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The_Eyes

Apr 18 2005, 06:31 AM

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13:13:02 Saturday 06 January 2063

Shadowland Seattle -> Op-Ed -> Agendas

CODE

Depends on the mage. Most actually require a tissue sample to track down a person; something with DNA so hair and fingernail clippings won't generally work either. I *have* heard rumors of vooduns and a few more advanced mages being able to create a ritual link--and thus be able to track someone--using only pictures and such, but it's generally more rare and advanced ritual magic. In fact, I think I saw an article on that the other day here on Shadowland. Let me see if I can pull it up...
-> Diamond

CODE

Whoa, seriously? A mage can track me using my picture? That's so... not fair. Drek, I'm never leaving my room again.
-> Neal the Code Barbarian

CODE

Ah, just found it; here I'll post a link.
-> Diamond

[[ link -- 108Mp ]]

CODE

Holy drek, this was posted yesterday? How come I never noticed? Thanks chummer.
-> Neal the Code Barbarian

CODE

Heh, gotta keep up chummer, or the world will change without you noticing.
-> Eclipse

Sedna

Apr 19 2005, 05:15 PM

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13:13:04 Saturday 06 January 2063

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CODE

ok. crap. so if it's not a picture and if I can't get a mage, I'm screwed? You guys can't all be mages. There's got to be some way of doing this that doesn't involve magic.
-> Newchum

Cedric Rolfsson

Apr 19 2005, 11:02 PM

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CODE

Oh for Spirits Sake! I think you might try looking in the Department of Licencing's records for the name. Then you'd also have an address and photo. You'd be able to work from that basic information to get all sorts of things.

If you don't have a name but only an address you can check the Metroplex Government Auditor's office or the specific District's Planning and Zoning Commission for persons who own or have owned that parcel.

Just because what you intend to do is illegal that doesn't mean you can't do something as simple as run a basic search engine through the local screamsheets for mention of some key words from your document.

Remember the basic rule of all operations: K.I.S.S (Keep It Simple Stupid)

Otta B. Obvious

bclements View Member Profile	Apr 20 2005, 12:01 AM Post #79
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bclements

Apr 20 2005, 12:02 AM

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13:14:31 Saturday 06 January 2063

Shadowland Seattle -> Op-Ed -> Agendas

CODE

And, if you still come up short after that (or come up short on nuyen after the mage tells you their price), you can always do it the old fashioned way. Pound the pavement, talk to people, figure out who hated/loved/drank with/owed money to him, etc. Do the stuff the Star would do if they ever decided to look for a lost dog.

-Hillbilly

Sedna

Apr 20 2005, 12:26 AM

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13:14:34 Saturday 06 January 2063

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CODE

Hey, I chose my name for a reason. Comes to this kind of stuff, Im ignorant as hell, and I could easily have gone a whole lifetime without ever having to be in the position of having to know it. If the person existed in the fragging Licencing Departmnet, we wouldn't be having this conversation. I've got a name, and I've got a piece of paper. that's fragging it. I thought others would know loads more about making something out of that piece of paper than I do. I thought there were pros here, who'd be willing to help a chummer out.

And if that's not enough for you, shit or get off the pot. It's been a real bad day.
-> Newchum

The_Eyes

Apr 20 2005, 02:18 AM

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13:15:53 Saturday 06 January 2063

Shadowland Seattle -> Op-Ed -> Agendas

CODE

Oh, you want shit, you little slitch? I'll give ya- << 2.3 Mp deleted by sysop >>
-> Neal the Code Barbarian

CODE

Riight, well I'd say that first line summarizes that post quite nicely. Keep the rest of it off my boards.
As for Newchum, the first rule of netiquette is the same as in the meatworld: don't bite the hand that feeds you. Remember that you're not paying anyone here (that we know of) and everything you get is out of the goodness of our black little hearts. Being a little slitch isn't gonna make you any friends around here, and as said above, friends *are* your biz around here.
-> Capital Idea
"It's all just ones and zeroes."

