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Message no. 1
From: Jaimie Nicholson chicken@********.net.nz
Subject: Report
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:15:04 +1200
*****PRIVATE: Johnny4n4106
>>>>>[Let me know when he's paid up. I'll make my next move
then.]<<<<<
-- Ronin <16:45:51/03-29-61>
Message no. 2
From: ANGLISS@****.PSU.EDU
Subject: REPORT!!!
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 20:55:35 -0400
>>>>>[Moriarity! REPORT!]<<<<<
-- Action Jackson(20:56:38/12-11-54)
Message no. 3
From: Dean Esam <twist@******.EDU.AU>
Subject: Report
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 14:45:17 +1000
>>>>>[ Powerhouse, our friend has apparently returned, my little friend,
who I had asked to keep an eye on his secretary, has reported that she made
dinner appointments for him for Tuesday night. I have done likewise for
us, booking for four, I presume that I.B.A. and Punisher will also wish
to be present. I believe it is time to break out the formal attire again,
after all, I have booked it as celebration of I.B.A.'s fatherhood. Oh,
it's Abagail's, 7.30 Tuesday night, I have arranged for suitable
transport, and will be by to pick you up at 6.30. (ohhh, can I come)

As for Regent well it appears that he has taught Othello one of his
favourite tricks. (yeah!!! thanks Reggy) DONT DO THAT!!! ]<<<<<
-- Fenris <22:17:48/09-04-55>
Message no. 4
From: Revenant <mark@********.IP.NET>
Subject: Report.
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:28:34 GMT-0500
***** PRIVATE: Scourge
>>>>>[ Just thought I would drop a little post operation report to you.
Everything from my end went smoothly. I'll expect payment delivered to
the agreed upon location. If you ever require my services again, you
may contact me through >>encrypted<<. It's been a pleasure.
]<<<<<
-- Revenant < 19:25:09/3-09-56 >
Message no. 5
From: Peter Triller <triller@***.UNI-PASSAU.DE>
Subject: report
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 18:18:12 +0200
>>>>>[I am posting this as official mail, although I know the risk.
But I think it is important, because I know that there are some
people on this board, who do not trust Stampede anymore, and I hope
this report will help to proove, that he has been tricked.
I have reconstucted some information from the fried deck of
Mr Clavelle. (Oh by the way, if anyone is missing him, I am sorry,
he got brainfried during his last run.) He was doing some research
about MaSec and Atztech. I include the partially reconstructed files.

+++++ INCLUDE: Masec-Atztech.dicu

As you see this is the log-file of an discussion about how the Atztech
security could be tightened. As you see Susi asked some questions
about an expert system, and nobody kne about it.

+++++ INCLUDE: 33422.request

I had to do a lot of guessing, because the files are severly corrupted.
That is the reason, why I included the previous files.
But now on with my story:

On April the 18th, Susi did the security check. She had to gather some
previous named files throughout the Atz-Matrix. And becaus she is an
nosie little girl, she entered a part of the matrix, the sub-system
of Hewbaker. There she found some sort of an expert-system for data
processing.And because she is a really nosie girl, she tried to figure
out what this thing is doing, but failed. And becaus she is a really REALLY
nosie girl (and quite stupid, if I may add) she asked some con-deckers
in the discussion of the security-check, about the expert-system.
Mr Hewbaker, who is chef of security, and the *exclusive* owner of
the node in which the construct was placed,got quite upset about
the question, and some other Execs where quite astonished, 'cause
noone knew about that thing. (I am sorry but I wasn't able to
reconstruct the memo, in which Hewbaker explained the expert-system.
I am including it, maybe somone of you is able to do that.

+++++ INCLUDE expert-system.memo

). On April the 25th Susi was contacted by a Swapper, who convinced
her to chang firms. And the rest should be known by you allready.

In addition I got the information, that Hewbaker was the only one
in contact with Lonestar.

