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- from /hhg/ Helluva Hotel general #644
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- >angel going to comicon with anon
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- >Angel being bored as fuck by all this dumb nerd shit
- >Until he finds a booth selling stuff he remembers from when he was alive
- >Buck Rogers
- >The Shadow
- >John Carter of Mars
- >Spergs out over all the stuff he liked to read when he was young
- >He's as big a nerd as anyone else, just from a different time period.
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- fuck thats cute
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- awwwwwwww
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- >John Carter of Mars
- Good shit
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- >Angel abruptly decides he wants to cosplay as The Shadow for the next day's visit
- >Spends the late afternoon and evening putting together a surprisingly convincing getup out of whatever he can lay his hands on
- >He reveals that he can do a shockingly good impression of Orson Welles' portrayal of the character from the old radio dramas too
- >When you get back to the hotel, Angel randomly decides to needle at Alastor with his newly adopted persona
- >To your shock, Alastor is delighted
- >The Radio Demon liked the old mystery serials just as much as Angel did
- >The two of them know a few episodes so well that they can sling the dialog back and forth at each other without missing a beat
- >Alastor lets Angel break the five-foot-rule so that you can take a picture of them posed together
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- Kino
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- >Niffty comes bolting in when she hears the old time radio shows being recited
- >She's got a lot of nostalgia for this stuff too
- >Her family didn't get their hands on a TV until pretty late in her tragically brief mortal life
- >Most of her childhood and adulthood was spent listening to radio serials
- >She's thrilled at Angel's impression of The Shadow and asks him to recite lines for her, while Alastor begins to hum out the theme music from the show, making her positively giddy
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- >Charlie and Vaggie wander in to find the lot of them knee-deep in nostalgia
- >They only died a decade apart from on another, they remember a great deal of the same stuff
- >They whip out their hellphones and scroll through a couple of apps
- >It doesn't take them long to pull up a full library of the old radio shows these sinners listened to when they were alive
- https://youtu.be/anNBwfYAsz0?list=PLnTF9NEii-cnqob1aI2dkj_XFkIPPCoHD
- https://youtu.be/-scB7ndNUVQ
- https://youtu.be/g_EtWrWvllA
- https://youtu.be/isrj_KRgzF0
- >They're all excited to have their favorite programs right at hand again
- >You pass around a stack of old adventure serials and space opera pulp magazines, just random crap you saw on someone's table for 50 cents a piece, not realizing how excited these older sinners would get over them
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- >Husk decides that tonight is a good night to bring out some real glassware and prepare a pitcher of cocktails for someone else, rather than sitting alone with his face wrapped around a jug of cheap malt
- >You sit next to Angel as you all huddle around the table, yellowed magazines and stiff drinks in hand, as yesteryear's most exciting stories drone on
- >Today was a good day
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