CODE

Echo that, Capital. "A bad day" is no excuse for rudeness, not if you don't want your day getting worse.
-> Diamond

CODE

Heh. Anyone else here convinced that Capital is some sort of SK or something? It's like the man never sleeps!
-> Skeptic

CODE

Heh. Flattery will get you nowhere.
-> Capital Idea
"It's all just ones and zeroes."

Sedna

Apr 21 2005, 02:32 PM

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13:16:02 Saturday 06 January 2063

Shadowland Seattle -> Op-Ed -> Agendas

CODE

You sure do have a way with people, Newchum.
-> TheJuliana

CODE

Sure. Right. Look, I'm sorry. But I've been told off now for asking the question in the first place, and then for asking ways around, and then for asking specifics. How would any of you have worded it? Is there any way I could have asked this that would have made any difference whatsoever?
-> Newchum

The_Eyes

Apr 23 2005, 04:22 PM

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13:16:32 Saturday 06 January 2063

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CODE

Huh. Looks like he *can* be taught.
-> Neal the Code Barbarian

CODE

Well, as sad as it is to say it, Neal's got a point. Basically you can never ask a question without people knowing that you're interested in the answer. The best way to do this would to either do the search yourself, or pay someone you trust to do it for you. The later tends to be more successful unless you're a specialist in the area: it's not what you know; it's who you know.
-> Diamond

CODE

And that, I think, is the biggest lesson to take from this: outsourcing is the way the sixth world works. It's always a good idea to do what you can yourself--you're the one who really cares about whoever it is you're gonna find, and you're the only one you can really, truly trust not to betray you--but nothing beats a good specialist with a big payoff. Especially if you're trying to search the 'Trix or trying the ritual tracking thing, but even for beating the streets; A good PI will know people and places to look that you never would've thought of.
-> Code Warrior

CODE

All that costs cred, of course. "You get what you pay for" applies just as much these days as any other.
-> Skeptic

The_Eyes

Apr 23 2005, 07:36 PM

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09:45:15 Tuesday 09 January 2063

Shadowland Seattle -> Current Events -> Seattle

CODE

Morning chummers. A bit different from my usual fare, but I saw this on the radio a few minutes ago and thought it should be put here for posterity. A sign of our times, perhaps?

-Blondie

TODAY IN SEATTLE - "Seems the streets aren't safe for anyone anymore, even the criminals. Yesterday night an armed mugger approached a 61-year-old man who was walking out of a tool shop and flashed a gun. A struggle ensued, the mugger's firearm discharging several times, ending when the mugger's own thumb was shot off. The mugger escaped, but was later apprehended at a nearby hospital, where he was charged with aggravated battery, armed robbery and tampering with evidence.

CODE

What is the world coming to, when the world's muggers and thieves aren't safe? Truly a sick and twisted world we live in
-> Code Warrior

Sedna

Apr 24 2005, 03:29 PM

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13:16:45 Saturday 06 January 2063

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CODE

Okay, you're saying I've pretty well got to find a specialist if I'm going to get anywhere. Cred's an issue, but if I've got to, then I'll figure out a way to bite the bullet somehow. But how do I get to know these people? How do I know if I can trust them at all?
-> Newchum

bclements

Apr 25 2005, 12:07 AM

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13:18:58 Saturday 06 January 2063

Shadowland Seattle -> Op-Ed -> Agendas

CODE

The same way that you would find a mechanic, or a street doc, or a good bottle of Kentucky bourbon: you ask your friends or other people you know. Unless your agoraphobe who isn't a decker, you've already got a network of assets to use. Open your eyes, zurramato! You probably already have all the tools you need to do the task before you. The trick is to actually use them in such a way as to not realize that they are being used.
-Hillbilly

CODE

Decker's who don't get out? We don't have to get out much to drek you up. And speaking of noobs on here, just who the hell are you?
-Neal the Code Barbarian

CODE

The guy that gave you a huge increase from the Johnson on that job in Snohomish a couple of years back. Nice work on the trideo setup, by the way. Troll speed metal at 2:30 A.M. was a stroke of genius.
-Hillbilly

CODE

And you still owe me for that. Do you know how much hell I caught from that stunt? And I like Wild Turkey rye, on the rocks, waiting on me next time I'm at 'Beck's.
-Whiskey River

