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What’s a demon but an imp with a plan?
— Tiamat
OH MY HELL LMAO I FEEL SO ATTAKED YET SO SEEN. eh eh eh eh eh that’s a great one I love it
— Suria
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And we just all play as imps and have to steal the plan from the other imps to be like the demon in charge. Kinda like ### style ? Oh I’m said that’s not how ### works but fuck it. And the imps kinda like follow the orders of the demon but then if they get the occasion the can steal the plan and be the imp with a plan ;p idk smth like that sounds fun to me at least
— Suria
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’cause, see? they would all have a booklet that’s just aesthetic, vibe, and one imp power, and one “demon” power (aka “when they have the plan”)
And like, “having the plan” would more be “you do as I say for X objective”, and... Oh, and each imp booklet has its own “plan”, like, if (when) I’m the one you’re listening to, we’re doing such, and when somebody else has “the plan”, we’re doing whatever they say.
Okay, so, an imp booklet has aesthetic and vibe, an imp power (like BoB “you can always...”) and a “demon” power that is linked to their... objective, they can only do when they’re “the one” (with the plan).
— Emma
And like, nobody is the DM, okay? What are we, like, humans? LOL, no. When nobody is the demon, we all do as we please, and it’s okay to like interrupt someone, and get mad if someone interrupt you or nobody ever let you speak, just talk louder. But when there is a demon among us, we do as they say (more or less), and if we say, like, whatever, we must ask or check with them if it’s according to their idea of what’s happening. And if too many imps are talking over each other, the demon can talk louder than anyone if they want to, and they say which idea is cool and which is not. (But an imp can always keep their cool idea for when they are the demon, anyway.) And if someone wants to be the demon again, but an imp never was the demon yet, that imp can talk louder and be the demon now.
First you’ll have to choose if you’re more into gizmo explosives or more like magic and explosion spells, but it’s just a vibe thing, the rules are the same. And so you can have that as much as you want, like if you’re more the gizmo kind of imp, you seem to never run out of little grenades or ticking bombs or ammunition for your comically oversize (and very unwieldy) gun. If you’re more the wizardy-type, you always have half-burnt grimoires and scrolls like tugged around and maybe explosive potions, and you never run out of magic power for small fire spells.
Everytime someone mention something needing to be done, you have to offer to solve the problem with explosions, or fire, or any other disproportionate destructive mean. Like if someone needs light, you won’t be contempt lending them a torch or a floating lil flame, you have to lit the whole forest aflame if they’re trying to find something at night in it.
If they decline your help, you tick one frustration mark. When you reach 5, you won’t ask next time. Erase frustration marks when you become the demon.
If they accept, you may decide if you do it just once (still disproportionately, obv) (and not mark nor erase frustration (or maybe erase one, if you feel like it)), or if you really overcommit and invent a plan to really overdo it and become the demon now!
When you become the imp-with-the-plan, your objective is then to prepare the biggest explosion / fire / destruction ever – say what you need now – and while doing so every imp must run, like something is ticking or burning and everything must be done now in a hurry. Of course nobody may discuss your direct orders or even stay idle, but spontaneous unplanned initiatives are welcome, even if they seem a little dangerous. (Especially if they seem dangerous, actually!)
In your demon form, you’re one fire, but like, for real. Maybe your clothes are fireproof but that’s like more to protect what’s around. Your role is actually to keep the thing from exploding now, giving more time to your underlings to prepare, and each time they wander off or idle you remind them how close everything is from going boom, big time.
Your actual demon power is to make things explode without even being there, like if one of your imps has a problem, just make it go boom because reason, like nobody has time for sidequests now!
If someone manages to takes the plan from you, you can’t hold it anymore and the explosion is now, even if things were unfinished (but it’s still a very satisfying and oversized explosion that does whatever it was supposed to do in the first place).
So this one is very big and scary when it’s the demon, with too many horns and big teeth and all, but when they’re just an imp, they’re like a very angry rat or something, like still fangs and claws and stuff, y’know, but more the hissing and running and constantly nibbling type.
And they don’t really speak, like more they’re making themself understood by body language, but it’s all very clear to all of the imps, like they don’t NEED to talk, see?
So yeah, tell us, are you like just naked or all furry, or what, maybe even scaly or something? Also, how many horns and claws and stuff you’ve got, and where?
So yeah, it’s always hungry, like, all the freaking time. I swear, if something dead lies around, it’s gonna eat it, and if it’s not dead yet, it might soon be, yo! Fortunately imps aren’t meat, but anything that’s alive (or has been at some point) is fair game for this one. And yeah, if you don’t believe eating is a decent imp power, you haven’t seen that lil beast going at it. If it just ate, you might tame it for a short while with a bone or some scratch behind the head-horns, maybe (or loose an arm trying, lol), and when it’s back from its big demon form, like after eating a big game or stuff, it may sleeps for like, a minute or two, before being hungry again.
So its deal is basically to hunt something, and anytime there is something fleeing the imps, it can become the demon, become huge and monstrous, and like exhort the others or something, to, like, become a horde, a hunting pack, and the rule is that nobody can talk when this one is the demon, they all have to act on instinct and communicate with body language, and they can’t, like, acting too smart, see? Like not everybody is dumb all of a sudden, okay, just, they’re all in the hunt and must act, before anything else, and react to each other, but like, advanced coordination is out of the table, okay?
And yeah, obviously, its big demon power is to tear down even the biggest beast – I mean, non-demon beast, duh! – with its claws like big swords and shit, and its maw can brush bones and steel, yo!
