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Message no. 1
From: Gweedo The Killer Pimp <yawas@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Awfully quiet around here.
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 22:51:27 EDT
On Sat, 3 May 1997 09:12:48 +0100 "Paul J. Adam"
<shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK> writes:
>*****PRIVATE: Gweedo
>>>>>>[You have had a stroke of fortune.
<Snip Rest>

Well, Gweedo will use the Telecom number to reach Jolson. What exactly
will he find out?


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The useless fact of the day is:
The word "girl" appears in the Bible only once.
Message no. 2
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Awfully quiet around here.
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 15:30:12 +0100
In message <19970504.215009.10158.2.Yawas@****.com>, Gweedo The Killer
Pimp <yawas@****.COM> writes
>Well, Gweedo will use the Telecom number to reach Jolson. What exactly
>will he find out?

Jolson has an educated voice and is courteous towards Gweedo, asking him
how he prefers to be adressed: with that resolved he makes the following
offer.

"Mr Gweedo, my employers foresee certain business difficulties. It would
be to our advantage if one of our competitors suffered a fatal incident
before those difficulties began: this would give us an advantage in the
following... negotiations. We choose to use an outside contractor, since
our normal personnel are committed elsewhere and your talents appear
ideal.

"Your target will be meeting one of our staff for dinner. We wish
everyone present at that table to be killed outright, in a thorough and
efficient manner. Other casualties are to be kept to the minimum
necessary. Property damage is irrelevant.

"We will provide you with a weapon and transport, and a fee of
>>encrypted<< in certified credit on successful completion. The weapon
will be yours to keep if you so wish. We will also have need of your
services during the following... negotiations, if you wish to work for
us again."


If Gweedo's interested, I'll write up the hit from an observer's
perspective: I feel like starting a low-level mob war :) FYI Gweedo's
being hired by the Crimson Hawks yakuza clan and his target is one of
the capos of the Luna mafia family. This one could get bloody in a low-
rent way :)

Can you let me have a capsule description of Gweedo again?

--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
Message no. 3
From: Mike Goldberg <michael.goldberg@*******.COM>
Subject: Re[2]: Awfully quiet around here.
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 08:52:17 MST
Devious Paul. Give Gweedo a weapon and then conveniently, the cops
find the weapon and Gweedo's prints all over it. Yaks cleared of a
the hit and someone takes the fall for it.

Nice set up.

Mike


______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
Subject: Re: Awfully quiet around here.
Author: ShadowTk Plot and Administrative Discussion
<PLOTD@********.ITRIBE.NET> at SMTP-PO
Date: 5/5/97 8:47 AM


In message <19970504.215009.10158.2.Yawas@****.com>, Gweedo The Killer
Pimp <yawas@****.COM> writes
>Well, Gweedo will use the Telecom number to reach Jolson. What exactly
>will he find out?

Jolson has an educated voice and is courteous towards Gweedo, asking him
how he prefers to be adressed: with that resolved he makes the following
offer.

"Mr Gweedo, my employers foresee certain business difficulties. It would
be to our advantage if one of our competitors suffered a fatal incident
before those difficulties began: this would give us an advantage in the
following... negotiations. We choose to use an outside contractor, since
our normal personnel are committed elsewhere and your talents appear
ideal.

"Your target will be meeting one of our staff for dinner. We wish
everyone present at that table to be killed outright, in a thorough and
efficient manner. Other casualties are to be kept to the minimum
necessary. Property damage is irrelevant.

"We will provide you with a weapon and transport, and a fee of
>>encrypted<< in certified credit on successful completion. The weapon
will be yours to keep if you so wish. We will also have need of your
services during the following... negotiations, if you wish to work for
us again."


If Gweedo's interested, I'll write up the hit from an observer's
perspective: I feel like starting a low-level mob war :) FYI Gweedo's
being hired by the Crimson Hawks yakuza clan and his target is one of
the capos of the Luna mafia family. This one could get bloody in a low-
rent way :)

Can you let me have a capsule description of Gweedo again?

--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
Message no. 4
From: Jeffrey Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Awfully quiet around here.
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 14:00:30 -0700
On Mon, 5 May 1997, Mike Goldberg wrote:

> Devious Paul. Give Gweedo a weapon and then conveniently, the cops
> find the weapon and Gweedo's prints all over it. Yaks cleared of a
> the hit and someone takes the fall for it.
>
> Nice set up.

Aw, come on. Not only does it say he specifically gets to keep the gun,
but if he's any kind of a professional Gweedo wouldn't go on a job without
a sanitized gun. No (traceable) serial numbers, no prints/biomatter just
in case he has to drop it. Going on an illegal op without a sanitized gun
is about as bright as handing out your business card at the restaurant
after you pull a hit.

--Jeff
Message no. 5
From: Mike Goldberg <michael.goldberg@*******.COM>
Subject: Re[4]: Awfully quiet around here.
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 15:16:38 MST
Actually, I just missed the part of the fact that Gweedo gets to keep
the gun. Skimmed the note to quickly, I guess.


