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--GRADUATION--
♣ Once you are considered "ready", you will be offered the choice of either Heaven or Hell
♕ Heaven's Win - You return home as you left it
♕ Belong to Hell - Get a wish granted. Sounds like you also become a demon and belong to a Prince
♣ Suicide does not affect your chance for graduation (see notes on Lilith)
♣ If you are transferred to another program, you cannot graduate
♣ You can re-enter this production (Imeeji) if you are transferred

--HELL AND ITS DEMONS--
♕ Current production is arranged/decisions are made by Asmodeus and Pythia ♕

♠ Prince Asmodeus - Prince of Vengeance ♠
♠ Powers: Ability where anything done to him is turned back onto you
♠ Azzy recruits people personally - welcomes humans more than other factions. If the rest of hell thinks humans are beneath their notice and attention, that's all the more for Asmodeus's taking.
♠ Wants a good set of demons from this production
♠ Also wants "Vengeance victorious, these are the glorious days."
♠ Has a smaller faction than most other demon princes. "His toys keep getting taken away"
♠ His vacation home was the House of Mirth. Ask older members for details. Warning: Some re-tellings will be traumatic
♠ Hell is based on mind, belief, and power
♠ Host: Mukuro
♠ Didn't really want to talk to us
♠ Graduated multiple times
♠ Only accepted Azzy's deal when he was dead and ruined
♠ Hates Exael. And liars
♠ Mukuro said he can move anywhere he wants, including specifically 'where we are now'
♠ Mukuro makes the games for his faction. And he's sending a message via his games
♠ Has the same wounds as his bust in the House of Mirth. Hell didn't give him the wounds (open chest cavity; can see his heart)
♠ Azzy's faction provide templates and parameters for other games

♘ Prince Pythia - Prince of Lies ♘
♘ Exael lead us to believe she was an agent of Heaven so all information regarding Heaven may in fact be lies
♘ Note: This is under the assumption that whatever Heart Soldier Senshi summoned was Pythia
♘ Powers: The ability to nullify anyone else’s powers, Full access to your unit’s powers, even unpurchased abilities, Mindfucking - The ability to create any illusion for a single target; impact on the target is real even if the illusion is fake
♘ “The Messenger”: A young woman; appears barefoot, dressed in white, with old burns on her legs
♘ Heaven did not demand any price
♘ Host: Exael
♘ She is helping us in the assumption that we will help her later down the road
♘ Graduated three rounds ago
♘ Loyal to her boss
♘ Identifies as a fallen angel
♘ Theme is circus - trapeze, lava lamps, pink neon signs
♘ Power set - invisibility, throw voice multiple places, teleporting, temporary transformation of small objects, wings/flight, hands unraveled like rope
♘ Pythia's faction does not make games and is currently at a disadvantage

♕ Prince Belial - Inventors of evil things ♕
♕ The current production doesn't really own the city. They bought the rights from "Bel's people" for them to shoot the show here
♕ Bel is currently sitting this one out
♕ Assumed to be in charge of the Game Tower

♜ Prince Mammon - Prince of Temptation ♜
♜ Followers: The Shop Keeper
♜ Contract worker that is responsible for the point shop (which is debuting in this production)
♜ Power set - Can immobilize people and control their bodies
♜ Has contact with the audience
♜ Playful, no concept of time, doesn't like going out, and likes games

♥ City Planner
♥ Works an opposite schedule of the Shop Keeper
♥ Assumption is they are the one with the ♥ handle in Dissonance
♥ Manager
♥ Does the tech and runs the show
♥ Took breaking into the Game Tower three times to get her attention; appeared via TV in the Game Tower
♥ Pink haired girl that swears like a sailor. Won't name herself because she is aware of the info swearing meetings
♥ "Tokyo-F's like a boat, to keep everyone from drowning. And stuff like selflessness makes holes in the boat, cause hell's not the kinda place for that."; Says we're getting new boats
♥ City Planner and Manager may be the same person due to similarities in speech patterns

