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Message no. 1
From: 00DNA mcmanus@******.albany.edu
Subject: Tamanous (was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:08:11 -0400
At 11:36 PM 7/21/99 +1000, Manx wrote:
>>Tamanous.
>
>I've heard this name mentioned but cannot
>place the reference. Can anyone put me
>straight.
>
>I looked all through Underworld & New Seattle
>because that's where I thought that I saw it
>but.....

Going from memory here but I think that's the organleggers organization
that is around. They are suppose to be mysterious group that no one's
quite sure who runs it. Maybe it's Ghouls or maybe they just hire the
ghouls and feed them the scraps that sort of thing. I'm confused though
because I know I was looking for information on them for the longest time
and realized it was in the Underworld sourcebook (I kept thinking Threats).
So if you've looked through the Underworld book, then maybe I'm wrong?


--00DNA
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Message no. 2
From: Dennis Steinmeijer dv8@********.nl
Subject: Tamanous (was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 16:10:38 +0200
> At 11:36 PM 7/21/99 +1000, Manx wrote:
> >>Tamanous.
> >
> >I've heard this name mentioned but cannot
> >place the reference. Can anyone put me
> >straight.
> >
> >I looked all through Underworld & New Seattle
> >because that's where I thought that I saw it
> >but.....
>
> Going from memory here but I think that's the organleggers organization
> that is around. They are suppose to be mysterious group that no one's
> quite sure who runs it. Maybe it's Ghouls or maybe they just hire the
> ghouls and feed them the scraps that sort of thing. I'm confused though
> because I know I was looking for information on them for the longest time
> and realized it was in the Underworld sourcebook (I kept thinking
Threats).
> So if you've looked through the Underworld book, then maybe I'm wrong?

In New Seattle there's a referrence to Tamanous that seems to back your
theory of organ dealing;

p. 63, The Barrens chapter, under "Places to be", subheading "The body
mall"
there is a comment by Doc-U-Dub saying:

"This place does a brisk business with the yakuza and Tamanous, buying and
selling illegal organs and used cyberware."

Dennis

"Abashed the Devil stood,...and felt how awful Goodness is..."
Message no. 3
From: Manx timburke@*******.com.au
Subject: Tamanous (was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:12:28 +1000
At 10:08 21/07/99 -0400 00DNA wrote
>Going from memory here but I think that's the organleggers organization
>that is around. They are suppose to be mysterious group that no one's
>quite sure who runs it. Maybe it's Ghouls or maybe they just hire the
>ghouls and feed them the scraps that sort of thing. I'm confused though
>because I know I was looking for information on them for the longest time
>and realized it was in the Underworld sourcebook (I kept thinking Threats).
> So if you've looked through the Underworld book, then maybe I'm wrong?
>--00DNA

Organ leggers huh.....

From what I've heard lately then they would
likely be some runner's best friends....
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and then it's just hilarious." - Faith No More
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Message no. 4
From: Achille Autran aautran@******.obs-nancay.fr
Subject: Tamanous (Was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:49:27 GMT
>>Tamanous.

>I've heard this name mentioned but cannot
>place the reference. Can anyone put me
>straight.

Don't they operate in New Orleans ?
From memory, infos are either in Underworld, Cyberpirates or Smuggler Heavens
(probably the last one). I don't have the books near to check this.
Message no. 5
From: 00DNA mcmanus@******.albany.edu
Subject: Tamanous (was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:59:36 -0400
At 12:12 AM 7/22/99 +1000, Manx wrote:
>Organ leggers huh.....
>
>From what I've heard lately then they would
>likely be some runner's best friends....

(:
Well, actually calling them organleggers is putting it mildly.
They do things like kidnap young women, impregnate them and then harvest
the fetus...I know there was the whole thread on selling corpses and
such...but I would hope this type of behavior would upset most runners.



--00DNA
"...user connection terminated."
Message no. 6
From: Arclight arclight@**************.com
Subject: Tamanous (was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:07:45 +0200
And finally, OODNA expressed himself by writing:

> At 11:36 PM 7/21/99 +1000, Manx wrote:
> >>Tamanous.
> >
> >I've heard this name mentioned but cannot
> >place the reference. Can anyone put me
> >straight.
> >
> >I looked all through Underworld & New Seattle
> >because that's where I thought that I saw it
> >but.....
>
> Going from memory here but I think that's the organleggers organization
> that is around. They are suppose to be mysterious group that no one's
> quite sure who runs it. Maybe it's Ghouls or maybe they just hire the
> ghouls and feed them the scraps that sort of thing. I'm confused though
> because I know I was looking for information on them for the longest time
> and realized it was in the Underworld sourcebook (I kept
> thinking Threats).
> So if you've looked through the Underworld book, then maybe I'm wrong?