CODE

Holy Drek, that was you? And you were the Johnson...Holy Drek! I just knew something was up when you asked for that increase. You knew you could get it!
-Neal the Code Barbarian

CODE

Actually, no, I didn't know I could get it. But it never hurts to ask, to bring this full circle to the noobs post.
-Hillbilly

banditf50 View Member Profile	Apr 29 2005, 06:34 PM Post #88
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 582 Joined: 30-July 04 Member No.: 6,525	21:15:35 Sunday January 7th, 2063 SheepDog Shadowland Seattle -> Current Events -> Seattle POLICE DIGEST for January 7th, 2063 Single vehicle accident claims life: The 37-year-old driver lost control of his vehicle during a sudden rainstorm, resulting in his Ford pick-up truck hitting a large tree and bursting into flames. By the time emergency crews reached the scene of the accident, the vehicle engine and cab were fully involved. Dead is Paul Hunter of no fixed address. Speed and weather are cited as factors in the crash. There is no word yet as to whether alcohol was involved. Police are still investigating. Two arrests made in aggrevated assualt case: Two men with alleged ties Japanese organized crime elements were arrested early this evening for assualting a young women in Redmond. She was accosted as the approached the local club where she was employed as a dancer and dragged into the aley adjacent to the building. An anomyous citizen saw the attack and called the police. Heart attack claims multiple victims: A 48-year-old woman was rushed to hospital after suffering a heart attack while driving her car on I-90, just east of Lake Washington, causing her to swerve across several lanes and setting off a chain collision involving 14 vehicles. She was declared dead on arrival. None of the other drivers suffered life-threatening injuries, although due to the speeds involved several of the vehicles' doors jammed, requiring hydraulic spreaders to open them and free their trapped occupants. Westbound lanes on I-90 were reopened after three hours.

Cedric Rolfsson

May 4 2005, 11:00 PM

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Shadowland Seattle -> Home Front -> Local Politics

KCTS Reporting January 4, 2063.

In an unusual turn of events the Tacoma District Council will be holding a special election to fill two vacancies on the District Council. The special election will be held over the next 30 days, and the new council members are scheduled to be sworn in during the first District Council meeting in February. The vacancies came about when the council members elect, Aaron Roberts 51 and Cynthia Johanson 38, were both killed in a helicopter crash in early December on their way to a city governing training seminar that all newly elected council members attend.

Normally, when a council position seat is vacated during the term the remaining council members simply select a replacement to serve out the rest of the term. Four of the District Council voted to simply appoint replacements but a lawsuit filed by Jarvis Tait resulted in a court ordered special election, holding that the council seats had not technically been filled since the council members elect were not formally seated until January 1st.

The District Council elections were hotly contested this year. The former seat holders both decided not to seek re-election after several months of investigations by Lone Star and UCAS government officials who were looking into allegations of corruption and vote selling. The major parties all fielded candidates, and eventually a conservative Republican in Roberts and a dedicated Technocrat in Johanson taking narrow victory at the polls. Many people voiced concerns over the validity of the election results up to and including threatened lawsuits.

One of the reasons these positions were as sought after as they were this election term could perhaps be that the District's waste management contracts expire in April and no new contract has been agreed upon. The current contract holder North American Disposal Systems has been vocal in its attempts to secure another contract, but the District government is still considering other bids.

CODE

Heh-he N.A.D.S. The company's name is NADS. He-heh.
-- Beavis

CODE

Careful who you laugh at there Beavis, North American Disposal is owned and ran by Alexander Demichi who is a great good buddy of Vincent "the Devil" Deville a man with serious ties to the Mob. They also own, outright, at least three of the council and are pushing hard to re-up that contract which is totally padded and brings in a ton of profit.
-- Mouse

CODE

Is it just me or does this whole "accident" seem awfully convienent for the people who lost the election?
-- Doubting Thomas

CODE

You can bet that Lone Star is looking into the accident and keeping an eye on how this election is being run.
-- Sheepdog

Sedna

May 5 2005, 02:45 PM

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15:20:52 Saturday, January 6, 2063

