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Message no. 1
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: Seattlers Part IV: (A Stroll)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 02:07:34 -0500
And the "coup d'et grace": The final chapter of Ulysses: 40 pages of
stream-of-consciousness-all-one-sentence in the mind of a woman. I
just did mine in the mind of an ork

Goddamn Humanis fraggin Policlub always yellin at us metas tryin to
get us to do what they want roll over play dead least it was eggs and
not bullets this time hit my mother and killed her last year and we
live on the street now no money no way to get a job or money cant even
get soy right now unless we steal it and Im so hungry need food there
that guy looks like he has some money maybe if I ask him Ill get some
money no no money just a look and some spit in my eye fuck you too
need food steal it pick him up bash him against the wall blood
spurting everywhere good now hes dead grab his credstick got an old
one somewhere with no nuyen on it now I got some how much three
hundred good now buy food at the Stuffer Shack gotta find one first
there over there good oh look at the troll behind the counter he looks
like hes been hit by a truck ok soy and some flavor drops good ok walk
to the counter put it down pull out my credstick slot it give it back
walk out soy tastes good proteins good for the body helps you grow
easy to metabolize cheap and abundant food source what flavor beef I
always liked beef meat would be good sometime but not now hard to get
not many cows left ok so now what I dont know what to do so walk
around no where to go no home no bed not even a squat maybe Ill find
one look for the Ork Underground again maybe Ill find it theyll let me
in an then Ill be able to work and get a home and not live on the
street anymore oh-oh gangers coming towards me hope they dont want to
rob me I aint got nothin please leave me alone please no dont take my
money I just got it ow my nose I think they broke it I aint got no
more I swear oof knocked the wind out of me kick to my stomach ow pipe
coming down black
wake up wet in a gutter sun moved a lot now its afternoon I was
knocked out for a long time ok get up walk around some get out of the
Barrens first before any more gangs try to hurt walk this way turn
here ok no more dead end turn around look its Billy we grew up
together he wont hurt me hell help me no more pain wow he healed me I
feel great if I knew how to shoot a gun we could be shadowrunners yeah
that would be great making cred and having a house and maybe making
that one big score that would let me retire to some little tropical
island where only women in bikinis live and I could fuck em every
night yeah thatd be nice ok so maybe I can learn to shoot a gun Id
need to get some cyberware too Im too slow now Id die in a minute
convince Billy talk to him tell him of the tropical island and that
one big score hes in we need more people I need to learn to use a gun
I need a gun ok wait until sundown then steal one gun shop over there
maybe tie a rag around my face and grab one now no wait first find
some more people walk down the road see people I knew up there’s TJ he
and Billy and me made a good group when we were younger before the
troubles started with Renraku my mother worked there then the Arcology
got taken over or something I don’t know scary stuff happening there
leave it alone just walk down the street nothing wrong talk to TJ ok
hes in he wants cyber too and guns lots of em ok we need to get guns
walk into the gun shop boost a gun walk out thats the one I want Billy
ask him a question put it in my pants while hes looking at Billy ok
walk out who me why do you want me to take whatever is in my pants out
and put it back I have nothin in my pants fragger run we all got out
now we need ammo ok lets see another gun shop with ammo need to put
down the gun somewhere safe you got a squat TJ you rich mother fucker
go there first so tired need to sleep for a minute lay down close eyes
kicked awake gun in my face guy from gun shop no please dont shoot me
I just want to get rich by becoming a shadowrunner and live on a
tropical island heres your gun back oh my god TJ and Billy both shot
dead look at him no hes going to pull the trigger no Im too young to
die.


--
--Strago

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror,
murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and
the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly
love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they
produce? The cuckoo clock!
-Orson Welles

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Message no. 2
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: Seattlers Part IV: (A Stroll)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 02:07:34 -0500
And the "coup d'et grace": The final chapter of Ulysses: 40 pages of
stream-of-consciousness-all-one-sentence in the mind of a woman. I
just did mine in the mind of an ork

