the bizarre barren wasteland of hell part 1

from /hhg/ - Hazbin Hotel General Thread #276, #277, #278, and #280

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>trevor henderson
>Imagine exploring the outer edges of Hells wastes only to hear this fucker.
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>If I see that fucker in hell's woods, I am running for my life
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>there a lot of good Trevor Henderson art we can use for stories, like this guy.
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>Wonder what kind of sinners would live in hells outlands
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>1. they are hidden out there or just don't want to deal with pentagram city
>2. drop outside of the city and they decided to live there now
>or 3. they got kicked out of the city or something else.
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>4. Hell doesn't even know they're there.
>They're the truly lost souls that fell through the cracks of existence, and live in the abandoned settlements deep within the wastes.
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>I like that idea
>god, now I am imagining some poor sinner going outside of pentagram city to hide his money or something.
>and he just met these things that he didn't know they exist.
>I want a story of this

Con.
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>Hells outlands could be like Mad Max, in the original 1979 version
>Theirs still a (relatively) stable civilization present, but anywhere outside of major urban centers is a anarchic eldritch >wasteland where the laws of reality begin to break down
>For some reason I also would think it would be a desert and would be home to alot of cowboys and biker gangs
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>I was just about to say.
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>I bet in the wastes land of hell, there just a lot of weird shit going on there.
>like if you didn't have a video of it and try to people what you saw out there, no one will believe you.
>because it sounds way too crazy or made up
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>one more thing.
>there got to be a powerful entity in the wastes land of hell that can Rival the overlords of pentagram city but never bothered going to the city because it like the countryside more than the city.
>this is a lot of fun to talk about.
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I really liked the idea of hells outlands in the last thread, maybe we could expand on that idea more, if you guys want?
Seems like it has a lot of potential for interesting theory crafting and potential stories to come out of it.
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Mind giving a brief summary of the idea? I must have missed it.
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Effectively in hell, everything outside of major urban centers (like Pentagram City) is home to vast stretches of barren wasteland filled with bizzare monsters that look like they were made by Trevor Henderson (pic related is his art), as well as possessing anomalous properties, kinda like The Zone in the STALKER series. Any sinner that lives in the outlands is either doing it because they're hiding from someone, or because they were exiled out there.
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I love that idea, it makes hell seem much more hellish. Plenty of fanfics talk about there being wilderness and wildlife already, which is where hell gets its meat and stuff. It'd be cool if there were some forests that not even overlords went into.
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I want to see that
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I bet the only reason that people of Pentagram City go out to the wasteland is to see if the rumor are true or hidden their stuff out there or take videos/pics of the bizarre barren wasteland.
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Its possible that theres more than one city than Pentagram
Lets say you're a trucker who has to deliver supplies to Pentagram (I know it sounds silly, but cities need supply chains, even in hell), and in order to get there they need to cross through the outlands to get where they're going
Would make for some good stories
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Well, there's Imp City from Helluva. I guess if could be more of a suburb, but the name would suggest that it's a different city altogether.
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>Lets say you're a trucker who has to deliver supplies to Pentagram (I know it sounds silly, but cities need supply chains, even in hell), and in order to get there they need to cross through the outlands to get where they're going
>Would make for some good stories

so like see this thing in the woods as a trucker?

yeah I want to see a story of that
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Exterminations aren't so scary once you've been in the outlands a while...
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true that
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Wonder what kind of apocalyptic mad max style vehicles would come out of the outlands
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something crazy I bet
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I think it would range from sophisticated, bleeding-edge technology to dead simple, can-fix-it-with-three-tools-and-a-roll-of-duct-tape shit, with no middle ground

If you're dealing not just with Hell's hostile, unpredictable wildlife, but supernatural shit that seems to defy the laws of reality, you're going to need one or the other. A typical modern vehicle, with all its electronics and power steering and whatnot, would not last a day in a freakish wasteland where a sudden ion storm could cook your electronics in a split second, leaving your safety-glass windows to be busted in by hungry Wayfarers and Nighteyes and Bottletraps. You either need something that's purely analog and mechanical, crude as fuck but nearly impossible to break because of how simple it is, or something with all the bells and whistles of high technology that's also been hardened above and beyond anything the military or the space program could achieve.

