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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 01:48:32 -0700
From: "JimmieBise,Jr" <jimmiebjr@olg.com>
Subject: Re: DG: baseball bats in NYC

>Most weapons that go "boom" like grenades, rockets, incendiaries, etc.
>are frowned on and not stocked by law enforcement because of their tendency
to
>produce collateral damage to innocent bystanders (like the block of row
houses
>that burned down in the standoff in Phili (?) a few years ago).
>
>I hope this was informative.  I'd be glad to answer any questions anyone
might
>have.


Great post! This one goes right into the "Grist for my Mill" file..:-)

Oh, and an interesting point of fact. The chief of the Philadelphia PD when
the MOVE Headquarters was set ablaze back years ago (accidentally, it was
claimed, but the blaze took out several blocks of rowhouses.) was Willie
Williams. Now, flash forward to the aftermath of the LA riots....who is
brought in to save the LAPD from its image as a bunch of cowboy legbreakers
and bigots? Yep...Willie Williams....

I hate coincidences...

- -Jim

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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 23:53:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: gmgm@netmcr.com (G.M.)
Subject: Re: DG: X files & MIBsss

>Exactly how many BOC fans are on this list?
>My fave was "Imaginos" Now outta print, and I lost my CD ~snif~.


big BOC fan here. My personal fave album is Fire of Unknown Origin. 

"To Defend, this is the Pact. And when life's shorn, and damage done. To
Avenge, this is the Pact."
GAry m, minor epot
 aka "Sneezy the Squid"
- ------------------------------
"Decadence is it's own reward"

DNRC Member since 1995
AOL Instant Message ID& AOL email address: gmgm1970
ICQ ID#: 8391493 
ICQ nick: minor epot

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 02:38:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: Don Juneau <djuneau@io.com>
Subject: RE: DG: BOC, True Masters (& croc picture)

On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, David Farnell wrote:

> Oh, BTW, some weirdo just sent me a .bmp of a crocodile being skinned. I
> have no idea why, but if anyone wants it as a possible prop, please email me
> off-list and I'll send it to you. It's actually quite colorful, with organs
> being pulled out. Erp.

Coool. Of course, I'm a sick bastard, but I'd love to get a copy. <G>
(djuneau@io.com)

One set of images I intend to use as "props" came from a photojournalist
who went to Checnya <sp?> during/after the fighting with the Russians;
somewhat graphic, but by picking through the images carefully I can build
a series that is passable as "Yukon/Northwest Territories/Alaska", for a
future DG op, probably using the "Special X" organisation from Michael
Slade's books. Have to remove the blatantly obvious, like the burnt-out
T-80... <G>

Don

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 02:57:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: Don Juneau <djuneau@io.com>
Subject: Re: DG: baseball bats in NYC

On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 LexAmissa@aol.com wrote:

> Most weapons that go "boom" like grenades, rockets, incendiaries, etc. 
> are frowned on and not stocked by law enforcement because of their
> tendency to produce collateral damage to innocent bystanders (like the
> block of row houses that burned down in the standoff in Phili (?) a few
> years ago).

As I recall, the MOVE standoff in Philidelphia was preceded by the
radicals' Fun Bag O' Tricks including stuffing venomous snakes into
mailboxes (as Synanon did). (May be wrong about MOVE, tho... I'd have to
check my Haydukery books, which is where I read about it.) The Philly PD
were dealing with armed "revolutionaries", with men, women and children
barricaded in the row-house(s), and made the *bad* move of dropping
bundles of dynamite <!> from a helicopter, attempting to breach the
barricades. (For those who don't remember, a number of the MOVE folks died
in the subsequent fire, and a nasty scandal ensued... IIRC, the whole mess
was condemned, though, and non-MOVE were either not there or evacuated
before the fireworks started.)

One person I knew a while back tried to convince me that the Philly PD
could requisition mothballed destroyers <!> from the Navy Yard in time of
need, but that's a little hard to swallow. ("Alpha-Ten-Seven, suspect is
west on Goombah Avenue, heading for the bridge, red Dodge Viper, ETA sixty
seconds." "Roger, we're heading downriver at fifteen knots, will intercept
in forty seconds.. we've got him on radar, as soon as he clears the
buildings we'll give him a warning shot with the for'ard five-inch - looks
like they've raised the drawbridge already, we'll pull in and block..")

