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[anewlanguage]

[WARDEN FILTER:]

Do we have some kind of database about everyone's super powers, their best talents?

[PUBLIC:]

I'm thinking we need some excitement that won't mean getting our brains scrambled and our lives rearranged. Say, the Olympics, tailored for the Barge.

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[strangehistorian]

Hmm. Perhaps that you should not expect full cooperation. Wardens value their privacy, inmates more so.

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[anewlanguage]

In a tin can like this, privacy's not a real commodity.

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[strangehistorian]

Well, that is to say that if you do not already know what they are capable enough they won't want to help.

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[anewlanguage]

Why d'you say that? Fear of people plotting against their weak spots?

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[strangehistorian]

I say it specifically because it has been tried before and cooperation was minimal.

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[anewlanguage]

I'll have to try to drum it up more than the last guy did, then.

You have any records of the last attempt?

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[strangehistorian]

Nothing written. The warden took it with him when he left.