The name Hewbaker appeared too often, so I checked him out. He was a
manager of nothing, until he got the supervisor of the installation
of the internal com-system from the Atztechnology. At this point his
career sky-rocketed in only one and a-half year to the chief of
security. Odd, isn't it. I hope this helps to put Stampede back in
the right light. If anyone has relevant info, I would be gratefull,
when he gave it to me.]<<<<<
-- Dr. Snooze <19:32:45/05-21-56>
Message no. 6
From: JOHN SPAIN <93135653@****.DCU.IE>
Subject: Report
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 19:11:06 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Col. Ernesto Rodriguez
>>>>>[What is the meaning of this? The Dragon managed to find Teutone
before you? I was led to expect better things from you and your men, Colonel.

You are supposed to be the best. Prove it.]<<<<<
-- M. Executor (13:05:23/25-5-56)

*****PRIVATE: M. Executor
>>>>>[Yes Ma'am. We had several squads in the area of the incident at the
time.

Teutone has been lucky so far]<<<<<
-- Col. Ernesto Rodriguez (13:15:21/25-5-56)

*****PRIVATE: Col. Ernesto Rodriguez
>>>>>[Uh...Boss, who exactly are we taking orders from here, the babe or
Vargas?]<<<<<
-- Azpiri (13:20:56/25-5-56)

*****PRIVATE: Azpiri
>>>>>[You take your orders from me. Don't worry about anything
else.]<<<<<
-- Col. Ernesto Rodriguez (13:24:32/25-5-56)

*****PRIVATE: Col. Ernesto Rodriguez
>>>>>[Yessir, but... It seems to me that if we really want to find Teutone,
you should give me some more of the men for the search party...]<<<<<
-- Azpiri (13:22:34:32/25-5-56)

*****PRIVATE: Azpiri
>>>>>[My orders are not open to discussion. Being a mage does not give you
any special privileges in my unit. Continue as mandated.]<<<<<
-- Col. Ernesto Rodriguez (13:23:23/25-5-56)

*****PRIVATE: Col. Ernesto Rodriguez
>>>>>[Yes Sir!]<<<<<
-- Azpiri (13:24:12/25-5-56)
Message no. 7
From: Peter Triller <triller@***.UNI-PASSAU.DE>
Subject: Report
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 21:05:46 +0200
*****Private:Tim Gartin
>>>>>[I' sent some watchers to the bars, they will immediately report, if
s.th happenes. And I tell you what, I'll be happy, when s.th happenes,
this waiting drives me crazy]<<<<<
-- Dr Snooze <21:04:44/06-10-56>
Message no. 8
From: Samuel Fortiner <fortsa@********.WWC.EDU>
Subject: Report . . .
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 14:38:48 -0700
*****Private: Christopher Tarleton
>>>>>[How's the research going?]<<<<<
-- Tim Gartin <17:37:10/07-13/56>
Security Supervisor
Red Lime, Inc.
Message no. 9
From: Gian-Paolo Musumeci <musumeci@***.LIS.UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Report
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 18:47:00 -0500
*****Private to: Tim Gartin
>>>>>[Don't rush me, don't rush me. This is quality, novahot work here.
I've
eliminated one of the thre possibilities, and the other two are looking more
and more suspicious by the clock cycle. I've also found a handful of poli-
clubs that could be involved.

+++++Upload: Formal Report and Data Log

The free drinks are great, though, although you could use some
Laphroaig.]<<<<<
-- Christopher Tarleton <Dark/Angel>
Message no. 10
From: Samuel Fortiner <fortsa@********.WWC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Report
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 16:44:58 -0700
*****Private: Christopher Tarleton
>>>>>[I'll work on getting that in for you]<<<<<
-- Tim Gartin <18:03:46/-7-15-56>
Security Supervisor
Red Lime, Inc.
Message no. 11
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Report
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 14:55:22 +1300
*****PRIVATE: Aero
>>>>>[One of our drones picked this up in the park on >>street
name<<
this afternoon.

The speakers were identified in their early comments as Evita and Ronin.

