[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

>>>>>[ That wasn't me. ]<<<<<
          -- Hawatari (09:02:49/04-29-2076)

[Leevizer]

>>>>>[Johnson is dead. Doctor is not answering. Need to go check on him.]<<<<<
     -- Shade (16:01:34/04-29-2076)

[SlowDeck]

>>>>>[Jess, you're right. I was part of a runner team back in '69 that was hired to investigate Matrix coverage in Australia. Corp suspected sabotage. Corp techs on site gave us an entirely different answer. I hear there's some crazy fragger in the Outback still using a personal wired Matrix without any problems, but he's probably just a myth.

Wyrm, I'll keep that in mind.

Shade, the doctor is an obvious trap. Go to ground and stay there. Also, never give your location out on here. Finally, don't challenge people who have a reason to kill you to a fight. If you intend to fight them, show up and fight. If you don't, then the posturing just makes you look unprofessional. And unprofessional appearance means you either don't get hired for jobs at all... or get hired as cannon fodder.

Black Panther and Vendetta: Have you seen the advertisement for the latest one? They've grabbed this year's fashion models for it. The advertising campaign focuses on how little clothing they're wearing, how attractive they are, and how they're overacting so hard it breaks the arena. One of the commercials showed two of the actors "fighting" by hip-thrusting at each other while the arena blew up around them.]<<<<<
     -- SlowDeck (11:51:52/04-29-2076)

[Leevizer]

>>>>>[Went to Doctor. Knight Errant got there first. We drove past.

Went to see Johnson earlier. A motel in barrens. Ed and Breakfast. Others went inside. I got on a roof to give support if things go bad. Rigger put a flyspy up. They did. Johnson arrived. Opened door. Fell out of the car dead. Told the rest of our group to get out. Flyspy spotted someone. Rigger got completely shut out afterwards. Still gave me the position. They got out of the motel. I started shooting to keep the assassin's head down.

Then an earth elemental appeared. Our Troll tried to hold it but got buried inside. Still gave the dwarves time to get in van. They drove off. They were safe. I could not help him. I was alone, the opponents were not.

I lay down on the rooftop. Crawled to the other side and jumped off to avoid being shot. I had parked my bike there. Nearly broke my leg in the fall. Drove off. Will meet up with dwarves soon. Need to warn our mage of this.

I... The Troll died. It... I... No.]<<<<<
     -- Shade (20:36:34/04-29-2076)

[farothel]

>>>>>[ Someone really needs to see a shrink, or even a brain doctor.

slowdeck: I prefer amateurs.  It's easier to get close to them, if you catch my drift.]<<<<<
          --  (20:41:49/04-29-2076)

[Vendetta Violent]

>>>>>[Dear Diary. Today a run went sour and I splashed it all over Shadowgrid. Shade... you've got issues, chum. Keep your head down. Go so under the radar that you're coming up China-side else you're going to find yourself about six feet shallow.]<<<<<
          -- Vendetta Violent (21:28:36/04-29-2076)

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

>>>>>[ V2, chill your musical little ass out.  We've had people drop in here while in the middle of the action in order to try to get info on something that's happening, or call for help.  It ain't like he's standing in the middle of the Renraku Virtual Public Commons and bawling to the cits about this crap; he's in the middle of VU93, which is shadow-people who are supposed to be professional about this crap. Cut the guy some slack, and if you're in Seattle, you might give a thought about lending some help.
          That goes for pretty much everyone else here, too. ]<<<<<
          -- The Wyrm Ouroboros (00:00:00/00-02-3467)

[Leevizer]

>>>>>[Didn't sleep. Kept watch overnight. Sleep Regulator. Shaman didn't answer, decker did a search. Apparently there's been a shootout where he lived. Nothing official, just rumours. I assume he's dead. Other's hope he's missing. Won't respond to my messages.

Met up with team in the Troll's warehouse. Set up defences. Shouldn't be easily ambushed. Decker blames me for death of troll. Asks why I didn't kill the spirit. Doesn't understand I had to keep the sniper's head down. Rigger is more calm. Propably sees me as a drone.

