Post by The Pac on Feb 12, 2013 18:28:33 GMT -5
"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."
"I tried and I tried. Really, I did. I have one last avenue as a viable option. It is, at least, worth a shot. Hell, anything is better than that damned midget! Anything! The Devil Himself would sooner form a team with a mop than have to play babysitter to an individual possessing the I.Q. of a peanut laden turn at the bottom of the toilet. This will not happen. This is my resolve. God, it is going to be a very long day..."
We find ourselves in Jacksonville, Florida. The sun is shining bright, the ladies are out and about in the skimpiest of outfits, the dudes are out trying to pick up said chicks..most failing, and The Devil Himself is in town. Our scene gives us a pristine view of Jacksonville before fading into an interior shot of what looks like to be a work-out facility. In fact, it is. We are brought into a private work-out facility that Dante Daevain uses on occasion when he is in the area. This place is packed with equipment...Everything necessary for one to prepare for battle. That is what, at least, one individual is doing today. Today is the day that David the Retarded Midget is getting ready for his big break. Dante, unfortunately, is stuck playing the role of the manager today to make sure David does not blow the place straight to Hell...it has enough work-out facilities as it is.
Speaking of The Devil Himself, we find him perched in a leather bound chair obviously out of place in such a facility. Dante is seen wearing his usual off-white silk ensemble as he relaxes in the chair. Dante has an annoyed look on his face as we catch him reading. Dante is shaking his head back and forth ever so often while he read The Bible. Dante sighs once or twice while the camera scoots around to see that he is reading the book of Lamentations. Dante tilts the Bible downward as he stares at the ground with contempt. David is nowhere to be seen.
Dante: "My sins have been bound into a yoke; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand."
Dante now looks up with a look of contempt.
Dante: "Funny. Really funny."
Suddenly Dante's phone rings. Dante's face immediately brightens as he looks at the caller I.D. Dante wastes no time in picking up and placing the Bible on the floor beside him.
Dante: "Good timing, Richard. Now, tell The Devil Himself some great news."
Richard (over the phone):Yeah..no. I'm not going to be able to make it.
Dante: "What the hell?!?"
Richard: ...It seems my tires have been slashed and have barbed-wire sticking from them...
Dante: "What..the..hell?!?"
Richard: ...Tell me, have you seen that damn midget?
Just then David the Midget struts into the work-out facility with a Taco stuffed into his mouth. Dante seethes with anger as he stares down at the little terror.
Dante: "Call you back later..."
Dante hangs up his phone and calmly places is back into his pocket, still staring at David as he waddles over to a corner.
Dante: "I will flay you alive one of these days!"
David finishes his Taco and then waddles over to Dante. David is wearing a gray jogging suit with a black toboggan, ala Rocky Balboa style. Dante, still sitting in his chair as he reluctantly tells David to begin his training for the match. David waddles away to a back room. Dante pays him no mind as he stands up and walks over to a fridge near the back wall. Dante takes out an ornate Catholic style cylindrical container. Gold and a few jewels decorate this container that has a cross for a top. This container is none other than a Holy Water container. Dante opens it up and takes a nice big gulp of the Holy Water. Afterward, Dante stands there staring across the room.
Dante: "...Damn. That didn't work."
Just then David returns from the back room with a little red wagon full of supplies. Dante has learned never to ask questions and so he pays it all no mind as he returns to his chair with the Holy Water. Inside the wagon is an old style boom box. David takes it out of the wagon and places it beside the wall where he plugs it in. David fumbles around with the buttons on the boom box before finally pressing play.
~~Cue: You're The Best Around by Joe Espisoto.~~
Dante slips down into his chair with a look of despair on his face as the music begins to play.
~~Also cue: Obligatory training montage.~~
First off, we see David take out a large box of pizza. David takes the pizza, whole, out of the box and throws it on the ground. After licking the box, David throws it away behind him. With a mouth-watering look on his face, David wastes no time in using this large pizza as a training mat. To start things off, David attempts a sorry try at push-ups, eating parts of the pizza every time he goes downward. After 2 push-ups, David just gives up and face-plants into the pizza, making a mess all around him. David then rolls around in the pizza, furthering the mess, as he then tries his hand at sit-ups. David cannot even complete one without flailing his arms every which way.