+++++Include picfile Ronin1.pic
+++++Include picfile Ronin2.pic
+++++Include picfile Evita1.pic
+++++Include picfile Evita2.pic

Here's the transcript of the important bits of their conversation:

(R = Ronin
E = Evita)

R: Okay, how much detail do you want?

E: [grins] You'd better tell me every last teeny-tiny, itty-bitty thing.

[Pause, half a minute or more]

R: Until I was about thirteen, I lived in suburban Tokyo with my mother. My
father, a gaijin, had run off years before, but I vaguely remembered him.
Because of my mixed blood...

E: Mixed blood?

R: I had some surgery, and training to get rid of the accent, so you can't
tell anymore. I'm about a quarter each Korean and Japanese, and half
Gaijin.

So, because of that and my lack of a father, I got into more than my share
of fights. That caught the attention of a local Yak soldier, called himself
Tetsu. He taught me some aikido... I think he wanted to get a little closer
to my mother, and that was his way in. I left home before he could though,
and joined up with one of the local Bosozoku as soon as I could fight my
way in there.

E: Hmmm? The who?

R: It roughly translates to "speed tribes"... they were gangs of a sort,
pretty tame compared to what we've got here and now, but we were almost a
go-gang. We thought we were so damn cool on our souped up 100 cc
scooters...

Anyway, when I was sixteen, we were riding around, scaring little old
ladies and pretending to be tough. Some wage-cops caught up with us
though... I got cut off from my chummers outside a 'Raku installation. The
rest of the 'zoku fled, and two of the cops started to rough me up some.
One got a nasty surprise from my shock glove when I grabbed him by the
groin, and I took the other one down with what I had learned from Tetsu. I
could hear the sirens of reinforcements on the way, but a patrol man in the
'Raku enclosure called me over. He told me that that was impressive stuff
for a kid, and would I like to apply for a job with 'Raku security. I
didn't believe him, but any port in a storm, right? Turned out all the
'Raku personel had been asked to look for nameless street scum like me to
see if they could be recruited for Black Ops teams. And thus I was picked
out of the sprawl.

They gave me a SIN, and an adopted father. His name was Damien Van Holde,
so I got his surname, and kept my own first name. Damien was a low-level
exec in 'Raku security, working out of the Tokyo HQ. He was fighting as
hard as he could just to stay in the same place. Thinking back, I guess he
made time for me though, and that cost him some in his career. Thing was,
being Gaijin, he had risen much farther than he could reasonably have
expected, through a combination of politicking, blackmail, and just plain
excellent service. He still had a few good secrets, but he knew his time in
the sun was just about over, it was almost time to retire. So he passed the
secrets on to me, but not in such a way that I would know it at the time.

When I went in for the surgery to get my headware put in, he had them add a
small chip to the encephalon, some ROM stuff that I could only access once
it became active. The activating signals were chosen so that when I needed
the info, it would be there. I'm not sure of all the indicators he used,
but I triggered it recently. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

He had planned out my career path for me, and he was grooming me for what
he saw as my glorious career. He expected me to get out of the street as
soon as I could, and move into the exec branch of the black ops division.
We didn't see eye to eye on that, I hated the fact that this guy who wasn't
even my real father was trying to run my life. So I arranged a transfer to
Seattle, way off the promo fast-track, and didn't tell him until it was too
late for him to stop it. From the ease with which it went through, I think
someone helped me get out of Tokyo, just to piss off Damien.

Anyway, after a few years doing black ops in Seattle, I got... I don't
know... soft? Whatever, I got sick of the ruthlessness required...

[Evita holds Ronin close]

E: You aren't that way now though. You did leave.

R: Not soon enough...

[They start to walk on again]

R: Anyway, as near as I can guess, Damien must have found out I had run
off, then gone to the possible victims of the black mail, showed them what
he had and suggested they co-operate to track me down. They want me alive
now, I guess when they caught me in mid-57 they hadn't gotten the "take him
alive" order yet.

[Pause, half a minute]

E: Ummm. What about the info on the chip?

