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Message no. 1
From: Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject: A couple of murders down the road
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:28:07 -0600
Ok, I'd like permission to kill some semi-important people, as follows:

The most powerful female Ancient ganger
A not-named "famous" racecar driver
An ex-Cirque de Soliel performer
A UCAS Navy tactician
A Seattle Fire Chief
A famous climber of Everest
Well known Science Fiction writer
A Seattle judge
Semi-famous architect
A second-tier Mafia don(or a family member)

There's a lot more, actually, but those are the ones I'm concerned about asking permission
for, as some of them have potential for messing with parts of Seattle.

Just as a quick warning - some of the murders I'm going to describe will be pretty nasty
and gruesome. You have been warned.

Brian
Message no. 2
From: "Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject: Re: A couple of murders down the road
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:07:24 -0700
According to Brian Angliss:
>Ok, I'd like permission to kill some semi-important people, as follows:
>
>The most powerful female Ancient ganger
>A not-named "famous" racecar driver
>An ex-Cirque de Soliel performer
>A UCAS Navy tactician
>A Seattle Fire Chief
>A famous climber of Everest
>Well known Science Fiction writer
>A Seattle judge
>Semi-famous architect
>A second-tier Mafia don(or a family member)
>
>There's a lot more, actually, but those are the ones I'm concerned about asking
permission for, as some of them have potential for messing with parts of Seattle.
>
>Just as a quick warning - some of the murders I'm going to describe will be pretty
nasty and gruesome. You have been warned.

Bring it on. =) I'm with it...
--
/!\/!ark /!\!eidengard, CS Grad, VLSI http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mneideng
"Fairy of sleep, controller of illusions" Operator/Jack-of-all-Trades, CACR
"Control the person for my own purpose." "Don't mess with the Dark
Elves!"
-Pirotess, _Record_of_Lodoss_War_ Shadowrunner and Anime Addict
Message no. 3
From: Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM>
Subject: Re: A couple of murders down the road
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 17:54:51 -0400
At 02:28 PM 5/19/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Ok, I'd like permission to kill some semi-important people, as follows:
>
>The most powerful female Ancient ganger

Does it have to be the most powerful female? That might be a bit too high
on the totem pole.

>A not-named "famous" racecar driver
>An ex-Cirque de Soliel performer

Hey, I killed a supermodel, who am I to complain about this sort of thing?

>A UCAS Navy tactician

How high up on the ladder? Might be problematic if he's too high.

>A Seattle Fire Chief

"A" or "The." Huge distiction. "A" Chief would be a
newsworthy event, but
wouldn't be major. "The" Chief would be pretty big, almost like killing
the Section Chief of Lone Star for Seattle (whatever the proper title is)
or a Seattle Metroplex city council member.

>A famous climber of Everest
>Well known Science Fiction writer

If I can kill a supermodel...

>A Seattle judge

Hmmm...not terribly comfortable with this one, but I don't really have any
valid objections.

>Semi-famous architect

Honestly, who would care? Would get a nice obit in the scream sheets, but
I don't see how this would be of major impact.

>A second-tier Mafia don(or a family member)

I suspect there are still spasms from the Mob War! plotline, so this
probably woudn't be too problematic. (BTW, I'm guessing that the updated
Seattle Sourcebook will probably wrap that plot up and tell us who won and
who lost)

>Just as a quick warning - some of the murders I'm going to describe will
be >pretty nasty and gruesome. You have been warned.

I'm interested to see how this will play out, what the big picture will be.

I've got a new PC I'd like to get involved somewhere and this might be a
good place for him. I'll try to drop the idea by you private this week.

Erik J.
Message no. 4
From: Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject: Re: A couple of murders down the road
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:32:40 -0600
>Does it have to be the most powerful female? That might be a bit too high
>on the totem pole.

If not the most, it needs to be the second-most powerful/important. What I have planned
won't work correctly if it's not. And I'd prefer the most important.

>How high up on the ladder? Might be problematic if he's too high.

