Do they have zero compunctions about collateral damage like The Dark Brotherhood, or are they fastidiously neat and invisible like the Thieves' Guild?

Is there an immortal or otherwise unbreakable controller (hive-mind, AI, complete lack of a head) or could a sufficiently motivated schemer take control, learn everything and expose or destroy it?

Do they do women?

They'd be about halfway between the two. While they do try to make their kidnap grabs as subtle and low-key as possible, time -is- of the essence, and they have few compunctions about snagging a few extra witnesses if there's no way to grab a key order on his own. They clean up the scene and leave as little evidence as possible behind.

The company is run by a CEO, there's a small board of directors, and then the local processing centers. A schemer could take control with time and effort. The current CEO is proof of that.

In theory they would, but for some reason it just never comes up. Either that, or there's a QckPck service that does women. I honestly have no idea.

is there a way to know if your names on the company list of someday to make into a slave

Well, if a QuikPik Procurement Team arrives, that's a pretty good sign.

Otherwise: If you're in a position to know who's on the current order list, you're too highly placed to be available for order in the first place.

ahh i see so what are the type guys do they normal go looking for

That's up to the individual QuikPik customer to decide. The customer puts in the order, the QP teams make the capture.

ahh i see better watch myself then he he

Is there a level of too-public or too-famous to capture? Like someone whose abrupt abduction would definitely be noticed, like politicians or more visible sports stars?

Prices become prohibitally expensive the more problimatic an abduction becomes.

Sure, you -could- have the newest action star as your personal fuckslave the weekend of his movie's premier, but for the amount of money you'd have to pay QuikPik to do it, you could handle the entire affair yourself.

Though sometimes someone does have a shitload of money to burn and a hunkering for the Superbowl Championship QB's ass around his dick.

How do people get hired to work for QuickPik? Are those who work for the company still fair game if they get picked by someone?

It varies. The HR department keeps an eye out for local independent operators who might like a job that offers dental and retirement in addition to kidnapping and sexual assaults they already take part in. Anyone with the skill-set and interests that seem like they'd be a good fit can expect to be approached sooner or later. Those that refuse get a nice little mindwipe and sent on their way.

Employees get a spike to their asking price. The more valued they are, the higher the price increase. After a certain point, they aren't available at all. The musclepup delivering the goods to your door is probably orderable, though. If you can handle the sticker shock.

Are there other sale events, like Black Friday?

And has anyone ever been 'Pik'd by mistake? What happens then? They refund the purchaser, maybe provide him with the acccidental 'pik for free? Or possibly they have a sort of...remnant sale - selling the 'piks that didn't turn out well, or were mistakes, or possibly collateral damage (high profile football star is captured while doing his secret boyfriend, for example...can't leave witnesses ;) )?

I agree with Burst: what happens afterwards? Is there some sort of normalcy field used, so that no one notices them missing? I can imagine there would be a lot of families and friends out searching for the missing random-hot-guy-you-saw-at-the-gym-and-thought-would-make-a-good-pet you just purchased.

Can they affect physical changes as well as mental ones? Or is that service still in beta?

There are other sales events. Usually keyed to holidays and only covering specific sorts of orders. Like Black Friday's "First 5 orders after midnight." There's the Spring Break Special Week, where orders of college boys are 1/2 off. The 60% off confirmed dads for "Father's Day", and so forth.

Between misorders, returns, people who can't pay, and extra people captured during a kidnapping, there's always a certain amount of QuikPik Surplus. You can browse the current selection on their website. All are available at a discounted price, with normal fees for mental and physical conditioning.

(To be honest: QuikPik Surplus is something I've been meaning to draw for awhile now...)

After a kidnapping: The person is missing. This being the Beachfoxverse, Missing Persons cases are plentiful, and Quikpik orders just blend into the normal background rates of vanishing studs. QuikPik has a number of detectives, judges, DAs, and polititions as its clients, however, and any investigator who starts to get too close to a big break tends to go missing themselves, usually to wind up on the QP Surplus site.

Currently, physical changes are limited to what you can get with a tattoo/piercing parlor, and a physical trainer. If you're willing to wait, they can spend the months needed to pack on the muscle, or fatten them up, or slim them down, but they don't have the tech to do a more rapid alternation. Sadly, Professor Lion is a professor of psychology and not physiology.

Yeah... Do you do bulk discounts?

They do indeed! Within reason. It's easier if all your order is likely to be gathered into a single spot for pickup on its own. Bulk orders of sports teams are easier to carry out than bulk orders of "12 goldenblond stallions with fist-sized nuts". Unless you know of a family reunion taking place.

Who runs it?

Are they willing to put themselves in dangerous situations?

How do they even advertise?

(As Headmaster Zerky) Do you take cash, or do you prefer credit? :3

An unknown figure who took over an existing regional enterprise in the mid-90s and took it online, correctly predicting where the next big underground-slave market would be.

