home get destroyed by Jeff Moreau and The Stain having a head butting contest in your living room Anonymous GoreZone Prize Winner GoreZone take full responsibilty for the re-sealing of these open vents, Aft he GoreZone team will trek yack into service tunnels and shut the atches, until another time. fe to have a special invite to the GoreZone. This is difficult as the GoreZone only really accepts media icons that the SLA public will recognise, like Contract Killers with big name sponsors. However, the paymer For these special GoreZone guests, very favourable indeed Spoilt For Choice The inhabitants of Downtown witness unspeakable aets and atrocities lily and from such experiences grow wild and frightening imaginations. The milies automatically think the worst when the children are late home. Any number ofthingscouldhave happened to them, they are the com. mon prey forthe various deadly Of urban society. They ean be att and robbed ~after all, everybody in Dowatowal Downtown is flat broke and there is always @ percentage that will thieve simply in order to survive, Some of the teenagers get lost and fall foul of hungry Carriens and bloodthirsty serial killers Others simply stray away from the drudgery of family life. They are hyp- notised by the brighter lights of the cit streets. Some join gangs and w colours’ with porcelain pride, There are others who go one step Further and g¢ mislead and brainwashed by the ripe offers of DarkNight and the Soft Com- panies, hoping for a better life than that which they had. Many youths choose to sell themselves, physically, tothe lonely shadows that walk silently amongst the walkway’ in search of good times. Vile hobos and respectable businessmen andwomenalikewill buy theservicesof these desperate unfortunates for the night, or for ever, no questions asked. ‘There is a new business in the sleazy alleys and ghettos that has no consider- ation for those whose hearts it might break or whose pleasures it will satiate it will gladly steal any pretty young gitl or boy. All the infamous ‘Skin Trade’ caresabout isthe money and goodsthat are exchanged for their sex slaves. *Oh, itbreaks my heart when this happens. It doesn't bear thinking aboutatmy age. Ikeep asking myself ‘why? They're just children, lost chil- dren, Don't the SLA authorities real- ise what is happening, the evil that is, ‘growing in our homes, the filth? Mr. and Mrs. Vaugh lost their line girl Suzy five daysago... my god, she was only elevent It is sick, how men and women, grown adults, can take responsibility for stealing and. corrupting the bodies of these poor young children, ‘Those perverted monsters have shattered the lives of the Vaugh family. They have no knowledge of what's happening 10 their little daughter, whether she’s alive or ‘who can tell? Damn them alll" ‘Margaret Austin (50), Retired Li- rarian YOU HAVE BEEN VISITED BY: SKIN TRADE FOR ALL YOUR PERSONNEL NEEDS ‘The city walls are smothered with, posters of missing people, issued by worried love ones who know, deep down, that they're pray answered, Countless civilians simply disappear every day and night, eaten, killed and stolen, Both Monarch Law Enforcement and SLA Shiver Unit au: thorities are snowed under by the pleas of the common people -but in most cases they are outmanned and outgun- ned by the perpetrators, Up against the likes of the Skin Trade, police organisa tions are ata near standstill, with virtu: will neverbe ally no leads with which to track the cruel slave traders or their hide outs, They simply can’t find them. All the evidence that has been obtained on the matter is a collection of ‘calling cards specifying that the skin trade has stolen yet another victim. These cards vary From sector to sector, indicating th: ‘numerous skin trade groups are oper- ating the length and breadth of Dow: town, seemingly without any threat of suppression or expost “These poor people just don’t understand, When someone goes ‘missing and one of these cardsis left in their place, it means they're gone an’ no amount of prayin’ or police hounding is gonna bring them back. They're gone for good and no one knows seems to know where.” Monarch Chief Harold Branni- gan (26 years service) To date, there are three Skin Trade ongatnisations known to be operating in Downtown; Slap and Tickle, Puppy Talk and Delicacy, which is believed to st be the big Delicacy lives by the standard philosophy of all industry; profit. Obvi ously, therefore, the more merchandise they acquire, the better for them. Quan- tity iseverything to Delicacy andaslong ‘fe not cating IL On average, Delicacy as there's, who they st henchmen kidnap around 50 to 70 youngstersper day fromreliable venues Jutch points’, as they are known, Although these numbers may seem staggering, the victimsare stolen froma wide variety of clutch points, ranging from sleeping suburbs to dirty Black Market comers, Few Skin Trade organ- isations operate with such boldness, anditis believed that SLA Industries has gathered some reliable data on 'Deli- cacy’ from opposing Skin Traders who are losing business due to Delicacy's phenomenal expansion, All events and