R: It's a record of long term defrauding of the company by a few execs in
the security divison of Tokyo HQ. If it gets out it's not going to bring
down the company, just those involved, so they have to be careful about use
of corp assets in capturing me. There was more on each of them too, enough
that I could find them and check what they were up to... the power of some
of them scares me, but they still have to hide everything they do from the
corp... and the 'Raku directors have a thing about security execs,
especially the Black ops guys... they don't entirely trust them, so they
tend not to allow them into the mainstream business areas.

There was also a matrix address and a passcode... I went there, used the
code, and behind it was a host located physically in 'Raku HQ, Tokyo. There
was a hugely powerful Smartframe lurking there, just waiting for me to come
and use it. I did, and I put a few copies in various hidden areas of the
matrix. Unfortunately the host shut down shortly after. I figure that the
'frame had been hiding itself from the Tokyo sysops, and when I took it out
for a ride, the unauthorised activity going on tipped them off, and they
shut the host down.

[Pause, twenty seconds]

R: In my wanderings under the cover of the frame, I found out that there
was another hit team headed for SanFran... it's only a matter of time
before they figure out that they need to come up here to find me. I guess
Damien has changed his mind about retiring...

E: So Damien and his victims are after you to stop the info getting any
further... why don't you just spread it around? Make it pointless?

R: I'm not sure who's in their pocket. I can't send it directly to the top
suits in Tokyo, there's too much scrutiny of incoming e-mail for viruses
and so on, all done by the security people, so they could intercept it. I
could publicise it all over the newsnets, but who would care enough to
publish it? And I'll never get a physical meet with anyone important enough
to be above these guys.

E: Is there anything we could do? Maybe negotiate? Surely they'll listen.

R: I don't think so... do you negotiate with a wasp, even when you're
allergic to its sting? No, you just kill it. The only way for them to be
certain I'm not handing the info out is to kill me.

E: We better find a safe place, get some gear ready. We can see if the rest
of the shifters can help us...

R: Ice won't be too eager, not after the ear incident.

Transcript ends.

Analysis...

Half the corp-spooks in Seattle have meetings at that park at some point,
this could be a set up by one of our rivals, with the aim of wasting our
time or damaging our credibility. Do we care enough to take that risk?

Can we use the info? Ronin doesn't mention any names, but we can look into
all the 'Raku sec-execs to find out what went on, or we could follow the
termination order back to its source. We could of course just ask Ronin for
it, mention that we're into industrial espionage, offer to get the info to
the top execs at 'Raku. I don't know if he would believe it, but that would
be the easiest way. Or we could make that offer, then sell him out.

As to selling it, the info would be useful to 'Raku _pour_encouragez_les
autres_, but still, I don't know if they want to hear about this. They buy
info from us that hurts the opposition, not that hurts them.

We could sell it to some lower exec who wants to get in on Damien's
leverage game, but the pay there would be us speculating on the favours he
can do us if he wins the gamble, he won't have enough to cover our price
immediately. As a long term investment, it could be worth it.

I'll make inquiries as to who the shifters are, and on Ice and the ear incident.

Leave reply at drop number 7.]<<<<<
-- Geo <18:43:14/01-24-58>

>>>>>[Info request... anyone know of a gang, urban tribe, military unit, or
whatever called the shifters? >>amount<< nY offered for info that leads to
me finding them... contact me here.]<<<<<
-- Geo <18:45:47/01-24-58>
Message no. 12
From: qwerty <qwerty@******.NET>
Subject: report
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 21:17:20 -0700
*****PRIVATE:Black Queen
>>>>>[
+++++ begin sat link
daughter report. what is the current status of the chosen.
you have 24 hours to reply or all comunication will be stopped, and you
hive assumed
compromised.
awaiting.
+++++ end sat link. ]<<<<<
Queen Mother (21:16:47/28-01-58)
Message no. 13
From: qwerty <qwerty@******.NET>
Subject: Re: report
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:38:54 -0700
*****INTERNAL:Chess Men
>>>>>[ Children our time has come to finish this matter.
the Queen Mother has given orders to destroy the chosen children.
we are going to swarm soon, prepare.]<<<<<
Black Queen (18:38:16/29-01-58)
Message no. 14
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Report
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 15:37:06 +1200
*****PRIVATE: Ice, Evita
>>>>>[Has the Ronin business been resolved yet?]<<<<<
-- L <12:34:02/02-11-58>

