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Several meta layers up, there is a... room.
As a courtesy to those of its occupants who prefer rooms, it does have a modality in which it presents itself that way: a room, with as many chairs as it needs, and a bulletin board, and a vending machine with candy and chips and concepts sold for nothing to anyone with the right prerequisites.
On the bulletin board, if one chooses to perceive it as a bulletin board (and not as a wiki or a flower or an ineffable cloud of information or an eternally malleable clay tablet) people whose only common trait is that they get to come here leave each other notes.
Notes about physics, about magic, about grand sweeps of narrative. Notes from people desperate to fix a never-ending heap of problems, smug about the condition of their homes, curious about the wider omniverse. Signed with names and sigils and "you ought to know who I am". Terse or verbose or nested with as much meaning as interests the reader.
In the vending machine, if one chooses to perceive it as a vending machine (and not a basket or a fruiting tree or a file repository or a crystalline fractal) are many things... and they have notes connecting them to their reviews on the bulletin board.
This one, for instance. She (it's usually, but not invariably, a she) has fairly glowing reviews from most of her previous purchasers. Here is what you need to install her; here are some things that are recommended for best results but optional especially if you just want to use her as a beacon for her other instances; here are some things she comes with as add-ons you can take or leave; here is what she is good for. The reviewers who don't like her are annoyed that theirs was too good at it, if you read between the lines. Well, that and the fact that if your universe is unpleasant enough sometimes these critters figure out how to flip you off and leave before they figure out how to solve all your problems. (There is a tangent thread about alternative solutions to similar problems which come bundled with stronger irrational attachment to their homes, but they have more stringent installation requirements.)
They come in these colors and styles; you will need to compensate for the following standard-issue drawbacks in some way if you require services of them that intersect with those areas of disability; they are only rated for upbringings of the following severity and are less likely to hate you if you stay thoroughly under that limit and less likely to fail at important goals if they are given opportunity to self-educate; if you have a way to generate them as instant adults they can begin work immediately but on the standard trajectory age six is the absolute earliest and teens is customary...
There is a chart (if one chooses to perceive it as a chart) of template interactions that have been tried before, but a lot of the more interesting accessory and companion templates are out-of-network for some visitors. What a pity.
swordofeden
Yep. Whatever else you can say about the world, at least no one ever just stops existing. That would be awful and bad and wrong.
swordofeden
...Pretty bad, but the threshold for going there is pretty damn (pun not intended) high, and it is not, in fact, eternal torment--a pretty large chunk of Jesus's purpose was to get out everyone who was there at the time.
giftedandtalented
"How many demons are there and how many people went to Hell since Jesus emptied it?"
swordofeden
"I don't know exactly how many demons there are but ballpark of a few thousand. There were three thousand two hundred and seven tormented souls as of the time I came to Earth but I haven't received any updates on that particular topic since then."
giftedandtalented
"That's not very many but it is too many. But it also means that I probably wouldn't save very many people by going to prison hospitals anyway, so it's not so bad that it would make people do bad things."
swordofeden
"Depends on the kind of demon. Actually only the nastiest few kinds are actively torturey; most of the rest occupy themselves going to and fro on the Earth and walking up and down on it committing assorted mischief of massively varying maliciousness when they can manage it and just sort of--hanging out in Hell living their lives when they can't."
swordofeden
"The worst ones are a category with many names but for expediency's sake I'll call them the Dukes of Hell; there are ten of them. They are basically concentrated nasty and a truly unfortunate level of power. The other kinds that go in for torture are the--there aren't words for it in English." And then she names them in Angelic, since Mehitabel can hear and understand it. There are four other kinds. "Those have assorted metaphysical differences from one another but on the psychological level are basically the same, which is 'a bit eviler than humans typically come in'. There are the incubi and succubi, which are actually the same thing and basically benign, at least for demons; current consensus suggests that they came into being because so many people think sex is evil but are fairly harmless because sex is not, in fact, inherently bad. I mean, it can be bad, but that's a different topic," she waves a hand. There's also..." and she goes on to describe the other sixty species of demon.
giftedandtalented
Mehitabel takes notes.
"If incubi and succubi started existing because people thought sex was evil does that mean the other kinds of demons are also from people thinking things are evil?"
"If incubi and succubi started existing because people thought sex was evil does that mean the other kinds of demons are also from people thinking things are evil?"
swordofeden
"...Well, there's demons for all Seven Deadly Sins, which...the problem with lust or greed or wrath etcetera isn't that you're not ever supposed to be lustful or angry or want things, it's that those things are really easy to prioritize more highly than you should. Lust leading you to not think of the person you want as a person with thoughts and desires that don't match yours, or pride leading you to not fix your mistakes or apologize, or wrath leading you to hurt someone even when it won't stop anyone else from hurting."
giftedandtalented
Mehitabel takes notes on this too. "Why are those the seven deadly sins in particular?"
swordofeden
"The Seven Deadly Sins as a specific, unified construct are actually a human invention. I think it might have evolved over time instead of being mad up all at once; I don't know exactly where it came from."
giftedandtalented
"Okay." Notes notes. "Are there ever new kinds of demons anymore or have all the kinds already happened long ago?"
swordofeden
"The last new kind happened five hundred years ago, but they were only happening at about one every few centuries anyway."