From macdonald.duncan@hq.navy.mil Tue Aug 15 11:09:08 2000 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: TAN: RASFWR-J The Series - Episode IV: "A New Burp" From: Duncan J Macdonald Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:09:08 -0400 On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:46:53 -0400, Jeff Huo said... > > > "John S. Novak, III" wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:36:42 -0400, Jeff Huo > > wrote: > > > > >.... > > > > > >The United States from 2015 to the present > > > Establishment of Evil Overlord Dominion > > > Early Conflicts > > > Age of Multiple Overlords > > > The Destruction of Canada > > > The Destruction of Peoria > > > Defeat of John Novak > > > > ...I don't think so. > > Yeah, that's true. Leigh's got no problems with Peoria. > > > -Jeff > Near the end of her shift at the Orbital Cabal Information Center (TINOCIC), the dim blue lights outlined the hollow cheeks of Senior SenTech 1 Fenwyck's face. It had been a long night, and Subject 1799-Alpha 7 (Huo, Jeff) had been up to his old tricks. "Ma'am, it's Jeff Huo again." "What's he done this time?" "Aggravated Ducking and Running combined with two counts of gratuitous Cabal (TINC) bashing." "Frick. He's recently been reassigned to Warder Status. You'd think that he would know better!" "That's 'Fuck', Ma'am." "I know, Sen Tech. Jeff's been rubbing off on me. On the monitor screen in front of her, ST1 Fenwyck caught the visual alert in time to read: > (Would you mind leaving enough of my body intact > for convenient post-mortem DNA polymorphism > identification? ) "Ma'am, he's started making unreasonable demands; he wants enough of his body left for identification purposes." "Roger that, log it, and keep the tapes rolling. The response to this one should be good." Turning to her console, the Watch Officer initiated the ICQ link to the Sector 15 Control Officer. She typed furiously for a few moments, and concluded with: " ... while lipstick and photographs can normally be used in cases such as these to control new Warders, I recommend that you escalate to a Level 4D response. We don't want to have to call in the SpecOps people just yet." Duncan -- Duncan J Macdonald -- macdonald.duncan@hq.navy.mil "Just because you're not paranoid, doesn't mean that they're not out to get you."