*****PRIVATE: L
>>>>>[Yes. Astral meet at the usual time and place.]<<<<<
-- Ice <19:49:36/02-11-58>
Message no. 15
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Report
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 11:49:04 +1200
*****PRIVATE: RJohnson
>>>>>[The bombing has been carried out... looks like shadowland is having
problems though. Is this getting through?]<<<<<
-- 17:48:03/05-29-58
Message no. 16
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Report
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 11:34:35 +1200
*****PRIVATE: Reroute XG71093, SK Seattle HQ
>>>>>[Master, I have seen the SoVor... he is here in Seattle. I witnessed
him using Terensodai Setra in a detection ritual. I await your
instructions.]<<<<<
-- 2K <**:**:**/**-**-**>


*****PRIVATE: 2K
>>>>>[
+++++ THIS MESSAGE IS BROUGHT TO YOU
+++++ BY NetzTrainer GmbH, Germany

+++++ Display Message

Watch him closely. Find out what he is doing in Seattle. Tell me everything
you know as soon as you find it out. If he evades us again... I leave that
to your imagination.

+++++ ANONYMIZER IS A SERVICE BY
+++++ NetzTrainer GmbH
]<<<<<
-- Anonymous <**:**:**/**-**-**>
NetzTrainer GmbH
Message no. 17
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Report
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 12:31:15 +1200
*****INTERNAL: Pacer, Smythe Auctions internal e-mail
>>>>>[To: CEO Thomas Marconi
From: Security Division
Subject: Last night's attack

Summary: The holding facility at >>address<<, Tacoma, was entered last
night, and the intruders escaped with items SD-1402 and SD-1407 (see
attached files).

Details:
23:46 +/- 1 minute: Security Guard Norris, Alfred Mark (employee file
D-51), checks his watch during his rounds. This is the last thing he
remembers doing on the evening in question.
23:49 +/- 2 minutes: Matrix security systems rendered inoperative (ref.
report of 03-12-57, re purchase of a seperate computer system for a
matrix-isolated security control).
23:50 +/- 10 minutes: Security Guard Norris, Alfred Mark rendered
unconscious by a large dose of the compound gamma-scopolamine (see attached
file). Security Guard Ellis, Dean Arthur, beaten unconscious with baseball
bat or similar blunt instrument.
23:51:39: Matrix-independent cameras in room alpha record footage of the
intruders (see attached footage file). Note that this fact is known only
retrospectively, since these cameras are not connected to the security
system (ref. report of 03-12-57, re purchase of a seperate computer system
for a matrix-isolated security control).
23:52:48: Magical security consultant Tennison, Janet (external employee
file A-10), reports that the elemental spirits guarding room Alpha have
been disrupted, said disruption occuring less than 2 minutes before the
call was received by Control.
23:53:13: Security forces mobilised. Tennsion, Janet, provides astral cover.
23:53 +/- 1 minute: Tennsion, Janet, defeated by an astrally projecting
intruder in astral hand-to-hand combat.
23:54:51: IC programs activated from Matrix control, attempt to locate and
engage matrix intruder.
23:55:12: IC programs crashed. Matrix control performs emergency shut-down.
23:56:20: Security units engage escaping intruders in a brief firefight at
the outer gate, said units being defeated in short order with stun rounds
and gas grenades. No casualties either side, no confirmed wounded
opposition.
23:57:00: Intruders escape with relative ease.

Attached files

+++++Include file SD1402.txt
[Being a description of an antique sabre used during the American Civil War.]

+++++Include file SD1407.txt
[Being a description of the signet ring of an obscure 19th century eastern
European monarch.]

