To Tear The Scales From Their Eyes

by Matthew Rossi

Partial Transcript: Meeting of the Nine, as Recorded by Nathan "Net-Specter" Szilard of the Virtual Adepts, 3/22/98

(Attending the meeting are Chuo-Li Anamaj of the Akashic Brotherhood, Tristan Umbertini of the Celestial Chorus, Curani Apocrypha of the Cult of Ecstacy, Rises Swift as Tears of the Dreamspeakers, Mister Absolute of the Euthanatos, Nialla Du-Chumail of the Order of Hermes, Henri Mazarin of the Sons of Ether, Nharna Govindasama of the Verbena and Nathan "Net-Specter" Szilard of the Virtual Adepts. Also present by invitation is Tizianna Umbrae of the Hollow Ones.)

  • Szilard: The daimon is active.
  • Umbertini: Are you certain they can't find us?
  • Mazarin: Tristan, as I explained to you before, Nathan and I have checked and re-checked the daimon. They can't find us.
  • Absolute: It hardly matters if they do. We are beaten, Hermean. We . . . are obsolete.
  • Govindasama: I didn't come all this way to listen to your "return to the primacy of entropy" garbage, Abbie. Nathan and Henri, you two called the meeting, so why not let us in on why?
  • Szilard: Glad 'ta, G. Apocrypha and I here first twigged to the idea, but it took the Mad Doc to give it form. Doc?
  • Mazarin: I believe we have discovered a way to win the Ascension War and overthrow the Greyfaces.
  • (Uproar -- several voices muttering or shouting at once. Mazarin waits for calm.)
  • Mazarin: As you know, I serve as the Council's mole in the Conventions. It is in that role . . .

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Article publication date: October 13, 2000


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