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Chris Gide and a group of his closest friends are meeting in the back room of Demon ink tattoos and body modification. In The shop are deranged paintings only an insane genius can dream of and flashes of work that Chris has done. Chris and his friend start to begin in their pre-rituals for the hangings. As they start to raise Chris into a state of painful euphoria they can tell that something isn't right.

Chris while hang from the surgical steel hooks realizes that the high is just not the same but as the last thought goes through his mind he can fell the popping in his back. He doesn't catch on to what is happening till he gets that old feeling back, the pleasure of pain. As his friends lower him as fast as they can he realizes the blood that has pooled on the floor and as he stares into the pool of blood there is a face that is staring back at him but it is not his. Chris then passes out and his friend rush him to the hospital .

once he wakes up he checks himself out not without taking a few souvenirs, he then returns to the shop and to the surprise of everyone that he is not dead. Then Chris engages in mindless self indulging conversation with others he can't help but to think about the high he got from so much pain. Chris doesn't miss a beat and starts on a guys tattoo as he is finishing up because money is finishing up as well a real crazy walks in. Chris immediately goes to the counter since he is the owner and no one wants to deals with the drama. He ask the man "what can I do for you chief" the man places down an old piece of paper with a picture of the design of a box. Then the man puts down 500 cash and the tattooing starts as he is tattooing this man then tells him how to get the pleasure he needs, the man gives him an address to an extreme body piecing shop.

As Chris arrives at the address he is disappointed by the run down heap that looks more like a cave, he enters to meet the givers of temptation. After a mind churning chat he receives the box as he goes to reach for his wallet they are gone. That night he dreams of chains and hooks piercing his body in every which way and this continues night after night. Finally one night he picks up the box and opens it his bedroom turns into a dungeon and a familiar face enters through the shadows." Chris we have been waiting for you." Chris is dumbfounded about the demons knowledge of him. "Yes Chris we know all about you about your past and we know your future" then out of nowhere hooks rip him apart "was it good for as was me."

I would like to see a Hellraiser film along the lines of another "Hell on Earth" movie if you will. Most of people's ideas of hell on earth is living in a horrible situation, corrupted cities, prison, or on a battlefield in the middle of a war zone... i.e. Vietnam, Iraq or wherever... I'm going to go with a war zone as my setting because a number of horrible things have been known to happen on a battlefield as we know from real life as well as many good war movies that have been made. My ideas are pretty vague but I hope you can imagine where I'm going. My plot would be somewhat reminiscent of a cross between Apocolypse Now and Platoon where a squad, present day, in the past or possibly in the future, would be given a dangerous/important mission to recover some important documents and discover some "treasure" with the Lament Configuration in the mix. One soldier decides to examine and open the box amidst his fellow men after a good meal and a job well done... and all hell breaks loose.

Alternately the mission could be to capture a ranking official or a political figure who has, unknown to the squad, opened the Lament Configuration and "struck a deal" with Pinhead to take the souls of the soldiers, which he learns just prior to opening the box are coming for him/her.

We could easily find a leading character or hero out of the squad to battle the forces of evil. Possibly a one man army, Rambo style, or three or more soldiers working together to end this war within a war. I'd like to see more of cenobites being created like in Hellraiser 3 and Bloodline with alot of action throughout most of the movie.

I believe this could be a good breeding ground for conflict within Pinhead being that his original human self first came in contact with the Lament Configuration in a time of war. Maybe even having a decendant from his human bloodline involved would make things all the more interesting.

The film would tell the story of two similar characters that inhabited two separate dimensions. The first character would be a young woman named Jamie and the second character would be a young man named James. These worlds would be similar to our Earth, but different in certain aspects. The main difference in Jamie's world what we interpret as pleasure is pain, and what we interpret pain as, is pleasure to them. It's basically a planet of masochists. In James' world the concepts of pleasure and pain are exactly the same as they are here.

