"I see."
"In answer to point one, I'll be very surprised if there's only a single party for Dukes. There will be at least two factions. Probably three. As a newcomer you're unusually well-placed to sell to the highest bidder, albeit you also won't have banked resources unless you got them sideways. If you take me there with the purpose of my starting drama--which, to be clear, I wouldn't be doing on purpose, I'd just say out loud when I thought I saw a better way for them to accomplish something--it ought to be after having sold that act to a rival faction."
"On two: It's hard to say what Count you should blackmail or make an offer without knowing a lot more about what you think you can offer them, what your plans are, what sort of personnel you expect to need, and all that. Matchmaking that sort of thing isn't fundamentally lower-information than dating. I don't even know at this point if you're a pure sub, or a switch, or even a dominant who slipped in here sideways like myself."
"On three: Explaining basic wizardry sounds trivial at best and tedious at worst. I'd want to be banking up favors about it. In some ways I am an usually good explainer and in some ways I am not. I note, in case you weren't shown it on entry or you didn't correctly interpret what you saw, that there exists an entire academy interlaced through this Facility. Education increases the value of prisoners and is also a great source of drama."
"On four: Chastity dynamics are constantly being changed by the administration. You might think that they'd systematically try out different possibilities and determine a single best drama-maximizing set of rules and then stop there, but either they're not that smart, or it doesn't maximize drama one level up to have constant and predictable rules. I think this week it's something like a tenth of a token to permit any interesting sensations down there, a quarter of a token to get close to orgasm, and a full token to go over the edge. The rule I mostly set for submissives is that, if they want to be hurt by me at all, they need to bring with whatever it takes for me to have an orgasm."