Contact network died with the mage. Need to get rid of the case. Will try to set up a meeting wi-]<<<<<
          -- Shade (08:27:32/04-30-2076)

[SlowDeck]

>>>>>[I'm in Kansas City. By the time I got to Seattle, got a team arranged, and got info on where Shade is and who he's up against... this will be over. Best I can do is armchair this one and hope it turns out alright.

Besides, the cut-off communication hints this may already be over.

Shade, if you died, then may your spirit find Valhalla. And if you died, it just means we will have to wait on that spar until this whole mess of a planet finally winds down. Though, we may have to turn it into a kill count contest; I hear there's going to be one very final shadowrun at around that time.]<<<<<
     -- SlowDeck (00:57:40/04-30-2076)

[Longshot23]

>>>>> [Hey VU93 . . . new heads-up for all. That cargo of shedim I posted about had a rather worrying front-man . . . a Sterilist magician. He did a rant about defending 'holy ones' before taking cover . . . and I'm not sure, but I think the cargo container had UCAS gov coverage. Which makes a kind of sense if you've kept up with the DC state of affairs.
However in other news - and this was a paying gig - there seems to be a legal-based network dedicated to the protection of paedophiles and the like. Eyes open, please] <<<<<

-- Longshot (07:13:02/04-30-2076)

[Leevizer]

>>>>> [Not dead. Almost. Can't talk. On the move. Got interrupted while messaging with DNI. Accidentally sent.] <<<<<

-- Shade (15:42:02/04-30-2076)

[farothel]

>>>>> [ Being kicked off the matrix can hurt.  Very much.  Have to go now, meeting with Mr. J.  Probably another of those 'find dirt on <insert famous person here>' type of runs, but it pays the bills. ] <<<<<

-- Black Panther (15:53:02/04-30-2076)

[Nightmare]

>>>>[Whoa, I step away to go scouting out the areas that are assigned for this years Desert Wars and drek seems to hit the fan.  Oh well, can't do anything about it from where I am so I'll just sit back and watch.  Update on what's going on here:  Looks like after this week I'll be on less because the first half of the season starts up.  I could post from the battle field but I prefer to keep my mind on the field instead.  Also, aside from the introductions before the "games", don't expect to see me or my two squad mates on trid.  Unlike those frag ups the Blunder Corps, we don't play to the camera and aren't the types to make a lot of noise just to make noise.  That and one of my squad mates has already told me he planned on shutting down any camera drones that get near us, so that's good.  Don't really need the publicity anyways, seeing as we're pretty well known in the merc community as is.]<<<<

--Nightmare (09:11:17/04-30-2076)

[Leevizer]

>>>>>[Safer again. Sitrep. My message was interrupted as the turret gained a lock on someone and opened fire. The Decker's head disappeared. The turret was not at fault. I told the Rigger to get in his van. I was unable to aim at him. Managed to get a picture. Cybereyes took video of everything. Dressed in black. Armoured. Faster than me. That is rare. Propably adept. Turret was behind his movements too. Rigger tried to run him over. Died. His shots penetrated van easily. Propably military-grade weapon. Van crashed onto warehouse wall. Turret ran out of ammo. Had a duel with adept. Propably hit him once. he didn't show it. Incapacitated me soon afterwards. First disarm. Then aim to kill. Went down as he shot. Lay on floor and stopped breathing. Internal air tank Didn't blink. Cybereyes. Don't know if he was fooled. Didn't shoot me anyway. Didn't move for nearly hour. Got up. Stopped bleeding. Checked on Rigger. Dead. Case was gone. Good thing it was Barrens. No Lone Star.

Got rid of SIN and house. Sold Decker's and Riggers stuff. Enough money to get new SIN, house. Got medical attention. Enough leftover to count as pay. Team is dead. Doctor is dead. Case was stolen. Won't try to get it back.

Back to square one. No team. Only know a fixer. I need sleep. And a pain editor. This hurts. Everywhere. Inside. Outside.]<<<<<
          -- Shade (20:18:00/04-30-2076)

[Jesskitten]

>>>>>[Yeah those adepts are kinda scary, I know one, a huge Fomori with an equally big claymore. I saw the footage of him car surfing during a run once just casually on top of this cleanup truck while cutting holes in it so he could get inside. Yeah that footage got scrubbed pretty quickly, even if people thought it was just part of a new trid show]<<<<<
          -- Jesskitten (11:45:18/05-01-2076)