The film would simultaneously tell the stories of both Jamie's and James' quests for the ultimate experience in pleasure. In their research Jamie and James would each discover tales of the Lament Configuration and the pleasures it promised. In Jamie's world the Configuration would be shaped like a circle, and in James' it would be shaped like a triangle. Jamie and James would set out to find it, and would each commit similar, yet different, atrocities in their quests for the Configuration. They would murder people for clues, and lose their jobs as well as the love and the respect of everyone whom they love.

Eventually they would each get their hands on it and James would open the box in the regular way and end up in Hell. Jamie would open it in a way we've never completely seen before (although we saw Kirsty begin to open it this way in the first Hellraiser.) She'd unlock the doorway to Heaven. The creatures of Heaven would be beautiful, but in a creepy way. They would commit such extreme excesses of sex, gluttony and other "pleasures" that the audience would cease to find them appealing and instead become appalled by them. The remainder of the film would deal with Jamie and James' initiations into the different dimensions that the box had taken them to. James would be tortured by pain, and Jamie would be tortured by pleasure.

Opening shot: Wall covered in newspaper clippings - "Mysterious deaths at Channard Institute", "Deaders: myth or reality?", "Architect Le Merchant Found Butchered: Family Links?", "LA Cop Found Dead in Hookers Lair" etc. There should be one clipping to attribute to each film. Opening shot end on unshaven man in creased shirt and tie looking over a newspaper...

...film starts with a New York detective [D'Amour] trying to track down Kirsty Cotton. He discovers that after the disappearance of her husband [Hellseeker] she had sold the box to Winters [Deader] and disappeared... However when he sees a striking similarity between the leader of a new-age box worshipping cult and Kristy's long missing stepmother he realises there may be some reality in the stories he's heard.

Early on D'Amour tracks down Kirsty in Liverpool, and discovers that she is the configuration's new 'guardian'. Those who seek the box find her and she gives them it in vain hope of ridding herself of it. However the Lament Configuration always finds her again. This is taking its toll on Kirsty who has a repeating nightmare of Pinhead coming to claim her, and has 'hallucinations' of him taunting her. Now Julia [resurrected, for reasons left unknown... no good mythology should be completely neat] is after the box. Kirsty is hiding and avoiding a confrontation with her in fear it will result in her soul being claimed by Hell.

D'Amour, believing he can use the box to not only send Julia back to hell, but also to free Kirsty of her bind to it, decides to seek her out and drags a reluctant Kirsty, box in tow, to where Julia and her cult is now based, the Le Merchant building [Hell on Earth / Bloodlines].

Kirsty and D'Amour enter the building only to discover that Julia has used it to allow creatures from hell through. As they traverse through the labyrinth of the building, D'Amour uses wits and knowledge of the occult to save him, Kirsty chooses to use the box.

Eventually, believing she can escape at the expense of D'Amour, Kirsty betrays him, leaving him for dead.

He survives however and has a final confrontation with Julia, where he sends her back to Hell and solves the puzzle of the building, closing the gateway to Hell, but not before it takes everything inside with it.

Kirsty however does not make it, and the film ends with her in the attic of the house from the first film with Pinhead and his original band of Cenobites, with Frank and Julia waiting in the wings. It's her nightmare. A verse of typically poetic Pinhead prose confirms what we already know...

...Kirsty is trapped in Hell...

...and Pinhead at last has his prize.

Fade to closing credits with box tune playing, leading into fill Christopher Young orchestration.

On The Next Film:

First my title: Hellraiser IX: The Call Of Leviathan

I would start the movie with clips of Leviathan creating it domain - The Maze of Eternity. Starting almost like a perverse creation of Eden. After that the screen would go black and hear Pinhead say in a 'sinister bibicial way' On The 8th Day, He Created the Maze and brought forth the darkness, and it was good.'

Then I would show A young boy (about 15-20) in a English boarding school sketching a rather familar box, you would hear the teacher scream. "Chanard!!!" Of course this would be the young Dr. Channard from Hellraiser: Hellbound.

