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Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« on: November 14, 2012, 08:11:07 AM »
>VICTORY ACHIEVED
>OBTAINED: SOUL OF GWYN, LORD OF CINDER
>YOU LINK THE FLAME
>CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE GIVEN BIRTH TO A NEW AGE OF FIRE

>...

>You wake up.

>STATUS
>EQUIPMENT
>ITEMS
>MENU
Sugoiiii~
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2012, 08:16:48 AM »
>Menu
>Load game

Since we have already achieved victory, loading our save should take us to the NG+.

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2012, 08:58:23 AM »
> Recollect name.

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2012, 12:51:45 PM »
> Try and get up.

Apparently, Thomas the Tank Engine isn't one to take crap from anyone.

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2012, 05:39:38 PM »
>Menu
>Load game

Since we have already achieved victory, loading our save should take us to the NG+.

>You attempt to access MENU, but something freezes up and boots you back to the other options.  What the hell is going on?

> Recollect name.

>Something...you can't remember clearly. You remember names and monikers. Chosen Undead, Hollow, friend, warrior, Forest Hunter, Gravelord, titles you carried at some point but nothing like a real name.

> Try and get up.

>It's soft. The smell is somewhat familiar, the room warmer than you're used to. It's dark, but that hasn't been an obstacle to you for a while now, and you can make out the shapes pretty easily. Light filtering in from under the door, one of those metal stands with a bag of fluid hanging, monitors and graphs showing your condition...
>...?!
>This isn't Lordran. nor the Kiln of the First Flame. Rather...this is...
>Distant memories. Ones almost forgotten, but still there all the same. Of a time before the Undead Asylum, before your quest, before your endless cycle of death and unlife, before you took your blade to the end and killed the very Sun itself...
>There was this.
>Your name...your name is Alex. Alex Courval.

>You fought for an immeasurable amount of time for the purpose of linking the flame, so that the Age of Fire may continue and the curse of the Darksign may be lifted. But...your memories of that quest are foggy, doubtless because of the painkillers, and that goes without mentioning your life before.
>Were you...?

>A dextrous warrior and sorceror, using your mobility and sorceries to great effect?
>A noble knight and man of faith, blending heavy armor and miracles together to smite all who stood in front of you?
>A caster of both miracle and sorcery, along with pyromancy, bringing all three arts together at the sacrifice of martial prowess?
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2012, 05:50:33 PM »
>A dextrous warrior and sorceror, using your mobility and sorceries to great effect?

Apparently, Thomas the Tank Engine isn't one to take crap from anyone.

Amraphenson

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2012, 06:54:39 AM »
>...that's right. Soul arts and flashing blade in accord, tearing defenses apart with the absurd firepower or piercing right through their weaknesses. It was this combination that let your blade, reinforced to legendary levels but otherwise mundane, stand up to the flaming greatsword Gwyn wielded.
>But that's in the past. You're not the same warrior, no...

>You access STATUS.

>VITALITY: 8
>ENDURANCE: 9
>STRENGTH: 10
>DEXTERITY: 9
>INTELLIGENCE: 50
>FAITH: 9
>ATTUNEMENT: 19

>...As expected. All your stats have lowered to almost pitiful levels, Vitality especially. Oddly, your Intelligence and Attunement remain the same; the former granted the power to use your sorceries, and the latter giving you the capacity to store them inside you. The more intelligence, the more oomph to each spell. The more attunement, the more spells you could cast.
>Technically your Faith is the same too, but you never raised that at all.
>Your physical body as atrophied. No, rather, this body has atrophied; it's not the same one you had in Lordran. It was the one you had before being brought to Lordran.
>Why...how? How had that even happened?
>The memories are clearing up a bit. You can almost put faces to them...

>The door opens. A woman in a white dress, with a strange metal apparatus around her neck and a flat piece of wood in her hands, blinks at you.
>Scrubs. Stethoscope. Clipboard, you realise.
>Words you don't remember using for a while.
« Last Edit: November 15, 2012, 09:05:47 PM by Amra »
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2012, 01:33:39 PM »
> Look at the nurse.
> "Hello."

