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Ulruk - The 381st Layer of Hell by Colin Benson |
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Contrary to popular belief, Hell is not a location where unbaptized unbelievers are tormented for all eternity. Hell is a retributive afterlife for those who have committed atrocities in the mortal realm and have evaded justice. A man who murders his wife, is caught a month later and is sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison will unlikely find himself in Hell. A five-time child rapist who avoids an FBI manhunt by hiding in the slums of Rio De Janerio for the remainder of his life likely will. Satan usually takes great delight in meting out ironic and brutal punishments. (The 8th amendment does not exist in Hell and in fact, light punishments are seen as an insult to all those that work and live there.) The aforementioned hypothetical child rapist who arrives in Hell may very well be sent to the 922nd layer, stripped of all clothing, locked in the stockade in the city square of Black Crystal and violated by incubui for decades. The environment of Hell is also largely misunderstood as well. Most usually envision lands of flat maroon rock, jagged mountains far in the distance, rolling sheets of flame underneath rivers of magma, with citadels, torture chambers, and castles made of obsidian, all underneath a grim sky of ghostly glowing clouds and flocks of imps. True, this is an accurate description of the first layer of Hell, where Satan usually resides, but the lands of Hell are nigh infinite, each with climates as diverse as those found on exoplanets. Ghasteal, the 81st layer of Hell, is a wind-blasted wasteland where gales can reach up to 900 kmph or more. Fechuodan, the 182nd layer, is a thick, foggy jungle populated by semi-sentient plant life and volleyball-sized arachnids with hallucinatory venom. Wheab Pria, the 309th layer, is a bleak landscape with a thin atmosphere deluged with occasional downpours of caustic acid rain. Despite the extreme and sometimes deadly nature of many layers, quite a few are benign and even pleasant. Lara Croft, however, has not been consigned to such a layer. Only minutes ago, she lured her butler into the freezer of her mansion and locked him inside (we've all done this while playing Lara's home level, haven't we?). Satan, seeing this act once again, judges her worthy of punishment and dispatches a trio of chain devils to seize her and throw her in a prison cell in Ulruk, the 381st layer of Hell. This particular layer is a cold, glacial one, with temperatures rarely above zero degrees Celsius. After being imprisoned in a bare cell, one of the chain devils informs Lara that she is to spend one year and a day in her cell for her callous treatment of her employee. (Although it is rare, it is not unheard of for still living mortals to be condemned to the torments of Hell.) Hours, days, weeks, and months pass as Lara constantly suffers and shivers within her cell, fighting off the omnipresent biting cold along with dreadful boredom and loneliness. One day, five months after arriving, the door of her cell opens without explanation. Unknown to Lara, this is due to a simple mechanical fault in the locking mechanism of her cell. During the occasional brief conversations with ice devils who bring her food and drink, Lara has learned of a telepod pad near the prison in which she is held. If true, this magical apparatus may very well be able to send her out of Hell and back home... |
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