Fast Forward, a little showing Channard reading a book on the Life of Lemarchand. And the history of the box. The book would start showing the assembly of the box and the history. Channard starts to delve into people that had disappeared when they had the box. The Channard story would serve as a 'wraparound story' to work between each story.

Each story would be the tale of how the four Cenobites from Hellraiser transformed from Humans to Hell's butchers..

Pinhead's Tale - Showing how Captain Elliott Spencer did before he became The Black Pope of Hell and how he got the box.

Followed by: Butterball's Tale, Female (Cenobites) Tale, and Chatterer's Tale

It would end with the Dr. Channard we know from Hellbound, standing in his Obsession Room looking around. The phone rings and we hear this. "What is the patient's name, Kyle..... Cotton. I'll be there shortly." Of course, the day before Hellbound starts.

He looks around the room once more, and leaves.

Would like to see Clive write this one and have Gary J. Tunnicliff direct (I'm very very impressed by his Hellraiser short 'No More Souls'.

Flashbacks from Hellraiser Hellseeker shoot across the screen. Kirsty lying on the bed, the cenobites surrounding. Then a quick cut to an eye. Pops open! Deep breaths. Pull out to Kirsty. Obviously just awakening from a nightmare. She looks down at the bottom bedposts. At the very bottom of the bed right in the middle lays the Lament Configuration. Changing angle we are now looking at Kirsty from the bottom of the bed as an expression of fear comes across her face. Suddenly, chains come flying through her chest. Quick cut to Pinhead at the bottom of the bed. As the chains fly by his head he grabs them. We can see the hooks slice through the flesh of his hand. Looking at pinhead from an angle we can hear the haunting voice that speaks in riddles. Ahh Kirsty, do you believe in fairytales? If so than don't. This is not a fairytale, this is a nightmare. This is where i come out to play. Pinhead lets out an evil laugh as he yanks on the chains. Looking at Kirsty we see the chains rip the guts out of her stomach while she lets out a blistering scream. Then, quick cut to an eye. It pops open as we hear heavy breathing. Pull out to Kirsty's face.

This Hellraiser would be based around Kirsty living out her hell. Such as Inferno and Hellseeker. Of course, we wouldn't know until the end that this is what was happening. I think the true hardcore Hellraiser fans want to know whatever happened to Kirsty.

Open on:

Kirsty, walking through the corridors of the Labyrinth. We can see a room up ahead. Light spills out from the corners. Kirsty walks slowly towards it. Finally coming to it, she opens the door. Now we are in the room. It is dark, we can hear faint whispers from the distance. In the middle of the floor we see Tiffany from hellbound opening the box. She looks up. To our shock, half of her face is missing. Only bloody tissue remains where the left portion of her face use to be. Then, looking at Kirsty we see Julia and Trevor, her husband from hellseeker, come from the left and right of her. They grab her arms. From the left Julia says, Kirsty, the family has been lost without you. And from the right Trevor says, Till death do us part, wasn't that the agreement. Now looking at Kirsty we hear a voice. Come to daddy. There is someone behind her. We see lumps appear coming from behind her into her shirt. The shirt begins to bleed. These are arms, the hands move all the way up to her breasts. She pulls herself loose and jerks around and back. We now see a skinned Frank. He holds out his switchblade and moves towards her. She moves farther back till, she hits something. She turns around. We now see a morgue table with her father laying on it. We also see the wire twins from inferno, one on each side. They are giving him an under skin massage. He speaks, Kirsty ah Kirsty, do you have any idea what they have done to me. He rises up and hops off the table. He walks towards Kirsty as she backs up. He continues talking now screaming at her. Do you have any idea what they have done to me. So much pain. You did this, you're the reason. You should have told me. We see Kirsty crying now but still backing up. She speaks, i tried to daddy, i tried too. He speaks, Do you see you little bitch. Suddenly, Kirsty hits a wall and QUICK CUT TO: An eye, we pull out to Kirsty at the door. Her hand is on the knob. She has just had a vision of inside the room. She turns around and begins back down the corridors.

