text: [Themes: horror]
  
  With all the new advancements in technology and streaming video and uninhibited access to the internet and the dark web, you are certain you can pique his interest in some less-than-wholesome entertainment. What single guy hasn't visited a porn site or two. We are not going to get anywhere with the typical polished stuff. We will need something much darker. You haven't personally had the opportunity to use all the new tools, but you have witnessed countless minions use the new tech to drag souls down quickly. You can't be accused of being out-of-touch or out-dated, so you adapt quickly.
  
  It is in the early hours of the morning and Larry is still playing a round of his favorite online role-playing-game with a group from the States who you can see are merely in their mid-teens, Larry is engrossed in it. One by one, the teenagers drop out as their bedtimes approach across the pond. It's now 5a.m. and Larry shuffles over to the kitchen and pops a couple of Pepperoni Hot Pockets in his microwave. He grabs them and a cream soda and plops back on the couch. Nothing really on, so he starts streaming his Netflix account. He is continuing a series that was from a few years ago. He gulps down his greasy Hot Pockets and washes them down with some cream soda and puts the paper plate they were on next to him on the couch.
  
  The smell of greasy microwaved pepperoni wafting with the vanilla cream soda makes you want to wretch. You have bathed in brimstone gases and demon-fire for centuries, it surprises you that this smell is so noxious. Larry visits the bathroom and vacates his bowels and bladder before he drops down on his mattress and throws his blankets over himself and his head. Within 3 minutes, he is snoring.
  
  There are places you can go on the internet that will drag him down, and bring him closer to the will of your Master. Not necessarily what people think either. Not mere child pornography, or dangerous chat rooms, but scamming people out of money and conning people into revealing credit and personal info for personal gain. Stealing is a powerful sin, and an often overlooked one.
  
  > guide Larry to entertainment of an "alternative" type.
  You need to be subtle and coax him into these sites that will entice him into making indelible stains on his soul and darken his light.
  
  In the mid-afternoon, Larry finally gets up and starts moving. He has a tech job that he free-lances with a mate of his that he gets odd-jobs from. He needs to finish moving all of the servers from the client's foreign offices onto the servers here in the UK. The process involves encryption and complex security protocols to maintain the integrity of the sensitive data. After scarfing a bowl of frosted flakes and a Coca-Cola, Larry is sitting at his computer and begins logging in to the servers abroad.
  
  You are right there with him and you start working your Metaphysical magic. You can almost taste his sweet essence and the hunger in you grows more real. With some well placed prompts and a little hand-holding, you can drag this fish in and be back in your realm before "the others" even realize you're on the prowl again. You don't need their influence fucking you over for your fresh kill. Let them have their choir boys and needle-point nannies. This one is yours.
  
  You are not going to waste any time. You begin with some typical whispered prompts in his subconscious, "With all this encryption software, I wonder what other kinds of things I can find on the internet that are encrypted that I can hack. I'll bet I can find some really juicy stuff. That would be fun." You continue constantly with ever increasingly delicious temptations, "I'll bet I can find tons of stuff that no one else can find."
  
  You are searching his face for which of these prompts will bring the biggest response. "I am so much smarter than most of those computer geeks anyway, those guys are just kids and I've seen stuff they'd never imagine was possible in the hacking world, I'll bet I can find something if I just poke around on the black web. " The black web is a playground for you and your minions, secrecy and sin have always been tight bedfellows.
  
  Larry doesn't waste much time and starts to type in some typical code words into a specialized search engine. You, yourself are kind of watching and taking notes to use later with others if this works. He has now penetrated onto what seems to be a merchandise clearance site. The merchandise is all coded to Lot numbers and to figure out what is in the Lot, you have to have a code. To get the code you have to buy one. To buy a code you need to use "crypto-currency." Which is a thing now, apparantly.
  
  Larry has now bought a code with something called bitcoins, or at least a fraction of one, and has chosen a lot number to inspect. He enters his code and then sees what he is bidding on. He is shocked to discover that he can easily purchase anonymously from a list of contraband items that will arrive in a brown paper to his door.
  
  Larry is hesitant to spend money on items from the lot he has chosen, so he pays the fee for another code. In that lot number are a host of sensitive items that he could purchase for enhancing his kinky pleasures, if he were into that sort of thing. Most, if not all, these items can be purchased above board and legally in most countries, so I guess what you are looking for here is the anonymity.
  
  Again Larry is unmoved and begins to wonder about wasting his time with this dribble. Nothing is whetting his appetite.
  
  Soon Larry abandons this endeavor and returns to his hired tasks.
  
  > Need to regroup and fast, let's try his Facebook "friends..."
  You recall seeing several of his "friends" in his Facebook pages talking about going to a party on the weekend. If we can get Larry out there, maybe we can get things moving in some direction.
  
  The other feeds he has marked come from some "friends" in Ireland who are going to be visiting a concert nearby and have an open invite for all their "friends" to come and hang there with them.
  
  Decisions, decisions...
  
  > Party!
  Seems like there is an adorable Ms. Rebecca Connor on his feed that he has spent a good deal of time chatting up on Facebook. Maybe we can give our Lazy Larry some incentive in the right direction and get him ripened for the kill by stoking his flames a little for this lady. He obviously is infatuated with her, and what stirs a man to action more than love?
  
  You see there is a party tonight at the community center. You see on Rebecca's profile, that she listed dancing as her favorite thing. Maybe we can invite her to meet us there.
  
  > Or maybe those guys going to the concert would be having more fun...
  Seems like there are a few people on here that have half a life and have chatted Larry up on multiple occasions to come and join in on the fun. If I'm going to baste this turkey, I need to turn up the heat in the oven. (you start drooling again involuntarily at the thought of Larry's soul meat being ripe and juicy.)
  
  They are planning to go out to a concert nearby, and they know he lives in this area and have specifically sent an invite to our Larry to join him.
  
  > Fun at the show!
  It doesn't take much to convince Larry to get out to see the show. A little guilt about not being a good friend to others, blah, blah, blah and bingo! Out he goes. Maybe you are getting better at this than even you remember.
  
  At the show, Larry quickly meets up with the gang and after a short time, you have convinced the whole group to visit some hole-in-the-wall pub that is near by.
  
  Larry is the first to get drunk and his new friends abandon him there. He is ashamed and gets a cab home. He is ashamed and retreats even more into his shell. It's going to take a month of Sundays to pry him back out- Not too slick.
  
  You return to your chambers quickly in a puff of sulfurous yellow smoke and leave that meager prize.
  
  Back in your inner chambers, you sense the unrest that you had left behind remains and has perhaps grown. Your minions have witnessed your pathetic retreat and perceive it as weakness instead of strategy. Maybe that is why they do not succeed more, they cannot appreciate the subtleties of the tasks they have been given. You have no patience and do not desire to explain yourself to any of them. They don't even deserve it.
  
  You are not even given the chance however, because you soon find out that they have been waiting for your return and have planned to overthrow you if you returned empty-handed.
  
  They pour in from every angle and seize you and begin to tear you apart with their talons, beaks, claws, tentacles, teeth, and fangs until you are devoured and dethroned forever.