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From:	Brian Rogers <rogers@****.uiuc.edu>
Subject:	Instant Replay
Date:	Tue, 21 May 1996 21:46:23 -0500

Message no. 1 ***** PRIVATE: The Mighty Quinn
>>>>>[Thanks a lot for the footage.

A couple of things of interest. She read. That in and of itself
might be important. These days most people either jack it, trode it,
or deck it before they would consider pulling out a few pieces of
dusty papers bound in leather. I have to admit, even most of
my libraries are on chips. Its faster and less trouble.

Expensive tastes -- was she a working girl?

One of the perps I am after has a cyber shotgun in one of his (her)
arms. Balistics were unable to give me a solid lead on which hand
it was.

Im offering my services to you if you wish them. I am a registered
Forensics Mage. I wish I could say I had a specialty, but times do not
allow for such things.]<<<<<
-- Jason R. Stormwind <02:34:31 / 05-22-57>

From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk>
Subject:	Re: Instant Replay
Date:	Wed, 22 May 1996 17:58:07 +0100

Message no. 2 *****PRIVATE: Jason R. Stormwind
>>>>>[Cultural thing on the reading, maybe. I prefer paper to a screen,
but then I'm a shaman and computers give me headaches :) A couple of my
friends have a lot of old books. I never thought anything of it myself,
but you're right.

Definite maybe on her hooking. Wardrobe with lots of expensive
underwear, lots of high-grade condoms in the nightstand, astral echoes
of some heavy traffic in the bedroom. And her income was mostly
certified cash, a few thousand thrown in every few days. Might have been
dealing, but I didn't even find a personal stash let alone a brick or
some BTL masters. Oh, they never found a purse or anything at the scene,
and I didn't see one in her pad. May be significant, maybe not.

Cause of death was a spur to the back of the neck: neat, precise, lots
of guys with spurs out there: pro killing. I'm inclined to think it was
by a lover, 'during' so to speak: very de Sade, but it would fit what
was left of her aura when I saw it. I only know one guy who had a
cybershotgun, and he ditched it when he retired from the shadows. Runs a
merc outfit now. Married, three kids. It would be sad if he wasn't so
happy.

I'm okay on forensic magic, but no expert: any pro assistance welcomed.
I'm a coyote shaman myself, if you couldn't guess or hadn't heard.
Apparently I'm considered a little crazy.

Can't think why.

The CDC guy checks out. Part of their magical threats division, meant to
be here, who he says he was.

Oh, and four bozos turned up, told me to stop asking questions about
Jennifer Pearson, and I had to kick their asses. Then I kicked them in
the 'nads. Then I asked them some questions and they didn't know much.
So I kicked them in the 'nads some more and left them for the cops. Some
guy they couldn't remember clearly hired them to beat me up some, paid
them with a Crusader and a few hundred each, and didn't tell them I'm a
magician. Either a warning or someone who didn't check up much on me.
The someone's a mage or has backup.

So, like, be careful about asking questions, in case some of those bozos
come for you. I'll carry on looking for now, see what comes up. A decker
buddy is chasing up friends and family on Jenny, see if anyone is
missing her. Any other ideas?]<<<<<
-- The Mighty Quinn <17:57:53/05-22-57>

From:	Brian Rogers <rogers@****.uiuc.edu>
Subject:	Re: Instant Replay
Date:	Wed, 22 May 1996 13:40:58 -0500

Message no. 3 ***** PRIVATE: The Mighty Quinn
>>>>>[I dont want to get too embroiled in yet another case right now,
certainly
not adding to the already somewhat monumental workload I am already operating
under. I guess thats why they pay me the big bucks (ha).

I can allocate some resources in your direction if you have need for them.
I have a full staff of deckers and fact finders and a few street contacts
kept on semi-retainer...you'd be surprised at what "street people" see.

Coyote. I know her well. She's a strange one. One of the older ones. It is
said, or once was spoken in hushed whispers around the cook fires, that Coyote
truely is insane. Knows more than she is supposed to know. Seen more than
even totems are supposed to see. Its also whispered that She left before magic
waned the first time. Self-imposed exile. It was not sure she would return
when magic did. But she is here. I wonder, sometimes, why that is.

Forgive me, I am still hallucinating a bit. I am just now returning from a
astral quest. There was someone I needed to find and bring home.

If she was hooking, check into her Mistress or Stable Master. She might have
been working on her own (if she was using condoms, she likely was...all legal
houses have mages on staff to deal with disease and birthcontrol) or working
for a smaller stable. You said it was very D'Sade-like. Were you implying that
she had been engaged in intercourse when she was killed? I would have expected
more of an oxygen deprivation than spinal injury. Odd.

It is also said that Bear returned quickly as well. Came to heal the world
and found that She could not. Didnt stop her from gathering power but She
faultered.

Do you mind if I share your result with someone else who has been working on
another case?

Why do we bother? If the Star can hold on to the Seattle Contract, why
arent they doing more to deal with the crime? Maybe nuking them all and
starting over would help. Unlikely.

What else did you want? I dont remember.

+++++ Connection Dumped]<<<<<
-- Jason R. Stormwind <18:22:48 / 05-22-57>
Field Officer
Serenity Security

***** PRIVATE: Serenity Mages
>>>>>[Someone has been hitting the awakened peyote and summoning again.
Three guesses as to who it was and your first 2 don't count.

Would one of you go over to the ware house and make sure he's alright? He
just responded to some mail from The Mighty Quinn where he mentioned still
being under the influence of something that's making him hallucinate.

The last time he did this he managed to summon a fire elemental that was
much bigger than he was. Luckily the elemental took pity on him and didnt
kill him but it did wreck on of my buildings and trashed the skate park on
its way out.

Merrox and I have already shut down his phone service so he shouldnt be able
to get back out of warehouse via the matrix.]<<<<<
-- Skuff <18:22:47 / 05-22-57>

From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk>
Subject:	Re: Instant Replay
Date:	Wed, 22 May 1996 23:52:35 +0100

Message no. 4 *****PRIVATE: Jason R. Stormwind
>>>>>[You know, Mr Stormwind, whatever you've been smoking, you should
either do some more or cut back. And could you sell me some? :)

Thanks for the offer of help. I may need it. I can contribute to the
cost if necessary: I'm reasonably solvent at the moment.

Spot on Coyote, except he's my grandfather. Tell us coyotes we can't go
somewhere, and we want to see what's there. I rode a steel horse up the
well and looked. It's cold, and dark, but not empty. I was glad to go
home. I don't think it made me crazy, but then everyone already said I
was totally whacko. I don't *think* it killed me either, but I could be
wrong :)

Who would you like to share your info with? I'd like to meet them, if
you don't mind. Not being too jumpy, it's just I'm working this for a
friend and I don't want to get him in trouble.

The de Sade touch is the typical killed-during-intercourse bit: I've
seen it written up as shot, knifed, or throttled, and I helped take down
one particularly nasty corporate wagemage who used a death touch spell
at orgasm. A spur in the back of the neck fits the profile if you didn't
want to leave an obvious cause of death: we nearly missed it even at
autopsy. Neat, very neat.

You sound like the other Jason sometimes. Maybe you and he should work
together. He likes kicking the shit out of bad guys too.]<<<<<
-- The Mighty Quinn <23:43:23/05-22-57>

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