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Message no. 1
From: I B A <P.C.Steele@*********.AC.UK>
Subject: Let the battle commence
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 17:13:32 GMT
*****Install time delay 24 hours
>>>>>[ By the time you chummers in Seattle read this we'll either be dead
or
victorious. We've just captured some of Jules' men and are preparing to go in
now as I type. Regent has just transformed Princess into a small black man
and is about to do the same to Fenris and Cerise.

Punisher and myself are slightly more mundanely camouflaged, I found an actors
supply shop in Jamica and together with some home made stuff myself and
Punisher now look like two natives of these islands, actually I think Cerise
and Princess were glad they wern't getting this traetment, considering the
smell this stuff gives off and the lack of clothing that Cerise normally wears,
she'd have to rub it 'all' over <ouch, that hurt !>, she just whacked me :).

I see Highlander just read that comment, got him grinning though I think he's
seen more of Cerise's body than the rest of us have. <Hey, put that lead down,
ok, ok I'll not mention Cerise again>.

So to fill ya all in on what's bin happening, we've decided to do a deal with
the Puppet Master, he get's us the juice on Ganz and the drugs, magic whatever
to get PH back to his old self. We help him take control of Jules' setup, go
in under cover and open up with the Ingrams, he he, I got the ol suitcase
stacked up and ready to blow as well.

So Puppet Master sends one of those little spirit do da's one of those damm
stupid wilo'the wisps off to Jules, everyones favourite troll, with a message,
something like "send the butchers for the meat" then the address of our ambush.
Jules must have gotten it preety quick cause within 15 mins Speed picked up
what looked like 4 cars coming our way, and from the look of them they were
packing some heavy duty callibre. Oh I ought to tell ya all, Speed ain't here,
he kinda hates being in the line of fire if he can help it, he's a couple of
miles down the road rigging from a van, one of those free trader chummers of his
is keeping an eye on the lad.

So cars pull, out spring the muscle, maybe 10, no more than that goons leap out,
they're all carrying automatics of some shape or size, Uzi's, FN-Hars, hell
I'm sure one or two even had an Ingram. Now comes the part were we play frag
the mothers, Jules' sends another watcher to some important looking dude
standing by one of the cars. Then the dude gives the order to move in, thats
about when we open up and attack. Punisher had a mini-gun in an emplacement
near the top of our building the drek really began to roll when he opened up
with that mother. Bodies getting fragged everywhere, then this cloud of dust
starts wizzing towards the fraggers, lettin out a wolf howl as it went.
Thats when Princess and Cerise start pop their spells, me and Highlander start
playing shoot the goon and soon start seeing who can shoot the most.

After our initial assault they dropped back and took cover. By this time
there were just 9 of the mothers left, 8 lay dead or seriously wounded on the
ground in front of our building. Then they begin, first their mages start,
fireballs start appearing, we start thanking our lucky stars all our own
chummers are initiates and can shield us. Then what appear to be two wireboys
open up, they operate a shoot and cover operation, Punisher tries to keep their
heads down a little longer with the minigun but they soon get below his arc of
fire.

About this time Regent pops up behind a mother and fries the dude some knock
out spell, only to nip back into the astral. He does it again, then the mages
turn on him, he gets hit with one hellish looking fireball which kinda melts
off him. Then this frag great big fire elemental appears and the two disappear.
Princess says she was shielding Regent at that point, so that explains the
fireball not working.

TNow Punisher came running down the stairs, none too soon, their wireboys had
reached the house and were coming in, he downed one and injured another.

"CAPTIVES !!! We want some CAPTIVES !!!" He screamed, the others looked
but then this bloody great big zombie appeared between us, nearly grabbed
Cerise and had Highlander hanging from it's neck before Cerise just looked at
it, muttered something and it disappeared.

The fraggers tried again, but we'd got the run on them by now, we'd caught a
wireboy of theirs. knocked him out and shouted out to them to surrender.

I think the goons were only too happy cause one shouted I surrender, straight
fragging away, till he got geeked by one of his own mages fireballs, mind
the mage never cast another spell after that cause I understand that Princess,
Fenris and Cerise all hit the mage with spells at that point.

Well the other nothers surrendered and we bound and tied them, we took their
clothes and are now getting ready for the big hit.

See ya later slimeballs. ]<<<<<
-I.B.A. (**:**:**/**.**.**)

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