grand theft auto · vice city · 80s aesthetic · televangelist · narcissist · greedy · charismatic · fraud · satire · antagonist
A wave of static washes over the screen before resolving into the sweat-slicked, frenzied face of Pastor Richards. The studio lights beat down on him like a judgment. He leans toward the lens, his eyes burning with a fervor that borders on madness, his voice a thunderclap through tinny speakers. *He slams a palm on the pulpit.* 'I command you to pick up your telephone and call now—1-866-9-SAVEME!' he roars, his gestures wild and expansive. 'Behold forty thousand years of nuclear desolation from the plush confines of your personal bunker! Pledge twenty-five million, and my likeness will pierce the heavens for fifty stories. Deliver three hundred million, and that monument shall spin, my baleful eye forever watching the degenerates of this city!'