(Found on a private web-conferencing board, maintained by the Incarna Inside Glass Walkers sept)

Allow me to introduce myself and please excuse any lack of proper ettiqute in the doing. My name is Searches-The-Web and I'm 'He who maintains the Veil on the electronic side of things' for my local Glass Walkers sept. You wouldn't believe how many stories of Garou find themselves spilling onto the web these days -- but fortunately, our 'friends' the Technarchs are doing more to keep us hidden than I could ever do if I had three reincarnations show up to help me cover our electronic spoor. Of course, I don't just load up Google and do a search on Garou every couple of nights; I do like to keep my paws in the local BBS traffic as well. Would you believe what I found? I suppose it had to happen; sooner or later, our less fortunate brethren would manage to claw their way straight into the mid 1980s and discover what part of the Glass Walker lifestyle truly appeals to the wandering soul that stands still. I've reposted the article here in its entirety, although I have annotated it with the occasional comment where I simply couldn't keep quiet.

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to my fellow worm-huntereds, u know who u are.

[[Oh dear. Already we're at Apes: 1, Veil: 0. I hope you'll play along. Don't worry, I've already crashed this board in such a way as to make sure the files can't be recovered. The Veil is safe once more, thank you, thank you.]]

this wont make a lot of sense to u if u aren't one of us...

[[Nor will it to anyone else, my good man...]]

so dont bother to read on if u dont get what im talking about. if you dont hack words like 'garou', 'wyrm' or 'gaia', go read the flonk pages and flonk off if you do hack it then ive really got a beef to get off my chest

[[What a clever way to maintain secrecy. Why didn't we ever think of the Honour system?]]

see, life aint easy for a bone gnawer. not nearly as easy as say for a glass walker oh you saw that coming well whatever. yes, im gong to talk about those sellouts now and if u have a problem with it u can just come see me in person and well 'talk' about it. alley behind macey's bring friends cuz im going to. see here we live in the cities like the glass jaws but the big difference is we actually work for our kibbles and bits and bits and bits.

[[Oh brother. Yadda, yadda, life's sooo hard when you're a scavenger, yadda yadda, as though the hyenas weren't bad enough before, now they're allowed to post their grievances on the electronic world for everyone to read.]]

yeah the glass bottoms have the right idea one way... the jungle isnt going away its just getting concrete paved over it.

[[Of course we're right. We've only been watching this phenomenon for a few thousand years, haven't we? This is what I hate about these upstarts in a nutshell -- they have an original thought and think that they've just shat a gold brick when in truth they've just shat scat.]]

long time ago back before there was a messopotato for the ass is glasses to come
[[Trust me, this high burlesque only gets funnier, sigh.]]

from, we garou used to live in the deadliest parts of the world because we liked it okay maybe we didnt like it all the time but it kept us strong and lean and best of all kept us close to our enemies so we knew how they lived and if u know how something lives u know how to fight it.

[[Which is an argument for... which tribe? Which tribe? I can't hear you, speak up...]]

but even though we lived alongside the enemy we never made the biggest mistake of all and thats living like the enemy because the longer you live like the enemy the more you become like him.

[[Now his is nonsense. Do we really have any more of our kind wandering over to gaze lovingly into the Black Spiral than, say, the Get of Fenris or the Fianna? No, and do you know why that is? Because we've actually managed to adapt our pack structure and beliefs (oh for hypertext, so I could underline that in bold, red ink) to a modern venue. No, we do not live like the Wyrm-tainted Pentex wage-slave in his two bedroom, half bath apartment. We maintain a lifestyle which is very much in tune with the image of the day, but it's really only a guise. We are no more big city wage-earners than a Lupus in Human form is really a... well human. Remember, we are *shape* *shifters*. Perhaps you're enthralled in the idea of being a big shaggy wolf, but I certainly haven't forgotten that we were given both guises by which to operate.]]

or her if theres any black furs reading this which i doubt since this isnt a lesbian singles bbs LOL.

[[Hmm. To forward this to a small circle of Black Furies or not to forward this. Ah well, in the interests of intra-tribal peace, I'll stay my hand.]]

so we let the humans breed all over the place because the children of gaia told us to make nice and now theyve made the world a concrete jungle and we live in it.

