------------------------------------------------------------------------ The plan. Newsgroups: alt.devilbunnies From: adm4@po.cwru.edu (Aaron Mandelbaum) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 22:42:03 GMT Organization: CWRU If anyone had ever asked Aaron what the last thing he would ever be caught doing was, crawling through the air ducts of a squirrel-run warren under Case Western Reserve University would not be on the list, because it would never have occured to him. Only the fact that what the warren used for air ducts, at least, for the particular ducts that he and Sylvie were using, were known to the humans above as 'steam tunnels' made it possible at all. He hoped that the stories he'd heard about Case putting alarms in the tunnels wasn't true -- the last thing he needed was to have the human police after him along with all the squirrel guards. At least Loren wouldn't have dared put alarms here. These tunnels were occasionally visited by humans, authorized and not, and discovery of such a device could mean the end of the warren. The chance was slight, but Loren didn't like to take risks unless he had to. Sending others to take risks was another thing entirely, but... Finally they reached the entrance Sylvie was looking for. It was molded to look like a wall, hidden behind a group of pipes, and squirrel sized to boot. "Just a second," she said, "I'll be right back." She scurried into the hole, and Aaron waited impatiently, hearing phantom footsteps of CWRU security and Loren's squirrels. Fortunately, she only took a minute or so to come back with the equipment. "He's got checkpoints in all the hallways," she said, "But their aren't enough silver-furs to go around. I'm sure they recognized me, but they won't turn us in." "They didn't have guards on the weapons locker?" "What weapons locker? I took these off the assembly line. The warren isn't set up for internal security, since when the devilbunnies ran it it was 90% top-security access anyway." Sylvie dropped her load and started putting pieces together. Aaron knew what it was, she'd told him, but still couldn't figure out which piece was which. They all looked like tiny black boxes, except for the blob of explosive, of course. "Didn't Loren ever change it?" "Only the security around his office. It's risky to do construction, especially when so much of the warren is near the surface. The noise might have carried to the buildings, and then what would we do? So Loren left it like it was, there must be two hundred tunnels leading to the main factory floor." Construction was too noisy, but they ran a factory? Maybe it was a quiet factory. It must be, since no one had ever found it. Sylvie finished the bomb, and handed it to him. "All done. Set to go off on impact, so don't drop it. Now all we have to do is arrange a meeting..." TBC -- Aaron Mandelbaum, the PSH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Usenet Web 1.0.3 (development) / webmaster@netimages.com