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2012, 08:36:18 PM »
>"Where am I?"
>Get killed, because Dark Souls.

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2012, 12:13:56 AM »
> Look at the nurse.
> "Hello."

>"Oh my!" She exclaims, clearly surprised. "You're awake!"
>She scrambles around the room, checking the various medical apparatus as you just watch her. You get the urge to hold your shield up between you and her erratic movements, but you don't have a shield nor do you think she's a threat.
>Well, considering your luck with thoughts and threat gauging, maybe you shouldn't be so relaxed.

>"Where am I?"
>Get killed, because Dark Souls.

>She looks up from her clipboard and smiles. "You've been comatose for nearly a year, sweety. Bad traffic accident at an intersection; don't remember?"
>You shake your head. It's hard to really even think clearly.
>You're tempted, just to see if you were sent back to the last bonfire, but there's nothing around to really use in that manner.
>Being stuck here as you are, barely able to even move, you access your ITEM menu.
>Of course, nothing. You didn't expect to carry your equipment with you if you didn't even keep your...stats?
>Huh.

>ITEM: SOUL OF GWYN, LORD OF CINDER
« Last Edit: November 16, 2012, 01:18:40 AM by Amra »
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2012, 01:36:13 AM »
> Uh... Well that's something.
> Might not be best to tamper with it in our current condition.

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #11 on: November 16, 2012, 03:10:06 AM »
> Uh... Well that's something.
> Might not be best to tamper with it in our current condition.

>Possibly. Probably? You don't know. Consuming it would probably bring you a lot closer back to full function.
>Of course it might also consume the entire hospital in fire, and that would probably be bad.
>...like before, you can store items infinitely in yourself. Souls made up everything in Lordran; it seems you're still no exception. By dissolving something into its spiritual components and absorbing it into yourself, you were able to keep a veritable arsenal on you. Occasionally the selection grew tedious to sort through though, so some did end up in actual storage.

>"Here, I've just called your parents. Should be here any moment now."
>You nod...and start thinking. Parents. You barely remember them, or him, or her. You vaguely remember more than one person, but otherwise...
>Best to wait then.

>"I'll be right back with your family, alright honey?"
>You nod again and are left alone to think. Or...
>You flex your fingers and nod slowly. It's probably possible to move around now.
Sugoiiii~
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #12 on: November 16, 2012, 03:52:06 AM »
> Try moving everything to get a feel for our condition.

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #13 on: November 16, 2012, 08:41:32 AM »
> Try moving everything to get a feel for our condition.

>Your neck's stiff. Mouth and facial muscles seem to be okay.
>Shoulders are similarly stiff, which is understandable. All your joints feel like they've been rusted over, or like after a long spiel of heavy armor wearing.
>Waist turns decently, your spine is rather rigid. Your knees bend well enough.
>You gently pull the blanket off you and turn, placing both feet on the floor.

>Cold. White tile in a rectangular pattern. No pressure plates or trip wires, no obvious threats.
>You apply a little pressure, put a little weight down while remaining on the bed. No complaints so far. A little more weight...seems fine.
>So you try standing.

>It hurts a little, it's hard to step, but you can move. Stand, at least.
>The weight of your entire body on your legs is a little staggering. You've never felt this encumbered before, even when you experimented at a time with heavier armors than the light ones you favored.
>This body is...weak. At least in comparison.

>Slow. Step by step. Don't over exert what little stability's left.
>Closer. Nearer. Your left hand reaches out, the joints almost audibly creaking like old hinges.
>Finger tips reach cloth. Your arm moves. The curtain is drawn aside.

>Sun light. Warmth. Comforting rays peeking over the buildings and trees around the hospital, covering you in a loving embrace.
>This world...it isn't dark. Not like Lordran. It isn't cold.
>You smile. It's warm. It's bright. Perhaps a little too bright for you, now jaded and warped by thousands of deaths, but you have fallen in love with it in a way the former you never could have all the same.