+++++Include file gscop.txt
[Being a discourse on the chemical gamma-scopolamine, it's effects, uses,
and availability to the general public.]

+++++Include file rmalpha.ftg
[Being a brief piece of footage, showing several people in typical runner's
black entering room alpha and disabling a maglocked safe, removing two
wrapped objects, one being a cylinder slightly over a metre long, the other
a small cubic package.]

]<<<<<
-- Pacer, Smythe Auctions internal e-mail <12:55:31/09-15-58>

*****INTERNAL: Pacer, Smythe Auctions internal e-mail
>>>>>[To: Security Division
From: CEO Thomas Marconi
Subject: Re: Last night's attack

Allright, I get the picture, you'll get your seperate system for matrix
isolated security. Let me worry about beating the accounts people into
submission.]<<<<<
-- Pacer, Smythe Auctions internal e-mail <18:29:08/09-15-58>
Message no. 18
From: Wildthing <twowolfe@*******.NET>
Subject: Report
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 09:10:02 -0800
***** PRIVATE: Orion
>>>>>[ I found a trace on >>encrypted<<. His credstick showed
up with
falsified IDs. Police records show >>encrypted<<'s credstick was
probably found by a homeless on a corpse and sold for 75 nuyen to a
fixer named >>encrypted<< in Denver. Some - so far unknown - decker
then fudged the IDs to access >>encrypted<<'s money. The corpse has
not been found, probably made its "way" into the underground.

Attached is the police record on the incident. Unless you insist, I'll
assume >>encrypted<< is dead and will not investigate further on him.


+++++Include: compiled_pol_record.txt ]<<<<<

-- Wildthing <09:19-11/02/58>
Message no. 19
From: Avenger <Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Report
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 06:10:43 +0000
PRIVATE: Urbanus
>>>>>[This Easy friend of yours has some interesting and powerful
friends. I would suggest, however, that you review your assessment of
her abilities. Easy is an angry little creature, who lives on the edge
of a razor. She is not the combat capable person I was expecting.
Bullet happy little psycho would be more accurate.

She has another shadow here, by the name of Mani. He seems to have an
attitude problem, in as much as he is maybe a little over confident in
his capabilities. Needless to say, he is good, very good. I am
confident however, that I can take him without too much trouble.

Many of the people here are surprisingly undisciplined. Weapons are
carried in open happy abandon, cleaning and arming of weapons is carried
out amindst pools of beer and pretzels, strange people, but they seem
efficient.

You have no doubt seen the vid footage of the other night. If it hadn't
been for the appearance of that armour, I think that we would right now
be picking through the ashes of the Easy Eight. It may be an idea,
especially seeing as Easy now has a seriously heavy "vengeance" kick on
at the moment, that you have a team standing by on ready alert. She
seems a tad upset over the loss of some fields, and the attack itself.
Ground is ground, I fail to see the problem. Provided some profit is
available who cares how it comes?

My opinion of the powered armour units is relatively low. They rely too
heavily on sensor arrays, and the floodlights are obvious and simple
targets. I would suggest that high velocity explosive rounds would
disable these units relatively quickly. Head and upper torso hits would
disable or damage the sensor arrays, heavy fire would disable or
destroy the lights, rendering the units effectively blind. Concentrated
heavy calibre fire, will chew the armour away, exposing the essential
mechanisms. I cannot say at this time, what model these units were, and
must guess that they are not top-line units. Armour is good, it shrugs
off most rounds without trouble, but, to trained personnel, disciplined
and concentrating their fire, the units are surprisingly vulnerable. In
riot situations or against undisciplined opposition they are probably
terrifying, and certainly - as evidenced by the footage - effective. I
believe, from the little I have seen that the design specifications of
the Tir units are far superior, and may be worth something here.