David then decides that they are not for him, so he stands up and begins to jog in place on top of the pizza. Witnessing this, Dante can do nothing but face-palm himself. After jogging to the beat for ten seconds, David begins to pant like a dog before he full on slips on the pizza. David flails his arms wildly as he falls to the ground ass first. Dante gets a chuckle out of this as David picks himself up and heads back to the wagon.
The next thing we see is David lifting dumbbells fitted with donuts on the ends instead of weights. David is pumping these to the beat of the music and taking bites from each every time he raises them up. Soon, as expected, David is finished with all of the donuts and he is just left with nothing but two small bars. Dante is not paying any attention to David this time as he is, again, reading Lamentations. David waddles over to Dante and straight up throws the dumbbell bars at Dante's shins, scoring a direct hit with both. Dante drops the Bible and screams at David.
Dante: "Damn it, you small sack of sh-..."
Before Dante can properly insult him, David waddles off back to his training. Dante bites his tongue as he rubs his shins before picking up the Bible and sitting back down.
~~Cue: Repeat You're The Best Around by Joe Espisoto.~~
David now empties a bag of marbles that scatter all over the floor as the music plays. Dante rolls his eyes at this as David now begins to 'concentrate' heavily on his training by playing a game of marbles with himself...Only David does not know how to play marbles..so instead of playing, David is seen eating the marbles and also throwing a few at Dante who is trying his damnedest to keep his composure. After eating the few marbles in his direct vicinity, David goes back over to his wagon. Not finding anything that he wants, he instead waddles over to a treadmill. David steps onto the treadmill as Dante gets up from his chair and joins David. David knows not how to operate this contraption.
After a few moments of stomping on the treadmill and shouting only what we think are obscenities at the thing, Dante simply flips the on switch to the treadmill and has it on high. David immediately face-plants into the treadmill track as he was jerked by the momentum. David then soars off of the treadmill and into the machines behind him. Dante busts out in great laughter as David, a little disoriented, tries to regain his balance. Slowly David gets back to his feet as he cautiously goes back over to the running treadmill. David stands on the floor at the end of the machine, daring not to get back on it. David seems to be in somewhat of a trance as he intently watches the running treadmill track. After a few minutes of this, David begins to break a hard sweat. Not being able to take much more, David tiredly waddles away from the treadmill and over to a nearby television that is tuned into aerobics.
Panting and sweating profusely, David watches the aerobics for a second and decides that it looks like fun. Dante returns to his chair as David begins to hop around like an retarded idiot as he tries to mimic the aerobics. Being around the same area where David used the pizza as a work-out mat, David soon slips on a pepperoni and again falls flat on his ass. Dante does not see this one. David gets right back up and continues to try and mimic the aerobics, falling once again on the pizza residue. Now frustrated, David stomps off back to his wagon, giving up on the aerobics.
As the music repeats itself for another time, David whips out a foam toy sword from his wagon. On beat, David begins to wave his play sword around like crazy, slashing at everything..which happens to be air. His tongue sticking out of his mouth, David begins to run around the area waving his toy sword. Suddenly David slips on one of the many marbles he scattered on the ground and goes sliding face first into a wall. Now with a bloodied up nose, David's resolve does not waiver as he goes on about his merry way stabbing the machines with his sword. David runs by the, still running, treadmill and stops to look at it once again. Enamored for another few minutes, David continues to sweat profusely. Without so much as a warning, David yells out with gusto as he stabs his sword into the running treadmill, thus breaking his sword in twain...and somehow stopping the treadmill. With a sense of victory now, David waddles away from the infernal machine and back to his wagon.
...And drags out a carton of eggs. Dante, seeing this, sighs heavily. David takes an egg out of the carton and begins to gnaw on it. The egg shatters in David's mouth as he spits out the egg that got into his mouth. David then takes part of the shell that is left in his hand and begins to eat it...void of egg. After chewing on the shell for a second, David takes another egg out of the carton and looks at it with a perplexed look. As You're The Best Around is finishing up again, David hurls the egg in his hand across the room and watches as it shatters on the pectoral fly machine. Amused with this part of his training, David takes the eggs out two at a time and hurls them every which way in the facility. Dante jumps out of his chair and takes cover behind it as eggs shatter on the floors and walls and machines of the facility. After David runs out of eggs, he stares at the empty carton with a sad and pathetic look on his face. Dante now returns to his chair that was unharmed by the vandalous acts of David.
