sweat only when they play—all physical toil is performed by human slaves.
Most slaves sold in Dis are abducted from the surface world, but some are especially bred and raised for labor in special livestock farms.
Whatever their origin, all slaves are given surgically administered brain lesions. They are lobotomized to make them docile and obedient.
Female slaves are also given special tattoos on their left arms and foreheads before they are sold. Male slaves are neutered.
The castration of the male slaves is especially cruel. With adults abducted from the surface world, the scrotum is cut open without anesthetics and the testes are cut out or pulled off. (Common complications are hemorrhage, gangrene, and maggot infestations.) With males born into slavery, a common method of nonsurgical castration is to place a tourniquet around the newborn’s scrotum just above the testicles. Without a supply of blood, the testes become numb in about an hour. Eventually, they will atrophy, decay, and fall off.
Human Meat Market
Adjacent to the slave market is an enormous meat market. Since one living human yields only 18 pounds of quality flesh—enough to feed one transhuman for one week—the market is vast in size. Here, the monsters can be seen walking by cages and picking human victims the way we pick live lobsters.
At the center of the meat market, free-ranging humans are sold. These are men, women, and children ensnared from the surface world during transhuman ‘hunting and gathering expeditions.’ Producing a fine and succulent meat—one that is sweeter than pork—the best parts are the brains, hearts, thighs, and arms above the elbows.
On the outer edges of the meat market, farm-bred humans are sold. (Transhumans learned to domesticate humans about twenty-eight thousand years ago—approximately the time that humans learned to domesticate the dog.) Raised in cages—fattened on a special diet of bananas—these domesticated humans go to their deaths with the innocence of grazing cattle. Their unsightly meat, which bleeds imperfectly, is considered inferior in quality.
Scattered here and there throughout the market, special kiosks retail frozen human heads. The transhumans have mastered the art and science of cryonic suspension—they can freeze all or part of a living being and reanimate it centuries later—and they use the technology to keep severed human heads alive in specially insulated jars. Although transhumans prefer fresh meat, they will eat reanimated frozen flesh when necessary.
There are rumors of a more hellish commerce—a black market which sells the meat of resurrected humans—dead humans brought back to life—but this, however, is illegal. Although all transhumans know how to reanimate cadavers— for these creatures, reviving even a rotting corpse is a simple exercise—the action is absolutely tabu.
According to their ancient law code—the so-called Brazen Tablets—any transhuman who resurrects the dead will be executed.
Loaded with chains, the condemned monster is alternately immersed in vats of boiling and freezing water until his skin falls from his body.
The torture completed, he is finally eaten alive.
The Arena: Lethal And Perverse Games West of the temple complex—near the main gate to the city—is a vast public arena. Designed for entertainment, in the arena the transhumans indulge their craving for sadistic amusements.
All recreational whippings are held here, as are the gladiatorial-like contests where humans fight to the death. In the latter, men unusually fight men, but sometimes dwarfs fight women, hunchbacks fight cripples, and blind men fight children.
The fights in the arena are savage and merciless. All the human combatants are naked and weaponless, and before the fight-to-the-death begins all contestants must shout: ‘Hail to the Master Species. We who are about to die salute you!’
Before the violence, the spectators indulge their evil voyeuristic fantasies.
Most slaves sold in Dis are abducted from the surface world, but some are especially bred and raised for labor in special livestock farms.
Whatever their origin, all slaves are given surgically administered brain lesions. They are lobotomized to make them docile and obedient.
Female slaves are also given special tattoos on their left arms and foreheads before they are sold. Male slaves are neutered.
The castration of the male slaves is especially cruel. With adults abducted from the surface world, the scrotum is cut open without anesthetics and the testes are cut out or pulled off. (Common complications are hemorrhage, gangrene, and maggot infestations.) With males born into slavery, a common method of nonsurgical castration is to place a tourniquet around the newborn’s scrotum just above the testicles. Without a supply of blood, the testes become numb in about an hour. Eventually, they will atrophy, decay, and fall off.
Human Meat Market
Adjacent to the slave market is an enormous meat market. Since one living human yields only 18 pounds of quality flesh—enough to feed one transhuman for one week—the market is vast in size. Here, the monsters can be seen walking by cages and picking human victims the way we pick live lobsters.
At the center of the meat market, free-ranging humans are sold. These are men, women, and children ensnared from the surface world during transhuman ‘hunting and gathering expeditions.’ Producing a fine and succulent meat—one that is sweeter than pork—the best parts are the brains, hearts, thighs, and arms above the elbows.
On the outer edges of the meat market, farm-bred humans are sold. (Transhumans learned to domesticate humans about twenty-eight thousand years ago—approximately the time that humans learned to domesticate the dog.) Raised in cages—fattened on a special diet of bananas—these domesticated humans go to their deaths with the innocence of grazing cattle. Their unsightly meat, which bleeds imperfectly, is considered inferior in quality.
Scattered here and there throughout the market, special kiosks retail frozen human heads. The transhumans have mastered the art and science of cryonic suspension—they can freeze all or part of a living being and reanimate it centuries later—and they use the technology to keep severed human heads alive in specially insulated jars. Although transhumans prefer fresh meat, they will eat reanimated frozen flesh when necessary.
There are rumors of a more hellish commerce—a black market which sells the meat of resurrected humans—dead humans brought back to life—but this, however, is illegal. Although all transhumans know how to reanimate cadavers— for these creatures, reviving even a rotting corpse is a simple exercise—the action is absolutely tabu.
According to their ancient law code—the so-called Brazen Tablets—any transhuman who resurrects the dead will be executed.
Loaded with chains, the condemned monster is alternately immersed in vats of boiling and freezing water until his skin falls from his body.
The torture completed, he is finally eaten alive.
The Arena: Lethal And Perverse Games West of the temple complex—near the main gate to the city—is a vast public arena. Designed for entertainment, in the arena the transhumans indulge their craving for sadistic amusements.
All recreational whippings are held here, as are the gladiatorial-like contests where humans fight to the death. In the latter, men unusually fight men, but sometimes dwarfs fight women, hunchbacks fight cripples, and blind men fight children.
The fights in the arena are savage and merciless. All the human combatants are naked and weaponless, and before the fight-to-the-death begins all contestants must shout: ‘Hail to the Master Species. We who are about to die salute you!’
Before the violence, the spectators indulge their evil voyeuristic fantasies.
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