In general the situation remains as edgy as when I arrived. People here
seem to expect me to gossip on at length about nothing, and appear to be
hurt when I refuse the invitations to join in their inane conversations.
What is the point in discussing the weather, when one can go outside and
experience it? The fight was a welcome diversion, I was almost getting
bored waiting for something to happen that didn't involve the idle
threats that are bandied about here. The attitude of the people seems
to be commensurate with the amount of beer consumed, typical I suppose.

I must confess though, that I fail to see where they have got the
opinion that I'm being quiet in order to enforce my "hard guy" image.
Don't these people understand that not one of them has attempted to
engage me in a conversation that I would be interested in? I really
have no interest at all, in discussing ballistics, armour degredation,
the latest rock song, bullet types, or the various benefits of different
alcoholic beverages.

I am bored, but vigilant, and will continue to carry out your orders.
Maybe this "I want to kill someone" attitude of Easy's will make things
interesting again.

I have included with this, a file describing some of the more regular
defenders and extrapolated what information I can concerning her
friends. I do appreciate that this was not my purpose here, but you
have to appreciate that it is extremely boring standing around all day
waiting for some low-life to attack something they cannot possibly hope
to defeat.

+++++Include. Easy Eight.dat


I will report again, when I have some free time, and Easy sleeps.]<<<<<
-- Sherak <06:05:12/11-12-58>
Message no. 20
From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Report
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:13:44 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Reroute XG71093, SK Seattle HQ
>>>>>[We got lured into a trap by Ms. Tait, who now has the aid of Ronin,
a friend of Ice's whom I believe I have mentioned before. Fortunately, I
had been a little suspicious, it seemed too easy, so I had arranged for
backup, and managed to turn it back on them, capturing Tait on the way out.
Ronin got away clean though, he's fairly resourceful. He even chased me
halfway back to my local lair, and we only lost him by means of illusion
magic.

Interrogation of ms. Tait: Apparently Ice left her in Oakland when he
continued his journey, she thought he planned to head for Taiwan on a
smuggler plane. Beyond that she knows nothing, he wouldn't tell her
anything of his plans, nor most of what he knew, saying that it would only
endanger her. She has been released again, and we are maintaining
surveillance in case Ice contacts her again later.]<<<<<
-- 2K <14:59:23/12-03-58>

*****PRIVATE: 2K
>>>>>[
+++++ THIS MESSAGE IS BROUGHT TO YOU
+++++ BY NetzTrainer GmbH, Germany

+++++ Display Message

Forget about Tait, Ice is being followed. If he escapes us, which is
unlikely, then you can start with Tait again, but right now she is nothing
to us.

There are more important things to be done right now.

+++++Include file task.txt

Have Springer decrypt that with the key you were given in Paris, and
proceed as directed.

+++++ ANONYMIZER IS A SERVICE BY
+++++ NetzTrainer GmbH
]<<<<<
-- Anonymous <**:**:**/**-**-**>
NetzTrainer GmbH
Message no. 21
From: plblack@********.com (Patrick L. Black)
Subject: Report
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:16:56 -0700
*****Private: Kasigi
>>>>>[Sir, here are the reports you asked me for earlier today.

As you surmised, they seem to be encroaching on some of our more important
contracts in several areas. Their operations are detailed in the files, but
in summary, they seem to attempting to steal our contracts in the software
and chemicals lines.

+++++include file: Turkana.operations.report

While I fail to see the relevance, you appear to be correct as to their
hiring practices. The specific ratios are listed in the attached file, but
your fears seem to be supported by the recent S-S Council announcement.


+++++include file: Turkana.employees.dat

I have asked he staff to prepare a list of options our future operations
based on our conversation. They should be on your desk by the end of the
day Tuesday.]<<<<<
-- Mephisto <18:07:23/03-11-57>
Message no. 22
From: winter@******.med.harvard.edu
Subject: Report
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:36:30 -0500
*****PRIVATE: Rhodaemis
>>>>>[Target group infiltrated. As target's location was unknown to
associates, entegration went smothly. Primary location abandoned.
Request futher orders.]<<<<<
-- Templar <10:07:28/04-04-57>
Message no. 23
From: ANGLISS BRIAN EDWARD <angliss@****.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: Report
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 20:52:07 -0600 (MDT)
*****INTERNAL: InterPol Internal Communications
>>>>>["Boss, you wanted my preliminary report."

