Sixty-Six
Trust is the foundation of exploitation, and good behavior the bedrock of trust.
Sixty-Six knows the penal system like some men know their living room. His most recent criminal endeavor went awry when his left-hand man sold him out. Since then, he's been biding his time. But, he has not been idle.
Intelligent, practical, and ruthless, he's managed to create a society around himself in his prison. Outwardly, he is the model inmate. His inner circle, however, knows the truth: Sixty-Six is to be feared.
No one knows his name. His alias is simply the first two numbers of his prisoner ID: 667300. But, everyone knows who he is. Moreover, every convict (save the densest knuckleheads) recognize his authority and ambition. Sixty-Six has a plan.
The Warden unveiled a new program to lease the bodies of prisoners as a means of increasing revenues, while shortening the length of their sentence. Whispers that this idea was planted by Sixty-Six circulate among the inmates. Whether or not this was true, Sixty-Six capitalized off of it. Being a model inmate, and a man not given to addictive substances, Sixty-Six found himself at the front of the line for what the Warden called the DoubleWrite procedure (patent pending).
The person double-written onto Sixty-Six gave himself the alias Re/Rite and soon left the system. Not long after he left, Sixty-Six's plans went into effect: the inmates initiated an uprising. The Warden became trapped on his own penal colony along with the surviving remnant of guards. They can't leave without risking the escape of their prisoners.
Meanwhile, Sixty-Six bides his time, testing the boundaries of Re/Rite's consciousness. Sixty-Six had planned on being able to easily overthrow whoever was written into his brain; he had not reckoned on meeting a will as resolute as his own.
But, time is on his side.
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