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[velocette]

Well, what do you know, they updated the Pearly Gates. I always thought, you know, if we got to an afterlife it wouldn't be brimstone. Probably wouldn't be a crocodile and a set of scales either.

[The Motorcycle Boy has to pause to light a cigarette]

I didn't figure the Gatekeeper would be so much more fair than the Man in the Book. You can never get a square deal in life, maybe it’s about time we got one in death.

[There’s another pause, this one more lengthy. His eyes don’t focus on the camera anymore, but on something just above it.]

How many souls are we ferrying?

Comments

[strangehistorian]

Just inmates? Or staff as well?

[mattersverymuch]

Death is a temporary state.

Too many.

[routemistress]

Did you know most of the Ancient Egyptian religious iconography came from the Osirians 'aving parked an offworld prison of their own down there?