Spellbook Slaves, staff meeting room, early morning
My name is Josh Hopkins. I was hired about a month ago as a pickup driver by Spellbook Slaves. I used to work for Hill’s Fine Meat, but I was let go do to a lack of sales right now. Not the only one they laid off. I’ve been working with Mistress Debby-Ann, who has been letting me “take charge” of most pickups. And it’s Debby-Ann, not just Debby, and NEVER Ann. She made that clear on day one. I am not sure why she is letting me be the point person on pickups, apart from it reduces her work load, which might be the reason right there.
Mr. West started the morning off with, Ah, sorry mistress, got to tell you that you have a difficult pickup to do.
Odd, that’s what Debby-Ann and I are supposed to do. Debby-Ann must have known what he was talking about, however.
Let me guess, John has a new girlfriend he’s tired of?
Mr. West nodded. Give the mistress a prize. He’s expecting you around 10:00 this morning.
Debby-Ann all but pouted. But I don’t really want…, oh never mind. What is it you say? ‘Good Training!’ Come on, Josh, we’re off to see the Westside Wizard.
In the van, I asked, OK, who is John and why is this a problem. Non-permissive capture or what?
Debby-Ann sighed, Oh, no, I’m sure his “girlfriend” knows she is converted, or will by the time we get there, and I don’t expect any running away issues.
OK, now I’m confused. Then what is the difficulty?
John thinks he’s a great white slave hunter, and I guess, in a way, he is. Assuming you like slightly dumpy brunettes, normally with untested sex skill scores. He’s a Three fifty wonder. That last bit I understood, that was the lowest amount we would pay for a slave. If they didn’t make it at least that far up the grading scale, with or without the appearance “bonus kicker” Spellbook’s don’t normally buy them. Debby-Ann went on, I know you like being in charge and all that, and it’s worked wonders and everything, but you don’t know what’s going on here, so I’m going to take point on this one. It’s not like we have any chance of losing her. Assuming he follows his usual form, that is. Tell you what, if the slave isn’t tied up, you take charge, otherwise, just let me deal. Oh, and you’re Mr. West’s brother-in-law, which is why you got your job. Don’t forget that. Oh. crap, you have your slaver worker’s license on you? He’s going to want to see it.
She stopped to grab her breath, allowing me to get a word or two in. OK, you’re in charge, I’m Mr. West’s brother-in-law, I have my license, anything else I should know?
She took a deep breath. Yeah, how much do you know about shibari? If you aren’t a freaking expert on it, bring in a double handful of zip ties, and make noises about the shearing strength of ballistic nylon vs. hemp rope. If you are a freaking expert, one, teach me, and two criticized the hell out of his knots.
I nodded my head, OK, handfuls of nylon it is. Let me use the internet to find out the numbers. Hmm, looks like 11,000 to 9,000 PSI for formed plastics, and let see, for 3/8th rope it’s 700 lbs for hemp and 4,000 for ballistic nylon/Kevlar. Working load is 20% of the shearing load, and a double bend knot means 20% of that, so we are looking at 30 lbs. max. With a good search engine finding the right web page, I can be a good enough expert in very little time, so snarking on his knots is in order.
Debby-Ann blinked. Why didn’t I ever think to use the laptop to look that crap up? Argh! While you got it open, what does it say about dyed poly? That’s what he uses if someone has ripped on his hemp rope recently.
Click, scroll…. It looks like it’s not much better, at 1,100, which means 44lb, working load. Formed plastic, for example my zip ties, don’t have the knot issue, so that gives them a working load of over two thousand two hundred pounds per square inch, assuming a 20% working load vs. shear strength ratio. I think I’ve got that issue covered.
About this time, we arrived at the address. We hopped out of the van and headed up to the double – wide trailer’s door, as I reached up to knock, I heard Debby-Ann say oh shit.
I turned around and said, What now?
You brought a Taser. Expect to have an argument about it.
Not a problem. You will note this is MY personal X26 Taser, not the M26 that Spellbook uses for those of us that aren’t blessed with a Taser 10. The X26 has not been declared sunset, unlike the M26 and its current state of the art, assuming you don’t want multi shot, which would be an X3 or Taser 10. Have you thought about using an XREP round in your shotgun? Same blunt force effect as a baton round, plus an electroshock effect that is the same as my X26. Yeah, I know my Taser. Speaking of shotguns, where is yours? You normally carry it for pickup “Just in Case” to use your terminology.
Want an argument of pump vs. semi auto in a non-permissive capture environment?
But bean bags don’t work in a semi auto.
You know that, I know that, but the people who write some role-playing games don’t know that and give a higher rate of fire to semi-autos. John plays one of those. Or at least has read the rules, I have a hard time seeing him in a gaming group.
Oh, one of those kinds of experts. I worked for one once.
Be nice. Mike used to write games before he got into slaving.
About this time, the door opened. After all this build up, I didn’t know what to expect. I damn sure didn’t expect a 5′ 6″ tall man in ragged jeans, a black tee-shirt and a bowler hat, holding a truck stop “bull whip”.
