Hell Request

DL Prayer Request:

Hi, I'd like to request have my prayer delivered to Discordia. My IC reasoning is essentially that Ivanov Payne is a retired former hero, and in his retirement he has grown bitter and disillusioned by the world around him. After Earth had blown up, he was pushed even further over the edge in his zealous ideology. After the telepathic communications happened with the Kaioshin and the DL, that was what really broke the final straw for him. After that, he decided he wanted to help Discordia eliminate all of the false pretenders out in the universe. I also just feel personally on an OOC level that we need more villains. A lot of heroes this wipe. I just want to be helpful to the wipe and give Hell some aid if they want it.

In a dark cavern, an old man kneels before a gigantic well -- it's depths seemingly infinite, as is the abyss of Hell. Beset around the man and this well is a pool of blood and on each opposite side of Ivanov's position are inverse crosses with nailed sacrifices agonizing in pain. It was yet another facet of the ritual, symbolic of the suffering and agony that Hell uses to punish. An orchestra of cries from the sacrifices permeated the cavern, yet the old man was not disturbed. In a low, very coarse voice the old man spoke and prayed to the Mistress of Hell herself: Discordia.

"I hope that you hear my words, and I hope that you find myself worthy to have spoken them. But I could not hold off on trying to contact you any longer than I could. Ever since the bounty was put on you, and your response to it in turn, I've been contemplating what all of this truly means and I've come to a conclusion. What sort of just, heroic group of people put a hit out on one person whilst trying to offer some sort of immeasurably powerful reward for that murder? I have decided that they must be inept, incompetent and false heroes -- and thusly, their justice is false. Apparently even Heaven is a bloated bureaucracy, bogged down by the fat of pettiness and ego. So, after much deliberation, I have chosen that I wish to offer my life to you. I wish to be employed by you as a tool, in the same way that I wield a blade I would be wielded by your will. I want to assist in defending you against any who may try to make due on that contract, and by virtue of doing so, help to eliminate more false heroes from the universe."