The Benefits of Evil:
A Role Playing guide to Paradox
by S. Gonzalez
Sometimes it's good to roll to burn down a forest. To really just scorch earth, every tree, animal or whatever have you in the way to clear out space. That even goes for mental tasks or real ones; eliminate that which does not matter and downsize those that do. For instance, I decided that last night would be a good night for a little shake up in my many spheres of play.
Enjoy.
It started with the simple question asked by a random program on Face Book. "How's it going Steven?" The only thing that responded in my mind was why they would even change these up, to ask randomly what's going on so a person can post that thought or activity so everyone can see. That's how it started, because I was feeling evil.
So evil in fact that I decided to play a game with myself to see what I can produce.
First I needed my devil, a horned beastly looking creature of infernal power.
Then came responses:
Good. Now I was getting somewhere....
I had to follow with a basic description of where my mind was at and what it saw, just so it could help others, including my other characters find a place in the story.
"{Stephen Gonzalez is lost, he wanders the hollow center of his soul and around him there is nothing but a plain white desert} "What have I done?" {He says aloud to the sands of crystalline sands surrounding him} "What can I do to surpass the pathetic shell that I am in." {The winds blow and swirl around his battered form, caressing his blackened form of humanity}"
Now there is conflict but it still needed a little touch of despair...
That's the thing about any story, it needs it's actors to work it along or else it's just some guy narrating his trip through La-La Land.
{The darkness surrounds the form of Stephen Gonzalez} "I Am Incarnate!!!" {The forms of Vegeta Toriyama and Tsunade Godaime are no more, as the darkened form grows into the sky} "I need not such forms in the world of ideas, I AM!"
Now I figured it was time to really start expanding my vision to others by a bit of character reference and background manipulation.
Setting the desolation scene for something great to happen, because in Chaos there must always be a hint of coming Order. Once again, focus on the Main Character in his own private hell, toss in some emotional points such as:
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"I don't care anymore about anyone!" {Fires blaze around him, the smoke engulfs his demonic form and he wails to the air to heaven} "I AM EVIL AGAIN!!!!"
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And/Or: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!" {His forms flames out, scorching the ground he walks on, licking his red lips he walks forward}
In the end this guy is a rampaging freak of great destructive power and completely insane.
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"You are a part of me, what made you think you were free?" {He laughs and grasps her neck, the form of Tsunade fading but dropped and on the sands below}
{Inside Stephen Gonzalez} "W..what's happened to us?" {All around her, the skies storm and rage as the figure of Steven in Devil Form rages}
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{Vegeta runs to him, a fierce look in his eye as he tries to hit Stephen Gonzalez but only finds a fist knocking him back to the ground} "You will witness my destruction of all this plane of existence!"
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Toss in symbols of humanity crushed just to spice it up, maybe describe why they are in the state they are in. In fact I did one better by absorbing two such characters they called out for a hero, a savior.
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{Currents of fire and brimstone swirl at his feet}
"What's wrong friends? Too much for you?!
Is this not what you wanted! Is this not what you expected of me!!!"
{He roars a beastly scream that rocks the land around him}
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The wonderful thing is that I can eliminate the whole board at this point. Just really wipe the motherfucker clean and start over. But I ask, is the point of destruction in the first place? The answer is always creation!
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"Who will join me?" {looks over the spheres of creation in front of him} "Who will join what can live in infamy?!"
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Suddenly I find my hero....
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This is what I really want, to show the duality of such struggles, even with such archetypes as good and evil. In the end it's one side of the coin trying to spit on the side behind it or vice versa. Now as the points been made it's time to wrap it up.
That's kind of the whole point to a battle...that it ends. In this case, evil is the state of mind and normality is reached only through conflict and resolution yet I left it open to maybe happen again. So for a couple of hours I just had the grandest time being a demon, not like most evil things I did mostly for one reason, because I was bored.