Shadowland -> Seattle -> The Barrens

CODE

Looks like I'm Barrens-bound. Any new word on that bug I should know about?
-> Lance

CODE

That it's a real stupid idea to go in if you don't have to?
-> Breeder

CODE

Think he'd be asking this if he had a choice?
-> Neal the Code Barbarian

CODE

Nothing new on that front. We are all rather anxious to learn more about that one.
-> EdwardBirmingham

CODE

Whooee, then you'd really be interested in who I just ran into.
-> Kiki

CODE

Who? (Someone has to ask it.)
-> Calvin

CODE

Oh no, not so fast. You all have just as much access to CorpDeVo files as I have.
-> Kiki

CODE

What does CorpDeVo have to do with it?
-> Teases the Cat

CODE

Just the sweetest little decker this side of cyberspace.
-> Kiki

CODE

They began to operate what they called "The Operation." They would select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid them the so-called protection money. Four months later, they started another operation which they called "The Other Operation." In this racket, they selected another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them. One month later, they hit upon "The Other Other Operation." In this, the victim was threatened that if he didn't pay them, they would beat him up. This, for the Piranha brothers, was the turning point.
-> Grail

CODE

What?
-> Calvin

CODE

Don't try, dear. It's simpler.
-> Hobbes

CODE

You're pushing it, Grail.
-> Kiki

CODE

What are you going to do about it, taunt me a second time?
-> Grail

CODE

What sf8r8fkkkch *st$$s
-> Kiki

CODE

sjrf#RR$$#***

CODE

f(R$$D9#(((##(94-0000

CODE

Take it s-e-r9ere#(#**
-> SkaiHai

CODE

OUT!!!
-> SkaiHai

CODE

Want to tell me what all that was about?
-> Teases the Cat

CODE

Later.
-> Grail

The_Eyes

May 6 2005, 01:41 AM

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15:31:20 Saturday, January 6, 2063

Shadowland -> Seattle -> The Barrens

CODE

Fragging drek, anyone else feel like they're only reading half a conversation?
-Neal the Code Barbarian

CODE

Man, no kidding. Sometimes I feel like half the stuff around here is people trying to out-mysterious each other, to the point that noone really knows what anyone else is saying, even *with* the right outside information.
-Code Warrior

CODE

You're *just* noticing this? That's the best part of Shadowland IMO; the whole thing's one gigantic Lost in Translation con. It's beautiful.
-Skeptic

CODE

Yeah, right up until someone who actually *does* take all this drek seriously puts a bullet in your head.
-Code Warrior

CODE

That's half the fun though. What's life if you don't take a chance now and then?
-Skeptic

banditf50 View Member Profile	May 9 2005, 06:43 AM Post #92
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 582 Joined: 30-July 04 Member No.: 6,525	21:25:43 Monday January 8th, 2063 SheepDog Shadowland Seattle -> Current Events -> Seattle *POLICE DIGEST for January 8th, 2063* It's 17:00 somewhere: Police arrested a man for DUI on the 80th block of Tacoma after he made an extremely wide right-turn into oncoming traffic on Westinghouse Avenue. The arrest was made at 10:15. Routine traffic stop yields heavy-weight bust: A 19-year-old ork male was stopped on Orchard Park Road for driving with a loud exhaust. Upon suspicion that the teenager had been using drugs a routine search turned up two-kilos of packed marijuana in the trunk. Stolen Westwind recovered: A '62 black Eurocar Westwind was found abandoned at Cantigny park in Puyallup. The vehicle was discovered at the bottom of dry retention pond where it had collided with a concrete drainage pipe. The owner of the vehicle had reported it stolen three hours prior to it's discovery. Suspect in taxi driver murder charged: Jason Phillips, 43, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Arthur Lowens, 37. On January 6th Phillip allegedly argued with Lowens concerning a fare before wrestling control of the cab and running him over four times. Phillip's claims that he had only intended to use the cab to get away from the scene of the argument, striking Lowens was merely an accident. Warrant issued for suspect in store assualts: Lennord Jones, 36, of Everett is charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault stemming from an incident at local Nu-Limited women's fashion boutique. Jones allegedly entered the store right before closing and brandishing a handgun. He then forced the two workers closing the store into the stockroom, committed the assault, and left them bound and gagged. The police were called the following morning when the opening manager discovered the restrained victims. Both women were treated and released with from St. Luke's Memorial.

