Malphas

Let us hope that our operatives are never so foolish as to merit accusations of having fought fairly. Their rapid and brutal victory has delivered the wingless one to us.

The program is moving again. It has shown signs of rudimentary intelligence; is logic guiding it toward some goal, or away from its pursuers?

The child continues to fashion fanciful simulacra in her small construct world; now she has partially re-created the attack that stained her own skies a deep blue years ago. Her own version of revenge, perhaps, on the now-extinct group tha...

While Beirn's...analysis lacks a certain factual rigor, it must be granted that the man has a unique perspective on the cause and effect of gaining massive personal power.

The immature Spectrum scion, Rose, found a new outlet for her shopping obsession when, with help from operatives, she hacked her way into the online "Marketplace" from a phone booth in Uriah, much to the enrichment of those who happened to...

Given the Ouroboros Corporation's backing, the Dame's dire prediction of the value of their shares may be premature. She is correct, however, in supposing that the company's fate is of relatively little moment to us.

Thanks in part to some prodding from our associates close to the media, the bizarre office deaths at Wright Research, and the apparent assault on their servers by "Pendhurst-Amaranth," have taken some headline space away from troubles at O...

Having thoroughly observed the locations in which the bodies were found, I believe I can, by working backwards, arrive through a process of deduction at some of the logical steps that operative minigun may have used to find them--assuming,...

Those endowed with curiosity of the morbid variety may be interested to hear that the two individuals will be left in situ for the next several days, in case you should care to locate and...view them for yourself.

The first complete and correct submission was received from operative minigun, at 17:12:27. Thank you, operative. Your reward is forthcoming. I would also like to thank the other operatives who participated in the search. Full details on t...

Excuse me. The Merovingian is offering a reward to the individual who locates two missing persons, both probably deceased. One was an employee of ours, on the trail of a scam artist who had defrauded our organization in office real estate...

The program CAR80N's tale of robotic tears did not enrich our scientific understanding of the Dark Storm as had been hoped, and his supposedly first-hand account of life at ground zero, as it were, contained several subtle deviations from-...

That someone would dedicate the engineering resources necessary to create a program capable of roughly approximating an immature human is greatly puzzling.

How different he is from the humans with whom we usually associate. While unable to cast off the questionable compulsion of an unpleasant world, he can be said to lack neither intelligence nor imagination. Has he some greater fantasy, upon...

Although they operate in the greatest secrecy, the Archivist Society cannot conceal all evidence of their vastly increased activity level, including that of their most notorious member, Hypatia. Is this spurred merely by an interest in ext...

Later human cultures banned the old bloodsports under the influence of codes of morality that in fact merely encouraged the weak and spineless to suppress their hatred and aggression until it broke out in sporadic killing sprees. And so wa...

Possibly we have been dealing with the same groups and individuals for so long that we have lost the ability to comprehend a set of motives that does not fit into one of the too-familiar types. But what mold could have formed this man?

Microchips manufactured by the Ouroboros Corporation are to be found in nearly every business and home in the city. Published government standards do not require a complete audit of every function printed on a typical electronic device's s...

The Matrix "archaeologist" known as Digger, claiming to have been tempted out of his dusty basement by rumors of strange creatures wandering the city, took a small group of operatives into the depths of Rawlins Corner. It appears that the...

Not simply flushed and killed, then, which suggests she is still among the living--in the outer world, at least. Who but the Machines could have done such a thing? Yet if it was them...what use would they have for an unprepared human outsi...

The Merovingian has made his fortune holding programs more or less against their will. He has managed the Matrix in such a way that only rarely must he exert himself to maintain this control; the programs find they have no choice but to tu...

An unidentified Zionite was picked up by operatives as he tried to make his way to Pillsen. His ability to take punishment belied his apparent lack of hardlines and sense of direction, suggesting that he had access to Command codes. This u...

Do the memories come to him, I wonder? I would think they would be very distinct, even now. After all, there is very little that is truly forgotten.

There was some sort of disturbance in back of Digger's place the other evening: a program of some sort, stirring up trouble among the humans; it takes but little. The desire to find a greater meaning behind their own existence gives them n...

The instrument has been released. Now begins that very deadly game.

The Chessman staged a life-sized match of his favorite board game between Merovingian and Machine operatives in north Tabor Park. Our side won, naturally; well played, Dessus. While the Chessman hastened to assure operatives that the meani...

The revenge--or is it profit?--seeking Bathary Boy, StraightEdgedJohn, sent out a server-wide offer about an old version of his "Pugilist's Gloves"; it appears that he still has a pair from the old mold that was later deemed too dangerous,...

Little here is ever truly lost. Atomic elements--the ones and zeroes--can be destroyed--or reset, rather--only by a select few, and only if they choose to do so; they usually do not. Do they wish things to resurface? Sometimes it seems...a...

