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Message no. 1
From: Chickenman <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: How's the grass?
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:16:57 +1300
*****PRIVATE: Serpent
>>>>>[I hear you're looking for some competent operatives. I think that
describes me. Can we talk?]<<<<<
-- Ronin <17:15:01/11-02-59>
Message no. 2
From: "Paul J. Adam" <Shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 23:35:45 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Ronin
>>>>>[Ronin. Matthew Van Holde. Ex-Renraku security, tough guy, lots of
attitude, morals flexible but definitely not nonexistent.

Last I heard, you were playing one of the terrorists in Seattle's Urban
Combat Simulator because you got busted by SIGA. How'd you get out, and
why are you talking to me?

Answer those two, and yeah, we can talk.]<<<<<
-- Serpent <23:35:37/11-02-59>
Message no. 3
From: Chickenman <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 11:58:50 +1300
*****PRIVATE: Serpent
>>>>>[Damn it all to hell, who keeps leading everyone to believe I got
morals? I didn't geek the passengers because I will _not_ add mass murderer
to my brag sheet. That's all it is.

I got out by being a good boy - they sent me on a 6 week holiday in
Amazonia chasing insects spirits (or some damn thing), almost getting
sacrificed, fighting mad mages on the tops of Aztec pyramids, receiving
miscellaneous beatings, and so on... a real riot.

As to the other, the Slotback told me you were looking for some hard guys,
and I figure I'm at least a little bit hard.]<<<<<
-- Ronin <19:43:40/11-03-59>
Message no. 4
From: "Paul J. Adam" <Shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 01:11:39 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Ronin
>>>>>[You won't commit mass murder. Means, to me, you got morals, just a
few. Maybe because I won't hose down unarmed civs either and I still
think I'm not that bad a guy, I think that's a good thing.

Morality in a shadowrunner's like Tabasco sauce in food: a little goes a
long way, but too much is worse than too little.


A run into Amazonia, huh? You meet a guy with half his face gone? Real
weird magic? All kinds of strangeness?


But, yeah, I could use talent. I need smart muscle. Guys who can grab a
situation and stay in control of it, keep it from escalating into a
bloodbath, and fight their way out if it _does_ get bloody. Corpsec or
cop time's a real advantage.

Job's out of the UCAS, involves massively pissing off some very powerful
people, but if we pull it off we'll be rich as fucking Croesus. Very
high risks, with rewards to match.

You interested?]<<<<<
-- Serpent <01:11:26/11-04-59>
Message no. 5
From: Chickenman <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:14:25 +1300
*****PRIVATE: Serpent
>>>>>[I _have_ committed mass murder. But no-one knows about it, so it
isn't on my rap-sheet. I repeat, it's not a matter of morals, simply of
leaving a safety margin... that guy Haze, he was in the same position I
was, he hosed down the bus, I didn't. Look where he is now. Look where I
am. I think I made the right choice from a pragmatic point of view. And if
that was the moral choice, well, that's not really my fault.

I don't know why I'm trying to argue this point actually... maybe there's
some sort of "look, I'm a hard bastard" thing going on in my
subconscious...

Anyway, that's not important. I'm interested. Where is it?]<<<<<
-- Ronin <17:09:48/11-05-59>
Message no. 6
From: "Paul J. Adam" <Shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:36:04 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Ronin
>>>>>[Okay, you want to show how hard-core you are?

The job is to get a decker into the vault one of the bigger Las Vegas
casinos, a couple of hours before they make the weekly data transfer.
The decker sucks their system dry. Should take two minutes, tops, since
he'll be jacked directly into the mainframe.

We get out of Dodge and we launder the funds: not too hard, it's
certified credit from a couple of thousand of citizens who just gambled
their kids' college fund away.


And if you think it's actually going to be that simple, then I don't
want you on the team...

Still interested?]<<<<<
-- Serpent <23:35:32/11-05-59>
Message no. 7
From: Chickenman <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 11:42:23 +1300
*****PRIVATE: Serpent
>>>>>[That sounds like a drek-load of cash... which means yes, I'm still
interested. Who else is on the team?]<<<<<
-- Ronin <17:38:58/11-06-59>
Message no. 8
From: "Paul J. Adam" <Shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 00:11:08 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Ronin
>>>>>[Drekload of cash is putting it mildly. Of course, we have to live
to spend it.

