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Message no. 1
From: Avenger <Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Back in biz
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:35:21 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Twitch
>>>>>[Your previous supplier was killed by a combination of Doom and
DMSO, the poison was introduced by the simple expedient of coating the
money you gave him with it. I also fell for the trap but was luckily
more intelligent than my predecessor. It would appear that whoever gave
you that money was more interested in your death than in you completing
the contract. Either that or you have been suffering dreams of
grandeur.


Never mind. I have beaten the poison and removed all traces of it from
the money. Assuming you originally gave it the the poor unfortunate in
payment for his product I will assume that the same facility will be
offered to me. You obviously didn't want the money, and I could
certainly do with a dealer in the area that I appear to have adopted. I
have checked over the materials previously supplied to your for
distribution, and quite frankly they were shit, I've never seen such
shoddy work in my life, to think that you sold this garbage to people,
and they came back for more is amazing. Anyway, I have produced a far
superior product that is cleaner and will produce a greater revenue for
yourself and I. The goods are awaiting your collection. There may of
course be a few incidents you will need to sort out after all this time,
where others may have encroached on your turf, but I am confident that
you will deal with any problems in your usual restrained manner.


Price for the goods will remain the same for the moment, while we
introduce it to the locals, it has a sufficiently increased potency that
any other junk in the area will appear sour by comparison. The cut will
be finer on the next batch and should bring them scuttling for more at
every opportunity. Once I have managed to install some decent equipment
a new chemist in the lab, there will be a decent supply, and the price
will of course need to be raised slightly. I would suggest 25 a hit,
100 a poke. Any requests for larger amounts must go through me first.


So, what's this I hear about you icing some chief gook then? And how do
you feel about failing to ice the elven queen?]<<<<<
-- Caraway <17:19:33/01-20-59>



*****PRIVATE: Caraway
>>>>>[You provide the goodies dude, I'll sell 'em for ya. 'Course, I
get's my percentage on top, or you don't operate, if ya get what I mean.
I don't much care about claim jumpers, they either come over to my way
of thinkin' or they stop thinkin' no problem. I'll be round to sample
the kit myself shortly. I gots to wait for an answer first. Someone's
tryin' to find the slitch who give me the duff money in the first place.


An' as for the gook, you hear what you hear, if Easy want's to tell the
world I iced a gook, it ain't gonna hurt my rep much is it? What're the
gooks gonna do about it? Invade the Barrens and hunt me down? Like
anyone can find me in this burg anyways. Nah, I could care less, let
the silly cow have her fun tellin' people, it's kinda doin' me some
good, I got me some job offers that might prove out to be worthwhile.
As far as failin goes, hell it happens to everyone sometime. I could
care less, a contract is a contract, so what. Course, if'n Easy wants
to get personal about it, that might be different, it'd be pretty
amusin' goin' against her. Mind you, she's a treacherous cow. At least
I ain't gettin' the same flack for it as that other dude. You seen what
they're sayin' to him? If it weren't so funny, I might almost feel
sorry for him. Oh well, them's the breaks. Catcha later dude, I guess
I'm kinda glad you figured out what the prob was with Franky. I thought
he'd tried out some of his own shit, and I had to destroy the stuff he
gave me, just in case that's what the problem was. Can't have your
customers turning into sucked out corpses.]<<<<<
-- Twitch <17:31:45/01-20-59>
Message no. 2
From: Avenger <Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Back in biz
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 01:19:39 +0000
*****INTERNAL: C.O.T.
>>>>>[It appears that someone else also wanted a distraction today. So
much for law enforcement.


The scheduled test was a complete success. Chronos operated perfectly,
with no problems. It was almost too good. He has been de-activated as
planned. One curiosity - The Sons of Freedom - I've researched the
group, and this would be an almost unique operation for them in many
ways. Curious? I think so, I suspect that another player is taking a
hand in things, we might want to keep an eye on events prior to any
further field tests and shipping of equipment.

The release of Primus was almost inspired. The expression on the
woman's face when she came face to face with "Jason X Goldsmith" was a
picture that sold a million homes, ratings for the news agency shot
through the roof, and you would not believe how much attention that hit
got. Achilles are crawling all over it, and to hell with jurisdiction.
We have yet to hear from Primus, so concerns are at this time that he
died in the rather manic assault perpetrated by Lone Star SWAT teams.
News crews flooded the scene, the media went berserk, and certain bodies
are desperately fighting their way out of a political quagmire.


I would like to congratulate all who have been involved in this
operation, it has been a work of labour, but the demonstration was
effective. Having the subject walk up to a patrol car, kill the
officers and use it as a getaway vehicle was artistry at it's best. The
bidding began at that instant. At this time we should make sufficient
from the sale to continue research and begin work on the next unit. We
also have a message from our old masters. They are intertested in
discussing further operations and funding. Provided we do them the
occassional favour. I have not yet made a decision on this, and will
present it at the next board meeting for vote.


Congratulations. We're back in business. Big time.]<<<<<
-- Belial <23:02:12/02-03-59>

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