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Message no. 1
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: ODIN - On the way...
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 22:26:49 +0000
***** INTERNAL: Matrix Operation
+++++ Begin PostMortemMailbox.exe -name Canis.pmm
+++++ Begin PMM-Demon: Check Databases
/trigger: Thesaurus(Dead)
/who: Canis
/who: Ramon Kojawesky
/to: Invasion_Force.1, Lynch
+++++ PostMortemMailbox running.
-- Canis <21:20:41/11-27-58>

***** INTERNAL: PostMortemMailbox.exe -name Canis.pmm
>>>>>[ After Orion helped me to set up this thingy, I suppose it's time
to fill it so it makes sense should I bite it on this run. If you are
reading this, I am probably dead. Or considered "MIA, probably Dead" or
whatever the unifor types call it.

Well... we are on our way to the Yemen war theatre. Some surprise on
our way out - Celt showed up. We got this from the Banshee's
surveillance cameras:

+++++Begin Download: Banshee.mov
This is the back room of the Banshee. Most of the tables are moved near
the wall, on some food is piled. The room is filled with people of all
metatypes, none of which could be called "trustworthy". In one corner,
a human displays amazing feats with small flames that chase themselves
over his spread-out hands. He's clad in a fine suit of screaming
primary colors. A beatiful red-head with legs up to her belly watches
him, her face displaying a mix of amusement and disaproval while
talking to another woman, this one black-haired - Okami in human form.

In the center of the room, you see Fohdytoo dancing wildly with Ms
Ellie, several other people arround laughing and applauding, some also
dancing. Near the bar, Canis is chatting with a sparely clad
good-looking woman, who's laughing a lot and obviously having a good
time, and a musculous male with shoulder-long redish blond hair.

Among the other guests, you recognize only Jani and Sgt Davids, two
mercenaries accompanying Fohdytoo, but people seem to have a good time.

Suddenly (there always is a 'suddenly' in these footages, you
recognize) the door to the main room opens, and a woman enters. Silver
and auburn hair, and a swirling celtic knotwork tattoo on the left
cheek. The people who have been with the Invasion_Force.1 all fall
silent, staring at the newcomer. After a few seconds that appear
silent, although the music and the chatter continues, Canis excuses
himself from the other two, and approaches the attractive newcomer. The
two beautiful women who had been talking near the magician in the
corner - vanish.

+++++ Pause Replay
Orion managed to get a sound recording of the talk I've added...
+++++ Cont Replay

"...Celt, " Canis says, sounding really surprised.

"You have changed, " she replys with strong irish accent, "poisond your
aura!"

"The price had to be paid at my second birth," Canis answers, touching
the scar running down his cheek, "Things have been..." his voice fails.

"Heard as much. You - " she glances around the room - "said you needed
help. I am here."

"Great. We leave in... " Canis' face gets still for half a second, then
he continues, "about 105 minutes. Relax. Have a drink. You can drop
your stuff there, " he points at a heap of backpacks in one corner of
the room, "we will talk on the way."

Celt nods, and moves into the room.
+++++ End Download: Banshee.mov

We had a difficult time to explain another member to the people at the
base, but heck, somehow being an "irregular asset" seems to provide
some freedoms :-) ]<<<<<
-- Canis <22:23:45/11-27-58>
Message no. 2
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: ODIN - On the way...
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 15:50:24 +0000
***** INTERNAL: PostMortemMailbox.exe -name Canis.pmm
>>>>>[ Here we are, right in the middle of nowhere. This is a fucking
base camp in the middle east - do not ask where exactly, I couldn't
tell even if I wanted to. Well, one hint - it's sandy here. _Real_
sandy.

We talked about it, and agreed to accept the Ares Alpha as primary
weapon. Now we have field training with 'em. Great. Just fragging
great.