Go ahead, Monty.

"Lynch took three tracker rounds which were later recovered from the route
they escaped along, one in his left leg, one in his right kidney, and one in
the left-rear of his skull. The leg shot knocked his leg out from underneath
him when Agent Black Eye acquired thermal imaging in a temporary hole in the
thermal smoke. He landed hard, but with the assistance of Agent Martin, he
was able to hit Lynch again before he rose, this time above his right kidney.
It is possible that this hit nearly incapacitated Lynch, although Agent
Martin said that his ultrasonic sight showed him that he was injured, perhaps
in severe pain as well, but rising when Agent Black Eye's final shot hit him
in the head. The third round hit knocked Lynch unconscious, but the two
individuals who arrived in the vehicle were able to get him into the vehicle
and drive off. Apparently, one of them administered first aid in transit to
the warehouse you raided.

You might find this interesting, though, sir. Sergent Tagit downloaded it
from his cybercamera and gave it to me before leaving in the ambulance with
Agent Flock."

How is Flock?

"He is still in surgery. He may need several new organs and an arm, but the
doctor was cautiously optomistic after seeing the wounds."

I hope he makes it through. Which hospital is he at? I'd like to swing by
tonight.

"Seattle General, Boss."

Thank you. Now, Sergent Tagit's camera footage?

"Right here. He only downloaded this single image. Is that what I think it
is, Boss?"

Frag.... Yeah, Monty, it is. Leopard guards. Fraggin Leopard guards....
Where did he get this from?

"Off the body of target 9, the one that Agent Kink killed after he had shot
Agent Flock."

And where is the body now?

"A DocWagon ambulance came by and picked the wounded and the dead up. It
never arrived at the clinic. I checked with Lone Star and they said that
they were about to send DocWagon a ticket for driving an unregistered
ambulance."

I hope none of our agents went with the ambulance.

"No, none did. That's just pure luck, though. If someone had, they'd be
dead now."

And without the bodies we have no proof of the Leopard guard's, and thus
Aztechnology's, involvement. Drek. Monty, come back in a couple of
minutes. I've got a mail to send to a certain Major in Aztlan Intelligence.

"Sure thing, Boss."]<<<<<
-- InterPol Internal Communications <20:50:14/04-23-57>
Message no. 24
From: "Randy Nickel (General)" <a-randyn@*********.com>
Subject: Report
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 17:37:26 -0700
*****Private: Morgue, Imp, Kor, Edge, Gohei, Easy
>>>>>[It seems we either have a leak or someone has flubbed the
mission. I would like all of you to contact me at >Encrypted<.]<<<<<
-- Mako <17:39:16/05-07-57>
Message no. 25
From: winter@******.med.harvard.edu
Subject: Report
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 21:03:06 -0400
*****Internal: Mako contact point
>>>>>[I warned you that shadowland was not secure.
Gohei]<<<<<
-- Gohei <21:02:16/05-07-57>
Message no. 26
From: Lars M Ericson <lericson@***.edu>
Subject: Re: Report
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 23:58:43 -0500 (CDT)
*****Private: Mako
>>>>>[What leads you to believe the operation has been compromised?
Incompetance and Unprofessionalism are two traits a shadowrunner cannot
tolerate. I will be present.]<<<<<
-- Morgue (00:04:44/05-08-57)
Message no. 27
From: jaimie.nicholson@********.otago.ac.nz (Jaimie Nicholson)
Subject: Report
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:03:16 +1100
*****PRIVATE: Ice
>>>>>[What has happened to the second section of your report? I presume it
is intended that I receive it?]<<<<<
-- L <12:24:23/10-03-57>

*****PRIVATE: L
>>>>>[Stupid shadowland... I sent it off again, it should be in your hands
by now...]<<<<<
-- Ice <12:24:23/10-03-57>

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