| From: | "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM> |
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| Subject: | DEB Delivery |
| Date: | Tue, 17 Feb 1998 23:15:26 EST |
>>>>>[Greetings, knowbot activation sequence keyed from user
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Thank you...
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Image on screen is that of Binder's face, showing some fatigue, but his eyes
are damn near glowing. There is a large hound also in the screen, and it
appears that he is sitting in a small cubicle, which brings back a memory of
Binder saying he often stayed in 'coffins'.
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(Binder speaking) "Hello Monicker, sorry to put this information to you in
this format, but I thought it would work best given how tired I am and the
fact I am about to pass out shortly for a few. The Powers of Man have smiled
upon us, and I think that you will enjoy this. Hope you are paying attention,
because I am only gonna go through this once."
After positioning himself better, Binder brings up a notepad and runs a
datacord directly to one of the 'feathers' in his hat, just behind his ear.
"Okay, it seems that Marlowe was a man of circumstance and event, not unlike
you or I probably...
1. Andrew Jackson Kryzdanovich was born in 2026 in Cincinnatti, the child of
a police officer and a schoolteacher. His sister Betsy was born three years
later.
2. His father was killed in the line of duty in 2041, when Kryzdanovich was
fifteen: shot during a firefight with a group of drunken armed robbers, died
two days later without regaining consciousness. This was the confirming
catalyst for young Andrew’s decision to become a police officer himself.
3. Kryzdanovich followed another tradition: he proposed to his high-school
girlfriend at the Prom, and they were married right after he graduated as a
qualified police officer with CPD Incorporated.
4. For several years, things were good: he was respected by his colleagues
and trusted by the citizens he worked among. Several years of good work got
him noticed and promoted, to become a detective in the Homicide division: with
a daughter (Jennifer) just born, the salary increase was most probably a
welcome addition as well.
5. Kryzdanovich enjoyed homicide work, in a grim and hard way: it hurt him
deeply to see the victims, but there was an equal satisfaction in breaking
each case, bringing the perpetrator to trial and seeing them convicted. It
still caused a corrosive pain in his gut when someone to whom the evidence
pointed walked free, helped by influence or corruption or a silver-tongued
attorney, but he believed he was coping with it.
He was wrong, Life deals us all strange hands, and the one he was being dealt
was definitely 'stacked'.
6. One day literally, out of the blue, he came home to find the house
stripped barren, and his wife and child gone. She was of course fine, safe
and filing for divorce (she left the court summons taped to the bathroom
mirror). She and the lawyer-friend of hers had been busy making their own
'legal statements', some of them up front and on the desk, a few others with
the secretary, but I digress. Between the two of them, they had come up with
a fantastic little case; custom-made, to get her away from him and the two of
them together.
- His long hours of work, much of them irregular, became "a casual contempt
for a normal family life, one where a growing and developing young child is
ill-placed."
- CPDI regulations about carrying a firearm at all times became a "growing and
perpetual fear of her heavily armed husband and his endless propensity for
violence."
- Watching pro-sports with his friends, like a close Laser's game one
afternoon, became a "developing alcoholic, borderline, exulting in
overabundant, violent hallucinations."
7. He lost his daughter, his home, and most likely his self-image. Though he
has visitiation rites with his daughter, the ex and new-hubby relocated to the
Ares HQ in detroit, where Marlowe wasn't able to go. He tried hard not to let
it affect him, and failed dismally. It's a shame, his lawyer has obviously
never heard or utilized the "Kidnapping by Entity Abstraction" litigation used
by Noel Jarvis of Houston Securities against Yamas Entertainment. It's where
one who is appointed the "guardian" over another "entity" that is
recognized
in court approaches certain "aquisition" efforts from the POV of kidnapping.
As the "supported entity" is protected under the "guardianship" of the
appointee, the appointee is able to file formal kidnapping charges against the
withholding or aquiring organization if it is done without any noticable
reason after a profile is performed by a neutral third party. Sorry, I'm
tired, digressing again...
8. He threw himself into his work, since it was all he had left. He preferred
his desk to his empty apartment: especially since, sitting alone at home, he
would actually start drinking, and often not stop. He never touched a drop at
work, and used that as a crutch: his work became his life.
9. The case that finally broke him was a nasty one. A pretty teenage girl,
found beaten and raped and strangled: her history a tangle of possession-of-
narcotics and driving-while-intoxicateds, all dropped on pressure from her
father: the junior Senator for Ohio. The Senator was evasive and shifty when
questioned: but not long afterwards, Kryzdanovich received an anonymous mail
containing a trideo tape: the Senator and his daughter, having sex. You can
imagine how Marlowe took all of this of course.
