Going to Hell?
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:13 am
Cool, enjoy. we went to the States a few weeks back. Hope you have a great time.
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Going to Hell?
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:22 am
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:28 am
hey hey! 
First Level of Hell - Limbo
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Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad.
First Level of Hell - Limbo
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Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad.
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:28 am
... And I don't believe in god!
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 10:05 am
Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis
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You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.
Hey, look, I'm a heretic.
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You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.
Hey, look, I'm a heretic.
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 1:50 pm
Also Dis:
The wretched King Minos has decided your fate. His tale wraps around his body 6 times.
The sweet light no longer strikes against your eyes. Your shade has been banished to... the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis
You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.
The wretched King Minos has decided your fate. His tale wraps around his body 6 times.
The sweet light no longer strikes against your eyes. Your shade has been banished to... the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis
You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 3:41 pm
A bunch of unbelievers, aren't we?
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 5:41 pm
Eigth Level of Hell - the Malebolge
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Many and varied sinners suffer eternally in the multi-leveled Malebolge, an ampitheatre-shapped pit of despair Wholly of stone and of an iron colour: Those guilty of fraudulence and malice; the seducers and pimps, who are whipped by horned demons; the hypocrites, who struggle to walk in lead-lined cloaks; the barraters, who are ducked in boiling pitch by demons known as the Malebranche. The simonists, wedged into stone holes, and whose feet are licked by flames, kick and writhe desperately. The magicians, diviners, fortune tellers, and panderers are all here, as are the thieves. Some wallow in human excrement. Serpents writhe and wrap around men, sometimes fusing into each other. Bodies are torn apart. When you arrive, you will want to put your hands over your ears because of the lamentations of the sinners here, who are afflicted with scabs like leprosy, and lay sick on the ground, furiously scratching their skin off with their nails. Indeed, justice divine doth smite them with its hammer.
OK so now I know, You know My Ex-Best Frien who is now Married to My Ex-Wife always told me I'd have my own wing when I got down there I guess he may have been right.
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Many and varied sinners suffer eternally in the multi-leveled Malebolge, an ampitheatre-shapped pit of despair Wholly of stone and of an iron colour: Those guilty of fraudulence and malice; the seducers and pimps, who are whipped by horned demons; the hypocrites, who struggle to walk in lead-lined cloaks; the barraters, who are ducked in boiling pitch by demons known as the Malebranche. The simonists, wedged into stone holes, and whose feet are licked by flames, kick and writhe desperately. The magicians, diviners, fortune tellers, and panderers are all here, as are the thieves. Some wallow in human excrement. Serpents writhe and wrap around men, sometimes fusing into each other. Bodies are torn apart. When you arrive, you will want to put your hands over your ears because of the lamentations of the sinners here, who are afflicted with scabs like leprosy, and lay sick on the ground, furiously scratching their skin off with their nails. Indeed, justice divine doth smite them with its hammer.
OK so now I know, You know My Ex-Best Frien who is now Married to My Ex-Wife always told me I'd have my own wing when I got down there I guess he may have been right.
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 6:03 pm
Purgatory
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You have escaped damnation and made it to Purgatory, a place where the dew of repentance washes off the stain of sin and girds the spirit with humility. Through contrition, confession, and satisfaction by works of righteousness, you must make your way up the mountain. As the sins are cleansed from your soul, you will be illuminated by the Sun of Divine Grace, and you will join other souls, smiling and happy, upon the summit of this mountain. Before long you will know the joys of Paradise as you ascend to the ethereal realm of Heaven.
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You have escaped damnation and made it to Purgatory, a place where the dew of repentance washes off the stain of sin and girds the spirit with humility. Through contrition, confession, and satisfaction by works of righteousness, you must make your way up the mountain. As the sins are cleansed from your soul, you will be illuminated by the Sun of Divine Grace, and you will join other souls, smiling and happy, upon the summit of this mountain. Before long you will know the joys of Paradise as you ascend to the ethereal realm of Heaven.
Hellfire and Bloody Damnation!
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 6:48 pm
I've been consigned to Purgatory, but it looks like I'll have a commuters pass to the levels for Lust, Gluttony, and Violence.
