[Morg]

>>>>>[I wasn't on a run the first time I was there. I was just looking for something to strip for parts or a crate I could snag. I may have to rethink this habit while in Seattle. Now the trid is when we went back to get the Intel, If the place is bug nest I have no problem staying away. So Iceblade if you know what they are is the stuff in the barrel worth anything, because I really want to open it...Oh Delir if no one buys it you're totally invited to come see.]<<<<<

      --Morg (10:54:31/04-21-74)

[Marak1972]

>>>>>[Uh ok Um Iceblade i has one lil question considering what kinda adept I be mon...can they be weapon focuses mon? By the by lil note I be a gunslinger adept . I be pretty sure dat My daddies panther be puttin holes in em pretty good don chu tink mon??. Get some of dem flechettes rounds for de ting and call it my bug zapper .....]<<<<<

      --Marak (11:12:31/04-21-74)

[Morg]

>>>>>[Marak I have a better idea then a weapon focus for you. It won't cost you a single cred and it's completely legit...ok so this guy on a trid I saw...he got to know his gun really well, so well in fact this Zen awareness thing started happening. He could almost never miss, he always knew the bullet count in his gun, it was like he had smartlink without the tech. The only problem is you have to become a Zen monk]<<<<<

      --Morg (11:46:11/04-21-74)

[Marak1972]

>>>>>[Morg is that that precrash 'trid' Equilibrium or whatever?? Dat was cool drek mon]<<<<<

      --Marak (12:06:11/04-21-74)

[Morg]

>>>>>[No, its true it's some kind of power were you sync your self with any item you can build your self.]<<<<<

      --Morg (12:10:19/04-21-74)

[Jian]

>>>>>[Ahura Mazdza! Well, I'll willingly bet any runner here a hundred credits this is the reason Roger Soaring Owl broke with Ares. Damien Knight thinks he can control the bugs, that drekhead.]<<<<<

      --Delir Emet (13:23:49/04-21-74)

[CanRay]

>>>>>[To play the devil's advocate (And, let's admit it, the Megas are in bed with the Devil, and probably got a better deal out of it!), we don't know this is ARES itself, or just a small part of it, or a break-off part.

If the Sons of Sauron start burning crosses in front of Humanis-Alligned Churches, do we say it's a part of Mothers of Metahumanity because they both support equal rights for orcs and trolls?  No, we don't.

Evidence other than just conjecture.  Don't forget that Ares has training facilities and agents that provide services to security companies and military units that will get you the same movements.  There's lots of reasons that ol' Roger could have up and left Ares, although I will admit thinking they could control bugs...

Hold on, I'm getting...  Well, damn.  Looks like I got a contract.  And it isn't political bulldrek for once.  Thank the All Father and all his children!]<<<<<
      -- Money Johnson (13:49:12/04-21-74)

[Marak1972]

>>>>>[Hold on mon. I get what Money and Emet are saying. But didn't liil ol Ares have major offensives on de buggies mon. You know the whole hoopla o Chicago! or whatever happened in the barrens which left all those nice toys out there mon. But I be havin on o dose gut feelins that its just a lil splinter o Ares dat be a lil buggy.........oh jeez Morg what we be stumblin up on now mon. We be knee deep in a certain creek wit out a drekkin paddle mon]<<<<<
      -- Marak (14:24:12/04-21-74)

[Mirikon]

>>>>>[Guns could be foci, yes, but they wouldn't be good for anything unless you started physically clubbing people with them. However, if you have experience with clubs, and a weapon that has been hardened to withstand the abuse of melee, then it could be an effective focus for you.

Well, I'm sure not all of Ares is invested. But if rumors are true, a growing portion of Ares is getting consumed by the bugs. And yes, I am willing to believe this is why Soaring Owl left. Knight is playing with fire. The only thing you can do with the Bugs is destroy them, without mercy or pity, because to them you are simply a new pair of shoes.

