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Message no. 1
From: "Well for starts you have the fraggin' thing in backwards."
Subject: Back in town...
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 09:01:19 -0400
*****Encrypt: CONN-Phus-D Target: Etherial*****
>>>>>[Mr. Etherial, my job was shorter that I thought. I am back in town
and
ready to go at a moments notice.]<<<<<
--Head Case
Message no. 2
From: James Mann <cohort@******.CONNECTED.COM>
Subject: Back in town
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 09:06:57 -0800
>>>>>[ Well, I just returned from a refreshing roundabout trip into the
Carribean and Down Under. It's certainly good to be back. I am looking for
a run or two, if anyone has anything for an old rigger. And, Sonic Boom, I
still think that old Jerry Reed song "East Bound and Down" was the greatest
rigger song of all time. ]<<<<<
-- CoHort <12-11-54/09:15:35>
Message no. 3
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Back in Town
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 20:51:59 -0700
>>>>>[ Hi all, CRUSH, myself, Circuit Breaker, Claw and the twins are once
more
on the rainy city of Seattle. Most of this summer was spend visiting relatives
in Sioux, UCAS and CAS while showing off the twins. CB and myself were able to
keep infrequent checks on the net, but there are probably things we missed.


One of various stops was Denver were the Haven deckers were upset about
something really strange. I didn't stick around all that long since there's a
Haven Sysop with the same handle as me. We have talked about the occurence, but
over all we figured it really didn't matter much. If you want info on what I'm
talking about, check it out in the Shadowland menu, its the Denver file.


The twins are growing nicely and have started creeping. The extended traveling
didn't hurt them at all since we brought along a shaman, and I think that not
having them in Seattle with the smog probably kept them from getting sick. As
it is, Craig Jr and Shaphealla were present to Sioux elders and excepted into
the tribe, it was really just a formality and a chance for some elder distant
relatives of mine to play with the babies.


At the moment we are settling back in the house, so gives us a day or two before
you start dropping by for a chat. Raven, CB and I think we needed to get the
girls together again for another fun evening of dancing and partying, Sheena has
been cloistered up in her studio most of the summer writing songs and really
needs a bit of night life, we'll have to make sure she isn't spotted though or
the media hounds will never let go.


Finally, but definately not least, has there been ANY more word about the good
Doctor Doom? The last we knew he was still a coma and with no signs of
recovery. If there is word, please tell us since we care a great deal about him
and his family.]<<<<<
-- Spirit <Of the Matrix>


>>>>>[ Well since she hasna touched on it yet Ah guess its up ta me ta asks
a
few questions and get a few answers.

Powerhouse - WHAT IS THIS ABOUT I.B.A. HAVING A KID!!!!!!!!

I.B.A. - Ah'm sorry that she didn't make it. If ya want, Ah can help ya learn
about babies since Ah had a lot of experience at it this summer.

Dante - Die.

Solitare - Why haven't ya killed Dante yet???]<<<<<
Circuit Breaker <08:54:06/08-31-55>
Message no. 4
From: "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: Back in Town
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 23:16:36 -0700
>>>>>[ Spirit, Circut Breaker, I would love to get the girls together for a
night out, but right now I'm busy hunting Dante and everybody elses seems to
have scattered to the four winds. I haven't heard hide nor hair from Cerise
for weeks. ]<<<<<
-- Raven the Mage <23:29:42/08-21-55>
Message no. 5
From: "Brian E. Angliss" <ANGLISS@******.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Back in Town
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 12:27:11 -0400
>>>>>[Well, actually, Dante seemed to have literally fallen off the face of
the earth for a while there. He only just reappeared with his usual
vengeance. Not that I've exactly had the time. We were having some minor
difficulties that I could tell you about, but then I'd have to kill you.
And I wouldn't want to have to do that(grin).

And here's a little help for those folks still looking for him in Seattle:
He's left. He wiped his traces so I don't know where the frag he went to,
just that he's gone for now.]<<<<<
-- Solitaire(12:28:49/09-01-55)
Message no. 6
From: Neuron Basher <mark@********.IP.NET>
Subject: Back in town.
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 14:41:49 GMT-0500
>>>>>[ Hey Trix, I'm back in town. I'm gonna head by my place and get
cleaned
up. I'll be back in the office a little later. See, if you'd been nice and
sent someone to pick me up, instead of making me deal with the half-wit Seattle
cabbies, I might have told ya who was fooling with your deck. Oh well, guess
you'll never know now, huh?

