ok, so i want to be able to buy slaves; it'd work like this:
i go to Buster (or whoever) and say "i wanna buy a slave"
hed say "here's what i got" and then trasfer to the normals mechant's screen.
i puruse his wares, select the slaves i want to buy, negotiate the price based on the normal parameters, then walk away with my new aquisitions.

now they becmoe otherwise normal follwoers; But can seel them later if they're in my party, leave them at my fortress of deeeeeeume, or even turn ans talk to them: they have the ussual range of discussion ooptions, like "move further out, stay cloese, etc" but also a special option: "I want to let you go." if you do that, they can eitehr leave or stay, its their choise at this point. some will stay (for their own reasons, surely), others will run away right off wwitout so much as a "goodbye", but whatever- everywhere they go, they tell everyone that "i was (XX)s slave, but s/he freed me, becasue (XX) is a good and decent person, and i dont care wwhat you say about them, they are decent people." good people, bad people, and common peole will all treat you a little biit better- even slavers (becasue they know you might be looking for a new slave now). it wont overcome some karmic problems (a childkiller is a childkiller is a chilrkiller), but youl still get something out of it. you may even have to buy a card that says "(YY) is now a freewo/man and if you try to take them for slave (XX) will have the right to track you down, kill you, and take everything you ever owned- including your slaves."

slaves in comabt: the only thing they do is try to run away and hide form the fighting. once the fighting is over, they become the property of wwhoever survived at the end. Learn a habit, it’s not wise to upset a mutie.
But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a Human.
That’s ‘cause Humans don’t eat people when they get irritable. Mutie’s are known to do that.

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