Bout time y’all got your asses here. I got you another one. I must be your best hunter, this here makes what 5? In less than 6 months. I got to be some sort of record for y’all. Wait a second, I ain’t seen you. Let me see your license! I want no irregularities in my record stopping me from getting my own. Not that the feds are going to give me one until I stop talking about Ultra-5.
I turned to get my license out of my back pocket and looked at Debby-Ann, who was doing that micro head shake thing people sometimes do to warn someone else off a subject. I handed John my license, which he held up to compare my face with the photo.
I should compare signatures, but Y’all are a team and I knows me Debby-Ann. We go way back. I was her first hunter, I was. Good ‘nough for me. Say, how did you get a job there? They told me they were in a hiring freeze do to that whole money market thing. That’s another thing that the Ultra-5 did, you know.
First time in almost 19 years as a slave shop employee that I’ve had to show my license to someone who wasn’t either from the state slave board or a law enforcement officer. I’m Mr. West’s brother-in-law. He broke the rules with the capital types for me. Kin folk and all. Blood is thicker than water and all. You know about that. God-damn it, he’s got me talking red neck. Damn it, I try so hard not to do that.
Hey, that’s a X26! Why aren’t you using a Taser 10? It’s got them micro preprocessor and has 10 shot capability.
Well, if I need 10 shots, something terrible has gone down.
Well, that’s not the case here. I’ve got her well tied in a classic shibari rig. Not going anywhere.
I’ve browsed enough bondage porn to know that was not a classic rig. Not sure what it was, but it’s not a classic rig. Time to apply a put down…
Well, I’m not really an expert on shibari, but I do know that there is an order of magnitude difference between the shear strength between a formed Kevlar zip tie and any type of hemp or poly rope. And you don’t have the whole knot issue to deal with. If she were to somehow hook one of those strands and apply major amounts of torque to them, like by falling down, it would break at the knots. Better to use something that the carry load is greater than a normal female human weight at 3 Gs. That pole isn’t helping with the possible rope breaking issues.
Debby-Ann cleared her throat. I assume you have her form filled out? And have the proof of Personal Contact photos?
Oh, yeah, I does. Here it is, Missy. When is your Mr. West going to understand that a lady shouldn’t be doing this job and go ahead and hire me as a ‘prentes? Then the Feds would most likely overlook the complete Ultra-5 thing and issue me a real hunting permit.
Debby-Ann ran the form and used her phone to run the ASA app for grading the soon-to-be slave. Looks like this is your lucky day, she has a four fifty value wholesale. Want it transferred to your normal account?
Yea, I does.
Debby-Ann played with her phone. OK, she’s converted, and the money is there.
You don’t mind If I checks that before we transfer the product, do you?
Product? No one calls a slave a product. While I was untying the slave and restraining her with zip ties, I gave her a look over. She is, at best, a grade B. Based on how easy it was to get her loose, I don’t think John is any good as a bondage rigger. Meanwhile, he was doing something with his rather old computer and the web. Looks like he had a bank page and the public page read only status page from the state slave agency up.
OK, it seems to have gone through. The feds must not have a line trap on my line today. I faked them out by doing a proxy run today. Never find out about my Ultra-5 article I posted. Going’ bust open the whole shebang, it surely is. So, she straight to Hill’s like the others?
On hearing this, the slave started to look more than a little worried. Debby-Ann nodded, And I assume you are going to want to see that outbound receipt to be sure?
Of course. No irregularities on my accounts!
What the hell is he talking about? There is no requirement to see where a slave has been resold to, and I know, from personal experience, that Hill’s isn’t going to buy this slave. They get enough walk-in traffic for parts girls, and there is no way she’s going on a spit in 2025. Not grade A on either the appearance or meat scales, which is the type of slave that gets the spit nowadays.
Well, we will be going now. Debby-Ann said. Call us if you get another.
Will do, Missy, will do just that. I’m on the hunt even as we speak, got one lined up now.
Once we got the slave in the van, I turned to Debby-Ann, Straight to Hill’s? Are you freaking nuts? There is no freaking way they are going to take her. No offense, there…
Roslyn. Roslyn Mushrush, the slave quietly sobbed. Debby-Ann said, She’s not going to Hill’s Fine Meat, she’s going to Hill’s Cleaning. Don’t even think it’s the same family. Does show up on the paperwork, as just “Hill Inc.” I don’t think he’s ever seen any paperwork from Hill’s Fine Meat. Definitely not from us. Like every other slave, he’s ‘captured’ her profile fits their standing order with us, they don’t even care about her cleaning skills, they do their own training. We just made $650, even after taxes. That’s the only reason we deal with that nut job.
Hearing that she wasn’t going to be snuffed, Roslyn let out a sigh of relief and starting crying, Oh, thank you so much. I’ve seen them, they treat their girls nice. Better than he did, even, before he turned asshole and decided it was time to sell me. They treat their slaves like they are real people, not just like slave workers. That’s why my old company used them. Thank you so very much!