tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52582700310599354032024-03-05T00:47:59.580-05:00The Wyrd Council FilesNews and information about Pat Flewwelling's science fiction thriller series HELIX.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-83658473789470281302015-04-15T16:16:00.000-04:002015-04-22T15:44:55.399-04:00ID submitted. The experiment has begun.<!DOCTYPE html>
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<p> The sign at the top of this page says "news and information about Pat Flewwelling's science fiction thriller series HELIX".</p> <p>I should have said "From the moment you clicked on any page in this blog, you became engaged in a literary experiment." </p>
<p> Behind this home page is a story. A free novella. The events therein occur slightly before, during, and after the events in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Helix-Blight-Exiles-Pat-Flewwelling/dp/1928025072/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1416501262&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Blight of Exiles</a></em>, (published 2014 by Tyche Books), and which lead up to the events in <em>Plague of Ghouls</em> (forthcoming 2016, Tyche) and in <em>Scourge of Bones</em> (tba). </p>
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<p> In the 30 episodes following here, you'll read what couldn't fit into those three novels. Backstory of fascinating characters who didn't make the cut into the final draft. Side story of <i>Blight</i> characters, which would have detracted from the flow of the narrative. And one incredible story of two unlikely troublemakers - a network administrator and an accountant - who will risk their lives to save the man who will bring about the downfall of Wyrd. </p>
<p>And because so many of the characters in HELIX are technically inclined, there are many references to digital networks, telecommunication systems, emails, chats, etc. What I wanted to do was unveil a story for the reader to piece together, as any HELIX character would. </p>
<p>That meant exploring different forms of digital communication, listening intently to the actual words people use in live conversation, copying their patterns of grammatical and spelling errors, mimicking the way we use different "handwriting" styles - fonts, colours, signatures, etc. - in our standard communications. And that means testing out this experimental, narrator-absent storytelling technique on you, kind reader.
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<p> Heh. Seems true to form that this blog is engaged in secret human experimentation.</p>
<p> These episodes were originally posted between November 2014 and March 2015. I never liked the format. Sure, I could throw in standardized rows of text, but whether it was an email or a voice transcript, it still looked like a blog post. In the spirit of my feral-geek HELIX characters, I wanted something that was perfectly suited to a virtual platform, and which could not be easily translated into standard book or novella formats. The problem was, I couldn't afford to hire someone to do a layout that would tell the story for me.</p> </div>
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<p>If you're new to the site, then welcome! (You poor, unsuspecting guinea pig, you.) If you're a return visitor, please pardon the reruns, but I think the visuals really do add a new dimension to the story.</p></div>
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Afrikaans, Portuguese, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Tamil, Bengali, Burmese,
Thai, Malagasy, Arabic, Mandarin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Varco Lake. Agent implicated in the firebombing of Wyrd-protected sanctuary
known as Wyndham Farms. Agent wanted in the murder of two human agents
(Pine and Sumac); wanted as person of interest in disappearance of Agent Larch.
Agent wanted as a person of interest in $2.5 million dollar embezzlement of
Wyrd funds. Wanted in connection with suspected lycanthropy-based snuff films
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mentioned several unaccountable trips with her senior field partner (Jay) to
Sudbury Ontario, where he would disappear for up to four days at a time,
leaving her in a hotel unsupervised and without orders. Larch also mentioned
his irrational and erratic behaviour, especially whenever returning to Sudbury
from his solo excursion. She had overheard several mentions of "Elmbury, Ontario" in his private phone calls, though it is unclear who he might have been talking
to, or why. There are several personnel reports and complaints expressing
Larch’s concern regarding Jay’s deteriorating mental state and increasingly bad
or dangerous judgement calls. These complaints were dismissed without investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Germany, Ireland, and Japan for holidays, with some rare excursions to
Bangladesh, United Arab Emirites and Madagascar. Historically, he has had
business holdings in UAE, Bangladesh, and Japan, though these have been liquidated
since his declared bankruptcy in 2009. Jay rarely drinks, but has been known to
experiment with some recreational drugs, especially amphetamines,
benzodiazepines, and psychoactive mushrooms. Very rarely frequents restaurants,
bars, sporting arenas, or other public venues. Prefers fish to beef.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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later Croatia, Kosovo, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Continued mixed martial arts training,
specifically Muay Thai and Silat. Expert in edged weapons, especially combat
knives. 75 years’ experience as a Wyrd field agent. Polyglot and polymath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: It’s touch and go.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Larch, myself, and now you. No one else.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: We just don’t know. She was half-drowned
in that culvert, and she’s missing most of her right thigh, half of the muscles in her left arm, and parts of her face are simply gone, including an eye. There
was massive internal damage as well. She’s covered in lacerations and bite
marks. He missed her arteries by a hair’s
breadth.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Did she say it was Jay?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: No, and I'm not convinced this was his doing. I’ve known Jay to be many things, but neither
cannibal nor ghoul.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: I’ve had my worries about him for years.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Worries and facts are two very different
things, my love.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Do you need me there?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: There’s not much more you can do to
help.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: And is she…human?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Not any more.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: So then she does have a chance.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: If she had been infected 3-4 months ago, I would say she'd have an excellent chance at survival. The question is, can she survive long enough for the infection to take hold? The answer is...maybe not. But we haven't given up hope.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: What about Larch?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: I’ve recommended she accept immediate promotion.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: With or without Wyrd approval?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919:<b> </b>Wyrd
be damned. If Ishmael be your son, so be these women my daughters.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: How poetical!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: My only regret is that only one of them
will come out looking like me.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: And the other one...? I'm not sure how Pine will feel if she comes out looking like Jay.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Time will tell, so long as Pine survives the next
few days. Twice, I’ve already had to resuscitate her.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: And here you are, chatting with me instead of
watching over her.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: She’s in good hands with Larch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: As for what she might become? Sumac says he heard a wolf howl in
the background when she called the second to last time.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: And with that much tumultuous human traffic so
nearby, no natural wolf would linger to howl. Fortunate for us, less so for Pine. So, if not Jay, perhaps a friend or another rogue lycanthrope.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: And yet she raves on and on about these
“bonewalkers”. I’ve asked Larch about them, and she says only that she saw
human cannibals running about in porcelain masks.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Then we can hope it was Jay. Odd though...cannibals? As far as I know, cannibalism isn't catching. But then again, I've been watching too many zombie movies to laugh off the idea entirely.</span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: And then there was Wyndham Farms. Maybe someone escaped during all the ruckus. </span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders:</span><span style="color: #e69138;"> But </span><span style="color: #e69138;">why porcelain? One would think carbon fibre a more practical material.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: All the more reason to keep this girl
alive as long as possible.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: And when she begins to metamorphose? She'll lose more than her identity.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: We need to resuscitate her enough prior to full onset of the infection, in order to get a clear understanding of what happened, before the infection steals her memories.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Assuming there hasn’t been any substantial brain
damage, of course.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Although, if she comes
through this as a lycanthrope, even without her memories she may yet point us
in the right direction. </span><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Like sire, like pup, as they say. </span><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">If she comes through as anything else...well then. We'll have a better idea of what these cannibals really are.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Yes…yes I can see how well that’s worked for both
Bridget and Ishmael. Letting them fully develop into their final cycles has
clearly pointed us in the direction of their own forebears. And so quickly!
Why, it’s only been thirty-five years, tracking down anyone who looks like
Ishmael.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: You’re such an optimist, my love. That’s
why we get along so long. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Indeed.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: And if not Jay, then who? Who is our culprit?
Someone stole two and a half million dollars from Wyrd, and it wasn’t me, it
wasn’t you, and it wasn’t Ishmael. If not Jay, then who?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Someone abducted a senior field agent and mauled her
in the middle of nowhere. Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Someone has murdered my boy Sumac. I want to know who, and I want to know why.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: And I want to know who’s next, so we can
get to them before "Someone" else does.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: One might assume Bridget is the next on Someone's list, especially after what she did at Wyndham Farms. And naturally, we
can rely on Someone including the two of us on his or her list.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: We can handle ourselves. I’m more
concerned about our curious human counterparts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Beloved…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Yes, my heart.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Whenever Pine comes around, she asks
about Sumac. Distress is adding an unnecessary strain as she struggles to fight
both injury and infection.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: I’m doing all I can with the resources I have.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Nothing at all?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: I have a medical examiner's report - with rather graphic pictures attached - a death certificate, an obituary, a closed coffin funeral, and a burial plot. Other than that, I have
nothing but conflicting reports.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Whether he’s dead or alive?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: No, <i>*</i>how* he died. Wyrd says he died of an infection (which may or may not be true, depending on the "infection" in question). Omnispectrus says he committed suicide the night
he was fired. We both say he was healthy, sane, and driven to find Pine, before he was rudely murdered in the middle of our conversation. The doctor says he was drugged, beaten, and bitten to death. All four stories are believable. All four stories might be wrong.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: So what do you think is the true story?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: That both our Agents of Chaos have had their wishes
fulfilled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Pine has been promoted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: And Sumac has died in the body he chose.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-70503787883006059192015-03-11T09:41:00.001-04:002015-03-11T09:41:29.288-04:00Silence Is... (Episode 28)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">From: Badr ibn-Abadi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sent: Monday, October 6<sup>th</sup>, 2014 @ 9:15 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To: Omnispectrus Auditing and Forensic Accounting Team,
Omnispectrus Small Business, Omnispectrus Personal and Private Business,
Omnispectrus Corporate Tax<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">CC: A. Burley, A. Haberman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Subject: Team Announcements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Good morning,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Please note the following team changes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This week, we bid a fond, temporary farewell to Chandra
Mufti, as she departs for the next six months on maternity leave. We hope that
you have a safe and easy delivery, and that Baby Mufti joins us here at
Omnispectrus as soon as she can count her toy blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We wish to extend congratulations to Sara Chu for her
promotion to Senior Small Business auditor! Sara has been with Omnispectrus for
over twelve years, having started as a personal assistant to George Landover,
and progressing through the company from the Personal Taxes Team all the way up
to Programs and Best Practices. Sara has been working hard these last few years
to complete her MBA, which she completed early in 2013. Congratulations, Sara!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We also wish to extend a congratulations to Paul Richtor for
his temporary reassignment to Senior Forensic auditor. Although Paul has been
in the Corporate Tax department for the last four years, he has shadowed very
closely with the forensics team. Having completed his degree in Criminology in
1998, he is delighted to at last be putting his education to use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Please also note that Paul will be assuming the full workload
of Sousa Sourenian, who has left Omnispectrus effective immediately to pursue other interests outside our organization. Please bear with Paul as he adapts to his new role. We
appreciate your flexibility under such sudden circumstances, Paul! Keep up the
good work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Feel free to reach out to Chandra, Sara, and Paul with your
congratulations and best wishes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Badr </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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From: Abram Haberman, Chair<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sent: Monday, October 6<sup>th</sup>, 2014 @ 9:23 a.m.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To: dl Wyrd Council Executive, dl Wyrd SitCon, dl Wyrd
FieldOps General, dl Wyrd Agents General<o:p></o:p></div>
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Subject: Field and Support Ops Announcement<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hello all;<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the death of
agents Pine and Sumac.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Field Ops Agent Pine has been a highly decorated field agent since
2000, when she was first inducted into our ranks. On that fateful day in March
of 2000, Agent Pine discovered that her college roommate was being attacked on
a campus park by a rogue lycanthrope. Without any regard for her personal
safety, Agent Pine quickly subdued the lycanthrope with baseball bat and Taser,
then managed to manacle the rogue to a staircase in a locked university
outbuilding to await authorities. Furthermore, realizing the danger of a
university-wide panic, Pine hacked campus police security videos and replaced
all surveillance evidence with pre-recorded security footage. She was unable to
save the life of her roommate, but by her efforts, unskilled as she was, she
was able to subdue a rogue lycanthrope and save the lives of countless others
in her community. Her death was faked that same month, and her new
identity was created after Wyrd field training, under the tutelage of Owen
Ishmael Chase. Her fourteen year career has been highly commendable, and she
had been on track for promotion in February of next year. Out of respect for
her family, we are withholding her civilian name and the cause of death.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Field Support Agent Sumac has been very much an unsung hero among agents,
and likely unknown to most of you. In late 2007, Agent Sumac had been living a
much different life abroad under extremely harsh circumstances. Due to reasons
we hold confidential, Agent Sumac was brutally assaulted by members of his
community and left to die in a fire in the middle of the village square. A Wyrd
agent, who had been passing through at the time, rescued Sumac from the fire
and nursed him more or less back to health. Using a Wyrd-policy loophole, the
Wyrd agent in question offered to promote Sumac, in order to give him the
greatest chance of survival and recovery; however, Agent Sumac declined. A
second offer was made: to start a new life abroad (here in Canada) under an
assumed identity and to work for Wyrd. Sumac heartily accepted, emigrated to
Canada, and was soon employed as a forensic accountant. Since then, he has been
invaluable in the hunt for rogue lycanthropes, tracking their movements through
digitally-processed financial records. Sadly, Sumac was found at home by a
concerned Wyrd agent, dead apparently of a chronic and untreated infection, the
result of complications from his injuries sustained in 2007. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As always, donations will be accepted for a memorial for
these two agents, but we request that you treat this communication as
restricted information.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On behalf of all lycanthropes, we humbly applaud all human
agents who have time and again demonstrated phenomenal courage in the pursuit
of peace and safety of all, worldwide. <o:p></o:p></div>
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With my sincerest condolences,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Abram Haberman, Chair, on behalf the Wyrd Council<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-16637681506791902152015-03-09T10:40:00.000-04:002015-03-09T10:40:02.584-04:00No Longer In Service (Episode 27)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: But I don’t know where else to look!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Have you any access to the list of field operation
missions? Can you find out if she was assigned to a recent k/c/q?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: No, I don’t have access to that!!! And I’m
not going to walk over to Burley’s desk and demand it either.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: You seem to have made a good connection with her
already.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: The boy is right. We can’t exclude the
possibility that it was Burley herself who issued a k/c/q to capture Pine. Who
else would know where to find Pine?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: This is all my fault.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Or more precisely, what’s to say she’s
not in league with the embezzlers and literally sent the girl to her doom?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: My darling heart, I love you when you’re brilliant,
but I hate you when you’re right.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: None of this would have ever happened if I
hadn’t told her to check the archives.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Nonsense, boy. None of this would have happened if
someone hadn’t tried to bring down Ishmael in the first place. If they hadn’t
been so bloody reticent about the entire quarantine affair, none of this would
have happened.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: If we’re laying blame, perhaps we should
include that fellow Dr. Grey, to whom we owe this horrible mutation of
lycanthropy.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Or Wyrd itself. After all, it was the Moldova
Incident which has split this organization in twain.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Never mind all this. We could blame
everyone and everything – we could blame the moon for all that’s happened to us
– but none of that will help us locate Pine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Sumac, do you have access to all Wyrd
financial accounts now?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I guess…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Including those of Pine?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I…might?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Do you know her Wyrd ID?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: No, you’ll have to be clever. Do you
remember her legal name?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Penny Stalkingbird?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Walkingbird.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Let me see what I can find.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: With luck, you should be able to find
also a credit card number. Once you have it, I should be able to trace all
recent transactions. Any kind of account number should allow me to crack into
her financial records.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Ishmael isn’t the only hacker in Wyrd,
after all.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: My beloved has been skilled in the art of cheque and
credit card fraud since…well, since the invention of cheques and credit cards,
I suppose.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Credit cards only, my love. Cheque fraud
was a later addition.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: In the meantime, what do we know? Have we heard back
from the company that has promised to perform aerial photography for you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: That area you mentioned before, not far off the
Transcanadian Highway. Was she very far from the quarantine site?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: To be honest, I’m not very sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: The Wyndham quarantine is considerably
further south-west than the position Sumac has speculated.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Our friend Sumac may also be incorrect. The
Transcanadian Highway is an exceptionally long roadway, even within a single
province. All we know is that she could be in a culvert under the road, and
that <i>she</i> thinks it was the
Transcanadian highway.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: You’re not being particularly helpful,
dear, nor encouraging.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Have we been able to trace the last known location
of the cell phone Pine was using?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: I’ve had someone look into it for me,
but they haven’t gotten back to me yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Sumac, dear, have you had any luck yet?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Sumac shows as “away”…He never has been that skilled
at multi-tasking.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: I’ll give him five minutes, and then I’m
calling him.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: “Him” who, dear? Your contact at the cell phone
company, or Sumac.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Well, both, I suppose. I don’t see why I
can’t carry one two or three conversations simultaneously. Not very much
different from my days with the WRNS, now is it?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Ah, to see you in the old grey wool again. Brings
back fond memories. My darling Jennie Wren. I wouldn’t wait so long to call the
cell phone fellow.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Right you are. I’m already dialing.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Sumac, we need you, my boy. Be quick about your
business, please.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Getting through to my contact.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: I have my map open. In the meantime, be a dear and
find out if her cell phone is “still on the move”. We’ll need to know
specifically where the phone was at the time of those two calls, as well as
where the cell phone is now, if it has since moved on.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: As I recall, Sumac said that it sounded
like the cell phone was crushed at the end of that last message.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Very true. It may no longer be broadcasting. Just
the same…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: There, we have it. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: And the result is?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Cross-referencing against the map…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Cross-referencing against satellite
imagery…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Rather surprising. She’s not at all on
the Transcanada Highway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: She’s on the highway between Timmins and
Sudbury.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: I see a series of small towns along that highway between Timmins and Sudbury. Perhaps she’s not far
from civilization after all.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Yes, it appears she was running of a
cell tower very near to this town of Elmbury. There are plenty of roadworks in
that area as well, and I have an idea or two of which might have the highest
commercial traffic.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: How quickly can you get to an airport? I’ll make
sure to have a rental car waiting for you at the airport.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: There’s an airport at Sudbury. I should
be able to fly in fairly quickly, weather dependent. But first we need to
confirm with Sumac that this was her cell phone that she called from.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Whose phone would she be using, if not her own?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Standard procedure for a field
operation. If you are required to take down a target, one of your first tasks,
aside from completing a capture, is to strip the target of all means of
communication with the outside world. They would have removed her cellphone as
quickly as possible.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: True enough, but we haven’t even proven that she was
captured on a k/c/q order in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: For all we know, she was on a standard operation
under someone else’s field command.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Beloved, can we trust any other volunteers to adopt as Agents of Chaos?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: If you had asked me a month ago,
darling, you know I would have said yes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: But for the sake of curiosity, whom were
you suggesting?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Agent Larch. She is very good friends with Agent
Pine, and no good friend of Jay.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: A difficult call. A battered wife might
be disinclined to file a police report against her own husband. In fact, she
might even warn him of impending trouble.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Beloved, I hate you again.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Yes dear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Sumac, are you there? </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Call him.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Dialing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: Anders, there’s no answer.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Anders: Are you calling his cell phone or his home phone?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TheBetterHalf_1919: His cell phone. It rings four times and
goes to voice mail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Anders: And his home phone number?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">TheBetterHalf_1919: I’m getting in the car.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Anders: Why?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">TheBetterHalf_1919: There is an automated message advising me
that this number is no longer in service.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-67354761677360710442015-03-06T10:32:00.000-05:002015-03-06T12:38:27.874-05:00Bonewalkers (Episode 26)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #cccccc;">From: Sumac’s Other Email Addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Sent: Sunday, October 5, 2014 5:58 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">To: Anders, Chloe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Subject: We need you stat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Pine called me. She’s being attacked right now. Phone is
damaged. Last known location, Ontario, probably on the T-Can. Cross-referencing
against MTO database for accidents. There were at least three accidents that I
overheard on the phone. Police responded while I was on the call. Trying to get info on OPP calls to multiple car accident, no luck. Need help
urgently. Need a live body to get her out of trouble.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">SousaPhony: Anything yet?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">PieterPyper: At what time you said?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">SousaPhony: about 4:38 a.m.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">PieterPyper: What time zone?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">SousaPhony: I’d have to know where she is, damn it!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">PieterPyper: Got a single vehicle accident east of Thunder
Bay at 5:00 a.m., multiple vehicle accident at Wawa at 4:38, multiple vehicle
accident at Ignace at 3:00 a.m.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">SousaPhony: Cross-reference with police reports.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">PieterPyper: All of them have police reports.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">SousaPhony: Cross-reference with the report of a police no
response.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">PieterPyper: What do you mean?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">SousaPhony: I mean I think police went to the accident site
and never reported in afterward. Like they went there and then disappeared off
the face of the earth.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">PieterPyper: What the hell, man?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">PieterPyper: What’s this about?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">SousaPhony: Just trust me.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">PieterPyper: Okay, I’m not seeing anything like that yet.
