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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 2133460" data-attributes="member: 149">The name of Peter Hamilton's overall series was "The Reality Dysfunction".If you sift through "Tales of Wyre - Sepulchrave II's story hour", there is a fair amount of information on hell in his campaign and the role of demons and devils in it. Extremely well writen and thought provoking. Especially on the topic of "If God is all powerful, then what exactly is the roll of evil/hell/etc in the universe/why do they exist.I found the Cenobites interesting because they seemed to be very alien in some fashion. Their indifference to suffering was far scarier to me than the overblown blood lust of someone like Freddie. There was a comic series based on the novella "The Hellbound Heart", which formed the basis for the movie. I believe you can find collections of the issues at your usual comic/book stores.One little tid bit that I found interesting from the novella, was that the puzzle boxes weren't the only sort of item/device/challenge out there and that different kinds of puzzles could open other doorways. We are talking about perhaps word games, architectural oddities or thought experiments ANY kind of puzzle. Some interesting possibilities to spring on players with that. In Pratche's #$%#$Eric, the souls in hell aren't really suffering, because they don't have any bodies to suffer with and people only feel pain because they expect to. Re: Faust - Didn't Mephistopheles also famously reply to Faust "Why this is Hell, nor am I out of it".Being in Hell - Let's face it there are far more ways to make people suffer than to please them. There are an infinite number of ways to make people suffer.</blockquote>

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