulled m' lil' brother outta' m' arms...an' SLIT HIS THROAT! He
was only _6 YEARS OLD_, DAMMIT! They held him there, jus' inches
outta' m' reach...an' MURDERED HIM! _I_ oculdnna' do n'thin', either,
`cause _I_ was hangin' half a meter offa' th' ground, wi' some
g`ddamned Trolls spurs thru m' g'damned BACK...n' rippin' their way
out thru m' g`ddamned CHEST! THEN...they killed m' m`ther-AFTER they
violated her AGIN! THEN, those fuckin' filthy BASTARDS tried ta
murder HOLLY! I don' remember much more then tha', jus'tha' th'
smelly Squid tried ta disembowel m' , before I SOMEHOW got loose!
Fightin' mine n' Holly's way outta there cost m' my sight, too!
YEAH...tha's th' scars on m' face! NOW...b`cause a' ME...m' sweet
lil' sister's inna' MENTAL HOSPITAL....an' m' parents an' kid
br`ther are DEAD, DAMMIT!!! DEAD!! CAUSA' ME!!!! An', tha' wasna'
e`en th' START a' it all! Yer so hung up on havin' been a toy fer
Th' Ancients! When she was 15, m' bes' friend was raped by someone
we trusted, one a' th' Don's men! He had been usin' her, HURTIN'
HER, fer YEARS! N'she was too scared a' him...an' ASHAMED, ta tell
anyone! Till he tried ta pull th' same shit...wi' ME! Tha's RIGHT,
Roxey! See, I KNOW how it feels, ta be USED like THA'! I KNOW!!!
Frankie, she SWORE she'd n`er tell anyone! I MADE her swear! An',
she n`er did! Not e`en after tha' bloody, hoop-fraggin', g`ddamned,
m`ther-rubbin' son-offa'-slitch did it AGIN! N' I KILLED TH'
FRAGGER!!! Came righ' up b`hin' him, took `im by th' hair, n'
pulled th' asswhole offa' her... an' I SLIT th' bastard's bloody
throat!! M' first kill...at age 13! An' DAMNED proud a' tha' one,
too! She n`er told! E`en then! An' no one else knows `bout
itneither! NO ONE! `Cept, now, fer YOU...an' Q.S. Slicke! Yer th'
ONLY ONES, Roxey! An', are YOU gonna' tell!?! NO...ya WON'T! `Cause
ya KNOW what it's like-th' pain...an' th' SHAME! So, ya won't tell!
I KNOW ya won't! 

As fer Th' Ancients...I KNOW what they did ta ya! N' I HATED
Michael, fer it, tobe sure! I hated ev`rythin' about `im! His
clothes...his hair...th' way he always LEERED at ya! Th' way he put
ones like US out onna' street-corner...inna' middle a' th'
night...in th' RAIN...an' th' SNOW...ta sell `rselves ta ANY slot
who'd pay th' nuyen! No matter WHAT they were like, `r how they
smelled, `r WHATthey were inta'! No matter HOW they hurt us! I have
SCARS from those years, girlScars on my arms n' legs...one on m'
chest...an' th' back a' m' neck! An', alla'those scars ya CANNA'
see! Yeah! Ya _know_ th' one's I mean! Th' ones tha' make ya HATE
yerself! An' tha' keep REMINDIN' ya a' jus' why ya DO! Th' ones
tha' tell ya tha' yer LESS than a person...tha' ya'll N`ER be more
'n an ANIMAL! Somebody's Pleasure-beast! 'Cause tha's all ya've
e`er been tol' ya were GOOD fer! Th' ones tha' make ya sit inna'
hotel room...surrounded by people callin' themselves yer friends
(some a' them e`en ARE!)...onna' tour tha's s`posed ta beyer "big
break", th' one ya've been WAITIN', alla' yer life fer, th' one
tha' makes ya feel like yer FINALLY worth SOMETHIN'...an' they make
ya' sit there, slashin' yer one meat arm ta RIBBONS, wi' a broken
whiskey bottle, an' ya canna'say WHY! THOSE scars, Roxey! See, I
_KNOW_! 

But, crazy as alla' this may sound...Th' Ancients were m' FRIENDS!
At least, some a' them were.  One's like Jit...an' Boomer,
Tellie...an' Mosk! Th' ones thashowed up, ta watch m' race...ta
cheer m' on, Roxey! Jus' `cause they were m' TERMS! Ya didnna' know
this...but, those four were behind m', allla' th' way... when SOME
thought Michael was gettin' outta' hand! When SOME wanted Michael
DEAD! An' ME, in `is place! Tha's RIGHT, Roxey! _I_ was gonna' be
th' next boss a' Th' Ancients! An', _I_ was gonna' pull alla' th'
joy-kids offa' th' street! I was gonna' make it BETTER! But, ya
went ahead, an' geeked th' bastard, yerselfAn', tha' was O.K.,
`cause I KNEW how ya felt! So, I figured tha' made it all right. 
~Cause, I REALLY didna' wanna' be boss, anyway! It woulda' jus'
been a real BITCH, after a while, I guess.  I dunno'....but,
hey...it was O.K., tha' ya went, an' geeked Michael...`cause he was
a real bastard...n' I hated him, anyway.  An', I know what yer
thinkin', `bout m'! Yer thinkin' tha'...`cause I was an
Ancient...an' I gotta' stick...tha' _I_ was one a' them fraggers
who hurt ya! THA'S what yer thinkin'... But, yer WRONG, Roxey! I
coulda' N`ER hurt YA! Yeah, I think I slept wi' ya...prob`ly a
COUPLA' TIMES! Prob`ly when we were too drunk, `r high, ta remember
straight! But, I _KNOW_ I n`er hurt ya! I coulda' N`ER done tha'!
S`TRUTH! NOT after what'd happened ta m' m'ther, an' Holly, n'
Frankie! N`ER! See...ev`rybody ELSE...THEY woulda' let ya alone,
too...once Michael was gone! Oh, SURE...some a' them were pretty
PISSED! But, th' rest a' th' gang coulda' handled `em! But, ya jus'
couldna' leave well enough alone, COULDJA'?  Ya started geekin'
guys who woulda' jus' left ya be...if ya woulda jus' LEFT! So, NOW
ya got yerself on their shit-list! I hope yer REAL prouda' yerself,
lass! 'Cause, ya've caused alotta' people a lotta' problems!
Mosk...he was so mad at seein' ya, t`other night...`cause ya waxed
his lil' br`ther...jus' fer gettin' in yer airspace! He was jus' a
KID, Roxey! A DUMB, innocent KID! But, he was wearin' th' Blue n'
Green...so ya FRIED `im! I hope yer REAL proud a' yerself!
CONGRATULATIONS, Lass...ya've b`come as bad as those "animals"
ya've been huntin'! KUDOS, Kylie!]<<<<< 
                        -THE Nexus(**:**:**/**-**-**)