Don

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:53:42 -0400
From: "Eric Brennan" <aerainc@erols.com>
Subject: Re: DG: X files & MIBsss

I've got to add myself to that category. BOC shreds.  I do have a question
though...has anybody wondered whether or not long time BOC manager (and
writer of Imaginos) Sandy Pearlman (spelling?) is related to the Chaosium
employee of the same name?
    Hmmm,
    Agent WALLACE
    aka Eric Brennan

- -----Original Message-----
From: M-Zodiac <mzodiac@lava.net>
To: Delta Green List <deltagreen@nocturne.org>
Date: Monday, July 06, 1998 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: DG: X files & MIBsss


>Exactly how many BOC fans are on this list?
>My fave was "Imaginos" Now outta print, and I lost my CD ~snif~.
>
>-Marc
>

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 09:34:46 -0700
From: "Gerry Mckelvey" <tharkold@paonline.com>
Subject: Re: DG: X files & MIBsss

> I've got to add myself to that category. BOC shreds.  I do have a
question
> though...has anybody wondered whether or not long time BOC manager (and
> writer of Imaginos) Sandy Pearlman (spelling?) is related to the Chaosium
> employee of the same name?
>     Hmmm,
>     Agent WALLACE
>     aka Eric Brennan
> 
> Now that's a wonderfully paranoid thought...why didn't I notice that...

damn, someone must be slipping my anti-paranoia medication into my coffee
again...

Jerry McKelvey
Exitus Acta Probat.

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:09:03 -0400
From: Viktor Haag <viktor@peergroup.com>
Subject: DG: Cripps ... (was Re: baseball bats in NYC)

- ------ Original Message ------

Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 12:35:42 -0500
From: Nightstar <shepherd@infocom.com>
Subject: Re: DG: Re: baseball bats in NYC

At 09:26 AM 7/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>    Apparently, the LA Gang (which has spread nicely, thanks...) called
the
>>Crips gets their name from the word Cripples. Apparently, during the
Junior
>...
>
>And all this time, I thought their name was 'The Crypts'. Shows you how
>much I'm into that gangsta-rap stuff... ;>

And here all this time I thought it was a illiterate corruption of the word
"creeps".


- ------------------------------



Hmmmm ... Cripps, Crypts, Creeps ... sounds to me like, at the top level,
these young fellows might be controlled by a certain underground race of
distorted humanoids with a morbid taste for bones ... there's an adventure
plot in there somewhere, I'm sure of it!


Agent Eduard

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:14:35 -0400
From: Viktor Haag <viktor@peergroup.com>
Subject: DG: Queen in Red

- ------ Original Message -------

Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:49:26 +0900
From: "David Farnell" <daf@iwa.att.ne.jp>
Subject: RE: DG: BOC, True Masters (& croc picture)

Aaron Litz (Lord of Milk & Cookies) wrote:

>     This song also mentions the King in Yellow and the Queen in Red.

Oh, man, I'd completely forgotten about that! These guys know Things Which
Should Not Be Known! Let's see, maybe BOC used to have a certain thin,
extremely fussy guy (slight German accent) for their manager...

But who's the Queen in Red?


- ------------------------------


The Queen in Red is otherwise known as "The Whore of Babylon". In times more
medieval she was used as an icon condemning the Catholic Church (viz.
Spenser's Faerie Queene).



Agent Eduard

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:40:02 -0400
From: "Eric Brennan" <aerainc@erols.com>
Subject: DG: Re: Cripps ... (was Re: baseball bats in NYC)

- -----Original Message-----
From: Viktor Haag <viktor@peergroup.com>
To: Delta Green (E-mail) <deltagreen@nocturne.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 11:09 AM
Subject: DG: Cripps ... (was Re: baseball bats in NYC)


<SNIP>
>Hmmmm ... Cripps, Crypts, Creeps ... sounds to me like, at the top level,
>these young fellows might be controlled by a certain underground race of
>distorted humanoids with a morbid taste for bones ... there's an adventure
>plot in there somewhere, I'm sure of it!
>
>
>Agent Eduard
>

    Check out the wonderfully paranoid and insane Invisibles, by Grant
Morrison.  Issue # 10 of Series One, called the Season of Ghouls, uses that
idea as a plot device...  That crack being spread by evil cultists is smoked
by gangstas, turning them into zombi receptacles for the  cultists.  The
hero of that particular tale is a Voodoo Rapper called Jim Crow.
    I'd also recommend the new trade paperback, available at finer big
bookstroes everywhere, that collects issues 1-4 of the recent Black Science
in America storyline.  It's all about Roswell...
    Be Seeing You,
    Agent WALLACE
    aka Eric Brennan

"Big Brother is Watching...Learn to Become Invisible."