Who's on the team? I've got four so far. You, me, Easy, Mani. I might
bring the guy I'm working with at the moment in, depends if he's
interested (depends if we live through this current job or not...) to
make five.

I need a rigger and a decker, a magician if I can get one, and two more
shooters. Ideas welcome.]<<<<<
-- Serpent <00:10:37/11-07-59>
Message no. 9
From: Chickenman <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 16:45:34 +1300
*****PRIVATE: Serpent
>>>>>[I know some mages, a group of 'em in fact, but I don't know which
if any of them are into this sort of work. Even if they aren't, they might
know some people. You want me to make some subtle enquiries?]<<<<<
-- Ronin <22:35:58/11-07-59>
Message no. 10
From: "Paul J. Adam" <Shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:59:12 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Ronin
>>>>>[Sorry for the delay. Life got hectic for a few days.

Yeah, ask around, discreetly. See what you can chase up for us.]<<<<<
-- Serpent <22:59:42/11-11-59>
Message no. 11
From: Chickenman <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:07:03 +1300
*****PRIVATE: Faerie
>>>>>[Can you contact Ice for me? He can get me here.]<<<<<
-- Ronin <23:05:07/11-11-59>

*****PRIVATE: Ronin
>>>>>[What the hell are you doing up so late? I've sent off a message to
him, he should be in contact within a couple of days.]<<<<<
-- Faerie <01:07:43/11-12-59>
Message no. 12
From: Chickenman <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:14:09 +1300
*****PRIVATE: Ronin
>>>>>[I see you escaped... well done, my unrequited
love.]<<<<<
-- Ice <18:07:04/11-12-59>

*****PRIVATE: Ice
>>>>>[I thought we'd dealt with that fairly thoroughly already.

Anyway, I've got a job for you if you wouldn't mind coming out of
retirement for a little while... UCAS government work, deep cover sort of
stuff, guaranteed to be lots of fun plus a staggering payday if we pull it
off. Let me know ASAP, okay?]<<<<<
-- Ronin <21:34:09/11-12-59>
Message no. 13
From: Chickenman <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:00:13 +1300
*****PRIVATE: Ronin
>>>>>[Okay, I'm in.]<<<<<
-- Ice <16:51:27/11-14-59>

*****PRIVATE: Ice
>>>>>[Get over here then, I'll meet you at the
warehouse.]<<<<<
-- Ronin <20:38:13/11-14-59>
Message no. 14
From: Chickenman <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:54:51 +1300
*****PRIVATE: Ronin
>>>>>[Not as easy as that... I can't leave NZ right now. I'll meet you at
>>virtual location<<, 1200 tomorrow, how's that sound? Bring anyone else
you think should meet me.]<<<<<
-- Ice <17:50:42/11-16-59>
Message no. 15
From: Chickenman <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:45:44 +1300
*****PRIVATE: Serpent
>>>>>[I've got a virtual meeting set up with a mage I know, name of Ice.
>>matrix address<<, 1200, 11-19, okay? RSVP.]<<<<<
-- Ronin <13:07:37/11-17-59>
Message no. 16
From: "Paul J. Adam" <Shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 23:09:52 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Ronin
>>>>>[Sorry, I missed your message from last week. Sort of busy dodging
bullets in Amsterdam, checkimg mail wasn't exactly easy...

I'm back, I'm planning. You and your mage friend still interested?]<<<<<
-- Serpent <23:09:43/11-25-59>
Message no. 17
From: Chickenman <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: How's the grass?
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:56:37 +1300
*****PRIVATE: Serpent
>>>>>[Damn right... when I told said mage friend ballpark figures for what
might be involved and he started drooling, I knew he was hooked. I can get
him to a virtual meet, say >>matrix address<<, 1200
tomorrow?]<<<<<
-- Ronin <15:54:18/11-25-59>

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