LIAR HELL OR BUST

[iamverybadass]

Who: More Idols
Where: Liar Hell
When: Tuesday Morning

[ What's everyone up to this morning? Still stuck in Hell? Busy doing crimes? Maybe, like some people, you hopped on a train from Vengeance Hell to get over here! Hope you didn't have to give up anything too precious for that.

In any case, however you've ended up here there's still plenty to do. Shopping, restaurants, movie theaters, maybe you can even find a tour bus to make the rounds of some of the other shows being filmed here! ]

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[rollplayinghouse]

...The long version.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Okay. So. Heaven.

We showed up in this place with a bunch of stained glass? And it kinda felt like before, like I wasn't supposed to be there. And there was this door that was hands, and you had to put your hands on it and make the same gesture back, and then it would open. [Makes the gesture; it's a gesture of peace.] Only, it wouldn't let me, cause I was wrong? And Nem couldn't do it, cause she only got the one hand. So Man Eater opened it for us, and then he went off another way, and we headed in.

So we went through, and it was like a ship's cabin? Or a church or something. Some weird combo.

There was this huge stained glass window that showed Tokyo-F, and when you touched places it said stuff? When you touched some moving dots, it said they were human souls, with demon corruption. Some of em said there were physical alterations detected, too. The gametower and the dorms said, like, "TRANSGRESSOR: FOLLOWER OF BELIAL."

There were seven spots for people to stand, and they had those horns, you know, the old fashioned brass ones? You talk into them, and they carry your voice other places. We tried to use em but they didn't do nothing. There was a ship's wheel, too, with another horn by it, and that one just made your voice real loud.

All up along the walls, there were a bunch of barrels full of oil, and the oil burned me like holy water used to.

And there were some candles, but they weren't lit, so we lit em, and this whole set of glowing carvings showed up on the wall.

It was about Jesus, mostly. People having a rough time. Light from the heavens with a dove flying down; a baby born in a manger, with a dove looking in. Kid grows up, dove keeping an eye on him; when he's all grown up, the light shines again, and the dove takes an olive branch back up to the light.

Then, like - the cross. And then Heaven, and the gates, and angels. The light goes down. A dove flies up, and Jesus goes with it. The last one was angels fighting demons, but there wasn't any light from up above them any more.

Underneath all the pictures, there was a bunch of writing. It kinda made me feel like I was gonna puke to look at it? But I tried to write it down anyway. I'm gonna give it to Intensity and see if he can crack the code.

[rollplayinghouse]

Transgressor... I heard something about that, yesterday. That he could make Asshole into a "real demon," whatever that means...

Go on.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Wait - who could?

Transgressor's a name? Or, like - a title?

[rollplayinghouse]

I think so...? "The reason Asshole got close to"—probably you shouldn't say the other demon's name either. He's not directly involved, but still. —the reason he got close was that "The Transgressor" could make him a real demon. I assumed that referred to Bel himself, but...

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Thinking, thinking.]

Could be transgressor's like. A class of demons. Like P's dudes are all liars.

So if Bel's head of the transgressors, probly she's a transgressor, too? And all of Bel's followers are the same.

[rollplayinghouse]

Maybe...

This is why we really should be sharing information, though. You never know when something's going to be relevant or if what someone else knows would make you re-interpret things.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah. I been getting most of my stuff from Intensity's notes, but not everyone sends stuff his way.

Kinda hard to see the big picture when you don't got all the pieces.

[rollplayinghouse]

He also doesn't put everything in the notes. For good reasons, in some cases, but...

[sigh]

That's all I'm saying. Remember that you're only seeing a small piece of the picture.

[crossmyheartandhope]

...yeah. Good call.

Anyway, uh. You want me to keep going?

[rollplayinghouse]

Yes, go on.

[crossmyheartandhope]

We poked around trying to find a hidden door or something, but there wasn't nothing, so we were gonna head out. Only on the way out, I touched the carvings? And there was this real bright light, and this sound like metal grinding, and then Mehniel showed up. Arariel, they called themself, before they knew we were there.

They were pretty upset. Calling for the general not to leave and stuff. They were all cut up cause they'd been fighting demons, too. Guess they thought we were the other angels coming back, and got their hopes up and rushed home.

Anyway. Then they said they had something I'd wanna see, and took us to this place called the healing room. It looked kinda like a bunch of hot springs, in an underground cave. The pools were all marked with more stuff I couldn't read, and the angel said the water was set to exorcise angels with demonic infections, and maybe it could purify me, too, without it needing to take the whole forty days.

[rollplayinghouse]

Calling for the general not to leave? What do you mean? They were talking to themselves, or trying to contact someone...?

[crossmyheartandhope]

They came running back, thinking we were some of the other angels they'd been looking for.

[rollplayinghouse]

I see...

Requiem and Intensity already mentioned the purification part, so I gather it worked.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah. Felt kinda bad disappointing em when they saw it was just us.

But, uh. Yeah. Back in one piece.

[rollplayinghouse]

...I knew the holy water burned you, before... but I don't actually know what hell effect you had, or how you got it.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Got a one-way ticket to go see Lilith. She, uh. She charges for the trip back.

[rollplayinghouse]

I know that much, from C, Nya and Yasuragi. I didn't know you'd managed to get yourself in that much trouble.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah. I, uh. I made a dumb call, is all.

[rollplayinghouse]

That's pretty vague.

But if that's not important right now, go on.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Uh. Right.

I mean, after that, the angel asked some about the people who were in jail, and the ones who were in the city. It all moved pretty quick, but the plan was, the angel was gonna go do a jail break and bust everyone out the city. Then we were supposed to round everyone up so we could get picked up.

[rollplayinghouse]

...And what exactly do "round everyone up" and "get picked up" mean?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Get everyone together in one spot so the angel could show up and take us from here to there.

[rollplayinghouse]

"There" being back to their spaceship or whatever? That's why you had Prim gathering everyone together?

"One spot" is going to be a bit hard, though.