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Back in the day, a respectable dungeon master wouldn’t be caught dead wearing anything but a rag loin cloth and packing a deadly mace or club. His dungeon would be littered with filth and human excrement and blood. The halls would be filled with the blood-curdling screams of victims being tortured to the very brink of death and beyond, their ravaged and mangled bodies strewn ruthlessly into shallow, uncovered graves.

“Yep, those were the days,” says Throk Anderson - pictured here in the foyer of his modern-day, luxury dungeon and torture chamber. “Isn’t a day gone by that I don’t long for those times. No way you could get away with that type of thing, these days. What with all the new government regulations on torture and all.”

Indeed, the times have changed. And Anderson doesn’t argue that the business is far more lucrative than it used to be. From his posh offices of his newly remodeled Throk Anderson’s Professional Torture Center located on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, Anderson concedes that the demand for torture devices such as The Rack has skyrocketed. “Nowadays, people are flocking to the dungeon just for a 15 minute hang on the wall. It’s amazing. I’ve had to open two other centers just to keep up with demand. I’ve even got people coming in from Germany, London, and even France!”

Business is not the only thing that’s booming these days for Throk, either. His popularity has risen quite a bit since opening his center. And who can argue? He’s quite the good looking lady’s man. “I have to admit, it’s nice to get all the attention. It wasn’t that long ago that a guy with one eye wouldn’t be more than a side-show exhibit in a traveling carnival. Well, at least, that’s what my father and his father before him did. Now, I got me a fine lookin’ lady for a wife, and a nice family. I’m the leader of my local Fairytale Creatures Union, and I’ve held the record down at the bowling alley for three straight years, now.”

Throk Anderson’s Professional Torture Centers are located in Beverly Hills, Hollywood, and Burbank. He has plans to go national within the next year. He has an eye on Las Vegas.

Happy HNT, everyone! Oh, and if this freaks you out, think of what it’s doing to me!

Original background image can be found here, and is copyright Ning Mui. It is used here without permission. The foreground is all me.

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