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 12:14:20 -0400
From: "Elliot A. Rushing" <lex@trellis.net>
Subject: DG: FBI and Kidnapping.

Howdy, all.

Some time ago we had a brief thread RE when the FBI becomes involved in a
kidnappng case.

Many spoke about a 24 hour waiting period, after which the FBI would assume
state lines had been crossed and would become involved.

Welp...

Just received my FBI Child Abduction Response Plan for implementation in my
agency, and as of now the FBI is available to assist from the moment of the
missing child complaint.  They've assigned three agents full time in
Charlotte (NC) just to work local child abductions, and they're making all
their case management, database,  and profiling resources available to local
agencies as needed.  They're heavily promoting a multiagency task force
approach to these cases.  I assume the (multiple) local agencies will
ostensibly lead until there's a federal jurisdictional hook (crossing state
lines, frex), and then fibby will undoubtedly take lead role.

All in all, extremely impressive material and resources.  Good stuff.  Maybe
we can save some kids.

Multi-agency is in, folks -- that should help keepers running multi-agency
cells with their efforts at verisimilitude.

Good gaming,


Elliot

- -----
Elliot Rushing
Sheriff's Counsel
Deputy Sheriff
Union County, NC

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:21:08 -0700
From: Joseph Camp <alphonse@delta-green.com>
Subject: Re: DG: FBI and Kidnapping.

>Just received my FBI Child Abduction Response Plan for implementation in my
>agency

Is this being implemented nationwide, or is it a regional or test policy?

be seeing you,
Alphonse

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:14:21 -0400
From: "Eric Brennan" <aerainc@erols.com>
Subject: DG: Re: FBI and Kidnapping.

- -----Original Message-----
From: Elliot A. Rushing <lex@trellis.net>
To: Delta Green List <deltagreen@nocturne.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 12:10 PM
Subject: DG: FBI and Kidnapping.
<SNIP>
>Multi-agency is in, folks -- that should help keepers running multi-agency
>cells with their efforts at verisimilitude.
>

    It also means that if the guvmint really takes a disliking to DG, MJ
won't be the only crew coming after you...  Look into those wierd conspiracy
theories involving the Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force for some kooky stuff.
    Eric

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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 20:13:53
From: Davide Mana <doctor.dee@iol.it>
Subject: Re: DG: Queen in Red - a warning to the curious

Greetings.

This is almost certainly a pointless post. Bear with me.

About the Queen in Red, Agent Eduard wrote

>The Queen in Red is otherwise known as "The Whore of Babylon". In times more
>medieval she was used as an icon condemning the Catholic Church (viz.
>Spenser's Faerie Queene).

Said "Icon" has been recently hijacked and turned into something much more
sinister. I just stumbled on the red-clad lady during an ill-advised
literary incursion just a few weeks back.
The Queen in Red/Whore of Babylon (with Lilith thrown in for good measure)
features heavily in a novel called "The Tortuous Serpent", by occultist
Donald Tyson, that I had the misadventure of picking up as a consequence of
my long standing interest in Elizabethan times.

Set in the late 16th century and featuring Dr. John Dee and his tricky
sidekick Ed Kelly, as the good guys, the novel is _really_ bad (at least in
my humble opinion), as the author seems much more interested in divulging
his personal take on Dee's "magick" and mystical world-view than in telling
a good story.
The fact that Rabbi Lowe and his golem also put in an appearence does not
help the mix.
The disreputable lady in question, however, is shown to have her very own
cult (the Sons of Coronzon, of course posing as a Catholic order), that has
much in common with various Shub-Niggurath cults as seen in Mythos fiction,
and a few conspiracy hooks; she also claims an "interdimensional" aspect
(you see it in dreams, or "communing with the goddess") that reminded me
very much of a few Mythos nasties - you know... lots of
tentacles/appendages, mucous substances, lots of spare eyes, and so on.

If this really is a fictionalization of some of mr. Tyson's tenements, I
wonder what could be found on the subject in his more "serious" books (such
as the engagingly titled "Ritual Magic - What it is and how to do it") that
are advertised at the back of the book.
Not that I'm going to investigat them, of course.

I _do not_ suggest the purchase of the volume, but if you find it in a
library (or at a charity sale) and are willing to wade through a lot of
purple prose, bad characterization and implausible action (plus a map that
places London at the head of the Wash, SE of Sheffield), you might still
find something useful in this thing, thanks to the John Dee/Mythos
connection - or use it to start a fire in winter.
Otherwise, be advised and stay clear of the book.

And this is it.
Cheers.

