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Message no. 1
From: "E.S. Brunsell" <ericb@***.WISC.EDU>
Subject: decker
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 14:15:04 CDT
*****ENCRYPT:##TEAM##
>>>>>[Alright, I guess I'll do it. I just ate the last of my =Y=. I will
only
work from the outside, on my turf! Tell me what I need to do, and how much I
get paid.]<<<<<
-- Couch <..:..:.. / ..-..-..>.
Message no. 2
From: Brian Rogers <rogers@****.UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Decker
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 12:00:46 -0500
***** PRIVATE: GoD
>>>>>[Thanks for the offer. Unfortunately, unless he is willing to give up
the "one job a month and I bring down enough money to live on" syndrome of
a runner, I wont be able to use him.

I need someone willing to be clean. I know that this is quite a bit to
ask of people who have already had a taste of what its like to be your own
boss and make more money that I will ever be able to offer but thats all I
have. I offer the security of NOT having to steal to put food on your
table, a roof over your head, and respect. Above all, I think just being able
to provide for yourself is a big step up.]<<<<<
-- Kor <16:55:54 / 07-10-56>
Message no. 3
From: Brian Rogers <rogers@****.UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Decker
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 10:57:11 -0500
***** PRIVATE: Michael McKnight
>>>>>[Yeah, as a matter of fact I have. For now, I would like to hire him
out of IS&M. Mostly for the paperwork aspect of it. If you are curious
I can explain it as best I can but I dont really understand.

This is what usually happens: I call the office and I say "I have found someone
that I really would like to put on staff". Personel Resources usually gets
really flustered saying "You cannot just go out and hire every Thom, Dick and
Harry you meet on the street. There are forms and paper work that need to
be dealt with. If you want me to do my job, let me do it -- I have to
test, interview, and retest and reinterview applicants. Its not like it
was when you first started this company ... (at this point I usually put
down the phone and get a drink of water)...". What all this comes down to
is that unless I beg and plead with PR they wont just hire someone. In
this case I routed it through Trixie and asked her to tell PR SHE found
someone and had already hired them and wants the paper work written up ASAP.

Its faster that way. The insurance works out, the medical coverage works
out, and everyone is happy (and I dont have to fight with my own employees
to get something done. One would think that "boss" meant something around
here but it doesnt. It means I get paid the most and have a cooshy office
that I spend 45 minutes a month in (Monthly board meetings).

I suspect that most of the paper work will be ready to go shortly. I asked
Trixie to get ahold of you for whatever information she needs about the
boy.

Hey, congrats on the final. Was your psychological exam as hard as mine?
It seems they dug up some information on my father, ex-fiance, AND a bit on
how I felt about certain things that arent supposed to exist and threw them
all at me at once. I'm fairly certain I failed that section of the test. If
things work like they did at the Star I will get to spend 2 months in intensive
evaluation with some asshole name Ivan VonScratchenSniff or some such drek.
How did you anser the question involving your partner being shot and the perp
turning the weapon on you? I answered as always "I power up a pneumatic punch
and I slam the perp into tomorrow. Then advance to my partner for magical
treatment and curing. If I cant get him back, I power up another PP on the
perp and I continue until either HE is dead or my backup has pulled me off of
him."

That answer ALWAYS makes the shrink squirm in his seat. "How could you be so
cruel? You are supposed to apprehend the suspect and bring him in for
questioning..." Yeah, so my partner goes down, this freak gets off in time
for Xmas at grand ma's. I don't think so.]<<<<<
-- Jason Stormwind <15:39:36 / 07-25-56>
Message no. 4
From: "Robert R." <rod@********.USMC.MIL>
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 11:20:40 EDT
***** Private: Jason stromwind
>>>>>[heheheheheheh, The test it self wasn't all that hard. Actually I
think
I'd be sitting in the chair next to you. I Think I went over board when I
described the further uses of Acid bolt and quickened "Goo" spells. well
anywhay... I spoke to the kid. I think I'll have him contact Trix and get
what ever he needs from her. I think it's time he took over and finds things
out for himself. Hey did we ever come up with a name???]<<<<<
-- Michael Mcknight <11:20:40/07-26-56>

***** Private: Gryffin
>>>>>[Hey You and a date, Gracies, 8:00, Unless you're Tooo tired...]
-- GoD <11:21:40/07-26-56>
Message no. 5
From: Mike Loll <e5rs010@*****.BOWIESTATE.EDU>
Subject: Decker..
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 22:26:49 EDT
*****PRIVATE: Ronin
>>>>>[It's been a while Ronin. I'm free for some B&E. Whats the pay?
Contact
me at >>encrypted<<. Laterz.]<<<<<
-- Phobos <22:30:12/10-23-57>
Message no. 6
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Decker..
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 17:07:07 +1200
*****PRIVATE: Phobos
>>>>>[Too long.

