While
Chris Avellone and me were working hard on The Collapse pitch, this one time Chris Parker comes to our office.
'Hey guys', he says, 'I have some ideas on how we can tap into that 20-year old college liberal audience'.
MCA looks at me, I look at him, there's an awkward silence. Minutes pass. Parker just stands there, waiting. Finally MCA says, 'Uh, sure, we'd love to hear your input.'
And Parker goes, 'First of all, I think health potions are an oppressive concept that roots in the culture of Southern white supremacists, so it would be appropriate to replace them with soy potions. Also, the hellhound mount looks great, but some people may interpret demon riding on a hellhound as symbol of male patriarchy riding on backs of minority groups. So we should probably replace the hellhounds with furries riding on bicycles'.
Suddenly the door opens, it's Josh. 'Did somebody say bicycles? Oh hey, are those jelly beans?'.
So we sat and started working hard on the idea of soy potion, but we run into implementation issues. There was this persistent bug that we couldn't nail down. If your demon protagonist drank a soy potion, he would somehow grow manboobs and start humming Celine Dion tunes.
We take the problem to Feargus, but to our horror he loves it, and comes up with this epic final scene, where Lucifer and Jesus hug each other like Leo and Kate were on the Titanic, yelling, we're the kings of the world!
We try to talk Feargus out of it, but he just gets obsessed about the idea and gets the entire team working on it. Thankfully it all fell apart because licensing "My Heart Will Go On" would eat half of our budget.
