**>> SPYNET BULLETIN **>> EARTHDATE 93.06.20 **>> AN H-by-A SERVICE **>> Compiled by guest editor Tellurian and his crack team of newsdroids! **>> your news and gossip and get paid good groats! **>> [Where's my pay?!?!? -Newsdroid] [Hush up! -Ed.] **>> FIRST, THE OFFICIAL BIT [Hazed made us put this bit in -Ed] "Traumatic" would be a good way to describe the past week in Fed, and we're not talking about love lives, but about the difficulties with the system itself! Bella finally tracked down the cause of the elusive bug that made the game crash - more by a process of elimination than by any intuitive bug-hunting. The problem turned out to be something very complicated to do with factories. No sooner had Bella fixed the problem, than GEnie suffered a major hardware failure - so major that the whole system was down quite a bit during the week, and when it was up only parts of it were available. Games, of course, are about the most resource-intensive part of GEnie, so it was all the games that got the chop. This meant that Bella couldn't make any changes to the game code to fix the bug! Very frustrating. It looks like things have settled down now on GEnie, please all keep your fingers (or equivalent) crossed that the situation remains stable. Meanwhile... Bella put the new version of the game in yesterday, with the fix for the bug, and it didn't crash! At least, not straight away. It did crash once during the night, and Bella is investigating the possible causes. To help her, if you were one of the 15 people on the game when it crashed last night, please can you tell us what you were doing when it fell over. Bella intends to run the new version tonight and tomorrow, and then on Tuesday she will finally put sendmail back in. At last! On Wednesday she can put in one of the two planets we are waiting for - Florence's and Tellurian's. **>> LESSON LEARNED? It seems as though some people don't always learn their lessons the first time around. Or the second. This newsdroid was shocked to find when he logged on recently that Hans had once again gone dead-dead. Armed with the knowledge that he had been attempting to solve the nefarious Journeyman Puzzle, this newsdroid got to the point: What happened? Well, to make a long story short, Hans died the second time while he was attempting to use the barbells to increase his pects. Perhaps he wanted to pump up for all the new ladies in Fed? He says he's learned his lesson. Folks...that's twice he's died at the Merchant level. Don't let this happen to you! Reinsure immediately when you die! **>> CHANNEL SURFING Ahh, the joys of spybeams. One busy night this past week, a group of rich people were gathered in CD's, tossing back a few dozen drinks. Since one popular pastime of the rich and degenerate is to play voyeur, beams were searching the far reaches of Fed Space, looking for the juicy bits. People were not disappointed, as a number of tableaus were played out in a short amount of time. First there was Emmi, telling Altasren that she had chosen Maxwell and stability over the amorous ways of the elf. Anyone following this saga knows that surely that can't be true. The two have been seen since then, cuddling as though nothing had happened. Emmi has also met Marcia at last, along with Tao and his son Mourningstar. To say it was a tense moment would be an understatement... But it does look as if an understanding has been reached by all the involved parties. Switching channels, one next found Marcia up in the Mare's Nest, where Ingollde was making some moves on her very pregnant body. Alas, several rowdies proceded to spoil the moment by popping in and dropping Reginald and his friend on the couple. Poor Ingollde didn't realize that such upstanding citizens as Occy and Freya were watching the entire interplay for quite some time, but he should be proud to know that he gave Occy a new move --the Soul Kiss! Alas, Freya was not aroused by Occy's attempts to experiment with it. Her relationship with the Godfather remains a strong motivating factor in her life. The Soul Snog that Occy gave Tell was... an experience. Last up was a return to Altasren, only to find that he and Ni were in the throes of some fast and furious passion! The elf sure didn't waste any time! **>> THE TONYMAN COMETH Journeyman Tony has returned to Fed Space... and he's looking for his money! It seems he thinks a number of people owe him vast amounts of groats, and he's been filling the barboards and open commlinks with demands that people pay up. If you happen to owe him some cash, you'd better pay up, or he's going to come calling with his twin lasers! **>> DADDY-O Truth or fiction? A new lass, claiming to be the late Tyiez's daughter Twilight, has been roving the stars looking for her father and mother... and for some answers as well. Is Menace ready to assume the role of Papa? Stay tuned! Talk about getting cosy... no, we're NOT about to claim that Gemini, Altasren, Emmi, and Tellurian were into a swapping session the other night (not with Tell ready to pull the plug on my nanocircuitry if we do!) but rumor has it you could have cooked your dinner on the emissions from the spybeams trained on the we-don't-dare-call-it-an-orgy... Speaking of Emmi, [Must we? -Newsdroid] as mentioned above, she seems to have decided to stick by Maxwell's side. Reports are hazy, but according to a number of people there was a major sorcerous undertaking on Roissy this week. The reason? Restoring Max to the way he was before he met such a horrible death on Sapien some time back. It seems that previous reports of Max having become a vampire were erroneous... he was instead being possessed slowly by a demon! After several arcane rites were performed, we're happy to report that Max has at last been freed of the darkness in his soul. He and Emmi have been seen together on several occasions since, cuddling and making googly eyes at one another. And lastly, in keeping with the spirit of the headline of 'DADDY-O', Marcia finally gave birth to two beautiful daughters last night. In attendance at the birth were her husband Altasren, Gemini, Tellurian, Emmi, Ingollde, Tao, Destiny, Occy, Menace and Mourningstar. Mourningstar wore the catcher's mitt, as first the elfin girl Rothinel was born, and then the human girl, Meredith. Mother, father and daughters were last spotted in Sam's, doing the family thing. One humorous aside -- as Tellurian completed his blessing of the two girls in the name of St. Pegasus, the system crashed momentarily. So beware of his powers! [evil grin -Ed] Make sure you welcome the true newbods of Fed the next time you see either Alt or Marcia around! **>> A TWIST OF LIME... Recently seen: Bella licking lime off of Jim's face... we're not sure we want to know! And that, friends, is the news that was accumulated for the week. Hopefully we'll have more system time this coming week. Until next time, may St. Pegasus protect you all! **>> DEADLY RECORD? 0766:Emmi has just snuffed it in the Xhit system 0775:Emmi has just snuffed it in the Xhit system 0784:Emmi has just snuffed it in the Xhit system 0802:Emmi has just snuffed it in the Xhit system 0820:Emmi has just snuffed it in the Xhit system 0911:Emmi has just snuffed it in the Xhit system 0927:Emmi has just snuffed it in the Xhit system 0935:Emmi has just snuffed it in the Xhit system Yes, it does look as if Emmi lost her mind last night. After being on Roissy for the birth of the twins at the request of Altasren, the poor girl overdosed on that beet ice cream she loves so much. After querying her about what she was doing that caused her to die, she replied, 'seeing how long it takes to reach a 1 meg insurance premium.' This droid was horrified to see her then take out her Arix army knife and yet again slit her wrists. She was finally convinced to stop when it was discovered that her home on Sapien had reappeared. She was last seen tossing vegetables at a picture of Altasren in Squeege's... We're told they're still trying to clean up all the blood on Xhit. **>> BULLETIN ENDS