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.

When Hellmouth formed, all written references to Moab, Utah were replaced with references to Hellmouth instead, with the resulting documents and signage appearing to be designed and spaced properly for the altered text. Certain references to Moab have been destroyed via burning instead, although it is still unclear why some were destroyed and some were replaced.

Culture

Hell's Best SumBeans

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.

Lack of economy has not slowed down local industry, which has taken advantage of the new opportunities, and spawned various local delicacies, the most famous of which are Hell's Best SumBeans and SUNN light.

A number of 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 Undiead 500 road trip from Hell to the Community College. 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 Illegal Physics. 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-79.403 out of its Resident Registry...

by Eli

Perseo Mariposa Friendo (he/xe) is an Associate Professor of “Entomology?” at Hellmouth Community College.

Having grown up in the Hellmouth, Perseo (nicknamed “Percy”) found his love for insects in childhood by wandering into highly populated areas in hopes that being bitten by one would give him cool powers. It was here he started his tradition of gently tapping the ground, going “pspspspspspsp” until any number of insect-adjacent creatures inevitably emerged. Friendo has been bitten by every type of creature he’s ever summoned, though he avoids any major consequence thanks to his immunity to venom. When venom of any source is injected into him, it will not enter his bloodstream, instead immediately crystallizing into a surface-level amber scab before inevitably fading away. While Friendo doesn’t think he’s made of amber, his parents do both have backgrounds in Bad Geography and archery, so he’s accepted that anything is possible. He happily considers this immunity to be the cool power that he was seeking, citing that it was, after all, only activated upon being bitten.

Friendo’s enthusiasm for the local insect populations did not abate after these initial encounters. Instead, they became the Hellmouth’s most avid bug enjoyer— distinguished from a bug collector by Friendo himself, saying “I don’t collect them. They just follow me around. I hang out with them. I throw them parties.”

Originally, his expertise and supposed influence over the local insect populations earned him a job as a Fearmongering Ambassador with the Hellmouth Anti-Tourism Board, tasked with educating would-be visitors about the extreme hostility of these creatures and threats that they pose to those who would be unable to avoid them. After only two years in this position he was asked to step down, for his genuine adoration of the insects he presented were only serving to draw fellow bug enthusiasts in rather than keep them away.

Despite no longer being a Fearmongerer, xe can still always be found in the company of xir two favorite insect ambassadors, Amun (the orange one) and Halo (the blue one). Both are 4 and a half foot long myriapods who were first summoned by Friendo throwing a “caterpillar rave”. It was their first time attending such a function and they enjoyed Friendo’s company so much that they simply never left. Friendo xemself is not certain of the exact relationship between them, so xe refers to all three of them as very close friends. Despite both myriapods frequently biting Friendo, xe insists that they’re both quite cordial, certain that venom injection is how they display affection.

Nowadays, Friendo spends much of xir time educating the eager students of HCC about the local insect populations. Xir lengthy and in-depth lectures began as a correction of misinformation xe had heard in a class xe attended as a student. While the misinformation was soon corrected, xir monologue was so verbose and xir presentation so strangely well-prepared that xir fellow students began to consider it a class of their own, eventually petitioning for it to be recognized as such so that Friendo could be compensated properly. When the students were asked to specify what exactly the topic of the class was, each of them responded “Hmm.. well.. I guess….. Entomology?” with the exact same inflection. Xir class soon became quite popular with the students, many of whom lost their aversion to insects thanks to Friendo’s care and enthusiasm, much to the extended dismay of the Anti-Tourism Board.

Despite his surname, Friendo does not claim any relation to Sunbeams Player Brisket Friendo, though xe does claim to have been bitten by Brisket on multiple occasions, saying “I’m not very good with cats”.

Locations

• Basking Robins
• The Bone Zone
• The Dope Korean Restaurant
• Hahn Fox's Pool
• Hellmouth Community College
• Hellmouth Museum
• Seven Heleven
• Shadow Moabbey
• The Solarium
• Randall Marijuana Memorial Cat Café
• Romayne's Romaine (closed)

See also

• Cuisine of Hellmouth