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Message no. 1
From: Dark Avenger <Dark_Avenger@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 06:57:27 +0000
>>>>>[For the BUGS.


You tried, you failed. Now I'm on your case. The biggest mistake you
sorry bastards have made is to fuck with me and mine.


I know who you are, I know where you are, and I know _what_ you are.
Believe me when I tell you, I will destroy you, utterly. It will be as
if you have never existed.


You know who you are and to whom this is addressed.


I am called the Dark Avenger. That's not a chosen name, it is an earned
name. And YOU WILL FEEL MY WRATH!]<<<<<
-- Dark Avenger <06:53:10/12-05-57>
Message no. 2
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 02:44:11 -0500
>>>>>[I am the terror that flaps in the night...

I am the bum that sticks to the soles of all bugs...

I AM DARKWING DUCK AVENGER!

<grin>]<<<<<
-- Disney-for-hire <08:23:44/12-05-57>
Message no. 3
From: Chuck McKenzie <kilroy@**.WISC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 01:56:51 -0600
>>>>>[
"I am the terror..." <snarf>

And people don't take _US_ seriously? With some of the clowns
that have posted here in the last few days, it's a wonder that the
whole board doesn't get laughed off the face of the Matrix.]<<<<<
-- Jen & Gabe <01:55:44/12-05-57>
Message no. 4
From: Avenger <Avenger@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:06:54 +0000
To: Disney-For-Hire
>>>>>[Fuck you, and the hole you crawled out of. You know not of what
you speak. Once you grow up and get yourself a life, let me know, I'll
come and help relieve you of it.]<<<<<
-- Dark Avenger <09:06:13/12-05-57>
Message no. 5
From: Avenger <Avenger@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:09:26 +0000
>>>>>[Jen & Gabe huh? Aren't you the two sad little pussies that
spend
most of their time preening in front of mirrors? Blow it out your butt
dudes, assuming you can figure out which end they're at.]<<<<<
-- Dark Avenger <09:08:21/12-05-57>
Message no. 6
From: Chuck McKenzie <kilroy@**.WISC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 04:02:51 -0600
>>>>>[Dark Avenger: Oh my, I see our name recognition's up with the common
folk! Pity we can't say the same for you. Are you new, small time or
just boring? And what's with "Thor: Chess Men" as the subject of
that? If you're going to be vulger, at least try to make sense.]<<<<<
-- Jen & Gabe <03:59:12/12-05-57>
Message no. 7
From: Dave Gladding <D.T.M.Gladding@*****.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:48:54 GMT
>>>>>[Good grief. I go away on holiday and look what
happens.]<<<<<
-- JayCee <11:52:32/12-05-57>
Message no. 8
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 14:17:01 +0000
***** PRIVATE:Gen and Gabe
>>>>>[Who the frag are you? DA happens to be a decent kinda guy, which is
more than I can say for you!

Do you pick up every post you see and openly attack it?

And as for the subject... It's perfectly understandable to everyone to whom
it's relevant!

Go stick your head in a pig!

DREKHEAD!]<<<<<
-- Inferno <14:20:42 GMT/05.DEC.57>
Message no. 9
From: Avenger <Avenger@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 17:06:21 +0000
>>>>>[Well Jen & Gabe, seeing as you two preening parrots wanna have
your pathetic little say in business that is of no concern of yours,
I'll not disappoint you. I am neither small time, nor boring, just in
case you've never heard of me, I'm not surprised. You see unlike you
pair of media hunting wankshaft dildos I'm a professional. I operate in
the shadows and become one with the shadows. The heading of my post,
well, I won't bother explaining that to you, your too dumb to understand
the implications behind it.

I have no need to make sense to you two. You ain't worth the bother.

Just remember, the _beast_ walks among men, and resembles men. And you
can't see the eyes of the demon, till him come callin'.]<<<<<
-- Dark Avenger <17:04:10/12-05-57>
Message no. 10
From: Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 10:42:19 -0700
>>>>>[While my team and myself personally agree with your assessment of
>>>>>Jenna and Gabriel, they do actually, for once, have a good point.

Announcing to the world that you are going bug hunting is a certain way to
ensure that those very same bugs - which, I must add, can read this
bulletin board without difficulty - come after you en masse.

What you have just accomplished would, according to Jen and Gabe, earn you
style points for being dramatic, but amounts nonetheless to an extremely
elaborate suicide note.]<<<<<
-- Skull <10:36:06/12-05-57>

>>>>>[Of course, taking on the bugs by yourselves is almost as stupid as
>>>>>taking on a corporation or a nation. Of course, the corps and nations
>>>>>will only have you killed. The bugs, on the other hand, will steal
>>>>>your life completely. One way you're just dead. The other, you
>>>>>become part of the problem in the process of trying to solve it.
>>>>>Oops.]<<<<<
-- AEPacker <10:39:03/12-05-57>
Message no. 11
From: "Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 10:49:47 -0800
>>>>>[Ah so...is that how it is, Avenger-san? The demons I am accustomed
to
fearing would never show you themselves at all.]<<<<<
-- Synthesis <10:46:26 / 12-05-57>
Message no. 12
From: Avenger <Avenger@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 20:50:58 +0000
>>>>>[Worry thyself not Skull, I do not work alone. There is more to
this world, and beyond. I have my reasons for announcing my intentions,
and I am not prepared at this time to divulge those reasons, but it is
important I do this.

