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1 {scene: A shady bar on a dimly lit street somewhere on Bune.}
1 Serron: This is the same bar where we met that shady black market weapons dealer who stole our organs.
2 Iki Piki: What better place to look for a loan shark?
3 Serron: Just be even more careful this time.
3 Iki Piki: Of course.
4 Iki Piki: {enters bar} Anyone here a loan shark?! And not secretly an organlegger?!
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For anyone not familiar with the term, organlegging is a word that Larry Niven coined to describe an illegal trade in stolen organs in a science fiction context.
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