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[The phone clicks on to show a nondescript black floor, and then a simple chair. On the chair is a Christmas sweater, a rather terrible looking pink Christmas sweater with white lace in all the appropriate places and a bunch of Santa Claus heads on the front. However, the sweater appears to have been cut carefully down the middle, as it is lying
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So you're basically going to create a free market for those scissors, hm?
Seems you're smarter than I thought, Rose.
[Yes, he wants out of the damn sweater. But he won't let you know he's in one, yet.]
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I see little reason not to charge a premium for it.
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[Not just for him. Charles is quite trapped, as well.]
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And what would you offer for freedom?
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Nothing like good old fashioned capitalism during the holidays.
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Can you think of a more practical way to draw some of our less talkative associates out into the open?
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It could work.
But the people less likely to trust a free offer of garment removal are probably not any more likely to come to a party thrown by a stranger.
Not that I would do so, anyway.
I've never actually tried to throw a party.
[Well, outside of tea parties with her cat when she was small that are never being mentioned.]
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I believe it will depend on the person, now that I think about it.
And what they might talk about, or share, or have.
It won't be anything particularly valuable.
Physically, at least.
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So let's see.
Tell me about yourself.
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State request.
[Not that he doesn't have some idea after creeping on your talk with Legion. But.]
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Or offer me something of value.
Conversationally or physically.
[She'd hate to be predictable, after all.]
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Clarify: value system, priority tree.
Define: 'interesting'.
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Fine, we'll do it this way.
Take a moment, consider yourself, objectively tally up the bits and pieces about you that could be quantified as 'facts', and then tell me three of them.
Interesting ones.
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ALSO, A FUCKING MONOPOLIZATION OF ONE OF THE FEW USEFUL ITEMS IN THIS LOONEYBLOCK OF A CITY.
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU HOPING TO ACCOMPLISH HERE ANYWAY, LALONDE?
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I am attempting to extract information about our fellow prisoners.
I could simply ask, but people rarely want to share such things for free.
And if I simply offered to remove the sweaters out of the kindness of my heart, they would suspect trickery.
Nothing is ever truly, after all.
So I am taking advantage of a commodity I have found in my possession.
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[He's one to talk, but isn't that always the case.]
WHAT ARE YOU ASKING FROM THEM, ANYWAY? JUST GENERIC BULLSHIT, OR IS THERE ACTUALLY A PURPOSE TO ALL THIS PARANOID INTELLIGENCE GATHERING?
[There is absolutely no reason why he's asking, none at all.]
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'Generic Bullshit' is an accurate enough term for it.
I am attempting to learn more about who they are and where they have come from.
Hopefully, there may be some pattern to where we are all being taken from that will lead to more answers about our situation.
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