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Friday, February 21, 2014

"Encylcopedia of Dope" entry: Piscientum

This photo of Piscientum was taken about 12 billion years ago, 
before he was impaled through his back by a flagpole.
Piscientum, AKA the Most Important Man in the Universe, AKA the Most Important Man EVER, is one of three guardians of the cosmos. Endowed with godlike powers, the guardians of the cosmos were created nearly a trillion years ago to administer the relations among various intelligent life and maintain the stability of the space-time continuum.

While all the guardians of the cosmos are immortal, Piscientum chose to entrust his fate with the people.  He tethered his soul to an ancient relic that breaks into six pieces whenever he is "killed" in action. The pieces are teleported to six locations in separate dimensions of his choosing. Then it's up to the people to scour the dimensions and assemble the six pieces. This has happened countless times throughout his existence. Sometimes he would be dead for a few months and other times he would be dead for centuries. But his strategy has never failed him; his goal in leaving his fate up to his subjects is to encourage people during desperate times to put aside their differences and come together as they seek salvation from an unlikely symbol of peace and justice: a frankly pathetic looking creature with a fish head and a banana for a body.

Piscientum arrived in the Dope dimension in 1796, where he became known as the Most Important Man in the Universe, shortly after the Headquarters for the Inter-Dimensional Institution for Outrageous Treks was established in Antarctica. He recognized IDIOT as an important development in the relations among intelligent life. To keep a close eye on it, he enlisted as a special agent and soon became one of the most accomplished agents in the history of the institution.

In 2012, he was kidnapped by eight evil reindeer and smacked to "death" against a steel table. He was presumed dead until he was inadvertently resurrected by Atnas in 2013. Piscientum spawned a portal to the mirror universe and attempted to seal Atnas within it, but Atnas hooked a giant candy cane around Piscientum and they disappeared through the portal together. Piscientum has not been seen since.

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