Ok, here goes. When last we spoke, I was sitting out back of a Tokyo 7-11 drinking.

I seem to recall going back in to buy some sake. I was able to convince the sake to tell my friend Evelyn's Irish Coffee that he should buy a round of drinks for the house. A few moments later, I was back at the Resort with Evelyn and Tony.

Evelyn and Tony had made some progress toward getting our Skeleton rider ready for the Men's Figure Skating event, but in the process Senator Kennedy had been run over by an ambulance and Tim had been lost in some helicopter accident. In any event, the Skeleton guy was not even entered in the Men's Figure Skating event.

I went to the hospital and got Teddy back on his feet, then rid myself of him and hisself of me. The two of us then split up, with Teddy off to try to influence the skating judges to accept Christian Wilcox's mailed-in entry form (which, although Tony went back in time and mailed before the registration date, had just arrived).

Remembering something about Tim and a Lady of Conspiracy, I inquired with a local monk as to her whereabouts. He indicated that she had mysteriously disappeared, and I worried that the Cammorae might be in a hunting mood.

So Tony, Evelyn, and I went to talk with the Cammorae and see if we could bribe them. Feeling that I might need reinforcements, I brought along my good friends Jack and Jim. Unfortunately, something disturbing occured and I was forced to let Jack and Jim get to my head, I don't really remember the rest of that encounter.

We did succeed in getting Christian entered into the event, though. And if my hazy memory is correct, it was mostly due to Evelyn's efforts.

Our next run-in with the Cammorae occured while we were trying to fix the race. We had gotten some sort of help from the aforementioned Lady of Conspiracy, but she had disappeared. We went to see a judge, ina n attempt to bribe her, but ran into a big Cammora agent on his way out of her room. I gave hima bottle of Cognac and we shared a drink and spoke for a minute.

We managed to get ourselves invited in to see the Judge, and although our crude attempts at bribery were unsuccessful, I did manage to empower her drink so that it would help drown her sorrows.

The next day, things went well with the judge. We met up with each other twice, and I secured from her a pledge that she would rate Christian higher than anyone save the favorite (who was himself backed by one of the big Cammora).

Next we needed a plan for taking care of the favorite (whose name escapes me, but really, it's fgure skating, who cares?). I came up with a plan that we split up, and I went to talk with Bob Costas. After looking into a passing reveler's regurgitation, I saw the evil things that the favorite (and his backer) had done on their own benders. I immediately went to Costas with the story of how he had killed a Japanese hooker at the last Olympics.

Costas was unwilling to air a story supplied by an uncorroborated drunk, and that was that. No wait, that wasn't that.

Evelyn and Tony talked about going back to Nagano and videotaping the murder. Unfortunately, they didn't think of just videotaping now and having Tony make the tape record what happened four years earlier. Actually travelling back in time turned out to be difficult to work. So I came up with another plan.

Tony's anchor was the current hooker to the favorite (and his backer). We arranged a plan whereby Senator Kennedy and his Secret Service men (with a videocamera) would walk in on the favorite killing Tony's anchor.

The plan went slightly awry, but it still worked in the end.

The only thing I still couldn't figure out was, where was Paul?