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Chainlink Shackles (Fallout: Equestria - Murky Number Seven)

In the Equestrian Wasteland, the most feared enemy of the free survivors is the slaver. While horrors like raiders and hellhounds will merely kill you (relatively quickly), to be caught by a slaver is to be sentenced to a life of endless labor until your slow but inevitable demise. But across the Wasteland, rumors spread for hundreds of miles of one slave empire that surpasses all others for cruelty, Fillydelphia.

Once a great industrial metropolis during the war, the bombed out corpse of the city is now the most visible center of operations for the enigmatic Red Eye. A new power in the wastes, from Fillydelphia Red Eye broadcasts his promises to rescue Equestria from its current wretched state. Rebuilding the industrial infrastructure of the city is the first step in his grand plan to free ponies from scavenging for scraps in ruins and struggling to grow crops in contaminated soil. But his promise of salvation comes with a terrible price. It is being realized through the labor of thousands of slaves working in conditions that would shock even a typical slaver. Forced to work grueling hours amidst deadly radiation, industrial waste and pollution, and carnivorous vermin, Red Eye is more than willing to sacrifice these slaves lives so the next generation can live in a restored Equestria.

Amongst the slave masters working under Red Eye, one is feared far above all others, even by other slavers. Chainlink Shackles is a veteran slave master who was plying his trade in Fillydelphia even before the coming of Red Eye. A massive brute of a pony, he is quite capable of dishing out the physical punishments that are commonly used to keep slaves in line. But the real reason he is so feared is that his true mastery lies in psychological manipulation and torture of his slaves. He is an expert at using words to break a subjects will to resist. He kills the spark within a pony that can even dream of escape and a free life, leaving them empty shells that obey him without question.

If there is one quality within Shackles greater than his sadism, it is his ambition. He was the top slave master in Fillydelphia in the anarchy that existed before Red Eye, but since Red Eye claimed the city with his army, he has been forced to make obeisance to him or be crushed underhoof, as is the fate of all who oppose Red Eyes design. In private, Shackles seethes at this arrangement and longs for the days he answered only to himself. Even now he is playing the great game of politics within the city to see himself elevated to the position of the number one slave master under Red Eye. Between his numerous devoted minions amongst the citys old guard, and the ruthless campaign of intimidation and blackmail he wages against slavers not already loyal to him, it seems his ascent is all but inevitable. And then, perhaps he can engineer a plot to overthrow the seemingly unassailable Red Eye himself.

As if the game he plays was not already tilted enough in his favor, fate itself has recently granted him a great boon. Within the ruins of the subway system in the depths below the city, his loyal minions have discovered clues to the existence of a monstrous pre-apocalypse artifact. A terrible weapon completed in great secret just before the city was destroyed by balefire, it is said to have the power to completely override the will of many ponies at once, perhaps even on the scale of an entire city. Ponies bound by the power of this weapon are completely, utterly obedient to the orders of its controller, and outwardly they even seem to serve joyously. But inside, the ponies are trapped in an endless nightmare of being imprisoned in their own body over which they have lost all control. For Shackles to gain control of this weapon would be to kill two birds with one stone. First, he would absolutely ensure his return to power in Fillydelphia. Second, he would realize, in mass, his life-long dream of creating perfect slaves. Right now, he is secretly diverting slaves from their normal duties for a great excavation project in search of this weapon. They are dropping like flies as they are pushed to the brink under conditions that make even the surface conditions of Fillydelphia seem benign in comparison. But to Chainlink Shackles, the slaves in his stock are just expendable tools in his quest for complete domination of the city.

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