It's a Good Ship!
The inner ring suburbs of Pandemonium are much like the outer ring suburbs: there are still tract homes, cul-de-sacs, and giant cars in the driveways, but everything is a little older and more run-down. There's a little more graffiti everywhere, more crime, and the quiet desperation is louder. Demons, of course, find this much more pleasant than the outer-ring suburb's wholesome banality.
You follow a walking trail past an infernal tennis court (infernal tennis is played like regular tennis, but with infernal rackets [sorry]) and arrive at a giant statue erected (huh huh) to honor Charon, the boatman on the River Styx. It's a lifesize statue, complete with boat and boatload of damned souls in tacky souvenir sweatshirts, all of whom are taking pictures and drinking margaritas.
You climb up onto the plinth of the statue, wondering vaguely what noise "plinth" would be if it were onomatopoetic, and see a brightly-colored lollipop stuck to the boat's keel. You feel that the candy might make the keel dangerously uneven, so you grab it and take it with you. You notice someone's written PROPERTY OF AZAZEL on the stick, complete with adorable backwards Z's.
 | You acquire an item: Azazel's lollipop |
Formerly occurred at The Deep Fat Friars' Gate.
Notes
- A one-time superlikely adventure, always occurring on the 20th adventure spent in the area.
References
- The name of the adventure and the acquired item refer to the Shirley Temple song "On The Good Ship Lollipop."
- The ship in the middle of suburbia (and the candy) are possibly a reference to Captain Sticky Beard's ship in the Kids Next Door series on Cartoon Network.
- The Damned souls in tacky souvenir sweatshirts, may be a reference to Monty Python's The Meaning of Life where in "Part VII: Death", Heaven is a resort and a tourist couple, dressed in tacky souvenir shirts, are taking pictures and many of the dead have alcoholic drinks, such as margaritas.
- The "huh huh" is a reference to Beavis and Butt-head.
- This adventure, along with all the non-combat adventures relating to this quest, refer to the poet Dante's classic epic poem, The Inferno, which is the story of Dante's personal descent through the Circles of Hell, each more horrible than the last.
- The labeling of Azazel's name on the lollipop stick is a repeated reference to the film Toy Story.