She’s always looking pretty, nothing dirty ever sticks to her, it’s just her hair that’s always disheveled, no matter what. She can fly and glow and stuff like all faeries, but she also laugh out loud and tease back harder when she’s teased. She likes eating flesh like an imp, and even if her teeth are small and white they’re pointy and harder than steel actually!
When she doesn’t want to do something, she pretend she can’t because she’s not an imp like us, but actually she just doens’t want to do it. So yeah, basically she can disobey the demon if she wants to, and not do like the others if she doesn’t feel like it.
But also, she’s like super silent sometimes, like I swear, any imp would have made hell of a racket, but no, miss fancy pants just flies through the thing and, like, nobody heard it coming! Imps can sneak in and steal stuff, sure, but it always ends up like blowing the lock and running out with the thing screaming. She’s the real queen of the boring kind of stealing. But yeah, sometimes boring is needed. I mean silent is needed.
When she has a plan, she doesn’t transform, obviously, but maybe she does a little. Like she starts to pose and speak softly and all of sudden nobody can speak louder than that. She just say “I have a plan”, and for some reason we all think what she says is such a good idea and we’re all dumb and we should better shut the fuck up and listen, for once. And if some imps still talk louder, we’re all shushing them loudly because our majesty hates to repeat herself. And then nobody discusses her or thinks out loud anymore, we’re like her little subjects, and we say “your majesty, may I suggest” when we dare think ourselves clever or cool or whatever.
Her plan has always something to do with messing with humans, but in a secretive way, like in a faery way, you see? Maybe we need to set a very complex trap or spread a big lie for something to blow or lure someone away from their safety or shit.
Oh, and of course she has special powers when she’s the one with the plan! It’s like the effect she has on us, but for like, everybody! See, even humans and whatnot start doing what she demands, because of fae magic or something.
Written by Tiamat
So, basically, I’m a priest of an ancient divinity who’s name I can’t pronounce. I mean I’m not ALLOWED to pronounce, you dumbass! And so, yeah, that’s why I must wear only black and like, I have some cool blessed trinkets, I’ll show you if you ask, but it’s, like, for rituals, y’know? And uh… Yeah, maybe I’m less, like, all over the place, for an imp, fine. Dark imps like me tend to be more quite, but don’t even think about messing with me, ’kay? I’m dangerous. I just don’t have to yell about it all the freakin’ time.
Yeah, no, I don’t do “Magic”, it’s more a sort of, uhh… like dark miracles, see? Like I can pray for your face to look less stupid and like, maybe, the divinity of the depths will alter reality. I can just ask and point, and yeah, something dark and twisted will happen. Eventually.
And yeah I must pray and shit, but like, more importantly, it’s all about showing devotion and bringing what the divinity demands. Mine is about suffering, or death, I think… Or something to do with heralding the change to come, and that involves, uhh… Yeah, like, every time I’ve got the opportunity, I must corrupt something and let the Void alter the way things are, uhh… Yeah, I should read the prophecy again, I was high when I read it first.
Written by Emma
Okay, listen up. Once, I tried that ritual in the forbidden prayers’ book, because what’s the point of having them written down if they’re forbidden, ammaright? And so, yeah, all of a sudden I felt all deep and void inside – I mean, more than usual – and like I was sensing things around me, and I grew tantacles from everywhere – like, every-freakin’-where, you have no idea. And I felt like reality was such a fragile thing, that I could shatter it by even thinking too hard how it could be different. But at the same time I heard all the desires and ideas of the imps around me, and I couldn’t remember the color of my own thoughts, and so many things became different, but nobody remembered how they were before, not even me. That’s when my nose started to bleed and I wished I hadn’t read that stupid prayer aloud, and it suddenly became as if I never read even started the freakin’ ritual.
I don’t know what yet, but I’m sure I’ll end up finding something that I’ll wish would be very different…
Oh, by the way, never touch that sealed scroll on my belt, okay? No reason, just sayin’.
Writtent by Suria
They’re just a goblin. They just want to hang out but now they’re too wrapped up in pretending to be an imp that they keep hiding that they’re really a goblin. Which is kinda dumb cause like, goblins are great too. And we the other imps probably all figured it out anyways but like we didn’t say anything cause they seem very intense about saying they’re not a goblin and you know, that’s fine.
They have a pair of fake horns that falls off sometimes. And red paint over their green skin that shows at the joints.
To us the imp-ostor is an imp-full-stop.
When there’s a demon among us (or when we’re just fucking around), they go along, anxious of not being included, doing what they can to look impish and obey the demon, while trying to keep their disguise intact.
We are very supportive, though, so at some point when it's too much and they get flustered or too sad/shy about it or some jackass mortal points it out then we pretend they become the demon and we do whatever they said for like making them feel all included and powerful as shit.
When it’s time for the imp-ostor to be the demon everyone rolls with it and makes cool stuff happen on their behalf. And we are all hyping everything like being “OH WOW SO COOL” And obeying and shit. But like not in a sarcastical making fun of them way. Though it is fun that they don’t really have any flashy powers, it’s great cause it just means everyone needs to get more creative and put up the work to make things happen and look really cool and demonic and all. Plus the imp-ostor looks so frickin glad when they do that it would be impossible to deny.
Yes, you! Who are you? Like, what’s your deal, and all? Tell us what you look like and what you can do! Hey, look, I’ve made you a list, if you’re too dumb to think by yourself. Ain’t I nice, eh?