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Hey folks. I'm starting work on a new story while I beat my head against the towering colosus that is my Hell is for Heroes writer's block. The stuff I've got floating about in my head is sounding pretty damn good.
Basic premise: End of the world! Except I'm doing it properly, unlike those 'disaster movie' hacks. That's right baby, I'm getting it done, Biblical style! Well, no, actually a lot of what goes on would probably be a wee bit offensive to those of a 'serious' religous slant, angels shagging demons (tastefully!) and whatnot. Although if you can see the humourous side of it, that it's just a bit of fun, written by an unrecoverable heathen who'll spend eternity burning in Hell, then you might enjoy it.

I just need three things to get me going.

1) An assortment of apocalyptic quotes. Mainly just for flavour, each chapter is to start with one, so we can keep a running list going. Tried searching for them on Google (I will NOT say 'Googled') and that just brought up wierd stuff. So far I've got three, albeit from one crazy-*** website.
Second, I need a wee bit of background as to how exactly the end of the world is to take place according to the Bible, since I want that part to be reasonably accurate (it's what comes after that's getting me sent to Hell). But I confess a certain overwhelming weariness comes over me whenever my thoughts stray to actually picking up the Good Book. That, and whenever I do, I come out in a rash.

Thirdly, I need somewhere to put the dang thing so people can see it. While I've managed to keep Hell is for Heroes to a PG version with a bit of carefull editing, there's just no way I'm going to pull it off with this one. Unless the moderators think I could put it up here with a disclaimer to the effect that it's entirely a work of fiction, does not reflect the views of Shrapnel Games & is not intented to in any way offend any person of any religious inclination, and if you are offended by anything you read, stop reading immediately, go pray for my immortal soul and everything will be ok.

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It was my understanding that "The Apocalypse" was not the end of the world, just the beginning of some super bad stuff that the Lord will put right. Disease, famine, war, pestilence, bitter beer face; all forshadowed what alot of people call 'The End Times'. But then they say the lord will come and reign for a thousand years. That doesn't sound like the end of the world to me.
If you want to be freaked out do a google search on "Red Heiffer" that's some scary stuff.

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Been done. See the "Left Behind" books. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

As for quotes, the song "The Man Comes Around" by Johnny Cash is about the Apocalypse and includes the "pale horse" quote already mentioned. It was featured quite effectively in the most recent version of the "Dawn of the Dead" film.

http://hit-country-music-lyrics.com/...mesaround.html

Speaking of the living dead, as I recall most of the films include the line, "When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth."

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I am aware of the series but since fervent Christians claim its the best thing written since the Bible (don't believe me, check the reviews on Amazon) and everyone else seems to have a much lower opinion of it, I haven't been much inclined to plunk down any cash for it.

And without giving too much away, I'm really mostly interested in the sequence of events referred to as 'The End of Days' since the premise behind the story is that once the 'final' battle between Heaven & Hell kicks off, everything goes wrong and both sides end up cutting their losses and legging it. How everything goes wrong, well, that's the fun part!

Oh, and I said Apocalypse, not Zombie Apocalypse!

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"Maybe the reason we've been so busy lately is because the dead really have been rising from the grave." -Ghostbusters

"Yee-ha!!" -Dr. Strangelove

Oh my God, you blew it up. Damn you! Damn you all to hell!" -Planet of the Apes

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Might i suggest a Norse appocalypse, instead of a Christian one. Ragnarok is so much more fun, and you can parallel it to a nuclear winter.

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O.k., I was really into this stuff in the early 80's. This is what I remember.
1.Bad stuff happens and America somehow gets knocked out of the "superpower" status.
2.Rise of the 10 nation European superpower.
3.Rise of an Asian superpower (who could that be?)
4.Russia and Arabs try to invade Israel and get defeated miraculously (somepeople say this has already happened)
5.China (oops, I mean Asian Superpower) sweeps across central asia headed for the middle east.
6.Massive battle on the plains of Meggiddo. This is the Apocalypse. The tongues eaten in people mouths and eyes melting in sockets kinda thing. The bodies remaining can't be touched due to some sort of contamination.
7.Rise of the anti-christ? Or does this happen before the Apocalypse? Anyway things are really bad, Jesus comes and makes everything nice.