☠Possible Other Princes (Should be 8-9)
☠Beezlebub - False gods
☠Satan - Witches
☠Merihem - Purveyors of Pestilence
☠Abaddon - Sowers of Discord
☠Astaroth - Inquisitors and Fraudulent Accusers

♔ Lilith (Lily) ♔
♔ Owner of The Dead's Casino
♔ Suicide counts as a sin, and if you die and don't come back, it's an automatic point in Hell's favor. You will also probably be sold and auctioned in pieces by the demons there
♔ If you want to come back you have to pay a price, and the process is just as bad as whatever you killed yourself to get away from
♔ Already full of dead idols who prefer this existence
♔ Lilith is an old demon - refused to become subservient to Adam and became a demon instead
♔ Not affiliated with the other demons in Hell or the Princes
♔ She has a snake

--HEAVEN--
♕ Heaven may just be a smokescreen to describe Pythia's faction
♕ Asmodeus stated that God was dead
♕ Exael has given us the following homework multiple times: What does Heaven get out of this?
♕ Heaven's wish is for us to return to God's loving embrace, of your own free will.
♕ We are undergoing a test of faith but not one as simple as it seems
♕ The story of Job has been referenced (check the Bible)

--THE AUDIENCE--
☠The Faceless | The Damned ☠
☠Previous idols who fall and lost themselves; Do not count as a win toward any faction
☠The audience isn’t just the damned. It’s “beings of all manner of influence”
☠They send the fucking fan mail
☠“Belief begets truth” - if the audience believes we are all the same, then that will become reality, and we’ll fade away
☠Their approval also determines if we are able to exist in Hell
☠ Human-like shadows in that cannot be conventionally interacted with; will burn your hand if you try to touch them
☠ Assumed that this is what would be the end result to the grey disease
☠It is recommended that you find your own "niche" in order to gain audience appeal
☠The Faceless have guards/security: bloody bleeding claw-y scary person; Catches people for entering non-designated areas
☠The Faceless retain some awareness: "We didn't deserve it", "They've got it so good", ""I hope this time, they make it through. Even if we can't be saved, someone should . . .", "Fuck you, I'll laugh as much as I want!"

--THE PRODUCTION--
♜ This is the first time that the productions has 1) split people into units, 2) involves amnesia, and 3) brought us from our home worlds
♜ Now that they have 'access to more worlds' they can 'expedite the process'
♜ Estimated at least to have 24 runs of the production previously
♜ Demon souls can exist individually within Hell, but human souls cannot - only being tied to our “image” allows our identities to exist without being wiped away
♜ Exael's apartment exists in a different space that looks much like Tokyo-F (Faukyo) and some of the audience also live there. Powers also work there
♜ There are blind spots in Hell. Exael did not know about Lilith's involvement until Lilith made herself known

--GAME TOWER--
♔ Managed by R&D and maintenance
♔ R&D deal with the interdimensional logistics
♔ The Game Tower (Tokyo Metropolitan Government) does not exist fully in Faukyo ("that Tokyo")

--MISC-- Claims by our captors to be believed or not believed at your own discretion
♣ Exael: We are not dead. Countered by Asmodeus: Some of us are very much dead.
♣ Regarding how we're chosen: Mostly by chance. The game works best if there's an illusion of fairness in the playing field. If they need specific reps, they can hand-pick those. We'll notice those.
♣ The memories that they give are our real memories
♣ Hell cannot see what happens in the dorms
♣ Hell cannot see memories that you do not broadcast
♣ They can track you on GPS via your phone
♣ Units are scouted before they are created. Whatever that means
♣ Exael: "But it's better for you too, if the system works. You should know that in advance!"