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May 9 2005, 03:56 PM

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21:22:50 - Saturday January 6th, 2063

CODE

To Black Knight:
I may have need of your company's services. Perhaps you could provide me with a resume and a some references to look into.
-Dancer

The_Eyes

May 16 2005, 04:23 PM

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07:11:22 Wednesday 10 January 2063

Shadowland Seattle -> Current Events -> CFS

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Morning, chummers. Found something interesting today: skim the clipping below out of an SF-local newstream, then look at this link. See anything interesting?
-Blondie

Rape suspect arrested after day-long search

BERKELEY/OAKLAND - A man accused of raping a woman, leading police on a chase and then disappearing for nearly 12 hours is being held without bail after an uneventful arrest.

Charles Rawlings, 35, of Oakland, faces four counts of rape plus kidnapping and criminal threatening charges.

He was arrested Tuesday night in Berkeley after a man spotted him in his neighborhood about 7 p.m. Steve Voto told police that Rawlings was kneeling on the side of the road and appeared to be out of breath. Voto called police, who arrived within minutes.

"They had the guy down in a blink of an eye," Voto said.
[...]

CODE

Dupe Drek, Different Day. What's your point?
-> Neal the Code Barbarian

CODE

The point, my dear barbarian, is that they're just about the exact same article, transplanted by 60 years and with the location changed. Looks like someone's getting lazy with their propoganda machines.
-> Code Warrior

CODE

Wow, that's amazing. I don't know what's worse, the fact that someone's actually trying to make the Berkeley sprawl seem like an even *bigger* hive of scum and villiany, or that they're so drekking lazy about it.
-> Skeptic

CODE

Wait, I'm not catching something here. Why would someone want to make the Berkeley sprawl look *worse*? It's already a fraggin' warzone, isn't it?
-> Harold

CODE

Damage control by image control. In the past few years Berkeley's been attracting a lot of the young rebellious crowd, people flocking to the People's University with its promise of free college-level education, for those willing to help out the cause. Most aren't phased by the warzone; drek, some of 'em *come* for the warzone. Presenting the sprawl as some moral wasteland makes 'em think twice about coming, or maybe staying.
-> Blondie

CODE

Do I detect a hint of bitterness?
-> Diamond

CODE

Maybe wistfulness.
-> Blondie

The_Eyes

May 24 2005, 03:58 PM

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08:05:12 Wednesday 10 January 2063

Shadowland Seattle -> Current Events -> Science and Technology

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Oy. Just caught this on the wire this morning. Is it just me or does this just scream loopholes?
-Blondie

Global, PRC Preview New MindLink Knowledge Base
Wednesday 10, 2063

Seattle - Ever wanted to be a know-it-all? This week Global Technologies and Pacific Rim Communications Unlimited announced the beginnings of a project
code named "Mindlink" that, if successful, may change the way the world thinks.

In a press conference yesterday Global spokesperson Kendra Meyers gave a brief description of the project, a system that could change skillsofts forever. "At its most basic, the Mindlink project is designed to eliminate the need for outdated chipjacks and clumsy optical chips swapping by using state-of-the-art broadcast technology to dynamically update skillsoft data," says Meyers. "Rather than having to physically remove or insert optical chips into a chipjack or datajack, Mindlink users will be able to swap software in and out of headware by remote, eliminating the excess bulk of a traditional skillsoft library."

The Seattle-based company says that the collaboration is still in its infant stages, but with PRC's already existing infrastructure the companies are poised to begin technology development immediately. The leap into providing actual subscription-based services is still a long way off, says Meyers, but says that estimates have been made pointing to a release date for the new technology as early as 2065. In the beginning only relatively simple linguisofts and specialized knowsofts will be available for download, but as bandwith and technology becomes more available and widespread the company plans on expanding into full knowsofts and even activesofts.

[...]