*****ENCRYPT COOL DOWN  SLASH_MPCP >>>>>[Oh, GAWD! SLASH!!! I had NO
idea! I....uh, I...don'...don' know what ta say! I...oh, GAWD! WHAT
am I gonna' DO?!?! Slash...I jus' sent Roxey a...well, ...she UPSET
m'! So, I...sorta' told `er off...She was slammin' m',`cause a' m'
connections ta Th' Ancients! So, I told `er how it was! Slash, why
didna' she e`er TELL me?!? How...?  why...?  OOOOOOOHHHHHHH*groan*
Lately, I dunno' what ta SAY ta her...`r, what ta DO! Oh, GAWD!
*whimper* Slash, she's n`er told m' she loved m'! How was I s`posed
ta KNOW?  `twas jus' like she kinda' jus' expected m' ta..._I_
dunno'...jus' KNOW....`r...somethin'....Slash...I _know_ I've been a
REAL pricke, lately! But, I've REALLY fragged this up! Ya GOTTA' help
m', Slash! _please_.....? *whimper...sob*]<<<<<
                        -THE Nexus(canna' do ANYTHIN' right...!)

>>>>>[Ok, enough waiting! I'd say we are as prepared as possible. All
runners involved in the OrganRUN meet me at ****LOCATION****. If
anyone is experienced with high explosives, bring plenty of it. The
way I figure our plan, we will use the OrganFinder uniforms and the
van to get in, get whatever of value we can find, plant the
explosives and reak whatever havok we can and leave through the
"backdoor" SpotOn told us about. Any questions???]<<<<<
                 -- Silver Tux  (16:23:44/09.06.54)

>>>>>[Umm, Blinder?  I meant that I am most emphatically FEMALE!  So
I can't be a lad.  Sheesh.  Thick skulls abound and not a crow- bar
around.]<<<<<
        -Styx <What time is it>

***** Encrypt: **ORGAN** 
>>>>>[ SpotOn and I are ready to run Silver Tux, although it concerns
me that we still have an unknown parabiological to deal with. ]<<<<<
        --  Fenris <19:45:23/09-06-54>

>>>>>[Fenris, I am also nervous about this parabiological but we
can't just sit around. Just cross your finger and hope we have enough
firepower to take whatever it is out. I would wait for more
information but time is not our friend now. I have had too many
people recently think that I have a target painted on my back.  Sun
and Ratty let me know ASAP when you are ready to go]<<<<<
                    -- Silver Tux (20:30:22/09.06.54)

>>>>>[Damnit, I was walkin' back from eatin' an' I got jumped by dis
goon squad I geeked one a dem, and hauled outa der.  Anyhow, Crystal
traced the cash... 

Ah, Drek, someones at da door just a sec.

What da ....  @#%@^&&***&$###$$%@#!@ERROR1223*^!$ELECTRICAL.OVERLOAD

..........CONNECTION TERMINATED...............]<<<<<

>>>>>[Gosh, thanks.  Seeing as the Lord Knights are not a well-known
group, that *DeathLoc* is not believed to exist, it'd be damn hard to
come up with that info.  As for sharing the room -- if I remember you
correctly, you got up to about 5'3", and I about two feet taller.  We
both got horizontal separately.]<<<<<
        -- The Dead Decker (6:16:12/9-7-54)

>>>>>[ Kinealthas? Holy Mary mother of God! I don't believe it.
Mister, I think we should meet. ]<<<<<
        -- Lady Phoenix (6:20:05/9-7-54)

>>>>>[Johanna, wish I could.  For the rest of my 'life', what you see
is what you get.  We could meet virtually, though.  In fact, I know
this .cutest. little Matrix bar, where 'real' drinks are all the
rage, they include the little fruit and veggies you get with whatever
drink, the whole bit.  Why, I ordered a margarita there the other
day, and it came with one of those little paper umbrellas....]<<<<<
        -- The Dead Decker (6:33:28/9-7-54)

>>>>>[ I think you have a lot to tell me.. What the hell are we
advertising it like this on this 'board? Yes! Someplace private!
Now. Where's this bar? ]<<<<<
        -- Lady Phoenix (6:40:59/9-7-54)

>>>>>[Anyone up for a simple job? It's a search and return run. Looks
like a Mr. Johnson's kid decided to take an extended field trip here
in Seattle. I'd do it but I've got a few things that are keeping me a
bit occupied. He's offering 25k. If your interested give me a
buzz.]<<<<< 
                -- Red <05:20:42/09-07-93>