Remember Secty. James Watt? He thought Jesus was comming soon so it was o.k. not to protect the eviroment.

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Keep in mind it's not a proper apocalypse. It's an apocalypse gone wrong. Few unexpected guests show up and everything gets rather messy. Plus my two central characters are quasi-biblical figures, the archangel Gabrielle (no, that's not a typo, I'm using the feminine tense on purpose), and that happy-go-lucky angel of death, Azrael (though I am perfectly aware that he wasn't actually an angel, much less one of death, but it's my story & I'll do what I please. I mean, I've already turned him into a demon, for crying out loud!).

And when I said Apocalyptic quotes, I should have actually said apocalyptic quotes, that is, quotes with an 'end of all things' feel to them, as opposed to quotes referring to the Apocalypse.

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older angel/demon/demilich/what-have-you to younger one "Son, if you survive, remember..... of THIS happens it's NOT good."

angrily "Oh, just when you think things couldn't get ANY worse....."

"#%&U$$@#%$^, where the hell did those meteors come from?!?" (serious, throw this into the midst of a battle and you've got total chaos)

spoken by some elder being "This does not look good."

"The end of the world? I imagined it would be a little more..... ah, fiery." just then, something big and flaming hits the ground behind them, perhaps a fireball, meteor, burning house, burning forest, and sets everything in the vicinity on fire

OK, it's not that good but I tried.

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Chesterton had a couple of good ones:

"A blood red sky over London and I knew then that the end was near."

"I really have no experience," he began.
"No one has any experience," said the other, "of the Battle of Armageddon."

Whilst recommending books I would point at Good Omens and go ohhh good book and about Armageddon. But I'm too busy thinking about Crowley, the angel who 'didn't so much fall as saunter vaugely downwards.'

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Another final-battle type of book ispired by the bible is the last book in the Chronicles of Narnia, the final battle or something like that.

I've yet to read that one but the whole series has a close tie with biblicle symbology.

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could be Loki. and a valkyrie.

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I know, if I was being properly accurate, it should be Loki, but Azrael just has a more sinister ring to it. Plus Loki's the name of my pet in WoW, if I named the character Loki, I'd have no choice but to title the story 'Ode To My Cat'.

Anyway, keep the quotes coming, although I really could use a few more quotes from religious texts pretaining to the Apocalypse, and not just Christian ones. Muslim, Jewish, Buddist, Hindu, hell if they have Armageddon in Shintoism, I wanna know about it.

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Not for me. How sinister could someone be who couldn't even catch a Smurf? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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What about the speech from LoTR that King Theoden gives just prior to the Charge of the Rohirrim at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields?

Probably some other good LoTR apocalyptic quotes.

Must be something good in "Apocalypse Now." http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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"It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings." some baseball manager

"It ain't over 'til it's over." another baseball manager

"Turn out the lights, the party's over." country-western song, sung frequently by a Monday Night Football color commentator in the 1980s (or was that '70s?)

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"It's Over" Roy Orbison/William Dees

Your baby doesn't love you anymore

Golden days before they end,
Whisper secrets to the wind
Your baby won't be near you anymore.

Tender nights before they fly
And falling stars that seem to cry
Your baby doesen't want you anymore
It's over.

It breaks your heart in two
To know she's been untrue
But, oh what will you do?
When she says to you there's someone new
We're through, we're through.

It's over
It's over
it's over

All the rainbows in the sky
Start to weep and say goodbye
You won't be seeing rainbows anymore.

Setting suns before they fall
They come to you. That's all, that's all
But you'll see lonely sunsets after all.

It's over, It's over, it's over
It's over

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You may as well chuck in The Doors doing The End if we're doing song quotes.