Give me twenty minutes. I’ll get right back to you. But on one condition.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">SousaPhony: What?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">PieterPyper: You tell me what this is about. Are you going
all alien-conspiracy theory on me now?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">SousaPhony: We’ll talk. I swear. Even if it means recruiting
you myself.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Transcribed call from
Sumac’s private prepaid cell phone</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: Janet Allen speaking, how can I help you?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Hey, Sousa Sourianian here. You remember me at all?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: Uh…Oh! From Omnispectrus? Yeah, you came and reworked
our payroll. Sure, I remember you. We still owe you a bottle of Lagavulin for finding
that “phantom” employee, who’s been pulling down a $75,000 / year salary
without actually existing.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Hey, I’m here to help. But listen, I have a favour to
ask.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: Okay.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Fairly urgent, too.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<call waiting indication><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Uh…sorry. <quietly> Shit.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: What kind of favour?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Is there any way I uh…Shit. Could I rent a
plane from you guys?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: Well…that’s…not something we do usually.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: I need some aerial photographs of an area somewhere
between Cochrane and Timmins Ontario.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: Well, we typically operate around the Thunder Bay
area only…How soon do you need it?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: ASAP. See…my boss was taking a flight from Winnipeg
to Toronto, and we lost contact with his plane.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: Oh my God!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: I know. We’re all freaking out right now.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<call waiting indication><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: And you think his plane went down?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Yeah, sometime around 4:30, 5:00 this morning. Listen - </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: Oh my God! I hope everyone’s okay! </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: That’s what we need a plane to confirm. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: Okay. Okay. Um…There’s a prospecting company we work
with in Timmins. Let me give them a call and get right back to you. Are you
looking to go with them?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Preferably.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: I’ll see what I can do. Can you get to Timmins in a
hurry, if it’s a yes?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: I’ll find a way.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: Okay, they don’t open until about 10:00. I’ll keep
trying until I get through to them. If that doesn’t work, I’ll see if we can
get in touch with any S&R planes that might already be deployed.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<call waiting indication><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Sounds like a plan. Listen, do you have my number?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: On call display right now. I’m writing it down. God,
I hope your boss is okay.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Yeah, we’re all pretty frantic right now. Thanks
Janet.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: Um – wait…uh…I hate to bring this up, especially at a
time like this, but...a charter might cost a little…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Don’t care. We’ll expense it. I don’t care how much
it costs. I need to find – Anyhow, whatever the cost. We’ll cover it.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Woman: Fair enough. I’ll give you a call back as soon as
possible. If you don’t hear back from me in three hours, call me directly.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Thanks Janet.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
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<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
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<i>Voicemail on Sumac's private prepaid cellphone</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Pine: Su…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<wind blowing><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Pine: <whimpering></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<car passing><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Pine: <unintelligible> God…I
can’t…<unintelligible></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<car passing><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Pine: He…put me…unner…uh…in-sigh…cull…cull…unner the…row…road.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<water trickling><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Pine: Took…my…face…broke teeth…<sobbing> Thinks…I’m
dead…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<car passing><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Pine: I saw them, Su…<sobbing> I saw so…muh…many…Ow!
Ow…ow…ow…<sobbing> I’m sorry, Su. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry I brought you
into this…I’m sorry for everyth…<whimpering> I
just…<unintelligible></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<car passing, wind blowing, water trickling><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Pine: <unintelligible></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<truck reefer noise><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Pine: The…bonewalkers…he called them…bone…walk</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<end of message><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-13017922024666087942015-03-04T09:37:00.001-05:002015-03-04T12:00:57.409-05:00Call Lost (Episode 25)<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Transcribed phone call
to Sumac’s privately-owned prepaid phone</i></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
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<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Hello?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<dead air><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Pine? You there?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<brushing noise, static><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Pine, tell me you haven’t butt-dialed again. Damn it,
you’re eating up my minutes.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: <panting> Oh god oh god – </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<repeated brushing noise, as if someone is running><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: <panting> shit – </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Pine, are you okay? Where are you?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: <distant> You there?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Pine, where the hell are you?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: No – hang on a second…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<wind blowing across mouthpiece, a car drives by in the
background><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Are you near a highway?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: <breathless> Yes.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Do you need someone to find you?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: <very close, unintelligible></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<brushing noise, as if someone is putting phone in
pocket.><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<silence, static><o:p></o:p></div>
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<blaring car horn, squealing tires><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: Shit!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<brushing noise, as if someone is running><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: oof – </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<breaking of wood><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: Damn it, damn it, oh God – </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<footsteps running away over branches or over frosty
grass><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<wind><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<slow, quiet footsteps><o:p></o:p></div>
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<sniffing sound, as of a large dog><o:p></o:p></div>
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<Sumac breathing><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Male Voice 1: North. Probably toward that gas station.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Male Voice 2: <unintelligible></span><span style="color: #93c47d;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Male Voice 1: Wait. He’s pointing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Male Voice 2: <unintelligible> for Jay to catch up and
<unintelligible></span><span style="color: #93c47d;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Male Voice 1: Exactly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Male Voice 2: <unintelligible> smelling?</span><span style="color: #93c47d;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Male Voice 1: I don’t know. Wait – shit, he’s off – go after
him, I’ll catch up.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<sound of several people running away from cell phone><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Oh my God…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<car passing><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Oh Pine…Come back…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<Logging truck horn blaring as it passes><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Pine, for God’s sake, tell me you’re okay!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<wind><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<male and female voices><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Pine, give me a sign or something.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<skidding tires, automobile collision, shattering
glass><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: …Oh my God…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<child crying in distance><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<Sumac breathing><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<second collision><o:p></o:p></div>
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<sound of typing><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Please God, Anders, be on line…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<man and woman screaming><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<sound of screaming / nails on blackboard><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Chloe, come on, come on…! Don’t make me go to Angie
for this one…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<footsteps, woman breathing rapidly, shuffling and
rustling noises><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: Oh my God.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Pine!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: Omigod omigod – Sumac, are you there?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Pine, I’m here! Tell me where you are.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: Ontario. Side of a highway.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Which highway?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: Transcanadian, I think.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: I’ve got the map. Talk to me.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: <out of breath> I have to keep moving.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Tell me where you are. I’ll get someone to pull you
out.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: Oh my God - <sobbing> Oh my God, Sumac, they’re <i>killing</i> those people!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Focus, Pine. You can’t do anything for them. Stay
with me. Give me a landmark. A town, a sign, anything.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: Uh…oh god…Uh…I don’t know, but they said something
about…about a…a factory. Foundry. Whatever. Oh God!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Keep your voice down, or they’ll hear you.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: They’re eating those people, Sumac! <sobbing> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Focus on me, Pine.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: <whispering> They’re not even dead yet!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: What was the last road sign you saw?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Pine: Uh…I don’t know…they…the windows were blacked out…I…I
gotta keep moving!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sumac: Walk and talk.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-20513027355114235462015-03-02T12:16:00.001-05:002015-03-02T12:16:16.075-05:00Follow the Money...Down the Barrel of a Gun (Episode 24)<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Saturday, October 5, 2014 7:58 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To: Pine’s backup addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: I have officially peed my pants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just got back from Varco Lake, and let me tell you, I have never been so damned glad to have a basement apartment with two escape routes and no windows. It's taken all my will not to hide under my bed, sucking my thumb.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know how you do field work, I swear I don't.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyhow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I went up to VL, that place was like a ghost town. There were no weirdos following me around. I could hear a few people milling about, but they were scarce and hard to find. It's like there was a gas leak, and the only four people who didn't know about it were Gil, Angie Burley, Haberman and me.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you're right, Burton is really getting sick fast. I mean, you saw him, and he could barely breathe, let alone get out of bed when you were there. I saw him twice when I was there. The first time, he barely had any energy to give a damn about what I was saying, like a couple of million dollars was nothing. The second time, well, he gave a damn all right, but he didn't even have the strength to hold up his gun.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like she did with you, Angie spotted me coming in, assigned me a room and a pager number, told me not to leave the Big House, and if there was any trouble, I was to call her.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weird, too. I mean, I had no intention of leaving the Big House because, well, Do Not Promote list and all that. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But then she went on to say that she didn't want anyone out on the estate because they had some new lycanthropes under observation because they were sick. Did she say that to you, too? I mean, first thing I thought of was "Great, so the quarantine didn't work after all?" And then I thought, "Wait...did they cut the budget for quarantine because they knew they'd be bringing them here, to Varco Lake?" Anyhow, I didn't say anything about quarantine to Burley at all. Strictly numbers, strictly the embezzlement case. And, just as it happened with you, she listened to everything I had to say, and then she took me over to Haberman's office.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">And you're right. I did get the impression that Haberman is desperate to prove Ishmael's innocence. I showed him everything I had, proving that Ishmael had been using funds to support the Moldovans. I even managed to track down a few companies I think he's set up for them over there, complete with investor's statements and tax numbers and everything.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To my surprise, he actually didn't seem to give a damn about the Moldovans. He didn't care if they lived or died, or if they succeeded in business or didn't.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I told him about the transferred payments and the embezzlement, and I showed him how it couldn't have been Ishmael doing those transfers. I was able to get a branch location for every deposit, and for every deposit time and place I cross-referenced against Ishmael's plane tickets and travel expenses. P</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ractically every time someone was making a deposit in Canada, Ishmael was in a meeting in Japan, or in South Korea, or India, wherever. He just wasn't on home soil whenever a deposit was made.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I came right out and asked for permissions to view the personnel records, see if I can tie back a Wyrd ID to a Wyrd bank account.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said he didn't know who to contact to get those permissions for me, but he got on the phone right away and called my boss's boss, who told him to call another guy, who told him to call Ishmael - at which point everyone started laughing - and then finally we got a name.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And as all that was going on, I thought...well wait a sec. The original $250,000 funds were approved in the Wyrd budget, which was approved by the Wyrd Council. Even Chloe says she remembers approving those purchases.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So wouldn't Haberman already know who the funds were requested by, and who for?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haberman hung up the phone, and that's when I asked him point-blank: did he know who the funds were approved for?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What you said about his poker face?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Holy CRAP were you right. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I, too, tinkled in my tighty-whiteys.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, I tinkled twice. Once because of Haberman's poker face. The second time, because of what happens when Haberman gets mad. More on that in a second.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Anyhow, Haberman said, "They were approved for Jay. But he may not have been the only person to put through those cash deposits." After all, you don't need an account at all to make deposits. You just can't withdraw or transfers funds unless you're the account holder.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Haberman told me to take an office near Angie's and do the same thing for Jay what I did for Ishmael: try to match up Jay's travel itineraries against the deposits made into that account.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turns out he was onto something. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jay was in the country for only about half of those deposits. For half of *</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">those*</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, he was in the wrong province. Deposits made in Ontario while he was in B.C. or whatever.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So in some ways, we're back to square one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Around ten at night, I was bored out of my mind, so I went to see if there was a library or a gym or something, since there's no TV, and since I wasn't allowed to leave until daylight. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">As I was heading down the dorm corridor, I heard an argument. So, stupid me, I decided to find out where the argument was happening. I mean, if there was barking and growling, I'd stay away, but this sounded pretty human to me. So as I'm walking toward Haberman's office - it's Haberman, Burley, and some other guy, arguing - someone opens a door and calls me by name. I turn around, and there's Dr. Gil Burton.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I have to ignore the argument, which is killing me because now I'm hearing numbers like "a quarter million" and "six times on one account alone". Dr. Burton is like, "come on, come on - " and as soon as I'm in his dorm/apartment/thing, he closes the door and tells me to sit down. Without saying another word, he goes to his filing cabinet and pulls out a thick manilla envelope and drops it on the table in front of me. It has an address for Nova Scotia on it. Without saying a word, he writes me a cheque for $50, with "Postage" written in the comment field. He looks at me like he's asking if I get the joke, and I nod, and he nods back, and I'm like, "Is your room bugged or something? Can we not at least say hello?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He gets up again to open the door, and then he stops, and he finally says something. "If you ever get to see Foster, tell her I'm sorry. Tell her I did what I had to do, but it was never, ever supposed to go this way."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then he opens the door and lets me out.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For two seconds, I thought, "Holy crap, Gil's the one who's been pilfering money." Then I realized that's stupid, because Gil never leaves Varco Lake. I can see him transferring money electronically, but not making cash deposits.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I leave Gil Burton's room, I head down the corridor toward the argument to see what's new. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then the shit hit the fan.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BANG! door flies open. BANG! dude comes flying out of there like he's been thrown and he smashes against a wall. BANG! Angie comes out with a flying atomic punch to his face and the wall breaks. BOOM! Dude kicks Angie off him, and she goes sailing back into Haberman's office. Haberman comes out with one of his Japanese swords, SCREAMING, and Dude is like, "Naw, I'm out, man" - he jumps up, leaps over the stairs to the foyer floor, security's all over him. And Haberman?! Old fart with SWORD leaps over the railing and goes after him. SMASH - escaping dude gets tackled to the floor. BOOM! Dude sends somebody else flying. Haberman SLICES one of his own security guys across the spine as if he means to cut through him to get to the Dude. Another security guy comes in and catches Dude in a full Nelson. Dude does this weird MMA move, bends down, grabs the guy behind one leg, stands straight up, guy loses his balance and his grip, Dude slams him neck first into the marble floor. BAM. Guy's dead. Haberman screams again and comes in with one big slice - BAM, big chunk of dude's arm is GONE. Stabs him - dude jumps just clear. Stabs him again - dude dodges and tries an elbow to Haberman's head. Haberman rolls under him with some MMA moves of his own, Dude rolls right over Haberman's shoulders, Haberman turns his sword point backward and SMASH - stabs backward and blindly just as Dude is about to leap on Haberman's shoulders. I'm looking, but I can't believe what I'm seeing. Dude's got a sword sticking out his back, and he's still FIGHTING.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then out of nowhere, somebody grabs me by the arm and pulls me into a room, throws me to the floor, locks me in with Gil Burton. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All I hear and feel after that are sound effects. Feet running up toward us. Walls cracking. People pushing and shoving and body parts breaking. The Big House is rocking.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gil takes me by the collar and tugs me toward his little office area. He opens up a desk drawer and takes out a freaking DART GUN, and I'm like, WTF? This guy can break my neck by picking me up by my belt and dropping me, and you want me to shoot him with a dart gun? And what does he take for himself but a freaking DESERT EAGLE. I'm like, "Dude, you fire one shot in your condition, and you'll blow yourself out that window." So we trade weapons, and I'm still like "Dude just got impaled on a Japanese sword, and you think a BULLET'S gonna stop him, let alone a dart?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And all of a sudden, it just goes quiet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like, "as a tomb" quiet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It feels like an hour goes by before I hear anything else. I hear guns in the distance, like rifles or cannons or whatever.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another hour goes by, and Gil's starting to drop off to sleep with his dart gun in his hand!!! And I'm like, "Whatever you've got in there, I don't need you accidentally shooting me in the ass!!!", so I try to take the dart gun from him - and in one split second, I got to see a Bad-Ass You-Know-What field agent in Gil Burton's eyes, and I have to talk him down before he shoots me on purpose.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eventually, Angie comes to claim me, tells me to keep the gun, sends me back to my own room and locks me in. She doesn't let me out again until almost noon today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyhow, thought I should let you know that you're not the only one to walk into the lion's den and walk out again in one piece.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now if you'll excuse me, I think I *will* go hide under my bed and suck on my thumb.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-73017233414967005052015-02-27T10:02:00.000-05:002015-02-27T10:02:06.186-05:00The truth disguised as a lie (Episode 23)<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: its a good hting ur still alive cuz now I can KILLLLLLLLL YOOOOOOOOOOU!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Aw, I missed you too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Anders is PISSSSSSSSSSED at u adn so am i</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Look, I've said I'm sorry.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: wht teh blue hlel where u THINKIGN?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I havn't breathed since u left htat msg.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I know! I'm sorry! Flat tire on the road into Winnipeg after leaving Varco Lake.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: And if you want to talk about a woman panicking at the side of the road because of a flat tire? Me. All me. I thought someone shot my tire out to stop me, and my number was up. Turns out it was a regular old roofing nail, and I was so relieved I fell down and cried on the side of the road.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: What teh <i>hell</i> were you thinkign, goign up to VL like htat?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I'll tell you what I was thinking.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Gil Burton called up me the second I landed in Edmonton and I'd left the airport. He said you were right about Wyrd scrapping the budget for quarantine, and he was worried sick that something was about to happen to Ishmael if we didn't do something to pull him out of there ASAP.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Actually, he told me he was more worried about that Dr. Eva Foster woman - the researcher that the Padre scratched and cross-infected? He says that she was working on research extremely valuable to Wyrd and that she was on the verge of a massive breakthrough, and he wanted to get <i>her</i> out.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: He figured if he could find a reason to send a search and rescue party to get Ishmael out, maybe they could grab Dr. Foster at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: That still doesn't explain why you WENT TO VARCO LAKE!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Are you done?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Good. Hear me out.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: You said you saw Dr. Burton once.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Yeah, so what?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: His MS is so bad these days that he can't get out of Varco Lake. He doesn't have the luxury of going down to the local variety store to buy a new prepaid phone. Everything he does online, he has to do through the monitored Wyrd servers. He took a big enough risk calling <i>my</i> phone to ask me to come up there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Yes, but everybody who wants Ishmeal dead is at Varco Lake! And everyone who wants Ihsmael dead wants his ALLIES dead, too! And there all concentrated in 1 big clump at Varco Lake! Where they can walk around in fur and fangs like ALL THE TIME.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Dumbass!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I haven't slept since Friday! Damn it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Dude, it's not that bad, all right?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I'm touched that you were worried, but damn it, I've been a field ops agent for fourteen and a half years. I wouldn't last that long - and still human - if I didn't know how to handle myself.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: You could have at least called from there to tell me you were still in one piece.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: No reception for that carrier up there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: It's literally the dead centre of the country, horizontally and vertically. There are practically no cell towers up there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Trust me, if I could have called you, I would have.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: If I trusted the Wyrd landline, I would have called you. If I could trust the Wyrd servers, I would have Skyped you or messaged you or something! Anything.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Never mind. Do you want to hear my news or not?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: What I want is to throttle you. What I need is news.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Then I'll give you what you need.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Then do it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I never got to talk to Gil Burton.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I talked to Angie Burley instead.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: WTF!!!!!!1!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: There were like three other guys following me around, just watching me and getting closer and closer all the time, like they meant to grab me or something. So Angie runs downstairs and says "There you are! You're late. Come into my office."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I go up to her office and I'm like...shit...what do I say? I suck at making things up on the spot. I should be better at this.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: So I tell her that I had a call from someone asking me to come to Varco Lake and investigate a problem with the Wyrd Intranet. She asks me what. So I pull the biggest, scariest lie straight out of my ass and say "Someone has hacked the archives."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: WTF!!!!!!1!!!! Again!!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Dude, seriously, chill. If you're popping a vein now, you're going to burst an aorta by the time I get to the end of my story.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: God! Damn! It!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: So I tell her, "I think someone hacked the archives a couple of weeks ago and made a copy onto a private drive."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Nnnnrrrrgh!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: And then she says, "Whoa...you know about that?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: So now I'm <i>stuck</i> and I have to keep making shit up as I go along. I keep it general, like, "Yeah, I think there was a whole block of information about this safe house or quarantine or something, total copy and paste onto a private drive...?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I have no fingernails left. I'm about to start chewing fingerbones. Why are you still ALIVE...?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Just wait, it gets better.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: So then I tell her I think it's connected to Ishmael's capture and termination. And her face just goes totally slack. "You think Ishmael's been set up?" I tell her I think so. I tell her that the video was leaked to a couple of Wyrd agents - I had to say I got it from Larch, but she'll forgive me later. If not, she'll kill me, and I'd rather her do it, than Jay.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Anyhow, I tell her I couldn't resist taking a good look at the video, and I told her about the flaw I want to look at.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Which you haven't even explained to me yet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Shadows on a couch. I need someone to analyze the lighting to prove what I'm looking at, but I think that's where we can start.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Anyhow, I tell her what I know. She brings up the video and asks me to show her. She asks me if I told anyone else. I said I was going to bring it up to Gil Burton, because everyone knows he's good friends with Ishmael, since they were roommates in college and everything, and that I was going to go and talk to him next. She said it was a good idea, but that I should have trusted her enough to go to her first.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: And then - you'll never guess what happens next.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: No, I probably won't!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: She took me over to Abram Haberman's office.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: There goes the aorta.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: She tells him everything.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: That man has the scariest damned poker face in the WORLD, dude. I may have left a little pee in his office.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: He picks up the phone. He calls <i>Harvey</i>. The guy who found the video in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Write this date down.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: August 8th, 2008. 08/08/08. Easy date to remember.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Why is this date important?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: That's the first time the username 1_L0NE_Srvr appeared in that porno chat room. And that's when Wyrd first started wondering about Ishmael's ethics.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: That's the date the first video was posted?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: No, that happened on September 4th, 2009.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: About three months after the first quarter million dollars was transferred from the Wyrd account to the account in San Jose.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Right. The video was pulled down shortly after that. But then another one went up about six months later, and both Haberman and Burley saw that one. Cruddy camera, lousy lighting, fuzzy picture, the whole nine yards. It wasn't enough to convince them that it was real, so they didn't charge Ishmael with anything.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Any others?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Six videos total.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: And 6 quarter million dollar transfers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I don't see a coincidence, do you?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Did you tell them about the transfers?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: No. I was already neck-deep, and until I was safe in Winnipeg, I still thought it might be a trap. So I kept you out of it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Thank God, and thank you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: So after Haberman calls Harvey, he asks me what I need to look into these videos further. I tell him the name of the software, and I ask him if we know anyone who can use it. So he picks up the phone and makes some more calls, all overseas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: But not to San Jose.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Not that I could tell. At one point he was speaking in Japanese. Seriously, dude. Old bald-headed, white-bread, suit-jackets-over-turtlenecks, Vote-Conservative-Or-GTFO Captain Fricking Ahab, shooting the shit in flawless Japanese. Certainly explains his collection of katana at the back of his office.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: That is some scary stuff right there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I mean, suit jackets over turtlenecks?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Then he told me he'd get back to me as soon as he could. Told me to stay at Varco Lake overnight - Angie put me up in a room and gave me a beeper in case anyone tried to break in and do whatever.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Uh...okay, wow...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I know, right?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: So I get to Winnipeg and I call in like I said I would. And Haberman's got TWO NAMES for me already. Told me to get in touch with them pronto and start working with them by teleconference.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Dude...he <i>wants</i> us to prove Ishmael is innocent.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I know, right? I'm speechless too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: That's not it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Does he want us to prove Ishmael is innocent?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Or confirm Ishmael's guilt, by proving the authenticity of the evidence?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: At this point, honestly? I don't care what his motives are.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Because I know what I see on this video, and I know I can prove Ishmael innocent.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: There's another way we can test his loyalty to Ishmael.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I think it's my turn to talk to the old captain.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-16249886728441270982015-02-25T12:02:00.000-05:002015-02-25T12:02:59.270-05:00Two Missed Calls (Episode 22)<i><span style="color: #999999;">Transcribed voice mail on Sumac's private, prepaid cell phone. Sunday, September 21, 3:45 p.m. MST.</span></i><br />