There will be little hints to the climax at the end where we see how Kirsty was tortured by the cenobites.

Open on, Kirsty in pinheads torture room. She is alone, and cold by the fog from her breath. Then we see the cenobites come out. Pinhead, the surgeon, butterball, the chatterer. Pinhead pulls to nails out of his head and shoves them through her wrists pinning her to a wall. Now in a crucifix position she pulls the nails out of the wall with pressure from her wrists. We can see her in pain, tears and sweat. She finally gets them out and runs. The Surgeon grabs her up and carries her over to a hospital table in the corner of the room. He straps her down and pulls a rusty knife from his cloak. He begins cutting. We see him lay her eyes down on a side table. Butterball comes over and grabs the eyes. He takes his glasses off and rips open his sewed shut eyes. Then he places Kirstys eyes into his sockets. The Chatterer comes over and grabs her by the inside of her mouth and holds in wide open. The surgeon cuts off her tongue. Then we look up above Kirsty and we see the huge Leviathan above us.

This would be the end. We would leave off on Kirsty suffering through her hell forever.

Characters

Cenobites:

Original cast of Pinhead, Female Cenobite, Chatterer, and Butterball. Joined by newcomer Miner Cenobite.

Victims:

• Alex Johnston: Strong, proud, older man and father. Experienced miner foreman who just wants to get the men to safety and see his family again.
• Darwin James: Young, new guy on the job. Intelligent and capable of greater things, but falls into mine work due to his insistence to push a rebel image of himself on the world. Has poor self-esteem, but hides it.
• Bill Thistle: Long-time miner and good friend of Darwin's father and Alex Johnston. Managed to get Darwin James a job in the mine in hopes that the difficult work will shake him from his image façade and motivate him to go to college.
• Vladimir "Drac" Fodor: Immigrant from Transylvania. Jokingly nicknamed "Drac" by his co-workers due to his homeland, accent, and imposing appearance - but he has a great sense of humor about it and enjoys making jokes. Values survival above all else.
• Leon Metzger: A hulk of a man, and one of the longest working miners of the crew. Lost the job of Foreman to Alex Johnston due to his lack of leadership skills. Still holds a grudge, and constantly belittles those around him due to a superiority complex.

Setting

A deep and dark coal mine. The mine has been in use for several decades, and is beginning to show it's wear. It's productivity is quickly running out, and it's age is showing. There are many long tunnels and shafts, as well as a small railway system (for mine carts) running throughout the mine, creating a dark and claustrophobic sort of labyrinth.

Plot

Our five protagonists and a handful of other workers are deep within the mine putting in a couple hours of overtime after their co-workers had already went home for the night. After a mishap with some explosives, much of the dilapidated supports for the mine collapse. Everyone, exception of the protagonists, is killed in the catastrophe. The main exit is now sealed, locking the survivors inside the mine. They must now decide how to survive and escape the dark, claustrophobic tomb that they have been enshrined in. Do they simply wait where they are for help, or do they brave the further depths of the jagged, coal bathed labyrinth in hopes of finding an emergency escape route?

To put a further twist on their predicament, Vladimir discovers a small puzzle box that has been shaken free from the rubble after the blast. During rest periods, he attempts to solve the puzzle, perhaps as a way to keep his mind off of things and retain his sanity...or perhaps there is an unknown, darker desire within him that motivates him to continue solving the puzzle...

He solves the puzzle box, and the cenobites are released into the mines. They decide to entertain themselves with their newfound victims as they stalk them throughout the darkness.

Will the miners find their escape? Or will their souls be torn apart?

In a heavily secluded private school, several students seem to turn up missing. It seems that these disappearances have been tied with the eccentric school principal Ferris McElroy. His office bookshelves are stocked with ancient books and scribes, and his desk is cluttered with various trick puzzles and marvelous illusions. He has always been fascinated with the marvels of the universe. Whenever a student is sent to his office, they are asked a riddle before he'll release them; those who do not answer them correctly got detention. But lately detention seems longer than it is supposed to be and one teacher, Trixie Miller is getting suspicious.

