[Ympulse]

>>>>>[Thank you, Wolfgar. I don't think I'll be heading south any time soon, though. I'm doing a long-term job for a friend up here in the Mersey Sprawl]<<<<<

     -- Emmas (18:50:23/10-19-74)

[Mirikon]

>>>>>[Gribble, if you succeed in making the Yakuza lieutenant 'brain dead', you will be doing him, and his gumi, a grave dishonor. If you go through with this, it would be best if you laid low for the rest of your lives. This is the kind of thing that they will kill all your contacts, friends, family, and people who happen to just see you in the elevator on their path to killing you for. It is a grave dishonor to deliberately leave someone helpless like that. You do this, and the only place you may be safe is Evo's Mars base. Even that is questionable.]<<<<<

--Kusanagi Motoko (20:43:12/10-19-74)

[Teknodragon]

>>>>>[All this talk of wetwork, and some of the nastiest there is. Not that I haven't gotten my claws red, but... Damn. Yeah, the target isn't worth the electrons used here, but there is a huge difference between what the J is asking, and a security guard just doing his job. I may have scales, but I sure ain't cold-blooded.]<<<<<

--TekDrake (20:14:18/10-19-74)

[Mirikon]

>>>>>[Indeed. Simply killing a member of the Yakuza is bad enough, and while they will try to get revenge, it is accepted that these kinds of things are part of the price of doing business. However, deliberately leaving someone helpless but alive like that is a grave dishonor. And the Yakuza takes honor very seriously, I assure you. It would be better to kill him outright than to leave him like that.

Killing is part of business in the underworld, but there are some lines that even killers will not cross, and they will punish others who cross them.]<<<<<

--Kusanagi Motoko (21:02:22/10-20-74)

[cyclonus743]

>>>>>[Motoko I have a feeling his gumi will not be much of an issue in very short order. Plus I feel my team has covered its tracks very well.]<<<<<

--Gribble (08:34:43/10-22-74)

[Mirikon]

>>>>>[Assuming, of course, that no one on this board owes a favor or giri debt to the Yakuza.]<<<<<

--Kusanagi Motoko (12:47:22/10-22-74)

[DWC]

>>>>>[Everyone seems to forget just how little control they have over who reads what gets posted here.  Always brings a smile to my face.]<<<<<

--Vice (13:08:39/10-22-74)

[cyclonus743]

>>>>>[Well luckily, i neglected to mention which gumi was about to befall such a terrible misfortune.]<<<<<

--Gribble (02:15:43/10-22-74)

[Mirikon]

>>>>>[Yes, but you did give out your location. Triads trying to make a play in Neo-Tokyo? As if the dragon would allow that to happen! You do understand that anyone trying to play games with the Yakuza in Neo-Tokyo is taking on the gumi directly loyal to either a great dragon, or to a spirit with enough power to stand up to a great dragon, yes? And, from all accounts, they take honor just as seriously as the Yakuza do, if not moreso. And it does not matter if someone knows anyone in that particular gumi or not. All one needs to do is find a member of another gumi, and give the information to them. That gumi would then have a chance to gain a giri debt from the other gumi. To put it in terms a gaijin would understand, the offended gumi would owe a major favor to another gumi who handed them the heads of those responsible, or even just their names.

Your entire team should invest in a good genewipe and phenotype adjustment treatment, at the very least. Get rid of your current names, and start over. Otherwise, you'll be dead, as will your families, friends, and contacts.]<<<<<

--Kusanagi Motoko (15:26:22/10-22-74)

[cyclonus743]

>>>>>[Well I guess we will have to take your advice of course. Changeing identities can get tedious, after all one tends to get attached to them.  No matter it is done now.

By the way Motoko I hope you rest in peace. ]<<<<<

--Gribble (03:21:21/10-22-74)

//....Execute contingency script "SHI SHi SHAWWWWWWWWWWW"? (Y/N)
//...........................Deleting all records of user "Gribble"
//...................Program complete

>>>>>[Motoko I've had a few run ins with this guy. He's a unbalanced bull shaman thats long on memory and short on scruples, watch you hoop chummer]<<<<<

--Belial (09:09:43/10-24-74)

[Jian]

>>>>>[I hope Gribble changed everything quickly enough.]<<<<<

--Delir Emet (03:24:25/10-24-74)

[Mirikon]

>>>>>[Oh, I wouldn't worry too much about me. I'm receiving protection from the local kumi because I did a service for them recently. Did I mention I had childhood friends from Neo-Tokyo with some really nice body art? This is why gaijin do so poorly in the shadows of Japan. They don't understand giri.]<<<<<

--Kusanagi Motoko (20:44:22/10-28-74)

[Operator]

>>>>>[Giri was beaten into me from birth, and it is what gave me a lifeline to Seattle so many years ago. Without it, I would be a dead man. That aside, even if you understand giri and other delicate social context, running in Japan is not easy - it merely becomes plausible.]<<<<<

--Operator (21:08:13/10-28-74)

[cyclonus743]

>>>>>[Personally I try to stay as far away from Japan as i can. I can never get their customs down. If I have to go to Neo-Tokyo I get in and get out ASAP. And i try to stay out of the Yakuza's way when I'm at home. ]<<<<<

--Belial (20:34:41/10-28-74)

[Operator]

>>>>>[I actually went there to get away from the Seattle rengo. When you safely escort a certain Yakuza princess home, you're sure to annoy some of her numerous enemies and embarrass the kobun who would otherwise be entrusted with such responsibility.]<<<<<

--Operator (22:16:17/10-28-74)