They would not put themselves in dangerous situations themselves, no. That's what they have underlings for. Besides, it would take time out of fucking the shit out of mind-washed sports-stars and former muscle-models on his private island.

They advertise through Black-net sites, word of mouth, and posters in certain underground clubs and the like. If you're in a possition to see one of their ads, you're 90% likely to be the sort of person to order from them, or 9.99% likely to currently be at mercy of such a man.

Cash is preferred, but credit is always doable.

How big an order can one make at a time? It's always depicted on a one at a time basis, but can someone make a 'bulk' order?

We've seen they do modifications such as mental training, tattoos, and piercing. How far do modifications go? Say, turning a skinny guy all muscly guy fat or something like modifying dick size? Or even modifying their sensitivity, giving them more or less stamina (both sexual and physical).

The team modifies the slave and can give them accessories, do they have a renovation service for your home? That is, you can order the slave, what about a Rumpus Room or Dungeon to put them in?

What happens with return orders?

Is there a QA process to make sure mods and training have been applied successfully?

Do slaves come with care and maintenance instructions?

What happens to Quik'Pik'ers that don't make payment?

What happens to Quik'Pik'ers that try to expose the business?

Are there 'limited duration' piks, taking someone with min. modifications and programming that lasts a specific amount of time? 'Rentals' you could say.

Does the Quik'Pik team ever stay and do demonstrations with the buyer on how to use their new slave?

Does Quik'Pik have a 'main facility'? Like, where's their headquarters?

Can anyone -request- to be a Pik? Obviously they need a buyer, but can anyone register themselves as a willing buy?

Who is the Quik'Pik head? Is he a client? ;)

Does Quik'Pik have shareholders?

What happens if Quik'pik fails to deliver due to the Pik escaping? Refund? Or is the retrieval team forced to 'sub in' a replacement?

Do they do specialty sales, like 50% off Anal Slave Training?

How do they figure their pricing?

That's about all I've got for now, seems like a good list :3

1) Bulk orders are always possible. QP provides a bulk-discount for acquisition if you have multiple subjects who can be grabbed at once (perfect for families, dorms, and sports teams), as well as a bulk-discount for conditioning if you're wanting the same programming for everyone.

It's not -that- much of a discount, though, so it's generally out of the price range of most customers.

2) Sadly, QP has yet to discover a Professor Lion analog who specializes in physiology. Currently, they're limited to what you can accomplish with time and a physical trainer when it comes to sculpting the bodies orders.

3) QuikPik does not offer any services beyond the capture, conditioning, and delivery of your new slave. A number of the smaller regional slave-dealers do, but they also don't have QP's aquisition or conditioning resources. QP does have a setup where you can get a discount from "Personal Projects Construction (No Questions, No Regrets)" on slave-related remodeling if you have a recent QP recipt. Remember, though: While their work crews -are- handsome and beefy, they also have a 1000% markup if you try to order one through QP.

4) Returns (along with accidental captures, and those who were nabbed for being a witness to another kidnapping), are added to the QuikPik Surplus catalog. Available on their site, any QP Surplus item can be bought at only a fraction of the cost of a personalized QP order. Mental and physical conditioning costs standard, and delivery is free.

5) QP has a strict Quality Assurance process (though if you've requested Virgin Only, please be aware there's only so much testing they can do) and a full money back garante if your order is defective in some way. To date, they've had a 99.5% satisfaction rate with purchases, however.

6) Slaves do come with a little informative booklet on proper care and feeding. Suggestions for diet, living quarters, cover stories, and local sources of medical care who don't ask awkward questions like "Isn't this the missing Johnson boy?"

7 & 8) Officially, failing to pay and/or selling out QP earns you a one way trip to the QP Surplus, along with as many associates and family members as it takes to make up for lost cost. Secretly, however, this depends on how connected and influencial the wayward customer is. Those with the connections and influence to be worth keeping around instead get a weekend trip to the nearest processing center. Afterwards, they're the perfect loyal semi-employee, willing to do whatever the QP hire-ups ask of them in order to keep the business running. Handsome sons, nephews, boyfriends, and the like will of course be rounded up for QP Surplus in your steed.

Do not fuck with QuikPik.

9.) The style of mind-washing tech that QP uses doesn't easily allow temporary conditioning. QP has been willing to host "Lost Weekend" style events were the non-consenting particpants have the events wiped from their memories at the end.

10) If requested (and by default if you've requested anything beyond basic conditionign for your pet), the QP delivery men will stay to provide demonstrations and give owner-training for their new purchase. The more experienced delivery boys tend to avoid these trips. For some reason, demonstrators tend to get special ordered by prior clients an -awful- lot.

