Does this quality mean Im going to hell? Or just that Ive had close dealings with Devils?
Well, obviously we don’t entirely know at the moment. But it does seem to indicate that you’ll have the option of going to hell for some purpose.
I’ve no idea why you’re nervous about that though, as we know where Hell is. In fact, my understanding is that if you get on the train at Moloch Street Underground Station, it’s at the other end of the line, so it’s not as if it’s all that far away. We’re neighbours, after all, down here in the Neath.
Perhaps you’re confusing potential travel plans with the loss of your soul? They’re rather different things, so I shouldn’t worry overmuch.
So do you mean to say this just givdes me the option, and that I will not be damnecd and forced to board the Moloch Street Train?
The text of this Quality reads “[…]This could ultimately be the key to your future”; the “could” would seem to imply a possibility, or a choice, much more so considering that there are other Qualities with a similar descriptor. So I don’t think there’s be much to be worried about your immortal soul, unless you actually WANT to literally go to hell ^^
Personally I’m speculating that Hellfarer is but one Quality entitling to some kind of “ending sequence” in the game.
Why would you be forced to board the train if you were damned? Somewhere in the region of 11% (by some accounts) of the population of London have sold their souls, and yet here they remain. Perhaps one in nine people you pass on the street lacks a soul. Can you tell?
A soul is a mere appurtenance and far from necessary for life, thought, feeling and even an appreciation of the finer things in life. Neither does it prevent one from returning from the slow boat on the silent river. Why, an acquaintance of mine knew someone who lacked her soul. It had been many years since she had sold it, and it being a near impossibility to find it again, I simply gave her the first that I had to hand. She seemed none the worse for having someone else’s soul in her. Were her original soul to be lost forever in Hell, she’d neither notice not care.
Damnation is nothing to fear, as if it applies to anything, it applies merely to the soul not the self. And as the soul is manifestly not the self, it is of no significance whether one’s soul is damned or not.
Also worthy of consideration is the fact that in the Neath it is possible to actually recover one’s soul (it DOES carry a hefty price, though). So no worries: like in good ole doctor Faustus’ times, freely bargain with the devils: no one will enforce you to uphold your side of the deal :)
You’ll have to forgive my skepticism on matters Infernal… I honestly think, theyre too good on the ahem surface… There must be something darker, more sinister behind the veil, if my hellfarer ever comes to play, it’s so that I can find he truth, of souls, and devils. Things just seem too quiet.