>>>>>[LIsten up, and hear me good.  You could have gotten any of the
stuff I sent you the first time by spending five minutes in the
public corp listings on how we run.  It would have said exactly,
drekkin near word for word, the stuff I sent you.  You would have
noticed that there were certain omissions, butyou can go look for
yourself.  As to how many employees, etc, the public data- bases have
that too.  And when the stockholders meet is none of your fraggin
buisness.  If the BOD or the Pres want to tell you when they meet or
what the voting protocol for the employees is, that's thier buisness.
I, while a member cannot and sure as drek wouldn't even if ordered by
the rest of the BOD.  Not anything personal, you understand, just
that it compromises security, and I am the matrix overseer
here.]<<<<< 
        --  Solitiare(08:56:09/09-07-54)

>>>>>[Uh, this is a MAJOR "I'm Sorry" to all who were at the party
last night, and a reminder that the damage will be payed
for-shortly, and that AJ and I and his friends will be there to
help clean up the mess in about 20 minutes. Uh, like I said, I'm
sorry about the grenades getting through like that.  The guy,
Coffin I believe, was the one who asked me to carry a heavy package
throughthe door as he was having trouble with it.  It looks like he
somehow found out about your door being set to not detect the
explosives in my leg and had me sneek in his grenades for him.  I'm
_REALLY_ sorry...]<<<<< 
        --  Collussus(09:01:31/09-07-54)

>>>>>[Nex, We ca' do tha' a'gin an'tim' ya re'y.  I am sti' sur' on
tha' ropes. I dona' know an'bo'y aro'd the plex.  A' ya mig't be tha'
bes' bet fo' me ta fin' a lady.  Aftre ma las' ladyfri'nd I havena
be'n ab'e ta lov' an'one in tha' way.  I wa' a'mos' mar'ied ta 'er
*SOB SOB SOB SOB* I canna take it  an'mor']<<<<<
        STREETWOLF(Memories Bring Pain/Fire is an Elf's Best Friend)

>>>>>[ Well I'm back in Seattle now after safely getting Megan back
to Seattle where her father was waiting for her.  Yes I know, it's a
long story, we're still piecing together what happened.  Btw did
someone saw there was a party, hope I'm not too late for it, oh am I
invited ? 

Getting back to what happened.  We approached the oil rig, engines
off just drifting towards the one of the neolithic structures that
dotted the harbour. Our faces were painted black and our clothes
were jet black, we were ready to rock.  As we approached the sound
of voices drifted through the night air, it sounded like an
argument, though the word were hard to make out being in a very
strong Scottish accent, what we did make out though was that it was
an argument over money.  Then there was a shot and shortly after
that a large splash.  "Time to move in", said Punisher.  Myself and
Punisher scaled the sides of one of the huge legs that these things
rest on, once to the top we dropped the rope ladders and allowed
the others to climb up.  Then trouble, while Spice was still on the
ladder a man came out of a door and walked straight into Punisher. 
Fortunately Punisher has got more cyber than he knows what to do
with and his reactions were like lightning as he quickly ripped the
throat out of the man to keep the silence.  Hiding the body and
moving into position we started to move out, it seemed too easy,
there were no guards or lookouts anywhere.  Then Spice said he
would make an astral check.  After a few seconds he came back
shaking, "The pollution in this area is terrible, there hasn't been
life round here for ages, everything is twisted and distorted, it's
horrible."  After he calmed down we got the info, there were 8 men
and it looked like they were getting ready to leave though
fortunately they hadn't as yet noticed their missing man. 

As the men and women came out we waited, then Megan said "My father
isn't there".  Then Punisher shouted loudly, "STOP where you are, you
are surrounded, lay down your weapons".  The silly buggers didn't
listen and panicked opening fire on what ever they could see.  The
whole thing maybe lasted 5 seconds, with myself, Punisher and IBA
opening fire as soon as they started, Spice did his stuff with a
sleep spell that he's just finished perfecting.  Well at the end
there were 2 left alive. 

"Time for some interrogation" grinned Punisher.  Well we found out
that Kentucky had left two days ago stealing the boat that they had
bought from the old man who had brought them here.  They had just
got a new boat and been 'negotiating' with it's owner when we
turned up.  I guessed the negotiation was the shot and splash that
we'd heard earlier.  Well we left them a med kit and were about to
leave when a chopper approaches from the distance, then we hear the
sound of several speed boats coming our way. 

The helicoptor opens fire spraying the front of the rig with
bullets, then the first of the speed boats close in.  Each one is
filled with what looks like 5 men.  A desparate battle begins with
myself and Punisher keeping the boats at bay while the rest of the
team make it to our boats.  Then things really start to get nasty,
the coptor launches two missiles at the rig not far from myself and
Punisher.  Slightly stunned and nursing a few shrapnel scars we
climbed back and turned the fire of our SMG's on the coptor.  Well
something must have been hit as the coptor retreated firing machine
guns till it became too difficult to hit.  Then we hear an
explosion, and I see one of the enemy speed boats in flame, IBA
came across the radio saying 1 down 4 to go.  Looking around I
could see the best chance of escape was to provide cover for our
boats then swim to the shore which was 1/2 a mile away from this
point. 

"Fancy going for a swim" I asked Punisher, looking down at the
polluted waters of the North Sea he said "not really". I told him
my plan though and he agreed, the next ten minutes consisted of
myself and Punisher running around the rig trying to provide
covering fire for our boats as the remaining four tried to get
closer.  Then we heard gun fire behind us and I was hit, while
three of the boats had been trying to catch our boats the fourth
had docked and it's men, climbed off. 

