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Yes, that's pretty much it exactly.Originally Posted by Shardnax
They turned him into a heaving smoking british punk rocker.
They even gave him this guy's stupid looking neckbeads.
No, really. There's pictures of the guy wearing almost identical clothing.
Oh, and Dante is part angel now.
Expect huge angel wings to appear at one point. Also, he's using the heavenly sword. No, really.
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Also, loved his comment a while back.
It was essentially:
My redesign is brilliant, people want to like it they're just afraid to admit that I did a better Dante.
The ego on this man. Like, straight up.
Jackass Penguin
Taller than you expected.For some reason, that's really not how I would've pictured you
Cookie Thief
That's kind of the impression I got. Either his sister is just waiting for him, and they both go together, or she does end up killing him, due to the fact that she's now part of the afterlife.
Although there's still the confusing fact that, the locals seem to flee from you for the most part. Although I guess that's only because they don't have any defense after you get past their traps, until they have their blow gun thingies.
Last edited by !nstaGib; 19th-August-2011 at 17:48.
Cookie Thief
No, you just looked a little more like a registered sex offender than I expectedTaller than you expected.
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There's also the third option. When living/sorta living people go into the afterlife, shit happens.
Like Orpheus.
His punishment?
The second he saw his wife again she was wiped from the face of existence.
What happened to him afterwards can best be summarized as "it did not end well". That's kinda what happens when you spit in the face of gods. And that was largely the norm for quite a few treks into the afterlife until Judeo Christian ideas got to be a bit more popular and writers started making self insert fanfics where they got to chill with angels.
But I figure it's one of those "journey through hell/purgatory to find happiness" things that people have been milking all over the place.
Where he's dead and just doesn't realize it yet. And this is sort of a trial/punishment before he can move onward to heaven.
Jackass Penguin
Not true.No, you just looked a little more like a registered sex offender than I expected
I've never had to register.
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One of the go-to sources for afterlife literature lists a circle of purgatory (which isn't technically limbo, but it's sorta close enough in a way) as being full of chronically pissed off people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgato...he_wrathful.29
Also, the inhabitants of that circle? They're blind. And in eternal darkness. Sound familiar? Also, as a note, suicide is judged as equivalent to murder in this setting. If he offed himself to enter the afterlife, it kinda works.
Cookie Thief
Found a game amongst these C64 tapes that looks interesting.
It doesn't appear to load.
Spelling Nazi
Is there a way to add the thanks button to threads that I've started?
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No. The thanks hack is a section specific feature. The sections that have the option to thank posts have it automatically. Elsewhere, it does not appear.
Spelling Nazi
Nuts.
Cookie Thief
You do bring good points, but there's still the point that everyone's eyes are black, except for yours. When you die, however, they're turned black. I suppose you could tie that in with the whole blind/eternal darkness thing though.
Also, at parts it seems that others have tried to go along the same path as yours, but failed.
Last edited by !nstaGib; 19th-August-2011 at 18:32.
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Yeah, that's probably my best guess. Although that could just be a game mechanic to differentiate your character from all others. Or living from dead. Or undead. Or something.
The basic beliefs of limbo get more than a tad sketchy (many place it as being a sort of neutral ground for the souls who never took too far to either side, others place it as the afterlife's waiting room since heaven won't exist until after the end of time). But as for general belief, that'd be the "challenge" part of the idea of a limbo. Some move onward. Some give in and become evil spirits. Others stagnate forever. The road to heaven isn't an easy one to take. Some souls simply give up at the sheer difficulty of "cleansing themselves" via a trek through limbo. (like those people who drowned themselves). It could conceivably be an explanation for the later areas being devoid of life. A soul that actually manages to make it to the end of purgatory/limbo is quite rare. Which is why some religions *cough*Catholicism*cough* put in an express lane. But it'll cost ya.
Cookie Thief
That's the thing, I can't really tell what was there just for a game mechanic, and what was there to drive the story. However, if I'm thinking of the same occurrence, the person that fell into the lake had one of those worm things in his head, which would explain it. Whether the worms have any significance to the story though, I don't know.Yeah, that's probably my best guess. Although that could just be a game mechanic to differentiate your character from all others. Or living from dead. Or undead. Or something.
The basic beliefs of limbo get more than a tad sketchy (many place it as being a sort of neutral ground for the souls who never took too far to either side, others place it as the afterlife's waiting room since heaven won't exist until after the end of time). But as for general belief, that'd be the "challenge" part of the idea of a limbo. Some move onward. Some give in and become evil spirits. Others stagnate forever. The road to heaven isn't an easy one to take. Some souls simply give up at the sheer difficulty of "cleansing themselves" via a trek through limbo. (like those people who drowned themselves). It could conceivably be an explanation for the later areas being devoid of life. A soul that actually manages to make it to the end of purgatory/limbo is quite rare. Which is why some religions *cough*Catholicism*cough* put in an express lane. But it'll cost ya.
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