Mike


______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Awfully quiet around here.
Author: ShadowTk Plot and Administrative Discussion
<PLOTD@********.ITRIBE.NET> at SMTP-PO
Date: 5/5/97 3:04 PM


On Mon, 5 May 1997, Mike Goldberg wrote:

> Devious Paul. Give Gweedo a weapon and then conveniently, the cops
> find the weapon and Gweedo's prints all over it. Yaks cleared of a
> the hit and someone takes the fall for it.
>
> Nice set up.

Aw, come on. Not only does it say he specifically gets to keep the gun,
but if he's any kind of a professional Gweedo wouldn't go on a job without
a sanitized gun. No (traceable) serial numbers, no prints/biomatter just
in case he has to drop it. Going on an illegal op without a sanitized gun
is about as bright as handing out your business card at the restaurant
after you pull a hit.

--Jeff
Message no. 6
From: Gweedo The Killer Pimp <yawas@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Awfully quiet around here.
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 19:16:35 EDT
On Mon, 5 May 1997 15:30:12 +0100 "Paul J. Adam"
<shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK> writes:

>Jolson has an educated voice and is courteous towards Gweedo, asking
>him
>how he prefers to be adressed: with that resolved he makes the
>following
>offer.

"Gweedo will be just fine Mr. Jolson."

>"Mr Gweedo, my employers foresee certain business difficulties. It
>would
>be to our advantage if one of our competitors suffered a fatal
>incident
>before those difficulties began: this would give us an advantage in
>the
>following... negotiations. We choose to use an outside contractor,
>since
>our normal personnel are committed elsewhere and your talents appear
>ideal.

"Thank you for the compliment, I will be sure to keep that in mind while
I'm working."

>"Your target will be meeting one of our staff for dinner. We wish
>everyone present at that table to be killed outright, in a thorough
>and
>efficient manner. Other casualties are to be kept to the minimum
>necessary. Property damage is irrelevant.
>
>"We will provide you with a weapon and transport, and a fee of
>>>encrypted<< in certified credit on successful completion. The weapon
>will be yours to keep if you so wish. We will also have need of your
>services during the following... negotiations, if you wish to work for
>us again."

"I will do the job. I would very much like a combat shotgun if you could
provide it for me. I will need to know where the dinner is being held,
and what the people that I'm supposed to be doing will look like. If the
job goes over well, I will help you again."

>If Gweedo's interested, I'll write up the hit from an observer's
>perspective: I feel like starting a low-level mob war :) FYI Gweedo's
>being hired by the Crimson Hawks yakuza clan and his target is one of
>the capos of the Luna mafia family. This one could get bloody in a
>low-
>rent way :)

Well, as any good shadowrunner will often do, he'll try as he may, and
try as he might, find out what his employers do for the night (or day,
whenever they do their dirty work.)

>Can you let me have a capsule description of Gweedo again?

I might. Ok, I will :) but I won't spam it to the list.


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The useless fact of the day is:
The word "girl" appears in the Bible only once.
Message no. 7
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Awfully quiet around here.
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 00:54:25 +0100
In message <19970505.181510.3390.0.Yawas@****.com>, Gweedo The Killer
Pimp <yawas@****.COM> writes
>>"We will provide you with a weapon and transport, and a fee of
>>>>encrypted<< in certified credit on successful completion. The weapon
>>will be yours to keep if you so wish. We will also have need of your
>>services during the following... negotiations, if you wish to work for
>>us again."
>
>"I will do the job. I would very much like a combat shotgun if you could
>provide it for me.

We had a drum-fed Enfield AS-7 in mind. We wish the victims to be
...shall we say "terminated with extreme prejudice?" Is that
sufficiently indicative?

>I will need to know where the dinner is being held,
>and what the people that I'm supposed to be doing will look like.

That will not be a problem.

>If the
>job goes over well, I will help you again."

Excellent.

>Well, as any good shadowrunner will often do, he'll try as he may, and
>try as he might, find out what his employers do for the night (or day,
>whenever they do their dirty work.)

Jolson isn't too hard to run down as a fixer who does favours for the
Crimson Hawks yakuza clan.


--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
Message no. 8
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Awfully quiet around here.
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 00:12:35 +0100
In message <9704058628.AA862844919@*********.comm.twcable.com>, Mike
Goldberg <michael.goldberg@*******.COM> writes
> Devious Paul. Give Gweedo a weapon and then conveniently, the cops
> find the weapon and Gweedo's prints all over it. Yaks cleared of a
> the hit and someone takes the fall for it.

Actually, no. They want a hit done, they've got their own people
deployed in cover, and Gweedo offers the right sort of brutality to be
hard to trace to them: the Crimson Hawks don't have many if any metas in
their ranks. So, a big brutal cyberork doesn't fit the Crimson Hawks
profile. So who was it?

And yeah, they can hang Gweedo out to dry later... if necessary. They
hope it won't be. He shows a certain potential.

--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk

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