From:	The Wyrm Ouroboros <aalberdk@******.SAN.UC.EDU>
Subject:	News Release
Date:	Sun, 17 Oct 1993 11:09:03 -0400

>>>>>[At precisely 10:30:30 this morning, local time, all local system
processes experienced a temporary power surge lasting .0003 seconds.
Records compared throughout international Matrix servers indicate that
this surge was systemwide, affecting all locations served by the Matrix.

Captain Jacques Perrieux-Yves of the International Matrix Supervisory
Committee, colloquially known as 'The Turing Police', will be heading
an official investigation as to the nature and cause of the phenomenon.
Perrieux-Yves has no comment at this time.]<<<<<
-- Int'l Matrix News Services (10:55:00/10-17-54)

>>>>>[Phenomenon, da da-da da...]<<<<<<
-- The Punnisher (10:59:26/10-17-54)

>>>>>[Oh, shut up. Listen, was anybody else jacked in when that 'temporary
power surge' happened? My reality filter translated it as a shriek of
hyperdecibel proportions, painfully short.]<<<<<
-- IceMeister (11:00:57/10-17-54)

>>>>>[So did mine -- what's your filter? I'm working on a ballroom dancing
concept, all the instruments just went wild for one terrible moment.]<<<<<
-- Slipper (11:04:29/10-17-54)

>>>>>[Ballroom dancing? Heh heh heh heh. Um, I'm running a 'fox and
hound'
filter, and I can only describe it as being surrounded by all of the dogs at
once, all howling for your blood....]<<<<<
-- Reynard (11:07:17/10-17-54)

>>>>>[That's really wierd. Did everybody experience a tonal discrepancy??
I can't imagine that it'd show up like that to .everybody....]<<<<<
-- IceMeister (11:08:00/10-17-54)

>>>>>[It would appear so. My filter is different -- all my senses are
attuned
to different things. But I jacked out immediately afterwards, and my flesh
ears still haven't stopped ringing....]<<<<<
-- Suggoth (11:11:11/10-17-54)