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Message no. 1
From: Gates <Gates@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Thor: Notice
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 04:09:36 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Invasion_Force.1
>>>>>[A quickie to let y'all know. Some cuckoo just offered assistance
to our little band of happy miners. Her name is Emma, she seems pretty
square, but be careful, she knows more about us than is reasonable, but
then I guess we have made a bit of noise round here.


OK, just to inform you DA stands a good chance of pulling through,
thanks to a medic team supplied by Emma, it also appears that we have an
ally against the bugs, and if she's a Fed like my source thinks, then we
have more clout than we thought.


Anyways, she's got some scheme cooking, looks like there's something the
bugs are after that they'e vulnerable to, I'm going to scan the matrix
later and see what I can pull in, as soon as I've spoken to Edge and
Emma again. If I manage to get anything on the bugs, I'll let ya know
I'll also let you know what I've let DA and the guys in for, I reckon
Emma's help comes with a fairly hefty price. She's talking about some
thing in South America, so it looks like Thor get's an early Christmas
break. Anyone know what the weather's like in Aztlan and all points
south these days.


In general, it appears that things are going to iron themselves out, but
I can't help worrying about the cost of all this. Aw hell, the deal is
made, and maybe this time the dragon will be reasonable.


Talk to y'all later, once I've run the Chess Men.]<<<<<
-- Gates <04:09:25/12-02-57>
Message no. 2
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Thor: Notice
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 23:13:44 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Gates
>>>>>[Aztlan? Yuck!!!! That's not a nice place to want to go to. It's
full of people with big guns who want to kill you just for not being one
of them. Especially the sticky-outy-bit above the Panama Canal. That's
an absolute _warzone_. I've been there. Aztlan probably don't like me
very much, if they remember me at all, because when we were there we
shot lots of them while we were making sure the friendly heroic freedom
fighters there got the SAMs they needed to shoot down the nasty Aztlan
bombers that were bombing them while they were trying to not be Aztlan
but be Yucatan instead. They were only friendly and heroic because they
were paying us and not shooting at us, I might add, not because I
especially liked them, but they were quite nice people and friendly and
polite and they said "thank you" as well as paying us, which is always a
good sign, and they shared their beer with us which was also kind of
them.

It's a pretty silly war, really, the Aztlans _obviously_ don't read
their history books or they wouldn't bother. I mean everyone from Sun
Tzu to Mao to Dunnigan says you just can't win a war like that. If
they'd done what the British did in Borneo and Indonesia and Malaysia
they could have a friendly allied Yucatan state that had a big minority
saying "we liked being Aztlan, can we be Aztlan again please" but
instead they went in with their big spiky kicking boots just like the
French in Indo-China and Algeria or the old US in Vietnam or the
Russians in Afghanistan and it's going _exactly_ the way that did and I
figure they'll be kicked out in less than five years.

Anyway, this is _really_ boring here in Chicago because nothing at all
has happened for two months and soon the maintenance stand-down will be
over and I'll have to go back to work and I've hardly done anything at
all and these people just sit around muttering about how awful it is
inside the Zone, which anyone who's been in there knows already, and I
came here looking for some adventures and a chance to have some fun and
I haven't had any apart from this stupid Green Beanie who tried to kill
me except I killed him but even that didn't make anything happen, so if
you're going go to into Aztlan and maybe Amazonia and some other places
I'd really really like to go with you because you'll need a trained
soldier who's good with all sorts of really really big guns and can do
magic and be really really useful instead of sitting around in Chicago
watching boring daytime TV and cleaning George and studying my Zhukov
and Schwartzkopf and listening to people go on and on about how awful it
is inside the Zone and waiting for something to happen except it never
ever does.

So can I stop being in Loki and start being in Thor instead?
Please?]<<<<<
-- Stephanie <23:11:24/12-02-57>
Message no. 3
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Thor: Notice
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 20:24:00 -0500
*****PRIVATE: Gates
>>>>>[Ok, Gates... I never heard of this Emma, but then, I have been out
of
the loop for some time, so... Be careful and good luck.

I wish DA well... He's a great guy, and I probably owe him my life, and the
lives of my family. Hopefully, once we're clear of this nonsense in
Chicago, I can repay him. Tell him I owe him big time.

Well, take it easy, and try not to get eaten by this dragon. I can tell you
from experience that getting eaten will really ruin your day.

Oh, and I think we're planning to move soon. Good luck, and I'll contact ya
once we're out of Chicago.]<<<<<
-- Bull <02:13:49/12-03-57>

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