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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 23, 2014, 09:29:36 am

((You said there was a death. Did I miss something? I mean, sure, the old lady and the grandson seem to have died, but why do they count more than the demon things?))

((Unless I'm mistaken, Niccolo decided to yank our chains by killing off Cyrus and then saying that we had our first death.))

((Way to explain the joke. Jerk.))

Not that I know of.

I dunno. Probably deals organized between the gods of those religions and the various powerful demons of hell.

Whenever someone dies, if they are deemed unsuitable to work in heaven for whatever reason, they are sent to hell and some demon or another gets the soul. Which demon does depends on a number of qualities of the deceased. Once, it was simple--child molesters go to one demon, regicide means you go to some other, etc--but between trading bits of each domain and the increase in the number of demons, this system gotten to be more...complex over time. Demons on Earth sometimes "corrupt" people to get them to one demon or another so they can claim a reward from said demon.

Souls are kinda like slaves. They work and form the backbone of the infernal economy. Notable souls, like kings, heroes, and celebrities, are often kept more as "trophy pieces" or else sold to richer and more powerful demons who do so. Powerful souls unsuitable for "trophy"ing are sometimes used as soldiers. (Actually, any soul can, but more powerful ones are more common.) Sometimes, souls are eaten; this empowers the demon, but most would consider the soul to be more valuable than the power increase. It's mostly done as a sign of extravagance.

Sometimes, yes, especially the ones too weak to be likely to get souls other ways. They would have to make deals to avoid angering the (likely much more powerful) demons who would normally get the person's soul, though.

More or less, yes.

<Nuriel, can demons possess other demons?>

<Pretty sure they can't. Not that they'd really need to, demons have plenty of other ways of getting each other to do stuff.>

I propose that whatever we pick, we buy them in squads of five, where one of them is smarter than the rest and can act as their commander in case there are no players around to give orders. Then we could also use some 'elite' sods, also in squads of five, but these are all made up out of sod commander material, so they can work in smaller groups if necessary. I'd propose full synthflesh for the elite ones.

((Something like this works, although depending on how many are made and how many places we're putting them, more than five to a group mightn't be a bad idea.
Also, some "specialist" sods--ones with heavy weapons, or medikits, or something--might be good to sprinkle in. And don't forget communicators of some kind!))

((Not sure enough about the ups and downs of various kinds to say if we should go normal/GM/cyber sods, but maybe a mix wouldn't be a bad idea? Or maybe normal GM sods with cybernetics?))

Isn't biological augmentation likely to start some issues? PR and fate-of-the-universe wise?

((We're in less danger from genemodding sods than not chucking Xan into a lake of lava.))

Cha-cha-charging my amp.

((I would have gone with something like:
Charging my amp.
Charging my amp.
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
Charging my aaamp!))

((Why is there a battle coming whilst I'm in a hospital bed? Worse, why doesn't this injury give me free upgrades?))

((You could maybe convince the Doctor to install a cybergut capable of turning food to pulp in mere seconds. Before being digested at the normal slow rate.))

((Stupid lack of ability to upload consciousness. ))

((Ask Steve about being turned into a computer. He'd probably appreciate the new RAM.))