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Message no. 1
From: Daniel Waisley <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Brandon
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 09:11:26 -0700
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>>>>>[ Nice program Spirit. Ok, Brandon I really don't know what happened
to
the old guy after the thing. He was really disturbed for a while but he seemed
to calm down later. We took him up to the surface and then home. Oh, one other
thing, he had a strange book with him. I am not really sure what it
was.]<<<<<
--Lister < NO Time/ By Spirit>

>>>>>[ Lister, what do you mean he had a book with him?!?!? Was it black
and
red covered?]<<<<<
--Spirit < OHHH to deck again >

>>>>>[ Yes, and it smelled pretty bad to.]<<<<<
--Lister < NO Time/ By Spirit>

>>>>>[ That doesn't sound good, the shaman was really insane and kept
jabbering
all the time. He also had a book that he kept on writing in. I think he was
writing about him and the queen ant. At one point he mentioned another name but
I was so out of it that I can't remember it. I am worried about the old guy,
insect shamans can be very demented and reading a book by them could really mess
with your mind.]<<<<<
--Spirit < OHHH to deck again >

>>>>>[ I have the feeling that the book may have been the magical thesis of
the
shaman. That would explain why he took so long in his trying to turn Spirit
into a Queen, he did not yet know how. Beware of that book it could be
dangerous, yet it could also be very informative. Know thy enemy]<<<<<
--Claw < No Time / By Spirit >
Message no. 2
From: Sean Babrouk <P.C.Steele@*********.AC.UK>
Subject: Brandon..
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 16:19:58 BST
>>>>>[ Brandon, what you say does appear convincing, indeed your suggestion
that what we may have encountered was a toxic ant shaman may indeed be true.

Toxic shamans in my research have always been highly disturbed individuals,
they believe that they alone hold the key to the worlds problems, most usually
enact great calamities against mankind so that the earth may be a little more
healed from the pain that man has caused it. Others seem to be completely the
opposite physcopaths who revel in the destruction of human life and the
suffering that it causes. This last type appear to take great joy in going
against everything their totem ever stood for. The former type pervert their
totems needs much as the leader of a new religous cult may pervert the teachings
of an original religion to their own devices.

What you are saying Brandon about the Ant shaman is that he perverted the
wishes of his totem to his own desires. At the moment we only have your word
that it is so, nothing in the thesis that I have read so far indicates that
anything the Ant Shaman was doing was any different from what your associates
may do. In fact the only evidence that I have is the condition of the tunnels
that I found, the one you warned me to stay away from was clean and well
structured, but the other was dirty and unkempt.

But even this could be explained easily, we know that the Ant Shaman had not
yet summoned his queen and from his texts I saw that the queen would be a very
controlling influence, the shaman would virtually become a servant to the queen
which he had summoned. Well it is possible that it is the queen that controls
such things, maybe down the other tunnel a queen already exists and it is she
that controls the overall condition of her hive. On this point the Ant Shaman's
thesis was a little bit vague, the Ant Shaman seemed to suggest in one
paragraph that he would serve the queen's every wishes while in another
paragraph he mentions the power which she would give him and how he would go
on to show those who still follow the way to which we were bound. Though he
seemed to have doubts that the queen would go along with his desires on this
last point.

Brandon you could prehaps pour some light onto this last point that I just
mentioned, about how the Ant Shaman said he would not follow the way to which
the others were bound. I also found references there to the days of power
which is mentioned in several places throughout the thesis. In fact you
yourself agree with me on this point, you mentioned that Ant did indeed lose
supremacy at one time, you then say that Ant now co-exists. I'm interested in
finding out how your associates deal with Ant and how Ant co-exists with their
lives and those around them.

To comment on your closing points Brandon I can understand your fascination
with the insects, indeed the more I find out about them the more intrigued I
become, I too wish to find out all there is to know. But Brandon, I care
deeply for mankind, I would not voluntarily go into the service of another,
rather I prefer to be at the service of everyone so that I can help them
understand what magic truly is about. Indeed I envy you that you have been
accepted so readily, but your acceptance has meant that you must serve that
which I'm sure you yourself do not fully understand.

As to the book, you have no worries I will not allow it to come into public
hands nor will I be publishing extracts from it. I cannot allow it to be
destroyed though as it's contents contain the first solid information we have
on the Ant totem. I will be disussing the book with my colleagues in both
IMAS, with which you are already familiar, and some of my academic colleagues
at the univeristy. We will not use it to create false impressions of your
associates but if you wish to dispell that possiblity you must be more open
about your work, I would appreciate reading any other thesis' that your
associates may have written. Indeed I would appreciate the opportunity to
talk to them, if what you say is true Brandon then you have no need to worry,
but in the meantime I must use what information I have.

Please prove to me that you are telling the truth Brandon, to think that all
followers of Ant are like the shaman who captured Spirit is not only heart-
breaking when I think of all the poor souls that have lost their lives it
becomes criminal on a massive scale. ]<<<<<
-Sean Babrouk (16:14:53/10.7.54)
Message no. 3
From: Ed Matuskey <MATUSKEY@***.EDU>
Subject: Brandon?
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 22:54:33 -0800
>>>>>[That's one thing I didn't understand from the Pittsburg run: why was
he a spider? I got the impression that Spider and the other insects didn't
get along, from my own personal experiences. Brandon? Are you still with
us lad? Care to shed any light?]<<<<<
--Highlander (22:55:56/11-16-55)

>>>>>[If you've noticed, Highlander, many of the natural enemies of the
insect world work together.....this was just a case of spider being
put into the mix. Normally we....the UB doesn't mix with spider, in fact
we....THEY generally avoid Spider. For some reason, though, an exception
was made. I don't know....I don't really know anything, it
seems.....]<<<<<
--
--Brandon Lowe (22:56:44/11-16-55)

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