Don't know whether to be appalled or proud...
DukkhaWaynhim
[Weird, warped, and wavering on the edge of eternal Damnation]
Don't know whether to be appalled or proud...
DukkhaWaynhim
[Weird, warped, and wavering on the edge of eternal Damnation]
Re: Hellfire and Bloody Damnation!
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 8:07 am
HAHAHADukkhaWaynhim wrote:Don't know whether to be appalled or proud...
Third Level of Hell
In the third circle, you find yourself amidst eternal rain, maledict, cold, and heavy. The gluttons are punished here, lying in the filthy mixture of shadows and of putrid water. Because you consumed in excess, you meet your fate beneath the cold, dirty rain, amidst the other souls that there lay unhappily in the stinking mud. Cerebus, a canine monster cruel and uncouth with his three heads and red eyes, dwells in this level. He growls and tears at the damned with his teeth and claws.
(Of course I wasn't willing to tell the whole internet about my very interesting life...
)Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 11:35 pm
I'm just a little too gluttonous.... The Third Level of Hell for me. Though the First level is close also.
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:16 pm
Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:36 pm
How did I miss this the first time?
I'm in Limbo.
"Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad."
I'm in Limbo.
"Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad."
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:52 pm
I know, I'm going through the old threads. there's a lot of interesting stuff that's been posted. I even got Landwaster to come back resurrecting old threads. Maybe it will bring back some more.aliantha wrote:How did I miss this the first time?
I'm in Limbo.
"Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad."
Damn though, Lord Foul seems to have started most of the threads I find interesting.
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:58 pm
There's probably a moral or something there.High Lord Tolkien wrote:Damn though, Lord Foul seems to have started most of the threads I find interesting.
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:18 pm
Heh...so got my test results [these resurrected threads are fun!]
Lustful---extreme.
but HEY!!!!! I'm spending eternity with Cleopatra and Helen of Troy.
Lustful---extreme.
I have to admit I got very high on 3 other circles...apparently I'm a very bad person...Level 2
You have come to a place mute of all light, where the wind bellows as the sea does in a tempest. This is the realm where the lustful spend eternity. Here, sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions. The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine, whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. You have betrayed reason at the behest of your appetite for pleasure, and so here you are doomed to remain. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy are two that share in your fate.
but HEY!!!!! I'm spending eternity with Cleopatra and Helen of Troy.
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:44 pm
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:45 pm
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low - Repenting Believers
Level 1 - Limbo | Very Low- Virtuous Non-believers
Level 2 | Very High- Lustful
Level 3 | High- Gluttonous
Level 4 | Very High-Prodigal and Avaricious
Level 5 | High-Wrathful and Gloomy
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very High-Heretics
Level 7 | High-Violent
Level 8- the Malebolge | Very High-Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers
Level 9 - Cocytus | High-Treacherous
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low - Repenting Believers
Level 1 - Limbo | Very Low- Virtuous Non-believers
Level 2 | Very High- Lustful
Level 3 | High- Gluttonous
Level 4 | Very High-Prodigal and Avaricious
Level 5 | High-Wrathful and Gloomy
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very High-Heretics
Level 7 | High-Violent
Level 8- the Malebolge | Very High-Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers
Level 9 - Cocytus | High-Treacherous
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:34 pm
I answered slightly more in my favor than not, though the balance was probably almost even. For instance, with the "taking delight in someone else's misery" one, I'm not sure I've ever really done it when I perceive the person as miserable, but I have done it while perceiving others as having well deserved bad fortune.
Also "would you sooner go without sex than good tasting food" seems like damned if you do, damned if you don't.
According to my results, I belong in Limbo. But I'm still apart from god! What's the point? The most severe punishment, by some standards, is still applied to me - detachment from god.
This was also a highly present-based examination (within weeks) of who I am or who I'm trying to be.
Also "would you sooner go without sex than good tasting food" seems like damned if you do, damned if you don't.
According to my results, I belong in Limbo. But I'm still apart from god! What's the point? The most severe punishment, by some standards, is still applied to me - detachment from god.
This was also a highly present-based examination (within weeks) of who I am or who I'm trying to be.