((This has permission from Lucius))

[b][i]Slums of Lugnica[/i][/b]

Overlooking the slums of Lugnica City was a large, palatial building made up of marble, whose patio was supported by fluted columns wrapped by carved vines and big-breasted nymphs dressed in leaves. Through its steps walked rich and poor alike, albeit in seperate lanes, seperate lanes that led to a large, but not too large casino in Lugnica City, a casino that had enough noble and middle-class clients to make closing it down politically unpleasant, at least for now.

In the gambling dens and tables were facilities for dice, cards, and in the lower levels, cockfighting and human pit combat. In this building, owned by Myst Neumann under a different name, huge amounts of money can be won or lost, the latter more frequently than the former. It also presented the perfect front for his 'side business', as people are much less willing to [i]liberate[/i] human chattel if they thought that it was the slaves' fault in the first place for gambling. Human nature can be so perverse.

"No! No! I still have more money!" shouted a poor, middle-aged man as a pair of thick-muscled enforcers took him away from a cockfighting ring. He wouldn't be valuable enough to be forced into servitude, but the people who ran the casino for Myst had already looked him out; the man had two children, too young for Myst's...activities, but not too young to be smuggled and sold out of the country to be sold for a high sum; Lugnica, by forbidding slavery, just made its citizens 'forbidden fruit' to the countries that allowed it...

This was how Myst made his cash. This was how he acquired and sold new slaves. And because he owned it under a different name, receiving his payments from the facility as 'winnings' from bets he made by letter (yes, the factory offered such services), it would take a few days investigation for him to be found out, and by then, he would have escaped via secret routes from his second mansion at Lugnica City's outskirts.

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