Suicide note? Maybe, but there are justifiable reasons. All will become
plain, one day.]<<<<<
-- Dark Avenger <20:47:15/12-05-57>


>>>>>[AE Packer. I appreciate your comments, and understand what you
are saying, but I have been dead twice already. And I cannot be part of
the problem, I don't taste too good. Again, do not worry. It is
important that the people I deal are aware that they have yet again
failed, and that I am still on their case. It may seem strange to you,
but I _want_ them to come to me. I have a gift for them. The gift of
death.]<<<<<
-- Dark Avenger <20:50:21/12-05-57>
Message no. 13
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 23:28:39 +0000
>>>>>[Hey, Jen and Gabe, you up for anything except sitting on your
asses talking a load of crap? I guess not, since you disappear every
time someone tries to hire you for any _real_ work.

Mind you, having seen your one and only shadowrun of record, I can see
why you're so coy and evasive. It's all right, we all have to start
somewhere, you don't need to be embarrassed by your ineptitude: a few
years of experience and you should be qualified to tie your own
shoelaces without needing Mommy to help you during the difficult
parts.]<<<<<
-- The Mighty Quinn <23:28:58/12-05-57>
Message no. 14
From: Chuck McKenzie <kilroy@**.WISC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 18:18:55 -0600
>>>>>[Hey Quinn, just because we don't post our every little secret
exploit like some folks doesn't mean we're not just as cool as you could
ever try to be. We're also a bit too professional to go name calling like
most of the toddlers around here.

And just so you know, you haven't seen us in action. We know who faked
that post, but they're useful, so we'll let them live for now.]<<<<<
-- Jen & Gabe <18:17:48/12/5/57>
Message no. 15
From: Avenger <Avenger@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 01:59:28 +0000
>>>>>[ Hey look guys... Empty threats dragged up from empty minds by 2
dimensional people. How the hell can a magazine cover ever be expected
to hurt someone, less'n it's by a paper cut. Haw haw... Hey Quinn, I
reckon you oughta be shakin yerself ta bits in your underwear right now.
The tooth fairies just told ya they're real.]<<<<<
-- Gates <01:57:11/12-06-57>
Message no. 16
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 00:52:24 +0000
>>>>>[You misunderstand Quinn, Jenna and Gabriel. She's right, though,
you don't even bother to answer when you're offered work. Not even to
fling out your sad attempts at repartee.

That says one of two things. One, you're corporate and _can't_
freelance. Two, you're so incompetent you _daren't_ freelance.

I figure it's #2 myself.

And nobody faked that run you tried and so dismally failed to pull off.
Who'd bother? I mean, if you're such incredibly powerful people, nobody
would dare.

After all, if you can somehow manage to be in every issue of Ultra-
Dangerous People Quarterly and still not have anyone know who you are
except "Jen and Gabe? Aren't they those total wilsons who hang around
Shadowland hoping some real runners will talk to them?" then surely you
can strike back with overwhelming force at anyone who damages your
reputation.

In fact, that one run _is_ your reputation.

So again, either you're corporate and don't care, or you're too inept to
do anything about it. Either way, you lose.]<<<<<
-- Lilith <00:50:42/12-06-57>
Message no. 17
From: Chuck McKenzie <kilroy@**.WISC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 00:24:13 -0600
>>>>>[We really don't ne..^^#&*@...

+++++Data loss: 2.713 MP
+++++Signal terminated at source

<<<<<]
-- Jen & Gabe <00:13:10/12-06-57>

*****Private: Jen & Gabe
>>>>>[Lay off for a while. I picked up a lurking trace on that last one,
but it faded before I could back trace it. No need to take chances.
I've set up something to watch for it later, but tone it down for a
few while I reshift the routes.]<<<<<
-- Mr. Bill <00:13:17/12-06-57>
Message no. 18
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 11:35:41 +0000
***** PRIVATE: Inferno, Bull
>>>>>[Inferno! I'm sorry I've not been able to contact you, though I've
been
meaning to.

The reason?

Caution more than anything. You might have heard about the price on my head
imposed by Tir.

I had to do some checking up, and after seeing your exploits in the "not so
safehouse" I realised you were being genuine.

I'm ready. Tell me where and when, and I'll be there.]<<<<<
-- Running Horse <11:35:42 GMT/06.DEC.57>
Message no. 19
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 17:02:42 +0000
***** PRIVATE: AEPacker
>>>>>[ Dark Avenger's not alone. ]<<<<<
-- Orion <15:50:05/12-06-57>

>>>>>[ Jen, Gabe, why don't you just SHUT UP? ]<<<<<
-- Orion <15:52:07/12-06-57>
Message no. 20
From: Chuck McKenzie <kilroy@**.WISC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 13:03:57 -0600
*****Private: Orion
>>>>>[ Because it's so much fun watching all the posturing clowns on here
overreact when we don't respect their "Oh so bad" attitide. Sit
back and watch sometime, you'll see what I mean. ]<<<<<
-- Jen & Gabe <13:03:53/12-6-57>
Message no. 21
From: Avenger <Avenger@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Thor: Chess Men
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 21:05:46 +0000
>>>>>[All demons can be seen by those who know how and where to look,
Synthesis. Killing them is the interesting problem.]<<<<<
-- Dark Avenger <21:05:13/12-06-57>

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