"Frag" I think was the word that got used quite alot in the next 30
seconds as myself and Punisher suprised and injured were slowly
pushed back to the far edge of the rig.  Then thank God, there was
a loud bang, everyone stopped firing except Punisher who took the
distraction to down 2 of the five who had boarded.  A Viper
aircraft had just zoomed over head and in the distance we could
hear the familiar thwap, thwap of an Ares Dragon. 

The helicoptor that had been providing cover started to hightail it.
Without their air back up the remaining guys in the boats decided
that maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all to continue pursuing
our boats towards the main land. The remaining three mercs got
worried and made a dash for it or would have done if Punisher didn't
fill their backs with lead.  "Time to move", said I. We dove off the
platform, some 30 ft drop and hit the cold North Sea with a smack,
ouch, I can still feel the impact now.  Swimming through the toxic
waters we made it to the shore where Beth (the Fuchi gal) had an old
Land Rover waiting for us with a driver.  Getting out of there fast
was as you can imagine pretty important at this time, I still have no
idea how MCT, as we now know, found out where we were or how the
marines go there so quickly after the gun fight started.

Not wanting to ponder too long on the whys and therefores of the
situation we accepted Beth's lift to a small farmhouse in the
Scottish wild lands, kept by a very kind Bear shaman.  The next
day, through IBA's sat link Beth contacted Fuchi to arrange
transport for us back to Seattle.  Which is where we are now. 

So what happened to Beth's father I hear you say ?  Well I spoke
briefly to him.  It seemed that Kentucky himself had sat link gear
and had been keeping in contact with Seattle for some time.  He
knew about MCT's attempt on the company and was instructed to get
Gordon back to Seattle which he simply did by dumping him on a
private plane then left.  Gordon was suprised however when we told
him that Fuchi helped us as he was under the impression that
Kentucky was being employed by Fuchi.  We're still trying to
convince him but I think he's suspicious enough to begin checking
when he gets back to Biosys.  I told him that it looks very likely
that Julia Kerley is behind the whole thing but without proof he
says he can't do anything. 

So where is this party ? ]<<<<<
        -The Powerhouse (15:25:15/7.9.54)

>>>>>[Meghan, we don't give a list of what we sell.  If you want
something, send your request to us encrypted(the harder it is for
anyone else to break, the better) and if we have it, you get it
FAST.  If we don't have it, we get it and then you get it within a
week or its half price.  If it is a Military Vehicle or Military
Sensory electronics, we have a month base time to get it and then a
week to ship it off in or it's half price.  Two weeks base time to
get it to you if you are not on the continent due to shipping lags
accross water.  So if you want something electronic, we can deal. 
Most little items, and even a few big ones we keep in stock, like
most weapons and electronics. But no-one needs to know our exact
inventory except us.]<<<<< 
        --  Moriarity(11:44:54/09-07-54)

>>>>>[Lordy, what a night that was!  That party was rather wild, and
not becauseof the food, drink, and company either!  Yike!  Let's see,
where to begin... 

Well, Slash and Roxey were the doorpersons.  Harlequin and Gossymer
were really handling security, but Slash was there to meet and greet
everyone who came in. Let's see, there was AJ, Slash, Nex, Roxey and
her ally, MaxiMillion, Valentine and Little Dragon, Harlequin, She is
Hard to Catch(much easier to say SHC-Sorry my dear), Sabre, Styx,
Lucinda Tairngire, Mirage, Journey, Streetwolf, a couple of actors
Afrique Wylde and Lance Sylvera(a ROYAL flirt!  Loa protect us!),
Buzz and the Motley Crew made a token appearance, and a couple of
folks I hadn't seen before.  Nex and Mirage came in with Streetwolf
and Lady Siam(man, she was way too Purrrrrfect for my tastes).  A
couple of new people wandered in and out...um, Saeger and Whiskers
and Captain Midnight and Kierkagard.  And Raven even made an
appearance later on, just in time for the fun...well, more on that
later. 

AJ did a really nice job.  This could not have been cheap
considering the anoung(Gods, I hate turtles!) amount of food eaten
and drink consumed.  Nex brought enough Guiness, Harps, Jameson,
Crested 10, and Irish mist that he and his pals had to make two
trips to the pickup!  And it was all gone after the first two
hours.  But the food was fantastic.  All kinds from Salish to
Creole to Japaneseto Aztlan to good old fashioned stuffers.  And
most of it was real too, not mycoprotein.  I was most impressed. 
Too bad Dad(AJ) had to go out in the middleof the party to
replenish the alcohol supply-those of you with world class
hangovers today deserve what you got!  You know who you are!!!! 
And if you drank all that without a toxin filter or blood
filtration, you DEFINATELY deserve what you are feeling right about
now. 

