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Dennis
Great Reader
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 Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 02:09:26
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You are sentenced to life imprisonment, and the Ultimate Judge, in his twisted mercy, allows you to choose a prison from a hundred options... which one would you never ever pick?
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I would choose almost anything except these:
Stygia – the fifth layer of the Nine Hells where the archdevil Levistus is imprisoned.
City of Forever - a "place" that is "outside" the bounds of time and where a Dreadlord was once imprisoned; featured in A Darkness in Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist.
Hell's Asshole – a jail featured in The Night Angel Trilogy where people are usually left to “feed” on each other.
City Jail of Rhiminee – a magically warded prison in The Nightrunner series by Llyn Flewelling.
That prison in Thay which once served as Xingax's laboratory.
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Edited by - Dennis on 06 Jun 2012 05:30:00
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
3766 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 02:17:17
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| -The Lady of Pain's maze. |
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Jeremy Grenemyer
Great Reader
USA
2717 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 02:38:25
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| Manzessine (if I'm spelling that right), the mindflayer prison. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 02:53:41
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Oooo. I definitely second that. |
Every beginning has an end. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 03:07:00
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Escape fromm New York. 
Arkham Asylum. |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 03:09:47
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The "Harvard" for Psychopaths? Unless you're incredibly, irreversibly insane, you can't be placed there.
On the other hand, you'll be lucky to serve your sentence there...as it's fairly easy to escape from it, especially if you "befriend" Joker. |
Every beginning has an end. |
Edited by - Dennis on 06 Jun 2012 03:13:21 |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
8035 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 05:13:25
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| McDonald's. In Wal-Mart. Being surrounded by all those mindless shambling flesh-eating zombies is just too horrifying. |
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Xar Zarath
Senior Scribe
Malaysia
552 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 05:57:25
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| Spellhold, under Jon Irenicus management! |
Everything ends where it begins. Period.
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 06:03:53
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Originally posted by Markustay
Arkham Asylum.
No, that's the prison you should choose to be locked up in.
After all, most of Batman's Rogues Gallery have all managed to escape from the Asylum at some point. Repeatedly.  |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 06:09:55
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| And while it's certainly not the most horrible prison, everything I've been learning about Dreadhold from my current reading of the "Draconic Prophecies" trilogy in the EBERRON saga, has me thinking that this is certainly one of the worst places in the various TSR/Wizards' worlds, that a prisoner could be sent to. |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4258 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 06:46:04
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quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
quote:
Originally posted by Markustay
Arkham Asylum.
No, that's the prison you should choose to be locked up in.
After all, most of Batman's Rogues Gallery have all managed to escape from the Asylum at some point. Repeatedly.
You would think WayneCorp would built a MAX-PSYCH prison by now! |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4258 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 06:47:03
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| I would never pick Void...the great nothing where you are always doomed to be the only being you will ever be in contact with again. |
The Old Grey Box and AD&D for me! |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 06:59:47
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quote:
Originally posted by Xar Zarath
Spellhold, under Jon Irenicus management!
Co-managed by Bodhi. Definitely not a nice place to spend life imprisonment in.
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
I would never pick Void...the great nothing where you are always doomed to be the only being you will ever be in contact with again.
Unless you're a devout Sharran.
quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
quote:
Originally posted by Markustay
Arkham Asylum.
No, that's the prison you should choose to be locked up in.
After all, most of Batman's Rogues Gallery have all managed to escape from the Asylum at some point. Repeatedly.
Indeed. Didn't Joker once refer to it as his "playground"?
Oh, well, Batman's life would have been utterly boring if the crazy Rogues don't escape. They are like Peter Pan and Captain Hook, in a way. |
Every beginning has an end. |
Edited by - Dennis on 06 Jun 2012 07:06:43 |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4258 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 07:12:46
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Unless someone has been utterly alone for an extended period of time...they don't know what it is like.
Shar's worshipers are fools who wish for an end...in the Void there is no end to you...only you and you alone forever. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 07:30:50
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I suppose you're correct. Even Telamont, in one of his conversions with Brennus, commented that he stood at the precipice of the Void and knew how horrible it would be to plunge right in. |
Every beginning has an end. |
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Shemmy
Senior Scribe
USA
492 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 11:23:34
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Agathys - Innermost layer of Carceri and home to Apomps (and Nerull)
One of the Lady of Pain's Mazes (since they tend to be customized to the person stuck therein)
Rovagug's Prison (Pathfinder/Golarion)
Prison of the Laughing Fiend (Pathfinder/Golarion) - good question who precisely is the prisoner there and for one of the potentials, just what in the heck they are and want |
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ericlboyd
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
2089 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 11:27:36
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The Twisted Tower, clearly.
