| From: | Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ> |
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| Subject: | If you're getting this message... |
| Date: | Mon, 8 Dec 1997 12:01:40 +0100 |
>>>>>[Here am I in downtown Jakarta, catching the sun and all that. I hate
to use such a stereotype, but if you're getting this message then it's been
24 hours since I told it not to send, so I'm probably dead (or at least
stuck somewhere and unable to get to a matrix connection). So, I might as
well tell you all what little I know about what's been going on. I hate to
leave this world unsung and unmissed and all that.
11-17
A human and a spirit of some sort raid a friend's place while I'm there. I
can't fight my way out for reasons I see no need to reveal. They ask me
some questions about "Tirmalane So Vore" (that's an approximate spelling,
no idea how it's supposed to be spelt) who supposedly resembles me and also
uses the Terensodai Setra ritual (which I used to track Irish back during
the SIR/SK struggle, and again some other time more recently, I forget the
details... nice memory, gotta stop smoking that shit). So, why do you claim
not to be him, they asked me. I've got no idea who he is, I said, I learned
Terensodai Setra from an elf who looked nothing like me, a Dr of
Thaumaturgy from Tir Tairngire. They asked me a few more probing questions,
like had I ever met anyone who looked like me, and stuff like that, and I
told them no, now please go away. They left, releasing me from a truth
inducing spell that I hadn't even noticed up to that point. Bastards.
Luckily though, they didn't ask the right question, which would have been
"have you ever heard anything about a guy who looks like you", to which the
answer would have been yes. Anyway, I took off and Lena insisted on coming
with me. She might not have been safe in Seattle with those guys after me,
and I was in too much of a hurry to argue or consider the pros and cons, so
I erred on the side of caution and took her along. We flew out over the sea
under levitation power and in the shape of albatrosses, so we made CalFree
without any border touble.
11-19 to 11-30
CalFree, Oakland to be more precise. Lurking with Troglobyte and co. Spent
most of the time thinking about my predicament. Did I tell you that
Thirstein spotted someone who looked exactly like me in Jakarta while Kirk,
Michael and he were over there in early November? And that said double gave
Thirstein a message for me on the day they left the country? Said message
being "If they ask you about me, come to Jakarta and I'll explain
everything". Kind of strange, a bit too coincidental for me to swallow. I'm
being led around by the nose, but I've got no choice. This guy is wandering
the world stirring up trouble for me by wearing my face (or maybe I'm
wearing his face... depends who was born first... but since I was born way
back in '15, I'm probably older, unless you believe all that crap about
spike babies and so on). I want to know what the hell he's doing.
11-30
I acquired a number of false SIN's from Troglobyte and his people, asking
to have some travel history/future with each. What I was going to do was
use each SIN at the middle of it's journey, so that anyone following me
would hopefully see that the SIN kept going to Beirut, overlooking the fact
that I had stopped and used another SIN (who had just come from Hawaii) to
head for Cairo. Cunning. Anyway, I didn't spot any tails when I left SF for
Taiwan on a smuggler plane, concealed in one of the crates with magic to
keep me fed, and some chip books to keep me slightly less bored than I
would otherwise have been. I left Lena behind, about which I feel some
guilt, she can't have been very happy to spend time with the vociferously
anti-japanese/corporate Troglobyte and co, and she's both of those things.
I wonder if they let her stay there?
12-02 (still 12-01 back in Seattle, I guess, I crossed the date line some
time early this morning)
My crate was dropped out of the plane, and I turned into a lizard and
wriggled through a little gap, to find myself in some 2-bit jungle
airfield. I made my way to the nearest city to find that I wasn't in Taiwan
at all, I had been put down in Thailand, close to Bangkok. This pretty much
screwed the first part of my cunning ruse involving the SINs, but waddya
gonna do? If I didn't know where the hell I was, nor where I was going, how
could my pursuers? I decided to catch up with SIN #2 in Beijing, he was
heading for Cairo and thence to London.
12-03
Made Beijing at 0500 after a hard night's levitation powered flight, and
caught the plane to Cairo.
12-04
Spent a day in Cairo, gave the SIN info and ticket to a street urchin whom
I shapechanged to look like me (that makes three of us running around the
various airports of the world), the spell being anchored to a grape, which
I told him to eat when he got to Heathrow.
12-05
Caught a flight to Jakarta on SIN #3, who continued to Canberra, leaving me
behind in Indonesia. Repeated the street urchin thing, this time using a
cherry, this one seemed almost overjoyed to be getting out of the Jakarta.
I don't know if she'll find things any better in Australia, but good luck
to her.
12-06
Now I'm here I don't know what the hell to do next. Spent today looking
around the streets to see if this mysterious double was out there. He's
been leading me here, I'm sure of it, so it would be a waste of time if he
didn't actually make contact now I've finally arrived. Maybe he lost me
somewhere between London, Cairo, Jakarta and Canberra. Shit, I was confused
as to where I was for much of the time I spent hopping around the globe.
A watcher has just arrived asking me to meet this double of mine at a bar
called the Green Monkey. It's now 0655, I'm going to follow it.]<<<<<
-- Ice <06:55:29/12-08-58 B/HT>
