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Message no. 1
From: Patrick A Dow <pdow@****.COM>
Subject: A fire in Berlin...
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:36:04 EST
>>>>>[If it weren't for the fact that someone said that there were
several non-humans leaving the scene I would say that it may have been
someone from Humanis, but now I don't think so. Anybody have any idea
who did it?]<<<<<
-Rage <17:18:47/12-16-57>
Message no. 2
From: Marathon <Marathon@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: A fire in Berlin...
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 23:47:12 +0000
>>>>>[Well, yes, but the way the emphasis was put on non-human, seemed
to indicate, to me anyway, that they didn't mean metahuman. After all,
trolls and orks aren't unknown in Germany, neither are elves, and
whoever was watching could have recognised one of this type. No the use
of the phrase non-human, bothers me, a lot. That and the fact that it's
churches that are being burned. Not meeting halls or political
buildings, and not standard terrorist tactics, not enough impact on the
civvies. Also the indications that some sort of sacrilege took place
first. Sounds like satanists, or somethin' like that, maybe blood
magic, though it don't seem like it.


I dunno, who's doin' this, but it's got me more than a little bothered.
I hate not understanding stuff. And this has got me more intrigued than
a cat at a mouse hole.]<<<<<
-- Marathon <23:45:19/12-16-57>
Message no. 3
From: Autumn / Shatterglass <laughingcrow@****.COM>
Subject: Re: A fire in Berlin...
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 02:39:41 PST
>>>>>[+++++ He looks up from tuning his guitar and raises an eyebrow
+++++
Blood in ritual... Not new to some religions, certainly... Very old, in
fact. But none the less disturbing. Perhaps what has occurred in Germany
is not related to what occurs in more... Southerly realms.... Perhaps
someone wishes a throwback to earlier days.]<<<<<
- Shatterglass <18:10/12-16-57>
Message no. 4
From: Marathon <Marathon@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: A fire in Berlin...
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 02:16:50 +0000
>>>>>[Well hell no it ain't new, the Aztechs were doing it centuries
ago, Voodoo uses blood in a lot of rituals, and some of the stuff the
Egyptians got up to was kinda questionable, and I figure it probably
goes even further back. but as far as I am aware it wasn't usually
followed by burning the site afterwards. No I'm inclined to think this
is something darker. In what way do you figure it's a throwback. Aside
from Witchcraft or satanism, I can't find too much that involved church
defilement. The church is a fairly recent thing really, and hasn't got
the sway in the world it used to have.


Damn strange which ever way you choose to look at it.]<<<<<
-- Marathon <02:15:33/12-17-57>
Message no. 5
From: Autumn / Shatterglass <laughingcrow@****.COM>
Subject: Re: A fire in Berlin...
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 05:04:47 PST
>>>>>[A throwback to the days when the Church was an enemy of those who
followed older ways? True, churches as such are the inventions of more modern times, but
if I remember the lessons of history correctly was there
not once a time in those lands when those who preached the ways of Rome
were apt to be considered enemies and treated with foul unkindness by
those they sought to convert? I am a poet, Sir Marathon, and a
musician... Not a student of history by profession... But perhaps
someone in the germanic realms has desided that the ways of the past
should make a comeback in that reguard. It is mere speculation... But an
interesting idea.]<<<<<
--Shatterglass <10:20/12-16-57>
Message no. 6
From: Marathon <Marathon@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: A fire in Berlin...
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 14:00:18 +0000
>>>>>[Well, yeah, the church was rather enthusiastic in suppressing
anything that was not in it's teachings, I'm thinking of the Inquisition
at the moment, and the slaughter caused by a mistaken belief in the
Middle East by church backed crusaders. Then of course there was the
Witchfinder General in Europe. So yeah, I agree the church has a
tremendous amount of blood on its hands, and I figure they're probably
pretty desperate to regain some of the strength they once held. Pitty
that animal totems were proved to really exist, and that magic is real,
that must've come as a hell of a blow to the Vatican and others.


But, it was the time of the church, and it's battle against what it
described as evil, that resulted in the early desecration of altars and
places of worship to the one God. Which would kinda indicate that maybe
what's happenin' now is in direct response to that and possibly
something that grew out of that rise of power and teaching. That's why
I used the Satanism as a point, that particular religion, if you can
call it that, grew in direct propotion to the power of the church, and
spread across the world with it. It, if I recall correctly, warped and
twisted everything the old Church taught, and used it as a direct
contradictory enemy so to speak.


