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Message no. 1
From: Steve Huth <HUTH@***.EDU>
Subject: Symptoms?!?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 14:56:41 -0700
>>>>>[Thanks for the help Jaez. Post death symptoms are: Body very stiff,
very difficult to bend limbs, eyes always wide open, mouth always smiling.
Always a Black Widow spider present--sometimes this spider had bitten the
victim but this was NOT the cause of death. Extreme variation in cause of
death: sometimes there was no discernible cause (this includes autopsies);
other times it was fairly obvious and very gruesome (missing lower torso,
etc...).
Pre-death symptoms for a ring-wearer (remember I only knew one) were
irrational behavior and a mental fixation on this Widowmaker. There were no
unusual pre-death symptoms for the various friends and associates of the
ring-wearer--they just disappeared, their dead bodies turning up a few hours
later. Oh yeah, only males ever disappeared and were killed--one reason we
dubbed her the Widowmaker. Don't know if that's because there were notable
few females among my associates at the time, or deliberate. In the final
assault where the spiders came at us from the walls, females were involved
and killed, but that was a fight we instigated.
I suppose that would be something else to look for. In that final battle
most of my associates were killed by actual black widows--a sudden rash of
such deaths would be a big hint.]<<<<<
__Spectre <14:51:43/06-15-54>

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