| From: | Brian Rogers <rogers@****.UIUC.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Magical Collection Agency |
| Date: | Mon, 3 Apr 1995 11:30:55 -0500 |
me
grief but this particular time I was just fraggin' fed up with the entire
situation.
I have a contract, I have the paperwork, I completed the contract, and I want
my money. Is there anything at all wrong with that?
What happened to the days when your word could be your bond? I guess its mostly
my fault, really. I prefer lump sum payments as they are easier to keep track
of AND I know that my employer has the ability to be unhappy with my services
and dock me pay (hasnt happened yet) if he or she so chooses. That usually
makes the mundanes happy and gives them some sense that they have some
control over the situation. Your accounting department, the entire lot of
them, decided it was time to play ring-aroung-the-red-man and started shovelling
paperwork and electronic fill-out forms and crap at me.
There is an old saying -- Given enough time, 100 baboons could write the
complete works of shakespear. I figured that now would be a good time to
test that out. If they could figure out how to fill out the forms they needed
me to fill out, AND DO IT, I would turn them back.
By the way, they have complete control over their facilities. I believe that a
number of them are acting out because they believe they will have a good
excuse to and wont get canned. Its all psychological.
The transfers have been completed. You would think that you were paying me
a billion nY the way your accounting department tightened up their hoops and
started whining about needing reciepts and paperwork. I'd be willing to bet
that they waste more paper that way. All this for a couple hundred nY. Next
time we are going to have to deal on the barter system. Speaking of which...
*****PRIVATE: Freddy Frypp
I had the time to take a look around your office. Other offices in your complex
have magical security of some sort up and in place. Some of it is flashy and
showy and meant only to deter the casual astral traveller and annoy anyone who
is really trying to get in. That is fine and dandy, and legal in this state
but my thoughts and suggestions are more for subtle traps. Stop me if this
gets to be too much detail for you but -- I have done some work with
polarized wards. You can think of them as one way mirrors or doors with
no handles on the inside. The entire premise behind these are, I cannot
leave behind enough magical baggage to give me a 100% confirmed elimination
of an intruder. Because of this, I would rather be there personally to
deal with it. Around the warehouse I have some pretty tiny wards up that
are basically there to keep whoever or whatever in long enough for Castor and
Pollux to tear them a new hoop. For the most part, this works pretty well
for the casual astral peeper. When you get down to bigger and badder
thangs, then you need to think more about having elementals bonded to your
place. That, however, leaves a beacon saying two things: "Hey, come in
here and Ill rip your head off" and "Hey, I got something in here I dont
want you looking at". Again, this is like having cameras and alarms on your
building. Most of your normal drek thieves are NOT going to want to deal
with getting in when they know you have that around. Its the people like
me who get paid to go in no matter what they have up, that you wont really
be able to defend against.
As far as TwoFaces goes -- I did some checking and he is off his rocker, man.
He's been kicked out of some of the best AND worst magical groups around. This
freak even got himself kicked out of the SCA's magical group. Thats like
being told you are even too stupid to be an I-Marine (smile). He is way
unstable and too much of a wildcard to really be allowed to continue
practicing. But thats not my job -- His Ally, a visualization from
a comic book from the early to mid 1970's called Ghost Rider, is NOT under
his control. They are likely to be tense friends at best. Its likely a couple
of steps from being free as is.]<<<<<
-- Kor <16:06:25 / 04-03-56>