Mr. McElroy is happy about his work; so happy he wants all of Hell to know about it. He is an artist of the flesh, the students are his canvas and his paintbrush is a scalpel. He does his work in the old nurse's room, where he performed "surgery" such as sewing mouths shut, mutilating faces, and distorting the mind. He wants to be famous in Hell, but before he can do that he needs a portfolio, a gallery of art to please his audience... The Cenobites. Ms. Miller investigated this matter, she snuck into his office and sifted through the various things on McElroy's cabinet and found a box sitting on his desk, and suddenly she saw McElroy coming out of a room and hid. He grabbed the box, and she followed him to the basement where the drugged flayed students sat at a table where they were given a mysterious puzzle box to pass around and solve, each student solving a different part.

Upon solving it, the students questioned what was about to happen, and suddenly a bright, blinding light illuminated the room shining out of the crevices in the walls and the silhouette of four ghastly flawed figures appeared out of a portal-like hole in the paneling. The scent of rancid vanilla filled the room and chains fell from the roof as the distorted Cenobites arrived, Pinhead, Butterball, Chatterer and the Female Cenobite. "What calls us?" asked Pinhead. "It is I, Ferris McElroy! I have created the finest sculptures which I present to you!" McElroy shouted. "Ah, we have an artist... one that strives for Hells attention... one full of riddles... well Ferris, I have a riddle for you... What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?" asked Pinhead. "Uh, I don't know... what is it?" asked McElroy. "It is 'nothing', which is what you have proved to us." stated Pinhead "But I have worked so hard to please you." said McElroy. "It is not their flesh that pleases us, it is yours, it is you who summoned us, you must pay the toll of you're flesh for an eternity of suffering!" shouted Pinhead. And the rest is yet to be told...

Characters

• Commander Jack Ioatne - leader of a commando squad in the near future. He's brash and bad tempered and wants to be in charge of every situation.
• Lt. Commander Paul "Kip" Kipley - The protagonist of the story, Kip has to suffer a lot of his commander's mood swings and does his best to keep the men happy.
• Lieutenant Rachel Dualin - Kip's best friend, she's tough and educated and won't take shit from anyone. She can't stand Jack's attitude and often comes to blows with her Commander.
• Technician Janice Baker - Chief technician on Centauri Alpha, the only survivor. She's paranoid and scared.

Location

Advance space station Centauri Alpha, a research post for humanities first attempt to put a man on Mars. It's newly constructed and there are a number of faults.

The Story.

Just after going operational all contact is lost with Centuari Alpha and the commando team are sent to investigate. They arrive to discover only Janice alive and everyone else vanished.

They soon discover a box has been opened on the space station by a depressed crew member and the Cenobites were let out. They killed everyone and took them to Hell and now the Commandos have come the Cenobites want to steal their ship to get to Earth.

It turns out Kip is an descendant of Kirsty Cotton and knows about Hell. Pinhead is angry and wants to make him a Cenobite. Soon it is an all out battle between Cenobites and the Commandos with all of earth at stake.

Caroline is a depressive and pathologist. A number of bodies turn up at her morgue, all with similar wounds. All bloodied, some with hooks, some with chains. She becomes obsessed with them. She has the pictures of the bodies, and the death scenes all over the walls of her dank apartment. She starts investigating, but keeps running into Jimmy, the cop who is investigating the deaths, he is her estranged husband, there is a lot of hostility between them, as he cheated on her, he says because she was so obsessed with her work, and had lost interest in everything else. Through her contacts, on the street, she hears about a group of people, a box, and the ones it calls. It seems connected to the bodies.

