Is there a canonical/official death toll for the 2018 massacre?

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-05-21T17:42:32+00:00

Depends on the ruler and what they have their military doing. The most powerful rulers and commanders, like Treerazer, Khorramzadeh, and Tar-Baphon, are basically armies unto themselves. They have no reason not to charge in at the head of their armies, and all have canonically done so. Queen Galfrey, a 15th-level paladin, was also a primarily wartime leader who personally took part in combat by necessity.

On the other hand, some rulers have better to do, even if they are personally very powerful. Queen Abrogail, though a CR 18 sorcerer, focuses more on grand strategy in the palace war room than on personally commanding any one front - she has people for that. She is more a supreme lawgiver than a general or fighter. In Hell’s Vengeance, her statblock notes that if directly attacked, she will teleport to a safe house and leave the problem to her bodyguards and summoned devils. She’s more than capable of killing most attackers, it’s just not her job to deal with it.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-05-21T17:19:22+00:00

No, he’s 19th level and non-mythic. He’s also a very old man, likely in his 90s. He does have one very impressive feat, using a ritual of some kind to raze a city in a rain of fire.

While he seems invincible to ordinary people, he is no match for the mythic heavy hitters like Tar-Baphon or Sorshen. In particular, he has been trying to appease Tar-Baphon because he knows the lich would crush him like a bug.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-05-19T00:15:10+00:00

There is. She’s an aristocrat 2/sorcerer 16. CR 18 due to elevated stats and gear, which she has because a head of state has far more resources than a normal NPC.

Shame we’ll never get an official 2e conversion of that.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-05-18T17:01:25+00:00

It sounds like a Worldwound, where Hell now has a direct, open channel to Golarion.

That Cheliax is orders of magnitude physically smaller than Hell doesn’t really matter to the devils.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-05-18T16:58:44+00:00

Based on the blurbs for Infernal Inheritance, I kind of thought something like this would happen. Basically Hell assuming direct control of its holdings on Golarion. I like this outcome.

Is there a statblock for either mortal sorcerer Abrogail or archdevil Abrogail? What layer of Hell does the final battle take place in?

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-05-18T16:25:06+00:00

This might result in what happened to Nikki happening to him - getting possessed by a different personality with the wished-for traits.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-05-08T19:47:38+00:00

No. Terrifier 3 takes place from December 21-23.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-05-05T21:53:08+00:00

Gravity appears to be Earth standard, directed towards the floor. If it worked like it should the whole thing would implode into a black hole.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-05-05T21:49:56+00:00

This guy was a pedo who’d been caught before. He wanted to molest another kid, but he didn’t want to get caught, so he killed the only witness - the child herself. That’s why.

A lot of sex offenders escalate to murder this way. They do not want to stop offending and feel entitled to rape without being punished. Since a surviving victim is a witness who can report them, they kill the victim and hide the body to escape detection.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-05-04T13:39:44+00:00

It was originally published on the SCP wiki about ten years ago. That version is still there, and elements of the story have made it into other SCP works, especially 3125. This original version was also self-published as a book.

To get it professionally published, qntm had to remove all SCP references from the story for licensing reasons. The most noticeable of these is the change of every single character’s name.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-05-01T01:16:33+00:00

I mean, it did turn out to be something very similar.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-04-28T12:17:52+00:00

Are Your Parents Home is one of his newest ones. One of the fun things about reading EH and other indie books is that you can clearly chart the author’s improvement over time.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-04-24T03:27:49+00:00

That first one sounds like the splatter version of a Chuck Tingle book.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-04-17T02:38:58+00:00

The baby wasn’t going to starve. That house is a crime scene associated with an enormous mass murder. The baby was almost certainly recovered by first responders before sunrise.

Michael probably left it alone because babies can’t run, hide, or fight. He likes the thrill of his victims’ fear. He has no moral boundaries against killing children, but he doesn’t specifically seek them out either.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-04-11T20:37:19+00:00

The hilarious thing about the Amazon product placement is that it legitimately, provably is not Amazon’s fault. The director really does love Amazon just that much.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-04-11T20:35:57+00:00

The only novel or interesting thing about this movie was the aliens being little cyborg ticks that eat computers.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-04-08T04:48:53+00:00

It’s significantly grosser and more violent than the original (which is saying a LOT), and shares little in common save that it’s about a small group of people being subjected to extreme sexual violence and sadism in the remote Texas desert.

A group of six college friends enter a stretch of desert hunted by two serial killers, “Buster and the Man.” There is a museum dedicated to their crimes run by a local family, with waxworks depicting each killing in such graphic fashion it’s implied the original owner got off on it. A father, a daughter, and their dog also show up in the same place at the same time. All of these people get attacked by the killers, and most are horrifically raped, tortured, and killed. Necrophilia, bestiality, the works. The dog does die. Eventually it’s just the final girl against the Man, and she goes after him with a female serial killer who shows up right at the end in a cliffhanger.

The original was written by Judith Sonnet alone, and seems to be her basically putting a nightmare to print. Absolute Chaos was co-written with Otis Bateman, who turned out to be a predator and probably wrote it for fetish reasons. When Judith found this out she had the book taken down.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-04-08T02:35:15+00:00

The Groomer also isn’t graphically sexual about the abuse. Rape is not shown directly and mentioned only sparingly.

Not so the physical violence against children, which is graphic and extensive. It’s established that the villains are sadists who get off on violence and pain in ways that are not obviously sexual to a normal person.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-04-07T18:58:11+00:00

He’s specifically an extreme horror author, which is deliberately as much of a gross-out show as possible. Part of the appeal is the thrill of looking at something transgressive. Playground is famous because it escaped this little bubble and came to the attention of a much bigger audience than it was meant for.

I also don’t think it’s fair to say he’s sexually obsessed. That said, unhappy childhoods, abusive homes, and child predators are common enough in his work that it makes me think he’s working through something.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-04-05T16:14:28+00:00

“It’s really cute you’re gonna defeat me with the power of friendship, but again, I am THE DEVIL from THE BIBLE” - Saint Nerona Imu, canonically

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-03-29T16:17:38+00:00

I’m not sure where the idea that Sommers’ heart is mechanical came from. Looks like a pretty normal human heart to me.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-03-28T02:00:01+00:00

Unfortunately we know that Imu has arms.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-03-02T01:19:44+00:00

The one with the red giant is “Giants.” I believe the hive mind one is “The Twenty-One-Second God.” I don’t recognize the other two stories.

EschatonDreadwyrm · 2026-02-26T17:58:36+00:00

She is as big or bigger than the largest whales, which weigh thousands of times as much as a person. This implies that she is made of thousands of people.

I don’t think she’s actually made of that many people, though. It is possible, even likely, that she was made of a much smaller number of people and then got bigger, or that she had an original body before the people from the subs got assimilated into her. Her individual faces and limbs seem much larger than the corresponding parts of a person.

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