>>>; The Gambler

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Receiving Party(s): [R]-Double.Down - Jack Montes
Sending Party(s): [R]-Madcat - Mathew Hendricks
Matter Subject(s): Black Bag

....Finally managed to put together the new subroutines, was considerably harder to work than I was expecting, wasn't able to crack the deeper layers, so I gave it adaptive encryption built upon its own foundations. Assuming our old encryption was compromised, I did the same, and routed it through the Black Star subroutines, wasn't able to extract much info on who the hell they were, all routed to some untraceable location, likely a physical information nexus somewhere. I just assumed it was some politician's pet project.

....Not what I contacted you about, though. Lacking any physical material to inspect in the wake of the downfall, I came up empty handed in terms of leads, then I remembered just before you were given your fangs, there was an attempt on your life, and that woman was using.. strange tech, to say the least. I don't know if you still have those arms, but if you do, I need anything and everything left of that physical material, it may be our only shot at finding out who the hell those Erasers belonged to.
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You'll find the Blackout authorization software and subroutines routed to the Double Down prior to your response to this communication, assuming it all works and i'm not dead by the time you get to it. We can't afford slip ups, not now.

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Recipient: Madcat
Sender: Jack "Gambler" Montes
Subject: Nice to see I'm not the only working
Location: Tau-37

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Huh.

Well, guessing you couldn't have factored where I was into the equation...

Anyway, yeah, it's your lucky day Mad, got everything still. Even if I did use some of those parts for something.

There is just one slight complication... and well yeah, uh I'll let you see which node this is being relayed through. You wanna' do me a solid and meet me half way? 'Cause not only do I have questions, I also have news for you.

~ Gambler

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