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- From: JENKINS@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu (Kent Jenkins)
- Subject: Joy and the Art: Precis
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- Joy and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- [Precis]
- ...
-
- What follows is a summary of everything that has happened in the two
- J.J. Faust stories I have written. "Ode to Joy" and "Joy and the Art
- of Motercycle Maintenance." They both have been entirely written by
- myself (tho I keep telling people they can help if they want) with
- some cursory input from Liralen Li, Croyd Crimson, Kip G. Moore, and
- Jim "Man-of-Many-Blinking-Lights-and-Beeping-Sounds" Gaynor.
-
- A lot of this story was written just to write and, as the second J.J.
- Faust story comes to a close, I'll possibly explain what happened.
-
- Comments are always, always welcome at: JENKINS@AGVAX2.AG.OHIO-STATE.EDU
- ...
-
- INFOTEK DATA COLLECTION AGENCY
- CORPERATE FILE 113-493: Juliane Josephine Armand Faust
- STORY PRECIS
-
- J.J. Faust is a woman of coincidence, manipulated by a man named Major
- Rednix to gain, as some sort of comodity, herself and a pendant. The
- pendant had been an effect on her, turning her from her gemology job and
- Masters degree, to running drugs and black market goods for party drugs
- and the chance to live (and party) hard.
-
- Wasp was Rednix's errand-boy, an ex-street gang kid who traded his
- life to Rednix for a pair of high-security military Cybereyes. His
- job was to collect data on Faust, but he became awed by her unusual
- behavior of intellect and animalism.
-
- Faust learned she was being controled soon after killing Rednix and
- five other women in a rage of selfish glory. She was brought out by
- finding a peice of her own true art - a necklace she had a hand in
-
- into the bay.
-
- Wasp inherited Rednix's underground empire and discovers how twisted it
- truly is. He takes a break and goes hunting after his unusual
- obsession: J.J. Faust.
-
- J.J. had brought her life back together again, with the help of a
- drug, 'Liquid Apathy', until the man whose party she killed Rednix at
- gives her a promotion to apprentice designer for the jewelry company.
- There she meets a number of very ecclectic designers, including one,
- Suz, who warns her to "stay Innocent, for someone's got to be Innocent
- when the Unicorn comes."
-
- Wasp meets Vit, a German hitman who has sought out the woman who
- killed the infamous Major Rednix, a woman only known as "Faust." Wasp
- lies to keep J.J. safe from death and to have very good help in
- getting to her. Vit eventually finds out and threatens, many times,
- to kill Wasp until they both find out more is going on than just J.J.
- being mistaken for an international killer.
-
- J.J. finds herself fondly courted by Patrick Mivlosk, a handsome man
- who works in the building's administration. At a party of his, she
- suffers slight amnesia as a fire broke out and she fell down the
- stairs, badly brusing herself in the rush for the exits. Suz, when
- J.J. returns to work, is disgusted. J.J.'s boss sets her up in a new
- apartment/flat for an incredible deal. We, the readers, know that
- J.J. was actually a part of some kind of ritual and was wounded badly
- from the violence.
-
- Faust goes out into a countryside park to reflect and to dance and
- discovers a small boy whose father has been missing for a while and
- wants Faust's help, as a 'faerie', to help find him. She agrees, too
- happy to think how she's going to do this.
-
- She finds a note at work next morning from a man named 'Wasp' to meet
- concerning people who are trying to kill her. She goes to meet him
- and discovers Patrick, warning of "a blond kid and a german" wanting
- her life. Wasp and Vit watch this discussion from a distance, Wasp
- being outraged, and they go off to plan.
- ...
-
- This is where we pick up the story again. Confused? Quick recap:
-
- J.J. Faust is being controlled. She doesn't know it. Wasp and Vit
- do, but are being held away by men with guns and lots of power. The
- word "magic" hasn't entered the scene yet, but you sure as hell bet
- it's going to eventually. J.J. Faust is in deep trouble.
- ...
-
- [Copyright (c) 1992 by Kent Jenkins - Plot by a bunch of British people.]
-
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- Kent Jenkins | I don't want the world,
- ("Thenomain") | I just want your half.
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