Finally, David goes back to his boom box and fiddles with it in the only way a retarded midget knows how..beating it with a hammer. David demolishes his boom box as silence falls over the facility. Luckily for us, Dante has a remote beside him that links into the sound system of the facility. Dante pushes a button on the remote and the music begins to play. Much to Dante's displeasure The Final Countdown has just started to play. No sooner than this happens does Dante find David at his feet holding up two things. A string and a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos. David has this look of great anticipation on his face as he points over to the ceiling. Dante is shaking his head.
Dante: "Nuh uh! No way!"
David starts to jump up and down frantically pointing at the ceiling.
Dante: "Do it yourself!"
David stops jumping and instead kicks Dante's shin as he continually points at the ceiling.
Dante: "Oww! You...Pint-sized..Piss-ant!"
Dante slams his Bible shut and throws it down on the floor, knocking over his Holy Water, as he gets up from his chair and walks over to a utility closet. David waddles behind him as Dante gathers up an eight foot ladder and takes it over back to the area of his chair. Still following, David is still pointing at the ceiling. Dante sets up the ladder and makes sure it is sturdy before picking up David and placing him at the top of the ladder. Dante steps off the ladder with a look of accomplishment. David looks down at Dante with a furious look as he fastens the string and Doritos from the ceiling at lets it dangle two and a half feet from the ground. Dante sits back down in his chair and laughs at the misfortune of David. Still stuck on top of the ladder, David begins to look around. After a minute or two of plotting David stands atop the ladder and balances himself. Dante is back to reading his Bible. Before Dante knows it, David jumps clear off of the ladder and straight towards Dante. David made no sound as Dante is unaware. Suddenly David the Midget connects to Dante with a wicked drop kick from the eight foot ladder! The force knocks Dante and his chair over to the floor with a crash. David lands on top of Dante, taking his breath away. Dante is trying to scream at David before David rolls off of Dante and waddles himself back to the back room once again.
Dante lay on his back, looking up at the ceiling..where the bag of Doritos hangs. David the Midget comes back out to the bag of Doritos and begins to 'box' them, throwing punches left and right. Dante just stares at the ceiling as he hears the bag of Doritos break open and we hear David munching on them. Dante turns his head to face David with a sour look on his face.
Dante: "Damn...you. You...You..."
Dante sighs heavily.
Dante: "...You leave me no choice. Sir David the Retarded Barbed-Wire Wrapped Midget with a Taco...well, sans a Taco for the time being...By the authority vested in me by the Brotherhood we have formed known as The Pac...I, hereby, induct you and name you an official pint sized addition to The Pac. God help us all..."
David jumps with great joy and proceeds to frog-splash Dante square on the chest. David bounces up and down as Dante writhes in pain with barely any breath in him. David crawls off Dante and scurries, again, to the back room.
Laying on his back, Dante tries to catch his breath after that vicious attack from the midget. A minute or two passes before Dante's phone rings again. Dante waits a couple of rings before fishing it out of his pocket. Dante glances at the caller I.D. and just stares. The phone rings another three times before Dante slowly presses the call button on his phone. Dante stares at the phone for another couple of seconds before slowly putting the phone to his ear. There is no discernible sound on the other end as all we hear is Dante breathing heavily.
Dante: "......"
Dante continues to lay on his back with the phone to his ear and breathing heavily.
Dante: "....I hate you."
There is a click on the phone as the other end is hung up. Dante lets out an angry sigh as he presses the end button on his phone and slowly sits himself up from his laying position. Dante places a hand on his forehead and laments for a moment before recomposing himself and standing back up to his feet. Dante stands there on his feet and sighs one last time before suddenly throwing his cell phone against the hard floor, causing it to shatter into pieces. Dante stomps around on the pieces that are near to him as he loses it completely.
Dante: "Damn it! Bastard! Sniveling sod!!"
Dante throws a fit.
Dante: "Ruined my life, you sorry excuse for a breathing biological bitch! Payback! Payback will be a bigger bitch than you!!"
Our scene slowly fades out as Dante continues to throw an angry fit and David comes back into view from the back room just staring at Dante.