Goddamn Humanis fraggin Policlub always yellin at us metas tryin to
get us to do what they want roll over play dead least it was eggs and
not bullets this time hit my mother and killed her last year and we
live on the street now no money no way to get a job or money cant even
get soy right now unless we steal it and Im so hungry need food there
that guy looks like he has some money maybe if I ask him Ill get some
money no no money just a look and some spit in my eye fuck you too
need food steal it pick him up bash him against the wall blood
spurting everywhere good now hes dead grab his credstick got an old
one somewhere with no nuyen on it now I got some how much three
hundred good now buy food at the Stuffer Shack gotta find one first
there over there good oh look at the troll behind the counter he looks
like hes been hit by a truck ok soy and some flavor drops good ok walk
to the counter put it down pull out my credstick slot it give it back
walk out soy tastes good proteins good for the body helps you grow
easy to metabolize cheap and abundant food source what flavor beef I
always liked beef meat would be good sometime but not now hard to get
not many cows left ok so now what I dont know what to do so walk
around no where to go no home no bed not even a squat maybe Ill find
one look for the Ork Underground again maybe Ill find it theyll let me
in an then Ill be able to work and get a home and not live on the
street anymore oh-oh gangers coming towards me hope they dont want to
rob me I aint got nothin please leave me alone please no dont take my
money I just got it ow my nose I think they broke it I aint got no
more I swear oof knocked the wind out of me kick to my stomach ow pipe
coming down black
wake up wet in a gutter sun moved a lot now its afternoon I was
knocked out for a long time ok get up walk around some get out of the
Barrens first before any more gangs try to hurt walk this way turn
here ok no more dead end turn around look its Billy we grew up
together he wont hurt me hell help me no more pain wow he healed me I
feel great if I knew how to shoot a gun we could be shadowrunners yeah
that would be great making cred and having a house and maybe making
that one big score that would let me retire to some little tropical
island where only women in bikinis live and I could fuck em every
night yeah thatd be nice ok so maybe I can learn to shoot a gun Id
need to get some cyberware too Im too slow now Id die in a minute
convince Billy talk to him tell him of the tropical island and that
one big score hes in we need more people I need to learn to use a gun
I need a gun ok wait until sundown then steal one gun shop over there
maybe tie a rag around my face and grab one now no wait first find
some more people walk down the road see people I knew up there’s TJ he
and Billy and me made a good group when we were younger before the
troubles started with Renraku my mother worked there then the Arcology
got taken over or something I don’t know scary stuff happening there
leave it alone just walk down the street nothing wrong talk to TJ ok
hes in he wants cyber too and guns lots of em ok we need to get guns
walk into the gun shop boost a gun walk out thats the one I want Billy
ask him a question put it in my pants while hes looking at Billy ok
walk out who me why do you want me to take whatever is in my pants out
and put it back I have nothin in my pants fragger run we all got out
now we need ammo ok lets see another gun shop with ammo need to put
down the gun somewhere safe you got a squat TJ you rich mother fucker
go there first so tired need to sleep for a minute lay down close eyes
kicked awake gun in my face guy from gun shop no please dont shoot me
I just want to get rich by becoming a shadowrunner and live on a
tropical island heres your gun back oh my god TJ and Billy both shot
dead look at him no hes going to pull the trigger no Im too young to
die.


--
--Strago

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror,
murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and
the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly
love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they
produce? The cuckoo clock!
-Orson Welles

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Message no. 3
From: Hunter griffinhq@****.com
Subject: Seattlers Part IV: (A Stroll)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 04:52:06 -0500
<grin>
Looks good to me.

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Message no. 4
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: Seattlers Part IV: (A Stroll)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:38:04 -0500
Hunter wrote:

> <grin>
> Looks good to me.
>

Looks good to me? What does that mean? Was it good? Did it suck? How about
the stream-of-consciousness? Did I do it right? What? You can't just stay
"looks good to me" and not say any more! Say something man! Oh, that's right,
you haven't read this yet. OK, just reply soon, OK? I'm gettng impatient
here. :^)

>
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> "A Shadowrunner's Corp."
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/Griffin/index.html
>
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--
--Strago

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder,
bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the
Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly
love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce?
The cuckoo clock!
-Orson Welles

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Message no. 5
From: Hunter griffinhq@****.com
Subject: Seattlers Part IV: (A Stroll)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:52:08 -0500
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:38:04 -0500 Strago <strago@***.com> writes:
>
> Looks good to me? What does that mean? Was it good? Did it suck? How
about
> the stream-of-consciousness? Did I do it right? What? You can't just
stay
> "looks good to me" and not say any more! Say something man! Oh, that's
right,
> you haven't read this yet. OK, just reply soon, OK? I'm gettng
impatient
> here. :^)
>
"Something." <Hee, hee, hee>
It wasn't exceptional but it didn't suck either. If anything, it's too
disjointed. There's too much of a time lag between sections.

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"A Shadowrunner's Corp."

http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/Griffin/index.html

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Message no. 6
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: Seattlers Part IV: (A Stroll)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:14:52 -0500
Hunter wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:38:04 -0500 Strago <strago@***.com> writes:
> <SNIP>

> "Something." <Hee, hee, hee>
> It wasn't exceptional but it didn't suck either. If anything, it's too
> disjointed. There's too much of a time lag between sections.
>

Well, if you read the introduction to the first story, you'd know they were
supposed to be four totally different stories about four totally different
individuals. And I got an A on it, so I'm happy.
<SNIP>

--
--Strago

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder,
bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In
Switzerland they had brotherly
love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The
cuckoo clock!
-Orson Welles

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