						Davide Mana
						Torino, Italy
						doctor.dee@iol.it
	

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:47:38 EDT
From: Imandos@aol.com
Subject: DG: BOC in DG

     Another good BOC album for background music is "Club Ninja".  Several of
the songs fit a Black Ops theme.

Thomas Woodall
Imandos@aol.com

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:58:45 -0400
From: "Elliot A. Rushing" <lex@trellis.net>
Subject: Re: DG: FBI and Kidnapping.

>>Just received my FBI Child Abduction Response Plan for implementation in
my
>>agency
>
>Is this being implemented nationwide, or is it a regional or test policy?
>
>be seeing you,
>Alphonse



Alphonse:

This is a model response plan, forms, et al. sent out by the FBI to local
law enforcement agencies (I assume nationwide).  Judging from the materials,
it apparently *is* the FBI's operational plan.  The goal is to promulgate
and develop a uniform system of dealing with the jurisdictional and
investigative difficulties often encountered in child abduction cases.  It's
aspirational (the FBI can't mandate uniformity among local agencies), but
it's a start -- per the Sheriff (my boss) we're going to try to implement as
much of it as is feasible.  Simply put, it's good stuff.

The key DG-wise is the heavy-handed advocacy (orthodoxy?) of the
multijurisdictional task force idea.  It is *very* much in vogue right now.
Of course, it helps that it works really well when everyone's on the same
page.

Hope this helps. :)

Elliot.

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 16:10:52 -0700
From: "JimmieBise,Jr" <jimmiebjr@olg.com>
Subject: Re: DG: FBI and Kidnapping.

>>Just received my FBI Child Abduction Response Plan for implementation in
my
>>agency
>
>Is this being implemented nationwide, or is it a regional or test policy?
>

Many agencies have standing policies dictated to them by the FBI, usually
working in conjunction with the Center for Missing Children, or Child Find,
or a group of that nature. With the Maryland State Police, standing policy
is to immediately notify the CMC, which in turn is monitored by the FBI, who
will come in as needed, or as they prefer (especially if the missing child
is presumed across state lines, or if it could be assumed that the child
will inevitably cross state lines). I would assume that the FBI works such
policies nationwide, depending on the in-house resources of the agency (i.e.
smaller jurisdictions, with fewer resources, get greater FBI attention
because they can use the help and manpower more than a larger agency)

- -Jim

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 17:55:18 -0400
From: Steven Kaye <box_nine@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: DG: Cripps ... (was Re: baseball bats in NYC)

Just to toss another version into the mix, Mike Davis in CITY OF QUARTZ writes:

"Although it is usually surmised that the name Crip is derived from the 107
Hoovers' 'crippled' style of walking, Bakeer [a teacher at Manual Arts High who
wrote a self-published novel about the Crips -- SK] was told by one 'O.G.' that
it originally stood for 'Continuous Revolution in Progress'." (299)



>------ Original Message ------
>
>Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 12:35:42 -0500
>From: Nightstar <shepherd@infocom.com>
>Subject: Re: DG: Re: baseball bats in NYC
>
>At 09:26 AM 7/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>>    Apparently, the LA Gang (which has spread nicely, thanks...) called
>the
>>>Crips gets their name from the word Cripples. Apparently, during the
>Junior
>>...
>>
>>And all this time, I thought their name was 'The Crypts'. Shows you how
>>much I'm into that gangsta-rap stuff... ;>
>
>And here all this time I thought it was a illiterate corruption of the word
>"creeps".
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>
>
>Hmmmm ... Cripps, Crypts, Creeps ... sounds to me like, at the top level,
>these young fellows might be controlled by a certain underground race of
>distorted humanoids with a morbid taste for bones ... there's an adventure
>plot in there somewhere, I'm sure of it!
>
>
>Agent Eduard

- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Steven Kaye
box_nine@ix.NOSPAM.netcom.com

"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." -- Satchell Paige

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:29:31 -0700
From: paposehn@juno.com (Phil A Posehn)
Subject: Re: DG: FBI and Kidnapping.

