Good morning, resident Reagan Caruso.

Identification number 4113.

I am Sayer.

And today you will begin your exciting new assignment.

While you are hardly qualified for moving up the ladder, as they say,

perilith has many potential fits for every resident, and you should consider this an exciting, if lateral, move.

Today you begin the job of corpse collection. if lateral move.

Today you begin the job of corpse collection.

Body disposal is a necessary, though less than glamorous, position.

Yours is one of the most important departments on Halcyon.

You and your co-workers are the equivalent of carrion eaters that exist back on Earth.

While that might not sound appetizing, if there were no bacteria or fungi, or animals who recycled decomposing bodies, Earth would

be overwhelmed with mountains of slowly decaying flesh.

Here on Typhon, we lack such creatures to do the work naturally, and so the Department

of Carbon-Based Relocation came into being.

Could you imagine, resident, the state of Halcyon Tower, if no one in your department did their job.

I should hope not, as your psychological profile shows a distinct lack of imagination.

Such a trait is ideal for this position.

All too often, human minds are plagued with superstitions and faceless fears.

There is a widespread susceptibility to letting the imagination run wild,

especially when confronted with death.

Seeing flashes of movement in the corner of one's eyes, hearing voices inside one's head.

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