The Meat Shields network lets Carl contract the eligible Penis Parade crew through Rosemarie's hidden branch.
Astrid preserved memberships for the male Penis Parade performers and placed Rosemarie as the manager of an unlisted top-floor Meat Shields office. The concealed arrangement kept the crew employed in the relatively safe club instead of exposed as ordinary floor mercenaries.
After Astrid's death, Damascus expects a restructuring to send the crew to the Larracos level. Rosemarie uses the still-active memberships and Donut's one-hundred-thousand-gold coupon to sell Carl a two-floor contract for thirteen dancers, Doctor Bones, and Bucket Boy.
Women from Bitches and performers from the middle-floor clubs remain behind because only the Penis Parade men are eligible for this transaction.
A glowing mercenary marketplace interface connecting a hidden nightclub office to a guild barracks.
Meat Shields is both the system that once hid Astrid's dependents and the legal route Carl uses to extract them.