When Wizard came in with Collussus(damn that man looks like an
Amerindian-If I didn't know better, I'd have said that he was a
wimp), Slash freaked.  The two of them slapped each other silly,
which was hard on Slash as Wizard is an Ork. It looked like the two
of them had known each other for years...It turned out that they
are brothers.  Fraggin family reunion...  And Valentine really hit
it off with Journey.  They seemed to have found a common ground in
their conversation when they trusted each other enough to start
talking about history.Don't ask me, I have no clue what they were
talking about, but they seemed deeply involved in a conversation
about the 1970's and 1810's.  Strange, but it ain't my area of
interest, if you know what I mean.  Nex and Little Dragon also kind
of hit it off and were wrestling outside.  I made 50 nuyen on side
betting against Nex.  The GD 12 year old kid actually beat
Nex-however, Nex wanted a rematch and won that one when he used his
cyberarm to lift Little Dragon clear of the ground.  Oh well, I
lost 100 nuyen on that bet...Nothing ventured,    h nothing
gained.  Mirage and a small select group of people including
Harlequin, Dad, Raven, and me drank a single bottle of brandy. 
Gods, it was the smoothest and most delicious brandy I had ever
drank!  But I had the distinct impression that it was also the most
EXPENSIVE brandy I had ever drank, and may ever drink. Does anybody
know what the drek is between Dragon and Nex?  Those two were like
brothers and they were drekkin near at each other's throats once
last night. After a rather vocal argument that Nex wouldn't talk
about, Dragon and crew left!  What's the bad blood here?  And Nex
wouldn't even MEET Roxey's eyes when he came in.  After that
argument about the Ancients at the race, I can understand her being
mad, and she GLARED at him, but you would have figured thathe would
have done the same thing.  And he just didn't even look at her! 
And AJ and Raven hit it off something feirce.  Seems that Dad's Mil
Tech friends delivered the goods on time and Raven was most
pleased.  They talked for a good half hour about the old days-Last
Spring!  Yike! 

Now, there were some interesting things that happened between Roxey,
Lady Siam, and Nex last night, but I wouldn't DARE to impinge upon
Nex's domain and tell you all about them.  But as I suspect Nex and
Roxey are making...uh, up, I doubt you will see this till tomorrow.

Well, I was contracted to tell you about some of the banal stuff, so
I'll pass you over to Slash.]<<<<<
        --  Diana, Mistress of the Night(12:30:16/09-07-54)

>>>>>[Gawk ! what the 'ells 'appen ? Phoenix where are you ?

Something bleedin strange is goin' on, but I 'ave no idea what it is
! Lucy suprised me with wiv this trip down to this wine region
place, St Emellion or somethin like that an' I bought a couple of
bloody expensive bottles. Anyway while I was ploddin about, I 'ad
the wierdest feelin that someone was on me tail. Later, while 'ave
some of the local nosh, out of the corner of me eye, I spy these
mercs runnin' at the place, as I watched, different blokes in black
an' civiv's jumped the mercs and bundled them orf. Lucy recon's it
'appens quite a lot round 'ere. Really ? *raised eyebrow in
disbelief* 

Back at the 'otel I found some of me crap moved round. Why are you
two 'avin some much aggro but no-one's 'avin a go at me ?

Phoenix, Gawk seems a bit too taken with Crystal and she's one
smooth street op if ever I saw one. Time to do some diggin on our
new term, just to be sure. 

The Git, Jackel has ripped me orf for the location of Bruce, mind
you there's somethin funny at about the place 'e says Bruce is at,
Phoenix, I think your paranoia is rubbin' orf on me. Right, I'm orf
to find Gawk, Phoenix I'll see ya at 12 tonight at the Bar
Swordfish. Be there.]<<<<< 
        -WHAT(17::33:23/07-09-54)

>>>>>[Well, here goes.  Like Diana said, the party went ok for a
while.  Nex and Roxey were not happy units and thier units
weren't...uh, never mind(Ow! Roxey, Call Max off me!!!!!  Fraggin
ally...Ow!).  But Diana forgot to mention that she and a little
Gater from down in the Bijous hit it off quite well. Whiskers I
believe his name was.  Man, she was hurling Creole at him faster
thanI can speak English or Nex can piss off Roxey(OWWWwwwww!). 
Now, as a doorman, I got a good look at people comin in.  Some of
the runners I knew, some I didn't and some looked just plain mean. 
Captain Midnight had more scars than Seattle has squatters(well,
maybe I exagerate, but not much).  I asked him where he had gotten
them and he said "Eurowars."  Needless to say, I left the dude
ALONE. And his friends were just as wild.  Saeger was, I'm sorry to
say it, just plain ugly, but Roxey told me that he had Power to
spare, with a more Physical orientation, if you catch my drift. 
And Whiskers was your average dwarf wearing a Confederate cap and
combat boots.  Kierkagard looked kinda cool in hisTres Chic outfit,
but when I asked for his SMG(Glad Gossymer was there to spot it),
he pulled up his sleeve, glared at me, and popped a small clip out
of his ARM!  And the look he gave Roxey spoke volumes about how he
feels about elves, but he seemed to respect her if not like her. 

Nex was the usual-nice lookin and annoying as all drek.  I was NOT
happy to see his friendly neighborhood deathrattle coiled around
his arm, but he had been considerate enough to bring a cage for
it.  Lady Siam was, like Diana said, too drekkin purrrrfect.  She
literally purrrrred her rrrrrrrrs and looked, acted, and talked
like a fraggin Siamese Cat.  And she kept hitting on Nex, until he
sang his song(Ow!!  All right, I won't tell them the story! 
Chill!).  Street- wolf arrived with Nex and Siam, as did Mirage. 
For an albino, hell, for Anyone,Mirage was handsome.  I caught more
than one of the ladies looking his directionlast night, and
Streetwolf just seemed to shy for the party.  Diana and Roxey tried
to draw him out a little when the music started up, but to no
avail.  I guess he's just a little bit self-conscious.  Oh well,
he'll get out of it or he won't be long for Seattle.... 