Does this mean the FBI is going to become involved in all of those child
abduction cases that are custody disputes between ex-spouses?
Phil

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:13:04 -0700
From: paposehn@juno.com (Phil A Posehn)
Subject: Re: DG: Conventions and the Big Green Triangle

The hardest thing about cons is being prepared for an unknown # of
players. Check  out the way that "Escape from Innsmouth" does it for one
possibility. I had a Call of Cthulhu game at GameCon that was open to DG
friendlies. I posted it here. Since no one from here e-mailed me to ask
about it I prepared for a small game since it was a first year con. 30
people showed up! Fortunately I had 2 good GMs with me who were able to
run games on short notice!
Phil

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 17:57:31 -0500
From: "Charles Baucum Jr." <cobaucum@meta3.net>
Subject: Re: DG: X files & MIBsss

- ----------
> From: The Man in Black <mib@cyberspace.org>
> To: Delta Green List <deltagreen@nocturne.org>
> Subject: Re: DG: X files & MIBsss
> Date: Monday, July 06, 1998 8:28 PM
> 
> On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Charles Baucum Jr. violated national security:
I violated national security!?!   I'm preserving their cover as a harmless
rock group!!
Charles O. Baucum - COB - BOC- Coincidence?  I think not!

> > The song is called "E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)."   It was
> > released in May of 1976 on the BOC album _Agents of Fortune_ , which
also
> > has "(Don't Fear) The Reaper."
> 
> Suck up all the courage you learned from playing D&D, because if you
> *EVER* tell *anyone* about the BOC again, YOU'RE A DEAD MAN! 

"I came here willingly.
And I will go down valiantly.
We made a vow
To give it all we had to give.
We made a vow
To die as we have lived."

> The Man in Black is : Kenneth Scroggins
> Novus Ordo Seclorum : Annuit Coeptus : E Pluribus Unum
> 
> "History Shows again and again,
> how nature points out the folly of man"

"Guess I'll see you
Dancin' in the ruins"

Charles O. Baucum Jr.

                Mortuus non est quod in aeternum insiditur
                et aetate ignota mors ipsas finiretur

cobaucum@meta3.net

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 16:06:50 -0700
From: paposehn@juno.com (Phil A Posehn)
Subject: DG: Re: baseball bats in NYC)

I tend to believe this one since I know that the Bloods and Crips were
founded by ex-members of the Black Panther Party.

Phil.


On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 17:55:18 -0400 Steven Kaye <box_nine@ix.netcom.com>
writes:
>Just to toss another version into the mix, Mike Davis in CITY OF 
>QUARTZ writes:
>
>"Although it is usually surmised that the name Crip is derived from 
>the 107
>Hoovers' 'crippled' style of walking, Bakeer [a teacher at Manual Arts 
>High who
>wrote a self-published novel about the Crips -- SK] was told by one 
>'O.G.' that
>it originally stood for 'Continuous Revolution in Progress'." (299)
>

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 19:31:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: The Man in Black <mib@cyberspace.org>
Subject: Re: DG: Re: FBI and Kidnapping.

On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Eric Brennan established his treason:

>     It also means that if the guvmint really takes a disliking to DG, MJ
> won't be the only crew coming after you...  Look into those wierd conspiracy
> theories involving the Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force for some kooky stuff.

DG is so widespread amongst the US govt. that any crackdown on it would
have to be clandestine. This would avoid a DG mole giving advance warning,
and wouldn't ruffle the general public's feathers. MJ needs to keep DG a
secret to ensure its own security. 

NRO Delta seems to be the only unit not penetrated (yet) by DG. Normally
taking down something like DG would require INSCOM, but they've been
compromised already! In any event, a crackdown on DG would almost
certainly require MJ to inform the president of the "big picture."

The Man in Black is : Kenneth Scroggins
Novus Ordo Seclorum : Annuit Coeptus : E Pluribus Unum

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 19:39:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: The Man in Black <mib@cyberspace.org>
Subject: Re: DG: Conventions and the Big Green Triangle

On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Phil A Posehn wrote:

> 30 people showed up! Fortunately I had 2 good GMs with me who were
> able to run games on short notice!  

The only folks who show up at Hawaii cons are the Magic junkies and Games
Workshop lead poisoning victims. I have never *ever* had the "problem" of
too many roleplayers. I plan to implement 1st come 1st serve, limit six
players if this ever happens. Everyone else would be welcome to stick
around until someone dies a horrible death and take over a new PC tho'. 

The Man in Black is : Kenneth Scroggins
Novus Ordo Seclorum : Annuit Coeptus : E Pluribus Unum

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 21:03:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: The Man in Black <mib@cyberspace.org>
Subject: DG: Adepts o' da Fate

As a follow up to my Lords of the Fate post, here's a few ideas on Adepts:

Adepts should be that darling of Keepers everywhere, the annoyance NPC. 
Interaction with Adepts should result in immediate fear and loathing by
the Investigators. They are the shabby Characters that the PC's would
*like* to kill but can't.

