James "Jimmie the Shiv"Ames was having horrible luck in his life. Everything he touched seemed to come back to smack him in the chops.
He went to a voodoo woman to see if there was some kind of curse on him. There was, and it was a powerful one. He had made a dangerous enemy who had the curse put on him. There was some kind of problem where the curse couldn't be lifted.
He had the choice of that one or another to counter it. Either path led him straight to Hell