I'll get back on-line here in a minute or two and tell you all about
the nasty stuff.]<<<<<
        --  Slash(12:50:01/09-07-54)

>>>>>[But what about you and Diana, Slash?  You two were together a
lot more than I would have suspected, considering you plead for help
in running away when we came into town and Diana wanted to see you
again.  What's up?  And if you don't have a REALLY good answer,
Daddy's gonna get the bat!]<<<<< 
        --  Action Jackson(12:52:42/09-07-54)

>>>>>[Styx:  So ka.  Would you believe I had my blinders on? I guess
this makes you a lass, neh?]<<<<<
        -Blinder <Needles/ForYou>

>>>>>[Red, I might be interested.]<<<<<
        -- Couch <..:..:.. / ..-..-..>

>>>>>[Well, this is it.  Last night the Drek hit the proverbial fan.

First off, Nex goes off and runs into the same dude(we think) that
has been taking shots at him even during the tour.  Now, at the
time Roxey and Styx bundled him off upstairs, supposedly to sleep
off the effects of too much beer and Lager, but I know his capacity
and he can keep goin until he's a walking zombie, and he didn't
have that look.  I guess they did it to not disturb the party, but
after the party I found out that Nex's fiend(that dude) slipped him
a Hyper cocktail mixed with an aqueus solution of Neuro-Stun and
DMSO, all in a glass of Irist Mist.  He hit HARD.  No serious
damage, but it showed that I let somebody through the door that
could have killed Nex had he wanted to.  Not cool. 

But the real fun came when Nephredana showed up to crash the party.
She just kinda gave Roxey and I a nasty look of "I could kill you
both before you could take your next breath and I want you to know it
so you will be terrified and piss you pants every time you think of
me for the next 400 years..." and then shoved by us.  Hell, she
almost hurt Roxey and Max even took time out from drinking booze and
eating Salish food(Lordy that ally can eat and drink!) to glare at
her.  She proceeded to put down several drinks and annoy the living
drek out of everyone before turning her sights on Action Jackson.
The whole first floor got really quiet as she approached.  Collussus
got in her way.  I guess she figured that her vampire strength would
be able to move him or kill him or both, but you could see the mana
glow on her hands as she threw a choph that would have cut a normal
man in half, but not Collussus.  You could hear the ring of flesh
impacting titanium reinforced, carbon laced ceramic and poly- mer
skin echoing in your ears for what seemed like minutes(Drek, I wished
I had Hearing Dampers!).  For the first time in her life, I would
bet, she looked scared.  She even hurt her hand.  Collussus even
showed me the wound afterward- He said that she dented him worse than
anyone ever had before without the aid of very large weapons.  I
guess he was quite impressed...but I digress!  AJ chuckled and then
asked Collussus to move aside and let her through, which he did, but
Little Dragon and Diana shifted in closer to protect him if
necessary. But I had this feeling that only the most heavily
augmented person in the room would have been able to stop her if she
wanted to injure AJ.  The two of them talked softly, but still loud
enough that every one could hear.  What follows is what I heard them
say, but other people with audio recorders probably have a better
version... 

AJ:  I told you not to come to my party.  You were not invited.  I
specifically excluded you from the "open" invite.

Neph:  I decided to meet the person who dares threaten me, and
besides, a party is much more fun to crash than be invited to.

AJ:  There are enough of us here to kill you if we wanted too. 
Looks like you weren't very smart this time.

Neph:  You won't kill me, Dr. Alexander Martin Jackson.  You gave
that up when your friend Valentine over there convinced you to go
back into surgery.  And you won't order me dead.  Many of these
folks here in this room trust you only slightly more than they
trust me.  You see, we're vampires, and they aren't. 

AJ:  Yes, we are vampires, but you relish in the power it gives, in
the killing and the pain of your victims, in the physical strength
you have, in the virtual immortality it grants.  I, however, do not.
I am 54 years old chronologically, but biologically I am 26, and I
hate it.  I would much rather be 54 and getting too old to do good
surgery than 26 forever.  I don't want to live long enough to see
my daughter and her daughters and their daughters die of old age. 
I was drained against my will-I didn't choose this life, it was
thrust upon me over 20 years ago.  And I hate myself every time I
have to drain some poor slot who doesn't know anybetter and figures
that I have power beyond imagining to stay alive.  If I could
return to normal, I probably would, but I can't so all I can hope
to do is survive until I can, and like any good surgeon will tell
you, I, like them, am here to help people, not hurt them. Neph: 
Ya, right.  And if you honestly believe that, you are lying to
yourself and to everyone here.  You are full of it... 

And at this point, the drek REALLY hit the fraggin fan.  It seems
that some guy by the real name of Coffin, a vampire hunter by trade
and disposition, had snuck in several flash grenades, smoke
grenades, and a bow with a few wooden arrows.  Well, about this
time, I guess that he just couldn't take it anymore and all of a
sudden there were clouds of smoke billowing up from under
furnitureand from plants, and flash grenades were going off all
over everywhere.  Some people's guns seemed to leap from holsters,
but no shots were heard-yet.  All of a sudden Nephredana seemed to
manifest an arrow in her shoulder, or more properly, through her
shoulder.  She actually took the time to look down at the shaft
sticking through, coated in blood, and then looked slowly up and
said "Nice try, Alex.  Time to die."  and lunged at AJ.  Well,
Collussus had moved of(damn turtle) off to get a better look at
where the arrow had come from, figuring that she wouldn't attack
AJ, so he was caught off guard and away to stop the attack.  But
stopped it was:  by Little Dragon, the kid.  Seems that stop the
attack.  But stopped it was:  by Little Dragon, the kid.  Seems
that (FRAGGIN TURTLE EDITOR!!!!!!!) the kid was in the right place
at the right time to intersect a really nasty blow, break an
arm(which does a lot of good on a vamp...) and toss her slightly
away from AJ.  Unfortunately for Nephredana, Coffin had dropped his
bow and was charging her with two long wooden spikes in his hands. 
He surprised her and had a spike driven up from under her throat
into her brain before you could blink.  She fell a lifeless bag of
bones and muscle.  But I guess this nut decided to attack AJ too
and he charged him.  But Raven was there to stop his charge at
least.  I could tell by the look in her eyes that she really wanted
to terminate with extreme prejudice, but her shot went wide and
nailed him in th back of the leg.  Coffin couldn't charge anymore
so he tossed his spike like a throwing knife and drekkin near
killed AJ.  I guess that AJ's mods from when he was a runner paid
off as he was barely able tospin out of the way to avoid a 10cm
shaft of wood through the chest.  It hit him in the arm, but at
least he's still alive. 

