Voice-testing and tentatively considering games...

[hells_sherpa]

Well hot diggity damn.

I'd say I appreciate you considering taking me out of Hell except for the fact that you know I just found new purpose in my afterlife and I have an idea of what some of your plans are.

I get the appeal of putting characters through the wringer, it makes for a good story...but the practical way you're reasoning out how much damage I can take and recover from is a bit alarming. Don't you think that this idea of yours puts me a bit too close to "in the hands of infinite power and infinite sadism" territory?


[OOC: Canon is Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle]

Comments

[thisonetime]

Man, you been to Hell? What's that like? Keith said he went to Hell once, but I think it might'a just been Texas durin' the summer, and he had no money, cause he came back all burned up like he'd been sleepin' in the sun all damn day. Wasn't the worst burn he ever got, but he was red like a lobster for weeks after. And then he started peelin', damn, it was gross!

[hells_sherpa]

Died and everything to get there. It's mildly worse than Texas in the summer.

[Understatement of the year.]

Ever read Dante's Inferno?

[thisonetime]

Naw, never did. Did see the movie though, couple years back. It was pretty funny and I liked them puppets.

[Ellis, of course, means this movie.]

[hells_sherpa]

[Unfortunately, Allen died in 1974, so he misses the reference.

Allen does, however, raise an eyebrow.]

They made a movie with puppets and it was funny? Did they call it Infernoland too?

[thisonetime]

Nah, it was just regular ol' Dante's Inferno. Infernoland makes it sound kinda like a kiddie park, but with more fire.

[...]

Shit, I wish there was an Infernoland, that sounds so cool!

[hells_sherpa]

That depends on whether you think lakes of boiling blood and demons are a form of entertainment or not.

[thisonetime]

That don't sound like much fun. What if it was lakes of, like, those little balls you get in those pits, and instead'a demons y'get ridin' llamas?

[hells_sherpa]

I'm not sure people would be taking Hell seriously with something like that...

[thisonetime]

Naw, but it'd sure be a lot more fun.

[Ellis scrunches his face in thought and rubs his stubbly chin.]

'Cept, I guess if it's fun, it ain't Hell no more. Maybe just save it for a theme park, I guess.

[hells_sherpa]

That's probably best.

[For all his own jokes, Hell isn't a place to be trivialized. Not with everything he'd witnessed first-hand.]

What's your name?

[thisonetime]

I'm Ellis! What's your name?

[But then he puts a hand up!]

Wait, shit, lemme guess. You Dante?

[hells_sherpa]

[That earns him a smirk.]

No but I'm acquainted with his work. My name's Allen Carpentier. You may have read some of my books.

[He is a famous sci-fi author after all.]

[thisonetime]

I ain't much for books, but anythin' you ever write get turned into a movie? I might'a seen it.

[iwannabeadragon]

Oh it's not too bad once you get past the horrible torture, murderous inhabitants, and the insane lord that runs the place. Honestly I think it would make a great vacation home.

[hells_sherpa]

Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. Where you are now is a great vacation home comparatively.

[iwannabeadragon]

I know, was thinking of having a cabin built there.

[hells_sherpa]

A little place for you and the missus?

[iwannabeadragon]

Something like that. Might even add a porch so we can sit out and watch all the insanity unfold.