From:	"Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject:	a word of explanation
Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 1998 22:12:37 -0800

The Merry People, a group of scientists, deckers, and other assorted people
with a common interest in artificial intelligence and related topics, have a
group who is working on offensive and defensive software with results from
some of their cognitive studies built in. That group has just unleashed a
very fearsome set of smartframes from a rather elaborate set of dedicated
hardware that have orders to try to find information related to Haze and try
to hunt him down if he's on the Matrix. If they catch him Haze can kiss his
CNS goodbye.

I don't know what measures Haze is taking to get onto the Matrix, but the
_least_ that's going to happen is that Cthulu is going to do everything
possible to trace his position, and unless he has some exceptional protection
I would think that it should be very difficult for him to keep posting to the
normal portion of the Matrix unless there's a very good reason. I presume
that Haze's player doesn't wan't him killed off out of hand, but if Haze
wants to keep any sort of presence on the net I'd like to hear what he's doing
to save his ass. =)

BTW, Fuchi has also taken an interest in this little outburst, and they are
probably keeping as close tabs as they can without being "obtrusive" on the
Federal investigation. If they can get a fix on Haze they're going to have
an assasin hired. What _is_ Haze doing to keep his whereabouts secret, anyway?
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/!\/!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