But it wasn't over yet.  Raven's shot made lots of already wired and
paranoid (myself included in the paranoid part) just go ape.  But
most were far too professional to shoot more than a round or two.
There were only one or two bullet wounds, and all were minor and
healed magically after flare grenade fires were put out.  But, like I
said, Coffin was down but not quite out. Harlequin's place is really
secure as Gossymer sealed the doors magnetically, and he was NOT
thrilled for obvious reasons.  Coffin decided to pull a pistol and
try to shoot AJ, who was still well within his sights, until, that
is, Collussus picked him up off the floor and literally threw him
into a nice big table.  Fast as the fastest sam in the room,
Collussus was there and just about ready to throw Coffin through the
nearest window(2 meters away, 2cm thick armored glass to withstand
LMG fire-and Coffin would have gone THROUGH, not armored glass to
withstand LMG fire-and Coffin would have gone THROUGH, not (FRAGGIN
TURTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) just bounced off) when AJ screamed "NO!
STOP!!!"  Collussus brought Coffin over to AJ and he asked why he had
killed Nephredana and tried to kill him.  Cool as cucumbers Coffin
answered "Because you are both vampires."  Now, this guy looked and
acted like the consummate professional, but there was a crazed look
behind his eyes and there ain't no way he was all there.  But AJ had
to placate Harlequin and friends who wanted to wipe Coffin on the
spot.  And Harlequin went around asking everyone what connection they
had to Coffin.  A couple of people only one or two of the
guestsrecognized, but Gossymer eventually unsealed the doors and
people drifted out, many staying long enough to collect a case and
drink it before leaving, but the party was pretty much dead after
that.  Too bad too.  Nex had woken up when the first grenade went off
and knew that something was amiss.  H grabbed his pistol from Roxey,
who was still with him(quite a surprise considering how they have
been arguing recently..Ow!) and tore off down the stairs just in time
to see Collussus toss Coffin into the table.  After all was quiet
again, he came the rest of the way down and walked slowly through the
people until he came upon Nephredana's body.  Not realizing who it
was, he kicked it over onto it's back and smiled up at the crowd. 
Just like Nex to do it, but he said "Vollyball anyone?"  But it was
just what everyone needed to break the tension enough to get the
fires and smoke out of the building before they did any more
damage. 

Seems Coffin and AJ are going back with Collussus this afternoon
after cleaning up Harlequin's place and repairing/replacing/fixing
in general his place.  They will be at Mil Tech for a couple of
days, but that's about it.  But you know, Nephredana's pals don't
know this yet, and AJ taking Coffin off to a place that is damn
near a fortress would look really bad... 

Well, that's what happened at the party.  Nex'll post his stuff
later, and any additional comments from other guests are perfectly
welcome.]<<<<< 
        --  Slash(14:05:33/09-07-54)

>>>>>[ 'ello again. Just thought I'd stop in for a chat.  Things are
going pretty slow while we're waiting for Moonwalker and TickTock to
recover. At least we're not picking up the tab for their medical
bills--ouch! 

Since a third of the team is laid up for the time being, and Ralph
is spending his downtime hitting on the hospital cafeteria staff,
(rather amusing, that. With his broken jaw all he can do is write
people messages on a little display pad, which destroys his usual
habit of talking with his hands.) Kaneda and I have been prowling
around London and having a grand old time of it. 

Our team recently picked up an illusionist, during our troubles in
the Italian Alps. She's actuallly German, but she does the king's
English justice. That brings us up to an even six-pack, as my
hyperactive friend would say. just a mo' and I'll put her on.
]<<<<< 
        --Blindside (Now you see it.../...Now you don't)

>>>>>[ Thank you, my good man. (sound of restraining snickering) No,
really, Blindside is truly a dear, and you know how I like older men.
Oh, look! Now he's turning red. No, wait, come back!

Damn, he just walked out. Probably had to go take a cold shower. I
swear, the British are just sooo repressed. And he calls himself a
Trickster. 

Ah, well. Introductions are in order, I guess. I'm Vixen, and the
B-Team (such a funny name) and I crossed paths recently when we
were trying to, er, convince an executive on a skiing vacation to
part with his former employer. Which was going rather well until I
showed up with a 50-caliber counter-offer. Then, while we all stood
off, a dozen guards from his own corp showed up. We almost got away
with him in the ensuing fun, but when TickTock blew the hillside,
he was swept away in the avalanche that buried the lodge and
would've got me too, if not for Kaneda flying by in the XLV.
Anyway, to make a long story short, I've joined the B-Team as a
measure of protection from my former employer. Besides, These guys
can be a lot of fun. 