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Hey. Sorry I didn't get online like I thought I would yesterday. Hell of a week, and I just couldn't trust the WiFi at the hotel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">First time in years I've been in South Korea. God, I miss a good Kimchi. Nothing detoxes your system quite like fermented cabbage soup.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Anyhow, I just got back, and I took your advice while I was away. I haven't looked once at the video since I left for the airport four days ago. In fact, I left it on a thumb drive hidden in a waterproof bag in my toilet tank, deleted it from my home computer, and left my home computer in the wall safe in my apartment. Unfortunately, that didn't stop me from dreaming about that stupid video all night, every night. Did you know you can zoom-in, in your dreams?</span><br />
<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So anyways, when I got back home, the first thing I did was load up the video and take another look.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And dude, I swear to you, I think I've got it. All that unconscious zooming in and out did the trick.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I think I've finally found the problem I was staring at for.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It was on the couch, right under the</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sorry! Sorry. Sorry. I have no idea where that last message cut off some I'm gonna say this really fast. The important thing to know is this: I'm on my way up to Varco Lake right now.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In order for me to prove what I'm looking at, I'm gonna need heavy duty processing software and an expert who knows how to use it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have a hypothesis, and now I need a hardcore nerd to prove or disprove it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Problem is, to get that kind of equipment and personnel, I'm going to have to ask for some budget, and I'm going to have to do it above board. That means going back to the same Wyrd Council that threw Ishmael's ass into quarantine. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So that's why I'm going to start with talking to Dr. Burton. If Anders trusts him, I'll trust him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And that means they're going to wonder how in the hell I got my hands on this video, and why I've been digging into its authenticity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hope you have news about those accounts. Send me a message, if you can.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And wish me luck. If you don't hear from me by Tuesday morning, assume the worst.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I feel like I'm walking right into the lion's</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-56498130049248078552015-02-23T12:33:00.000-05:002015-02-23T12:33:31.524-05:00The game is afoot (Episode 21)<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Why are you still up?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Why, what time is it?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Holy crap. I've got a flight in four hours. Well...looks like I'll be sleeping on the plane again. Ugh.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Why are you still up?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Still trying to get information on the account in Seattle. I'm hitting walls. And I'm even ripping out the stops on this one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Any luck finding out which Wyrd account was accepting those funds?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: No. Chloe can't find anything either.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: We were hoping you could help us.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Give me everything you can find. Maybe I can dig up something in the archives.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: You want to find a password protected file, probably under a directory named like, "Source_Omni_Cashout" or something like that. Maybe "Source_Omni_Ident."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: But definitely "Source_Omni_something."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Yeah. Omnispectrus is the name of the company I work for - Wyrd owned accounting firm.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: All right. I can work with that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: What about common users? Who updates the file?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Uh, check for the name Prentice Sykes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Your boss?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Wyrd HR director. He'd be the one in charge of all the personnel files from 2010 to 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Any luck with the video?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: That's why I haven't gone to bed yet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: But you got it?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Yeah, Chloe sent it over.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: She wants to know if you can see any kind of a date stamp hidden somewhere in the file, whatever that means.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I think she's referring to the video's metadata.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Hang on, I'll ask her.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: She's right there with you?!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: On the phone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Tell her I think the metadata has been edited.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Is there any way we can tell how old the video is?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: These things take time, Sumac.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: All right, all right...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: What does she know already about the video?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I'll ask.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: She says one of the lycanthropic agents, Harvey, found it online at a really sketchy snuff film fetish site.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Do I want to know what he was doing on that site in the first place?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Sure. He monitors the site because he's been tracking down a pair of rogues who use it to post homemade werewolf porn.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Rule 34.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Disgusting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Dangerous. The women in the videos aren't lycanthropic.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Chloe says that he took notice when a new username cropped up on a thread between those two rogues.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: The username was "1_L0NE_Srvr". Claims that was proof enough it was Ishmael. "One Lone Server / Survivor". Then he saw the video you're watching.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Is it as bad as I think it is?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Well...it's not porn.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: But you can tell they're not enjoying themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Looks like they're going through false starts. No one's in the room with them to explain what's going on. They keep looking at their own hands and screaming. One of them keeps trying to pull her skin off, as if she's wearing gloves instead of growing fur.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Special effects?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Dude, so far, I can't see any signs of alteration.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: My brain keeps telling me that I'm on crack, that I'm not watching something quite real. But my brain does that every time I see a werewolf change in real life, too. I get woozy in the head, like I'm swimming down a vortex and drowning.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I literally have no idea what you just said there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I mean, I'm looking at this video frame by frame with all sorts of different digital analysis software, and I can't explain why there are eight women turning into incomplete Ishmael-type animals.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I don't see any digital tracking latency, no proportional distortion when the change facial expressions...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: So there's no way to prove that the video is fake.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Sherlock Holmes always said "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Well the problem is, once you watch your first werewolf transform, from that moment until the day you die, <i>nothing</i> is impossible.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: That makes it hella difficult to eliminate the impossible.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: But there is still room for doubt.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Plenty! First of all, think about what Anders said.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: He said that he left no survivors behind in Mississippi, except for Ishmael.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: How did he know how many feline-types there were in Mississippi at the time?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: How can he be sure that Ishmael was the only one to escape?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I wonder if those women are turning out like the cats in Mississippi. Feral, uncontrollable. The anti-Ishmaels.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: It could be.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: But I can't explain it. There's something annoying the back of my mind. There's something wrong with this video, and I can't put my finger on it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: How long have you been at it so far?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: It's four a.m. now...Got the video yesterday afternoon at three...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Sleep on it, if you can.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I need to catch a plane.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Then do something else for a bit. Maybe the right side of your brain is trying to tell you something, but the left side won't shut up long enough for you to hear it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Maybe.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: But God, it's annoying.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Need any help on the account in Seattle?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I'm cashing in some favours right now. Forensic accountants...we're a funny bunch.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I've noticed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I'm working on a couple of theories of my own, which might help to narrow down the search.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: There are a hell of a lot of banks in Washington state.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Ooh - hang on. Looks like I have another night owl.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Doesn't anybody sleep?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Ugh, just thinking about it makes me yawn.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Did you fall asleep?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Hang on 5 min</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I'll give you twenty. Since I'm up, I might as well take a shower now.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: ...All right I'm back, and I have news.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Namely, I'm a dummy. But you probably already know that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: ...Hey, you there?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Uh...Penny?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: ...And now you're not answering your phone? What the hell????</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Wow, girl...forty-five minutes and counting. Did you fall in the shower? Do you need CPR?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Sorry! Sorry...sorry...Phone on silent! Just got out of the shower, started watching the news while I ate breakfast. What did I miss?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Got a call back from a friend of mine in Los Angeles. He told me I'm an idiot.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Did you deserve it?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Yes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: WOW lol</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: The receiving account isn't in Seattle.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: It's in San Jose.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: And this means...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Not much, other than I can't tell a 5 from an 8 on a transit number.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Maybe you need sleep too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Which is why I'm going to let you go. I've got to be at work in three hours.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I hope this is all worth it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I'm feeling better, I don't know about you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Happy to give up a little sleep, if it means proving Ishmael innocent.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: You know, now I've got another thought stuck in my head.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: What's that?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: San Jose...is that Arizona or Nevada?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Neither. It's in California. And you suck at geography. But why do you ask?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Hang on, Google to the rescue.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Huh, that's what I thought.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Silicon Valley.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Exactly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: One of Ishmael's business competitors?!?!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Maybe.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: All the more reason now to find the original metadata on that video.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: I want to see if someone was paid to fake a video.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">PerilousPennyPine: Maybe then I can start to eliminate the impossible.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-34747439082027316522015-02-20T11:18:00.000-05:002015-02-20T11:18:43.920-05:00How Ishmael Got His Name (Episode 20)<div class="MsoNormal">
From: Ferryman<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2014 3:48 a.m.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To: Sumac, Sumac’s Other Email Addy, Pine, Pine’s backup addy<o:p></o:p></div>
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Subject: This would be easier by telephone.<br />
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Very well. since neither of you trust me as yet, we shall continue our introductions via email. Honestly, I don't know what the trouble is. You've no need to conceal your voices from me, since I know bloody well who both of you are.<br />
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Mr. Suso Sourenian, you and I have sat knee to knee during a rather dry and long-winded audit of my personal, international taxes from 2008 until 2011. You already know who I am. You even know how many pairs of underwear I buy in an average year, and you have the receipts to prove it.<br />
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And as for you, Ms. Penny Walkingbird, we danced together at Ishmael's birthday party in 2006. It saddens me to see how quickly you've forgotten my charming demeanour and superb footwork. You were wearing a blue velvet gown and a tasteful, but rather economical, faux-diamond, faux-sapphire necklace. I see, however, that you've recently had your hair shaved nearly to the scalp. I'm actually rather taken by the new pixie look. It's really quite becoming on you.<br />
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And if that isn't enough to win you over, allow me to toss all protocol to the wind and prove that I trust <i>you</i> two by simply coming out and saying, "Hello, my name is Anders Jewell Anderson, the oldest man alive." Born June 6th, 1837, if you must know. America was only sixty-one years old when I was born, and it took another thirty more before Canada became its own country. I was fifty when Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print. Suffice it to say, this is not my first rodeo. It is, however, my messiest rodeo to date.<br />
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Now that I've told you that much - in writing no less - it is now within your power to march over to Abram Haberman's desk and announce that I, Anders Jewell Anderson, am in cahoots with Owen Ishmael Chase wherein it concerns the protection and preservation of those precious few lycanthropic lives in Moldova and its surrounding environs. Furthermore, I shall go so far as to implicate Vice-Chair Chloe Anderson - my wife - in said illegal enclave of involuntary lycanthropes. Said shapeshifters, by the way, are hardy wolf-types with exquisite silver coats, in case you were still looking for a worthy forebear, my dear Ms. Pine.<br />
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Now, having performed the obligatory formalities, let us continue.<br />
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I feel it necessary to resolve any remaining doubt that Ishmael is in any sort a criminal. It is true that he has withheld funds from Wyrd, but that in no way means that he has been stealing from Wyrd. As you have seen, Mr. Sumac, there are cases of embezzlement afoot in our sprawling organization, and you have already proven that Ishmael is not to blame. (Before you ask, I'm at a loss who might have done it, but I do have several guesses. And no, for once it wasn't me.)<br />
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Allow me to regale you with the story of why I gave this feline great-heart the name of Ishmael.<br />
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In 1982, I was a part-time field operations agent, as you are now, Ms. Pine. My wife was already serving on the board of directors, though not yet in her role as Vice-President.<br />
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I had first been deployed to Mississippi, where a small enclave of were-panthers had taken up residence and quite decimated the local poultry industry. I was dispatched in the hopes that perhaps I might determine the level of threat they presented, understand more about their most intriguing and non-lycanthropic nature, and furthermore, bring them into the fold, as it were. Sadly, this was not to be. They were far more vicious as human beings than in their feline form, and they spent considerably more time in their feline form than as anything else. With great alacrity - and much regret - I put a quick, quiet, and thorough end to them all.<br />
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A month later, I was redeployed to New Orleans in response to sightings of a circus animal running about on its hind legs, terrorizing several of the county's most productive chicken and dairy farms. Since he was such a risk to our secrecy and security, Wyrd issued a k/c/q, with explicit instructions to kill the rogue on sight. I volunteered, as I felt it necessary to correct my own errors and complete the task I had begun in Mississippi.<br />
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By the time I arrived, there was already a posse with dogs hot in pursuit of said bipedal feline. Unfortunately, I stumbled across a two-man party of said vigilante mob, who had been quite recently drowned in a swamp near Lake Pontchartrain. There, some half-drowned lycanthrope had initiated a change and left his pheromones behind, which triggered a change in yours truly. I was forced to flee from human eyes, but sadly, I hadn't been quite quick enough. Being bipedal and of dark fur myself, you can imagine the rather comedic confusion I had engendered.<br />
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I needed to find shelter in which to complete the change and return to human form. The only adequate concealed space I could find was an old country doctor's home, long abandoned. In the basement were the remains - so to speak - of a funeral parlour, complete with empty coffins.<br />
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Suddenly there came a tapping at the door. Thinking that it was the posse come to find me, I threw on on heavy rubber gloves, a musty old lab coat, a hair net, and a crumbling paper face mask. At the very least, I thought to disguise my remaining lycanthropic features; at very best, I could frighten the dickens out of them by pretending to be the ghost of an old, mad doctor in his secret lair.<br />
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Instead, what should I see but a slightly feline head poking through the crack between door and frame. It was he, my quarry. His face was bloody, but he didn't seem wounded. Clearly, this was not his blood. I knew would have a body waiting for me to bury, once I was done putting down this most unusual rogue.<br />
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Oh, if you could have seen him in those days. Nothing more than shallow changes, a lifting his fuzzy ears, lengthening of his teeth, and an absolute mockery of his already unruly hair. And when he was human, he wasn't much better! Crooked teeth, dull green eyes, cockeyed smile, and a chin-length pageboy cut of brownish hair. Oh, the 1980s...how I miss them.<br />
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Of course, I was a good agent, despite my advanced years. I had a mission to complete, and there, before me, was a half-made lycanthrope, signalling me closer. I should mention: he was as naked as the day he was born, and not nearly as lushly furred as he is these days.<br />
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I told him, "Son, I'm sorry, but I've come to kill you." He tilted his head and signalled me closer again. I said, "Son, you've been killing animals and endangering the rest of us. I have to kill you." He was still in-cycle, becoming more and more feline as I spoke. I confess, my animal heart softened that day, and I wished aloud that he would simply run and learn to hide more effectively. Instead of running, he frowned at me, and he entered, reaching for my shirt. So I put my knife in his chest.<br />
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That cat yelped, took the knife out of his chest, growled at me, <i>gave the knife back to me</i>, and then took me by the hand to lead me out of that cellar.<br />
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Clearly, this was not a cat of the same ilk as those I had slain in Mississippi.<br />
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What I hadn't realized until then was that the house was utterly surrounded by that posse. The boy wouldn't - or couldn't - speak, but he made his meaning clear with gestures, showing me that there was a way up through the abandoned house, through a second storey window, and into an anicent grove of trees.<br />
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That silly bugger was trying to rescue <i>me</i> from the posse, even after I put a knife in his lung.<br />
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Sadly, I took too long to respond. The posse burst in through front and back door, just as the boy and I reached the top of the cellar stairs. He was downcycling but not nearly fast enough, and panic was making downcycling devilishly tricky for me as well. We were utterly without escape routes. So we returned to the basement to inventory our options.<br />
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That's when I told the boy to lie down on the big metal table where they prepare bodies for burial. I apologized profusely, begged him to play dead, and then I performed a Y-incision on his chest, slicing across his now hairless ribs from both sides, toward his sternum, then right down to his pelvic bone. I opened his torso and exposed his organs. Lastly, I covered up his still-feline face with a moldy towel. How he stayed so quiet through the ordeal, I'll never know, but it is his superhuman self-control to which I owe my life.<br />
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At the very moment the posse barged into the cellar, I looked up, scalpel in one hand, Ishmael's large intestine in the other. And since I was still in-cycle, my yellow-brown eyes reflected back their flashlights. With a shriek, the leading cowboy flung out his arms, barricading everyone else from coming in.<br />
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And then I threw back my head and laughed at them.<br />
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All of which goes to prove that the only thing scarier than a werewolf is a human being.<br />
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Anyways, it bought us the time we needed. They ran away, leaving a prodigious trail of urine behind. Their flight gained us a precious few minutes before they recovered their wits. Ishmael healed up nicely as he fully downcycled and was once again coherent, though he knew nothing of his identity or history, save that he was in and out of cat form nearly once every two days. He was still in his false starts and wouldn't come into his regular six-day cycle until the end of that same year.<br />
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Now that were human and for the moment safe, the question became: how to sneak a naked young man out of an abandoned funeral home, across twenty states, and into Canada without being noticed?<br />
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The answer was all around us.<br />
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I transported Ishmael out of state in someone else's coffin, while driving a stolen hearse.<br />
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To this day, I do not know if Ishmael had fled the enclave in Mississippi long before I arrived, or if he had narrowly escaped my wrath in Mississippi and lost all prior memory of me by the time he had arrived in Louisiana. Nor do I know if he is the orphan of a completely different tribe of cats - if an orphan at all. The Mississippi five were as powerful and as clever as he, but they retained nothing of their humanity; and yet here was this creature with unfathomable self-control, in-cycle and out. Could he have been infected by the same rabid strain of feline virus, if so remarkably unique in his comportment? Perhaps he was one of their kin, but immune to whatever feline-rabies had overwhelmed the rest of his pride. We may never know.<br />
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Many have speculated that he is the last of his kind.<br />
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For my part, there is a speculation that keeps me awake at night, now more than ever. If I had missed one were-panther - Ishmael - could I have missed two?<br />
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That must remain another mystery for another night, for we have much work to do, if we mean to rescue my boy from quarantine.<br />
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But as for his name...<br />
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In biblical terms, Ishmael is the first born (and some would argue illegitimate) son of the patriarch Abraham - then known as Abram. And though it was the favoured son Isaac who would go on to found the nation of Israel, Ishmael - chased from his home by Abram's wife Sarai - would go on to be the father of kings in his own right. From the start, I had known that Abram Haberman would never accept the boy into his family, and I always knew Ishmael was meant for great and wonderful things.<br />
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In historical terms, Owen Chase was the first mate of the <i>Essex, </i>a whaling vessel that had been rammed twice by a sperm whale. The ship later sank, and he, with two other men, escaped to a barely habitable island to await rescue. His story went on to inspire Herman Melville, who wrote the epic <i>Moby Dick.</i><br />
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Speaking of which...<br />
