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64 - SALES PITCH!

Comrades! Consumers! This week only we're holding a special sale on jet black hair dye! Who needs more than one colour? Who cares for red, or blonde, or brown? When you can have the deep, rich tones of the night sky embedded in your image? Brothers, Sisters, do not allow yourselves to be detained disappointed or deceived into dying your hair whatever Colour is mixed with the shampoo in the communal showers! Reach out, demand, buy with me today, and go back to black!

[Prefect used the stupid shampoo, but Factory regulations only support pink hair if everyone has it, so he dyed it black, and thus will have black hair for a few weeks!]

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Now this is useful.

Tell me more about ports. And which inmates are talking about this? I want their names too.

I can't give you their names, Comrade. Confidentiality.

The ports are... varying? Some of them are not so bad, but a lot of them are dangerous, or deadly, and if you fall off the barge into one of them? You forget who you are.

Come on, you can trust me. I'm not going to hunt them down or report them or anything. But if I run across them, it'd be nice to know we're on the same side.

So what you're saying is wait until there's a good port.

No, Comrade. I don't think you'll spread it about, but if someone comes to me in confidence then I can't pass on their name just because you want the same thing.

Well... I don't know that there are any good ports. Wait for one that isn't completely terrible, if you have to do it.

Just one name? One name won't hurt. Come on, man.

What sorts of ports have you stopped at so far?

Comrade, I have a reputation to uphold. I'm not giving you a name.

I could give them yours if you wanted me too, but otherwise? No.

We stopped at one where aliens laid eggs in our stomachs and killed us all, and we stopped at one where there was no colour and everyone rioted, and we stopped at a theme park which wasn't so bad, and we stopped at one where people kept getting turned into things they weren't.

Those are all I can remember.

What if I offered you something in return for the names?

Sorry, Comrade. That's not how it works.

Don't "sorry, Comrade" me! If we're comrades, you'd tell me what you know! I can do more with your information than you can sitting on it. Trust me-- I can make things better for both of us.

Factory regulation E subsection iix under the mitigating circumstances subheading:

Client Confidentiality - When dealing with sensitive material and information when in a closed market environment all client identification must remain one hundred percent confidential regardless or any mitigating circumstances to anyone outside of Factory staff and appliances.

Client Confidentiality? To hell with client confidentiality! Tell me what I want and you won't have anything to worry about.

Oh, I'm not worried.

What's your name?

I already told you.

Oh, that's right. Prefect, the "Alpha plus".

I'm going to ask you one more time-- who are these people you mentioned?

The main one? Is a very good friend of mine who has killed an awful lot of people.

You're gonna have to do better than that, Comrade.

My answer isn't changing.

Let's try this-

You tell your "clients" that your "Comrade" Arntzen would like to speak to them. You got it?

Was that so hard?

I expect to hear from them by this time tomorrow. Arrange something.

I'll see what I can do.

What's the word, Prefect?

He said he'd speak to you, but he's not told me if he'll let me arrange a meeting, or if he'll contact you himself. I assume you'll hear from him though.

That's good...I'm glad to hear it.

Re: Private-- LATER

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