Auf Weidesehn!]<<<<<
        --Vixen (Home is where/You hang your head)

>>>>>[Harlequin, I understand that you will probably never let me use
your place for another party again, and I would understand perfectly,
but I hope you will accept my apologies.  I am on the plane right
now, bound for N.O. and your place is all cleaned up now.  Slash will
be coming over later to get a damage estimate so that whatever needs
to be replaced/fixed/whatever can be tallied up and the work can
commence.  I will be back in Seattle in a couple of days to stay, so
I'll come by then and help my friends fix the damage.  Just tell them
what you need and we will get it for you.  As far as I am concerned,
I OWE you a HUGE(MEGA-HUGE-MONSTEROUS-GARGANTUAN-ETC) favor.  Feel
free to call it in anytime...]<<<<<
        --  Action Jackson(14:11:43/09-07-54)

>>>>>[I got to Gawk's room to find one Frag of a mess.  Looked like a
bleedin bomb 'ad 'it it. Stuff was everywhere, quite a bit of blood
too. I started leggin it about the place, lookin for clues, near
shook the Manager to an early Box. Well, any 'ow, I found Gawk round
the back, shoved in a big dustbin Tasered an' with a lot of heavy
duty dents in 'is 'ead. 'e was mumbling about Crystal, of which,
there was no sign, an' most of 'er gear was missing too.

Carried the 'eavy bleeder to a street knife called Gerald
Somethingsomething, an' 'ad to leave 'im there to find what 'appen
to Crystal. 

Phoenix, the meet still on at the Bar, left a note on Gawk, to tell
'im to meet us there. Be careful Term.]<<<<<
        -WHAT(20:09:23/07-09-54)

>>>>>[AJ gre' par'y. As ta me be'n shy, wel I wa' a bi' preocupi'd.
I wa' remem'ring a tim' a'o.  I mi's som'on' v'ry spec'l t' me.

Roxey an' Diana, I' wasna an'thin' ya' di'.  Ya' tw' ar' gre' bu'
lik' I sa' t' AJ, I wa' a bi' preocupo'd wit' oth'r thin's.  I jus'
havta wor' a fe' thin's ou' i' ma lif' I ma' tel ya' abou' ma
probl'ms latre.]<<<<< 
                STREETWOLF(Time to Cry/Fire is an Elf's Best Friend)

>>>>>[ Looks like Herr Ganz is the nets latest entry for Demi-God.
Shall we take him down like the rest? ]<<<<<
        -- Nightstalker <13:29:59/09-07-54>

>>>>>[ Anybody who threatens Jaez is asking for trouble.  If he
tries to go through with them then he shall reap what he
sows.]<<<<< 
        -- Raven the Mage <13:31:16/09-07-54>

>>>>>[ Your kidding right.  This poser, Herr Ganz, hasn't earned
himself a place in the list of aspiring demigods.  After Tirandor,
Trevor, Quention, Fung, Kurgan, and Creeping Death he'll have to to
much better. ]<<<<< 
        -- Cerise <13:33:33/09-07-54>

>>>>>[ Blindside, It's nice to hear from you guys again.  I hope that
Michael and TickTock will be better soon. ]<<<<<
        -- Raven the Mage <13:21:45/09-07-54>

>>>>>[ Kanada, I'm glad to know that you've recovered fully from
that nasty fall you took last spring.  When you get in town look me
up.  If you lucky I can set you up with Jaez :) ]<<<<<
        -- Raven the Mage <13:23:17/09-07-54>

>>>>>[ You wouldn't really do that to Jaez?!?  ]<<<<<
        -- Nightstalker <13:23:57/09-07-54>

>>>>>[ Maybe... maybe not. ]<<<<<
        -- Raven the Mage <13:24:26/09-07-54>

>>>>>[ What's gotten into you?  Your acting like Cerise. ]<<<<<
        -- Nightstalker <13:25:17/09-07-54>

>>>>>[ Hey!  Don't use my name in vain! ]<<<<<
        -- Cerise <13:26:26/09-07-54>
 
>>>>>[ I'm just playing.  Despite the fact that he's a lecherous,
immoral jerk, he is an old friend. ]<<<<<
        -- Raven the Mage <13:27:20/09-07-54>

>>>>>[Ok, it's real simple. Just find her and call the number in the
file then bring her wherever they tell you.  Everything you'll need
is in the file; her pix, favorite hangouts etc. If you have any
questions just get in touch.

##PERSONAL FILE:ITO,AKIKO##]<<<<<
                -- Red <15:04:32/09-07-54>

>>>>>[ 
*****INCLUDE_FORMAT:ASCII TEXT; 
{...Roxey an' Diana, I' wasna an'thin' ya' di'.  Ya' tw' ar' gre' bu'
lik' I sa' t' AJ, I wa' a bi' preocupo'd wit' oth'r thin's.  I jus'
havta wor' a fe' thin's ou' i' ma lif' I ma' tel ya' abou' ma
probl'ms latre.]<<<<<
                STREETWOLF

>>>>>[Jesu-Criminy, bambino.  Get yourself an accent translator. 
You've got more damn eigus in your speech than the whole of the
French language. Maybe you got yuirself a bit o' the virus goin'
roun'?]<<<<< 
        -Blinder <Needles/ForYou>

>>>>>[Well WHAT, I don't think I will have a choice on being
careful. . . I didn't have a choice.  My room was stripped bare. . .
So I am now living on the wonderful streets.  I have been having a
lot of noisy people eyeing me but since that usually happens anyway,
it is hard to tell which of them actually mean business.

I will meet you at that Bar in one condition, we leave the women out
of it. Something is up, and it was all to convinent for you to be
taken out of Paris on a trip, while Gawk and I were taking various
sorts of insundry beatings. I am extremely worried about Blitzkrieg.
He was supposed to send something through a private courier that
never arrived.  It was real important.  We might have to travel
again. 

See you in under a half-hour.]<<<<<
        -- Phoenix <23:36:57/09-07-54>