Bleach

-To: Chief <Caveman@msplex.sh>

-User Entry: JimmyEyes <james.italiano@msplex.sh>

11.31.74 19:05:57 CST

Aright chief, I've been out in the RRDMZ looking into this and I think we've found out what's been happening to all those telesma shipments that were supposed to be arriving in the MSPlex by Thanksgiving.

Our people in the area didn't seem to have a clue and I wasn't getting anywhere with our partners from across the border. Just clammed up and stonewalled me so I had to dig deeper. Which is what you pay me the big bucks for. Finally found a gang of bums who do some smuggling along the Big Loop and they were able to clue me into what nobody else was telling us.

Turns out that there's this figure, no real names, just a handle 'Bleach', both on account of complexion and of what they do. So here's what we do know from descriptions (and a couple of pics/vids that MIGHT be Bleach): Elf, Albino coloration (or lack thereof), age hard to determine (you know how elves are), same with gender, almost certainly magically-active and probably either some serious matrix skills or some help who has some. No confirmed pics so take the one I attached with a grain of salt, it was hard to get and the ID is pure conjecture on my part, although my guesses are usually pretty good.

Here's the MO. Bleach is a telesma thief, likes to hit shipments while they're *en route*. Specialty is snatching the stuff straight out of the truck or plane or whatever, usually so quietly that the mules don't realize they've been robbed until they go to open up the cargo. And when they go to check for signs, the astral signature has been wiped and so has any electronic surveillance devices. Not just the data about Bleach, but all the data on the device. Which is where the second meaning of 'Bleach' comes in.

This seems to be a thing with Bleach. Sometimes, the few people I could get to talk to me told me, Bleach will go in and erase electronic records or wreck servers that have nothing to do with telesma. Usually stuff with identity information, SIN's, bank accounts, personal histories. Sort of like Identity Theft except she's erasing it, not taking it. Identity Sabotage? IDK. Even people who've been robbed of telesma find their personal commlinks or other electronics wiped unnecessarily. And given how vital personal and identifying info IS in life in general and our kind of life in specific, this is what really scares and pisses people off.

Seems that Whiskey Jack has given his people orders not to act on Bleach sightings or look into Bleach at all. The Telesma Bleach takes is written off as a loss. Which confuses the drek out of me, since he's the one taking the biggest hit from these robberies, but who knows with this guy. Ma and the Chinook, on the other hand have gone together on a bounty on Bleach's chalk-white head. A pretty sizable one, if you feel like following up on that.

You want my recommendation? Send somebody (maybe not me this time, huh?) out with some money and recruit this operator. Could be useful. Or, depending on your mood, boss, just send somebody to put this one on the ground. The one thing I wouldn't recommend is just sitting on this. Just my gut feeling, but this one gives me the creeps. And the kind of thing you shouldn't just ignore because I think that might just be what this 'Bleach' wants.

*[Edit 12.31.2075: Whatever Cave decided to do seems to have worked. Bleach hasn't been seen in the area since early 2075]*

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