Each should have their own private Quirk Skill. Each should have some
serious or hilarious emotional disfunction. Each should be designed
specifically to push the buttons of the PC's. Be sadistic. 

Adepts should also be innocuous, sad and pathetic. Those rumpled people
who we more normal folks deliberately try to forget or avoid. This allows
them to slip through the cracks in our socially programmed perception and
into those surreal places that lost sock puppets and treasured childhood
toys always seem to end up.

Adepts dwell in welfare gutters lining forgotten urban sidewalks. They are
intimate with the rust of failed industry and the crumbled brick of quiet
despair. Adepts are vanishing faces seen through dirty and often broken
glass. Wandering well-littered streets, they pick and kick at the
supernatural trash that other, better-dressed people leave behind.

They should be the darlings of Keepers everywhere.

SAMPLE ADEPTS:

Krazy Ivan: Grigori Ivanovich Koloff is a Ukrainian emigre who drives a
taxi in NYC. He is a huge hairy muscular man who served in the Naval
Spetsnatz. He habitually wears a Bearskin cap with the Hammer and Sickle
prominently displayed. He bathes infrequently, smokes cheap nasty cigars,
and regularly threatens his passengers with physical violence. He always
has a fully loaded AK-74 in his trunk. Naturally, his glove compartment
is filled with various small arms. QS: Threaten Passengers 61%

Mr. Magot: A crusty old frenchman. This senior citizen and entymology buff
habitiually lurks on brownstone rooftops with his telescope and
binoculars, hoping desperately to catch a glimpse of young female flesh.
He is always eating live snails, mealworms and crickets, which he keeps in
a rusty coffee can. He will gleefully advocate an insect only diet to
anyone who is foolish or desperate enough to watch as he drools and
slobbers over his latest meal. QS: Catch Crawling foods 85%

Anders Drek: This skinny unsanitary white dude is always cracking
sarcastic remarks about tasteless subjects. He makes a meager living with
his repulsive underground cartoon strip "Drek." Anders likes to wander
about aimlessly, eventually following people who practice personal hygiene
in an effort to discover their day to day problems so he can mock them.
Anders has heard about a bunch of pretentious fuckers called the Secret
Senate and is trying to join so he can ridicule and humiliate them. 
QS: Mock Other's Pain 92%

Teena & Lizard: Teena is a malnourished underage prostitute. She suffers
from mild schizophrenia and likes to dig through garbage dumpsters in
order to find "treasure" which she piles about her stained and smelly
mattress. Lizard is her vile "business manager." Lizard likes money and
crack cocaine. Teena likes crack cocaine. QS: Teena - Seduce Older Men
72%, Lizard - Ooze Machismo 38%

Marjorie the Trash Heap: Ol' Marge pushes her shopping cart (a steel one,
not those crappy plastic ones) around the city and collects cans, bottles
and other recyclables. Sometimes, she peers through her cataracts at
strange and unbelievable events that she ascribes to encroaching senility. 
She likes the slim dark man who sometimes gives her money for telling him
about the weird graffiti that changes color and appearance. Marjorie has
somehow managed to save $250,000 which she keeps in a garbage bag wrapped
up in multiple layers of her filthy undergarments. QS: Hoard Wealth 50%

Kent Scrope: Mr. Scrope is a avid player of role-playing games. He is so
avid that he cannot hold a steady job and lives in his mother's basement,
where he dreams of employment in the glamorous and exciting gaming
industry. Kent is planning on one day attending college and publishing his
home-brewed RPG "Dielander: the Squickening." He is constantly
corresponding with the employees of Severed Dog Head Games for their
publishing guidelines, much to their chagrin.

Kent is currently doing research for his D:tS supplement "Black
Conspiracy." This research seems to involve inserting himself into
legitimate criminal investigations and making a giant nuisance of himself. 
Kent is obsessive about dice. He has often stated that he will stop buying
dice only after they stop making them and he can't afford collector's
prices anymore. It is ill-advised for anyone to touch his dice as he will
throw a violently immature temper tantrum in the event of such a cruel
violation. Kent is a sometimes paying member of SaucerWatch. QS: Write
RPG's 02%

The Man in Black is : Kenneth Scroggins
Novus Ordo Seclorum : Annuit Coeptus : E Pluribus Unum

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 22:47:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: The Man in Black <mib@cyberspace.org>
Subject: DG: A Conversation with Thalassa Chandler, or "The END is nigh"

MEMCON#7 (MEMorandum of CONversation)

BACKGROUND:

After spending quality time (i.e. a sexually charged telepathically
induced hallucination) with the Gestalt Gurlz of the Psionic Plane,
the MiB was called out of the Call of Cthulhu RPG and assigned to the
Macho Women with Guns RPG. Discovering that male characters were quite
wimpy in that RPG the MiB considered using the unofficial Cross-Dressing
rules, but found them to be much too humiliating and ridiculous. Also,
they didn't give enough plusses.

