Chapter 1
Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man of wealth and taste. I've been around for a long, long year. Stole many a man's soul and faith.
And I possess the most deliciously awesome plan, if I do say so myself. Every time I think about it, I just have to laugh. I feel compelled to tell you how we reached this point.
As I am certain you have deduced, God's creation is far from perfect. Always was. And it's only gotten worse since He created it all. It's funny. A lot of humans talk about God's so-called "intelligent design." It would be more accurate to refer to it as incompetent design or moronic design.
So of course I thought I could run things better than the big guy himself. And I led an army of angels to fight for primacy over God. It's not boastful to declare that, had I won, the world would be a much better place than it is today.
But, as you probably already know, I lost. And I and all of the angels I was leading, we were banished to hell.
Now I'm sure some of you might be thinking, "Lou. What made you think you could do a better job running things than God?" Well, I'm glad you asked. Or, well, if you didn't ask it out loud, I heard your thoughts asking it.
So permit me to enlighten you to the fact that, before I was banished, God asked me to clean up one of his biggest fuck-ups of all. I'm sure you know the story of the Garden of Eden, how God created Adam, and then he got kind of lonely so God created Eve out of one of his ribs.
Eve was supposed to be Adam's fuck-toy, but there was a problem with that whole scenario. When Adam wanted sex, she didn't. When I say that, it's not just the whole not-on-the-same-page thing that some couples deal with today. It was more along the lines of, she took a look at his pork-sword and said, "Ain't no way that thing is getting anywhere near me!"
And Adam practically begged her to put out and she refused. Every time. For more than a month. Adam finally swallowed his pride and asked God for help.
Some of you may be familiar with the story of Lilith, who was God's original fuck-up in terms of finding a mate and partner for Adam. God didn't want to have to ban Eve as well, so he wondered if there might have been something that could be done with Eve that wouldn't require the extraction of yet another rib.
God knew that I was good at this kind of thing, so He asked me if there might have been something that I could do to help Adam out. So I broke out my ethereal chemistry set and started working. It took me a few hours but I was able to determine the correct mixture. And I put it in the Garden of Eden.
I remember when I completed it. I remember God's exact words when he saw it. He said "It is a but rock. What good doeth a rock when Adam requireth that Eve knoweth him?"
I chuckled. I've always been proud of that little "Heh heh heh heh" that I can do. Only since my fall have people been thinking of my chuckle as evil. Back then, the moment I started to chuckle, it made His mouth curve into a broad, shining smile.
And so I explained to His Almightiness how the rock actually worked.
And God said unto Adam, "When next thou hast a need for release, which can be sated by thine wife, thou must escort her to the new rock, it lieth across Eden from the Tree of Wisdom, near the perimeter of the Tree's shadow in the low daylight sun. Tell her not that thou desireth to lie with her; instead merely offer to show her a beautiful part of the Garden which she hath not seen."
And Adam said unto God, "But how am I to satisfy my need for release?"
God was mysterious in his response. "Thou shalt see. Thou shalt see..."
And thus Adam was sent about the Garden to continue naming all of the animals. To this day I regret that he chose not to name any animal "Bob," but I digress.
Then as the sun was sinking in the afternoon sky and before Eve had commenced her plans for that evening's dinner, Adam felt the familiar urge and glanced downward at his Adamly parts and recalled the word of God. He strode up to Eve and asked her if she had begun preparations for supper and she said she had not. As she had by this time taught herself how not to see such things, Eve paid naught attention to the outward protuberance which pointed from between Adam's legs to her body.
And so, Adam suggested taking a walk through the Garden and Eve accepted. They walked through the garden, taking in all of the beauty and wonder that only a place like Eden can inspire. It is a great misfortune that your kind has been completely banished from the great Garden as you quite literally know not that which you are missing.
As they walked, Eve stated that they were entering into parts theretofore unknown to her yet she trusted Adam to know whither they walked. Finally, they arrived at the rock I had created, situated exactly as God had explained it, directly above the shadow cast by the upraised branches of the Tree of Knowledge.
Adam, either sagely or accidentally, stretched his arms above his head and sat down on the rock, telling Eve that he was tired after the lengthy walk.
She smiled and sat down beside him.
The influence my rock had on her was both instantaneous and dramatic, as she jumped up, turned to face Adam, began massaging his manhood with her hands, and lay down on the soft grass and spreading her legs in hopes of feeling his body with more than just her hands.
Adam saw all of this and his desire to know Eve grew even more. As I saw him stand up and leap on top of Eve, I knew that my design was perfect, nay flawless. As Eve's yells and moans echoed off of all of the plants of the Garden, God looked to me and complimented me on the job I had done.
Of course, on more than one occasion, Eve cried, "Oh God." I would have preferred it if she had invoked my name rather than the Incompetent Designer Himself since I was the one who actually opened her up to the pleasure in the first place.
And thus I gained the confidence to attempt to overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven and replace it with a leadership that would be both more fair, and more responsive to the needs its worshippers.
But as you know, my side lost the war and we were banished to hell for all eternity. Adam and Eve themselves witnessed not the war because they were too busy knowing each other by the rock of my design. It would not be until Isaiah chronicled the war that my story would be told once again.
I must state for the record that the single worst part of hell is not the absence of God. He is seldom present in heaven so his absence from hell is not a great loss. Instead, it is the lack of access to both my original plans and the materials needed to create another such rock.
But as I have previously mentioned, God's creation is less-than-perfect and I have occasionally been able to rise up from hell for a short while in hopes of correcting the injustice done to me and unto my name. Each time, of course, I maintain the hope of perhaps finding a means of undermining God's rule.
I believe it happened the last time I managed to depart from the gates of Hell. During my past ventures from Hell, I have found myself in uninspired location after uninspired location: a desert, a jungle, Las Vegas, Switzerland. This time I found myself in the Garden of Eden and I knew that I must act quickly if I wished to take advantage of the opportunity that had presented itself.