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Not too long ago, I read a detective story where the hero needed to
\nbluff his way past security guards, hide under a desk, etc. It got me
\nthinking. How do you get your hero past the guards? Arrange for all
\nthe buildings to have air ducts big enough to crawl around in?<\/p>\n
I was trying to think of a detective who had a
\nspecial talent for such things, and came up with an idea for a character
\nnamed Nick Perkele. Nick lost his edge when his girlfriend was killed
\nby a mob boss. One night Nick got drunk on a special a bottle of
\nFinnish Vodka. After drinking it is possessed
\nby a demon named Piru (previously trapped in the bottle by a curse).<\/p>\n
The demon is the real protagonist. He sees his kind as misunderstood. The
\ndemons could have made a better world than the Big Guy, but since they
\nwere thrown out of Heaven they have to think smaller. Piru plans to
\nfix Nick’s life by taking down the mobsters that killed his girlfriend
\nand jump-starting his career. The demon can switch bodies through
\ncontact, and this allows him to infiltrate almost any building. He can
\nsimply possess the security guards.<\/p>\n
The problem is that the mobster
\nwho put the hit on Nick’s girlfriend is into the occult, and he
\nemploys a Finnish shaman who can send Piru to Tuonela–a place where
\nhe can do nothing but sleep for all eternity.<\/p>\n