>A door opens behind you, and you look ever your shoulder to find two increasingly familiar faces there.
>"A-Alex?" the woman there breathes out, hands white-knuckled and knees shaking. She clings on to the man next to her for support, who's similarly brought to tears. He simply smiles after choking back a sob.
>"W-welcome back son," he says finally.
>Warmth stains your cheeks. You worry that its blood, but surprise yourself when you find tears being shed, just like your mother and father.

>"I...I guess I'm back?" you breathe out, almost not believing the words yourself.
>The tears don't step, even when they both take you up into a truly staggering embrace.

>...

>Weeks pass. Rehab and what not, trying to bring your physical body back up to shape. You push even further still though, mind used to the pain; even if its not possible without the threat of death itself, you want to be as strong as before.
>No bonfires to attune magic with, even if your abilities are compatible. But your soul-boosted intelligence proves immensely useful for catching up the year of curriculum you missed; it's cheating, in a way.
>The fact you still have some of your abilities and the potential for the rest concerns you. Did something bring you back here, whisk you away from your fate as the kindling for the First Flame, for some purpose? Was it the force that sent you to Lordran in the first place? Too many questions.

>You return home after a day at the hospital to find your mother examining a large, wrapped box rather closely.
>"What's that?" you ask, coming up behind her in the living room.
>"A package for you," she starts, running a hand over it. It's large, and somewhat oddly familiar. "But there's no sender."
>Strange...


Sugoiiii~
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[23:20] <Stuffman> enjoy your personally crafted hell Amra

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #14 on: November 16, 2012, 12:32:33 PM »
> Hrm.
> Check it over and if everything seems good, carefully open it.

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2012, 01:10:53 AM »
> Hrm.
> Check it over and if everything seems good, carefully open it.

>It's a cardboard box about as two thirds as tall as you, and perhaps as wide as your shoulders, and perhaps two hands thick. Something about it is familiar.
>Weighty. Not particularly so, but considerable. It's almost...familiar.
>"Any clue what it is?" your mother asks, confusion evident in her eyes. You shake your head.
>You're still not quite sure as to how safe it is, but nothing ventured nothing gained.
>Then again, you don't have a nigh infinite method of revival now.
Sugoiiii~
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2012, 03:40:41 AM »
> Well, guess we'll leave it up to fate.
> Open 'er up.

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2012, 07:30:21 PM »
> Well, guess we'll leave it up to fate.
> Open 'er up.

>Mom provides a box cutter to slice the tape apart. You warily take apart the package...and gawk.
>This shape. The metal. The insignia of Balder, a fading silver tree imprinted upon solid steel.
>The well-worn wood, the self wrapped leather, the curves and grooves, the three foot long rod.
>And metal. Cold, sleek metal. The blade is almost too thin to believe, the handle dented and the hand-guard scarred with dozens of scratches.

>Your equipment. The Balder Side Sword, Balder Shield, and Logan's Catalyst. Just as you remember them.
>A note lays still in the now-empty box.
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2012, 07:32:15 PM »
>Raise an eyebrow at the note, and pull it out to read it!
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #19 on: November 19, 2012, 01:00:08 AM »
>Raise an eyebrow at the note, and pull it out to read it!

>If this isn't suspicious, then you don't know what.
>As your mom starts spouting questions at you, you bring the note up to your face and read it carefully.

>It's never over.
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #20 on: November 19, 2012, 01:05:24 AM »
>"...Well, guess my adventure isn't over yet."
>Then look back at her with the sort of rugged and amused smile that would make one think more of an old warrior than a young man. "I had quite an adventure you know."
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #21 on: November 19, 2012, 01:31:40 AM »
>"...Well, guess my adventure isn't over yet."
>Then look back at her with the sort of rugged and amused smile that would make one think more of an old warrior than a young man. "I had quite an adventure you know."

>Your mother gives you an odd look. She seems to want to exclaim something, like 'What are you talking about?' or 'Stop joking around', but your smile silences her. The hollowness in your gaze as you run a finger over the shield tells all that needs to be said.
>After a long while, during which your father arrives only to be silenced by your mother, she finally speaks. "You weren't really in the hospital for all that time were you?"
>Smart woman, as always.
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #22 on: November 19, 2012, 04:49:31 PM »
> Keep up the smile.
> "It was pretty disorienting waking up in the hospital like that."