Marak, Morg, stay well away from that facility without proper backup. You got lucky that they didn't see you last time. You might not be so lucky again.]<<<<<

--Iceblade (16:40:23/04-21-74)

[Morg]

>>>>>[Marak my chummer we jandered in and out without a peep or the bugs would have geek us by now. We are the only ones that know we were there except...Oh wait everyone here!.... don't worry about it Marak just busting your chops, we're safe.
   Now I was willing to keep quiet up to a point but you guys are starting to slot me off, come on Ares? They're so Anti-bug that they nuked Chicago, formed anti-bug kill squads, then created FAB 1 to 5 with the thought of sterilizing the world of all things bug-like. The moment Knight found out anyone was doing a project like this they would be ash faster then a hyperactive awakened squirrel can say "nanosecond buyout!". Your trying to tell me Roger Soaring Owl left Ares because some madmen are using bug bioarmor and when it changes them into Flesh forms he didn't say anything about it to Knight. I know I watch some piss pore trid shows but come on someone is dreking with you even I can see this doesn't scan. Now unless you show me Dikote solid proof I'll remind you Damien Fragin' Knight " God Almighty of all things that go bang, Master of Ares Macrotechnology, Lord of Motor City and President of the I HATE BUGS! Club!"  deserves more respect then this! ...it's some one else chummers your C.I.'s are feeding you drek.]<<<<<

      --Morg (17:41:21/04-21-74)

[Marak1972]

>>>>>[....... the following Morg rant in no way represents me (Marak) or my thoughts in actions even tho he has a point mon.

Hey you know anyone willing to mentor or train me...I have my fathers combat axe ...only thing his team found of him after the buildings came down on him...dat be a long story mon. BUt I'm seriously thinking of trainiing in it just need guidance etc. I don't do dis often mon...but please !?! Iceblade...if dese tings are a problem I be needing an edge and being a gunslinger sound like not be doing me much good mon.I do have unarmed skills and well never ...so far have need to use it in a fight. My guns , skill and size tend to end things quickly mon. So is there a posibility that I may have de skill you say ...killing hands and not know it mon? .]<<<<<

--Marak (17:50:23/04-21-74)

[Jian]

>>>>>[This is a mega-corp we are talking about, and its leadership. If Knight thought he had more to gain by controlling the bugs rather than fighting them- do you think he'd hesitate for a heartbeat about switching tactics? Foolish, but that's the way it is. Even the daevas of Ahriman I've forcibly conjured up fear the insect spirits.]<<<<<

--Delir Emet (18:32:04/04-21-74)

[Mirikon]

>>>>>[Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.]<<<<<

--Faust (19:52:23/04-21-74)

[Smiley]

>>>>>[So... The meet with Daviar went better then expected. Turns out, she's surprisingly loyal, even to a dead master... well at least when it comes to this sort of things. Big D left instructions about what he left for me, something that will keep that little secret permanently secret again. She gave me what turns out to be something that belonged to me all along but was lost. Then she told me about how she got her info. After that we did what we had to do to keep the secret secret and we both went home.

Today I tracked down a hum... Someone, another one who's his master's little bitch. It turns out he heard that info while eavesdropping his master's conversations. I gouged his eyes out, cut his ears off, as well as his tongue. I poured acid down his eye sockets, burned him a little here and there and broke most of his major bones. Then I dropped him off on his master's porch after I carved the Chinese symbol for "silence" on his forehead with a knife and twisted his head backward to finish him off. Oh! I also left my card... After all, it's really rude not to sign the messages you send. Ice, the hyper sensitivity compound works really well with adrenaline injections... You know, to keep him alive a little longer. Finally my.... Well... Let's call her my "adoptive mother", also not happy about this, is now having a little chat with that big mouth. My guess is, he's not going to talk about these things around underlings anymore.

So all is now well and back to normal... Well as normal as my life can be. Hahaha. It's good to be back in Seattle, having a drink with delightful company at the Powerline.

Money, in my experience, everything ends up being politics... But you already knew that. And Wyrm, I just said nobody was ready to pay my price. I didn't say there was no interest in seeing this Morg guy dead. Based on what I hear and also read on this board, it's probably just a matter of time before people start coming after him anyway if they haven't already.]<<<<<
       -- Smiley (21:23:24/04-21-74)

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

>>>>>[ A newbie like you, Marak?  Oh, hell no.  I have never been that blinded by my own blinkered stupidity.  I've occasionally overthought a problem, and prepared for Armageddon when the run turned out to be a cakewalk.  I've even gotten shot when the guy I figured would anticipate my fakes being fakes didn't, and winged me for it.  But the last time I was so unaware of privacy, secrecy, and professionalism I was still in short pants.
          Sun Tzu also had dimwits; what, you don't think there were people like you in the ancient kingdoms of Zhōngguó?  Murphy, Sun Tzu and his commentators speak of the quality of the men, their discipline and camaraderie, throughout the Thirteen Chapters.  Of their fervency and discipline is the army made, after all.
          Smiley ... yeah, you're probably right.  Honestly, irritations like that I like to have simply taken care of, but I have better causes for the use of my resources.  ]<<<<<
          -- The Wyrm Ouroboros (23:00:00/04-21-2074)