1

are required to invested their wages into the increase of the seclusium, from which they are paid their stipend, and which they will recover with generous interest upon the occasion of their retirement.

2

have each been drilled through the skull with a polished copper tube. They keep these carefully corked but decline to discuss the matter with outsiders.

3

have each been blinded, and execute their duties perfectly by rote.

4

are required to adhere to a burdensome particular discipline of behavior. They Resolve: {may not speak aloud|must stifle all erotic impulse|must daily enact strenuous religious rites|must conform themselves rigorously to the wizard's standards for ideal appearance|must abase themselves most utterly before any person of note|must readily accede to any order or request, however repugnant or outlandish|must bare children often and surrender them to the wizard's needs}.

5

have been reft of individual identity. Instead, they all answer to a single name, "Armonter," in unity of action and experience, and while they admit they do find themselves peculiarly multiple, they maintain their utmost singularity.

6

may not address themselves to any but their direct and immediate superiors and subordinates.

7

have each been infested with a particular parasitic organism, whose growth would be both tortuous and terminal if not held in check by the wizard's administered doses.

8

have been rendered forgetful of all but their duties and routines, so that one day's unusual events are forgotten by the next day.

9

have been given their own language, and had all others removed from their understanding, so that they are incomprehensible to outsiders and outsiders to them. Only a few individuals can translate between them.

10

have each been given over to possession by plasmids bound and subservient to the wizard.

11

have been plasmically bound to the seclusium's physical structure, its walls and hallways and grounds, and can never leave it.

12

receive a sensible wage, labor under clear and humane conditions, with full and appropriate recourse if they are wronged by any act of the wizard or his guests.