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In literary terms, Ishmael was the lone survivor of the Pequoid, the whaling ship of infamous Captain Ahab, that monomaniac who had chased the Great White Whale to the ends of the earth. Ishmael's mighty companion Queequeg, believing himself on the verge of death, had commissioned the carving of a wooden coffin, and it was in this coffin that Ishmael had escaped the wrath of the whale.<br />
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In other words, Ishmael had been ferried out of death's maw by hiding inside a coffin meant for another man.<br />
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...Perhaps it <i>is </i>better that I wrote this down instead of pouring it into your ears. Spilling this much truth is thirsty work indeed.<br />
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The reason why I tell you all this is to ask you: would a cold-blooded madman take a knife to the chest and then give it back? Would a wanton, mindless criminal try his damnedest to lead his would-be killer to safety? Would a ravening beast allow a stranger like me to cut open his belly and hold his living organs, if it meant saving both our lives?<br />
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Would a man like Ishmael, who has lost every single known member of his own breed, allow so many others to die abroad, simply because Abram Haberman had decreed it thus?<br />
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Ishmael does not deserve to die in that quarantine. He has done nothing wrong. He has saved countless lives - including yours. He will continue to do great things, if we rout the enemies from his path.<br />
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My wife and I are here to help you in any way possible, so long as it results with the rescue of my foster son from that hellhole, and putting an end to the madness that is destroying Wyrd.<br />
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It was I who advised Dr. Gil Burton to involve you two in our informal investigations. Yes, you may trust him. He is the last, reliable ally Ishmael has, aside from the four of us.<br />
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Do not hesitate to contact me at your earliest convenience.<br />
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Most cordially yours,<br />
Anders Jewell Anderson.<br />
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P.S. Mr. Sumac, I do agree it's no one's business but yours, should you wear plaid shirts with comfortable shoes. But, for the love of mercy, don't wear blue pinstripe pants with said ensemble. As they say, "Clothes make the man."<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-18923342487980112572015-02-18T17:24:00.000-05:002015-02-18T17:24:00.694-05:00The Ferryman Barges In (Episode 19)<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 10:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I got this email today, and at first I'm like..."why are you sending this to me??"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The email was from Dr. Gil Burton, and it was sent to Bridget Carnegie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name didn't appear in the 'to' field, and it didn't appear in the 'cc' field. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And even if it did, same question: why are you sending this to me????</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Gil Burton has bcc'd me on an email about a couple of questionable line items in the 2009 budget, pretending to ask Bridget about them directly. He even gave her a Wyrd account number to look into.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've got a sneaking feeling that Dr. Burton wants me to look into it personally, and he doesn't want Bridget to know about my involvement.</span><br />
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From: Pine<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 10:23 p.m.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To: Sumac2<o:p></o:p></div>
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Subject: re: New level of weird (Wyrd?)<br />
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Actually, it does make sense, him reaching out to you. He's on the Exec Council, even if he doesn't have any voting powers. Maybe he saw your name on the embezzlement investigation you ran on Ishmael. So he knows you're A-OK in the forensic accounting department.<br />
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Question is, why keep it secret from Bridget?<br />
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What were the line items?<br />
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~Pine~<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: Sumac’s Other Email Addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 10:31 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To: Pine’s backup addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: New level of weird (Wyrd?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surveillance equipment, trucks, fuel, food, computers, and weapons - everything a team would need during the ramp up for the Wyndham quarantine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The stuff Dr. Burton is questioning comes to about $250,000. No penny ante stuff there. But it was all approved. I even found the signed receipts to match, with withdrawals from the account Dr. Burton mentioned. Everything above board. In June 2009, the quarter million goes into the account. The quarter million goes out of the account during various, pre-approved purchases, and every receipt down to the lowest Starbucks single order is accounted for by July 12, 2009. So I figured the doctor is out...of his mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But then I went looking through the account actions for a full month, and then to three months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting on September 5th, I start seeing cash deposits. Ten thousand here. Fifty thousand there. By October 10th, the account has received $325,000 in cash deposits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Profit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll need to do more digging, but it looks a lot like someone's buying Wyrd approved equipment with Wyrd approved funds, then turning around and selling all that equipment on the black market. Considering that the purchaser was approved to pick up some high-capacity semi-automatic weapons from the States, I'm not surprised how fast someone could turn a profit on the guns alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And if that wasn't enough...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On October 15, 2009, there's a transfer of $250,000. I can't tell who it belongs to, but based on bank, branch and transit numbers, it looks like it's an account in Seattle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So yeah...looks like another case of embezzlement.</span><br />
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From: Pine<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 10:33 p.m.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To: Sumac2<o:p></o:p></div>
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Subject: re: New level of weird (Wyrd?)<br />
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Ishmael again?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: Sumac’s Other Email Addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 10:37 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To: Pine’s backup addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: New level of weird (Wyrd?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, no. I can't tell who it is, but I know it isn't Ishmael, because I was given all of his account numbers, and this isn't one of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm locked out of the thing that tells me whose account belongs to which employee ID. Besides, these receipts are all noted "Wyndham", which makes perfect sense to me now. And you say that Ishmael wasn't even aware of Wyndham to begin with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And get this: there are two more events like that one in 2011, and three more this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In April of 2011, the account holder is approved for another $250,000, this time to buy and retrofit new vehicles. In September 2011, another $250,000 for more weapons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">January 2014, $250,000 for a massive networking overhaul. New computers, new servers, hiring an external company to build them - I can just see the angry exclamation point over your head. No wonder you had such an easy time of hacking the archives, hey?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May 2014, $150,000 for travel and bribes to rescue someone out of Myanmar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">June, 2014, $350,000 for a new safehouse in Wyoming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the same thing happens every time. Money goes in. Money goes out within a month. Receipts are tendered. Everyone is happy. Three months later, money comes back in, one cash deposit at a time, a profit is made, and a $250,000 transfer is processed to the account in Seattle. The last transfer was at the end of August, just a couple of weeks ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's $1.5M gone. A million and a half bucks of Wyrd money, <i>gone</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You want to know who profits if Ishmael is out of the picture?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My answer? A millionaire does.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think Dr. Burton is onto something. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Case file: EV<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Name: Eva Foster, MD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Added to kill/capture list: December 30<sup>th</sup>, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Date of capture: December 30<sup>th</sup>, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Occupation: chief medical officer, chief researcher<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Wyrd Agent(s) Assigned: Gil Burton, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1) The Padre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Capture notes: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Padre warned he felt a false start coming on. Foster entered
quarantine in full biohazard gear to administrate tranquillizers. Padre had his
false start and began to transform. Change pheromones flooded the holding cell,
triggering the change in three more patients. One blocked the door, preventing
Foster’s escape. Padre tore through Foster’s biohazard suit. Foster was
injured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Because it is too soon for the infection to incubate, Foster
has volunteered to remain in quarantine with the patients indefinitely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Get us a bigger quarantine or they’ll kill each other, and
Foster with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Signed:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Gil Burton, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So, he's been in on quarantine this whole time, which means he's also kept it a secret from Ishmael.<br />
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~Pine~<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: Sumac’s Other Email Addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 11:20 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To: Pine’s backup addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: New level of weird (Wyrd?)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I do know we're definitely into dangerous waters, because as soon as I hit send that last time, my phone started ringing again.</span><br />
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From: Pine<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 11:23 p.m.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To: Sumac2<o:p></o:p></div>
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Subject: re: New level of weird (Wyrd?)<br />
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Keep a log of the calls. Get right down to the minute and second, if you can.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: Sumac’s Other Email Addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 11:24 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To: Pine’s backup addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: New level of weird (Wyrd?)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been, ever since the first night of calls. I'll send you the list of times and dates.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't see how it's going to help, though. The number only comes up as blocked.</span><br />
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From: Pine<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 11:26 p.m.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To: Sumac2<o:p></o:p></div>
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Subject: re: New level of weird (Wyrd?)<br />
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I'm going to cross-reference your calls against the call logs from Angie Burley's office.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: Sumac’s Other Email Addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 11:27 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To: Pine’s backup addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: New level of weird (Wyrd?)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Angie Burley? What the hell for?</span><br />
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From: Pine<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 11:28 p.m.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To: Sumac2<o:p></o:p></div>
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Subject: re: New level of weird (Wyrd?)<br />
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Same question we've been asking ourselves: who benefits?<br />
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If Ishmael is being framed, someone must have a reason for doing it. So far, I see only one person who is getting any benefit out of Ishmael's incarceration: the person who can now take over his role permanently. Our Chief Field Operations Manager, Angie Burley.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: Sumac’s Other Email Addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 11:34 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To: Pine’s backup addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: New level of weird (Wyrd?)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, okay, but that doesn't explain why Gil Burton would trust me to look into this account.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unless he knows that Angie is spying on me, and he's hoping that she'll catch me looking into the case?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God, I wish they would stop calling me, though! It's getting so I can't hear myself think!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never mind. I'm unplugging the phone.</span><br />
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From: Pine<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2014 12:28 a.m.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To: Sumac2<o:p></o:p></div>
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Subject: re: New level of weird (Wyrd?)</div>
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Well, there are two things I can say.<br />
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One, they call you, and then they immediately call me.<br />
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Two, the call logs don't line up with either Angie Burley's office number or her cell.<br />
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What I want to know is how they found out home phone numbers!!! That, and where can I find this guy so I can hang him in a meat locker and stab him for every call he's placed.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From: Ferryman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2014 12:29 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To: Sumac, Sumac’s Other Email Addy, Pine, Pine’s backup
addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Subject: No meat lockers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meat lockers are too public, too cold, and too difficult to clean. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Besides, for all my powers of regeneration, I hate the sight
of my own blood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now,
would either of you kindly pick up the blasted telephone so I can initiate
3-way calling?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-66496321406585585242015-02-16T09:15:00.002-05:002015-02-16T09:15:18.645-05:00The Madness is Catching (Episode 18)<div class="MsoNormal">
From: Pine<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2014 1:01 a.m.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To: Sumac2<o:p></o:p></div>
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Subject: Why couldn't it have been Jay?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I sat down and had a good long think about all this, and I figure there's one more thing you have to hear before we really start digging to exonerate Ishmael. Before you commit, you have to know the full risks, especially considering you've never been in field ops.</div>
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I didn’t tell you at the time because everything was happening at once,
and because Larch asked me not to tell anybody. But screw it. You and I are
already in deep trouble. In for a
penny, in for a pound.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You remember when I was sent to replace somebody for a
surveillance thing out in BC? Got food poisoning?</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I was out there, I partnered with Larch. Jay was field
command. It was the first time I've had to work with him in about two years.</div>
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Jay has always been a bit of an ass, but never this bad. And she tried to warn me, but she never gave me the details. She even tried to get me to swap missions with another of our friends. At the time, I took it personally, like, what, suddenly she doesn't trust me on a field op? But then...God...</div>
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Lately, he's been walking around smiling at strangers like he’s laughing at them, mocking them for not realizing how close they are to a cold-blooded killer. He doesn’t even care that people can see
his proto-fangs. It's almost like he's trying to get caught. </div>
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Larch told me later that he’s been walking into men bigger than
him to get them to start a fight. Thank God, we’ve been lucky so far, and the
bigger guys just walk away. It’s like they can sense he’s…I don’t know, like
he’s not right in the head. <o:p></o:p></div>
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He smiles at your throat, and never at your face.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But around Larch, he’s like two different people. </div>
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One second
he’s telling her all the things she’s done wrong, yelling at her for how much
danger she’s put her team in, saying how much he ought to retire her from field
ops, which is bad. No humans
ever ‘retire’ from field ops. They get promoted, or they get killed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And in the next second, Jay’s bringing her sushi or
chocolate and coffee, and asking her if she can make her physical training
regimen available to all the other human agents in Wyrd. Telling her how clever
she was to do this or do that, how brave she was during that other field ops.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wednesday night, when Jay was in his own room, Larch told me that Jay
wants to promote her early. Six <i>years</i> early. Fifteen years is the standard. Some folks don't get promoted until they're in their thirtieth or fortieth year, because they want to live a long and healthy human life before making the jump. But Larch isn't even thirty years old yet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That same Wednesday night, Larch told me that she had been thinking of switching her requested forebear from Jay to someone else. Then she tells me she's approached Bridget instead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jay overheard us from the room next door and he <i>lost it</i>. He barged into our hotel room and
grabbed her by the shoulders and gave her a shake and said she could forget
about the promotion. Then he realizes the door is open, so he goes back and slams it shut, and then he went after her again,
throwing her on the bed and pointing his fingers at her. </div>
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He ignored me <i>completely</i>, and I just sat
there being small and invisible<i>.</i> One bite and my human life is over, with no say in who is my forebear. <i>Two
</i>bites, and my life is over, <i>period</i>. As a human, he’s strong
enough to drive my head through a brick wall. As a lycanthrope, he’s strong
enough to knock my head from my neck. The only thing either of us can do is try to de-escalate the situation, and if we can't, we have to find a way to kill him fast, then deal with situation containment later.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyhow, she talks him off the ledge and rolls off the bed. Every time she moves, Jay moves, so she manipulates him to clear a path for me to get out of the room. But I wasn't going to leave her there alone. Screw that.</div>
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Then he went on for half an hour telling her everything
she’d done wrong in the last six months. Every time she tried
to get away from him, he’d just stand in her way, like almost chest-to-chest. At some point, she just got sick of it. She told him to back off. He pushed her and made her fall into me and the
computer desk. Then he picks her up off the floor and slams her against a wall,
and she’s just staring him in the eyes, like she’s daring him to
kill her.</div>
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So I tell Jay, “You’re too loud. People out in the hall can
hear you. We’re going to end up compromising the whole mission if people hear
what you say.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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My God, Sumac.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have seen weres before.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have even seen weres when they’re upcycling.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What I saw in his face…<o:p></o:p></div>
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First he turns to me and his eyes change colour and get
farther apart. Then the bones in his face start shifting and he starts to
laugh, and his tongue gets longer before his teeth do. And he’s laughing harder
and harder, panting, and grunting, and all of a sudden I wanted to just run and
vomit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then Larch…I kid you not…slapped him across the face even
as it was turning into a muzzle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I knew we were dead. Dead, dead, <i>dead</i>. Here was a werewolf, in a hotel room, in a crowded downtown
area not four doors down from a police station, losing his humanity, and about
to rip the stuffing out of us. And Larch had slapped him. She hit him so hard
even <i>my</i> hand hurt.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But then he starts coming back from the change and he cracks
his neck and smiles a little and he apologizes. Then he says, "Six months. Max."</div>
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And then he walks out,
like nothing ever happened.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We called up Angie Burley after that, and we told her everything that had happened. She said she'd get in touch with Chairman Haberman right away. We've never heard back. Instead, she's still sending Larch out on missions with Jay - no one else, just her and Jay - and she's kept me locked up here at home.</div>
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I’ve maybe slept eighteen hours since we left BC last week.</div>
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And my phone won’t stop ringing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So tell me now.</div>
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Do you still want to go up against people like that?</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-25407348928729985672015-02-13T12:54:00.001-05:002015-02-13T12:54:03.918-05:00Into the fire (Episode 17)<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: I had it all worked out in my head, you know?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: That Ishmael is a bad SOB?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: No, I mean, my own future, you know? Work for Wyrd for fifteen years, raise enough money to...do...stuff...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Travel, buy a house...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: No, leave money for my family, send some nieces and nephews to college, pay for my own "burial..."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Ah. Promotion. Yeah, doesn't sound so appealing now, does it?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: It still is appealing. It was the one thing that got me out of bed every day. And Ishmael telling me everything I needed to know about transitioning, how to stay private, how to know when you're about to change and how *not* to, at least until you've run off to some place safe...</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I guess.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Spent the last fifteen years literally hoping I would grow up to become just like him.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: If you get bit by Jay, your wolf form looks like Jay's wolf form, right? Get bitten by Bridget Carnegie, you turn into a fricking hyena-woman every month. But Ishmael? God, have you ever seen him in his other form? You'll be up to your wrist in velvety fur before you poke him.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: That would be a bad idea. I mean, for one thing, think of the shedding. For another, black fur in summer? Not fun. Besides all that, then you've got to deal with biases in Wyrd.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Didn't seem like a bad idea at the time. He didn't seem so insane until this week. Jeez, what is it with lycanthropes losing their minds this month? Him, Jay, now Angie Burley?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Even if he was sane, it's still a bad idea to go like Ishmael.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Assuming his virus *is* catching, I mean.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: It was a long shot, I know. But I couldn't think of anyone else I liked enough.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Everyone else is so...vanilla. With the exception of Bridget and Jay, you've got your choice of black wolf, brown wolf, or grey wolf.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Well, that, and your choice of tail versus no-tail.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: And is it just me, or do tail-less werewolves just look funny?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Yes.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: It is just you.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I have yet to meet a lycanthrope that hasn't made me crap my pants, tail or no tail.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Good point.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Anyhow, Ishmael doesn't have a tail, and he says he always feels a little off balance, unless he's running uphill on all fours.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Between that and all this nonsense about his criminal activities, I've had to go back to the drawing board and rethink my options.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Six months, and I've got my seniority enough for promotion.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Still think it's a bad idea.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: I don't. I've had my DNA scanned and I'm a suitable candidate. I've got my experience. And I hear the training up at Varco Lake is great. Smooth transition from human to lycanthrope with practically no memory loss of your life prior to infection.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Another one of Ishmael's inventions.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Oh yeah?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: He came up with the process after Bridget's whole ordeal.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: What do you mean?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: You don't know about Bridget?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: I know she once bent an Allen key with her teeth.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: He came up with the program after helping Bridget through her first changes.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Back in the late 90s, someone started tearing through women at a park in some suburban town. Five women dead in as many months.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: There's this one woman. She goes out walking her dog at night. Lycanthrope picks her next. Dog attacks, but the werewolf kills it. But, werewolf is injured. Bridget gets scared, but instead of running, she starts fighting too.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: But pretty soon it's clear, she's going to lose. So she turns to run.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue:<b> </b>He chases her down. Tears her to pieces. Leaves her for dead.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Next day or so, Jay and Ishmael are in town, still trying to track this rogue down so they can kill him. Both Jay and Ishmael for one guy - that's how sneaky and dangerous this rogue is.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: They go into the hospital to check on her, see if she's going to be a risk to Wyrd and werewolves everywhere.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Jay says, "We should kill her. She's a witness."</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Ishmael says, "We should fake her death, because she's our only witness. Take her back to Varco Lake, let the infection take hold, get a look at the lycanthrope-type she becomes."</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Jay says, "We have to kill her. She's going to turn out like her own attacker. Even her human face is going to change, because of him. How fair is that for her?"</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: OMG. Jay actually said something <i>nice</i>? About a woman?!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Ishmael says, "We should let her decide."</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Jay says, "Ha ha, she's on a respirator and totally drugged up. We have to make the decision for her."</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: And legend has it, that's when she reached through the bed railings and grabbed Jay by the junk. Ishmael says, "We let nature take its course, and we train her to be the baddest ass of them all. Give her the power to go after her own attacker and take him down."</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: And then they discovered she wasn't a werewolf, but a were-hyena.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: And *that* was the one and only time Jay ever said that Ishmael had the better idea. Because in nature, it's the female hyena who trumps over the males. Bigger, stronger.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Nature's ultimate straight-butch.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Hyena versus wolf? Probably a tough battle. Hyena versus cat? Probably the hyena's gonna win, just on bite power alone.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: But male-hyena against female-hyena? He's gonna be dragging his own ass away, if he can move at all.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: And what's that got to do with the transition program?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: That was part of the agreement. Ishmael would find a way to help Bridget keep her memories during the change, so that she would remember why she agreed to become what she is.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: So she'd still feel a need to get revenge.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Stay motivated and sharp. I get it.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Hell, why not ask her to be your forebear?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Ha. No.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: No tail?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Among other things.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Yeah, your better off as an actual werewolf.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: The more classic the shape, the better.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Take it from me. Being one-of-a-kind is not all it's cracked up to be.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Well, not so one-of-a-kind now, huh? Not with those eight other kitties out there somewhere.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: What about you? I know you're still a couple of years away, but have you thought about what you want to be when you grow up?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I'm on the DNP list.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Do Not Promote?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Why, because you've got a pre-existing condition?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Ah, like those people in quarantine. If you're genetically prone to Cystic Fibrosis, even if you've never had a single symptom before, you die of CF before your first change.