CODE

Hm, could be an interesting exercise to spoof a download, swap it for a personafix BTL or something similar, and create your own brainpuppet zombie army. Of course you can basically do that now, but never by remote. Interesting indeed; I'll be looking further into this. Good find!
->Code Warrior

CODE

I can hack people's brains by remote now? Sweet drek, hurry it up you fraggin' corpers!
->Neal the Code Barbarian

CODE

Didn't you say you could already? What a rip-off.
->Skeptic

CODE

You know? You're not worth the effort, slitch.
->Neal the Code Barbarian

CODE

Heh, four megas and seven national governments agree, chummer
->Skeptic

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Jun 15 2005, 12:48 AM

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14:17:44 Saturday January 6, 2063

Shadowland Seattle -> Home Front -> Local Politics

CODE

Woah, hold up a sec...<digs thru news stories> found it! Came out yesterday.
-Hillbilly

Shiawase Enviotech Enters Bid for Tacoma Waste Disposal

NN-January 5, 2063

Shiawase Envirotech North America, a wholly owned subisidary of Shiawase Corporation, has announced that they have submitted a bid for the Tacoma Waste Management contract. Shiawase Envirotech Managing Director, Mamoru Shiawase, announced the bid during a shareholder meeting in Osaka, Japan. "...with this contract, Shiawase can help Tacoma much more than its current contractor, and provide a healthy boost to our bottom line." The current contractor, North American Waste Disposal, has not yet secured a future contract...

CODE

I cut out some of the stuff repeated in the KCTS article, but you get the picture. You guys and gals in Tacoma are going to have some business pretty soon, if not already.
-Hillbilly

CODE

Waste disposal is a big business, and a big cash cow for the Mob. Shiawase wants a piece of the pie now; announcing it at a shareholder meeting is as close to "we want it, and we're coming to get it" as you're going to get from a megacorp.
-The Chromed Accountant
"Its all about dollars and sense"

CODE

Da Boy's ain't going to let this happen.
-The Italian Stallion

CODE

Maybe, but its going to be a contest now. Even with some councilpeople in its pocket, the Mafia may be at a disadvantage now. Like CA said, announcing it at as much of a challenge as you're likely to get from a megacorp.
-Mouse

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Jun 19 2005, 10:34 AM

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08:43:07 Wednesday 10 January 2063

Shadowland Seattle -> CFS -> California Protectorate SIG

CODE

Hey all. I've been out of the Bay Area for awhile, and I've been really out of touch. Anyone have the last few weeks' of the Epitaph that they could post up here?
-> Bay Bomber

CODE

Ouch, looking to "catch up" by reading the Epitaph? You poor bastard; my condolences. Here's a copy of last week's back issues are kept up at the University host.
-> Blondie

[[ Attached -- 164 Mp ]]

CODE

Um, what?
->Neal the Code Barbarian

CODE

The "Cal Epitaph." It's basically a community-run obituary newsletter in the Berkeley/Oakland sprawl. See, there's basically no public services to speak of around there, so a few dedicated souls took up the slack. Right neighborly of them.
-> Blondie

CODE

'cept they're fragging ghouls. Who else would spend all their time around dead people?
-> Skeptic

CODE

Holy drek! When did they start including fragging *pictures*! Ugh, I did NOT need to see that during breakfast.
Oh, and the Black Brothers? They're mages, not ghouls. There's like a dozen of 'em I think, all into voodoo or some other magic drek. That's how they track down names and stuff: call up the dead and ask for name, rank, and SIN.
-> Bay Bomber

CODE

Some of 'em, yes. But there're also the city morticians and forensics people who quit when Saito told 'em to throw dead metahuman bodies in mass graves (read: dumpsters). One brought me back my poor Jenny; it's horrible what those evil thugs did to her, but at least she got a proper funeral, and her family could say goodbye. I've been helping all I can ever since.
The pictures, I remember asking about that myself. Seems some of the bodies lately they can't ID properly, so they put up a picture in hopes of getting a family member to come by and match the face with a name.
-> Freedom Fighter

CODE

Odd. Most of these have enough body for an open-casket funeral, at least judging by the face. Why can't they be IDed?
-> Blondie