+++++include: chuckle.snd

On the lighter side, I took care of the job that Jason had me doing, and the
critter that he wanted should be coming into town in a couple of days. Had
to have it sent by a different 'carrier' than the commercial flight I took.

Hey, how would you like to grab a bite to eat tonite to celebrate our
promotions? My treat.. ]<<<<<
-- Neuron Basher < 19:21:07/3-07-56 >
Message no. 7
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Back in Town
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 22:49:09 -0500
***** PRIVATE: Invasion_Force.1, Chaos, Kam, Mac
>>>>>[I'm back guys. Marie, the kids, Xuxa, and Tailspin are safe, and
It's time to take care of business.]<<<<<
-- Bull <20:48:05/02-01-58>

***** PRIVATE: Bull
>>>>>[Welcome back, Bull. Nothing to report on the Chess Men or the Gemeos
Assembly. However, I have been looking for that bitch bug of yours, Stands
with a Fist. Discreetly, of course. She's not here in Seattle, but rumour
has it she may be in Cleveland of all places. My contacts think she may be
trying to start a Mantis hive, or whatever the fuck you call a group of
Mantis Spirits, there.

Download the rest of my payment to >>encrypted<< and I'll keep looking for
info.]<<<<<
-- Kam <21:12:31/02-01-58>

***** PRIVATE: Kam
>>>>>[Still as delightful as always, aren't you Kam? Regardless, the info
is apprectiated. Your cash has been deposited. Keep up the good
work.]<<<<<
-- Bull <21:15:33/02-01-58>

***** PRIVATE: Bull
>>>>>[Good to see you home, pal. I met with your buddy Inferno, and me and
the boyz are holed up at his place with some weaselly kid named Dashira.
I'll let him know you're back.

Everything ok with the kids?]<<<<<
-- Chaos <21:41:40/02-01-58>

***** PRIVATE: Chaos
>>>>>[Yeah, everything's cool. Me and Johnny are ready to kick some ass.
Let me know what's up.]<<<<<
-- Bull <22:45:19/02-01-58>

*****PRIVATE: Inferno
>>>>>[Hey bud, we're home. We should probably meet. let me know how
things are going.]<<<<<
-- Bull <22:46:51/02-01-58>
Message no. 8
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Back in Town
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 14:01:19 +0000
***** PRIVATE: Bull
>>>>>[Things are going fine... I've finally managed to wipe the smile of
Dashiras face. (I showed him the safehouse recordings....

Join us... We might as well all get together so we can plan what to do about
the Bugs....]<<<<<
-- Inferno <14:00:43 GMT/02.FEB.58>
Message no. 9
From: Gweedo The Killer Pimp <yawas@****.COM>
Subject: Back in Town
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 00:57:09 -0500
>>>>>[I'm back in town, anybody need a surly ork to do some skull bashing
(Gawd how I miss that!)?]<<<<<
--Gweedo<08-06-58/1:17:44>
Message no. 10
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Back in town
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:06:48 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Ronin, Shifters
>>>>>[I'm back in town. But I'm changing my name and stuff like that. Plus
>>>>>my face now looks different. I quite like it now. Anyway, I need to
>>>>>think of a new handle for shadowland and so on. Any ideas?

BTW, as I told Michael already I had a drug screen done by a lab in
Jakarta, and they found _Laes_ metabolic products in my blood and urine, at
levels indicating that I had been dosed with it sometime between 1800 and
2000, on 12-07. In case anyone cares.

Oh and Kirk ambushed me as soon as I got to the place... she wants us to
recruit more members, yesterday if not before. And she claims to have
mentioned it before, but to have apparently been ignored. She demanded
immediate action, so...]<<<<<
-- Ice <18:00:11/12-09-58>

>>>>>[Anyone want to join a non-political magical group for all types of
magician, with no hidden agenda, nor evil goals involving such things as
world domination, no silly hats to wear either. Sounds perfect, doesn't it?

[Activate hypnosis beam] YOU MUST DO THIS RIGHT NOW JOIN THIS GROUP YOUR
HAPPINESS DEPENDS ON IT *Subliminal images of assorted orgasmic people*
JOIN US NOW OR YOU WILL SURELY DIE YOU MUST DO THIS [Deactivate hypnosis
beam].

Talk to me here. Oh, I sort of lied about the hidden agenda, we have a very
minor hidden agenda, but it'll be revealed before you join, I just don't
want to blab it about here.]<<<<<
-- Ice <18:02:47/12-09-58>
Message no. 11
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Back in town
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:17:01 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Ice
>>>>>[How about "Fairy"?

