From:	OddBall <VESPOSIT@****.SUNYSB.EDU>
Subject:	WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT BEFORE SARGE????
Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 93 13:42:37 EST

>>>>>[ The fragging sarge just let me in on a little secret he's been
keeping!
The fragger who stood there and watched Tirandor and his cronies tear into us
was none other the Quention himself!!!!! We finally have a description of him!
I'm including an image in EGIF format taken by my eye cameras, some of you may
have seen him before but didn't realize it! The mystery man is revealed!
]<<<<
---OddBall <13:46:52/02-18-54>

>>>>>[ OB, The mage you described before is in fact the head of Tirandor's
pet hermetic group. He's very powerful and very dangerous, but he's not tough
enough to conjure all the spirits/elementals/whatnot you described. He may
have helped, but all that was not entirely his doing. I suspect that some
very powerful ritual sorcery was cast there sometime before you arrived.
]<<<<<
---Napalm <13:55:27/02-18-54>

>>>>>[ MONICA, you may be powerful, but you're not limitless (yet) we'll do
wha
t we have to to bring you down if we have to destroy the whole matrix and
rebuild it from scratch! How do you expect to rule the whole matrix!! A virus
nearly destroyed all computer networks in '29, and what you're doing is akin to
that. In the end, the virus was defeated (at a cost) and the only lasting
result was to advance technology. We've already made leaps and bounds in
matrix programming in the past few days, and we can continue until control of
the net is free again! In our quest for free information to all, we have
corporate control, and have managed to go beyond the artificial barriers they
have erected. You are the anathema to our being! Any intelligent being who
seeks exclusive control over the world we have sought to free. Even if you
kill every single one of us, the next generation of deckers will take what we
have learned and find a way to beat you. The past has a way of coming back to
haunt you. Your greed and calculated efficiency cannot match the passion and
creativity of your opponents. Remember this, whatever happens, your time is
limited in some frame of reference. Your own mortality is one of the things
you must accept as a "living" being.
OK, so it's a nice speech, sue me! I'm running out of options. Maybe
I can beat her in a philosophy duel! I don't know,I'm doing all I can to keep
her from finding me now! She's got a BIG bone to pick with me, and I can't
play cat and mouse forever! ]<<<<<
---Dark Elf <14:23:18/02-18-54>