[Sichr]

What's FastJack (No, not you, the other one!) going to do?  Go out, do a 8-8/6 day a week job as a Spider?

Who says he isn't already?

Well, running Jackpoint is not a paid job IMO...unless there is some kind of donor that remains hidden, someone Anonymous

[CanRay]

Or FastJack (You know which one I'm talking about!) listened to the Chrome Accountant and is on a neighboring island with many beautiful people... 

[ARC]

The rule is that you don't track anyone THROUGH Jackpoint. You find another way to track them down, that's fine, as evidenced by the time Netcat hacked Slam-O!'s system and broadcast trid of him dancing in his undies to all of Jackpoint.

huh?

In Emergence Slamm-0 used Jackpoint to send TM Hunters after Netcat.  She retaliated.

[Sichr]

Or FastJack (You know which one I'm talking about!) listened to the Chrome Accountant and is on a neighboring island with many beautiful people... 

Chrome Accountant...well...we all should listen to his advices

[Digital_Viking]

In Emergence Slamm-0 used Jackpoint to send TM Hunters after Netcat.  She retaliated.

That was Clockwork who sold Netcat out.

[FastJack]

In Emergence Slamm-0 used Jackpoint to send TM Hunters after Netcat.  She retaliated.

That was Clockwork who sold Netcat out.

And he didn't use Jackpoint. He tracked her outside of the network.

[ARC]

In Emergence Slamm-0 used Jackpoint to send TM Hunters after Netcat.  She retaliated.

That was Clockwork who sold Netcat out.

And he didn't use Jackpoint. He tracked her outside of the network.

 I stand corrected, now I'm just as lost though.

[Mirikon]

In Vice, Netcat posted the following:

To: Fianchetto
From : NetCat
Missed One Dangerous Criminal, Fianchetto:
Slamm-0!
Background: I would describe to you some of the many cases that Slamm-0! has supposedly done, but all I found are bots and malware doing the work, and him taking the credit. I can’t even call him a data pirate, as he shops at file sharing nodes like GamersUnite!
Modus Operandi: I couldn’t find his handiwork in a mysterious slippage of odds at Grid 19 for a football game that worked out in his favor. Nor could I find any truth to the rumored cartoonish display hack on MCT’s OS software a few years ago. And I definitely could find nothing about the recent run on Ares, where someone rode a lab rat’s secret online love notes to an undisclosed lab location and pulled out a pair of SOTA autosoft specs that are so advanced they might have come from aliens.
Psych Profile: Childish and arrogant with a God complex.
Description: He’s a young, ill-tempered, wannabe hacker who thinks he’s a hot shit knowledge master on so many subjects, but we all know it’s bullshit. Slamm-0! just sits around in his apartment in his boxers watching live-action anime [Photos from his Cleaning Drone]. And no FastJack, I didn’t trace him from JackPoint.
Known Aliases: I think it took him about five years to come up with the Slamm-0! alias, so we can’t expect a new one from him for a while.
Known Associates/Connections: Can’t find anyone who would say that they have worked with Slamm-0!
Last Known Location: JackPoint

[CanRay]

You'd think they were married already. 

[Valashar]

First comes Roomba spying, then comes U-Dub drone hockey, then comes Eye of the Needle footsie leading to the need for a baby carriage. 

[CanRay]

Wonder if they sent a 'trid recording to FastJack as he asked. 

[Sichr]

You'd think they were married already. 

Exactly what I thought when I read that...tohose women. They just cannot say things straight, no matter how resonant they are

[Phylos Fett]

I think he let in Plan 9 for laughs, and /dev/grrl...  ...  ...  OK, I'm clueless here.

Both are easy, though the gamer in us doesn't always see it.

If reading Shadowland postings for the last 20 years has taught us ANYTHING, it's to never dismiss the really crazy posters.  Sure, a lot of it's drek.  but if you ignore all of it, you might miss the next Bug invasion.  Or Dragon assasination.  Hell, even though no one believed it, Lone Gunman posted the truth about the Immortal Elves, and I bet Fastjack knows this.  You let in a couple folks like Plan 9 because when you filter through all the crazy, there's some kernals of truth there that can be VERY valuable.

As for Dev/grrl/...  She's the next generation of 'Runner.  Some day, she's going to be running Jackpoint, and 'Jack is smart enough to know it.

And of course as writers, both are incredibly valuable.  Plan 9 serves as our "truthsayer", the guy who can reveal the deep dark secrets to the reader, but gets dismissed as a nutjob by the other characters in the fiction.  And dev/grrl/ serves as our newbie, our reader stand in.  She's the one that can ask the stupid questions to let the other characters give more exposition without sounding like they're just giving a lecture.

We've always had these cahracters, by one name or another, and we always need them.  Both in the fiction, and out of it.

As for A. Nonymous...  Yeah, I wanna know who the hell he is too

Bull

That's some good insight there, Bull.

[hobgoblin]

You'd think they were married already. 

That would produce a record somewhere, as marriage is basically a declaration of who can legally inherit either party of the union (not that one party had much in terms of inheritance for much of recorded history). It is one very convoluted social institution...

[CanRay]

I'm sure there's more than one "Man Of The Cloth" in the Shadows that doesn't have a SIN.