| From: | Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com |
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| Subject: | Reunion - Part 2 |
| Date: | Thu, 6 May 1999 23:36:09 -0700 (PDT) |
Now, whatever you may think of us shadowrunners, the majority of us
aren’t stupid. At least, not the ones who last for any noticeable
amount of time. The stupid ones burn fast. I don’t know about burning
bright, but they sure as hell burn fast. I don’t know why, but most of
the stupid ones end up in my line of work – street warriors, street
samurai, whatever your preference; that’s what we’re called and that’s
what we do. I…no, scratch that. I just answered my own question. The
reason they end up there is because you don’t have to be smart to beat
the drek out of somebody. But to do it with finesse, with style, well
that’s where us brainiacs come into our own. To figuratively beat the
drek out of someone without them even realising you’ve taken them calls
for a real genius. Now, I don’t want to brag, but…okay, I’ll brag.
Honestly, it wasn’t entirely genius on my part. Although I am one,
according to some tests I took one time. The main reason I managed to
pull this little job off was because I KNEW who I was dealing with. I
knew the both of them like the back of my hand and I knew which way
they’d jump when I said ‘boo!’ Sometimes that helps even more than
sheer brainpower – that’s why everyone always goes on about the value
of intelligence. That’s INTELLIGENCE – as in what the military doesn’t
have – not brains.
Anyway, I’m getting ahead of myself a bit. I’m told geniuses tend to
do that. They think a lot faster than their mouths work and they just
keep going off in all directions. At any rate, the first step, after I
filled my crew in on what was going down, was to stop in and speak with Micky.
==Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow)
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