But seriously, if you really want to get away from whoever may be following
you, you'd have to leave the shifters, and get out of Seattle too. Unless
you're going to do that as well, there doesn't seem to me to be much point
in changing your handle, face, or whatever.

And on a related matter, the explanations we've had of your disappearance
have been pretty patchy and confused. I'll drop in at the warehouse
sometime soon and you can fill in the gaps.]<<<<<
-- Ronin <19:50:06/12-09-58>
Message no. 12
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Back in town
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:55:37 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Ice
>>>>>[I could be interested. Where is the catch?]<<<<<
-- Mr Gone <00:55:41/12-10-58>
Message no. 13
From: Jeffrey Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Back in town
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:57:44 -0800
*****PRIVATE: Ice
>>>>>[If they tracked you astrally last time, I don't exaclty see how
changing your face, name, and Shadowland handle will help you. As for
suggestions, if you did want to go for another handle...hmmm.

Well, you seem to like cats and ice, so I'd suggest lynx, or Altaica (the
sub-species name for the Siberian Tiger). The cons for lynx are that you
might get fingered as a tank buff by the more mercenary minded. Altaica
on the other hand, might be a bit feminine for your tastes.

But, really, I don't see how a name change is going to help you any.
Especially since your rep goes with it.

Oh, and about that call for new members...any reason why you had to
sound so goofy?]<<<<<
-- Michael <18:55:38/12-09-58 PST>
Message no. 14
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Back in town
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 16:23:43 +1200
*****PRIVATE: Mr Gone
>>>>>[We have a corporate sponsor... a small amount of money is paid to
us to maintain our modest facility, being an old warehouse, and in return
we make ourselves available for occasional operations, mostly astral work,
rituals and the like. Loyalty to the sponsor is not part of the group's
astral link, so there is no magical coercion to obey the corp.

If that doesn't worry you, then we can arrange for you to meet the rest of
the group. We currently have two hermetics (I'm one of them), a shark
shaman, and a tiger physical mage.]<<<<<
-- Ice <19:59:07/12-10-58>

*****PRIVATE: Michael
>>>>>[You're right about the tracking thing, but I want to do something to
lower my profile some. With any luck they don't care about me much anymore,
now that SoVor's game has come to an end. Changing my face and name should
help make them forget me. And if they do eventually come looking for me
under the name Ice, a Seattle runner, they won't find me. It's a half-arsed
job, yes, but going any further would be too much disruption, and I don't
like disruption.

Rep schmep, who needs a rep in this business. The only reason would be for
more work to come my way, and I get plenty of work through Ronin and his
network (although I suspect he's a little pissed that I bailed without
warning and left you, Marlowe, and him short of my limited talents).

And I apologise for the goofiness, but it seemed like a good idea at the
time. Besides, we want to avoid people who are serious and sober all the
time to the point that that kind of feeble attempt at humour would drive
them off. Yeah, that's a good excuse.]<<<<<
-- Ice <20:02:54/12-10-58>

*****PRIVATE: Ronin
>>>>>[Go to hell.

The more I think about it though, the more I like it... sort of jamming my
race in everyone's face like Troglobyte does. And the other meaning appeals
to my sense of irony. I'm going use it now, let that be a lesson to you,
you sarcastic bastard. I think I'll use another spelling though.

And I think you're right about having to leave the shifters if I want to be
perfectly safe, but I don't think I'm _that_ worried. Like I said to
Michael when he brought it up, changing my face and name should help make
people forget me, and if the agents of SoVor's enemies look for me under
the name Ice, a Seattle runner, they won't find me. It's a half-arsed job,
yes, but going any further would be too much disruption, and I don't like
disruption.]<<<<<
-- Ice <20:07:02/12-10-58>
Message no. 15
From: Brion Wauters <stu137@****.COCO.CC.AZ.US>
Subject: Re: Back in town
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 08:38:26 -0700
>>>>>[What's wrong with silly hats?]<<<<<
--Irish <08:38:40/12-12-58>
Message no. 16
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Back in town
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 11:38:06 +0100
>>>>>[Nothing at all, taken in moderation.]<<<<<
-- Ronin <15:33:27/12-12-58>
Message no. 17
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Back in town
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 23:30:05 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Ice
>>>>>[I am interested.

One possible problem. I am Rhade, and a magician of that tradition. This
involves the shedding of blood for many spells.