You're "this" close to Elminster, and you can't even go visit. :-) |
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
3823 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 12:23:31
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quote:
Originally posted by Shemmy
Agathys - Innermost layer of Carceri and home to Apomps (and Nerull)
One of the Lady of Pain's Mazes (since they tend to be customized to the person stuck therein)
These two and Tzeentch's homeplane (Warhammer/Warhammer 40k)
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tzeentch#The_Maze_of_Tzeentch
Not really intended as a prison, but seriously, that place is... ew. |
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. |
Edited by - Irennan on 06 Jun 2012 12:24:06 |
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Kilvan
Senior Scribe
Canada
896 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 12:55:27
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| The Jangling Hither, the city of chains in Minauros ruled by kytons. This is basically torture paradise. |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 15:23:50
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| One I always loved from fantasy literature were the open cells of the Eyrie (spelling?)from A Song of Ice and Fire where the occupants could choose to be free whenever they wanted....if they didn't mind the 1000+ foot drop to the valley floor below. I think they were called Skycells. |
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Entromancer
Senior Scribe
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 19:04:26
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| Devar-Toi, in Thunderclap (Steve King's Dark Tower Cycle). Truly a Hell. 1950's Americana isn't so hot when you consider that the surrounding environs are a darkened wasteland populated by vampires and other monstrosities. Add to that the fact that your fellow inmates are working to bring all of existence to a close. |
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"Suffering builds character."--Talia Al Ghul |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 19:31:16
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The 'Phantom Zone' (imagine floating through space in some stupid giant mirror).
The Cube, Negative Zone Alpha, The Vault - all from Marvel Comics.
Another from DC were the 'Starlags' used by those races invading Earth - they were more along the lines of concentration camps, though.
The Hulk was banished to the Interdimensional Crossroads, but that actually looks like a fun place to be. 
I'm just throwing these out there - I personally think the scariest prison is the Turkish one in Midnight Express. |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3290 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jun 2012 : 22:36:05
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| Kessel! |
"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2012 : 01:50:58
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quote:
Originally posted by Markustay
The 'Phantom Zone' (imagine floating through space in some stupid giant mirror).
With or without the imprisoned General Zod?
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The Cube, Negative Zone Alpha, The Vault - all from Marvel Comics.
Use Prison 42 in the Negative Zone.
And I'd be weary of the Vault. It's been prone to nearly as many escaping supervillains as Arkham Asylum. |
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Xar Zarath
Senior Scribe
Malaysia
552 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2012 : 07:10:03
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| The Warlock's Crypt! Try escaping from Larloch and all his liches!!! |
Everything ends where it begins. Period.
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2012 : 14:25:52
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| Desparye , Imperial prison planet/ death world, which was incidentally the testing ground for the first death star. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2012 : 14:27:43
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| Oh and the Basilica of Pain, where those who have angered the Word Bearers are tortured for eternity. |
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Xar Zarath
Senior Scribe
Malaysia
552 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2012 : 14:50:32
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| Wall of the Faithless?? |
Everything ends where it begins. Period.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36968 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2012 : 16:21:58
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Trapped in a small room, surrounded by TVs, forced to watch reality shows and the Teletubbies... forever.
Oh, wait, that's my personal most horrible prison. |
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
3823 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jun 2012 : 16:36:44
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Wall of the Faithless??
I don't think this counts, since you must be dead in order to go there.
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Trapped in a small room, surrounded by TVs, forced to watch reality shows and the Teletubbies... forever.
All of this while being part of a reality show yourself. One meant to put on display to the world your desperation and ever-growing insanity due to the Teletubbies voices obsessively echoing in your head... |
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. |
Edited by - Irennan on 08 Jun 2012 16:37:05 |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jun 2012 : 05:49:00
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quote:
Originally posted by Xar Zarath
The Warlock's Crypt! Try escaping from Larloch and all his liches!!!
Heh. I doubt Larloch would bother keeping you prisoner. He'd likely feed you to his pet monsters, whatever those are.
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Trapped in a small room, surrounded by TVs, forced to watch reality shows and the Teletubbies... forever.
Oh, wait, that's my personal most horrible prison.
Strangely, this is somewhat similar to mine. |
Every beginning has an end. |
Edited by - Dennis on 09 Jun 2012 05:51:44 |
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