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: No. There's "technically" nothing wrong with my DNA.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Oh...is it because of your religion?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: What, atheism? No.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: I don't get it then.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Never mind, I'm prying.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Let's put it this way.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: If you're a werewolf and you get shot, what happens to the bullet hole when you change back to human form?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: You heal.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: If you get a tattoo when you're a human and then you get promoted, what happens to the tattoo?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: It goes away and it heals over.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: And scars?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: They go away.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Amputations?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Uh...I've never heard about it happening, but I guess the limb grows back?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Basically, your body is going to default back to its genetic blueprint, right?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Right.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: So, what happens if your genetic blueprint says "You have lousy eyesight", but you've had laser eye surgery?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Ooh...you go back to having lousy eyesight.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: And you go back in for more surgery, and a month later, you wolf-out again.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Back to being blind as a bat.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Exactly.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Take it a step further.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Does that mean a Jewish werewolf has to be circumcized every twenty-eight days?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: OMG...</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: I'm so going to hell. I can't stop laughing right now.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: You get the idea?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: And you said you were Muslim by heritage.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I am.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: So you don't want to be promoted because you don't want to get your wiener nipped every month.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Take a look at my screen name, Pine.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Figure it out.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Take your time.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: ...</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Wait, so...all this time I thought...</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: OMG.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Yeah.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Really?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Yeah.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Like...cross-dressing or post-op?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Post-op.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: See, this is one more reason why I like chatting virtually.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: I probably would have had a completely different opinion of you, if I had known you weren't born male. Now that I know...<shrug> It totally doesn't seem to matter. Guess I've still got my own hangups too.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Thank you.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: For what?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Trusting me enough to tell me.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Yeah, my secret-agent instincts are cursing me right now for having divulged personal info, but I dunno. Didn't see any reason why I should keep it quiet from you anymore.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: So yeah, when I say being unique isn't all its cracked up to be?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I mean it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: It's no fun being the only Arabic, lapsed Muslim, transgender accordion player in town.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I mean, you don't even have to be a different kind of shapeshifter to get the snot kicked out of you. All you have to do is show up wearing comfortable shoes and a plaid shirt. Undergo HRT and start growing facial hair, and you qualify for a free ride to the emergency room. If they go easy on you.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: And when they're not in animal form, Wyrd agents are still the same human beings you run into on the street. Most of them don't care. But some of them...?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Whatever. At any rate, on the books, I've already been "promoted".</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: On the books, it says I died of my injuries.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: On the books, it says I died when my family dumped gasoline on me and set me on fire. The second time.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: That old me, the one who was a dishonour to her in-laws? That person is officially in her grave and finally at peace. I have a picture of the gravemarker on my desk, as a reminder.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: A promotion would exhume her. Over, and over, and over.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: So you're saying...even if a promotion was the only way to save your life after an attack...then you would rather die?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I guess yeah, that's what I'm saying.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I would rather die as the person I *am* than go back to being the person everyone says I'm supposed to be.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: You work with lycanthropes all the time. There's always a risk that someone could snap and attack you.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: So why would you take that risk, day after day?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Simple.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: So I can do whatever it takes to prevent any involuntary infection.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Even if that means destroying the carrier through forensic accounting.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Even if that means taking down Ishmael, himself.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: And after everything he's done for Bridget, for Wyrd...</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I never told you, did I...About the fire, about my faked death?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: I never bothered to ask, either.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Three guesses who literally pulled me out of the fire.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: And who faked my death.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: And later set fire to the entire village?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Hint: no one died in that fire, even though every building and crop was destroyed.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Ishmael.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Right in one.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: And that's why this investigation is killing me.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Sumac...</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: What if he's innocent?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: If he is as good a Wyrd agent as we thought he was?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: If maybe he did like Jay claimed, and kept all those Moldovans alive, if he's been embezzling money to keep them safe...?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I don't know.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: What if we combined our powers to try and prove him innocent?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: The two of us, against the entire Wyrd Council?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Yeah.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: You and me, against the likes of people like Jay, and Bridget, and Haberman, and all the other werewolves who disagree with us?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Yes.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Okay.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: We should do it?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: It's better than feeling like I've shot the man who saved my life. So yeah. Why not. I've already been dead once. You get used to it after a while.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Okay, then. Let's do it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Hang on a sec. Phone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Okay that was weird.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: My phone rang at the exact same time.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue is typing...</span></i><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-74486636447185310632015-02-11T10:39:00.000-05:002015-02-11T10:39:30.054-05:00The right question (Episode 16)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: Sumac’s Other Email Addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 10:00 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To: Pine’s backup addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: re: So many of them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know, if it wasn’t for the fact that we stopped feeding
these people before they died, I would say quarantine was a good idea. Sounds like this version of the virus is a real bastard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> So why *didn’t* they get Ishmael on board?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> If he’s
as good as you say he is, it wouldn’t have taken three years to capture all the infected. He would have captured the original infectees before they spread the disease.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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From: Pine<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 10:00 a.m.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To: Sumac2<o:p></o:p></div>
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Subject: re: So many of them…<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know, right? He may be a sneaky jerk, but he should
have been involved with the kill/capture/quarantines. There’s no one better
suited to it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unless
he was already under investigation for something.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But even
that doesn’t make sense.<o:p></o:p></div>
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From
2004 to 2007, he was my senior field ops, and I was acting as – and employed as – a webhost
design consultant at BangIronMonkey. (And yes, that was his company name. He’s since
changed it to BDA Design, or something boring like that.) We would go all over
the world. He’d book meetings for us while we were abroad. Sometimes he’d time
the meetings with a kill/capture mission. He’d hunt the target by night, then
show up four minutes late to a meeting without a hair out of place. There were
some meetings when I was sitting at the back of the conference room during a
presentation, multi-tasking like hell to erase a surveillance video that had
captured either him or the mark. Then we’d go out to a Japanese bar or
something, he’d slip out, check on his prisoner (he had to kill one, once),
then come back before anyone even noticed he was gone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Best years of my life, I swear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then, Moldova. I didn’t follow
him there. But he was still my day job boss, and he still acted like it,
teaching me more hacking and network engineering tricks he’d learned
around the world. He acted like nothing ever happened overseas, that's why I never knew he'd been there, until now. But then I was reassigned
to Jay, and life went downhill after that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And
then after Moldova, he gets promoted to chief field ops. He keeps going as if
it’s still 2004, going from city to city around the world, sometimes on
missions, sometimes for business. Sometimes he'd do both at the same time, if he could
schedule it right. God, the man’s inexhaustible, even for a lycanthrope.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And
then, in 2009, this new local outbreak, while he was still Chief Field Ops.
K/c/q’s across four years, almost forty agents involved, right here on home
turf. And he wasn't involved?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I mean, shouldn’t he have left some kind of paper trail about the quarantine? Not one
memo, not one new process document? Not one sign of his digital smoke-and-mirrors to disguise their disappearances? Why doesn’t his name appear anywhere?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Did he
just ignore the whole thing?<o:p></o:p></div>
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No, I
can’t see that happening. If he was a raging, bloodthirsty animal like he supposably was in
Moldova, he would have handled most of those k/c/qs himself, probably between
conference calls. ("Need to put you on mute a sec, okay?" Slash, stab, murder-murder. "Okay, sorry about that. Where were we?")<br />
If he hated the idea of the quarantine, if he wanted those victims to escape, I’m pretty sure he would find a
way to relocate them and cover up their digital tracks, like he’s done with <i>soooo</i> many other lycanthropes before. Like
<i>I</i> have!<o:p></o:p></div>
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So,,,maybe he doesn’t know about quarantine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But how
could he not have known? Was he so busy the whole time that he never realized
people were keeping secrets from him?<o:p></o:p></div>
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And for
God’s sake…why were they keeping secrets from him? If no one trusted him after
Moldova, they wouldn’t have promoted him to Chief Field Ops and given him even
more power. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Listen, if he doesn’t know about
quarantine, that means they haven’t trusted him since at least 2009. Whether
that means they suspected him of embezzlement or of turning those girls, it
doesn’t matter. The question is, why would they wait <i>five years</i> before confronting him?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I would
sacrifice my right arm for a single straight answer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t
know what to believe anymore.<o:p></o:p></div>
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~Pine~<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: Sumac’s Other Email Addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 10:00 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To: Pine’s backup addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: re: So many of them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I’ve been thinking, too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They must have suspected the disease was dangerous to other
lycanthropes. Otherwise, the quarantine would have been up at Varco Lake. After
all, V.L. is fully stocked with food, it takes four days to walk from one end of
the property to the other, and there’s a fully tricked out laboratory right
there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, they had to find a different quarantine and keep it
stocked with food and other supplies, and pay substantial cash-money for
transportation just to get them there. And that <i>should </i>have hit the official budget.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Chief Field Ops, Ishmael was a board member with signing
authority. But when I went looking through his own expense claims back to 2004,
he was an exec member-at-large.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He would have seen the annual budget!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And where are his signed expense forms? Where are the budget
approvals? Where are the meeting makers to discuss the budget cuts?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conspicuous by his absence, like you said.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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From: Pine<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 10:00 a.m.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To: Sumac2<o:p></o:p></div>
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Subject: re: So many of them…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Paranoia’s hitting hard, bro. I am deep into conspiracy
theory world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If Ishmael didn’t know about the quarantine…If Ishmael didn’t
know about his own demotion…Then that means people have been holding
information back from one of their own board members.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And now he’s in exile.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So who benefits?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-34918015595844765952015-02-09T09:46:00.001-05:002015-02-09T09:46:12.084-05:00Conspicuous by his absence (Episode 15)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #cccccc;">From: Pine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 10:00 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">To: Sumac2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Subject: So many of them…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">So, I finally went through all of the reports. (Flight was delayed, then cancelled, then the rebooked flight was delayed...Eighteen hours trapped in the Edmonton Airport is a preview of hell, I swear.)</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Remember how you said
there were 270 people at quarantine at one point?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Turns
out they were looking for over a thousand people. Most of them were already dead.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cancellation of Kill/Capture/Quarantine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Case file: AdM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Name: Adam
du Montdevache<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">AKA: n/a<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Added to kill/capture list: June 6, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Removed from kill/capture list: August 21, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Reason for cancellation: target already dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If incarcerated, next steps: n/a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If deceased, reason: rapid onset of Parkinson’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Relocation required: no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">SitCon required: no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Other comments: none<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Signed: B. Carnegie</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cancellation of Kill/Capture/Quarantine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Case file: YS-1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Name: Yudianto Sureshi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">AKA: n/a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Added to kill/capture list: June 6, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Removed from kill/capture list: August 15, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Reason for cancellation: target already dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If incarcerated, next steps: n/a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If deceased, reason: heart failure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Relocation required: no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">SitCon required: no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Other comments: none<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Signed: B. Carnegie</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cancellation of Kill/Capture/Quarantine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Case file: YA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Name: Yuri Abasov <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">AKA: n/a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Added to kill/capture list: June 6, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Removed from kill/capture list: August 15, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Reason for cancellation: target already dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If incarcerated, next steps: n/a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If deceased, reason: complications from false start, massive
internal derangement during downcycle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Relocation required: no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">SitCon required: yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Other comments: he turned inside out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Signed: Gil Burton</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cancellation of Kill/Capture/Quarantine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Case file: AO-1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Name: Annie Ono<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">AKA: n/a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Added to kill/capture list: June 6, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Removed from kill/capture list: September 1, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Reason for cancellation: target already dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If incarcerated, next steps: n/a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If deceased, reason: hydrocephalus (water on the brain)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Relocation required: no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">SitCon required: yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Other comments: patient died in-cycle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Signed: Agent Maple</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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-----<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cancellation of Kill/Capture/Quarantine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Case file:
CPLdC<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CA"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Name:
Cassandra Paciencia Lopez dela Cruz<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">AKA: n/a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Added to kill/capture list: June 6, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Removed from kill/capture list: July 30, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Reason for cancellation: target already dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If incarcerated, next steps: n/a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If deceased, reason: rapid onset ALS (Lou Gherig’s), multiple
organ failure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Relocation required: no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">SitCon required: no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Other comments: none<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Signed: B. Carnegie</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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-----<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cancellation of Kill/Capture/Quarantine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Case file: XSWT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Name: Xue Shen Wesley Tiong <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">AKA: n/a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Added to kill/capture list: June 6, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Removed from kill/capture list: August 21, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Reason for cancellation: target already dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If incarcerated, next steps: n/a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If deceased, reason: multiple gunshot wound, shot by wife
(survivor, currently in hospital for treatment of wounds)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Relocation required: yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">SitCon required: yes; reference kill/capture/quarantine
casefile CZT)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Other comments: rapid response required. Patient died
in-cycle. Wife in hospital under police investigation, is traumatized and
already beginning to show signs of superhuman regeneration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Signed: Agent Maple</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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-----<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">So many people died before they even made it to quarantine.
Almost three thousand records that I see in here, and most of them either died
violently or by “natural” causes, all within about six months of each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Some of
the reports reference an initial patient list, but I can’t find it anywhere.
All I know is that some Dr. E. Foster was the one who found the list and turned
it over to Wyrd. No idea who he or she is. But I do know there were hundreds of
patients he treated all over Canada, from one end of the country to the other.
And every one of them became infectious before they died, and passed it on to
others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">No
wonder they wanted to keep it secret from the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">But why
keep it secret from the rest of us?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">~Pine~</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">From: Pine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Sent: Monday, September 14, 2014 10:00 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">To: Sumac2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Subject: P.S.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">You know, there's one name that's missing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">I've seen k/c/q's from Bridget, Jay, Agent Maple, Larch...maybe three dozen different agents, even one from Dr. Gil Burton.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">One name is conspicuous by its absence.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">There is not one k/c/q from Ishmael.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">So not only was our favourite chief field ops demoted without his knowing it...but he might not even know about the quarantine any more than we did.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">I don't know what to make of that.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">~Pine~</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-10382170774045896892015-02-06T10:39:00.001-05:002015-02-08T10:53:31.526-05:00Math Problems (Episode 14)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: You there?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: No, this is an automated rage drone. Please
leave your name and number at the tone and I probably won’t get back to you.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Funny.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Did you find a k/c/q order for yourself
yet?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: No, why?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Because you’d been babysitting the kid of
OMG!OMG!OMG! werewolf.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Oh, no. Didn’t find anything, Thank God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: So. Infection, eh? I mean, Ishmael
infecting those other girls? Damn, every time I think he’s the scum of the
earth, he proves how much I’ve been underestimating him.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Thought he was “sterile.” That’s why he’s
the only one of his kind.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Everybody over here thought so too. But Larch
says he’s tried before, back in the nineties, but it didn’t work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Nobody knows who for sure, but she says
it was somebody in Wyrd. A human agent.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: A promotion?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: If yes, pretty sure it was unauthorized.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: What, and then he stopped trying for twenty
years? Only to start up again now?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Dunno.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: So what happened?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: No one knows. Probably died, since no one’s
heard of her since. The agent he infected, I mean.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: No, he’s probably tried with others over
the years.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Maybe.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Not that I can blame him.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: You’re kidding me, right?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: No.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: All right, I’ll bite. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: No thanks. That’s what got Ishmael into so
much trouble.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Why the hell do you think he’s above
blame?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I didn’t say that. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: We spend our whole lives taking down
people just like him, Sumac! What the hell!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I didn’t say he was above blame!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: I said I can’t blame him, meaning I can
empathize, even if I don’t agree with him! What would you do if you were the
last one of your kind????<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Or the only one of your kind????<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Especially when you get ass kicked every
time you turn around, just because you’re different from everyone else?!?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Especially when you know there’s a way you
can change that?! Make more of you??! Put an end to the loneliness?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Right, so it’s okay to grab somebody off
the street and turn them into another you, just so you can be a little less
lonely.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Who says that he would have taken an
unwilling victim????<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: You said he tried to turn a Wyrd agent. She
would have known what the risks were. And hell, it could have been an
authorized promotion, for all you now.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Haberman said that Ishmael had turned
eight or nine girls! What if this isn’t his first time then? He’s one of the
sneakiest bastards in all of Wyrd. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: You hear about the time he walked up to
that hacker at the subway stop in New York in the middle of rush hour and slit his
throat? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Crowd was so thick it wasn’t until the
next train came in that the body even began to slump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Guy like that can get away with <i>a lot</i> before anyone catches on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: A guy who embezzles millions of dollars could
probably buy dungeons on every fricking continent and hide hundreds of victims
away. Just visit whenever he’s in town and do whatever he wants with them.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Then why did he get caught now???</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Maybe he got sloppy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Maybe something in him broke after that thing
in Moldova, and that’s when he lost his edge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Maybe that’s why he suddenly started
turning victims again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Hell, for that matter, what if he’s the
one who <i>caused </i>the outbreak in
Moldova, and Wyrd sent him over there to clean up his own mistake, and sent Jay
along to make sure he did it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Dayum…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: It doesn’t add up.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: He’s been with Wyrd for almost forty
years. He’s been alone since he was first brought in. We already know he tried
with someone else. If he’s tried once, maybe he’ll keep trying over and over
again, like you said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: He’s seen others successfully infect
victims. He’s seen Wyrd agents successfully promoted to lycanthrope, and they
always turn out just like the person who turned them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: What if he’s got a case of jealousy on
top of loneliness?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: What happened to the Wyrd agent back in the
‘90s?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">PerilousPennyPine: Dunno.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: Is Ishmael still the only one of his kind?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: The email from Haberman says he is. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: “As is well known among Wyrd Agents, Mr.