There actually are paragraphs in the Underworld Sourcebook, p. 24ff.,
diskussing Organlegging and the like. On p.96 are GM-only Info, but it
contains no hard fact who runs them and the like. Just some hints and
ideas...

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Message no. 7
From: David Cordy DCordy@****.com
Subject: Tamanous (was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 08:16:18 -0700
> At 11:36 PM 7/21/99 +1000, Manx wrote:
> >>Tamanous.
> Going from memory here but I think that's the organleggers organization
> that is around.
>
Don't they also make an appearance in the beginning of Technobabel?


> --00DNA
> "...user connection terminated."
>
DavidC
Message no. 8
From: Geoffrey Haacke knight_errant30@*******.com
Subject: Tamanous (was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:37:36 CST
>From: Manx <timburke@*******.com.au>
>Organ leggers huh.....
>
>From what I've heard lately then they would
>likely be some runner's best friends....

Oh yeah. If the runners needed organs or to dispose of an unconvenient
bogy, they are the cat's pajamas. :)

>__________________________________
>Manx // timburke@*******.com.au // #950
>"It's always funny until someone gets hurt
>and then it's just hilarious." - Faith No More
>__________________________________
>
>
>
>


Geoff Haacke
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"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."


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Message no. 9
From: Pantherr pantherr@*****.net
Subject: Tamanous (was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:23:55 -0500
> At 11:36 PM 7/21/99 +1000, Manx wrote:
> >>Tamanous.
> >
> >I've heard this name mentioned but cannot
> >place the reference. Can anyone put me
> >straight.
> >
> Going from memory here but I think that's the organleggers organization
> that is around. They are suppose to be mysterious group that no one's
> quite sure who runs it. Maybe it's Ghouls or maybe they just hire the
> ghouls and feed them the scraps that sort of thing. I'm confused though
> because I know I was looking for information on them for the longest time
> and realized it was in the Underworld sourcebook (I kept thinking
> Threats).
> So if you've looked through the Underworld book, then maybe I'm wrong?

Got it in one ;)

Underworld Sourcebook, page 96, left column, first group listed
under "Underworld Players"

Pantherr
Message no. 10
From: runnerpaul@*****.com runnerpaul@*****.com
Subject: Tamanous (was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 22:16:12 -0400 (EDT)
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At 12:12 AM 7/22/99 +1000, Manx wrote:
:>Going from memory here but I think that's the organleggers
:>organization that is around.

:Organ leggers huh.....

Call me a traditionalist, but whenever I want to use organleggers in
a game, I use Misters Breugel and Mahler.

(And if anyone here catches the reference, good for you.)

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Message no. 11
From: Twist0059@***.com Twist0059@***.com
Subject: Tamanous (Was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 16:41:24 EDT
In a message dated 7/24/99 4:33:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
aautran@******.obs-nancay.fr writes:

>
> >>Tamanous.
>
> >I've heard this name mentioned but cannot
> >place the reference. Can anyone put me
> >straight.
>
> Don't they operate in New Orleans ?
> From memory, infos are either in Underworld, Cyberpirates or Smuggler
> Heavens
> (probably the last one). I don't have the books near to check this.
>


They were operating in Boston for Technobabel, so they seem spread around.
Don't have my Underworld SB handy, alas.





-Twist
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Message no. 12
From: Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject: Tamanous (was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 11:21:52 -0500
> Call me a traditionalist, but whenever I want to use organleggers in
> a game, I use Misters Breugel and Mahler.
>
> (And if anyone here catches the reference, good for you.)

Gil the ARM? Niven? Something there sounds remarkably familiar, but it's
been *years*....

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Message no. 13
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Tamanous (was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 19:16:40 +0200
According to Patrick Goodman, at 11:21 on 25 Jul 99, the word on
the street was...

> > Call me a traditionalist, but whenever I want to use organleggers in
> > a game, I use Misters Breugel and Mahler.
> >
> > (And if anyone here catches the reference, good for you.)
>
> Gil the ARM? Niven? Something there sounds remarkably familiar, but it's
> been *years*....

Breugel was a painter (16th century, IIRC).

Mahler was a composer whose name means "painter" in English.

Music, once composed, can be played on an organ.

Tamanous sells organs.

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Message no. 14
From: Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject: Tamanous (was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 13:15:32 -0500
> Breugel was a painter (16th century, IIRC).
>
> Mahler was a composer whose name means "painter" in English.
>
> Music, once composed, can be played on an organ.
>
> Tamanous sells organs.

<pounds head repeatedly on desk>

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Message no. 15
From: Ken Ken@********.com
Subject: Tamanous (was: Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?)
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 20:28:49 -0400
<snip
> >From: Manx <timburke@*******.com.au>
> >Organ leggers huh.....
> >
> >From what I've heard lately then they would
> >likely be some runner's best friends....
>
> Oh yeah. If the runners needed organs or to dispose of an unconvenient
> bogy, they are the cat's pajamas. :)
<snip>

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