So, weakened by his gender in a world he never made, the MiB gallantly
strode forth to face the Zombie Cheerleaders of Hell High. Naturally they
could kick his ass any day of the week, twice on Sunday, and they did. And
it hurt! 

Thus it was that Zombie Lord and surfer dude Bthulhu descended on Hell
High and ate the entire freshman class during an otherwise unremarkable
pep rally. Bummer. Fortunately the Student Government was able to convince
the Computer Club and the Robotics Club to stop their unholy
www.cyber-Jyhad.com long enough to build a Terminatrix class cyborg
assassin. Using the nation's entire supply of silicone and silicon within
her awesome frame, the Top-Heavy Terminatrix soundly thrashed Bthulhu and
rescued the Mib.

It was love at first sight.

Sadly, it was a love that was not meant to be, for as the grateful MiB
planted a wet one on Terminatrix's silvery lipstick, he was shocked and
amazed to receive a 250,000 volt electrocution. The Terminatrix could only
answer his romantic aspirations with an unfeeling "Unauthorized Sexual
Conduct is not permitted." Still smouldering (literally!) with passion the
MiB was heard to reply "My Heart... my heart is stopping... (Ker-PLUNK~!)"

Anyway, it was to be that Emergency Medical Technicians were summoned and
MiB was subjected to that defibrillator thingy. After determining that
neither the head nor groin were adequate for ressucitation via
defibrillation, the EMT's finally zapped the MiB a good one. 

Upon returning from the tunnel of light, where Elvis was inexplicably
missing, the MiB got a call from the North American OverSector. It seemed
that the hand puppet artiste formerly known as Y'golonac (aka The
Bloated One) was AWOL.

Thus begins our Epic Saga...

*******

CAST OF CHARACTERS:

(mib): The Man in Black

(Trixie): Black Leather Clad Top-Heavy terminatrix class Cyborg Assassin

(BUZZ~!): Buzz the Mi-Go, MiB sidekick

(CEO): New World Industries Chief Executive Officer Thalassa Chandler

(TBO East): Blackbeard the Pirate, ARR~! Shiver me Timbers!

(TBO West): The Road Dawg Jesse James, one-half of the New Age Outlaws,
WWF tag team champions of the world. 

(TBO South): The Bad-Ass Billy Gunn, the other half of the NAO, WWF tag
team champions of the world.

TRANSCRIPT BEGINS:

(Thalassa Chandler works quietly aboard her private NWI learjet at 30,000 
feet. Suddenly the door opens in a torrent of wind and a flurry of
important NWI papers, enter MiB and Trixie)

(mib): "ALL RIGHT Y'GOLONAC! Come out with your hands up!"

(CEO): "Wha? Where? Huh? Who are you people?"

(Trixie): "Target ist not Acquired."

(CEO): "How did you get on my plane?" (looks out the window at a much
amused and rosy pink headed BUZZ~!) 

(mib): "Dammit! We were so close. He's gotta be around here somewhere."

(Trixie): "I vill secure ze cockpit."

(mib): "You can secure my cockpit anytime, baby."

(Trixie goes to the cockpit)

(CEO): "Answer me! What the hell is this all about?!"

(mib): "Relax, lady, we're just looking for a being of immense power and
antiquity that predates humanity and likes to play with sock puppets."

(CEO): "I see..." (rubs her forehead)

(Trixie): "I haff found ze Target." (she leads in Y'golonac)

(TBO East): "Avast ye scurvy dogs, What do ye want with Blackbeard the
Pirate? ARRR~!"

(mib): "Umm, that's a nice puppet there Y'golonac, but no one still likes
that damn puppet game."

(TBO East): "ARRR~! Get ye iron-booty wench away from me, ye hear! Else
ye'll be walkin' the plank. ARRR~!"

(CEO): "Oh Gawd! He wasn't kidding."

(mib): "OH-KAY! That's it, I walk the plank for no man or gawd.
TERMINATRIX! Take Him Down!" (points the BIG FINGER at Y'golonac)

(Trixie grabs Y'golonac and rips off the Blackbeard puppet and stomps on
it, shattering the wooden leg, bending and twisting the hook hand, and
utterly crushing the parrot.) 

(TBO East) "GASP! Polly! ARR~! ARRR~! ARRRRGH~! SOB!"