Chase is unique among our kind.” His own words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: You can’t be the only one of your kind if
there are eight others just like you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: No, something doesn’t add up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A_Boy_Named_Sue: And as an accountant, that drives me
batshit crazy.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2014 10:00 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Subject: Council Reorganization Announcement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Good afternoon all;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the termination
of Wyrd’s relationship with Director-At-Large Owen Ishmael Chase, effective
immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Due to the sensitivity of the situation, we had decided to deem the specific details of this termination as Confidential and would not
be shared with any member outside the executive board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, we recognize that our agents are among the world’s
finest investigators in their respective fields, be it in surveillance, forensic
accounting, technology, or otherwise, and that speculation and idle curiosity have already generated unauthorized inquiries into restricted Wyrd documents. We
shall now address these rumours, while reminding each of you of that you have signed and sworn to uphold our Wyrd General Confidentiality and Ethics Policies, and in so doing, you have agreed to accept the consequences of any breech thereof.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some of you believe that this is in response to Mr. Chase’s
actions in 2007 in Moldova, wherein he and Mr. Brandywine were tasked with
putting an immediate and aggressive end to an outbreak in Eastern Europe. Contrary to popular rumour, both Mr. Chase and Mr. Brandywine acted in accordance with orders from the Board with extreme speed, effectiveness, and discretion. For this, both men have been commended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Others believe that there is a political motivation
behind his termination, that I have somehow been intimidated by Mr. Chase's financial acumen and leadership style, and that I feel my own position as Chairman is somehow at risk unless he is removed from Wyrd. I can assure you this is nothing more than a malicious
rumour. Until now, Mr. Chase has demonstrated nothing but obedience to this
board and to Wyrd at large, even when issued orders are in direct conflict with
his personal values, as in the case of the 2007 Eastern European operation. Had it not been for his recent actions, and had it been the will of the Inner Council, I would have ceded the Chairman's seat to Mr. Chase without complaint or sense of rivalry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet others believe that this termination is motivated by a Wyrd
Council desire for “lycanthropic ethnic cleansing”. As is well known among
Wyrd Agents, Mr. Chase is unique among our kind, being so unlike other
lycanthropes in his particularly feline alter-ego. He has long been thought of
as the only, or last, of his kind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I cannot state firmly enough that <i>all</i> lycanthropic kind is welcome at Wyrd, whether they be wolf-like,
cat-like, or something else. To say otherwise is to call into question
everything you have sworn in your oath to Wyrd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Still others claim that it is a purely racial motivation, as
Mr. Chase is the only non-Caucasian on the board of directors. This is also
false, as Wyrd does not tolerate prejudice among its members, be they
lycanthropic or human. Should we, who know “difference” better than any racial
or ethnic group, be intolerant of a human-aspect with darker hair or skin tone?
Should we, a multinational organization, accept all lycanthropics from all
nations except for one or two on the basis of their pigmentation? This charge of racism is both laughable and
aggravating, and should not be tolerated by any member of Wyrd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Should you hear any of these rumours among your peers, it
falls to you to put them to rest. Wyrd has a long and proud history of overcoming
superstition with logic and science, and it is no place for idle gossip based on
speculation or spite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The actual reasons for Mr. Chase’s termination are
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1) A recent audit has shown that Mr. Chase has falsified
travel and expense records, thereby embezzling a large sum of money over the
last seven years and transferring it to an account or accounts as yet unknown. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2) Furthermore, as learned during our audit, he has
undocumented sources of income which he has withheld from Wyrd’s knowledge, in
direct violation of our Lycanthropic-Member Policies (see attached). As a
result, he has cost Wyrd several million dollars of lost revenue, which has yet
to be recovered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3) In direct violation of our Lycanthropic-Member Policies, and
in violation of all that Wyrd holds sacrosanct, Mr. Chase has deliberately infected no less
than eight unwilling female victims.
In light of our recent outbreaks in Canada and abroad, this behaviour cannot be
tolerated, and those inviolable laws that this Council holds dear must also be
upheld by its leading members.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It has been ruled by this Council that even its own
directors must suffer the same consequences as any other member, if not more
so. For his crime of forced infection of these eight innocent women, it was originally ruled that Mr. Chase should be summarily executed by drowning, as per
precedents set in 1846 and confirmed again in 1912.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, in light of his invaluable and incalculable contributions prior to and while he
was a Director-At-Large, we have agreed that mitigating factors should lighten his
sentence. Mr. Chase has, after all, contributed nearly one quarter of Wyrd’s revenue each year since 1994, owing to his multiple, sensible
investments in technology and pharmaceutical research. And, as mentioned earlier, he has been commended on several occasions for his swift and extremely
thorough work abroad in containing outbreaks and panic. Many of you have also
learned your field ops craft from him, for which Wyrd is exceptionally
grateful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These commendations, however, do not excuse his behaviour
nor do they render him immune to Wyrd justice. We have taken measures to freeze his
assets, find and relocate his victims, and we have moved him to an undisclosed
location for incarceration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As a result of his termination, there will be some obvious
impacts to our income. We ask for your patience at this time as we reorganize
our board and our assets. Until then, all non-essential travel and other
expenses have been suspended until further notice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For any clarification of any Wyrd policy or the consequences
of violation of these policies, we ask that you speak with your direct support
person at your earliest convenience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01253338495916974660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258270031059935403.post-54248677542155406502015-02-02T13:21:00.001-05:002015-02-08T10:53:47.517-05:00Agents of Chaos (Episode 12)<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Why weren't we invited to this emergency meeting?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: You know how much I hate rhetorical questions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: It's not rhetorical, dear. I'm on the high council. Why was I "forgotten"?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Then it's a disingenuous question with an obvious answer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: We were deliberately left off the contact list.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Naturally.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Why?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Also obvious.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: No, it's obvious why they're cutting *you* out of the emergency meetings. This kaffeeklatch has everything to do with Ishmael, and you're responsible for his being in Wyrd in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: You would have done the same in my place.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: No, dearest. I would have found some far foreign jungle where he could live out his days in secrecy and plenty, far from the reach of Wyrd. The island of Sumatra, for an example.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: For shame, my heart.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: I wouldn't have tried to foist him on Chairman Haberman, especially not in direct violation of Wyrd orders. You should have realized Wyrd would never accept him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: A cat in the pack?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Cat, bear, hyena - whatever. He's an anomaly. A deviant from our so-called noble birthright as pure-blooded werewolves, if you take a page from Ahab's tome.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: And that's precisely why I did it. I am an agent of chaos.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: An unapologetic one at that, especially in light of the lives that he's saved in return.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Well, except for the Moldova Incident, of course.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Wait, you don't think he would actually do something like that, would you?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Kill every one of those poor bastards?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Surely he killed one or two of them. I know, because I saw with my own eyes the vital organs he brought back with him. I was the one supervising the chain of evidence until Burton had concluded his DNA analysis. And I don't care much damage from which you or I can recover, one must still have a brain to initiate a lycanthropic cycle.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: But he didn't kill all of them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Far from it. It's not in his nature.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: That's why he's the perfect Wyrd agent.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: He's more animal than man.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Meaning?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: He never kills out of sport or pleasure. For that matter, he never kills what he can use later.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: And here I was thinking he did it out of the kindness of his heart.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: He was doing it out of the kindness of his pocketbook. Why kill, when you can civilize, train, and employ for your own purposes?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: You think this is what this is about? Do you think they've figured out how he's fleeced the entire council for his own profit?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: A precipitating factor, yes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: But not the only factor.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Doubtful.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Scenario one: Chairman Haberman explains to the Council that my boy has saved a small village of lycanthropes and turned them into a local economic powerhouse. Outcome: the Wyrd Council laughs in Ahab's face, claps their greedy hands together and says to Ishmael, "How wonderful! Return to Moldova and send us a substantial cut of your profits, as you do here in North America. And remain there in exile, you stinking, ugly kitty cat, and take the rest of the anomalies with you. We love you, send money. Sincerely, Wyrd."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Honestly, darling, why kill the golden goose when you can lock him in the barn?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Scenario two: Haberman explains to the council that my boy has saved a small village of lycanthropes and has let them gallivant abroad unsupervised. Outcome: I present financial records to prove Ishmael's good works. And yes, dear, I'm quite aware of all that's passed at Moldova. He told me before he told you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: So you tell them you've known all along what Ishmael's been up to, and they hang you alongside him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Oh never hang, sweetheart. You know Wyrd prefers to drown its convicts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: I stand corrected. But even if they let him live in exile abroad, they won't take kindly to you withholding so much information.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dupin: It's bad enough that I've been withholding the same...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Fear not for me, my love. The last time they left me out of a Council meeting, I disappeared for the better part of the Korean and Vietnam Wars. I have no fear for my own safety.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: And if I recall, you returned only two weeks after Ezra Grantham and Chairman Potter were discovered dead, decapitated, and displayed in a most compromising position.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: I proudly plead the fifth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: The point is, Ahab is just as much a capitalist as my boy is.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Ishmael the Cat offends Ahab's obsession with blood purity, yes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Ishmael the Man is an affront to Ahab's stubborn belief in his own racial superiority, yes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: But that man-cat is also the single biggest income generator that Wyrd has ever seen, and Ahab will not let millions of dollars of income slip away so easily.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: So what are they <i>doing?</i> It's the not-knowing that's putting me in an early grave.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Oh, you young chick. Embrace the futility of all things, and you might survive to my ripe old age.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: I don't want to live to your ripe old age.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: This is all coming completely out of the blue.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Hardly. There has been quite a bit of planning and coordination involved.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Otherwise we would have known about it before now.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: *Ishmael* would have known about it before now.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Let me ask a less obvious question then.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: After Ishmael, who? Ishmael commits the sin of saving lives, and now look at the state he's in. After him, kitten-hearted boy that he is, who's next?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: We should ask all those who were not summoned to this emergency meeting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: So, you, definitely.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: I may have been left out simply because I'm Ishmael's foster-father, and if it were in my power to help him escape Wyrd "justice", I would. But if I am implicated in whatever has gotten my boy into trouble, then I am guilty by association, and must be punished.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: And after you, then it's my turn?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: You have been Ishmael's outspoken supporter from time to time as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: More to the point: you were the only one at the Council table who had been horrified by Ishmael's supposed actions in Moldova. Your "weakness" did not go unremarked. Terribly human of you, little wolf-child.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: My sweet, I must train you in the art of the poker face. Your pallor will be the death of you yet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: And after me? The Moldovan enclave?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Perhaps, perhaps not. If Ishmael had not intervened - if he had left them behind as an unprofitable rabble - yes, they would send Jay to finish the job he had begun. But now? It's hard to say.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: And then Bridget.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: That remains to be seen.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: She's another anomaly. </span><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She's a hyena-type.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jewell: She's also at the Council table right now.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Furthermore, she's a good soldier at heart. Give her an order, and she simply obeys it. She is loyal to a fault. She will kill on blind faith, if that's what the Council decreed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Kill her? No. Manipulate her? Use her? Absolutely yes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Yes, because if anyone has the skills, speed, and strength to subdue someone like your boy, it's Jay and it's Bridget.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: So aside from you and I, is there anyone else missing from this emergency session?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Time will tell. The smart ones will smell smoke and run from fire. I won't ask why they're running. A response will give away their position.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: All right, oh wise one, tell me this...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Did *you* see this coming?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: I'm a doddering old man, not a fortune teller.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Did you?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Not like this.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Not so after so many years.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: There is something very perplexing at play here.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Ahab's always been unapologetic about his policies about purity of the bloodline, and all that. Every three years he comes up with some new scheme to cleanse Wyrd of the unusuals so that the purebloods can romp among their own kind.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: And every three years, I remind him how much money Ishmael has made for us in the last previous six months.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: And besides, why wait thirty years before expunging my boy from our ranks?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: For that matter, why promote a Deep South Black woman in Ishmael's role, when milk-skinned Jay Brandywine would better suit Ahab's fancy? No, Ahab never lets his racist inclinations influence his Machiavellian leadership style.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Ahab believes that for every race - and every therianthropic subspecies - there is an exception that proves the rule, and when he finds that exceptional individual, he wrings the very talent from them for as long as it profits his own personal aims. And Ishmael has many decades of profitability ahead, if they simply let him be.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: So why is Ahab going after Ishmael?!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: That's the wrong question, my dear.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: The real question should be: Is Ahab going after Ishmael?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Well, regardless, we have to find out what's going on.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Not necessarily.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: We need to know if we're at risk.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: We were not invited to an emergency meeting of the Wyrd Council, though members from as far as South Africa and Australia flew in to attend. If they thought the flight was too much for us old fogeys, surely they could have invited us to a conference call.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: So we are in danger.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: They don't want us to know what's happening with Ishmael, which means they don't trust us, not where Ishmael is concerned. Are we in danger? I'm not sure. It depends on what trouble Ishmael is in.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: So we need to know what kind of risks we face, and why.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Not really. Lying low, playing innocent, waiting for this to blow over, that's what we need to do.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: And Ishmael?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: He's all right on his own.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: So you don't care.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: No. I have an unshakeable faith in his ability to survive, especially when he's alone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Listen. Ishmael is the first to fall. If they can suddenly, and secretly, demote their best field operations manager, who else can they dethrone without trial? And now the Wyrd Council is shutting out two of its longest-lived members, one of whom is on the executive board. Who knows who follows. Something is happening to <i>Wyrd</i>, my friend.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Shouldn't that worry you?</span><br />
<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Wyrd was once a tight-knit clan of thrifty, stealthy, kindred spirits. Now look at us. Sprawling. Bureaucratic. Back-biting. It's falling apart at the seams.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: And once there is no Wyrd, after centuries of secrecy and relatively peaceful coexistence, who will stand between us and the rest of human kind?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Who will stand between people like the victims of Dr. Grey and say...I don't know...American military science?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: There was a time even <i>you</i> believed in what Wyrd was doing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: There was a time when Wyrd changed its own constitution to do what <i>you</i> believed was right.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: We are not without our resources.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Yes I know. Money, space, fake identities, the mines, I know.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: I'm referring to our other agents of chaos.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: ...Those two humans you've been spying on.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: Precisely.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: ...You think we can trust them?</span><br />
<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: Or rather, do you think they'll trust <i>us</i>?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewell: I'm certain we can argue an effective case, proving that cooperation is in our mutual best interest.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dupin: So what do we do?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: Sumac’s Other Email Addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2014 4:25 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To: Pine’s backup addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: re: Sorry I’ve been quiet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh holy crap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think something is about to go down.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">From: Pine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2014 4:25 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Subject: re: Sorry I’ve been quiet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">What? Where? Are you okay? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">They haven’t been looking at our emails, have they?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: Sumac’s Other Email Addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2014 4:26 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: re: Sorry I’ve been quiet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don’t know. My boss took a call, and then he jumped up
from his desk and grabbed his coat and went into a conference room. Then
another boss got up and did the same thing. They’re in there now. The rest of
us just stopped working.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is creepy. Nobody is moving. And we can’t hear a thing
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2014 4:27 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">I just got a text from LARCH! She just asked me if I knew
anything about the surveillance goof-up at LaGuardia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">It must have something to do with Ishmael.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: Sumac’s Other Email Addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2014 4:38 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bosses just left and they didn’t say a word to us. I
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things must really be going down if they can’t do this by
phone.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2014 4:39 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Oh – this just in. Larch is up at Varco Lake. She and all the other human agents were just told to to Varco Valley Station until they’re called back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">What. The. Actual. Hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2014 4:40 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the guys from tech said it might have something to do
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2014 4:42 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To: Pine’s backup addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: re: Sorry I’ve been quiet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scratch that!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just got a text from my boss, telling me to stand by.
Something about an unscheduled audit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wouldn’t it figure????? More than two hundred years of
keeping werewolves a secret, and it’s not the army, police or conspiracy
theorists who bring us down. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s Canada Revenue!!!!!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">-----<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: Sumac’s Other Email Addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2014 4:42 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To: Pine’s backup addy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject: re: Sorry I’ve been quiet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scratch that, again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turns out *I’m* auditing all of Ishmael’s onshore and offshore
financial records.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somebody’s been a bad, bad boy.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">-----<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">From: Pine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2014 4:39 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">To: Sumac2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Subject: re: Sorry I’ve been quiet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Sounds just like something Wyrd would do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Slaughter a couple of hundred men, women, and children in
cold blood, then mutilate their bodies, and get off scot-free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">But embezzlement? That’s a capital crime.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<td>Sent:
<td>Thu 2014-09-10 @ 3:42 PM
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<td>From:
<td>Pine
<tr>
<td>To:
<td>Sumac2
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<td>Subject:
<td>Sorry I've been quiet
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<p>
I was called in as back-up for someone else on another surveillance job in the BC Interior. Great view. Bad burger. Spent most of my time with a laptop literally on my lap top because I couldn’t get off the toilet for sixteen hours.
</p><p>
TMI, I know.
</p><p>
God, I hate my job.
</p><p>
I wonder if you can volunteer for quarantine? Can’t be any worse than what I’m dealing with now.
</p><p>
<h6>~Pine~<br>~Never Give Up...Never Surrender.~</h6>
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<td>Sent:
<td>Thu 2014-09-10 @ 3:48 PM
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<td>From:
<td>Sumac’s Other Email Addy
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<td>To:
<td>Pine’s backup addy
<tr>
<td>Subject:
<td>Re: Sorry I've been quiet
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<p>
Why? What’s going on now? You okay???
</p>
<h4>Sent from my iPhone 5 </H4>
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<td>Sent:
<td>Thu 2014-09-10 @ 3:59 PM
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<td>From:
<td>Pine
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<td>To:
<td>Sumac2
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<td>Subject:
<td>Re: Sorry I've been quiet
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<p>
It’s a long story and Larch asked me not to talk about it.
</p><p>
Skip it. Just call it a really stressful field op. At least I’m over the food poisoning.
</p><p>
Anyhow, I got back about an hour ago, and I started looking over your emails. Then I went back to the reports to confirm if “Wyndham Farms” is the actual name of the quarantine.
</p><p>
I came across this instead, and I nearly crapped my pants. Again.
</p>
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<h5>Wyndham Kill/Capture/Quarantine Report</h5>
<table id="kcq">
<caption id="kcq">Preliminary Information</caption>
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<td>Case file:
<td>JLR
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<td>Name:
<td>John or Luke Reid
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<td>AKA:
<td>Padre
<tr>
<td>Added to k/c/q list:
<td>September 5th, 2009
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<td>Date of capture:
<td>December 6th, 2009
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<caption id="kcq">Metrics at time of kill/capture/quarantine</caption>
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<td>Height:
<td>5'6"
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<td>Weight:
<td>125 lbs
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<td>Age:
<td>43
<tr>
<td>Sex:
<td>cis-male
<tr>
<td>Location of capture:
<td>Elmbury, Ontario
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<td>Occupation:
<td>unemployed, indigent
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<td>Infection status:
<td>confirmed
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<caption id="kcq"> Wyrd Agent(s) Assigned</caption>
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<td><col1>Primary:
<td><col2>Bridget Carnegie, Hector Two-Trees Jr. (Agent Maple)
<tr>
<td>Secondary:
<td>Agent Larch (SitCon)
<br>
<tr>
<td>Status:
<td>Successful Capture. Interned in quarantine.
</table>
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<p2>
<em>Suspected Vector(s):</em></p>
<p>
1) Confirmed patient of Dr. Grey.
2) (enter name)<br>
3) (enter name)</p>
<p2><em>Capture notes:</em> </p>
<p>
Following up on original patient list, which had entries for Luke Reid and John Reid. Both of no fixed address. Both had the same birthdate and height, very similar weight. No pictures attached with the file, but we knew either the same person went back to Dr. Grey twice, or they were twins.
</p><p>
Further investigation showed that Luke and John both have substantial police records in Ontario and B.C., with some counts of assault and petty theft in Alberta as well.
</p><p>
Even more investigation showed that several of the charges were dismissed in court as police could not confirm whether it was John or Luke who had been at the scene of the crime, or the cases had been dismissed due to a lack of other evidence, such as fingerprints or DNA samples.
</p><p>
Attached are recent newspaper articles highlighting how one brother would always have a very public alibi while the other committed the crime. Should one brother be caught, the other would always be within the same city, if not within the same block, and would always attend his brother’s trial.
</p><p>
According to patient notes, Luke was first diagnosed with lung cancer in June of 2006. In August of the same year, John was also diagnosed for lung cancer. Both being homeless at the time, both being diagnosed but untreated for lung cancer, Dr. Grey contacted them and began treatment. He had originally hoped to use them in a double-blind study (both twins given treatment, but one of them was given a placebo only), but then for whatever reason, he gave the treatment to both.
