Welcome back.
Glad to see you again.
Sorry about the delay it's been Hell down here. (If you don't smile, you'll regret it later. I mean it. Ah, much better)
As I was saying, it's been Hell down here, and we're all overworked. I'll really have to get more staff, but training them takes simply ages. I've got to teach them the basics of inflicting suffering and anguish, they have absolutely no idea. I blame the teachers.
However, back to our guided tour of my little domain.
As I've mentioned before, we try and give each of our clients a personalized experience, their environment and the methods used are tailored to suit their own prejudices, beliefs and tasks in life.
Frankly the religious aren't much of a challenge.
Their little minds are set on a fixed track, and they are not used to actually thinking for themselves.
All I've got to do is seal each one up in a small isolated beige room, with nothing to do, nothing to see and only gentle background muzak of an ethereal nature playing.
Then I just leave them for about 200 years.
Most of them think that they're in with Her Upstairs (Yeah, right), and that they are obviously the only virtuous one to make it. These are the ones who I really tease. I just flash the walls of their little room into transparent mode for about a 10th of a second, so they catch the merest fleeting glimpse of the flames and shrieking damned which surround them. Just long enough for the merest impression to have been made. Just long enough for the faintest of cracks to be created in their smug little personalities. The first slight, faint doubt appears on their mental horizon.
I just leave them to it for a few tens of thousands of years.
It's lovely the way they crumple as they find that faith is an insufficient crutch.
The first screams of anguish are muzac to my ears.
Ah well, back to work.
I'm preparing a professional development course for My second level demons, and I've got some fine-tuning to do to the boredom/anguish ratio to achieve the maximum mind-deadening effect.
See you soon.