CODE

Something's "wrong" with the bodies. At least, that's what I heard from one of the Brothers. Most of the ways they have of IDing these people for some reason just don't work in those cases, so all they can do is put up a picture.
-> Freedom Fighter

CODE

Weird. What would mess up a body so badly it can't be identified by fingerprints, dental records, etc, but still leave its *face* normal enough to be recognized?
-> Blondie

CODE

The SINless usually don't have dental records. For them we're usually down to fingerprints and DNA, usually.
-> Gullah Joe

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Jun 25 2005, 08:40 PM

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09:52:10 Wednesday 10 January 2063

Shadowland Oakland -> Home Front -> Cal Epitaph SIG

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Frag, I can't believe I'm sayin' this, but... I think I recognize one of the pictures. Page 10, the elf with the blond hair, thin face and high cheekbones. It looks like you guys found my sister. I was worried when I didn't hear from her for the last few weeks, but I didn't really think, I mean...
Um, so, right. What do I do to confirm she is who I say she is? Old pictures, hair for DNA analysis? I should be back in town soon; I can get whatever soon.
-> Bay Bomber

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Fragging dandelion-eater deserved what sh- << 17 Mp deleted by administrator >>

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Take it outside, cake-eater, or next time I take my hammer to more than your post.
-> Evans
"The ugliest building on campus, and Wurster is the box it came in."

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First off, my condolences. This is a job that should--must--be done, but that doesn't mean we have to like being the ones to do it.
Now to practical matters. As was mentioned elsewhere, pictures are what we need for ID on this one; DNA and fingerprints won't work; it's all too scrambled to work.
-> Gullah Joe

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Scrambled? What do you mean?
-> Bay Bomber

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I mean that it's all scrambled. Her fingerprints are all gnarled-looking; they'll never match up to anything she had before she died. We thought in the beginning it was some kind of 'ware, but when we took her DNA, no two fingerprints came out the same. Someone messed her up good, and there's a dozen more bodies here just like it.
-> Gullah Joe

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Yeesh. Okay, taking this to PMs now
-> Bay Bomber

The_Eyes

Jun 27 2005, 05:17 PM

Post #99

Moving Target

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08:47:03 Wednesday 10 January 2063

Shadowland Oakland -> Unexplainned Phenomena -> Berkeley

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So, any new sightings of the Berkeley Bat? And what *is* that drekking thing, anyway?
-> Freedom Fighter

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My cousin saw it flying over University Avenue two nights ago. Big black thing, he said, a guy with huge black wings growing out of its back and extending all the way down its legs. Me and him think it's a changeling, y'know, one of those comet mutants?
-> Kid Karnage

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Ha ha ha ha ha! Oh drek; first that cat woman porn star, and now Batman? Let me know when you guys see an anthropomorphic penguin walking around, all right?
-> Salvo

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I doubt it. It's too recent; the reports have been popping up in, what, the last two, three weeks? Maybe it's an escaped experiment or something.
-> Elder

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Well, whatever it is it might be holing up in Sather Tower. I haven't heard the carillon play in over a month. They say it's closed for repairs or something, but I don't see any crews around. Shame too; that carillon was wiz, even if the idea's like two hundred years old.
-> Kid Karnage

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It's definately an escaped experiment. Saito's been funding genetic experiments left and right, trying to find a "cure" for metahumanity. The doctors working on the project "volunteer" people off the street and screw with their genes, trying to turn them human. Most of the poor bastards die, but some end up like the Bat.
-> Bay Insider

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Oh come on. Saito's evil, but he's not stupid. Even he knows you can't "cure" metahumans; it's like "curing" a dog by turning it into a cat.
-> Salvo

WinterRat1

Jul 12 2005, 03:42 PM

Post #100

Dragon

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18:00:00 Saturday, 07 January 2063

Shadowland Seattle --> Classifieds

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I'm looking for an investigator or detective type to help me out on something. I'm willing to pay in straight nuyen or in quid pro quo. Skills in research, investigation, and tracking required. Good communication skills a plus. Decking or magical ability also highly desirable. Those with experience in detective work or similar fields/endeavors will receive particular consideration. Contact Zhuge Liang on Shadowland if you're interested.

->Zhuge Liang

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