From:	"Dark Thought Publications." <JEK5313@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Oh, really?
Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 1993 10:21:43 -0500

>>>>>[Sure I'm cocky. I'm 54 years old, a surgeon trained at John Hopkins
and
one of the original headware surgeons from before the crash. I went runner for
a while until my medical background resurfaced and I got sick of the whole damn
thing. So, using the money of my medical years and from the payoffs as an
inside man with certain advantages, I started up a small arms dealing outfit
in 2033. I sold anything I could get and bought stuff, meeting the free tradersthat I now
employ. 12 years ago, my orginization went "corp," granting us
extra-territoriality in the CAS so their military couldn't wipe us off the face
of the planet. Compared to the corps, we are tiny, and they tolerate us for
the most part. We hijack several shipments a year from each corp, but we are
such a small misquito in a world of wolves that they mostly tolerate us. But
when we get a little nastier, like when we gave Collussus, Ares best cyborg
ever, sanctuary and a job, Ares attacked us and we sent the only surviver
back to Ares with parts of his buddys in a cooler for identification.
But you're right about the advertising. Moriarity is too valuable to me to
shoot, but his activities have been severly curtailed. I can't stop him, as
he is one of my partners, but there will be no more advertising.<<<<<
Action Jackson(08:57:49/08-31-54)


>>>>>["Thank you for the information, Jackson. Our agents will be on
our way."
I can hear them now. . . So naive, and you say you got through med school?!?
Where? It had to be an arcology, for all that you've learned about the world.
You remind me of a poet named Homer, always with an epithet for each person.
We had A.J., ghod surgeon, Diana, voodoo yutz, and now Collussus, "Ares' best
cyborg." Hah!!!

Sorry to take this out on you and your crew, A.J., but all we've been hearing
from you positively SCREAMS "newbie." I'm glad you can take the criticism --
that shows real promise.

Speaking of criticism. . . Nephie; more than seventy-or-so years and you
_still_ can't read? Try re-reading my entry that you replied to. You'll see
that I don't make an offer, of any kind. Me? Helping vamps?!?! That's rich.
Right, D.W.?]<<<<<
-Blinder [Needles/ForYou]