Short Story

The Game Leg Beast Slayer Objective: Shoot off the Beast’s legs and then take its head! OR defend the beast by demolishing your opponent! Load your shooter with metal BBs: the Beast Slayer’s BBs are engraved with words of power. Knock off a leg with a single shot and take another (skip your opponent). Once… Read more

The Ballad Leg The world lay waiting, ripe plum for the picking, but the gate was shut fast, and no infernal lord could force it open ‘gainst the strength of its bound souls. And the Beast went walking, leg by leg by leg. Aedeliphus the Bold sought to break the locks, to sunder bright souls… Read more

The Fable Leg Once, there was a man named Jack. Jack’s fondest desire was to own a ranch, with cattle, horses, and gardens. However, Jack knew nothing of ranching and even less about gardening. He did not even own any land on which to build his ranch. All around him, he saw other people achieving… Read more

The Philosophy Leg A Treatise on the Destruction of the Hell Mouth and the Mechanics of Soul Manipulation It has been claimed that the Hell Mouth, the great Deathgate, has not always been open. Once, when legends tell us that the world was green and blue, and water flowed aboveground, and humans did not live… Read more

The Prosimetrum Leg Staring across the smoking, blackened landscape, it’s easy to believe it has always been thus. That’s a lie. Hell has stolen heaven and foisted this ruined corpse of a world on us. But we will have our day. Last of the last, Final remnant lingering. Burnt flesh and choking ash, Take us… Read more

The Bestiary Leg Overseers Overseers play a central role in Hell’s ascension, namely, direct “management” of human capital. While possessed of human or better intelligence, overseers are more animalistic than one would assume, given their significant intellect. Overseers come in two varieties:  Mating/Reproduction: While the creation of seconded/deputized overseers is well established (voluntary corruption of… Read more

The System Diagnostic Leg Resource & Performance Monitor | NORAD Severity: High Warning: Memory overwrite. May cause service disruptions, degradation, and outages. Restore from backup immediately. If the problem persists, memory/storage may need to be upgraded. Diagnosis: Memory failure imminent.  Basic System Checks OS:  ERROR OS BEING OVERWRITTEN Disk Check: FAILED DISK ERROŘ Security Center… Read more

The Proverb Leg Put some blood on the stone/Blood on the stone. Literally, apply blood to a stone to summon an overseer. Also used figuratively in the same sense as the now defunct “for god’s sake” as an appeal to a higher (or lower, depending on your perspective) power, generally demonic after Hell’s ascension. A… Read more

The Weather Report Leg I decided to keep with the theme of the last 2 days (the Hell Mouth in Yellowstone). Hi, folks, it’s Jim here with the weather. It’s gonna be a scorcher out there today! You can expect temps to climb to 150 F or higher, so it’s best to stay indoors if… Read more

The Recursive Leg I raise my hands and chant my prayer: the Beast has risen; all hail the Beast. I don’t know how long I’ve been here, on my knees in the gray dust. Ash falls all about, settling in a mantle on my hair and shoulders. My arms ache from holding them up in… Read more