To: Zion Council From: Operative (redacted) Re: Captain Niobe’s discovery No doubt exists that Morpheus’s killer is a program in the “employ” of the Merovingian. As she tells it, Captain Niobe and her crew fought her way to the Merovingian’s suite and learned this at swordpoint – but lost the advantage and barely made her way out. As important, she learned this Exile’s nature. The Assassin is composed of flies – swarming, crawling, seething flies. It’s some sort of programmer’s joke (he is a program involved in disposal of the Matrix’s simulated waste products). Unfortunately, this means gunshots and physical blows are completely ineffective in harming him. Word on the street is that insecticide (there may be a connection between The Corrupted which plagued the Matrix some time ago and The Assassin) slows him down. Conceivably coders could assemble a more effective insecticide and we can take down this vermin permanently. I continue my inquiries. /end message |
Well, bon vivants, they’re in a tizzy. You’d think they’d thank the guy who took down the biggest pain in the database we’ll ever see. The Morph-dome who was unweaving their digital tapestry with code-bombs. The wrecker of the glorious green haven we call home. Instead, they’re joining with the fungus-eating troglodytes (okay, I know, you do too, but you also know the taste of mousse that’s like eating a chocolate cloud, thanks to your wise choice of affiliation) to squash this clean-up artist like a bug. Or bugs. Okay, sure, the Merovingian told The Assassin to stop Morpheus. But he didn’t say to kill him. The idea was to rescind Mr. Diction’s account – burn out his jacking-in chips with feedback scripts. That’s what was in the bullets we gave him. Instead, the slugs contained kill codes that messed with the RSI reconstruct failsafe. Who put them in there? The Machines. Who else? Oh, they’re denying it, but they always lie. Remember the decades you spent living their lies? They haven’t changed. So maybe The Assassin doesn’t have the special aura you and I and the rest of the elite do. More like an aroma, that guy. But he’s our buzztard, as the saying goes. Don’t let the softies and the suits take him down. The Merovingian does the hiring and firing around here. bon jour, Flood |
Ciao, Rossopillolas. A new threat to the Matrix is upon us. It is up to you to contain it. We cannot count on the cowboys and cowgirls of Zion, nor the sybarites who follow the Frenchman. You, enlightened combattente, are the true keeper of the peace. It is time again for action. So saltare il fasso. The Assassin is a disposal program with an interesting past. He worked in the hard world, through mechanical proxies, as well as in 01 and in the Matrix. All processes produce waste; his function was to remove it. It is an offensive joke that it was he who terminated Morpheus. The Merovingian fancies himself a wit. Do not be troubled by his lies; although we found Morpheus vexing, we did not order this. Morpheus, after all, found and trained the One. His role in saving the Matrix is respected. We are grateful to Morpheus. Beware the Assassin's bullets. They contain kill codes, at least some of them. RSI reconstruction may be prevented (you have noticed trouble with the system lately; we believe it is the Assassin's effect). We believe Morpheus truly dead, by the way. He is nowhere in the Matrix we can see. His body has not been accounted for in the hard world, however. Perhaps it rots, which is a shame. We devise kill codes of our own - in insecticide form. Enough applications will kill The Assassin, so it will take heroic effort from you and many of your comrades. Obtain them on missions. We must act, human with machine, to preserve our world. The Assassin ha i giorni contati! Pax tecum! Agent Pace |
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