She starts to dream of blood, hooks, chains and cenobites. Sometimes when she looks in the mirror she sees herself as a cenobite, and she sees cenobites lurking in the darkness of her apartment and morgue. She finds out where this group are. They turn out to be a bunch of degenerates, whores, junkies, drunks, etc. Some are looking for the ultimate experience, others for a way out of there current life. None so far have opened the box successfully.

Caroline opens it. The cenobites come. The people think their prayers have been answered, but soon change their minds, they are all slaughtered. Blood, hooks and chains everywhere. Caroline panics and runs home. Later that night, when her nerve returns, she opens it again. They come. Days later, her apartment is found empty, but covered in blood.

A few days later, Jimmy is going through Caroline's stuff. He finds the box, and opens it. The cenobites come, with Caroline, who is now a cenobite. The next morning we see Jimmy's apartment covered in blood, his body decimated, the box still in his severed hand, smothered in blood.

The cenobites would be Pinhead, Chatterer III, Bound, Stitch and Surgeon.

A moment of calm washed over him as he'd dream of the woods and the serenity of the places visited in his memories. He even thought of the smile of his unborn child to take his mind off the deep lacerations on his chest as the host stuck her hard knife into him. With every carefully placed strike an intent of the foulest was to be endured in order to change the innocence in Le Merchant to a hollow shell.

She was indeed a sadist of the highest order. Each cut had the experience of 10,000 vicitms behind it and Angelique knew how to sculpt a new soul from it. Le Merchant was made to live on at the hand of Angelique as she crafted the flesh torn scraps of his mind into pure desire and lust for her benefit. It began almost a year later. Phillipe Le Merchant had forgotten his wife and child and began construction for a successor to the Lament Configuration.

As the story progresses Phillipe does her work for only a few years as she hires other toy makers to help him complete the work, all behind Jacques back. Parties are held to conjure the demons but all the boxes failed to sustain a pathway. Merchant now dependant on Angelique wanted to please her with a final construction. As he began it's research he discovered more deeper truths that in any level of hell Angelique had been restricted to. The opportunity to overthrow both her a hell came swiftly as Le Merchant made his escape and took his research across the waters far from view to America. Where she cannot follow bound from pursuit by her masters' mediocrity. Now middle aged he constructs the Elysium configuration. A box of sorts designed to raise only that which was close to him. For a way to bring the eternal sulphur in his mind to fruition. A box that responds to desires.

On the roof of his small bastion he began to chant:

CORPUS INFERIS EXPETERE
DEUS ES MUNDI TUTE MAE

A connection between the Lament and Elysium Boxes is made as Le Merchants mortality is revealed as no man can subdue the rage of Leviathan. The foe that is forever. The boxes destroyed Merchant and he was never seen again.

Earth did quake, as a massive concrete door slams in the very depths of hell it opens up a new place. Le Merchant had not succeeded in creating a box to give himself power but rather allowed hell to be educated in the ways of the flesh by the nature of his own black soul. To open a box is a call to Hades. They answered with a promise to forever subject man to all extremes of his desire...

Thus is the birth of the cenobites. The regimentation of hell requires Leviathan to create its army in the attire of its purpose.

Phillipe was truly the most dammed man to have lived.

This movie follows the story and "relationship-arch" between "Pinhead"/Spencer and Kirsty that was set up in the first film and followed through in part 1, 2 and 6. It will bring a finale to the relationship of Kirsty and Pinhead and will finally return to the theme of "returning someone" from the prison of the puzzlebox.