</p><p>
It is important to note that John Reid is/was married to one Catherine Anne Mission, by whom he has a daughter. Both women are currently listed on the kill/capture/quarantine list as well. The other brother is not known to have married or had any children.
</p><p>
We were unable to locate either brother for several weeks. We knew only that they had originated from and often returned to Elmbury, Ontario, where they’d been born and raised. I had assigned Agent Larch to remain in town for some time while she interviewed citizens and neighbours about the pair’s habits. Most of the interviewees were familiar with the twins due to their criminal and violent past, but none could provide further information.
</p><p>
However, on the night of November 4th, from Larch we received word of an extremely violent fight between two large wild animals in a public park in the middle of Elmbury, near an abandoned paper mill. The mill is often used by homeless people for shelter in winter. Police were dispatched, and there they discovered the partially consumed remains of both a human male and “a large wolf-dog hybrid”. Police quickly closed off the park and labelled it as a biohazard area.
</p><p>
There were, reportedly, very few remains to be found. One interviewed officer claimed that there was only a half of the dog left, and less than that remaining of the man.
</p><p>
The officer went on to speculate that a man out walking his dog had been attacked by a pack of rabid coyotes or wolves and died as a result. Coyotes had been seen in recent weeks, including in that park. Traps were then set to capture the animals in order to test for rabies and other contagions.
</p><p>
I left Agent Two-Trees to assist with the crime scene, as he was acting in his official capacity as RCMP special officer and forensic anthropologist. An ATS field blood test showed that the deceased was positive for early-stage lycanthropy, and most likely was one of Dr. Grey’s patients.
</p><p>
Two-Trees officially arranged to have the remains removed. But, to ensure zero physical contact, he had Agent Larch engineer a fire on scene to destroy as much contaminated evidence as possible, before the biohazard clean-up crew arrived.
</p><p>
At that time, we were unable to confirm that there had been one or two male remains at the scene, due to the condition of the body (or bodies) and due to the fact that twins have the same DNA. Since both were also patients of Dr. Grey, both would test positive for ATS. With more resources and better equipment, Dr. Burton has assured me we could determine some epigenetic variation between them, but without access to some prior DNA evidence, we still wouldn't know which DNA set matched with "Luke" and which with "John."
</p><p>
Sometime after midnight on the morning of December 6th, I and Two-Trees were sitting in a coffee shop approximately eight blocks from the park where the body was found. An officer entered to order coffee for those first responders who were still managing the scene. We overheard his police radio reporting a car theft, with tracks in the snow nearby. These tracks the dispatcher said, led the responding constable to believe that the suspect was barefoot.
</p><p>
Two-Trees and I immediately left the coffee shop and went to that area, but the tracks stopped where the tire tracks began. It was impossible at that time to continue tracking the car, due to police barricades and to a snow storm. We did continue to search the area to the best of our ability, hoping to backtrack to the scene of the crime and determine that the car theft had been committed by a survivor from that scene at the mill.
</p><p>
What we found instead was a crashed car, driver’s door open, inside a parish graveyard near the edge of town. I had originally assumed that the suspect had ditched the car and then fled on foot toward the housing development under construction, which was approximately 500 metres to the south of the church. Two-Trees, being very familiar with the Elmbury area himself, suggested that the suspect might first try to break into the church, which is known in the county for its poverty outreach programs and which often gives out free food and clothes to people in need.
</p><p>
We then discovered that the locked church door had been broken outward and that the solid iron handle and hinges had been bent. This confirmed that we were indeed dealing with one of Dr. Grey’s patients, as they exhibit superhuman strength even while in human form.
</p><p>
With Two-Trees covering the same exit, I then proceeded into the church in search of the intruder. I heard a voice inside one of the confessionals, crying and praying. I approached with weapon drawn, and found the surviving Reid brother in a corner of a confessional, naked, praying and begging for forgiveness. When he saw me, I began to ask him to come with me, quietly and calmly. He sniffed the air, called me an abomination like himself, then began to upcycle and attack, knocking the gun from my hand. Despite his speed and desperation, I was able to quickly subdue him. (I sat on him.) With him thus captured but with me very quickly up-cycling, Two-Trees entered and gained control of the situation, using negotiation and a mild dose of etorphine which left the target semi-alert and compliant.
</p><p>
It was further determined, en route to our Halifax facility, that the target had not yet completed his false starts. But, as with the other Grey patients, he has little to no memory of his past. We asked if he remembered having a wife or children, and he said it was possible, but that he could not remember. And since his criminal and personal history is so similar to his brother’s, we were unable to prompt him with any other questions that might remind him which brother he is.
</p><p>
He does remember, in stark detail, how he killed his own brother. He just doesn't know which brother he is.
</p><p>
Two hours after his capture, the target thanked us for picking him up, and he promised to be compliant with all that was required of him, for our safety, and “for the safety of all mankind”. En route, he did have several false starts, which made him break out in fur and fangs, and which made him laugh in an unnerving manner, but to our surprise, he quickly began to create self-calming techniques like prayer and meditation to pull himself back from a complete change.
</p><p>
He was, however, in a state of extreme despair and regret, as the only memory he had was that of killing his own brother with his hands and teeth, and flashbacks triggered false starts, panic attacks, and self-destructive behaviours.
</p>
<p2><em>Other notes: </em></p>
<p>Trapped in a vehicle with man screaming “Oh God no! Oh God no! Oh God no!” for 36 straight hours is enough to convert the pope to atheism.</p>
<p2><em>Signed:</em></p>
<p>B. Carnegie</p>
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<div class="emailsumacleft">
<table id="emailheader">
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<td>Sent:
<td>Thu 2014-09-10 @ 3:48 PM
<tr>
<td>From:
<td>Sumac’s Other Email Addy
<tr>
<td>To:
<td>Pine’s backup addy
<tr>
<td>Subject:
<td>Re: Sorry I've been quiet
</table>
<p>
Hell of a story, but I don’t get why it would make you want to crap your pants.
</p>
<h4>Sent from my iPhone 5 </H4>
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<td>Sent:
<td>Thu 2014-09-10 @ 3:59 PM
<tr>
<td>From:
<td>Pine
<tr>
<td>To:
<td>Sumac2
<tr>
<td>Subject:
<td>Re: Sorry I've been quiet
<tr>
</table>
<p>
Because I remember those brothers. When I was a kid, I used to see them walking together downtown, and people would cross the road to get out of their way.
</p><p>
I remembering hearing the news that police had confirmed the dental remains of two bodies down at Pritchard Park, and how they identified them as Luke and John Reid. I’d always figured it was karma that caught up with them, or maybe that they’d gotten drunk and set each other on fire or something.
</p><p>
I had no idea one of the brothers got up and walked away…let alone became a werewolf.
</p><p>
And I used to babysit his daughter. I was back home at Embury on four months sick leave when all this was happening, and I had direct contact with a patient of Dr. Grey. I took that little girl swimming.
</p><p>
FML.
</p><p>
I’ve gotta go look for a kill/capture request for myself now.
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<td>Sent:
<td>Tues 2014-09-02 @ 9:45 PM
<tr>
<td>From:
<td>Sumac’s Other Email Addy
<tr>
<td>To:
<td>Pine’s backup addy
<tr>
<td>Subject:
<td>pretty sure this is how I die
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<p>
I’ve got to stop hanging around with people like you.
</p><p>
I found a folder that’s password protected on our intranet. I couldn’t figure out the password at all. And then I had a stroke of evil genius. And now I’m feeling sick to my stomach.
</p><p>
My boss is a bit of a dunce when it comes to computers. A few weeks ago, he was having problems with his accounting program, so he called me over to his desk. Idiot wrote down his password on a piece of paper in his desk, and left it out for everyone to see. I remember trying over and over to pronounce the word, until I finally realized it was the title of a Prozzak song (Omobolasire, if you didn’t already guess it). Pretty much forgot about it for months, because my boss is boring, and I thought he had nothing hack-worthy to spy on.
</p><p>
Anyhow, I logged out of my system and signed in under his username and password. Okay, it doesn’t count as actual hacking, but it does make me feel a bit like a bad ass. Anyhow, his systems permissions are higher than mine, and I was able to access that folder.
</p><p>
But seriously, this is how I die.
</p><p>
I found a budget report for this thing called Wyndham Farms. I thought at first that this was where we were getting that Grade A beef Wyrd is always ordering to keep Varco Lake so well stocked.
</p><p>
Clearly not.
</p><p>
I found the Farm. The quarantine.
</p><p>
This is the budget summary I found for them. Just the budget. Not the actuals.
</p><p>
How do you go from over $1.5M in food down to $28k in four years??? And how did they know two years in advance how much less they'd need????
<table id="kcq">
<caption id="kcq">2012 W.F. Budget Summary Final With Forecast</caption>
<colgroup>
<tr>
<th style="text-align:center">Year</th>
<th style="text-align:center">Food ($)</th>
<th style="text-align:center">Medical ($)</th>
<th style="text-align:center">Research ($)</th>
<th style="text-align:center">Other ($)</th>
<th style="text-align:center">Total ($)</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2011</td>
<td>1,098,000</td>
<td>241,500</td>
<td>20,000</td>
<td>100,000</td>
<td>1,459,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2012</td>
<td>343,500</td>
<td>28,625</td>
<td>20,000</td>
<td>50,000</td>
<td>442,125</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2013</td>
<td>166,500</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>15,000</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>181,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2014</td>
<td>28,500</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>28,500</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Grand Total</b></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td><b>2,111,625</b></td>
</table>
<p>--Su--</p>
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<td>Sent:
<td>Tues 2014-09-02 @ 9:58 PM
<tr>
<td>From:
<td>Pine
<tr>
<td>To:
<td>Sumac2
<tr>
<td>Subject:
<td>Re: pretty sure this is how I die
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<p>
They must have been using that research money to try and find a cure for whatever it is that's killing these people off, and then they just gave up. It takes millions and millions of dollars - to say nothing of the number of researchers involved - just to make a breakthrough in MS, for example. How much research did they think they could get, with only $20k in the pot per year?
</p><p>
Yeah, and at a glance, you'd think that was a hell of a lot of food, but when you break it down per person, per day, that's not a lot of money. And there were hundreds of people abducted and transported.
</p><p>
But I'm not surprised about the drop in numbers. People were dying off the moment the stepped out of the truck. It looks like a hell of a disease, whatever it is.
</p>
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<div class="emailsumacright">
<table id="emailheader">
<tr>
<td>Sent:
<td>Tues 2014-09-02 @ 10:01 PM
<tr>
<td>From:
<td>Sumac’s Other Email Addy
<tr>
<td>To:
<td>Pine’s backup addy
<tr>
<td>Subject:
<td>Re: pretty sure this is how I die
</table>
<p>
You don't get it. We spent over $1M in food alone for these Wyndham people. We spend less than half of that at Varco Lake every year. And they've got unlimited beef.
</p><p>
--Su--</p>
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<div class="emailpineleft">
<table id="emailheader">
<tr>
<td>Sent:
<td>Tues 2014-09-02 @ 10:03 PM
<tr>
<td>From:
<td>Pine
<tr>
<td>To:
<td>Sumac2
<tr>
<td>Subject:
<td>Re: pretty sure this is how I die
</table>
<p>
Dude.
</p><p>
They're werewolves.
</p><p>
If no one has reported a strange conclave of hairy-ass people running around baying at the moon, then chances are, the quarantine is far away from civilization.
</p><p>
If they are out in the middle of our vast Canadian hinterland, then chances are pretty damned good that they're fending for themselves as werewolves often do. You know, with their teeth. After a while, they get the hang of hunting, so Wyrd doesn't have to buy so much food.
</p><p>
Just a damned shame that throw-away folks have no say in the matter.
</p><p>
Hell, maybe they were getting square meals for the first time in their lives...for as long as it lasted.
</p><p>
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<div class="emailsumacright">
<table id="emailheader">
<tr>
<td>Sent:
<td>Wed 2014-09-03 @ 12:03 AM
<tr>
<td>From:
<td>Sumac’s Other Email Addy
<tr>
<td>To:
<td>Pine’s backup addy
<tr>
<td>Subject:
<td>Re: pretty sure this is how I die
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<p>
You still don't get it.
</p><p>
That budget I sent you was the 2012 version of the document. In other words, they knew two years in advance taht they were going to slash teh budget by 2013, and decimate it this year.
</p><p>
And if that's not enough to get me killed, I've looked at teh month over month budget. We stopped buying food for htese people four months ago!!! And at first I thought, dayum, that means they're all dead already.
</p><p>
And then I saw this:
</p>
<table id="kcq">
<caption id="kcq">2012 W.F. Budget Summary Final With Forecast</caption>
<colgroup>
<tr>
<th style="text-align:center">Month</th>
<th style="text-align:center">2011</th>
<th style="text-align:center">2012 ($)</th>
<th style="text-align:center">2013 ($)</th>
<th style="text-align:center">2014 ($)</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>January</td>
<td>215</td>
<td>90</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>78</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>February</td>
<td>250</td>
<td>95</td>
<td>98</td>
<td>75</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>March</td>
<td>255</td>
<td>95</td>
<td>96</td>
<td>74</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>April</td>
<td>260</td>
<td>95</td>
<td>95</td>
<td>70</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>May</td>
<td>265</td>
<td>95</td>
<td>95</td>
<td>63</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>June</td>
<td>270</td>
<td>90</td>
<td>94</td>
<td>62</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>July</td>
<td>255</td>
<td>90</td>
<td>94</td>
<td>60</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>August</td>
<td>230</td>
<td>95</td>
<td>90</td>
<td>55</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>September</td>
<td>110</td>
<td>102</td>
<td>85</td>
<td>45</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>October</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>101</td>
<td>86</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>November</td>
<td>105</td>
<td>101</td>
<td>85</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>December</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>82</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>
So at our worst, they were at 270 - like you said, hundreds of people abducted and quarantined. But look at the drop between August 2011 and September 2011. Like, wtf. Were half of them suddenly released into the wild, while the other half were doomed to stay put???
</p><p>
But look at our numbers right now. We stopped feeding them in June.
</p><p>
They're still in quarantine, Pine. They're still there, and we've stopped paying for their food. "Werewolves fending for themselves" be damned!!! They're only hairy once a month. What are they supposed to eat for the other twenty-nine days???
</p><p>
For that matter, like you said: they weren't all werewolves when they first got to quarantine. Some of them were as human as me and you. And we didn't just cut off their food. We cut off everything. Medical supplies. Clothes. Fuel. Ammunition for their own hunting. God, what were they expected to do, make their own spears and bows and arrows?
</p><p>
And what's with next month? What happens in October? Are they releasing the final 45, or do they expect they'll all be dead by then?
</p><p>
Pine, I think Wyrd's killing off the last survivors.
</p><p>
We're starving them to death.
</p><p>
--Su--</p>
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-moz-box-shadow: -10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
box-shadow: -10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
}
.emailsumacleft {
margin-top:20px;
margin-bottom:10px;
margin-right:20px;
margin-left:20px;
padding:5px;
background: rgba(215,223,234,1);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, rgba(215,223,234,1)), color-stop(1%, rgba(215,223,234,1)), color-stop(6%, rgba(184,198,214,1)), color-stop(92%, rgba(186,197,212,1)), color-stop(98%, rgba(215,223,234,1)), color-stop(100%, rgba(215,223,234,1)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#d7dfea', endColorstr='#d7dfea', GradientType=0 );
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:maroon;
border-radius: 25px 0 0 0;
-moz-border-radius: 25px 0 0 0;
-webkit-border-radius: 25px 0 0 0;
border: 6px double darkgray;
-webkit-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
-moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
}
.emailsumacright {
margin:20px;
padding:5px;
background: rgba(215,223,234,1);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, rgba(215,223,234,1)), color-stop(1%, rgba(215,223,234,1)), color-stop(6%, rgba(184,198,214,1)), color-stop(92%, rgba(186,197,212,1)), color-stop(98%, rgba(215,223,234,1)), color-stop(100%, rgba(215,223,234,1)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#d7dfea', endColorstr='#d7dfea', GradientType=0 );
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:maroon;
border-radius: 0 0 25px 0;
-moz-border-radius:0 0 25px 0;
-webkit-border-radius:0 0 25px 0;
border: 6px double darkgray;
-webkit-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
-moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
}
.kcq {
margin-top:10px;
margin-bottom:10px;
margin-right:20px;
margin-left:20px;
padding:15px;
background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.65);
font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
color:navy;
font-size:90%;
border: 6px double #000000;
-webkit-box-shadow: -10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
-moz-box-shadow: -10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
box-shadow: -10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
}
.kcqnew {
margin-top:10px;
margin-bottom:10px;
margin-right:20px;
margin-left:20px;
padding:15px;
background: rgba(215,223,234,1);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, rgba(215,223,234,1)), color-stop(1%, rgba(215,223,234,1)), color-stop(6%, rgba(184,198,214,1)), color-stop(92%, rgba(186,197,212,1)), color-stop(98%, rgba(215,223,234,1)), color-stop(100%, rgba(215,223,234,1)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(215,223,234,1) 0%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 1%, rgba(184,198,214,1) 6%, rgba(186,197,212,1) 92%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 98%, rgba(215,223,234,1) 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#d7dfea', endColorstr='#d7dfea', GradientType=0 );
font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
color:navy;
font-size:90%;
border: 6px double darkgray;
-webkit-box-shadow: -10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
-moz-box-shadow: -10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
box-shadow: -10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(76,79,79,1);
}
.chatpineleft {
position:relative;
max-width:450px;
padding:5px;
margin:1em 0 0;
margin-left: 30px;
border:3px solid darkgreen;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#003300;background: rgba(212,228,239,1);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, rgba(212,228,239,1)), color-stop(100%, rgba(134,174,204,1)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#d4e4ef', endColorstr='#86aecc', GradientType=0 );
-webkit-border-radius:10px;
-moz-border-radius:10px;
border-radius:10px;
}
.chatpineleft:before {
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:3px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: auto;
left:-30px; /* value = - border-left-width - border-right-width */
border-width:10px 30px 10px 0;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent darkgreen;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatpineleft:after{
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:7px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: auto;
left:-30px; /* value = - border-left-width - border-right-width */
border-width:5px 30px 5px 0;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent #b5c6d0;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatpineright {
position:relative;
right: -23em;
text-align:right;
max-width: 450px;
padding:5px;
margin:1em 0 0;
margin-right: 30px;
border:3px solid darkgreen;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#003300;
background: rgba(239,197,202,1);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, rgba(212,228,239,1)), color-stop(100%, rgba(134,174,204,1)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#d4e4ef', endColorstr='#86aecc', GradientType=0 );
-webkit-border-radius:10px;
-moz-border-radius:10px;
border-radius:10px;
}
.chatpineright:before {
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:3px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: -30px;
left:auto;
border-width:10px 0 10px 30px;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent darkgreen;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatpineright:after {
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:7px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: -30px;
left:auto;
border-width:5px 0 5px 30px;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent #b5c6d0;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatsumacleft {
position:relative;
max-width:450px;
padding:5px;
margin:1em 0 0;
margin-left: 30px;
border:3px solid maroon;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:maroon;
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, rgba(212,228,239,1)), color-stop(100%, rgba(134,174,204,1)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#d4e4ef', endColorstr='#86aecc', GradientType=0 );
-webkit-border-radius:10px;
-moz-border-radius:10px;
border-radius:10px;
}
.chatsumacleft:before {
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:3px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: auto;
left:-30px; /* value = - border-left-width - border-right-width */
border-width:10px 30px 10px 0;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent maroon;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatsumacleft:after{
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:7px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: auto;
left:-30px; /* value = - border-left-width - border-right-width */
border-width:5px 30px 5px 0;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent #b5c6d0;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatsumacright {
position:relative;
right: -23em;
text-align:right;
max-width: 450px;
padding:5px;
margin:1em 0 0;
margin-right: 30px;
border:3px solid maroon;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:maroon;background: rgba(239,195,200,1);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, rgba(212,228,239,1)), color-stop(100%, rgba(134,174,204,1)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#d4e4ef', endColorstr='#86aecc', GradientType=0 );
-webkit-border-radius:10px;
-moz-border-radius:10px;
border-radius:10px;
}
.chatsumacright:before {
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:3px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: -30px;
left:auto;
border-width:10px 0 10px 30px;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent maroon;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatsumacright:after {
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:7px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: -30px;
left:auto;
border-width:5px 0 5px 30px;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent #b5c6d0;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatjewellleft {
position:relative;
max-width:450px;
padding:5px;
margin:1em 0 0;
margin-left: 30px;
border:3px solid indigo;
font-family:'Lucida Bright', Georgia, serif;
color:indigo;
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, rgba(212,228,239,1)), color-stop(100%, rgba(134,174,204,1)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#d4e4ef', endColorstr='#86aecc', GradientType=0 );
-webkit-border-radius:10px;
-moz-border-radius:10px;
border-radius:10px;
}
.chatjewellleft:before {
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:3px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: auto;
left:-30px; /* value = - border-left-width - border-right-width */
border-width:10px 30px 10px 0;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent indigo;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatjewellleft:after{
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:7px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: auto;
left:-30px; /* value = - border-left-width - border-right-width */
border-width:5px 30px 5px 0;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent #b5c6d0;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatjewellright {
position:relative;
right: -23em;
text-align:right;
max-width: 450px;
padding:5px;
margin:1em 0 0;
margin-right: 30px;
border:3px solid indigo;
font-family:'Lucida Bright', Georgia, serif;
color:indigo;
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, rgba(212,228,239,1)), color-stop(100%, rgba(134,174,204,1)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#d4e4ef', endColorstr='#86aecc', GradientType=0 );
-webkit-border-radius:10px;
-moz-border-radius:10px;
border-radius:10px;
}
.chatjewellright:before {
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:3px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: -30px;
left:auto;
border-width:10px 0 10px 30px;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent indigo;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatjewellright:after {
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:7px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: -30px;
left:auto;
border-width:5px 0 5px 30px;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent #b5c6d0;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatchloeleft {
position:relative;
max-width:450px;
padding:5px;
margin:1em 0 0;
margin-left: 30px;
border:3px solid #6F370F;
font-family:'Century Gothic', CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif;
color:#53290B;
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, rgba(212,228,239,1)), color-stop(100%, rgba(134,174,204,1)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#d4e4ef', endColorstr='#86aecc', GradientType=0 );
-webkit-border-radius:10px;
-moz-border-radius:10px;
border-radius:10px;
}
.chatchloeleft:before {
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:3px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: auto;
left:-30px; /* value = - border-left-width - border-right-width */
border-width:10px 30px 10px 0;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent #6F370F;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatchloeleft:after{
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:7px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: auto;
left:-30px; /* value = - border-left-width - border-right-width */
border-width:5px 30px 5px 0;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent #b5c6d0;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatchloeright {
position:relative;
right: -23em;
text-align:right;
max-width: 450px;
padding:5px;
margin:1em 0 0;
margin-right: 30px;
border:3px solid #6F370F;
font-family:'Century Gothic', CenturyGothic, AppleGothic, sans-serif;;
color:#53290B;
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, rgba(212,228,239,1)), color-stop(100%, rgba(134,174,204,1)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(212,228,239,1) 0%, rgba(134,174,204,1) 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#d4e4ef', endColorstr='#86aecc', GradientType=0 );
-webkit-border-radius:10px;
-moz-border-radius:10px;
border-radius:10px;
}
.chatchloeright:before {
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:3px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: -30px;
left:auto;
border-width:10px 0 10px 30px;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent #6F370F;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.chatchloeright:after {
content:"";
position:absolute;
top:7px; /* controls vertical position */
bottom:auto;
right: -30px;
left:auto;
border-width:5px 0 5px 30px;
border-style:solid;
border-color:transparent #b5c6d0;
/* reduce the damage in FF3.0 */
display:block;
width:0;
}
.gobtn {
margin-right:20px;
margin-left:20px;
margin-top:5px;
margin-bottom:5px;
max-width:125px;
padding:5px;
background-color:black;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:darkblue;
border-radius: 25px 0 0 0;
-moz-border-radius: 25px 0 0 0;
-webkit-border-radius: 25px 0 0 0;
border: 2px solid darkslategray;
}
.gobtn:hover {
background-color:rgba(200,200,200,0.65);
}
table#Nav {
position: relative;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-bottom:auto;
cellpadding=3;
}
table#emailheader {
position: relative;
cellpadding=3;
color:black;
font-family:"Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-size:90%;
font:bold;
}
table#kcq {
position: relative;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
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<td>Mon 2014-09-08 @ 9:13 PM
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<td>Sumac2
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<td>Re: Who knew accounting could be so exciting?