"I tried and I tried. Really, I did. I have one last avenue as a viable option. It is, at least, worth a shot. Hell, anything is better than that damned midget! Anything! The Devil Himself would sooner form a team with a mop than have to play babysitter to an individual possessing the I.Q. of a peanut laden turn at the bottom of the toilet. This will not happen. This is my resolve. God, it is going to be a very long day..."
We find ourselves in Jacksonville, Florida. The sun is shining bright, the ladies are out and about in the skimpiest of outfits, the dudes are out trying to pick up said chicks..most failing, and The Devil Himself is in town. Our scene gives us a pristine view of Jacksonville before fading into an interior shot of what looks like to be a work-out facility. In fact, it is. We are brought into a private work-out facility that Dante Daevain uses on occasion when he is in the area. This place is packed with equipment...Everything necessary for one to prepare for battle. That is what, at least, one individual is doing today. Today is the day that David the Retarded Midget is getting ready for his big break. Dante, unfortunately, is stuck playing the role of the manager today to make sure David does not blow the place straight to Hell...it has enough work-out facilities as it is.
Speaking of The Devil Himself, we find him perched in a leather bound chair obviously out of place in such a facility. Dante is seen wearing his usual off-white silk ensemble as he relaxes in the chair. Dante has an annoyed look on his face as we catch him reading. Dante is shaking his head back and forth ever so often while he read The Bible. Dante sighs once or twice while the camera scoots around to see that he is reading the book of Lamentations. Dante tilts the Bible downward as he stares at the ground with contempt. David is nowhere to be seen.
Dante: "My sins have been bound into a yoke; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand."
Dante now looks up with a look of contempt.
Dante: "Funny. Really funny."
Suddenly Dante's phone rings. Dante's face immediately brightens as he looks at the caller I.D. Dante wastes no time in picking up and placing the Bible on the floor beside him.
Dante: "Good timing, Richard. Now, tell The Devil Himself some great news."
Richard (over the phone):Yeah..no. I'm not going to be able to make it.
Dante: "What the hell?!?"
Richard: ...It seems my tires have been slashed and have barbed-wire sticking from them...
Dante: "What..the..hell?!?"
Richard: ...Tell me, have you seen that damn midget?
Just then David the Midget struts into the work-out facility with a Taco stuffed into his mouth. Dante seethes with anger as he stares down at the little terror.
Dante: "Call you back later..."
Dante hangs up his phone and calmly places is back into his pocket, still staring at David as he waddles over to a corner.
Dante: "I will flay you alive one of these days!"
David finishes his Taco and then waddles over to Dante. David is wearing a gray jogging suit with a black toboggan, ala Rocky Balboa style. Dante, still sitting in his chair as he reluctantly tells David to begin his training for the match. David waddles away to a back room. Dante pays him no mind as he stands up and walks over to a fridge near the back wall. Dante takes out an ornate Catholic style cylindrical container. Gold and a few jewels decorate this container that has a cross for a top. This container is none other than a Holy Water container. Dante opens it up and takes a nice big gulp of the Holy Water. Afterward, Dante stands there staring across the room.
Dante: "...Damn. That didn't work."
Just then David returns from the back room with a little red wagon full of supplies. Dante has learned never to ask questions and so he pays it all no mind as he returns to his chair with the Holy Water. Inside the wagon is an old style boom box. David takes it out of the wagon and places it beside the wall where he plugs it in. David fumbles around with the buttons on the boom box before finally pressing play.
~~Cue: You're The Best Around by Joe Espisoto.~~
Dante slips down into his chair with a look of despair on his face as the music begins to play.
~~Also cue: Obligatory training montage.~~
First off, we see David take out a large box of pizza. David takes the pizza, whole, out of the box and throws it on the ground. After licking the box, David throws it away behind him. With a mouth-watering look on his face, David wastes no time in using this large pizza as a training mat. To start things off, David attempts a sorry try at push-ups, eating parts of the pizza every time he goes downward. After 2 push-ups, David just gives up and face-plants into the pizza, making a mess all around him. David then rolls around in the pizza, furthering the mess, as he then tries his hand at sit-ups. David cannot even complete one without flailing his arms every which way.