Pay is >>amount<<. I don't want to talk details until I can get a physical
meet set up with all the participants, which I think I can now do. Thusly,
please wait a moment for my next message... ]<<<<<
-- Ronin <22:55:59/10-23-57>

*****PRIVATE: Ice, Lyting, Phobos, Runs-Over-Pedestrians
>>>>>[I seem to have found everyone we'll need, though there may be someone
else added later. Intro's at the physical meet, which will be >>place and
time<<, if everyone can make it.

Ice, have you made the astral flyby yet? Phobos, can you see what you can
see in the matrix about the office building at >>address<<? That's the
target, for those who missed it earlier.]<<<<<
-- Ronin <23:00:22/10-23-57>
Message no. 7
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Decker..
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:36:56 +1300
*****PRIVATE: Ronin
>>>>>[I've taken a look on the astral, there are no patrolling spirits
at all, nor are there mages in evidence. Looks like a pretty small security
force.

I did see some sort of bound spirit though, lurking in a sort of
thick-walled box stuck in a wall, probably a wall safe, but it's hard to
tell from the astral. If that's where the target doc's are kept, there'll
probably be trouble. I've got an idea of how to deal with it, we can
discuss it at the meet.]<<<<<
-- Ice <20:36:31/10-25-57>
Message no. 8
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Decker
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:45:51 +1300
>>>>>[I need a decker.]<<<<<
-- RJohnson <14:40:34/03-09-58>

*****PRIVATE: RJohnson
>>>>>[I'm a decker. What's the job?]<<<<<
-- Squatter <16:15:35/03-09-58>

*****PRIVATE: Squatter
>>>>>[Get into the computer control systems of MycoProducts culture plant
(you'll have to go in through the management sytem at PLTG >>number<<). Get
me a complete copy of the software that runs their vats, and cover your
intrusion by making it look like part of some other op. I'll have more for
you after my people have analysed the control software.]<<<<<
-- RJohnson <13:44:28/03-10-58>
Message no. 9
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:12:38 +1300
*****PRIVATE: RJohnson
>>>>>[On it.]<<<<<
-- Squatter <13:55:15/03-11-58>
Message no. 10
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:38:02 +0000
*****PRIVATE: RJohnson
>>>>>[Here you go...

+++++Include file vatrun.sys

I have a fairly peculiar payment method... I need you to get the money
together in cash nuyen, and bring it to >>place<< in a plastic bag. I've
trained a large rat, it'll come out and take the bag from you. So far you
owe me >>amount<<.]<<<<<
-- Squatter <23:34:57/03-12-58>

*****PRIVATE: Squatter
>>>>>[Allright... whatever you like. My people need a little more time. Do
>>>>>you want all you're money at once, or in seperate
lots?]<<<<<
-- RJohnson <09:15:37/03-13-58>
Message no. 11
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 11:59:54 +1200
*****PRIVATE: RJohnson
>>>>>[Whenever you can get it is fine... I realise you'll have some
trouble putting together the money in cash, that's why my fee is so
low.]<<<<<
-- Squatter <15:53:24/03-14-58>

*****PRIVATE: Squatter
>>>>>[The alterations on vatrun.sys are complete... I now need you to break
>>>>>back in to the Mycoproducts system and plant this modified version of
>>>>>the software.

+++++Include file vatrun2.sys

It is important that you are not seen to be changing the software, so, as
before, make it look like you're running something else.]<<<<<
-- RJohnson <16:50:05/03-14-58>
Message no. 12
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 12:11:34 +1100
*****PRIVATE: RJohnson
>>>>>[Done. That brings the total up to >>amount<<. Cash,
remember. My
rat will be at the pickup site tomorrow at >>time<<.]<<<<<
-- Squatter <16:10:03/03-15-58>
Message no. 13
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Decker
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 11:03:58 +1200
*****PRIVATE: Nightwolf
>>>>>[My research dercker has changed his mind, he is now able to run
>>>>>matrix cover for us when we go in.]<<<<<
-- Ronin <16:48:35/04-24-58>
Message no. 14
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 11:12:57 +1200
*****PRIVATE: Nightwolf
>>>>>[Another thing, sorry, forgot to mention it, but I've gotten hold
of some communications gear for the run... radio transceivers with ECCM and
crypto, and a datajack connection as an optional add-on. Apparently, if you
have a datajack, you can send and receive messages through an ASIST
interface at the deck, so there's no noise at either end. I can also get
them with earpiece speakers and mikes for any of the team that don't have a
datajack.]<<<<<
-- Ronin <16:48:35/04-24-58>
Message no. 15
From: "Mark A. Imbriaco" <mark@******.net>
Subject: Decker..
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:56:26 -0400 (EDT)
*****PRIVATE: Lynch
>>>>>[ Yeah, I've got a name for you. Contact a runner named Flux. You
can reach him through >>encrypted<< .. I'll let him know that you may be
calling. ]<<<<<
-- Tangent <11:56:13/04-09-57>
Message no. 16
From: shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk (Paul J. Adam)
Subject: Re: Decker..
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:35:27 GMT
*****PRIVATE: Flux
>>>>>[Hi there. Tangent suggested I call you. I need someone who's
willing to screw with Aztlan, to do some digging for me. As if you
couldn't guess, I'm after their mindwashing tortureware business.