Addendum: Day 88

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☠ The Damned Walk Among Us ☠
☠ Day 80 - first known arrival of the Damned as idols
☠ Currently 3 known idols of this kind are here (as of day 88), but there could be more
☠ Retain all their memories of their pasts lives
☠ Memories of their time as a Damned are fuzzy/incomplete
☠ Earned the right to compete in the show
☠ Cannot receive Heaven's Blessing (going home option); Can only receive Hell's Wish upon graduation

♔ Lilith (Lily) ♔
♔ Can also meet Lilith if you die outside of a game and are not revived within 24 hours (still unsure if willing death is a requirement)
♔ Does not always meet idols in the casino
♔ Living hallway outside of a bar (bar and alcohol seem to be the common theme)
♔ Hallway of bones and circuitry. Furniture full of monsters - made of wire, skeleton, and faces
♔ "Different princes have different tastes" - means that the location may belong to someone else (personal thought: Belial)
♔ Off the payroll
♔ Reviving idols as a favor; has no interest in the production or having human pets
♔ Asking too many questions will result in retaliation
♔ Will resort to emotional manipulation
♔ 'Annoying' to track dead idols down - whatever that means
♔ Known permanent effects - permanent scarring, permanent eye loss, addition of horns/tail, heart modification, ink for blood

♠ Left ♠
♠ New host (unknown affiliation)
♠ Was promoted (implied over multiple other people)
♠ Debated over his name for 72 days
♠ "Shy" - aka unsure of how to get a meeting with him

♜ UNDO ♜
♜ For some unknown criteria, an "UNDO" option will be made available after purchasing a memory
♜ Results in the ground opening up and swallowing you
♜ In the system, this looks like another point purchase that is being processed
♜ Upon return, memories (both of home and Imeeji) remain - but the person is at least physically altered. How else they change is still under investigation

Day 99 Addendum

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--Rift--
♕ On the night of day 98, a rift opened to an abandoned Heaven
♕ Speculation that this was caused by the first recent "Heaven's Blessing" graduation

--Heaven--
♕ First Gate: Open. Closed when someone permanently altered by Hell walked through. Re-opened by breaking a glyph in the floor. Adjacent to the Abyss
♕ Second Gate: Required strength to open
♕ Courtyard: Marble floors and lined with trees. Plates, golden fruit, and wooden swords left behind. Most objects too bright to look at. They dim when touched by us. Felt as if inhabitants left quickly but like it had been that way for a long long time.
♕ Battlements: Outside wall besieged with bullet holes. Black mist at the bottom. Same glyphs that warded off people at the first gate. Small adjacent room with a painting of the sky and many vats of (holy) water. Meadows and paths in the distance. Possible this was just an outpost on the edge. Fancy domed room with stars
♕ Living Quarters: Vertigo hallway that seemed to stretch on forever. Like the courtyard, only trinkets of past lives remained. One room had a flower shaped dim mark - something from outside Heaven got in? One room had a repelling ward which convinced trespassers to turn away. Could be overcome with brute force, resulting in seeing a bright light and hearing a foreign language that sounded like metal on metal (Mehniel's room)

--Abyss / Hell --
♕ Multihell - infinite but not all the same
♕ Each Prince has their own section of Hell: Asmodeus's is the section with the casino. Exael lives in Pythia's section (Tokyo-Delphi). Lilith has appeared in Belial's (wires and monsters)
♕ Only Asmodeus and Pythia's domain are friendly to humans
♕ Colder down the further you got. Felt like losing everything and being furious about it. Wanted to fight whatever caused the loss. (Note: Probably entering Asmodeus's realm)
♕ Couldn't see Heaven above once in the city below