David then decides that they are not for him, so he stands up and begins to jog in place on top of the pizza. Witnessing this, Dante can do nothing but face-palm himself. After jogging to the beat for ten seconds, David begins to pant like a dog before he full on slips on the pizza. David flails his arms wildly as he falls to the ground ass first. Dante gets a chuckle out of this as David picks himself up and heads back to the wagon.
The next thing we see is David lifting dumbbells fitted with donuts on the ends instead of weights. David is pumping these to the beat of the music and taking bites from each every time he raises them up. Soon, as expected, David is finished with all of the donuts and he is just left with nothing but two small bars. Dante is not paying any attention to David this time as he is, again, reading Lamentations. David waddles over to Dante and straight up throws the dumbbell bars at Dante's shins, scoring a direct hit with both. Dante drops the Bible and screams at David.
Dante: "Damn it, you small sack of sh-..."
Before Dante can properly insult him, David waddles off back to his training. Dante bites his tongue as he rubs his shins before picking up the Bible and sitting back down.
~~Cue: Repeat You're The Best Around by Joe Espisoto.~~
David now empties a bag of marbles that scatter all over the floor as the music plays. Dante rolls his eyes at this as David now begins to 'concentrate' heavily on his training by playing a game of marbles with himself...Only David does not know how to play marbles..so instead of playing, David is seen eating the marbles and also throwing a few at Dante who is trying his damnedest to keep his composure. After eating the few marbles in his direct vicinity, David goes back over to his wagon. Not finding anything that he wants, he instead waddles over to a treadmill. David steps onto the treadmill as Dante gets up from his chair and joins David. David knows not how to operate this contraption.
After a few moments of stomping on the treadmill and shouting only what we think are obscenities at the thing, Dante simply flips the on switch to the treadmill and has it on high. David immediately face-plants into the treadmill track as he was jerked by the momentum. David then soars off of the treadmill and into the machines behind him. Dante busts out in great laughter as David, a little disoriented, tries to regain his balance. Slowly David gets back to his feet as he cautiously goes back over to the running treadmill. David stands on the floor at the end of the machine, daring not to get back on it. David seems to be in somewhat of a trance as he intently watches the running treadmill track. After a few minutes of this, David begins to break a hard sweat. Not being able to take much more, David tiredly waddles away from the treadmill and over to a nearby television that is tuned into aerobics.
Panting and sweating profusely, David watches the aerobics for a second and decides that it looks like fun. Dante returns to his chair as David begins to hop around like an retarded idiot as he tries to mimic the aerobics. Being around the same area where David used the pizza as a work-out mat, David soon slips on a pepperoni and again falls flat on his ass. Dante does not see this one. David gets right back up and continues to try and mimic the aerobics, falling once again on the pizza residue. Now frustrated, David stomps off back to his wagon, giving up on the aerobics.
As the music repeats itself for another time, David whips out a foam toy sword from his wagon. On beat, David begins to wave his play sword around like crazy, slashing at everything..which happens to be air. His tongue sticking out of his mouth, David begins to run around the area waving his toy sword. Suddenly David slips on one of the many marbles he scattered on the ground and goes sliding face first into a wall. Now with a bloodied up nose, David's resolve does not waiver as he goes on about his merry way stabbing the machines with his sword. David runs by the, still running, treadmill and stops to look at it once again. Enamored for another few minutes, David continues to sweat profusely. Without so much as a warning, David yells out with gusto as he stabs his sword into the running treadmill, thus breaking his sword in twain...and somehow stopping the treadmill. With a sense of victory now, David waddles away from the infernal machine and back to his wagon.
...And drags out a carton of eggs. Dante, seeing this, sighs heavily. David takes an egg out of the carton and begins to gnaw on it. The egg shatters in David's mouth as he spits out the egg that got into his mouth. David then takes part of the shell that is left in his hand and begins to eat it...void of egg. After chewing on the shell for a second, David takes another egg out of the carton and looks at it with a perplexed look. As You're The Best Around is finishing up again, David hurls the egg in his hand across the room and watches as it shatters on the pectoral fly machine. Amused with this part of his training, David takes the eggs out two at a time and hurls them every which way in the facility. Dante jumps out of his chair and takes cover behind it as eggs shatter on the floors and walls and machines of the facility. After David runs out of eggs, he stares at the empty carton with a sad and pathetic look on his face. Dante now returns to his chair that was unharmed by the vandalous acts of David.