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<p>
You need me to find out right now about where Ishmael is coming in from? Don't know if I can find out what he was up to, but I can look.
</p><p>
But I was planning on taking the night off for a change. I’ve got the boyfriend over. It’s getting harder and harder to make excuses for why I work so late, especially if I’m supposably just some data auditor for a paper products company, right?</p>
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<td>Mon 2014-09-08 @ 9:21 PM
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<p>
No, do it whenever you get a chance. No sense rushing it. If there was an outbreak in eastern Europe, Ishmael wouldn’t be coming home unless it was already taken care of and the damage already done. I just want to know how much it’s going to cost for us to handle the clean-up.
</p><p>
I wish that caller would give up. Think I may have to change my number or something. He called three times in the last hour before I finally pulled the cord out of the wall.
</p><p>
--Su--
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<td>Holy blood bath, Batman.
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<p>
First, do not freak out. Yes, I went into the archives, and no, I didn't go onto the servers. I made a back-up of the hacked archives days ago, and I searched through those. So if there's anything new on Ishmael's mission, I don't know about it.
</p><p>
Secondly, shame on me. To think I used to believe werewolves were as human as we are. Ishmael's no different from the rest of them, after all.
</p><p>
No, he's worse than the rest of them, combined.
</p><p>
Between him and Jay, they killed over 350 people. In one mission.
</p><p>
And Ishmael brought back trophies from every single kill.
</p><p>
I called in sick.
</p>
<h6>~Pine~<br>~Never Give Up...Never Surrender.~</h6>
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<td>Tue 2014-09-09 @ 8:22 AM
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<td>Re: Holy blood bath, Batman
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<p>
What are you talking about? 350???! I would have seen that on the books somewhere. You don't slaughter that many people without the world knowing about it, not without one hell of a lot of resources.
</p><p>
That's not a mission. That's a terrorist attack. That's a fricking act of war.
</p><p>
Get off the drugs, go back, check again.
</p><p>
--Su--
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<td>Tue 2014-09-09 @ 9:27 AM
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<p>
It happened before your time, and almost before my time.
</p><p>
In early 2005, there was a massive outbreak in Eastern Europe, and all the victims went and hid in some Soviet-era mines. Another quarantine, maybe, or just a colony of survivors, I don't know.
</p><p>
First I thought the outbreak might have something to do with Dr. Grey, since most of his victims started appearing late 2008, just a couple of years after all this went down.
</p><p>
Then I thought maybe this was a result of some late-era Soviet experimentation, y'know, the super-soldier-type experiments during the Cold War? I mean, how else do you suddenly grow 350 new werewolves without anyone knowing about it?
</p><p>
Now I'm thinking it's some combination of the two. Maybe "Dr. Grey" is an alias for some scientist who defected to Canada and continued the Russian experiments.
</p><p>
Either way, that outbreak was so big they deployed Jay and Ishmael and three dozen human agents to clean up the mess. And once it was over, the Executive Council buried it, and all records expunged from the official field operations archives. Aside from these Exec records, there are only redacted memos referring to The Moldova Incident.
</p><p>
Now, I don't know if they were engaged in the world's biggest pissing contest or what, but this Exec Council report makes it sound like Jay and Ishmael were trying to see who was the bigger badass. And, according to the report, Ishmael won.
</p><p>
The order was: go there, contain the outbreak, destroy all new lycanthropes with extreme prejudice. Two guys to do all the killing as fast as inhumanly possible, and thirty-six of us to handle the clean up.
</p><p>
Lining up this timeline against my own calendar, I realized I was involved in this. I had to go pick up Jay from the airport, once he came back from Moldova. I’d had no idea where he’d been or what he was doing. All I remember was seeing this sick grin on his face, and the way his eyes kind of rolled back whenever he smiled - and he'd smile at nothing, just all of a sudden, like he's reliving his best one night stand. Seriously, he put the “lust” in “bloodlust”. Still makes my skin crawl just to think about it.
</p><p>
And he brought back with him this box. It was big, but it wasn't heavy, and it sounded like it was full of kids' sandals. All I had to do was pick it up from the airport and drive him and the box to his own car back in Vancouver.
</p><p>
Turns out the box was full of RIGHT EARS. I'd been carrying a box of HUMAN EARS.
</p><p>
All because Jay decided that he was going to prove his badassness by bringing back the right ear of every victim so the council could get an accurate count.
</p><p>
Men's ears. Women's ears with earrings still in them. Children's ears, Sumac. He stood there in the Exec Council, giggling like a madman, saying that he'd brought them all a souven-ear from abroad.
</p><p>
I can't begin to tell you what kind of a morning I've been having.
</p><p>
According to this report, after showing off his box of trophies, Jay started this rumour in the Council that Ishmael has gone soft, and that he's going to fake the deaths of the rest of the Moldovans and bribe the human agents into saying he's successfully killed the lycanthropes. But instead of killing the new lycanthrophes, so said Jay Ear-Hunter, Ishmael was going to start his own little commune – like a Wyrd Europe or something.
</p><p>
So what does Ishmael do?
</p><p>
Ishmael completes his mission. Then he goes and buys this huge battery operated refrigerator. He labels it “Organs for transplant, do not remove power supply” or whatever. He poses as a doctor with Médicins Sans Frontières, gets on a commercial flight, drives himself to Varco Lake, and then he walks right into the Council chambers with the fridge on a trolley.
</p><p>
Inside the refrigerator, it’s complete and total horror show.
</p><p>
First he pulls out a foot. Then a hand. Then a heart. Then another foot. Then he pulls out a testicle. And then he pulls out a half-changed head, not just to prove that he killed a small town's worth of innocent people, but to show that he made sure they were lycanthropic, first.
The Council report decides to check the DNA of all these body parts, the ears and everything else. This Dr. Gil Burton guy, at Varco Lake, he confirmed that every trophy was genetically distinct from the other, so neither Jay nor Ishmael double-dipped any of the corpses. That confirmed they killed 353 people between them. Then Burton goes on to see if all the victims were lycanthropic.
</p><p>
Ishmael's set? 100% werewolves. So yeah, good for him - creepy bastard.
</p><p>
And Jay? Thirty of his victims are human, meaning that he's missed thirty lycanthropes, and they're still overseas making more lycanthropes. So yay, great, job security for us. Maniac.
</p><p>
And the sickest part? Every one of Jay's captured ears has his saliva on them, which either means he tore their ears off while he was in his wolf-form, or he has a fetish, and I still haven't finished vomiting.
</p><p>
As for Ishmael's victims? Not a trace of saliva. He says he killed them all while he was still human. Looked every one of them in the eye and killed them. Six-inch barbed blade, the report says. He even made his own weapons for the job. Stick the blade in the lycanthrope's heart, and it doesn't matter how many times he or she changes, the knife will still be there, tearing up the organs until death.
</p><p>
But the absolute worst part about all this?
</p><p>
Some of the body parts Ishmael brought back were too small to be adult.
</p><p>
Ishmael killed even the kids he suspected as being carriers. Just like he was told to do. He out-Jayed Jay.
</p><p>
To think I used to think so bloody high of Ishmael.
</p><p>
“Take my number in case Jay tries anything stupid with you,” he says.
</p><p>
“Why kill a rogue when you can turn him into a wage earner?” he says.
</p><p>
"Nothing is ever what it seems to be," he says. I call BS.
</p><p>
I mean, what did those kids ever do to deserve slaughter and mutilation like that? And who the hell orders too men to go out and kill that many people, especially when there are kids involved?
</p><p>
Jay is all hot rage, but Ishmael's just...cold evil.
</p><p>
Hell, maybe they’re going to LaGuardia to pick up Ishmael and throw him in quarantine.
</p><p>
I hope he never gets out alive.
</p><p>
I hope he meets Ferox and gets his ass handed to him.
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<td>Sent:
<td>Tue 2014-09-09 @ 9:34 AM
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<td>From:
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<td>Pine’s backup addy
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<td>Subject:
<td>Re: Holy blood bath, Batman
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<p>
So what, you're saying that you think agents are going to pick up Ishmael to bring him to quarantine, because of something he did in 2005?
</p><p>
Dude, think about it. He was promoted to Field Ops Manager in 2006. He's been FOps Manager ever since. You don't promote someone you think is a sadistic murderer.
</p><p>
I mean, not unless a sadistic murderer is just what you need to keep other lycanthropes in check.
</p><p>
But he is sick as ^#@$, I'll give you that. He's not a loose cannon, but he is sick in the head.
</p><p>
Still looking forward to promotion to lycanthrope?
</p><p>
But you do bring up an interesting point. You say Jay let thirty lycanthropes escape. Maybe they're out there terrorizing Eastern Europe, and Wyrd sent Ishmael out to clean up Jay's mess. Maybe that's why Burley is covering as FOps for Ishmael until he comes back.
</p><p>
Hell, maybe he's bringing back Jay, and he needs backup at the airport to take him down.
</p><p>
...I'm still shudder-retching at the thought of Jay and those ears, though. All I can think of is ear wax.
</p><p>
--Su--
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<td>Sent:
<td>Tue 2014-09-09 @ 2:42 PM
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<td>Sumac2
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<td>Subject:
<td>Weird thought just now
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<p>
Me again.
</p><p>
Beginning to wonder if maybe all those people in quarantine have a disease that’s killing off lycanthropes.
</p><p>
Maybe they were all previously undiscovered lycanthropes, and Dr. Grey tried to invent a cure, but it backfired and made them crazy.
</p><p>
Makes sense, doesn't it? From an epidemiology perspective?
</p><p>
Sane werewolves control their own population, and they stay under cover. But if werewolves go nuts, they'll go on a rampage and attack more people. The more people they attack, the more likely they are to pass on there disease.
</p><p>
Wyrd catches up with them, and for the sake of keeping the existence of lycanthropes a secret, they'll take out the crazy werewolves, put them far, far away from Varco Lake, so they can't infect their fellow lycanthrope.
</p><p>
I mean, Wyrd is good at containing panics, right? Can’t have a panic among fellow lycanthropes, especially if they think there’s a new disease that could wipe them all out.
</p><p>
Maybe it’s like the ebola of werewolfism or something. Lycanthropic rabies.
</p><p>
...Shit...what if Ishmael caught it?
</p><p>
Think about it. He can kill and mutilate the better part of 350 people when he's sane. He can make people disappear and die off a crowded New York City with zero witnesses.
</p><p>
Can you imagine what he could do if he went crazy?
</p><p>
Oh, and you know that unidentified caller?
</p><p>
Now he's calling my cell.
</p>
<h6>~Pine~<br>~Never Give Up...Never Surrender.~</h6>
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<div class="emailsumacright">
<table id="emailheader">
<tr>
<td>Sent:
<td>Mon 2014-09-08 @ 8:45 PM
<tr>
<td>From:
<td>Sumac’s Other Email Addy
<tr>
<td>To:
<td>Pine’s backup addy
<tr>
<td>Subject:
<td>Who knew accounting could be so exciting?
</table>
<p>
So, I just got this purchase order. Wyrd is sending eight agents, werewolves every one of them, to LaGuardia on the next plane out, with orders to rent a truck, then fly out on another chartered flight on a cargo plane leaving from some obscure little community airport in Pensyllvania.
</p><p>
First thing that cought my eye was that they were sending such a big party of werewolves to meet someone at the airport.
</p><p>
Ishmael lands there around this time tomorrow night. Guess he's done his job and now he’s bringing back the Great White Shark of all werewolves or something. Good thing he’s got backup so ready to move.
</p><p>
-Su-
</p>
</div>
<div class="emailpineleft">
<table id="emailheader">
<tr>
<td>Sent:
<td>Mon 2014-09-08 @ 8:52 PM
<tr>
<td>From:
<td>Pine
<tr>
<td>To:
<td>Sumac2
<tr>
<td>Subject:
<td>Re: Who knew accounting could be so exciting?
</table>
<p>
Maybe you were right about him investigating another outbreak. God, can you imagine if there was an outbreak that happened in Romania or something? I mean, how Bram Stoker can we get? Oh wait. He was vampires. Ugh, whatever. Same diff.
</p><p>
Well, good on him, getting him this far, I guess – and single-handed, eh?
</p><p>
Weird though. Wouldn’t it make more sense to have him go straight to Pennsylvania? Or straight to Winnipeg or something on a connecting flight?
</p><p>
For that matter, it doesn’t seem likely that Ishmael’s bringing his prisoner through such a populated airport in the first place. God, could you imagine what kind of a containment situation we would have if his prey fricking busted loose in the biggest airport in like the whole world?
</p><p>
K, now I'm confused.
</p>
</div>
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<table id="emailheader">
<tr>
<td>Sent:
<td>Mon 2014-09-08 @ 8:55 PM
<tr>
<td>From:
<td>Sumac’s Other Email Addy
<tr>
<td>To:
<td>Pine’s backup addy
<tr>
<td>Subject:
<td>Re: Who knew accounting could be so exciting?
</table>
<p>
You’re right. The more I think about it, the weirder it gets. Why wouldn’t they just fly to some other airport?? Why not fly straight to Halifax instead??
</p><p>
The other thing that’s bugging me? That whole Angie Burley signature. The one where she says she’s the interim chief field ops commander.
</p><p>
All of a sudden I want to ask Ishmael if *he* knows she’s acting ops-co.</p>
</p><p>
-Su-
</div>
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<table id="emailheader">
<tr>
<td>Sent:
<td>Mon 2014-09-08 @ 8:59 PM
<tr>
<td>From:
<td>Pine
<tr>
<td>To:
<td>Sumac2
<tr>
<td>Subject:
<td>Re: Who knew accounting could be so exciting?
</table>
<p>
I could probably get a message to him. I know one of his back up email addresses. He gave it to me in case Jay ever tried to go after me like he did with Alder.
</p><p>
You want me to send him a message?
</p>
</div>
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<table id="emailheader">
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<td>Sent:
<td>Mon 2014-09-08 @ 9:04 PM
<tr>
<td>From:
<td>Sumac’s Other Email Addy
<tr>
<td>To:
<td>Pine’s backup addy
<tr>
<td>Subject:
<td>Re: Who knew accounting could be so exciting?
</table>
<p>
No, not yet. Could be that they’ve been planning to run a kill/capture ops in New York City, and they’re just going to LaGuardia to meet up with Ishmael beforehand.
</p><p>
Ishmael’s the best tracker they’ve got because he’s good at keeping things fast and quiet. He's got to be running point or something.
</p><p>
Sprucey used to tell me that he could pull a lycanthrope off a crowded street and people would just keep on walking. There wouldn’t even be a trace of the abduction on surveillance tapes, either.
</p><p>
Still, why would they meet him at the airport? Why not hang back and wait for him to move in? If he's surrounded by an entourage, he's going to stick out like a sore thumb.
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Besides, he's feline-type. He doesn't hunt in packs. He works better alone.
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But why the airport???
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Your paranoia is catching.
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Listen, do me a favour? See if you can find out any information about an outbreak in eastern Europe. I want to know how much this is going to affect the 2015 budget. I figure, the more I know now, the more I can make recommendations, and the easier it is to balance the books later, right?
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I seem to remember something about an outbreak overseas about…what, ten years ago? Wasn’t long after I joined, but I was too new to get any of the good gossip. Ah, the joys of being a junior bean counter.
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All I remember is that hundreds of people died in that one. They said it was a blood bath. And now Ishmael’s back there again? Something doesn’t add up.
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Damn, I hope it’s not another outbreak.
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-Su-
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