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Message no. 1
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: ODIN - Surveillance 3
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 16:51:09 +0000
***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ Sam, it's becoming cold here. Request permission to
advance and reconnoiter the house. Still no movement. ]<<<<<
-- Noze <18:21:01/12-30-57>

***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ Request 'nied. Stay in position. Do NAT advance.
]<<<<<
-- Fohdytoo <18:21:15/12-30-57>

***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ %"Hoa=!()!12 Couldn't understand your mess&)=! ?!

+++++ Data Loss: 0.2 Mp

&Z!_I&! understood to advance. Thank you. ]<<<<<
-- Noze <18:21:42/12-30-57>

***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ DREK! Stay in position, Noze! STOOOP! Mak, Giles,
report! ]<<<<<
-- Fohdytoo <18:21:58/12-30-57>

***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ What's happenin', Sam? ]<<<<<
-- Orion <18:22:05/12-30-57>

***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ Dat stupid son of a bitch decide to do recon... he left
the radio cable, and now we have ta wait for da transmissi'n
from his field radio. Shall we advance, too? ]<<<<<
-- Fohdytoo <18:22:11/12-30-57>

***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ Prepare to advance. We're comin'. Das is' verrueckt!
Pure madness! ]<<<<<
-- Canis <18:22:17/12-30-57>

PUBLIC: Open Band Radio in Chicago/Southside
>>>>>[
+++++ Compression detected.
+++++ Decompressing... done.

+++++ Encryption ODIN detected.
+++++ Decrypting... done.

+++++ Begin display: AutoVidCamRec001.mov
The POV indicates the camera is shoulder mount and automatic
adjusting. Someone can be seen from behind as he throws a
cable away, then turns and grins toward the camera. "OK, let's
go." The person wears a security armor and a helmet. A
nameplate states "Noze". As he checks a AK with grenade
launcher, a state-of-the-art Ares Alpha Combat Gun is readied
right in front of the camera. "All right, sir," someone
responds as he moves into the view from the right, crouching.
He wears security armor, too, and holds a Franchi assault
shotgun. He drops prone and murmurs "let's rock..."

Noze charges forward, responding "...and roll!". The one
supporting to camera follows him. In fast speed both approch
toward a parked demolished pickup. "You right, Mak!" orders
Noze from the off, and the camera scans the area above the
loading area, with the rifle following each movement.
"Secured," Mak reports, and "Secured," Noze answers. Suddenly
heavy footsteps can be heared from behind, and the third man
runs past the pickup and charges toward building over the
street.

The main door of the building looks scared and blackened from
a fire, and Noze and Giles take position next to the doors.
Suddenly there is a burst of static.
+++++ End Display: AutoVidCamRec001.mov

+++++ End of Transmission. ]<<<<<
-- Mak <18:22:19/12-30-57>

***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ SHIT, dey're sirius! Canis, Minx, oll'f ya, where'a ya?
]<<<<<
-- Fohdytoo <18:22:29/12-30-57>

***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ Comin, as we said... ]<<<<<
-- Orion <18:22:35/12-30-57>

***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ HURRY THE FUCK UP! ]<<<<<
-- Fohdytoo <18:22:41/12-30-57>

***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ Why did the transmission >>unintelligible<< end?
]<<<<<
-- Canis <18:22:53/12-30-57>

***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ Da cam'ra sentz just bursts o' data in 'pressed form
and irreg'lar i'vals to keep da senderz pos hiddn... ]<<<<<
-- Fohdytoo <18:23:08/12-30-57>

***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ >>unintelligible<< Oh... ]<<<<<
-- Canis <18:23:17/12-30-57>

PUBLIC: Open Band Radio in Chicago/Southside
>>>>>[
+++++ Compression detected.
+++++ Decompressing... done.

+++++ Encryption ODIN detected.
+++++ Decrypting... done.

+++++ Begin display: AutoVidCamRec002.mov
Suddenly the Alpha Combat Gun fires a grenade toward the
building's main door. Just as the grenade explodes, Noze yells
"Astral Att..." and goes down, as blood is gushing from under
his helmet. The doors fly open by the blast, just as a giant
wasp and three as enormous cockroaches appear out of thin air
and attack Giles who fires his shotgun at them with no visible
effect. The three spirits charge him, and he vanishes from
sight. Screams and gunfire can be heard from inside the heap
the creatures form.

Mak jumps up and charges forward, yelling incoherently and
firing bullets at the spirits. As another wasp spirit
manifests above and in front of him, he fires a grenade at it.
The explosion throws it up in the air, and Mak charges
forward, firing wildly into the building, until the shooting
stops with a sobering "KLACK". The view continues inside the
building, into a large room with traces of fire.

"Oh ye spirits, what a smell," Mak mutters as the empty clip
clatters to the ground. Mak runs further, as the clatter of
chitin on concrete can be heared behind him. As he reaches the
next room, four horrible creaturs charge him. They look
vaguely human, but have long feelers, mandibles, large,
bulging facetted eyes, and dark brown chitinous patches on
their skin. Some even have underdeveloped extra limbs. As Mak
lifts the Alpha and tries to insert another clip, he's hit
from behind and starts screaming. The screams stop when the
creatures reach him and attack him, tearing pieces of his body
from him. The camera drops to the ground, facing upward toward
the creatures that bend down.

There is a burst of static.
+++++ End Display: AutoVidCamRec002.mov

+++++ End of Transmission. ]<<<<<
-- Mak <18:23:26/12-30-57>

***** INTERNAL: ODIN Field Radio
>>>>>[ Dronez report enemies swarming out... MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!
We retrea&" )!

+++++ Signal interrupted at source ]<<<<<
-- Fohdytoo <18:23:31/12-30-57>

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