Finally, David goes back to his boom box and fiddles with it in the only way a retarded midget knows how..beating it with a hammer. David demolishes his boom box as silence falls over the facility. Luckily for us, Dante has a remote beside him that links into the sound system of the facility. Dante pushes a button on the remote and the music begins to play. Much to Dante's displeasure The Final Countdown has just started to play. No sooner than this happens does Dante find David at his feet holding up two things. A string and a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos. David has this look of great anticipation on his face as he points over to the ceiling. Dante is shaking his head.
Dante: "Nuh uh! No way!"
David starts to jump up and down frantically pointing at the ceiling.
Dante: "Do it yourself!"
David stops jumping and instead kicks Dante's shin as he continually points at the ceiling.
Dante: "Oww! You...Pint-sized..Piss-ant!"
Dante slams his Bible shut and throws it down on the floor, knocking over his Holy Water, as he gets up from his chair and walks over to a utility closet. David waddles behind him as Dante gathers up an eight foot ladder and takes it over back to the area of his chair. Still following, David is still pointing at the ceiling. Dante sets up the ladder and makes sure it is sturdy before picking up David and placing him at the top of the ladder. Dante steps off the ladder with a look of accomplishment. David looks down at Dante with a furious look as he fastens the string and Doritos from the ceiling at lets it dangle two and a half feet from the ground. Dante sits back down in his chair and laughs at the misfortune of David. Still stuck on top of the ladder, David begins to look around. After a minute or two of plotting David stands atop the ladder and balances himself. Dante is back to reading his Bible. Before Dante knows it, David jumps clear off of the ladder and straight towards Dante. David made no sound as Dante is unaware. Suddenly David the Midget connects to Dante with a wicked drop kick from the eight foot ladder! The force knocks Dante and his chair over to the floor with a crash. David lands on top of Dante, taking his breath away. Dante is trying to scream at David before David rolls off of Dante and waddles himself back to the back room once again.
Dante lay on his back, looking up at the ceiling..where the bag of Doritos hangs. David the Midget comes back out to the bag of Doritos and begins to 'box' them, throwing punches left and right. Dante just stares at the ceiling as he hears the bag of Doritos break open and we hear David munching on them. Dante turns his head to face David with a sour look on his face.
Dante: "Damn...you. You...You..."
Dante sighs heavily.
Dante: "...You leave me no choice. Sir David the Retarded Barbed-Wire Wrapped Midget with a Taco...well, sans a Taco for the time being...By the authority vested in me by the Brotherhood we have formed known as The Pac...I, hereby, induct you and name you an official pint sized addition to The Pac. God help us all..."
David jumps with great joy and proceeds to frog-splash Dante square on the chest. David bounces up and down as Dante writhes in pain with barely any breath in him. David crawls off Dante and scurries, again, to the back room.
Laying on his back, Dante tries to catch his breath after that vicious attack from the midget. A minute or two passes before Dante's phone rings again. Dante waits a couple of rings before fishing it out of his pocket. Dante glances at the caller I.D. and just stares. The phone rings another three times before Dante slowly presses the call button on his phone. Dante stares at the phone for another couple of seconds before slowly putting the phone to his ear. There is no discernible sound on the other end as all we hear is Dante breathing heavily.
Dante: "......"
Dante continues to lay on his back with the phone to his ear and breathing heavily.
Dante: "....I hate you."
There is a click on the phone as the other end is hung up. Dante lets out an angry sigh as he presses the end button on his phone and slowly sits himself up from his laying position. Dante places a hand on his forehead and laments for a moment before recomposing himself and standing back up to his feet. Dante stands there on his feet and sighs one last time before suddenly throwing his cell phone against the hard floor, causing it to shatter into pieces. Dante stomps around on the pieces that are near to him as he loses it completely.
Dante: "Damn it! Bastard! Sniveling sod!!"
Dante throws a fit.
Dante: "Ruined my life, you sorry excuse for a breathing biological bitch! Payback! Payback will be a bigger bitch than you!!"
Our scene slowly fades out as Dante continues to throw an angry fit and David comes back into view from the back room just staring at Dante.