1. The movie opens up inside an underground club; rich teens are dancing and snorting cocaine. A man moves through the crowd and into a small room in the back, he is carrying a package. Inside the room a small group of people is having a private party. The man shows them what's inside the package, a torn military shirt. He throws it on the floor, cuts himself and lets the blood hit the shirt, it gets sucked up. A naked and tied girl with duck tape covering her mouth is dragged across the floor by two people. They force her down on the shirt and suddenly two skinless arms reach out of the shirt and pulls her through it, she gets eaten. Out of shirt comes Elliot Spencer, bloody and without skin covering his body. The group of people looks at him with amazement. He's not gone "play after their pipe" and slaughters them and escapes.
2. One girl, Josephine, survives Spencer's attack; she lies chocked and wounded in all of her and her friend's blood. A mysterious man suddenly comes to her and hands her a puzzlebox, he then leaves right before the room gets crowded by policemen and ambulance workers who take care to an emergency hospital.
3. Kirsty are coming home from her work as a nurse. Spencer has broken into her apartment and wants her to give him the puzzlebox she kept after Hellraiser:Hellseeker. Spencer explains to her that the box holds a backdoor for salvation for those who can look beyond the search for pleasure. He wants to get away from Leviathan, he wants to be free.
4. In the hospital Josephine is being questioned by a police officer, she asks if she can get back her puzzlebox and he gets it for her. She solves it, the world around her freezes and turns surreal.
5. Kirsty gives Spencer the box. But cenobites enter the apartment and attack them, Kirsty gets wounded badly. Spencer chooses to help Kirsty and escapes with her instead of solving the box, the cenobites apprehend it.
6. Spencer takes Kirsty to the emergency hospital where Josephine is. He performs surgery on Kirsty and forces Josephine to help him. The cenobites come. Leviathan finds it very important to get back Pinhead.
7. There is a huge climactic fight. In the end Spencer gets Josephine's puzzlebox and can be set free. But the movie ends with Spencer facing a situation where the cenobites tries to trade Kirstys life for him, He sacrificing himself and returns to the form of Pinhead and the emptiness it brings to save Kirsty.

The film is about Dr. Gendo Malahide, a scientist who is investigating a blood sample that seems to be growing. It eventually becomes a half-humanoid husk named Jacob Wolven. He was a super genius who solved puzzles and went to Hell. He learned all its secrets and has escaped at least 3 times. Malahide keeps this a secret from everyone that he works for so that they can find some way to get rid of the Cenobites. But when the military officers he works for gets suspicious, everything falls apart. And soon after that, a Cenobite Hunter arrives and he has some intentions that might come as a suprise...

A man in Victorian London, Merrit Whitman, finds the Lament Configuration on a gift shop and buys it, thinking it no more than an ornate trinket.

Pretty soon, his wild restrained morals find an escape as he solves it after one night of debauchery in the slums, and is taken to see sight beyond his wildest dreams, beyond space and time, accompanied by 2 Cenobites, Nusrat (male) and Maga (undefined) . He manages to barter for his life, offering one poor innocent soul he lures into his house, and manages to strike a deal with the cenobites, to work for them and spread Leviathan's traps through the world, in any way he can. He is then initiated into the mysteries of Lemarchand's work as architect and artisan, starts his own Publishing House and begins working on patterns and designs that have secret hidden meaning in them which might lead to a way to open the Schism for those visionary enough to see through the floral motifs and the geometric shapes.

He then creates a Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings. Lemarchand's London houses are among the first works to be taken under its wing.

Of course, he is not the only one who knows about Lemarchand's work and the hidden doors that lead to Leviathan's Labyrinth of Pain. An Indian young man, called Vasuman (Born of Fire) knows of the dangers Merrit is unleashing into unsuspecting Londoners and discovers the Lament Configuration in his possession.

Risking his own life, he breaks into Merrit Whitman's house and finds him prepared to fight for it. They lock into battle, each pushing for the box, each focusing their desire and their hatred for each other, until blood is pilled and amidst the confusion, the Schism is opened as Merrit claims sole ownership of the box. Maga and Nusrat appear, and Merrit demands they dispatch Vasuman. The cenobites, smiling say it was Merrit's desire which opened the box, and that they are not his puppets to command, but his masters. He is quickly taken by hook and chain, and Vasuman manages to solve the box as the Cenobites are about to turn their attentions to him. He then sets the Press on fire, and leaves for India in the next available ship, Lament Configuration in hand, which will be the place where, a few of decades later, Elliot Spencer will find his new treasure.

Maga	Nusrat