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Message no. 1
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@***.GWU.EDU>
Subject: CHARACTER: Sir Ignacio the Anti-Technical
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 01:19:01 -0500
CHARACTER
F-01
Sir Ignacio the Anti-Technical
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"We gots all this drek goin' on in the streets, and you know
_why?_ Because of all this technology! Hundreds of years ago, mankind
turned its back on simple values and embraced the steam engine, the
television, the computer -- and now even the metahumans act inhuman!
That ain't for me, chummer. I'm goin' back to a simpler time,
when all a man needed to be a man was his sword, his horse, and the
blessing of a lady.
Hey! There goes a lady now...wonder if she'll bless me?"

Wearing clunky-looking metal chain armor and weilding a large
sword, the only reason this kook (known as the Don Quixote of Seattle)
hasn't been gunned down is that most of his family fortune has been spent
on all sorts of expensive protection. He pretends not to know it, but his
armor is made of high-quality, virtually impenetrable metals, and his
sword has a monofilament edge hidden inside the blade until
voice-activated by his usual war cry of "Sword, don't fail me now!"
Though nobody can tell for sure, it is also thought that much
bioware was introduced into his body as a teenager -- perhaps leading to
his current state of delusion.
As to how he got all of this stuff, well, it is rumoured that his
overprotective mother was the sole heir of the Gates and Perot fortunes,
and his father was the brother of Sadato Shiawase, CEO of the Shiawase
Corporation (see _Corporate Shadowfiles_).
This may or may not be his true parentage, but if so, the union
was never recognized by the Shiawase corporation. But, somehow, Ignacio
has never gone hungry, always getting money forwarded from a
well-protected node of the Japanese net.

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