| From: | Dave Sanborn <dasanbor@*******.SYR.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Information, anyone? |
| Date: | Wed, 9 Feb 1994 20:11:51 -0500 |
out there, so listen up. There'll be a short quiz at the end...
The prelude to my tale takes place about five years ago, just as I
was ending my servitude as an apprentice to Felinius the Great, mage,
notorious ladies' man, and the closest thing that a gutter rat like me ever
had to a father. As I recall, I was in Felinius' workshop, practicing
how to tone down my fireball a little, when I heard old Felinius give off
a scream that would give even a Great Dragon the heebie-jeebies. Instantly
I dropped what I was doing, and ran to the living room, catching the
distinct and oh-so-lovely smell of burnt flesh along the way. When I
found Felinius, or more to the point, what was left of Felinus (a charred
pile of bones), his assailant was nowhere to be seen. Even an Astral Scan
didn't turn up anything, which I admit, may have been because of my relative
inexperience back then. I called the Metro-cops, who arrived on the
scene 50 minutes later and declared it to be an open-and-shut case.
"You see...", they told me, "Felinius must've summoned the elemental
without taking the neccesary precautions, such as a pentagram, and it
went out of control on him. As far as we're concerned, it's an
accidental death."
"Drek!" I said then and "Drek!" I say now. Someone sent the elemental
after him. Would a master wizard like Felinius be so stupid as to summon
an elemental WITHOUT a pentagram? I doubt it. Even if he hadn't used a
pentagram, someone with the power of Felinius should've been able to
contain a simple elemental! Plus, if it WAS a spastic elemental, why
wasn't the entire house on fire? Why did it concentrate on simply killing
old Felinius, and not trash the place? I vowed to myself back then that
I would take out the bastards who nailed Felinius, even if I did it with
my dying breath.
<fade in to 2055>
Now a few days ago I had a decker friend of mine... maybe some of you
net-heads have heard of him, Matt "Silicon Saboteur" Bancroft... do a
little data-gathering for me. Along with various other things that he
discovered (Anyone want a pre-release version of Matrix OS v5.2?), Matt
came up with an electronic pay-statement from an unknown source (Drek!)
to one, Joseph Gallagher. Gallagher, for those of you who don't know him,
is a wage mage for Aztechnology. You're probably thinking to yourselves
right now, "Yeah, so? He got paid, and deposited it in the bank. Big,
fat, fragging deal!" Ahh... but it IS a big, fat, fraggin deal. You see,
in the "Memo" data field of the pay-statement were the cryptic words
"Felinius Agenda". Looks like I may have the killer, just not the motive
behind the killing or who the mastermind behind it all was.
The problem I forsee is that Gallagher surrounds himself with Aztech guards.
I swear the old gimp's paranoid that SOMEONE may be out to get him. (imagine
that...) It's a simple run really. Although he lives on corp territory, it's
not like he lives at the top of the complex or anything. Anyone interested
in being muscle for this little run? How about someone with electronic
expertise? For that matter, is there ANYONE who wants to take a little
chunk outta Aztech? (Never let it be said that I'm not an equal
opportunity employer...) The pay's 5000 nuyen. Not much, but hey...
just think how happy this mage'll be when he get's to personally lop off
Gallagher's head with a monofilament string...
Besides the run itself, is there ANYONE with information leading to the
arrest/persecution/slow, and horribly agonizing death of the drekhead
who hired Gallagher? I'll pay for that as well.
Hmmm... maybe I'll go randomly assault some mundane MegaCorp
personnel now. That'll bring a grin to my face.
]<<<<< -- Warped Warlock <20:46:52/02-09-55>