>Encounter a gravitational anomaly that sends your vehicle bouncing around like a tennis ball? Either just ricochet right on through and trust the sturdiness of your frame or have the powerful demon you hired to be part of your crew channel some energy into the reality anchor to keep your wheels on the ground where they ought to be
>Electrical anomaly? You've either got no hardware to fry or you're shielded six ways from Sunday.
>Hostile wildlife? You need to have ripped out all the windows in the car and replaced them with razor wire screens or star trek-level transparent aluminum alloy depending on your budget
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what if there a demon hunter that wants to take an anomaly?
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that depends on wheter or not were talking about sentient monsters or environemntal effects like in STALKER
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environmentla effects are signifficantly harder to capture, unless in Hell it works like on the "artefact=anomaly" principle, which many people believe when they first hear about STALKER. It still dangerous, tho
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>Which one of hells shitholes do you want to go to?
>On the left we have the deserts of the Wastes
>On the right we have the outlands, where reality is falling apart
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Actually, the Wastes of Hell are also riddled with S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-esque anomalies, alongside Mad Max-style rowing gangs of bandits...
And Orks...
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what about the forest of hell?
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There might be several.
The Sloth sector is completely overgrown (nobody maintains it), and the Despair district and what's left of the Acedia suburbs is also heavily being reclaimed by Hell's nature, if not being turned into a second Salton/Aral sea disaster area by the enroaching desert.

However, the Sloth sector is basically what it would look like if parks sprawled the same way as cities do - everything is overgrown and ill-maintained, however, the sector is far more peaceful because of that.
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I got this idea from last night.

what if the anomaly in the Wastelands or the forest or somewhere else. came together to have a better chance to survive and as well protect each other from danger.

I can imagine a story of that, like one day their food supply is getting very low and fastest source of food they can get, is at pentagram city.

so they get into the city, hiding from the demons who live there and stealing food. until one of the overlords (maybe Rosie?) notice them.

they got into a fight, they won, got away from the overlord and heading back to their home.

...that all I got...
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wait, got more ideas.

>A bunny thing from the Wastelands, attack Rosie and won
>video surveillance shows Rosie getting her ass kick by the bunny thing as if she was an imp
>she still alive but badly injured
>the video also shows the bunny thing running away with other 2 things with it into the Wastelands
>all the people in pentagram city saw the video and realize the rumor about the Wasteland are true
>the 666 news report about this
>alastor is not happy about this, Rosie is one of his friends
>and seeing her getting destroyed by a bunny thing didn't put him in a happy mood
>not at all.

so, I don't know how to continue this idea.

but the idea is about how Alastor thinks he is hot shit and he can just go into the Wastelands, kill the thing that attacks Rosie and go home.

but he bites off more than he can chew and charlie (with everyone else in the hotel) have to go save Alastor.

btw the anomaly like charlie because she is the only one showing kindness to them.
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If Hell has different climate zones and biomes then it stands to reason that there's a portion of it that boils down to the worst possible version of the northwest

>Woods so dense you lose all sight and sound of the road a few dozen yards away from it
>Terrible communication infrastructure
>Sasquatch is real, and he's hungry
>Ditto for every other cryptid
>Cults, cannibals, and armed madmen hidden in every log cabin
>Rainy as shit
>It's not a question of IF those volcanoes are going to go off, but how many times in one day
>Mercury, tellurium, and arsenic in dangerous quantities in all the water
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>Cryptids are just animals in hell
>Its pretty common to see sinners walking their chupacabra on the streets
>Wendigos and Skinwalkers are like brown and black bears respectively
>Yetis are polar bears
>Jersey Devils arebfairly close to human intelligence like chimpanzees are, Razzle and Dazzle are great examples of this
>Skunk bears are basically hells Pandas
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>other parts of the forest resemble a Gothic horror version of Germany's Black Forest
>and every other year...
>...comes the Hunt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYvjGv4ZP7o