Screwtape

ooc: Regarding tonight's news

2008-08-09T06:13:14Z

I've been asked to inform you that tonight's news will be late as the person signed up to do it is having difficulties getting connected to the InterTubes.

D'oh!

2007-07-12T20:26:48Z

Hello there. If you have received a friending message from this journal today it is because I am a dork and had the wrong journal logged in when I used the admin console.

*facepalm*

If you are part of Milieux, you can ignore this message. If you are not... Well... Heh sorry?

OOC: Has anybody out there read...

2007-05-24T15:32:26Z

Paradise Lost?

Anyway. In Screwtape Letters, Screwtape becomes really really angry and transforms suddenly into a large centipede. (See icon, which is actually from a Magic the Gathering card.) After this happens Screwtape labels it as an "occasional phenomenon" ~~do do dododo~~ and says that some word of it has reached the human in works by a poet "Milton something".

I assume this is a reference to "Paradise Lost". I'm looking for the part of that book where this sort of transformation happens. Can anybody scan or quote me the passage?

Thanks ditheringangel for help finding the passage.

So having said, a while he stood, expecting
Thir universal shout and high applause
To fill his eare, when contrary he hears
On all sides, from innumerable tongues
A dismal universal hiss, the sound
Of public scorn; he wonderd, but not long
Had leasure, wondring at himself now more;
His Visage drawn he felt to sharp and spare,
His Armes clung to his Ribs, his Leggs entwining
Each other, till supplanted down he fell
A monstrous Serpent on his Belly prone,
Reluctant, but in vaine, a greater power
Now rul'd him, punisht in the shape he sin'd,
According to his doom: he would have spoke,
But hiss for hiss returnd with forked tongue
To forked tongue, for now were all transform'd
Alike, to Serpents all as accessories
To his bold Riot: dreadful was the din
Of hissing through the Hall, thick swarming now
With complicated monsters, head and taile,
Scorpion and Asp, and AMPHISBAENA dire,
CERASTES hornd, HYDRUS, and ELLOPS drear,
And DIPSAS (Not so thick swarm'd once the Soil
Bedropt with blood of Gorgon, or the Isle
OPHIUSA) but still greatest hee the midst,
Now Dragon grown, larger then whom the Sun
Ingenderd in the PYTHIAN Vale on slime,
Huge PYTHON, and his Power no less he seem'd
Above the rest still to retain; they all
Him follow'd issuing forth to th' open Field,
Where all yet left of that revolted Rout
Heav'n-fall'n, in station stood or just array,
Sublime with expectation when to see
In Triumph issuing forth thir glorious Chief;
They saw, but other sight instead, a crowd
Of ugly Serpents; horror on them fell,
And horrid sympathie; for what they saw,
They felt themselvs now changing; down thir arms,
Down fell both Spear and Shield, down they as fast,
And the dire hiss renew'd, and the dire form
Catcht by Contagion, like in punishment,
As in thir crime. Thus was th' applause they meant,
Turnd to exploding hiss, triumph to shame
Cast on themselves from thir own mouths.

4/2 Monday Morning - Our House in the middle of Our St.

2007-04-02T06:58:37Z

Screwtape walked into the kitchen of his new home as he fixed his tie in place. He furrowed his brow at the coffee maker and it started up as if shamed into doing so.

He was concerned at first that his "promotion" in the Lowerarchy of the Department of Temptation was the result of old Slubgob's machinations, but he had to admit that it was good to be in the field again.

Particularly with such a nice little cottage all to himself.

Ahhh, alone at least.

[ooc: for the (surprise!) roommate.

OOC contact post

2007-04-02T01:46:43Z

This post is how you can oocly contact Screwtape's player, who is also an admin for the game.

Comments to this post will be screened for privacy.

Screwtape's Voice Mail

2007-04-02T01:44:20Z

"Hello, you've reached the answering service of Screwtape. I'm currently doing something far more important then talking to you. But rest assured, your call is important to me. Leave a message and I'll see to contacting you in return."

Beep