The two people Bull suggested - Mac and Chaos - are good. I just hope
Candy - Chaos' ally - will keep an eye on him. He's somewhat...
overenthusiastic at times.It's somewhat worrying to see Cindy and Okami
together - they really get along great. Somehow disturbing - they seem
to become friends. I mean, Cindy's a /fire elemental/, ye spirits...
couldn't find Okami a more appropriate... Damn, I sound like a fragging
_parent_!

Celt is... well... she's changed. Way more paranoid. Well, we all are.
Couldn't get through to her. She has not lost contact with her totem,
or godess, or whatever they call 'em.

Orion is running around me like a hen around her chicken. Sometimes he
really gets on my nerves. If he tells me one more time to calm down
I'll...

Well.

The Rebels are highly trained. Their morale is surprisingly high,
considering the beating they took recently. Unfortunately, they keep
telling me Lynch's too busy right now to be contacted. Well, I hope I
will get the info he promised me.

Back to the shooting range... ]<<<<<
-- Orion <15:49:04/11-28-58>
Message no. 3
From: Mike Goldberg <michael.goldberg@*******.COM>
Subject: Re[2]: ODIN - On the way...
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 18:47:01 MST
***** Private: Lynch
>>>>>[ I wasn't convinced until I got to the main body of the message
that I had the right encryption key. Midnight went into a whole
discussion in Arabic of the nature of good versus evil. I think he was
trying to hide what he was up to.

The main part was translated again from Japanese. I got an assist
from Blitzkrieg in decoding this one, because his knowledge of a
certain musical genre is much greater than mine will ever be. (The
code was keyed against a particular song -- luckily Midnight didn't
encode the whole thing in the song's lyrics, or I would still be
decoding this one.)

Here's the latest:
---
Kitsune, I apologize for the obscure reference. I picked something
out there because I felt too tired to bother with a deep encryption
this time.

Do remember the old military organization of the Soviet Union? Well
Akbar has "loyalty officers" instead. The situation here is getting
worse (surprised?). The one supply convoy that has arrived was badly
mauled -- a few survivors made it in, half-mad with fear and the sun,
babbling of silent death from the sky and ghosts in the darkness. They
were rushed to the infirmary... and have not been seen since. The
arrival of the next convoy, once a landmark date in this dull life, is
no longer posted, and the guards grow restless.

I managed to indirectly convince someone to whine about the situation
which prompted the Nazi's to messily and publicly execute the poor
soldier. No one has said anything directly again. (Yet.) However, the
grumbling is growing.

Naturally, with the supply shortages, the prisoners are getting
treated worse. We have lost three more since the last time I have
wrote. Effectively, all were lost in "interrogation." One was made
an example to the others. I think if they ever get free, the gajin
are going to have front line volunteers for any future offensives.
Thank Allah, that Akbar has the gajin so under his control.

(And who says brainwashing is useless?)

The loyalty officers finally got wise and demanded patrols after dark.
Six, two men patrols went out -- seven men came back and three of them
were screaming about devils in the darkness. The loyalty officers
were amazingly silent. Of course, that might have something to do
with the fact that one of their pets was the one screaming about the
devils in the night. (I believe magick was an additional factor in
that situation. I cannot believe I'm so alone in this rabble, that
only I would notice this fact.) Of course, it didn't help matters
that the same night, one of their other pets woke up and killed about
four people before he was taken down. He too was foaming at the
mouth.

Morale has completely collapsed (whatever morale wasn't already
crushed by the ride out here to this miserable hole in the ground) and
the camp is absolutely terrified of the darkness. (Except for maybe
the prisoners, who are probably relieved that they aren't being
harassed during the night.) Strange things have been occurring. The
endless possibilities of what one person could do has kept me
absolutely fascinated and makes me careful of what I say and do. I'm
keeping on eye on certain people here. They should provide an
assistance to whittle away the time. I can't wait to go home.

Although on a plus side, my religious nature seems to attract a certain
class of people. Perhaps I underestimated my days among the legion. I
wonder when things will change for the worse. It can't be long -- I
guess mutiny is only days away. ]<<<<<
-- Shadowfox <01:45:51/05-DEC-58>

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