Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 11:56:56 cst
From: Ed Graham <edg@juno.com>
To: frc@nvg.unit.no
Subject: frc: Round 63

Round 63,  sadly,  is over.

Luke Vaughn is declared the Winner,  and the Wizard with 2 Style Points.
Round summary follows:

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63:1 Judged VALID; +1.5 Style Point awarded
Submitted by Jeremy at Fri, 16 Aug 1996  15:03:08 

My name is Enigma.

It has been for as long as I can remember...  Of course, I cannot
remember anything that occurred prior to the beginning of this round
at the moment, not even my true name.

This round is my personal Journal, written to provide clues to myself
about my past.  Only I may write in it.  

I am naturally paranoid.  Therefore, I have rigger my Journal to self-
destruct should anyone else touch it, rendering further rules in this
round impossible.
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63:2 Judged VALID; +.75 Style Point awarded
Submitted by Andrew E. R. Usher at Fri, 16 Aug 1996 16:50:15 

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		2.i.01
Dear Diary,

I very nearly lost you today. Fortunately,
it appears I have always feared your discovery, 
and the "friend" who found my last diary was
wearing gloves this time. To be on the safe
side, I have found a box to keep you in, which
is designed so that it will only open once every 
day, and I will keep the key on a chain around my 
neck.

Incidentally, my "friend" says that the only thing
she saw before my last diary crumbled in her hands
were the words "Yriad Samgine". Seeing as she only
laughed when I asked her why people call me Enigma
I have sworn never to speak to her again.

Fare well until tomorrow.

E.

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63:3 Judged VALID.  2 Style Points awarded
Submitted by Luke Vaughn at Fri, 23 Aug 1996 07:25:26

>>>>>>
Dear Diary,

  I still have no solid idea who I am. But I think at least some of the
people around me know, and just don't want to tell me. For example, in
the
diner this afternoon I overheard one person comment that I 'ran through
more
identities then anybody he'd ever met'. The person he was talking to went
on
to say she'd even seen even seen me occupying multiple bodies at the same
time.
  Personally, I think they were just trying to get my goat. But from now
on,
I'm not going to write down any more of these malicious comments. Nope. I
will only write solid evidence. For example, this morning in my attic, I
found a bunch of old pictures. I'm not sure who took them, but someone
went
to the trouble of identifing each picture in a little notebook. Only
problem
is that the pictures don't seem to match the order of the notebook.
Still, I
might be able to find something there.
  Well thats all for tonight... Oh, I almost forgot. I did hear something
that seems worthy of note. The waitress in the diner called me one of the
communities oldest and most respectable members. I wonder what she meant
by
that. Ah well.
That really is all for tonight. And so to bed.
>>>>>

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63:4 is Judged INVALID  1 Style Point
Submitted by Andrew E R Usher at Fri, 23 Aug 1996 14:06:10

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>>>>>
						4.1.01

Dear Diary,

Well, things are improving. Sort of.

I figured out the photo order, eventually. Someone had started the
notebook
from the _back_ page, and then worked from top to bottom and right to
left.

Mad.

The only person I know that does that sort of thing is an Australian mate
of
mine, Paul I think his name is - or is it John? - strange chap - he
managed 
to fall off Ayres Rock at one stage; although I really should call 
it Uluru, the Aboriginal name, now. It's that great big rock in the 
centre of Australia, anyway. How he survived I'll never know, and I don't
think
he's going to tell.

Where was I?

Oh yes, the photos. Not much to them, annoyingly. I took most of them -
all of
various castles for some reason, with  "Summer, 73" or something like
that.
There were enough parks I recognised to work out the order the notes were
in -
eventually. Two guys called Charles and Edward seemed to be fairly
common, too.

Speaking of Charles, I got a letter from someone of that name today.
Funny
address:

The Occupier
B.P.

With an "OHMS" in the corner. I don't know what to make of it.

Good grief this entry is long! This journal's getting longer than it
looked like
it would. The entries are going to have to start getting shorter from now
on,
if I'm going to find anything out before the end of the book. 

<yawn> 

Bedtime. Good night.

E.

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This looked like it was going to be a very interesting Round.  Silly me.

Good luck Luke,
Ed Graham