@Background Pony #6242
In this continuity it’s basically like stamina, or qi. Her species just has the ability to quantify and trade it. They’ll even teach you tactics to replenish it faster via nutrition and balance, if it means making you spend more, and they even offer a form of credit card for it. Don’t ever use it XD
@Background Pony #828B
I mean… That’s very much not the case. GMHAA gave up a portion of his life force to summon her for his own (admittedly very minor) benefit, and he bought some coffee for her to make up for making her sit through a long and boring car ride with him, instead of just summoning her after arriving at wherever they’re going.
@Clever Clovers
They’re just amoral, no worse no less. They’re just demon capitalists and aren’t interested in doing evil for the sake of it, especially when doing “good” profits them a lot more :D
@Background Pony #6242 @Background Pony #399A
He’s actually cheating the system in a way. He summons them for such small tasks that he recovers life force faster than he’s spending it so, in a way, it really isn’t costing him anything and he can do it as much as he wants. Their queen is okay with because she wants summoning to become a familiar concept since she figures it’ll lead to far more people summoning them. She just keeps sending Kim to this guy’s summons since she figures Kim needs to lighten up, and also because she thinks it’s funny as hell :P
@Background Pony #6242
Considering he’s only asking for extremely minor stuff (sweeping the floors, starting a campfire, riding in the car so he can use the high-occupancy lane), I very much doubt that.
@Clever Clovers
They have a membership system too. A kind of “preferred customer” kind of thing. Minor discounts, additional services, the occasional gift, things like that :D
@Ruinastar @Clever Clovers @SinnerWhoKeepsTrying1978
Autocorrect is god-awful. I always turn it off. I habitually go back to correct my own mistakes, so even when it works properly it throws me off XD
@Dirty Bit
Apparently they’re adding one to the I-75, but they only announced their plan for it last year. I dunno if they’ve started or not since I haven’t been through Michigan in a few years XD
@Respectful Batpone @Background Pony #399A @Respectful Batpone
She’s definitely not a bad person. Just an attitude. She gets huffy when she gets hauled all the way up from Tartarus just to do stupid stuff she feels is beneath her. It’s certainly not an unreasonable reaction, though it should be noted she actually gets treated pretty well. Every time he summons her she gets treats, cake, s’mores, coffee, etc, and she’s certainly not summoned to do anything bad. He’ll summon her to sweep his floor, but it’s not like he’s summoning her to unplug his toilet XD
@HDPlayer
That is a sign for roads in the US at least which require you to have 2 or more people in a car. Usually such lanes have less traffic so it’s done to encourage carpooling as that helps pull more cars off the road.
@Badumsquish
GHMAA needs to level-up, huh? Good thing he keeps spawning in hellhorses for seemingly unneccesary things, he’s racking up experience like a maniac!
@comet_wing
Definitely a benefit of being able to summon one of them :P
@LemonDrop @Wayneponeth
It’s definitely one of the dumber things they ever tried. In all my years of driving professionally, I’ve never seen a HOV lane with enough people in it that it would make any significant reduction in traffic. Hell, just opening that extra lane up so there was one extra general lane would help with the congestion in the other lanes quite a bit XD
@Clever Clovers
That is advanced level stuff. GMHAA’s only a low-level rank amateur summoner at best XD
@dzamie
You know that’s actually a thing that happened in India? Hitchhikers who will ride with you for a fee, so you can use the HOV lane and get there faster XD
@Background Pony #1030
Handy benefit is she can do this to anyone who tries to cut you off XD
@SinnerWhoKeepsTrying1978
She’s mostly just huffy that he keeps hauling her all the way up from Tartarus to do stupid stuff like this. She really hasn’t stopped to realize she’s basically getting paid to sit in her butt and drink coffee XD
@Background Pony #73E5 @dzamie
Yep, dark roast black. They like it burned and bitter, like from a percolator. Not any of that “pussy overworlder” stuff like milk or sugar XD
@Background Pony #8005
I’ve seen people with mannequins in it before, but only once or twice XD
@Dimon97
They’re tricky with their emotions. When they get angry they get warmer and their horns turn red-hot to the touch, and when they’re upset or sad they get colder and their horns freeze over XD
GMHAA: The road gets lonely and your super easy to get on short notice. Angry hell pony noises
Love how Kim is still “punished” as GMHAA’s personal hell pony. XD