From:	"Brian Macleod (Macleod@**.Temple.EDU)" <MACLEOD@********.BITNET>
Subject:	Fallen Constellation
Date:	Mon, 9 May 1994 12:16:06 EDT

>>>>>[Orion, Orion, Orion... my most lonely foe in this little game we
play.
Feeling a little sore, perhaps? Oh, maybe you're lovesick, eh?
Ah, forgive me, I forgot this message goes out to everyone, does it not? How
bout I bring the rest of the crew up to date on the evening's festivities?
Here's the vid feed along with some voice-over I'll add in now...
++++++DOWNLOAD: Videofile05.09................
A dark city side street fills the image. The camera is obviously atop a
building, looking down. In the distance a brightly lit main street is shown.
A trio walks down the alleyway.

VO: "Hmmm, let's get that audio up, shall we?"

Megann: "Mmmmm, I just love Chinese..."
Orion: "As much as you love me?"
Quade: "Ack... *GACK* I'm gonna puke up some serious drek, kiddoes!"
Megann: "Oh, don't worry, Quade, I love Chinese SO much more."
Orion: "Hey, hey, no fair!"
Quade: "Heh. That WAS good Chinese, though."
Orion: "That's because YOU didn't pay for it, drekface!! One of these days,
Slanstar, you're gonna pay me back!"
Quade: "Or what? You don't think you could take me in a sword duel, do ya, oh
wise and graying one?"
Orion: "After training you myself..." <smiling> "WHY YOU
LITTLE--"
Megann: <jabbing Orion in the ribs> "C'mon, guys... you BOTH know I could take
either of you on!!!"

V-O: "Around here they got within range, so I unsafed my baby, the Arrowsmyth
"Pump" Special. Made her myself from a Panther, an AUG-CSL, and some other
odds and ends I had laying about the place. Pack her ammo myself too... take
some of those Thermoplast rounds and repackage them with a little Grade A-A
bang-bang concoction I learned how to make in Physics lab. Heh-heh-heh..."

Orion stops like a Yugo hitting a brick wall. A milisecond later, Quade
freezes as well.

Quade: "OR--"
Orion: "GET D---"

The camera is momentarily whited out by a blinding flash. A half second later,
a monsterous roar engulfs the audio pickups as the camera rattles about in the
aftershocks of the blast.

VO: "Whaddyi tell ya, quite a party-killer, ain't it? Oh, wait, here comes the
best part!!"

As the camera image slowly comes back to normal, the alley is seen, only this
time it is blackened and scorched by the blast. Small fires burn in the shad-
ows. Two figures are seen laying in the grime. One lurches sudddenly, and
coughs, gagging, then groans in pain as he rolls over. It is Orion, his face
covered with soot, his coat torn around him, his shoulder obviously bleeding.

Quade: <from behind a trash receptacle> "Orion, dat you?"
Orion: "Awwwwllll.....*groan*.... anyone get the signature of that megacorp?"

Quade: "oh drek... Or-o-orion.."
Orion: "wha-- ommigod no. No."

Orion gets to his knees and falls again, he scrabbles his way over to Megann's
body. He checks for a pulse.

Orion: "C'mon, Meg!!! Don't do this, girl, please, no. NOOOO!!!"

Tears roll down his blast-stained cheeks as he holds her lifeless body to his.

Orion: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO--*hack*
*cough* *hack* No-oooooh!!!"

A laugh bellows forth from the parapet. Orion freezes and glares upwards.

Arrowsmyth: "Oh my, my aim must be going a bit, dear sir, I meant to take YOU
down in that blast, I wanted to save the wench for my own later pleasures."
Orion: <places Megann's body down gently and hobbles to his feet. He withdraws
his Katana, its shine seemingly out of place in the darkened alley.> "COME DOWN
HERE AND FINISH THIS!!!!"
Quade: <appears in front of Orion, holding him back> "No, Orion, not now.
ANOTHER TIME! You can't take him now! You'll die!"
Orion: "Don't you think I know that!!! Give me the chance to avenge her, or
let me die trying so I can join her!!!"
Arrowsmyth: "Fear not, Slanstar, you'll be dealt with in time, I seek your
mentor's head first, though. Please don't be jealous on my account!"
Orion: <lunges to go past Quade> "Let me at--"

Quade punches Orion in the face, knocking him, unconcious, to the floor of the
alleyway.

Quade: "You will die for this, Arrowsmyth, by Orion's sword or my own!!"
Arrowsmyth: "Farewell, swordsman, until I sever your head from your body!"

He departs into the darkness.

++++++END Videofeed05.09.....................

Hee-hee, I DO crack myself up sometimes, you know that, don't you, Orion.
Ah, we have SO much fun around these parts, don't we?
Hope you got the flowers I sent to you!! ]<<<<<
-- Arrowsmyth <23:34:12/05-09-55>