| From: | Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ> |
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| Subject: | Obituary |
| Date: | Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:33:51 +1200 |
>>>>>[Okay, Squatter is dead. Here's how it happened.
The Rat told me all of this first paragraph later. Since 1700 he and
Squatter had been rigging a matrix extension cord under that overbridge
across the interstate just by the Sun Mall. Apparently Squatter wanted to
put some more distance between him and his jackpoint, good old paranoid
Squatter. Around 1930, he had finished attaching a stretch of cord by
industrial staples and was coming up to have a rest before putting in the
next signal booster, when the Rat warned him that he was about to be
attacked by five men with SMG's. The Rat manifested and cooked off all
their ammo while Squatter jumped off the bridge and swung down into the
support framework on the end of his extension cord (I knew that drek was
strong, but Squatter must have been very malnourished to be that light).
Anyway, Squatter's staples were popping out of the bridge one at a time as
he swung down, and that was controlling the rate of his descent a little,
so he wound up safe in the framework. Meanwhile the Rat had flamed down two
of the attackers, and two had run off, then the last came at the Rat with a
weapon focus knife, so the Rat played sheperds (i.e. he got the flock out
of there).
I was working out in Kyle's dojo when the Rat turned up shrieking about
Squatter being in trouble, so I flew out under the power of a levitation
spell. The Rat followed me, then took the lead and guided me to where
squatter had last been seen. The cord was stil swinging gently in the wind,
but there was no sign of Squatter nor of this focus-wielding guy. We took a
look around and I saw Squatter and this other guy engaged in hand to hand
combat, and flew up to give him a hand. Oh, BTW, they were fighting
standing toe to toe on the line between the 2nd and 3rd lanes in from the
side, and the traffic was bothering both of them more than just a little, I
would estimate.
Some astral support would have been nice, because just then I picked up
their astral component on magic radar, and the Rat took off squealing. I
went up to astral perception and took a look around. The guy coming at me
looked like your typical cheesy gutterpunk shark shaman, but he was pretty
fast and he knew how to use the trident focus he was carrying (no drek, a
trident). As a result it took me almost ten seconds to take him down.
Meanwhile Squatter was in trouble. Just as I came down from perception to
physical only, he was receiving a slashing wound in the gut. The other guy
looked all triumphant, but Squatter had caught his hand, locked it in
place, then he used the other hand under the guy's armpit to pull him in
close and then throw him into the path of an oncoming car. Splat! (a semi
plus trailers would have been more appropriate in a cheesy movie sort of
way, but he had to work with what was coming at the time. At least it
wasn't a scooter or one of those ridiculous bubble cars).
I got Squatter out of harm's way with a second lev. spell, but he was cut
up bad. In addition to the gut wound he had taken a couple of slashes
across the face and miscellaneous bruising. I tried healing magic, but
Squatter has so much headware, that deck of his... anyway, no dice there.
He was fading fast, and I barely got him to a clinic in time for him to
die. They tried resus and all that, but he'd lost too much blood on the
way, and he was pretty damn unhealthy from all that lurking in dumpsters
and eating whatever he could find. I wish we could have lured him into more
healthy accomodations while he was working with us in the SIR thing.
Anyway, has anyone seen the Rat? I don't know how it's taking all this. It
seemed to have some wierd connection with Squatter.]<<<<<
-- Ice <20:24:05/09-17-58>
