“Bad For Business” p15
Talk about selling your soul for a buck… literally! But hey, when you deal with the devil, the invoice is marked “hell to pay”!
Yup, the seeds were planted back in our third storyline.… Immortal Soul Clauses may fly better with a crooked clientele….
“shady deals”, “crafty loopholes,” “contracts”… now I see where Parker got her (bloodshed-free) “killer idea”.
And Treacly still comes off as soulless. The only concern here is the effect on brand imaging. Otherwise he’s right there with Simon and Primstone.
you caught that, did you? ; )
Well could have been worse… it could have been Sole ownership stakes… who wants all those fish?
heh. homonyms.
At least now his head won’t get turned into a doughnut…
I love how both Fausts got in there — Marlowe and Goethe.
Oh yeah–hypothetically voicing Chet Treacly would be Dana Carvey, imitating Jimmy Stewart.
Well Archie did do that cross over with KISS. I don’t think that hurt their brand image too much….
“Hi! I run a company and I signed a contract and apparently didn’t read it! And neither did my lawyers!” Man, I’d want their business, too.
Sole ownership of your soul? “So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish”.
Gotta read that fine print people!
The more I read this, the more I wonder if Demonatrix’s real plan is working out perfectly. As a demon I’d think she’d want Parker to be sneaky, backstabbing, and duplicitous. Parker must have been a pretty loyal daughter for most of her life to have been given such an important task… which might put Demonatrix of a mind she’s neglected a critical are of parenting. Hence Demonatrix needing to make sure her daughter gets some first-hand experience with betrayal.
It’d be easy to just assume the betrayal experience was limited to the Hero Business. Given that Demonatrix is a demon and considering her business practices, though, it doesn’t seem overcomplicated enough. Setting Parker up to betray the Hero Business then betray her own mother, on the other hand, which would give Parker a career boost without realizing she was being manipulated into manipulating people. At the same time, everyone else is just there to be another unknowing puppet dancing on Demonatrix’s strings via Parker’s hands? That strikes me as the kind of needlessly circuitous plotting I’d expect from a sucessful demonic supervillain.
… then again, I could just be overthinking it. I could also see Demonatrix setting up Parker to rebel because she doesn’t see her daughter taking the villain route in life and she’d rather have Parker driven to rebel than feel like she failed to follow her mother’s footsteps.