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #23 on: November 20, 2012, 12:20:00 AM »
> Keep up the smile.
> "It was pretty disorienting waking up in the hospital like that."

>Your father puts a shoulder on your arm, picks up your sword, examines it. Your mom wraps both arms around your neck, hugs you as tight as she can.
>"What happened?" your dad says. He seems a little surprised at the weight of your main weapon, and certainly so the sharpness. He gingerly sucks on this thumb after slicing it open from a mere touch.
>You laugh a little. "I died. A lot."
>They seem a tad put off by that.

>...

>It takes an hour or so to explain everything. They're disturbed, justifiably so, but to you it's all the truth. Not a lie to be found. You didn't tell them about all your deaths, they didn't need that, but all the same it's frightening for them.
>"You said something about magic...sorcery, right?" your dad says. "Can you still do that?"
>"I wonder," you answer, grabbing Logan's Catalyst.
>Big Hat Logan. Your Sorcery teacher, who you saved from imprisonment in the trap laden Sen's Fortress and once again in Seath's Archives. He went mad trying to emulate Seath, trying to become immortal himself; you put him down. His catalyst was mundane, but years upon years of usage and improvement have turned into a beast of a focus.
>You think, gather your thoughts, focus. Something simple to test yourself out. You had five spells attuned when you fought Gwyn, during your final combat, thus you probably still have the same five attuned.

>Crystal Soul Spear, a deadly projectile that could penetrate without limit.
>Crystal Magic Weapon, an enchantment that brought any weapon to nigh-unstoppable power.
>Homing Crystal Soulmass, which summoned five orbs that launched themselves at anyone that approached.
>Dark Bead, an old sorcery of Oolacile that fired five orbs, each with their own force and destructive if all five hit.
>White Dragon Breath, which emulated Seath's own to create a wave of soul crystals that sundered anything in their path.

>None are particularly good for demonstration in your home, but you're increasingly curious as to whether or not you have any magic left.
Sugoiiii~
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #24 on: November 20, 2012, 12:24:34 AM »
>"To be honest, I'm not sure, but it could be worth a try. I have an idea, but we need one of the butter knives for it, and a spare cinderblock."
>If Crystal Magic Weapon can make a sword like ours insanely powerful, it should make a butter knife about as strong as a typical enchanted weapon.
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #25 on: November 20, 2012, 02:30:36 AM »
>"To be honest, I'm not sure, but it could be worth a try. I have an idea, but we need one of the butter knives for it, and a spare cinderblock."
>If Crystal Magic Weapon can make a sword like ours insanely powerful, it should make a butter knife about as strong as a typical enchanted weapon.

>You say it more to yourself than anyone else. Your parents are still a little too shocked to react, so you pick yourself up and head towards the kitchen, left hand holding the Catalyst loosely.
>It worked something like that, in any case. Enchants were enchants, regardless of what weapon you applied them to; a faster, lighter weapon could strike more times within a span of time and thus apply the effects of the enchant multiple times. Your sword was chosen for a balance between speed and utility; even if unenchanted, it was highly dangerous.

>Knife in right hand, you shuffle towards the shed in the backyard. The door swings open, you fish a block out, and throw it back into the yard.
>Gather your souls. Channel through your catalyst. Shape it within.
>There it is. The swell of power that you wielded a seeming eternity ago. The rush of cold souls, the thrum of their combined war cry, the resonance of their strength. This is the magnum opus of Big Hat Logan, the man who's spells were said to rival the very lightning of Lord Gwyn himself.
>Release.
>Catalyst held over your head, crossing the butter knife in an X. You move both away from the other as the spell flows away from Logan's Catalyst.