10. Kryzdanovich had his case and had his man, and he set out to gather the
evidence to make the case against the Senator ironclad. He found himself
embroiled in a web of corruption and lies that Spider would be proud of, which
he had expected: the evidence of murder remained elusive, though. As he dug
through the Senator’s questionable contacts and murky business deals, any
other signs that he had murdered his daughter remained obscure.
11. Still, he was attracting attention: threats from the Senator’s hired
help, then formal warnings from the Department. His suspension came as no
surprise: and he was expecting the attempt by four local toughs to kill him,
leaving them in hospital. By now completely rogue, he was startled to be
invited to meet the Senator personally. He went, armed and ready to shoot his
way out, to the great house on the outskirts of town. What he learned there
nearly destroyed him.
12. The Senator’s daughter liked the high life. Drugs, chips, an assortment
of lovers that she took and discarded at will, all the usual vices of the rich
and shameless. Her father had tried to rein her in: until she chose a night
when he was drunk, and seduced him, and taped the event. With that evidence
of "her father raping her", she blackmailed him into bankrolling and
supporting her hedonistic lifestyle.
13. All well and good: the Senator’s PR machine kept her out of sight, even
began catering to her tastes by dropping well-paid joyboys in her path,
"reducing the risks" to the Senator. Until an ambitious aide, who had found
the tape in the daughter’s room, saw an opportunity.
14. The Senator’s daughter was happy to meet that aide to ‘discuss some
promising business’, and ended up raped and dead: the aide had planned to pin
it on the Senator, manage the disclosure of the daughter’s sinful lifestyle,
get the Senator convicted and be the man who blew the case open, riding that
into a Washington office and the same life of bribes and honey that his boss
enjoyed.
15. Instead, the Senator had caused the aide to become a pillar of society,
part of the foundations of the Cincinnatti Metropolitan Hotel. Kryzdanovich
had been chasing the wrong man: and had sacrificed his friends, his career,
the job that had become his only life, to that goal.
16. The Senator, wanting to close the whole mess down - and perhaps feeling a
measure of guilt - offered a deal. Kryzdanovich would retire from CPDI on
health grounds, with a pittance of a pension - barely enough to cover his
maintenance payments - and leave Cincinnatti. In fact, he would forget that
there was a state called Ohio, or that it had a junior Senator. In exchange,
the Senator’s "friends" would arrange for a private investigator’s licence in
Seattle, and enough work to get him started. Kryzdanovich didn’t really see
much of an alternative: so he took the deal.
17. He found, to his surprise, that he liked PI work, and had quite a talent
for it. His first real job was a contract with a woman, a minor-league
simsense star pursued by a stalker: he successfully chased off the stalker,
and the starlet was enthusiastically and energetically grateful. He realised
quite quickly that it was a setup by the Senator’s friends, there to calm him
down and check him out: by then, though, he was amused rather than angered.
18. He coped well with being a Seattle PI: Cincinnatti was a much simpler,
more direct town, and hiding illicit activity needed much more skill there:
Seattle was easy by comparison, so many ways to conceal what needed to be
hidden, and those doing the hiding so much laxer.
19. The shadows of course had beckoned to Marlowe on some occasion, but he
only answered their Siren Call on his terms, keeping the reasons for it as his
own each time he did so.
(long, cinematic sigh from the guy on the screen)
So Monicker, you were right all along, he is 'squeaky clean', and perhaps one
of the last really "morally withholding individuals" that is left (sarcastic
chuckling). I have enough to probably write a novella on the guy now, and
probably a good idea of what he is capable of and what he's not.
I would say his wife needs a good mental realignment, and his daughter a
savior. Hell, I could 'reverse engineer' this entire scenario now and blow
open the senator, the Ares Lawyer AND the wife. And now, so could you. If
you -REALLY- want to, you could also use this same information as a "hold
over" on the guy and make his life an absolute psychological nightmare.
Of course, that is your choice. I have one too now, and I think I would like
to know one more thing if you don't mind ...
Just what did he do to deserve your stalwart attention so?
Oh, don't worry about me, I only know that from where I am, there is a safety
you would find hard to believe. I also know that I am professional enough to
keep my distance where I need to. I'm awaiting your payment ... just relay it
to the address included >>encryption link here<< and I'll be available. Have
a good one ...
(And with that, there is a flash emanating from the crown of his hat and the
emerald eyes of the barghest ... bright, illuminating ... when it's done, the
screen is dead)
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