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Subject: [CIA] - Jones - A decision point
Date: 3 Oct 1994 18:48:53 GMT
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Summary: Jones acts saintly, asks BD for a decision

Jones felt very satisfied about the Goblin
fight...the team had done a great job, and
would have to do some serious partying
later;  in the meantime, there was a bit of
unfinished business.

The goblins had been largely defeated, and 
were more interested in running than further
fighting...first, Jones switched magazines
in his pistol.  Then, he retrieved his
machine gun..the finish had been scratched,
and it needed a good cleaning, but other than
that, it was OK.  Guldur was doing well as
an interrogator...

BD appeared to be going after another prisoner;
which was just as well, since the original
goblin seemed to be somewhat the worse for wear.
Jones went to Guldur, spoke quietly to him for
a moment (primarily discussions of unrelated
matters, but Jones tries to look sincere!)
Then Jones goes up to the wounded goblin prisoner
and {initiating standard good cop/bad cop
behavior} says: "My friend over there hates
goblins. He really does...and he wants to do
awful things to you.  Me, I believe in live and
let live...so if you cooperate, maybe I can
protect you.  Otherwise...[Jones smiles].

The goblin (being nobody's fool) rather quickly
develops some rudimentary language skills, and
starts babbling about being peaceable, and 
dearly loving human beings.  Jones smiles
again and says "Glad you made the right decision.
Of course, you know why we won...we prayed to the
ONE TRUE GOD...[Preaching deleted to preserve
some modicum of good taste]!

Jones than says to the Goblin "However...I cannot
tell you the name of the ONE TRUE GOD, until such
time as I am convinced of your faith.  Go spread
the word amongst your people...." [Jones isn't
quite ready to release the prisoner, but does
give him some water].

Jones then says [quietly] to BD...Well, we can
get the God deal started...but my intuition is
telling me we may get some really heavy duty heat
when we implement it.  We'll go for it if that's
what you want...but are you *_sure_* you'd rather
be a god instead of Leader, King, El Presidente',
or whatever?