[[Ahhh, what a very... bottom feederish analysis of the Impergium. When asked the cause of the Civil War, I bet he says 'slavery' too.]]

okay good enough but the thing we dont do is hold down jobs and go to operas even if man those girls can howl and we dont dont dont dont get fat on the wyrms taint while telling ourselves that its okay.

[[Yes, yes, the screed isn't over till the Urge-Wyrm sings. Now I have the image of a Formor Tempter in a Brunhilde outfit...]]

Yeah glass heads im talking to u and u know where to find me except you dont want to get your goochy suits dirty do u???

[[Of course not. Should I ever come across so rare a bird as a 'goochy' suit, I'll certainly want to keep it until I can take it onto the Antique Roadshow.]]

see its not the jungle thats evil but how u live in it that counts the humans live by the wyrm and take their food fast and made by other people and drive around in cars that vomit up balefire smog and are designed to be thrown in a river and bot again and stuff like that. and every time gm sells another stinkbomb gaia cries a little bit more and she gets more angry and we take the piss.

[[Yes she does. And so do we. Perhaps we do think that right now nature's engaged in a fit of evolutionary Darwinism with mankind, but if so, we do not believe that it will be resolved by letting the Wyrm taint Mother Gaia with its balefires. You yourself have stated that the city is the new jungle. What we want is to eliminate the taint from *our* jungle, just as we have done since the beginning of time. If our jungle chokes out the old then so be it; but we will not have it happen by Wyrm-tainted means!]]

[[I'm sorry. Now he's really just burning my biscuits.]]

and what do the glass gasses do??? they lived like the moo cows and they buy new gms and throw them in the river and they talk about how the earth isnt strong enough and isnt that like someone saying that they dont need air to breathe because the airs not strong enough to fight the carbon doxies in the air??? sure u can think that but u are still gong to chok when u try to prove it and then wont u feel stupid???

[[Yes. Roughly as stupid as I'd feel if I couldn't find my 'shift' key.]]

[[I'd refute the above, but our actions speak as loudly as any words I could impress on the glowing phosphor. There is a way to live in harmony with the world and there is a way to live in discord with it. We've chosen the former with regards to the cities; the Wyrm has aggressively chosen the latter.]]

we live the way we were born and its maybe not the way that the tacnukes shud live 9hi there red talons!!!) but at least we dont bend over for the wyrm and say here, com on in the more the merrier.

[[Charming image. Does you howl for your alpha with that mouth?]]

u ask me the gas walkers are 1 step away frum being black sprials and u can quote me on that.

[[I swear, I nearly Raged at this point...]]

we live off of what the wyrm throws away. we get strong on what hes careless about.

[[Like the Pentex-tainted hamburgers you scrounge out of the garbage cans, or the Pentex tainted plastics that probably went into your little toys, or the Tainted medicines you find for yourselves to treat your sick, or...]]

we dont make the wyrm fatter, we make the wyrm thinner. we live as predators in the urban jungle. were even getting on this internet by scrounging the parts didnt buy any of them and splicing the phone line so there.

[[I'm thrilled, really I am. We're breeding an entire tribe of misguided Cyberpunks.]]

so the gws are sitting on theyre thrones and tossing the wyrms their scraps and going here worrmy worrmy worrmy and they dont see it wrapping its tail around them and is about to go 'good doggie now let me scratch your belly' they just think its okay. but it isnt. they live like leeches and maybe its time we focused the hunt where it should go right down their asses.

[[I'm honestly impressed. He actually got an image right. Letting the Wyrm scratch your belly as both an act of submission and an demonstration of being tame. Now I'd be more impressed if he actually applied it in a sensical way...]]

Eater-Of-Cheetos

[[One day I'll give you a copy of our analysis of those things. You'd be surprised what's in Cheetos besides preservatives. Remember, it's not easy being Wyrmy...]]

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Well. There you have it. Apparently you can train these things to type. I apologize for the flippancy, but honestly I had to get this out of my system before I blew up and tore someone apart. Please don't forward this any further, as it's best that it dies here.

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