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- As you start to think about maybe getting up and getting your carcass out of
- bed to continue this lengthy mission, you hear the public phone ring out in the
- hall. The cleaning lady answers it, and yells that it's for you. You get up and
- go into the hallway to answer it.
-
- On the line is John Abraham, and he sounds worried. "There was an explosion in
- the Pollar West Building last night, Telan. A bomb. It did only slight damage
- to the building, but Tinker was working late, and the bomb went off when he was
- locking up his office. He was killed, Telan. Amalgamated Automatons, they own
- AI, you know, decided that maintaining an intellgence branch was too costly and
- to dangerous, what with the two senior officers gone. Argrath's been dissolved,
- Telan. We're out of a job. Your mission's over. Sorry..."
-
- Depressed, demeaned, but hungry, you get a job at the shoestore and spend the
- rest of your boring life selling shoes.
-