Questionable Questing

Andy333

The fun in hell stops when you realize none of it matters. there's no struggle. There's no connection. Whats the point of winning if it means nothing? What's the fun in mindless sex if you can't even remember the persons name? Why would you care how good that food is it everything tastes the same? That's a fun concept with a hell focused on indulgence.

Bob is bob

Now here's another question. Is Hell punishment or is it exile to shitty real estate and low government oversight? It feels more like a criminal run country with people caught in the cross fire of a self destructive system

Bob is bob

It's a cartel warzone

Bob is bob

And how much demon magic is used in Hell, does it form a key part of trade and warfare? How does it affect social statues?

Are there communities of allied people in Hell? Families or just neighbors who watch out for each other?

Andy333

I feel like Hazpin is so devoid of information on that you kind of have to make you own setting at this point, just using familiar faces to populate it.

Bob is bob

Would that be fun for ya or not your thing? I'm talking about this for the sake of worldbuilding being fun on its own

Andy333

I like world building.

Andy333

I think above all else power is the ultimate currency in hell. They had codes and rules, but if you are stronger than the other guy then you are automatically in the right. But to keep things from going full conan and everyone devolving into barbarians, we need a way to limit the stronger players or at least put barriers on them to keep the balanced between each other.

Bob is bob

Community man. People form bonds, people create culture, people group. Any chaos in Hell is really a bunch of different gangs and larger social orders with obligations to each other trying to fight for control of, are resources crap in Hell?

Andy333

Maybe have it too where the stronger you are the more of hell itself you control, they very land tied to you, and that forces the more powerful demons to give a shit about their land, you know maintain, keep order, try to improve it's infrastructure. If for nothing else because its there's

Andy333

That way there's an insensitive for the stronger demons to create a chain of command and its acts as a reason for why cities and building exist in hell.

Andy333

Maybe have it be were lesser demons or humans can pledge themselves to a stronger demon giving both parties boosts to their powers or abilities. Just another reason for demons to learn how to share rather than hording everything for themselves.

Bob is bob

I like, how prelveant you want ritualized satanic incest? And I like this, the demons of hell forge Hell based on their passions and darkest aspects

Andy333

I like the idea that your body is based on your perceptions of yourself and your memories, so the longer you've been in hell the more uncanny and unnatural you look. Its a nice way to tie in with the whole, the stronger you are the more reality starts playing to your rules not the other way around.

Andy333

I don't think people should be able to get pregnant unless under very special occasions, namely super complicated magic rituals or once in a blue moon events coming together, but obviously corrupting a families bond is a huge event and if any family comes through together is going to be something that gets pushed on them because of the potential power involved.

Bob is bob

Oh, incest connected to social statues as a way to boost demonic power and build up a group bond that can endure in Hell?

Bob is bob

If body is based on perception, it explains super slutty femboy dads and breeder form milfs who look like living porn art

Bob is bob

What about birthing demonic monster pets for the family? Not proper children but hell beasts in a monster breeder way

Andy333

That could be fun. I wonder if these hell beast could be bonded with people the way the same way I was talking about with lesser and higher demons

Andy333

It just occurred to me bonded could mean other things as well. Maybe different breeding slaves getting bought and sold depending on how powerful their offspring are?