Let's see, I have written down in my notes for this plot: "master naval
tactician." The skill of the Navy man is more important than rank, but I would think
that, once you hit a certain skill, you would be promoted accordingly. Paul?

>"A" or "The." Huge distiction. "A" Chief would be a
newsworthy event, but
>wouldn't be major. "The" Chief would be pretty big, almost like killing
>the Section Chief of Lone Star for Seattle (whatever the proper title is)
>or a Seattle Metroplex city council member.

A chief, ie one of the chiefs of either Everett, Snohomish, Downtown(which is probably
"the" chief, however), Bellevue, Redmond, Fort Lewis, Renton, Puyallup, or
Tacoma (I think I got them all). The chiefs who would report to The Chief.

>Hmmm...not terribly comfortable with this one, but I don't really have any
>valid objections.

The way I figure it, there has got to be a bunch of judges for all of Seattle, and one of
them would get geeked.

>I'm interested to see how this will play out, what the big picture will be.

Well, it's coming along slowly, and as time goes on, things will start to fall into place,
if they haven't already for some of you. As that happens, I think characters will want to
get more involved.

Brian
Message no. 5
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: A couple of murders down the road
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 00:24:20 +0100
In message <v0151010bb187638ea062@[128.138.200.180]>, Brian Angliss
<angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU> writes
>Let's see, I have written down in my notes for this plot: "master naval
>tactician." The skill of the Navy man is more important than rank, but I would
>think that, once you hit a certain skill, you would be promoted accordingly.
>Paul?

Well, shooting high, my 1994 Almanac of Sea Power listed RAdm E S
McGinley II as Commander of the Naval Surface Warfare Centre. His phone
number was 703-602-0632 :) That sets an upper limit.

A tactics expert for the UCAS Pacific Fleet (meaning he's in Seattle)
would be a commander or captain, O5 or O6, on current form.
Message no. 6
From: Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject: Re: A couple of murders down the road
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 17:31:06 -0600
>A tactics expert for the UCAS Pacific Fleet (meaning he's in Seattle)
>would be a commander or captain, O5 or O6, on current form.

Thanks. And killing a commander or captain in the UCAS Navy would likely have what kind
of repercussions?

Brian
Message no. 7
From: Avenger <Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: A couple of murders down the road
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 22:03:50 +0100
In article <v01510106b1874616b3eb@[128.138.200.180]>, Brian Angliss
<angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU> writes
>Ok, I'd like permission to kill some semi-important people, as follows:
>
>The most powerful female Ancient ganger

That'd be Sting. Personally I object, but then I like her. :-P

>A not-named "famous" racecar driver
>An ex-Cirque de Soliel performer
>A UCAS Navy tactician
>A Seattle Fire Chief
>A famous climber of Everest
>Well known Science Fiction writer
>A Seattle judge
>Semi-famous architect
>A second-tier Mafia don(or a family member)

Don't have a problem with the rest.

>There's a lot more, actually, but those are the ones I'm concerned about asking
>permission for, as some of them have potential for messing with parts of
>Seattle.
>
>Just as a quick warning - some of the murders I'm going to describe will be
>pretty nasty and gruesome. You have been warned.

OOoh... must remember to put on my Beeblebrox patented Non-Panic
glasses. :)


--
Avenger
Message no. 8
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: A couple of murders down the road
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 22:33:17 +0100
In message <v0151010eb18772f53edb@[128.138.200.180]>, Brian Angliss
<angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU> writes
>>A tactics expert for the UCAS Pacific Fleet (meaning he's in Seattle)
>>would be a commander or captain, O5 or O6, on current form.
>
>Thanks. And killing a commander or captain in the UCAS Navy would likely have
>what kind of repercussions?

There'd be some investigations, not just police but FBI and maybe Naval
Intelligence Service as well. Probably SIGA, if you want :) Not world-
shakers, but they would want to investigate and find out what happened
and why.

If it seemed to be a random killing, though, and there were no clues or
leads obviously apparent, it would die down to nothing quite quickly:
it's not like there haven't been enough casual murders in the last few
months.

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