Not knowing anything about your story beyond what I read here, I suggest that your hit man be named Jacob Marley. If you recall, Mr Marley gained nothing personally by warning his old business partner Mr Scrooge of the error of his ways, at least so far as I recollect it, but it was certainly nice of him.
So, your hit man's goal may not be to escape from Hell, but rather to keep someone else from arriving there…?
Maybe… His acolyte or successor or whatever blames Mister Blue for the death of his father. He's sworn that Mister Blue will pay with his life. Now the hitman must find the shade of the acolyte's father and cause him to appear to the boy, to tell him that no, he slipped on a banana peel and fell out that window, that Mister Blue may be a scoundrel, but in this he is blameless! And obviously time is a factor here.
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Date: 2014-08-10 08:44 pm (UTC)So, your hit man's goal may not be to escape from Hell, but rather to keep someone else from arriving there…?
Maybe… His acolyte or successor or whatever blames Mister Blue for the death of his father. He's sworn that Mister Blue will pay with his life. Now the hitman must find the shade of the acolyte's father and cause him to appear to the boy, to tell him that no, he slipped on a banana peel and fell out that window, that Mister Blue may be a scoundrel, but in this he is blameless! And obviously time is a factor here.
Just a thought.