11) QP doesn't have a main headquarters. For an underground black slave market, it's just not smart. They have regional centers where the conditioning and processing take place, but the company heads do most of their business and organizing online

12) You can absolutely request to be Piked yourself. If you don't have a prospective buyer, you're added to the QP Surplus pool and you're at the mercy of whatever customer decides to buy you.

13) The QP's current head is unknown. He took over a regional underground slavery ring in the mid-90s and retooled it for the emerging online market. And to call him a "client" would suggest he pays money whenever he has his company snag him something nice and fuckable. That whole "Staff costs extra" thing doesn't apply to the boss, after all.

14) QP isn't officially incorporated (for obvious reasons), but it does have a board of directors who manage it's activities. The make up and size are unknown, though it's probably a given that Professor Lion holds at least an honorary seat.

15) In the rare event that a customer's order escapes, or is somehow broken during processing, they're given 150% of their order's value of whatever they'd like. Usually a replacement order. Or two. Or a replacement and a few Surpluss pickings. Or just a pile of Surplus. Workers who've already had one order mishandled will probably have an official review of their work-record if a second fuckup occurs. If you're too much of a fuckup, you wind up in Surplus.

16) QuikPik has around half-a-dozen specials a year, usually varried, and always themed. Sometimes it's "Dads, 50% off if ordered this Father's Day" or "College Students: 60% off Capture Fees for Spring Break Week" or "Celebrate Halloween with 30% discounts to all Specialty Role Mental Conditioning" and so on.

17) Pricing is divided up into Capture and Processing. Capture is usually a base price, but can go up if it's a high-risk target, or otherwise hard to snag, or if there's unexpected complications with the coverup. Processing depends on what sort of physical and mental alterations you request. There's an easy to understand extensive checklist with priced options. And you can always contact them directly with special requests.

Fun stuff! You'll have to show us QP Surplus sometime!

Are you taking orders (commissions)?

My commission list is growing longer, but you can always put in your own order at beachfoxart[at]gmail.com

Do they have warranty for their products?

Does the company have any check ups on their product? After all a corpse makes people ask pointed questions.

QP does a full-scale QA process on mental conditioning and a full medical checkup of your slave before delivery. Failures of the mental conditioning process earn you 150% of the failed slave's value. Physical failures are beyond the scope of the QP buyer's agreement.

After a slave is bought, its treatment and fate is up to the customer. If you're slave has become a corpse, it's your own damned problem and don't even -think- about trying to bring QP into it if the police catch you.

I believe I asked (and you answered) most of my questions a while ago, but I shall see if I can come up for some witty ones to be illustrated :P

Is there an age limit which they will now allow orders below?

is there a 'do not do business with' list?

Ummm ....

how much would you and unrepentant have spent on this if it was a real service?

What is the percent chance that you feel one or both of you would have been taken by them by now?

So long as this Q&A is on FA, QuikPik obeys all local Age of Consent Laws and does not capture anyone under the age of 18 by default.

If you've pissed off QP enough to be banned from doing business with them, you're probably not in a position to do business with much of anyone other than "Give me five cents to suck your cock, Mister?"

We would've spent enough for one beefy handsome cheerful houseboy to make us breakfest and bounce in our laps.

Percentages are low. We live in a surfer/college town. So many higher-class targets abound.

I dunnooooo... ;) you have between flirting awfully close to having a slave stream that lasts THE REST OF YOUR LIFE

^.^

Porn fun!

Hm. How do they get their client list and how exclusive is it? What kind of prices do they charge? If this were "real world" not only would it be highly immoral, but also illegal so I'd imagine there would be a high price tag on, like, "processing" a person. Speaking of, it in the parameters of your fictional world, is this illegal? Is it like real world kidnapping or, in the Beachverse, is it sort of like a misdemeanor?

1) Their customers come mainly by word of mouth. If you're the sort of person to hang out in Certain Clubs, or on Certain Sites, you're bound to hear about QP. A little asking around can get you a link to their website or app, and then you're off running.

2) Prices are nebulous, I've never really pinned them down. I figure the el'cheepo version would start at a few thousand dollars. Orders in the five to six figure range seem like they'd be standard.

3) In the default QuikPik setting, it's just as illegial as it'd be in the real world. There are just a lot of detectives, police, DAs, judges, and the like who are occasional customers and do their best to sweep it all under the rug. Besides, the rate of QP orders barely makes a blip compared to the normal rate of Missing Persons for studly young males in the Beachfoxverse.

Is it possible to program a subject to have multiple personalities?
For example, I occasionally like someone to talk to so I would like a "normal mode" with a (slightly modified) version of the original guy.
Also, might be fun to have a "savage mode" where he gets a little rougher and isn't quite as obedient.

Prefectly possible. You just need to put down a bit more money.

Is there a center where they test certain templates? Is there some place where there are personalities that have been long rooted in either used as templates or left wandering around in there like old experiments?