![]() The Secret Service agents tore open boxes, damaged a letter opener trying to pick a locked filing cabinet and, according to some accounts, ate jelly beans off someone's desk. ![]() Our company president was there, called me to tell me it was happening, and said, 'Don’t come in - they are not letting anyone in the office.' So I did not meet the SS people on the day of the raid, though I got to spend more than enough time with them later." “I did not come to the office during the raid. I emailed Steve Jackson to ask if he remembered the day his company was raided by agents whose normal job is to stand between the US president and bullets. The office was not yet open for the day and the Secret Service agents almost broke the door down before Blankenship, still only half-dressed, explained that he had keys. Then the Secret Service headed across Austin to the office of Steve Jackson Games, where Blankenship worked as a managing editor, to do the same. On the morning of March 1st 1990, GURPS Cyberpunk author Loyd Blankenship and his wife were woken up by six Secret Service agents who raided their home, confiscating a computer, a printer and even their telephone. ![]() Only one roleplaying game has a note on the cover declaring it "The book that was seized by the US Secret Service!" That RPG is GURPS Cyberpunk, a 1990 supplement for the Generic Universal Roleplaying System published by Steve Jackson Games. ![]()
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