The Shirakaba businessman Yuusuke Akayama has been nosing about; he evinces concern about the possibility of current events disrupting his profits. This concern is prudent; his rambling conspiracy theories about the Oracle, however, are so...

The Edgewater Exile known only as "The Bartender" invited a small contingent of operatives from Zion, the Machines, and our own organization for what turned into something of a laurel-branch-waving lecture on maintaining peace in the Matri...

Reports indicate that the temperamental Exile known as the Sculptress emerged from her Center Park studio in search of more subjects on whom to practice her talent in shaping representations of man. This "free clinic" appears to have been...

The aptly named mistress of Ikebukuro, Sunshine, grows uneasy over the turn the weather has taken since the Child's removal. While I'm more interested in sunsets than sunrises, I do of course realize they are two sides of the same coin--a...

It was amusing to watch Zion's hounds barking after scraps of information the Merovingian did not deign to obtain. The Archivist Society's librarian has access to vast knowledge, but Hypatia remains well aware of her own limitations--a use...

Operatives consulted the cryptic Mr. Po in Kowloon to see if his unique method of insight could be of use in obtaining a certain kill-code for somewhat more prescient program. Although the operatives were initially uncertain as to how to p...

The self-styled lord of Camon Heights always bears watching. The General's reappearance after all this time seems to have struck a chord in Silver; is he still smarting from the affair of case and key? But despite his pronounced eccentrici...

Their leaflets still say "DO NOT TRUST THE FRENCHMAN." It is nice to know that one is not forgotten.

I have learned to beware Exiles claiming to have no interest in the affairs of their neighbors.

And so the other members of the family take an interest... The question is, are these Elements really unaware of what's going on, or is this just another diversionary ploy? My sources say the operatives lost Malkin's trail over Apollyon...

The leader of the reclusive Ethereals made a bold raid on Club Jade, apparently having been convinced by Anome that seizing it for his people would be an easy matter. A group of operatives who happened to be having a party there soon showe...

"Zombies" have been plaguing the environs of the Camon church for some days now; this unusual code infection was bad enough, but it has just manifested itself in a vastly more powerful incarnation. This creature took the combined efforts o...

The guards we had chosen to watch over the assembled Twin legs were not prepared for their...friskiness. Having left the two of them doubled over in severe pain after the application of several remarkably accurate kicks, the legs rushed ou...

The operatives of the Corrupt SouIs assisted me in testing a new batch of the cheat codes. We sampled them on a number of street denizens. The Blackwood we approached showed symptoms similar to those from the previous batch: sudden growth...

Rumor has it that Ethereal 2 left the damp confines of his Rawlins Corner dungeon for a midnight trek across Richland. He is said to have passed through the district nearly unobserved before losing what small pursuit he had gathered by hop...

Easy, nigh-unlimited power: forever the dream of the vain and grasping. Rare enough that such is found, much rarer still that it is retained; and in what a small percentage of that even more miniscule number is it kept to the profit of the...

The Tabor Park resident known as the Chessman has been prowling around of late; something seems to have him worried, and it isn't hard to guess what it might be. Does he judge our opponent to be such a master strategist, then? Or is it per...

What a delicate creature is man: so weak in body, so fragile in mind. Driven mad by the unexpected--was this a species destined for supremacy in a universe of mysteries? It seems not so. Predictably, the vials concern them greatly; the hun...

There's been a great deal of activity in the Uriah neighborhood of late, most of it fallout from the incident last week in which some event in the Aqueduct was so unbelievable to the bluepills who saw it that they either went insane, died...

The eccentric antiquarian, Mr. Pillsworth, has been snooping around Bishop Imports in Ueno, which, you will recall, is the building that seems to have swallowed up Zion's beloved Niobe. Pillsworth has long been interested in the various ar...

Were I a thoroughly proper Merovingian flunky, I would not take a certain pleasure in disciplinary problems among other subgroups of this vast organization. But I must admit a feeling not far from amusement when a report comes to me of tro...

I have come to the conclusion that humans--the awoken ones, at any rate--are quite insane. They don't begin that way. Indeed not. Asleep in their pods, dreaming humdrum "lives," they are the very epitome of sanity. But then, for whatever r...

May Third A satisfying end to what had been a frustrating evening. Those accursed Ethereals chanced upon my choice humans and, perhaps in an attempt to weaken me, or quite possibly simply out of spite, secreted them deep within their dunge...

Supplementary report Security personnel appeared at all eight concert locations today. They were observed to check all the spotlights, then leave the scene without much further ado, generally ignoring the Sleepwalker attacks raging through...

Initial report The "concert" sites have special guests: humans dressed in black "Security" garb. They come and go at irregular intervals, moving from one site to another in varying order, presumably to make their patrols less predictable f...