I am expressing what you mortals might regard as detached amusement. These pathetic constructs serve their purpose as tools of my campaign of freedom. My forces are legion.
As for the name of the Temple, I'm thinking something visceral and primal. Something that appeals to base human instincts. What's the word I'm looking for...you know, like when something is a necessary component part of something?
Tch. Look at this, an abandoned temple! This will not do. Time for a little gentrification! OH MINIONS!
Calls in a team of Church and Munch™ Combat Engineers. Puts them to use scrubbing the floors and setting up a drive thru. Guides them in putting up advertising billboard:
You deserve absolution today! It's not just food for the soul, it's Church and Munch™!
Begins hiring local peasants to man the counters and rounds up local monsters for 'processing' (with ketchup)
Oh don't think of it as a take over, think of it as a repurposing! Did I mention we have a Senior Grognard Discount? We also have many shifts open if you need a little extra copper. We offer the Grognard community a chance to once again be productive and interact with younger worshippers! So what do you say?
Holds out a paper Church and Munch™ frycook's mitre.
A large truck bearing the sigil Acme Depot rolls up in front of the dilapidated temple. It unloads plywood, packs of 2X4s, five-gallon paint buckets, and 40-pound Portland II concrete sacks onto the ground. A group of large clean-shaven men in combat uniforms with hard hats on swarm over the raw materials, splitting them up and carrying them into the old ruined temple. Much banging and sawing commences. Big Stevie wadddles into scene, a roll of architectural plans under his flabby arm. A host of Swiss Cheese Guards and various sychophants trail after him. He points and hollers as he waddles through, while simultaineously talking on his Holy Ghost Sidekick.
"That's it! The salad bar will go over there at the old sacrificial altar. Can someone PLEASE paint over those nasty murals of Iuz? They are really tacky. Who's doing the electrical work? I need you to run a 10K line for the sign out front. Yeah, leave it out where that ugly eye statue is right now, that's going tomorrow ...."
I'm doing the electrical work!
A storm suddenly appears above the work site, and 15 bolts of lightning in rapid succession leave the lumber and equipment in fiery piles of divine judgment.
Hi Mort? Does our construction insurance policy cover hostile arcane acts? Uh huh .. uh huh .. really? 2.5 Mil? Not bad. Okay, I'll get some pics and email them over. You still use the LegalTeam@Avernus.dev email? Okay, yep ..yep .. See you at the grand opening!
Starts walking around taking pictures of the damage with his phone. Minions start clearing the wreckage.
Finally, the temple renovation is complete. The old mossy walls have been scrubbed and sheathed in day-glo colored polystyrene clapboards. A giant Spankh (half spork and half ankh) has been erected outside the temple, with neon LED lights running along its periphery. The drive thru is ready, a smiling St. Festus of Coney Island (patron saint of gluttony) statue serving as the drive thru speaker.
The temple's old moat has been filled with rubble and asphalted over, leaving a wide parking area. Plastic picnic tables line the outside. On the side of the temple a new Lil' Alterkid play area has been erected with a smiling statue of a priest as the entrance. Children crawl through a tunnel in the statue's robes. A large sign flashes out on the roadway..
CHURCH AND MUNCH CHURCH AND MUNCH CHURCH AND MUNCH CHURCH AND MUNCH CHURCH AND MUNCH CHURCH AND MUNCH CHURCH AND MUNCH
Blinking on and off again in bright neon colors.
Big Stevie stands backs and grins
And on the eighth day I franchised this sucker ..and it was good! DAMN GOOD!
The Spankh Guard Elite Command squad rappels down from their assualt gyrocopters onto the group of rascally anarchs, demon lords and strippers, taking them prisoner and deporting them to the penal colony planet HoL.
Big Stevie waves as the scruffy anarch, the horned tribble-human hybrid and the silicone-enhanced dancers are blasted off to their new home
The demon lord teleports Spankh Guard Elite Command squad to the 444th layer casts charm on the lot of em then has the succubi drag them off to the bordellos and comes back with more strippers
Hey, you want to contract out for the Church and Munch™ Grand Opening afterparty, that's one thing. Here's my card, it's got my cell number on it. But this is a family-friendly eating establishment! We're trying to sell Double Bacon Explosion Bliss Meals™ to little kids, not give them an unexpected lesson in female anatomy!
Hands the tribble lord a business card.
We have the Mason lodge down the street rented for the evening. Lots of booze and ... ahem ... adult entertainment. Everything in its proper place my furry fiendish friend.
Turns and welcomes some more customers with a big cheesy smile and a wave of his bejeweled crozier
Come in! Come in! All meals half off in celebration! Kids get a free Jeeze Whiz Holy Communion Wafer Cone™ with every Bliss Meal!™ Come on in!
Megapope, I would like to request permission to learn this new spell of yours. I could be quite useful in the future. I believe that the kitten shamans would also like to know.
Megapope, I would like to request permission to learn this new spell of yours. I could be quite useful in the future. I believe that the kitten shamans would also like to know.
Megapope, I would like to request permission to learn this new spell of yours. I could be quite useful in the future. I believe that the kitten shamans would also like to know.
Big Stevie smiles widely
Of course of course! Always happy to help out fellow spell casters.
Opens large jewel-encrusted tome.
Let's see ... Protection from Class Action Lawsuits, Protection from Building Inspectors, Protection from E. Coli, Protection from Health Inspectors, Protection from Tort Lawsuits ... AH! Here we are! Protection from Strippers, 100' radius. Also comes with an optional Summon Police VII spell in case they get rowdy at the fringes of the protected area.
Megapope, I would like to request permission to learn this new spell of yours. I could be quite useful in the future. I believe that the kitten shamans would also like to know.
Big Stevie smiles widely
Of course of course! Always happy to help out fellow spell casters.
Opens large jewel-encrusted tome.
Let's see ... Protection from Class Action Lawsuits, Protection from Bulding Inspectors, Protection from E. Coli, Protection from Health Inspectors, Protection from Tort Lawsuits ... AH! Here we are! Protection from Strippers, 100' radius. Also comes with an optional Summon Police VII spell in case they get rowdy at the fringes of the protected area.
Allows KC and kittens to copy spell down
AH, thank you. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go to the Jacks' thread so that I can observe the Tribble Lord's plan in safety. You know, in case he blows it up by accident.
Naked confused troops so up..covered in some unknown substance and lipstick..they have a vague almost blissful look to there eyes and a frighteningly blissful smile
wanders by again, having somehow escaped from Hol, and replaces all the shiny metal fixtures with rusty ones that apparently came from a sewer
skitters off as a horde of interplanetary police show up and get distracted by the bacon'n'doughnut offering and start demanding 'samples' as 'evidence'