Some find this offensive, to the point of attempting to kill me.]<<<<<
-- Mr Gone <23:29:27/12-12-58>
Message no. 18
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Back in town
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 12:26:31 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Mr Gone
>>>>>[Whose blood? Anyone's? Yours specifically? Someone elses required? If
>>>>>it's the last option, then I guess some of the people around here
>>>>>might have a small problem with that, including me I guess. And
>>>>>Rhade... what's that exactly? And does that mean you're technically a
>>>>>blood mage, and thusly worth a million nuyen bounty to the Draco
>>>>>foundation? I ask only for information, BTW, we wouldn't dream of
>>>>>turning you in for a reward ;)]<<<<<
-- Ice <18:18:28/12-13-58>
Message no. 19
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Back in town
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 01:35:53 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Ice
>>>>>[I read the futures, in the death of a poisoned rooster. I see a
man's life or death, in the dying struggles of a disemboweled rat.

As I said: some find this alarming, to the point of attempted homicide.

From what I have been told of "blood mages", they harm other men and
draw on that power to drive their magic. This is not my way.]<<<<<
-- Mr Gone <01:35:36/12-14-58>
Message no. 20
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Back in town
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:28:48 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Mr Gone
>>>>>[That's okay by me then. Meet the group tomorrow, 1200, at the
Chocolate Bomb, being a cafe at >>address downtown<<. If the rest of the
group are okay with you, then we can sign you up in the afternoon, and
you'll be a full-fledged Shifter by 1800.]<<<<<
-- Ice <14:23:32/12-14-58>
Message no. 21
From: Randy Nickel <RANNIC@****.COM>
Subject: Back in town........
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:48:40 -0800
>>>>>[Well, I am back in Seattle and I would like to say that I am glad.


To those of you that don't know me I was here two years ago. I helped a
few people out and did a some runs, but I got an emergency call from a
friend and had to take off. To those of you I do know I'm sorry for not
dropping a line but it really was a grab-your-
stuff-and-get-here-now-situation. Nothing that I really want to talk
about as I am still having nightmares.

At any rate I took a few months off and I'm good and rested and wanted
to see just what was going on. For those of you would-be-fixers or Mr.
J's I'm an Elven Druid from Tir. The one that they used to call Ireland.
I am very skilled and ready to get back to biz. The only real limits I
have is that I wont do anything to mess up the environment and I don't
do wetwork. Anything else, run it by me, quote me the nuyen, and we be
business associates.

So, it's great to be back and I look forward to talking to the lot of
ya. If any of you are up to it I prefer good, old fashioned, Irish pubs.
I'll even buy the first round.]<<<<<
-- Warloc <12:49:30/11-03-59>
Message no. 22
From: Avenger <Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Back in town........
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:23:21 +0000
>>>>>[It would be a particular privilege and most enjoyable to speak
with someone from the homeland. I've not seen the green hills for a
good few years. For the sake of meeting another from home, you've got
one on your drink list. The Eight in Tarislar is not a traditional pub,
but she serves a goodly ale on occassion, or there's The Grafters on
Lakeside, Connely pulls a good 'un.]<<<<<
-- Urbanus <23:20:11/03-11-59>
Message no. 23
From: Jett <zmjett@*********.COM>
Subject: Back in town
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:57:40 -0400
*****PRIVATE: Jazz
>>>>>[I'm back in Seattle. Going to pick up my sister's belongings over the
next couple of days and get myself set up with an apartment. Still no leads, I'm afraid.
Jett's contacts in Denver, Dallas, and California didn't turn up much. I spoke with her
old team for a bit, but they're as stumped as I am. Any leads on your end?
Well, get back to me. Maybe we can get together for drinks or something
once I'm settled in?]<<<<<
-- Ironthorne <18:40:33/08-11-59>

*****PRIVATE: Methos
>>>>>[Talk to me. Any info you can share would be greatly appreciated. For
the next couple days, as I get settled, you can contact me at >>>LTG<<<.
Looking forward to hearing from you.]<<<<<
-- Ironthorne <18:55:21/08-11-59>
Message no. 24
From: Bredget Stroud <bstroud@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: Back in town
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:07:26 -0700
*****PRIVATE: Ironthorne
>>>>>[Still haven't turned up anything on this end. Pretty much a dry hole
for information. Either whoever made the hit is dead, or has gone way
underground.

Glad to hear you're in town. I've kinda been a t a home away from home
lately, so if you don't reach me at home try >>LTG<<. It's safe to leave a
message if I'm not there. ]<<<<<
Jazz <18:08:21/08-11-59>

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