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I was looking for something else in this old zine when I came across this...demons in computers and robots seem to either be discordant or intriguing. Just in case anyone would like to do their own version in a fanfic, I'm sharing.
I'll quote the start of it, which should also show the metaphor, the rest starts at pg 14, and is for a RPG system that didn't get used much. I figure most (that is who'd find this of any interest) would only find the part I quote to be of particular interest.
I'll quote the start of it, which should also show the metaphor, the rest starts at pg 14, and is for a RPG system that didn't get used much. I figure most (that is who'd find this of any interest) would only find the part I quote to be of particular interest.
As human society became more entrenched in technology and the digital world, certain malevolent beings from the nether regions evolved to reflect the new tech-reliant reality.
These cyber demons integrated the use of technology into their diabolical manipulations of humanity and reality. Eventually many of these demons melded with the
technology to become truly cybernetic in nature. There are a wide variety of cyber demons, differ ing in their methods and use of tech. Some of these demons travel the grid, playing upon the vices of those who use the digital world to feed their dark impulses. Other demons revel in the negative side of industrial development, finding
easy prey in the urban squalor created from industrial growth and subsequent economic crash.
Cyber Hell
As cyber demons grew in number they broke away from their more traditional brethren and claimed parts of the hellish dimensions for themselves. The cyber demons mixed technology with diabolical perversions to create their realms, resulting in a nightmare landscape of harsh neon glows and metallic ruin.
The cyber hells are divided up into different realms ruled by cyber demons of great power and status. The following is a short description of a few of these kingdoms.
Neogaddam
Lokazon, Lord of Despair, rules this deadly realm. Unlike other cyber hells, this realm is brightly lit and clean. The material that is used to make the structures in this domain appears to be the well-polished metallic bodies of the damned. A blue fluorescent light radiates from this soul substance, creating a sickly glow that numbs the senses and thoughts of anyone who spends too much time in this realm.
Trop
Skane, Lord of Rage, rules this hellish urban wasteland. Rows of decaying skyscrapers spread out into an endless landscape of the worst possible features of urban life. The roads are filled with vehicles stuck in eternal traffic, giving off toxic fumes that eat away at unprotected flesh. Raging mobs of demons and damned souls periodically run through the streets ripping apart anything and anyone they encounter. The noise of the city is a mix of screams of rage and pain, tearing away at the sanity of anyone within its
confines. This constant din eventually drives the listener into a homicidal rage.
Cytica
Tazarazat, Lord of Lust, rules this underground den of perversion. Garishly lit with neon lights of all colors and decorated with instruments of torture and erotic pleasure, this realm would make even the most jaded dominatrix blush. Demons and the damned take part in endless orgies and demented revelry, but no one ever finds satisfaction, either spiritual or physical.
The Damned
Unfortunate souls who find themselves condemned to the cyber hells often appear as their former selves with cybernetic additions made to their soul material. Most of the time the cyberware is anything but an enhancement, though. Usually the cybernetics are designed to impede and antagonize the soul in a variety of ways. Rusty malformed cyber legs that lock and throw the soul to the ground, cyber devices implanted in their torsos that leak burning acid, cyber eyes that intensify light to a painful degree, and other such techno tortures.
When souls first enter the cyber hells, they are hunted down by demons that take them to hellish workshops where they are fitted with a variety of cybernetics at the whim of the demons. A fortunate few are chosen to be servants of powerful cyber demons and are shaped and fitted accordingly with tools appropriate to their new function. Of course "fortunate" is a relative term in the cyber hells.
Some of these souls function as mobile communication devices, with computer monitors imbedded in their torsos and their heads melded with satellite dishes. Other souls are shaped into warriors with machine guns for arms, facing annihilation at the hands of demons, other damned souls, or even angels