Sebhil
Balseraph of
Lust
Demon of Rule 34
Corporeal Forces: 3 Strength:
6 Agility:
6
Ethereal Forces: 5 Intelligence:
10 Precision: 10
Celestial Forces: 4 Will:
10 Perception: 6
Word-Forces: 2
Vessel: Human male/3, Charisma +2
Skills: Computer Programming/6, Dodge/3, Driving/1, Emote/3,
Knowledge (Pornography/6, Web Design/3), Lying/2, Ranged Weapon/5 (revolver),
Savoir-Faire/5, Seduction/6, Small Weapon (Knife/1, Whip/2)
Songs: Healing (All/4), Motion (All/3), Sensation
(All/3), Shields (Corporeal/6, Ethereal/1, Celestial/3), Thunder/6
Attunements: Balseraph of Lust, Dark Desire, Kiss of
Death, Demon of Rule 34
Special Rite: Create a new category of pornography.
Rule 34: Whatever
it is, there is porn of it.
Well, even without the complications below he's
actually not got a completely sweet gig: Sebhil is
pretty much stuck with being Lust's webmaster.
It's the price you pay for actually knowing something about computers. Not that the Balseraph is complaining - at
least, not where anybody can hear him.
He's got more important things to worry about.
The problem is the Word of Pornography. There isn't one. There apparently can't be one, and nobody can figure out why. Every holder of that Word has exploded somewhere
three or four days after getting it.
It's been suggested that either the conception
of the Word is too unstable for a celestial to embody, or else the mismatch
between the actual power of Pornography and its perceived power by Hell is too
great to reconcile, or possibly even it's just too close to the Word of Lust to
allow any non-Superior to hold it and live.
Regardless of the reason, the Word currently stands vacant: Andrealphus
gave up on trying after the last holder disintegrated while... interfacing with
the Prince of Lust. It was an
interesting dénouement, you
understand, and the Beautiful Prince found the experience quite worth his
time. But it was a bit wasteful, not to
mention difficult to clean up afterwards.
So, no Word of Pornography - but that's not really
the problem. The problem is that this
really does leave a large metaphysical hole in Lust's organizational
chart. Given the nature of the
overarching Word of Lust, it's perhaps unsurprising that Words subordinate to
Pornography would somehow actively try to, ah, expand to fill the emptiness.
The, ah, engorgement going on here is not really under the control of the
holders of the Words in question, but then again, so what else is new? And, needless to say, if one subordinate Word
becomes, ah, rampant above all the others, it will swell to become the Word of
Pornography... and then the owner of it explodes, three or four days
later. Andrealphus, after watching this
cycle take place four or five times - he got both the point and the solution
after the second iteration; after that, he was just fascinated by the whole
thing - has worked out that the best method of fixing this problem is to break
down the Word of Pornography into as many trivial Words as he can manage (the
more trivial the better, in fact). Past
a certain saturation point the Words will not intensify, as they have no
metaphysical room to grow. Thus, no rapid expansion... and no explosions.
And this is why Sebhil has
his Word, which would be otherwise difficult to justify for him to have. He did perfectly well on Earth duty, although
he wasn't precisely feeling challenged in his position as a designer of
pornographic websites. There wasn't
anything particularly wrong with the
Balseraph, from Hell's point of view - but there wasn't much particularly right
about him, either. He sort of drifted
into being Word-bound.
Of course, now that he's stuck in a very troublesome
job, he's starting to change a bit. The various
demons holding Words that could be involuntarily expanded into Pornography tend
to have rapid personality changes once they realize that their continual
existence is fundamentally dependent on the continual existence of other
people. Demons don't really like
discovering this, but they generally get used to it. Of course, it's not like they have a choice;
also of course, Asmodeus takes an unhealthy interest of all of this, which
means that the usual fine line has to be walked. All in all, this means that the Balseraph can
generally be safely defined in what he's doing,
not who he is.
And oh, yes: this annoys him no end.