>Crystal Magic Weapon
>The entirety of your improvised weapon glows a pale blue, now infused with raw magic. Then, as if plagued by a malignant growth, crystals grow from the blade.
>Everything was made of souls in Lordran. The body, weapons, armor. What beat what upon collision was an event determined by strength and strength alone. The stronger the souls, the more likely it came out on top.
>Changing souls into a 'material' caused the total strength to weaken, but it was the only way to really create any sort of solid object. Such was the domain of blacksmiths, to refine weapons and armor until there was little to no loss of strength in material conversion. Things like your sword and shield, which were so reinforced so as to be able to take scars permanently, were an immense rarity.
>This is the conceptual magic of Logan. Rather than create a 'metal made of souls', the crystals of his final magics were 'solid souls.' And as such, nothing short of divine miracles or the pyromancies of Chaos could stand before it.

>You set the Catalyst aside on the ground. You're keenly aware of your parents watching, and were very much aware of them gasping in surprise as you covered the utensil in magic.
>Your now free hand picks up the cinderblock, tosses it lightly into the air, and your weapon flashes in a diagonal slash.
>What was now one is now two.
>Rather than cuts, Crystal Magic Weapon left weapons in a state that more or less sheared away material. The fact you can't even put the two halves together is testament to that.

>Your parents simply stand by while you stare at the butter knife.
>It's true then. That note wasn't lying. Either you kept your powers and experience for no reason...
>Or something else is up.

>You become vaguely aware that your father has gotten behind you, both hands on your shoulders. His voice is warm, comforting, worried but stern. "What's going to happen now Alex? What are you going to do?"
Sugoiiii~
[23:02] <~Iced> You have sown the seeds of your own destruction Amra.
[23:20] <Stuffman> enjoy your personally crafted hell Amra

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #26 on: November 20, 2012, 02:57:38 AM »
> "Honestly? I'm not entirely sure. If I can still do this though, then something's obviously going on."

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #27 on: November 20, 2012, 08:08:17 AM »
> "Honestly? I'm not entirely sure. If I can still do this though, then something's obviously going on."

>You say this while appraising your blade, feeling out the enchantment. It seems as powerful as always.
>"You should talk to the police," your mother suggests.
>"Would they believe him?" your father retorts. "I've seen enough TV shows to know where that'll lead."
>They're clinging to each other now, your mom latched onto your father's arm as she starts to panic a little. "If they see that, then obviously they'll have to believe him!"
>"But then they might take Alex away for who-knows-what," Dad points out, sighing in exasperation. "Alex, what do you think?"
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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #28 on: November 20, 2012, 12:45:04 PM »
> It's probably for the best to keep quiet about this.
> "I think for now we should just wait and see what happens.  If things start to get crazy then I'll be sure to do something, but it might be best to take things as they come for now."

Apparently, Thomas the Tank Engine isn't one to take crap from anyone.

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Re: Dark Quest ~ What happens to the Hollow?
« Reply #29 on: November 20, 2012, 11:20:39 PM »
> It's probably for the best to keep quiet about this.
> "I think for now we should just wait and see what happens.  If things start to get crazy then I'll be sure to do something, but it might be best to take things as they come for now."

>They don't like that answer. What kind of parents would? But your father, at least, understands why it has to be this way, and nods at your declaration of intent.
>"We don't want to lose you again, Alex," your mother says, almost a whisper. "Please be careful."
>You smile gently and bring the two of them into a hug.
>They've lost you still, but perhaps they can find you again.

>...

>Upper right to lower left, shift grip, upper left to lower right, draw back blade, lunge. Pivot, swing left arm, parry, riposte.
>Roll, swap shield for Catalyst, gather energy, launch spell. Roll immediately afterwards, bring your sword up in a slash to cover your recovery. Bring shield up, return to neutral. Watch. React.
>Blindly running in, weapon flailing, got you killed enough. You don't plan on dying again any time soon, especially not with your parents still worrying about you.
>It's been a week since you got that note and your weapons back, and you've thrown yourself back into practice, re-familiarizing yourself and building back the muscle memory required for swordplay.
>Speaking of parents...
>"Alex, there's a phone call for you! Someone called Priscilla." There's an underlying tone of suggestiveness there, which you barely catch, but that name is what captures your attention.
>No. Couldn't be. How...?
Sugoiiii~
[23:02] <~Iced> You have sown the seeds of your own destruction Amra.
[23:20] <Stuffman> enjoy your personally crafted hell Amra