On which note doyou want a date? Popular one's are the year 1500 in the Muslim calendar (which many sects think is the end date) or, if you want some more time how about 2076, which is they year 6000 in the Jewish calendar.

Why rely on dates that may or may not mean something on a calendar system? Just ask a Jehovah's Witness who, allegedly, say the Battle of Armageddon will being in 2014.

Oddest is probably the Mayan calendar which just stops on December 28th 2012 as the last long cycle finishes. Perhaps this means the end of the world, perhaps it just means even ancient civilisations had their own Y2K bugs. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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"The heavens burned the stars cried out and hope scarred and bleeding breathed her last."

"God made man, Man turned his back on God, God smacks man upside head, man exploded." Can't remember where this came from but I laughed my *** off because I know God has to have at least a little bit of a sense of humor.

"The skies burned, the wind screamed, the ghosts of our fathers prowled the earth and in the end silence......simple agonizing silence."

"When you see the light.....it's already too late cause your dead."

"Lo' there do I see my fathers.
Lo' there do I see my mothers,
Lo' there do I see my brothers and my sisters.
Lo' there do I see the line of my people
back to the beginning.
Lo' they call to me.
They bid me to take my place among them,
in the Halls of Valhalla,
where the brave may live forever."

"When the last star burns out its pitiful life I will be there and when death comes to take me I will spit in his eye for the day has not yet come when I will face death quietly."

"The only reason I haven't died yet is because they are still building a special level of hell for me."

"Death comes for everyone, but that doesn't mean you can't make that old son of a ***** work hard to catch you."

"Death....hah....DEATH FEARS ME!"

"I have become Shiva destroyer of worlds."

"We are become death....it's shadow falls before us....our hands wear it's mark; our eyes burn it's fire and our hearts are cold as we carry its fear with us like a plague...for we are the end of all things and the begining of darkness."

"The Earth broke and tore, a great rumbling arose from it like a scream of pain and lava erupted like geysers of blood; the sky was alight with a sickly glow and the air chocked with ash and the stench of death."

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"Forget the power of technology, of progress and understanding. Forget the promiss of science and commin humanity, for there is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter and the laughter of thirsting gods."

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Got it, my bad.

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As was noted before...
Apacalyptic sounding phrases are wanted, not nessesarily actual quotes.

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You can always fall back on Rock and Roll. A couple verses from Lemmy Kilmister:

Win or lose, naught to choose, all men are equal when their memory fades
No one knows, friends or foes, if Valhalla lies beyond the grave


and:

I march before a martyred world, an army for the fight

I speak of great heroic days, of victory and might

I hold a banner drenched in blood, I urge you to be brave

I lead you to your destiny, I lead you to your grave

Your bones will build my palaces, your eyes will stud my crown

For I am Mars, the god of war, and I will cut you down.

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/me hugs Starhawk More! More! This is the sorta stuff I'm after! Just reading it makes me feel all Apocalypticy.

kerensky and Puke get comradial slaps across the shoulder, I think kerensky's will headline chapter 1. I like the second one, Puke but I think I'll have to crop the last line, coz that last rhyme was just painful.

And just so you don't complain I'm not pulling my own weight:

"So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth"


Intent does not equal apptitude. The fact that he was never successful does not negate the fact that he was an agent of evil, trying to either feast upon the flesh of Smurfs or capture innocent, wholesome Smurfs for his master, who intended to do Very Bad Things to them.

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Anyhoo, here's the first bit of Chapter 1, so you can let me know whether or not I'm wasting my time.


Forget the power of technology, of progress and understanding.
Forget the promises of science and common humanity,
for there is no peace amongst the stars,
only an eternity of carnage and slaughter
and the laughter of thirsting gods.