--Abyss / Asmodeus's Realm --
♕ Abilities work
♕ Casino, bar, restaurants
♕ People on the street but none of them appeared to be human: odd colored blood
♕ Thing exist in a pristine state and a badly damaged state at the same time. The dead seem fine one moment and fatally injured the next
♕ Chalk outline bodies. Faint shadows of wings. Alarms go off if you touch the chalk outlines
♕ Residents don't like Pythia's people. Have refugees from Pythia's domain: "Better than having my reality rewritten just because there's some new propaganda her Lady's having them put out on the news. Life's harder here but at least I know it's mine."
♕ When asked for directions: 'shouldn't you know?', 'had the face of talent', 'always acting like you can do what you want'
♕ When set off an alarm: 'how we thought we were big shots with a big princedom.', 'how would would pay for trying to touch what belongs to Vengeance'
♕ Interrogated prisoner: "bunch of liars and a devastator", didn't know which back we wanted, in the smallest of the hells, "knew liars didn't have their heads on straight", "Am I supposed to buy you're damned?" and "What would you be doing that far abroad and still solid", "Filming is off limits here without permits, you stupid fucks. That ain't our business here"
♕ Misc: Townsperson had power to split someone's tongue; cursed gun that probably wouldn't end up pointing the way you wanted. Be careful touching weapons in the city
♕ Overheard conversations: arguing about Sartre, calling one of the guys a traitor to the whole paradigm for taking "Being and Nothingness" so seriously
♕ Needing papers to get to Pythia's domain by train; find a forger and take the Judecca line
♕ Pythia = Lady of Delphi
♕ Prisoner was able to summon Asmodeus. Snap of his fingers, and Asmodeus transported people to his parlor
♕ Asmodeus can freeze people. Offered a healing drink (unknown if there were any other properties to it)
♕ Asmodeus did not have visibility into the abandoned Heaven. Only saw the rift and the power blip

--Angels--
♕ Mehniel - appeared after the rift closed. Destruction class Angel
♕ Surprised that they were the only one left. Must have slept through everything. Others presumed dead or fled
♕ Can look into people's hearts. We apparently all reek of hell (can sniff us out), though are not permanently tainted. At least not all of us
♕ Stated the only way a person could become the property of Hell unwillingly was if their home world belonged to Hell
♕ Brought those that were still in heaven back to Tokyo-F
♕ "Hope begets faith, never forget that"
♕ Rapahel - healing angel
♕ Angels don't have fingerprints

--Cleansing permanent effects of Hell--
♕ Method 1: Submerge for 40 days and 40 nights in holy water
♕ Method 2: Exorcism
♕ Question: Does anyone we fucking know have the capability to bless water?
♕ If Hell loses or the permanently afflicted lose the will to fight, they will suffer the final death - struck down to burn for 1,000 years.

--Heaven--
♕ Multi-heaven
♕ To get to the other local Heavens, you need a navigator class Angel. Something to do with the second Gate.
♕ Heaven would never kidnap souls, or condone the kidnapping of souls.
♕ Heaven has shrunk and may still be shrinking now.
♕ Knew nothing of this Production. It seems their companions left them behind when they fled - or were killed.
♕ That Heaven only opens for ascended souls; referred to to the rift as "Heaven opening for us."
♕ Heaven would never condone Heaven's Blessing graduation option - "the demons' fake Heaven business"; would require them to play the demons' game in the first place.

--Fall of Heaven--
♕ God is gone (betrayed the rest of Heaven)
♕ Only 8 doors (Mehniel included) remain in the living quarters
♕ Note: Matches the 8-9 Princes of Hell
♕ The others left without Mehniel

--Seven Rules of Heaven--
♕ One. Live to serve the lord
♕ Two. Fight against hell, like, hardcore.
♕ Three. Don't turn your back to a demon or compromise with one.
♕ Four. Honor your brothers and sisters in battle.
♕ Five. Save every soul you can.
♕ Six. Don't suffer a demon to live.
♕ Seven. love with everything you got.

--Misc--
♕ Those who have been altered by Lilith or permanently marked by Hell are not welcome in Heaven
♕ Magic glyphs that prevent the aforementioned from moving or thinking about anything but how they should return to the Abyss
♕ "What sins are being reflected? I have already received judgment. I will bear the marks. Thus I am not worthy to pass through the gates. I have to go back to the abyss where I came. I should not, could not be where we were."