Hellmouth (town)

Hellmouth
Satellite view of the Hellmouth Region
Type	Town
Level	16
Location	Utah, United States

This page is for Hellmouth, the town which is home to the Hellmouth Sunbeams. For the extradimensional entity which gives the town its name, see Hellmouth (entity).

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Hellmouth is a small town in the desert of Utah, given its name by its position on the edge of the Hellmouth. The town is home to the Hellmouth Sunbeams.

Description

Hellmouth is considered to be one of the least habitable cities to host a blaseball team due to its arid climate, connection to Hell, and numerous teeth — by and large, Hellmouth is inhospitable to most living beings. It is not clean or safe, and its attempts to lure people towards it are actively opposed by the Hellmouth Anti-Tourism Board who make sure Hellmouth is not welcoming to anyone (except for maybe JEFF!). This is no easy task, since the Hellmouth region of eastern Utah is widely known for its National Plarks and outdoor recreation areas.

Culture

Presence next to the Hellmouth has encouraged the development of a unique culture in the town, particularly in response to shared experiences such as Adaptation and the Tug. The community is mostly self-sufficient, with strong interpersonal ties necessary to allow survival in the hostile environment. Money is unheard of in the local environment, relying instead on a bartering system. This may explain how certain members of the Hellmouth Sunbeams have achieved credit scores previously considered impossible.

A number of local traditions have arisen within the tight-knit community. Community events such as the creation of a new Outback Steakhouse are always well attended. Non-Hellmouth residents are asked to please not travel to Hellmouth for the purpose of attending community events, such as the upcoming Sigmund Castillo open day. Many traditions take advantage of the unique environment, such as the practice of climbing teeth to watch the sunrise, cutting smaller teeth down to keep in a home and decorate, and using mini-mouths (small temporary Hellmouths) as a form of garbage disposal.

There is a strong legal tradition, with certain high profile legal cases being hosted in the Bone and Tooth courts, to take advantage of the loose legal structure. Many students of Hellmouth Community College choose to major in law, although a variety of other subjects are available, such as Anti-tourism and Unmarketing. If a particularly desired course is not available, students are advised to sign up as a lecturer and teach it themselves. This system explains the existence of a Russian Literature course, taught by Howell Franklin.

Residents

Local historian Milo N. J. Cooper has been cataloguing Hellmouth residents and their experiences in the town for many years, in order to preserve a record of this unique community. Their profiles of residents are presented in a monthly newsletter. This time, the Interdimensional Rumor Mill reveals a Resident from IF-44.609 out of its Resident Registry...

Jackie Daws is a chef and deliveryperson for Mozza-hella, a popular pizza place in the Hellmouth town, known for implausibly quick delivery times. Mozza-hella prides itself on an absolute minimum of deals with demons, devils or entities from within the Hellmouth itself. Their pizza has been described as ‘good as sin’. Daws started working at Mozza-hella a few months after their 25th birthday and has been 25 for just under 40 years.

While they have adapted, the exact nature of their adaptation is the subject of some scientific interest. As a child, Daws was reported to be able to run on 100 degree slopes (with a margin of error of 1.8%), something that was discovered during a visit to a local rock climbing centre. After starting to work at Mozza-hella, Daws’ feet turned into roller-blades, as is customary for Mozza-hella deliverypeople. What is less customary is Daws’ tail, which they gained after being named chef of the year four years after joining Mozza-hella. Their pizza is said to be excellent. They are also able to see into a few extra dimensions, their reward for thirteen years of working for Mozza-hella. This has prompted several debates about what exactly should be classed as an adaptation, especially as it’s hard to identify what exactly caused their later modifications.

Daws is a talented tabletop Game Master and runs weekly intro one shots for a variety of systems in the broadly unused Mozza-hella dining area on Wednesday nights. They also maintain the Mozza-hella tabletop games library (nicknamed the Satanic Panic Attic), which has an excellent selection of indie titles as well as several games that Daws has written themself. They are most proud of Racing Demons: The Official Mozza-hella Roleplaying Game (eating Mozza-hella provided food and drink over the course of play provides various buffs), describing it as a ‘wonderful blend of two things which have defined my [Daws’] life’ and ‘a mechanical trainwreck, but if you eat a whole pizza you can teleport to the undead corpse of the moon’.

Despite their long hours at Mozza-hella and their tabletop game creation, Daws is described by friends as being someone who is always up to try anything, with some reporting seeing them and other young Hellmouth residents exploring abandoned buildings, skydiving, caving, graffitiing various buildings in town, and doing rituals in local parks at night.

Locations

• The Solarium
• Shadow Moabbey
• Randall Marijuana Memorial Cat Café
• Seven Heleven
• Basking Robins
• Hellmouth Community College
• Hahn Fox's Pool
• The Dope Korean Restaurant

See also

• Cuisine of Hellmouth