Oswald Alexander strolled absent-mindedly through the debris of a ruined city. Grey ash covered everything, swirling about his ankles, each step creating a miniature storm that raced ahead of him before exhausting itself and collapsing. His right foot brushed against something hard and he gave it a sharp kick, and a human skull burst up from under the ash and thudded dully down the road, coming to a rest face down in the depressing of a storm gutter. Oswald regarded it impassively as he continued on his way. He was a child of a shattered world, and the skull held no threat, no malice to him. It was merely one of an uncountable number scattered all over a city that once was home to millions, now inhabited by mere thousands.

He walked with his left arm held tightly across his chest, gripping the box of chocolates he'd bought for Ariel. He worked endlessly, trading whatever skills he had for a few meager coins to buy her presents, hoping fervently that one day he'd find the one that would make her better, cure her illness once and for all. He'd already bought chocolates before, and they hadn't helped, but they'd made her happier than anything else, and that was close enough, as far as he was concerned. Maybe one day he'd have enough money for medicine, or even a doctor, but until then he'd keep trying to keep her happy, or at the very least, quiet.

His grip tightened as a figure approached out of the mist ahead. The figure was walking with a pronounced limp, almost dragging his left leg behind him and Oswald's eyes tightened. There weren't many foolish enough so show any external signs of weakness outside, much less at night, and those who did were sometimes crazy, sometimes dangerous, and usually both. His right hand tightened on the gun in his pocket and he pulled back the hammer with his thumb. Most people took one look at his muscular physique and kept walking, but there were always those who felt lucky, or thought they could take him in a fair fight. Unfortunately for them, Oswald didn't make a habit of fighting fair.

As he approached, it soon became obvious that the figure wouldn't pose much of a threat. He was old, surprisingly so, gaunt and scraggly. Still, Oswald reminded himself, some of those old-timers could be mighty quick with a blade, and it was never wise to underestimate them. The old man suddenly veered towards him, holding out both hands, palms facing the dirty sky.

"Help an old man," he pleaded.
Oswald's gun was drawn in the blink of an eye, trained on the elderly man's forehead. "Nothin to give ya, old man," he said icily. "Keep walkin'."
The other man scuttled away, holding both hands up in front of his face, as if he could somehow ward off a nine-millimeter round. Oswald kept an eye on him until he'd disappeared around the corner, then tucked his gun away and quickened his pace. His gun hadn't held any ammunition in three years, and he didn't want the fact to become public knowledge if the old timer decided to round up a few friends.

Moments later, the shrill scream of an old man pierced the oppressive silence, followed quickly by an unmistakable snarl. There was a slim chance Oswald could have rescued the old man, frightened the attacker off by discharging a few blanks, but it was far more likely that he'd arrive in time to witness the grizzly sight of torn flesh being feasted upon, and would have stood a good chance of becoming a second course. He should still try, he reasoned, at least have a look and see what got the old guy. But it was a moot point. His body acted of it's own accord, and by the time those thoughts had made their way through his mind, he was already running.

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"I have wasted my life."
Comic Book Guy (just before death, when Homer accidentally neutron-bombed everyone)

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I'm almost afraid to suggest it, but how about apocalyptic haiku? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rant.gif Check the archives for some good ones.

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"Okay! That does it! Whoever's playing that ungodly trumpet is about to get fitted for a new anus!"

by: Just one of many irritated atheists

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“Even here, at the end of all things, there is but one thing that remains, one thing that reigns eternal, one thing unstoppable…darkness.”

Quote I made up in teh dim shadows somewhere between sleep and awake.

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that reminds me of a bad song by Dave Mustaine:

Man still has one belief,
One decree that stands alone
The laying down of arms
Is like cancer to their bones

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That's always the best time to come up with stuff like that. At least, for me it always is. Too bad I rarely remember them!

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Yes yes yes... but no one has commented on the story!!

Nice work, m8!

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Oh yeah, the story.....

So far so good. The litte tidbit you dangled out in front of us keeps making me want ot read more.

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"Ya, and if wishes were horses, we'd all be eat'n stake."
"I am danger like the which you have not seen before."