Message no. 1

From:	"Stephen B. Caldwell" <caldwell@****.LATECH.EDU>
Subject:	Deathjester
Date:	Tue, 1 Feb 1994 02:03:49 -0600

CHARACTER
Deathjester
C-08
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Deathjester is an older breed. He's been around fighting for causes longer
than most of the young drek-hot runner's parents have been alive. Now he has
decided to live for himself doing what he does best-- Eliminating people that
those with enough money want removed.

It all started about 40 year when his father, an up-and-coming corp. man,
had an affair with his Choctaw secretary. Afraid of the consequences that an
illegitament child would bring, he fired her, but to keep her quiet promised
to support her as long as she kept the child secret.

Stephen Caldwell, as the boy was named, grew up in a home without any real
parental discipline. At the age of 15 he ran away from his home in Louisiana
and headed west. This was during the upheaval of the NAN rebellion in 2015.
He joined a group of merc's working out of Oklahouma as a sniper and got
additional training as a rigger operating survelliance drones. After the
Treaty of Denver, he stayed in the NAN armed forces until he was forcefully
retired in 2050.

It was during his time in the armed forces that he got the nickname
Deathjester. The younger guys found it quite unnerving that the old fart
could find a firefight so funny. He would laugh as the bullets came in
around the squad. He would find a nice nook to hunker down in a would
giggle to himself as he adjusted the thermographic sight on his sniper rifle.
The muffled "Thwump" of a silenced-shot from his rifle and a loud guffaw
would signal yet another kill.

After retirement, he lounged around on his pension for about a year until an
old friend called about a "problem" his daughter was having with a certain
abusive boyfriend. He convinced the young man to permanently stay away from
her. Somehow, someone recognized the crazed laugh of the sniper and he found
himself needing a favor. A certain corp. also needed a job done and promised
to erase him from the public record in exchange for services rendered.
Deathjester accepted and became SINless. He is now for hire as a sniper for
anyone with enough nY.