The Prince and the Devil*

A Story by Abishai100

A cyber-culture 'prince' is approached by a mysterious inquisitor (secretly/online) for a football-level spirits 'chess-IQ' about civilization's (unique) digits.

An 'Americana' toast to the greatness that is Madden-NFL (cyber-media) and very loosely drawn from the football-metaphysics imagery from the unusual/charming film Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty), featuring a 'cool' allusion-reference to the 19th-Century imp-devil Spring-heeled Jack (old-London lore). Thanks for reading, and Happy New Year!

DISCLAIMER: This work of 'media-fanfiction' offers no explicit/ties to any representative person(s)/body and is cast as purely a 'personal' expression of creative arts (for 'open' review).

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What makes this special Homeland-American media/sportsmanship superstitions tale so unusual is its protagonist-prince, Mr. Amlan Satan, a cyber-homeschooling teacher in South Jersey (Echelon) who was an avid-fan of football video-games, particularly Tecmo and Madden lines of social media commentary for consumerism/capitalism bureaucracy-readings. While Tecmo had become a classic-era pastime, Madden had become the Western-world signature for cyber-culture entertainment/arts, and they both drew interest from modern consumerism/citizenry in the West (and around the globe!). This made Mr. Amlan Satan something of a diplomat of this consumerism/media culture of handshakes in entertainment/sportsmanship fanfare and superstitions (for general lifestyle-cheers commentary).

He'd been an avid-fan of video-game systems his whole young-life, including Nintendo, Genesis, Playstation, and Xbox. He even enjoyed early-systems as a boy, especially Atari and the Commodore-64 Olympics-games (wow). This made him something of a master-class expert in cyber-culture sportsmanship (for bureaucracy-readings and tech-driven life-entertainment consciousness!).

Well, as an adult, he collected two special American pro-football level spirits 'treasures' for comment/fanfare, a Cali-Bowl memoir of a transfer-QB star who began his career as a rookie in a Thanksgiving-football town (Detroit) but shined rather brightly as a sunny-Angeles marshal of an iconic triumph for his Western team in the new millennium.

The other treasure, a Thanksgiving-trophy image of the very-same NFL-QB star's rookie-year, in a Detroit-town made 'famous' by holiday-season football-spirits and TV-commentary, a toast for family-values media-entertainment casting the designate athlete, who'd become a Cali-Bowl champ, as something of an American 'diplomat' of sportsmanship-storyboards.

Perhaps this form for sports-matrix commentary for media-life and cheers/fanfare for competition-windows storytelling reflected a Homeland-American fascination with traffic-drawn social energizer-IQ catching that commerce-and-exchange(s) driven globalism-rhetoric defenses shrewdness, given this new era of NASDAQ and Apple-toys capitalism reminded us (all) of those 'incomplete-distances' to fortune-readings for bureaucracy-infrastructure (hmmm).

SPRING-HEELED JACK: Do you know why I contact you (in-secret), prince?
AMLAN SATAN: You've hacked into my (private) cyber-portal, Jack?
SPRING-HEELED JACK: I'm indeed the old-London imp-sprite of challenge, man!

AMLAN SATAN: Are you inquiring of my Earth-media culture interest in sports?

SPRING-HEELED JACK: You guessed shrewdly, Mr. Amlan Satan (bureaucracy).

AMLAN SATAN: Have you pegged me as a diplomat of media-tech intelligence?

SPRING-HEELED JACK: I've noted your posts about your two sports-trophies!

AMLAN SATAN: My Matt Stafford Rams/Lions dual-set (rookie/Bowl) cards, no?

SPRING-HEELED JACK: As you know, the Rams-Lions are playing for laurels now.

AMLAN SATAN: Wild-card showdown for the '23 season, Jack.

SPRING-HEELED JACK: I consider your sportsmanship-matrix input a chess-IQ.

AMLAN SATAN: Are you the Devil?
SPRING-HEELED JACK: All's you need think now is this (secret) challenge for IQ!

AMLAN SATAN: Let's proceed...for this cyber-matrix 'diorama' thought, Jack.

SPRING-HEELED JACK: Good, prince; for a bureaucracy-superstition reading.

AMLAN SATAN: This is a rather 'nifty' Facebook-joke like study, Jack.

Spring-heeled Jack, an old-London street-transit 'terrorism/invasion' superstitions messenger, had created special lore concerning his likeness to the Devil himself, perhaps because of his curious 'adversarial' challenge to traffic-consciousness for lifestyle-readings in Europe and now challenged Mr. Amlan Satan, prince of Homeland-American cyber-sportsmanship 'chess' and entertainment-spirits, for a cool NFL-cheer insight for the '23 season playoff-showcase between the Bowl-winning Rams (Cali) and the Thanksgiving-trumpeted Lions of Detroit. This micro-rivalry had made for some nifty video-game 'lore' among fans of the Tecmo/Madden line of football-game simulation entertainment for an Earthling 'expression' of toyland-sanity (wow).

JACK: Why am I challenging you (personally) for this Lions-Rams art-IQ, Satan?
SATAN: I imagine you want some diorama for Tecmo/Madden relevance(s)?
JACK: It's a 'nifty' video-game universe of insight for sportsmanship-cheers.
SATAN: Tecmo featured a classic Rams (Everett) and Lions (Sanders) teams.
JACK: Madden meanwhile highlights new-gen players with flourishing-legacy!
SATAN: Both Tecmo/Madden catch all the home-sports cheers-IQ for culture.
JACK: Well, I'd imagine this '23 playoff-showcase (Lions-Rams) is Madden-IQ.
SATAN: That's because Madden has 'replaced' Tecmo for cyber-superstition(s).
JACK: Why's that, prince?
SATAN: Madden-graphics make for more 'adult' immersions in market-hype.
JACK: Aha, so if we played a sim-game (Madden) for Lions-Rams prediction?
SATAN: I'd surely use the Lions to create a rather 'close' 30-24 trumpet.
JACK: A bureaucracy-reading for a Thanksgiving-football culture bias, Satan.
SATAN: In deed; however, my real 'pledge' concerns a 'religion' daydream.
JACK: That's my inquiry --- image-catch, for civilization's doctorate (farewell).

Mr. Amlan Satan, our protagonist-prince, was (simply) stunned by this cyber-communication with this mystery-inquisitor claiming to be Spring-heeled Jack himself, offering a civilization-message of distances to traffic/lifestyle intrigue for self-aware intuitions about shape(s) of capitalism/exchanges intelligence. Amlan decided to visit his local mall for Xmas, wondering if the message of this 'cyber-Jack' inquisitor concerned those shapes/colors of consumerism/media-exchange life on Earth that made for personalized biases/investments of a net-activity 'education' rhetoric. Perhaps Spring-heeled Jack (simply) sought a superstition-molding for all things materialism-relevant (for Americans/consumers). Perhaps the imp sought to invoke a special intrigue in Amlan's brain about that 'image' of capitalism-culture and sportsmanship-commentary creating a 'mall' like daydream of fantasy-bureaucracy (for superstition).

AMLAN (Journal): "We've become half 'enlightened' about fortune's lime."