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Message no. 1
From: bschlitt@**********.net (Dr. Robert Kyle)
Subject: Strange Spirits
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:31:34 -0600
*****Not To: Maxim, Interpol, Velli, etc.
>>>>>[Hi all. I have been doing some research, but have turned up things I
would rather not speak about until further information is developed. I
think, thanks to that THING, I know know what AJ went through. Were it not
that the Death is part of the natural cycle that my totem guides me through,
I would not have been able to bear the pain. It does certainly have
connection with that free Spirit we came across. If anyone wants them, I
simsensed the whole thing. AJ, Pleas send me the money so that I put it
towards researching what exactly we found there. Now I am going to
bed.]<<<<<
-- Shade <18:26:43 / 3-11-57>

*****Private: Dark Stranger, V-12, Diana, Lobster, Thelesentia, Jasmine
>>>>>[Alright people, we may have something here worse than the wraith
problem. I am going to use the 50,000 to buy some information relating to
these things. Any of you who are interested in going on a run to
investigate this thing's trail, please notify me. I will pay for services
rendered, this especially means you, Dark Stranger. Those who were on the
Maxim team, don't feel obligated to help because I know you are
recovering.]<<<<<
-- Shade <18:33:22 / 3-11-57>

*****Private: Rumormonger, Trideo Pirate
>>>>>[I am willing to pay well for the invastion and information collecting
on a certain type of Spirit that I recently encountered. I can provide
simsense recordings of my meetings with it. I am attempting an
identification. Please respond if interested. Most of the places involved
will probably be universities so it should be easy.]<<<<<
-- Shade <18:36:02 / 3--11-57>
Message no. 2
From: winter@******.med.harvard.edu
Subject: Strange Spirits
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 20:56:18 -0500
*****Private: Shade
>>>>>[

+++++TRANSFER 100,000 =Y=+++++

Consider me a part of your investigation.]<<<<<
-- Wintergeist <18:55:37/3-11-57>
Message no. 3
From: mneideng@****.caltech.edu (Mark L. Neidengard)
Subject: Re: Strange Spirits
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 19:01:39 -0800
*****PRIVATE: Shade
>>>>>[Hol' it. Hol' it _riii_ there. Whazzis about spirits'shit now?
Whazzis
about "worse than the Wraith" stuff? You betta tell me that's just
sup'usition. An' I ain't even gonna _think_ about involvin' my folks wifout
somethin' more concrete t'go on. Know'm'sayin'? You got info, I wan' see it
an' have some o' my own a-so-shii-ates take a peek.]<<<<<
-- V-12 <18:56:43 / 03-11-57>
Message no. 4
From: bschlitt@**********.net (Dr. Robert Kyle)
Subject: Re: Strange Spirits
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 03:54:34 -0600
*****Private: Wintergeist
>>>>>[Noted, and Thanks.]<<<<<
-- Shade <4:02:18 / 3-12-57>
Message no. 5
From: bschlitt@**********.net (Dr. Robert Kyle)
Subject: Re: Strange Spirits
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 04:00:21 -0600
>*****PRIVATE: V-12
>>>>>>[I am refering to the strange black spirit that everyone
encountered,
and the man in the unusual suit. Here is everything that I have now, but I
am employing some data gatherers.
+++++ FILE TRANSFER: MAGMAX.SIM
<TRANFER COMPLETE>]<<<<<
-- Shade <04:08:02 / 3-12-57>
Message no. 6
From: "Freddy Frypp no more" <JAMES-CUENO@*********.edu>
Subject: Re: Strange Spirits
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:52:54 CST
***** Private: Shade
>>>>>[Hey, man, I don't do spirits any more. Don't care how well it
pays <shudder>]<<<<<
-- Rumormonger <Always / Tuned-In>
Message no. 7
From: bschlitt@**********.net (Dr. Robert Kyle)
Subject: Re: Strange Spirits
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 18:31:55 -0600
***** Private: Rumormonger
>>>>>>[ I am not asking you to help with the actual spirit data
collection
mission. I just want you to break into a few universities and poke your
nose around. Some people no longer believe in the free transport of
scientific knowledge of Academia, you know. You wouldn't get anywhere near a
spirit, just maybe files on one.]<<<<<
-- Shade <18:08:52 / 3-12-57>
Message no. 8
From: "Freddy Frypp no more" <JAMES-CUENO@*********.edu>
Subject: Re: Strange Spirits
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:05:39 CST
***** Private: Shade
>>>>>[Oh, sure, that's what the dragon said. "Just need you to keep
an eye open for 'im." Dreeeeek. I got a new hand and new eyes outta
that little contract. No thanks.]<<<<<
-- Rumormonger <Alwasy / Tuned-In>
Message no. 9
From: GKoth2258@***.com
Subject: Re: Strange Spirits
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 14:14:48 -0500
*****PRIVATE: Shade
>>>>>[Hmmm. I am indeed interested. However, I'm not sure I share your
apparent alarm. It does not strike me as a wraith or it's kindred. I do
know their stench better than most.

I would appreciate any information you might have, but here is a supposition.

It's likely free now, if indeed it was ever kept. But what is it? What did
it smell like, a spirit or an elemental? My first guess is that it might be
some sort of Spirit of the Atom, or some such thing. Or perhaps some sort of
"anti-elemental." A bizarre concept I admit, but many philosophies and even
sub-atomic physics insist on negative, or "anti," particles and forces.
Perhaps with your information I might understand more.]<<<<<
--the Dark Stranger<11:24:12/3-13-57>
Message no. 10
From: bschlitt@**********.net (Dr. Robert Kyle)
Subject: Re: Strange Spirits
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:49:09 -0600
*****PRIVATE: the Dark Stranger
>>>>>>[ It smelled like an elemental, and it had occured to me that it
might
be linked to the Nega-Mage concept. Here is a copy of my simsense record
from that mission.
++++++File Transfer: MAXMAG.SIM++++++++]<<<<<
-- Shade <18:41:29 / 3-13-57>

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