I can't see that Druids would do this, though they suffered the greatest
in Europe and Britain at the hands of the church, as did, Wickan and
other beliefs. I seem to recall a number of smaller beliefs in Britain
that were destroyed by the church, and Europe suffered quite heavily,
but none of those established beliefs and religions used blood sacrifice
and desecration in their rituals. I must admit to some confusion as to
what is happening here, because it don't make a lot of sense as to
what's happening. I mean, it doesn't seem logical that metahumans would
destroy churches, after all they came about as the church was losing
it's power and hold on the world during the birth of the sixth age. So
they don't really have a beef with each other.


I don't know, maybe I'm rambling a bit, but it's got me unsettled. I
don't like the implications behind this. <g> Maybe I watch too many of
the old horror films.]<<<<<
-- Marathon <13:59:10/12-17-57>
Message no. 7
From: Matthew T Boutilier <rasterburn@****.COM>
Subject: Re: A fire in Berlin...
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 16:16:09 EST
>>>>>[I dunno, but I'm throwin' my weight behind that satanists suspicion
...something about blood, torture, and fire...sound like their cup o'
tea. But, this all could be in the hopes that someone wants ya to think
that this is just the act of a bunch of crazy devil worshipers..could be
something a lot different. But hell, I dunno, I'm just thinkin' out
loud.]<<<<<
-- Raster Burn <15:52:55/12-17-2057>
Message no. 8
From: Mike Goldberg <michael.goldberg@*******.COM>
Subject: Re[2]: A fire in Berlin...
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 16:13:07 MST
>>>>>[ Raster Burn -- whether they are impostors or not, doesn't really
matter to me. Since these events are destroying the Christmas spirit in
the city I now call home, this drek is going to stop. Especially since
they didn't clear it with me. ]<<<<<
-- Nightmare <22:27:18/17-DEC-57>

***** Private: Nightmare
>>>>>[ Heh. Someone traced you on that one. Traced you back to Berlin and
the fake address. Looks like our bait is working. How many tonight?
]<<<<<
-- Ratspeak <22:28:33/17-DEC-57>

***** Private: Ratspeak
>>>>>[ Just one. Although we are going to do something a little different
with
this one. We only have one a night left until Christmas Eve. We have them all
under surveillance because since we aren't wiping them all out until then, we
want to see if we were correct that they are the reason the Wanderer is getting
around.

You know, the church should be thanking us instead of hunting us. We are only
taking out the really seedy ones. We are leaving the morally responsible ones
alone, no matter how financially poor they are off.

Status on the gang leaders and their resistance? ]<<<<<
-- Nightmare <22:32:24/17-DEC-57>

***** Private: Nightmare
>>>>>[ Going along smoothly. You have successfully planted yourself as a
power
in the city. The Wanderer should be champing at a chance to pull you down.
Everything is in place for the plan on Christmas eve. When's the final
briefing? ]<<<<<
-- Ratspeak <22:34:45/17-DEC-57>

***** Private: Ratspeak, Scourge, Kor, Shadowfox
>>>>>[ Spread the word. As soon as you get a chance swing by and I'll
explain
our plan. We'll save final briefing until Friday or sooner if we receive word
that the Wanderer is in town. Meanwhile, I'll continue my course. Shadowfox
has the schedule for the integrating process of our troops and training
exercises to make sure we are all on the same page. I haven't decided on
overall leadership on various fronts, but that will be decided soon.

Oh, one last thing. Archangel just showed up on my doorstep. Looks like he
will be joining in on the fun as well.]<<<<<
-- Nightmare <22:36:58/17-DEC-57>

>>>>>[ Oh joy. ]<<<<<
-- Shadowfox <23:11:57/17-DEC-57>
Message no. 9
From: Marathon <Marathon@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: A fire in Berlin...
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 02:18:31 +0000
>>>>>[If your going after these people Nightmare, then power to you.
May your gods, if you have any, travel with you.]<<<<<
-- Marathon <02:14:01/12-18-57>

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