From: Connor Claptrapp (cclaptrapp@blackdoggamingfactory.com)

To: Deathmaster (ershkagal@geoshities.com)

Re: Re.Re.Re.Re.Re.Spectre Cults Revised

Alright, Tourmaline, I've had enough of this fucking nonsense.

Every damn month I write you up, telling you to take that thing down, and every month you write me back and alternate between whining at how unfair we are and trying to slide your nose up my ass. And you not only do not take it down, but you add on another chapter.

I've had it. This is your last warning, and then I do what I should have done the first time and sic our legal department on your sorry site for once and for all.

For the. last. time: Spectre Cults "Revised" is nothing more than a thinly-disguised rewriting of Spectre Cults, with just a few new rules tossed in on your part. Even the 'cover art' you provide is taken from the cover the book, itself.

This violates our Fair Use rules six ways to sunday, and we have already gone over this numerous times. But let me spare you the effort of making your usual arguments:

- I don't care if it's OOP. It's still our property.

- I don't care if we're never going to put it out as an e-book. It's still our property.

- I don't care if you're not on the Black Hole. We tell sites on that list to take stuff down, too, and we tell sites not on the list to take stuff down as well. On the list or off the list, the fair use rules apply to our property. And it's still our property.

- I don't care about how you think Spectre got axed, or why, or how unfair it is, or whatever. It's still our property.

- And no, you are not going to buy that property from us, either. It's not for sale. Stop asking.

So let's just make this clear. You have 24 - count 'em: 24 - hours from when I send this email to comply with the order to take that thing down. And then I call the legal department, and we'll see your ass in court.

Don't forget what we did to Ex Libris Diabolus, Dog Tracks and J. B. Morocco when they crossed us. We'll do it to you, too, and we'll even smile this time.

24 hours, fucktard. Make 'em count.

sincerely yours:

Connor Claptrapp - Black Dog Employee

ps: if you ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER get within five feet of me at a con, again, I'm calling for security and having you arrested for whatever I can charge you for. DO NOT TEST ME ON THIS!

Yes, even sites that are infested by Banes and run by Spectre Cultists get red letters from Black Dog Gaming Factory, too. E.'s Spectre loves the total frustration he feels when he gets one, and spurs him to ignore it so that the Angst from the next letter will be even more delicious, and the one after that, and so on.

Eventually, though, E. chickens out, as he's terrified of legal action. But there will always be another violation of BDGF's "liberal" fair use rules at some point in the future - especially since E. rarely reads anything he gets with those rules in mind.

As for Connor Claptrapp, he's the latest in a long string of "web slaves." They come to the company with great ideas, but soon find out what a crap system Black Dog has, and then spend between one and three months trying to fix it or make do before they're either fired for suspicious reasons, disappear or run away as quick as they can.

Connor's lasted longer than most, but only because he's made some headway into getting the system to work. Meanwhile, his Willpower is so high that nothing short of a dark miracle is going to put a Bane in him, and his sense of the obvious is so distorted that he can walk past dying people on the way to the nearest O'Tolleys and assume they're street mimes.