Dreadnought:  There has been an oversight in this grand scheme of yours.

Balthazar:  I’m all ears.

Dreadnought:  Limen Krupto – where Eon walked away with your Onslaught and Aegis with your Dagon, where all the corrupted character avatars are stored – is well accessible to anyone and everyone else.

Balthazar:  Is that it?  That is far from an oversight.

Dreadnought:  What if someone walks right into it, and posted it in the support website – as someone did.  Called it a “graveyard of characters”.

Balthazar:  You know the drill – gibberish.

Dreadnought:  What if more of them confirms the same thing?  There’s no escaping that.

Balthazar:  Would it make you feel better if I said that the bodies are being moved as we speak?

Dreadnought:  Much.

Balthazar:  Then feel better!

Dreadnought:  But where?  You can’t just move it.  You have to re*move* it!

Balthazar:  Lithos Gigas, our Guild’s canyon.  Accessible to no one but us.

Dreadnought:  Why do you spend so much effort keeping those?  What use are they to you anyway, except become the trophies of your victory?

Balthazar:  Everything has a time and place in the grand scheme of things.  Are there any other things I *failed* to see?

Dreadnought:   Eon.

Balthazar:  What about him?

Dreadnought:  He is looking for Aegis.  He is not just any hacker, is he?

Balthazar:  I still don’t know.  I went through the list over and over again.  I just couldn’t figure out who he might be.  I just couldn’t see anyone who could be as good a programmer as I am.

Dreadnought:  What list?

Balthazar:  Figure that one out by yourself.  In the meantime, fetch me that Onslaught sheathed over at his back.  He should be relatively easy to find.  He stands out.

Dreadnought:  That means you’re also after Dagon, which means you’ll be after Aegis?

Balthazar:  And what if I am?

Dreadnought:  Don’t involve Aegis here, or our deal is off.

Balthazar:  And you’ll do what?  Report me?  Remember, you stand to lose more than I do.  And who is Aegis to you anyway?  Do you think you are important to her as she is important to you?

Dreadnought:  I don’t know.  What is in the swords that you couldn’t start your “revolution” without?

Balthazar:  If you managed to figure out which list I was referring to, it will lead you to what the swords actually contain, which will eventually lead you to the reason for all this hatred.

Dreadnought:  Then I have a proposition for you.

Balthazar:  Tell me.

Dreadnought:  Spare Aegis from all this non-sense, and I will throw in Eon’s IP along with Onslaught.  This should be pretty valuable since he is the only wildcard in your so-called plan.

Balthazar:  Counter-proposition.

Dreadnought:  I’m listening.

Balthazar:  Forget Aegis and give me Eon’s IP, I’ll put in a good word for you when I resign at year’s end.  I’ll set you up for another promotion; *the* promotion – my office.

Dreadnought:  Are you goddamn serious?!

Balthazar:  Have I broken any of my words just yet?

Dreadnought:  Never.  But give me time to think.

Balthazar:  There is nothing to think about.  You have the rest of your life to make amends.  But this one is a chance of a lifetime.

Private Message Logs
Excerpt from the Chronicles of the First Generation
14th day of the 6th moon