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From: Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject: Who the hell?
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:22:14 -0600
>>>>>[Remember that kid and the grey-robed guy from a while back? Well,=
take a gander at this. As usual, don't ask me how I got it.

+++++ Begin Security Camera Video +++++

The camera pans across the interior of Concourse B at the Seattle-Tacoma=
International Airport. The usual number of tourists, buisnessmen, and=
general travellers are going through the concourse, bumping into each=
other, reading newspapers, talking on personal secretaries, etc. The=
camera continues to pan around, taking in arrivals from Chicago, San=
Francisco, Denver, Tokyo, and Sydney. Flights appear to be departing for=
destinations as exotic as London, New York, FDC, Miami, Denver, and Berlin.

The camera stops for a moment, resting on a couple of obvious ganger types=
loitering. It zooms in on thier faces, then zooms out again to show=
Security arriving to ask them to move on. After giving the guard some=
verbal abuse, they move on down the concourse.

While the gangers were being harassed and harassers, a couple of figures=
walked by. One of them is a young man in his mid-teens, with bleached=
white hair and wearing an old, tattered Urusei Yatsura T-Shirt. The other=
is of moderate height, but no features are distinguishable due to the=
complete coverage of the robes. Not even the face, except for a bar across=
the eyes and the bridge of the nose, or the hands are visible - the entire=
body is cloaded in the same grey cloth.

As quickly as they walked into the camera's view, they walk out of it again=
and the camera begins its pan again. As it scans down toward the terminal,=
it spots an unattended peice of baggage. In less than 10 seconds, a=
security guard carrying a portable chemsniffer has approached and is=
verifying that the bag does not contain an explosive or any weapon. The=
guard seems satisfied, and then turns away as the camera begins it's pan=
yet again, returning slowly to face the other direction.

It appears that the suborbital from Sydney has just landed, and people are=
exiting the aircraft. The camera stays on the disembarking passengers and=
the exit tunnel, probably recording for security to verify that no known=
criminals were on the plane. Then something odd appears coming up the=
tunnel - several more grey-clad figures. They exit, and then quickly move=
over to the two waiting people, the youth with the hair and his associate.

By the time the plane has completely emptied, there are 11 grey-clad=
figures, looking remarkably monastic in thier robes, all standing around,=
shaking hands and hugging the two waiting people. Of them, only 1 is=
obviously orc and 2 are obviously dwarven, based off thier body structure. =
The rest are a mish-mash of heights and builds, hidden so completely=
beneath the robes that their metatype and sex is indeterminate.

+++++ End Security Video +++++

I have a couple more clips, but they show the group of 13 people being=
perfectly good citizens, them meeting up with 3 more grey-clad folk, one of=
which was an obvious troll getting off a plane from Chicago, another coming=
from New York via a different airline, and then they got into a bunch of=
taxis and took off. I haven't been able to hack the taxi records to see=
where they were taken to, but the taxi numbers are >>5 different Yellow Cab=
numbers<<, if someone else wants to do the work.]<<<<<
-- Trideo Pirate <16:23:53/04-15-59>

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