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<blockquote data-quote="green slime" data-source="post: 3373891" data-attributes="member: 1325">Stap?!?Got no idea what STAP is.Still, when it comes to infernals harvesting souls...See, it takes a lot of work and bribery to get these foolish mortals to sell/condem their souls. And then they have this irritating tendancy to not want to die, or at least not soon enough.So ideally the infernal nasties would want two things:1) Speed up the selling/fooling process that gets those pesky mortals to sign away what they shouldn't really ever have had anyway. Preferably in a fashion that requires less work for the Infernal.2) Ensure the masses accumulated in step 1 don't have time to recant before shuffling off the mortal coil. In other words, mass death.In order to acheive step 1, the infernals need to have converted/recruited wordly powerful beings to their cause. An archbishop, a King, a Queen, a Knight of high standing, a wizard, if that's your thing. OF course, when you are working on a completely different time scale, you can afford to put extra effort into those beings for a few decades, aiding them to the top of their field through various, erhm, &quot;accidents&quot; while nurturing their inevitable corruption. As a final coup-de-grace you have a jealous love pact going on as well.Finally, you put into a place a conversion to a new faith, rendering the large plebarian masses of corrupt and wayward.Then you start a civil war, and provoke the neighbouring kingdoms into backing various factions. Death and Mayhem, are assured, as well as brother vs brother, suicide and madness.Revel in the torture of a million souls.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="green slime, post: 3373891, member: 1325"] [b]Stap?!?[/b] Got no idea what STAP is. Still, when it comes to infernals harvesting souls... See, it takes a lot of work and bribery to get these foolish mortals to sell/condem their souls. And then they have this irritating tendancy to not want to die, or at least not soon enough. So ideally the infernal nasties would want two things: 1) Speed up the selling/fooling process that gets those pesky mortals to sign away what they shouldn't really ever have had anyway. Preferably in a fashion that requires less work for the Infernal. 2) Ensure the masses accumulated in step 1 don't have time to recant before shuffling off the mortal coil. In other words, mass death. In order to acheive step 1, the infernals need to have converted/recruited wordly powerful beings to their cause. An archbishop, a King, a Queen, a Knight of high standing, a wizard, if that's your thing. OF course, when you are working on a completely different time scale, you can afford to put extra effort into those beings for a few decades, aiding them to the top of their field through various, erhm, "accidents" while nurturing their inevitable corruption. As a final coup-de-grace you have a jealous love pact going on as well. Finally, you put into a place a conversion to a new faith, rendering the large plebarian masses of corrupt and wayward. Then you start a civil war, and provoke the neighbouring kingdoms into backing various factions. Death and Mayhem, are assured, as well as brother vs brother, suicide and madness. Revel in the torture of a million souls. [/QUOTE]

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