From:	Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:	Sakura
Date:	Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:11:26 +0000

A number of things are going to happen reasonably quickly on the stock
market once trading opens on monday, involving Sakura Industrial Robotics.
They're small, but to minor players they could mean a lot. None of this
stuff will cross s-land, but several players may well be interested. Decide
how your characters would react (if they would at all, eg Stormwind might
be a little busy right now to be watching the markets), and tell me about
it.

Firstly, there will be interest in SIR shares displayed by a large-scale
player, one who is rumored to be, or at least to have been in the past,
working in SK's investment divisions. He's buying quite a few of the
shares, looking to get around 100k of them (a 10% share). Obviously, this
is putting the price up a little.

Secondly, at about 1200, the afore-mentioned rumored SK lackey starts
offering prices a couple of points above the market rate for SIR shares.
The price goes a little higher, as everyone is assuming he has heard
something.

Thirdly, at about 1230, those who own shares in SIR receive a report from
the directors announcing that SIR has successfully tendered for the
company's first major job, a complete refit of the (very expensive) robotic
equipment at a major Biolab in Salish-Shidhe. The message is full of
hyperbole and exclamation marks, but what it boils down to is that a small
company has got the break it needs to keep its head above water for at
least a half year, and the boost to its rep that it needs to get other
contracts after this one.

PLAYTHING OF A CRUEL GOD
JAIMIE NICHOLSON