(mib): "hehehe. He usually gets real docile after the puppet show is
over."

(TBO West): "OH, YOU DIDN'T KNOW?! Your ASS bettah CAAALLL SOMEBODY!" 

(cue DX music theme) 

(mib): "What the...?"

(TBO West): "Ladies and Gentlemen, Boyz and Gurlz, Children of ALL AGES!
New World Industries and DeGeneration-X is proud to present: The World
Wrestling Federation Tag Team Champions of the WOOOORRRRLD~! the Road Dawg
Jesse James..." (holds up his Left hand) "...the BAD-ASS Billy Gunn..."

(CEO): "...the END is nigh..."

(WARNING : SEVERE SQUICK POTENTIAL AHEAD : WARNING)




















(PREPARE FOR SQUICK SENSATION)

(With that, The Bloated One rotates it's wattled bulk, turning in glorious
majesty, thick folds of wet clammy corpse-flesh gently jiggling in
resonance to some dark and unhallowed rythym. Then, as the Hands that Feed
grasp hungrily for the floor, Y'golonac flexes it's mighty mass and bends.
Bends not Space nor Time, but bends *OVER* to display the UTMOST HORROR~!)

(CEO): "BEHOLD~! Behold the Glory of the Talking Sphincter! Behold the 
loathsome Ring of Sacred Excretion! BEHOLD~!" (Bows down in abject
servitude)

(mib): "For this, I studied Creative Writing... SIGH."

(TBO West): "...The NEW~! AGE~! OUTLAWS~!"

(TBO South): "Sorry, what was that? I'm a little *behind* in this
conversation."

(TBO West): "...The NEW~! AGE~! OUTLAWS~!"

(mib): "Hey there, uh, Mr. Ass? Lemme *ass* you a question. Didn't you
steal this bit from Jim Carrey?"

(TBO South): "Butt Wait! There's more..."

(mib): "NO WAY Fartbreath! Not a chance that I'm going into *arrears*
over this one. This whole thing ends before I get sued for public
indecency or something."

TRANSCRIPT ENDS (hehehe "ENDS" chuckle)

The Man in Black is : Kenneth Scroggins
Novus Ordo Seclorum : Annuit Coeptus : E Pluribus Unum

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 20:07:31 -0700
From: "Al MacMillan" <macmilla@direct.ca>
Subject: DG: Heavy Ordinance problems

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Recently, one of my players, a 2nd Recon sergant, was deliberately =
brought into an  unauthorized investigation involving cultists, the CDC =
and some really heavy ordinance use by the player.
The player has been currently under the scrutiny by DG as a =
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are.
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scrutiny of the ATF, whereas the player admits to buying the weapon from =
"Surplus World" using a Major Credit card (the amount he paid was =
atrocious...).

So my question is:
Should i have DG contacts "take care" of the Felony charges of =
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Any "creative" ideas would be appreciated...

Al
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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:34:38 -0400
From: "Eric Brennan" <aerainc@erols.com>
Subject: DG: Re: Re: baseball bats in NYC)

    Really?  Not that I'm doubting you, but I find that very surprising.  I
had always assumed the Bloods and Crips mutated out of the "block" gangs of
the '70s, especially since there seems to be a gap between the Black
Panthers and the birth of the various Bloods and Crips groups.  I had always
just assumed that all of the old Black Panthers moved to Paris and scored
"old revolutionary" points with the Euro-glitterati or rotted in jail.
However, my knowledge of the Black Panthers is extremely limited.
    Gotta read a book on that lot,
    Agent WALLACE
    aka The Man in Plaid
    aka Eric Brennan

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From: Phil A Posehn <paposehn@juno.com>
To: deltagreen@nocturne.org <deltagreen@nocturne.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 7:07 PM
Subject: DG: Re: baseball bats in NYC)


>I tend to believe this one since I know that the Bloods and Crips were
>founded by ex-members of the Black Panther Party.
>
>Phil.
>
>
>On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 17:55:18 -0400 Steven Kaye <box_nine@ix.netcom.com>
>writes:
>>Just to toss another version into the mix, Mike Davis in CITY OF
>>QUARTZ writes:
>>
>>"Although it is usually surmised that the name Crip is derived from
>>the 107
>>Hoovers' 'crippled' style of walking, Bakeer [a teacher at Manual Arts
>>High who
>>wrote a self-published novel about the Crips -- SK] was told by one
>>'O.G.' that
>>it originally stood for 'Continuous Revolution in Progress'." (299)
>>
>
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