Interested in some high-risk work? Money's going to be around >>encrypted<<,
but I don't have any armour plate for your ass.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <00:38:31/04-10-57>
Message no. 17
From: "Mark A. Imbriaco" <mark@******.net>
Subject: Re: Decker..
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:49:09 -0400 (EDT)
*****PRIVATE: Lynch
>>>>>[ I'm in. And don't worry, I've got the armor plate to cover my own
ass. Now give me some specifics of what you're looking for, and anything
else that I should know. ]<<<<<
-- Flux <**:**:**/**-**-**>
Message no. 18
From: shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk (Paul J. Adam)
Subject: Re: Decker..
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:51:53 GMT
*****PRIVATE: Flux
>>>>>[Glad to hear it. This is what we have so far.

+++++include file: Aztlan.covert.ops.1
+++++include file: tortureware.tech.data
+++++include file: interrogation.simsense
+++++include file: story_so_far.txt

Basically, I need either information on their operations, so I have
something to hit, or I need something on where it's coming from.
Someone has to be developing this stuff somewhere.

When I got in on this (almost by accident) I found myself back on the
Aztlan shoot-on-sight list and InterPol leapt on me. In other words,
be careful.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <17:55:03/04-10-57>
Message no. 19
From: Michael Loll <lolllee@*****.com>
Subject: Decker
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 14:58:03 -0400 (EDT)
*****Private To: Ronin
>>>>>[Need a Decker eh? I'm pretty good...just got finished with another
job myself. So what ya need found about who? I don't charge that much for
easy stuff...though the hard stuff will cost ya. Contact me at
>>encrypted<<.]<<<<<
-- Phobos <14:49:41/05-07-54>
Message no. 20
From: jaimie.nicholson@********.otago.ac.nz (Jaimie Nicholson)
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 11:47:38 +1200
*****Private To: Phobos
>>>>>[I need someone who knows things, and a decker tends to fit that
>>>>>description.

The subject is known on this net as Blademaster, and I need to know
something about his current affiliations and activities. There is another
decker working on the matter already, so don't be surprised if you meet him
(or her). The information must be current, as I have said to your fellow
searcher, I don't care whether the subject is a former Aztlan Naval
Commander, only if he or she is a current Aztlan Naval Commander.]<<<<<
-- Ronin <11:38:05/05-08-54>
Message no. 21
From: William Kristoph Wonch <00095857@******.unl.edu>
Subject: Decker
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:04:07 -0500 (CDT)
*****PRIVATE: Dark Falcon
>>>>>[How much for government agencies?

I need all the information you can dig up on a group called SIGA.

I also need all the info you can dig up on a someone or something
known as "Farmer" I think it represents a corp or at least a group of
individuals. Look into it for me.

I'll send half your nuyen now, half later.

*****include credit transfer

Get this back to me as soon as possible, I think I might be able to
prevent a tragedy.]<<<<<
-- Redemption <17:57:42/6-20-57>

*****PRIVATE: Squatter
>>>>>[This information I need you to get for me must stay totally
hush-hush. Lives may depend on it. Especially mine.

I need information on two individuals. Get back to me ASAP about cost
and time frame. I need this info stat.]<<<<<
-- Redemption <18:00:12/6-20-57>

*****PRIVATE: Led Pirton
>>>>>[I am not interested in hiring you at this time. If anything
comes up in the future, I will let you know.

Your threats are worthless. I will handle my dealings with you as I
do with anyone else. As a professional. You won't be betrayed by me,
chum.]<<<<<
-- Redemption <18:05:07/6-20-57>
Message no. 22
From: jaimie.nicholson@********.otago.ac.nz (Jaimie Nicholson)
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:53:19 +1100
*****PRIVATE: Redemption
>>>>>[ Cost? Modest, but I would like future work as well, so the low cost
reflects an investment rather than me being to pathetic to be worth your
while. I suppose about 50 nuyen for a simple check, 500 if I expect to meet
deadly opposition. Has to be cash though, and I mean _cash_, not certified
sticks, not bearer bonds, not corp scrip, but good old cash nuyen. Payment
doesn't have to be fast, since I realise cash is hard to come by these
days.

Time frame is too variable really. I can do numerous checks on ordinary
types in a hurry, but if we're talking secure databases, I have to do it
all myself. I'm fast though, compared to others.]<<<<<
-- Squatter <11:43:46/06:20:57>
Message no. 23
From: jaimie.nicholson@********.otago.ac.nz (Jaimie Nicholson)
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 11:50:38 +1200 (NZST)
*****Private: Redemption
>>>>>[ You still there? Still hiring? What happened?]<<<<<
-- Squatter <17:50:29/06:23:57>
Message no. 24
From: jaimie.nicholson@********.otago.ac.nz (Jaimie Nicholson)
Subject: Decker
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 14:23:51 -0300
>>>>>[ I need a decker and surveillance expert, contact me
here]<<<<<
-- IMA Pseudonym <20:19:06/07-27-57>
Message no. 25
From: jaimie.nicholson@********.otago.ac.nz (Jaimie Nicholson)
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 15:09:28 -0300
*****PRIVATE: IMA Pseudonym
>>>>>[ I am a decker and surveillance expert, contact me
here]<<<<<
-- Squatter <20:19:06/07-27-57>
Message no. 26
From: jaimie.nicholson@********.otago.ac.nz (Jaimie Nicholson)
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:06:06 -0300
*****PRIVATE: Squatter
>>>>>[ The job is mostly as a back up, surveillance work. My daughter is
currently living there with a pair of BTL-dealing gutterpunks, and refuses
to accept my calls. She says her new life is "cool", and she's never coming
home. I have engaged a samurai known as Johnie Q to kill the two, known as
Boner and Gully, and scare her silly.

+++++Include boner.txt
+++++Include gully.txt

The payment is >>encrypted<<. I want you to watch the address of these two,
and be ready when the samurai strikes. You must also make sure Johnie Q
does not... harm my daughter. He will bring her to you, then leave the
area. You are to bring her to >>address in Bellevue<<.]<<<<<
-- IMA Pseudonym <21:56:56/07-27-57>
Message no. 27
From: jaimie.nicholson@********.otago.ac.nz (Jaimie Nicholson)
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 13:24:06 +1100
*****PRIVATE: Squatter
>>>>>[ Johnie Q claims to have seen you, describing you as a "man in a
suit
>>>>>in a Eurocar". This doesn't quite fit your name, so I presume
it's not
>>>>>you. Have you seen this "man in a
suit"?]<<<<<
-- IMA Pseudonym <19:19:23/07-29-57>
Message no. 28
From: jaimie.nicholson@********.otago.ac.nz (Jaimie Nicholson)
Subject: Decker
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 16:47:20 -0400
*****PRIVATE: Easy
>>>>>[Did you say you wanted a decker a while back? I can do that, I'm
pretty
much recovered from my embarassing incident thanks to that shaman Lynch
knew. All I ask in return for my work is a shiny new drum-fed Enfield AS-7
with an under-barrel grenade launcher, shock pads, and one of those top of
the line Lyco gas vent recoil suppression toys. I don't have a smartlink
and hate to wear goggles, so forget that crap. I believe that would come to
about 6 KnY, probably cheaper if you have the right contacts.]<<<<<
-- Squatter <22:40:25/08-21-57>
Message no. 29
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:14:40 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Squatter
>>>>>[I may well need some checks done on someone. Don't know for sure
yet, but stand by.]<<<<<
-- Easy <17:14:46/08-23-57>

*****PRIVATE: Kor
>>>>>[The problem we discussed... does it have a name?]<<<<<
-- Easy <17:15:52/08-23-57>
Message no. 30
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Decker
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 09:53:14 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Squatter
>>>>>[My friend came through. The person I need a check on is Captain
Nelson Wilkerson. He's commanding some UCAS Army outfit, but apparently
he's gone off the rails somewhat.

Be discreet. This may come to nothing, and I don't want to land both of
us in trouble.

The shotgun I can arrange: most of the parts, I can get easily. The
shotgun itself is harder, but I know a guy who has a couple. You should
have it within a week.]<<<<<
-- Easy <09:55:54/08-24-57>

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