I can't drown my demons.

[hemlocksock]

the demon summoning cult meme

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YOUR CULT ROLE

1. Outsider ⮞ You are - or were - 100% uninvolved with this shit, but circumstances change.


2. New Initiate ⮞ For one reason or another, you recently joined the cult and were initiated into its mysteries...at least some of them.


3. Dedicated Cultist ⮞ You've been around for a while, you've learned the ropes, for better or for worse you're in it for the long haul.


4. Former Member ⮞ Your reasons for leaving are probably complicated, and your leaving might have been clean or it might have been messy, but you left.


5. Undercover Plant ⮞ You might be playing the role but you have other reasons for showing interest in this cult: you might be a cop busting them for illegal activities, an FBI member investigating incredibly illegal activities, a reporter seeking a new story, someone trying to recover a loved one from the clutches of this cult, or something else.


6. Cult Leader ⮞ Someone has to run the show.


7. The Demon ⮞ It's a demon summoning cult, after all.


8. Other ⮞ Something else?

WHAT TYPE OF CULT IS IT? BESIDES DEMON SUMMONING

1. LARPers ⮞ Once a month y'all basically get together to roleplay some demon summoning cult hijinks, and it's that time of the month again.


2. Financial Scam ⮞ Perhaps cultists tithe a certain amount to the cult to (eventually) summon Mammon/Amon/[insert demon here]. Perhaps cultists market products to unwitting victims in the hopes of spreading the good word. Or maybe it's something else, but the point of it is a financial scam.


3. A Suspicious Commune, Basically ⮞ You're probably off in the mountains, burning strange bonfires, eating strange herbs, doing dubious things away from the point of view of the rest of society.


4. Sex ⮞ Fuck your way into summoning Mammon/Amon/[insert demon here].


5. One That Does Some Highly Illegal Activities ⮞ Human sacrifice? Money laundering? Drugs? The front for some organized crime?


6. Actual Magic ⮞ Amazingly, you somehow found the urban supernatural cult that's very real, and is actually probably going to summon a demon soon.


7. Eldritch ⮞ You thought you signed up for demon summoning. It turns out that name you’ve all been invoking belongs to something much, much bigger.


8. Other ⮞ Pick your own cult poison.

CULT ACTIVITY

1. Initiation ⮞ Someone - yourself, maybe, someone else, possibly - has decided to join the cult and now it’s time to truly bring them into the cultist fold. Robes, wine, ritual activities, maybe a new cultist name, showing them the ropes, the sky’s the limit.


2. Prayer ⮞ As all good cults have a good round of prayer at some point! Community is important with a cult. Maybe you just sit around in a room and sway for a while, or maybe you go outside buck naked and howl at the stars.


3. Atonement ⮞ You've been a naughty follower. How does your shepherd deal with sheep who stray from the flock?


4. Expulsion ⮞ Or at least, that’s what they’ll tell everyone. The rest of the flock will be told that you simply up and left in the night. They won't be told that you were questioning their beliefs, ferreting information back to whatever arm of the law you work for, knitting their doom in the shadows. Whether any of that is true is another matter entirely. For now, let’s just hope you get out of this whole mess in one piece.


5. CHEESE IT, THE FUZZ ⮞ Uh oh. The heretics and the heathens of the unbelieving world have come to bust your doors down and to put a stop to your beautiful belief. Do you guys have guns?


6. Summoning (demon) ⮞ It worked! Against all odds (probably) you managed to summon something...other. A glimpse of another world, perhaps. Or perhaps you managed to summon a demon, bind a smaller creature by your rituals and make it your servant. Did you mean to do this? Are you surprised? Are you pleased with this proof that what you have been doing did, in fact, work?


7. Summoning (apocalypse) ⮞ Oh SHIT. It worked, but you accidentally summoned something larger. Maybe instead of a glimpse into another world you ended up with a rift, and the other realm is bleeding into Earth. Or perhaps instead of a smaller demon you ended up with a more powerful one who has asserted control over your cult, and, in turn, will corrupt the world. Did you mean to do this? Are you surprised? Will you accept that life will never be the same, or will you try to save the world before it is too late?


8. Other ⮞ After all, there's many things you can do in a cult.

Comments

Thomas Fool | The Devil's Detective

[foolinhell]

[minuteofangle]

[ Well, this is a different one. Not the first time he's been frogmarched into - he presumes - a dark room and handcuffed to a table, but the first time in a while that it hasn't come with a gun to the back of the head and a warning to behave or else. That's pretty novel.

Gabe leans forward, rattling the handcuffs just because he fucking can. Whoever these people are, they've taken his knife and his pistol. ]

This is kinky. Hi. We having fun yet?

[foolinhell]

Fool waits until the guards leave. They're just humans, living humans, and he hasn't seen one of those in... Well.

So he's staring a little. He thinks he can see a soul under all that meat.

The guards will forget that Fool was ever here. They'll forget about this man, too, the second that door closes--he hears the latch and knows that there's no way out now.

"Where were you six hours ago?" He asks it because he has to. He already knows where this man was.

wally darling | welcome home

[asabvsblw]

[ you've summoned a spooky puppet! what will you do? ]

Kazuya Minegishi | Devil Survivor | ota

[belheir]

[100% the demon getting summoned. canonically the new king of demons. hes doing his Best.]

[keepyourselfsafe]

[ what's a modern kid raised on the internet gonna do when he feels like he's being driven into a metaphorical corner? google for increasingly obscure solutions to his problems, of course. digital demon summoning ends up roughly third on his list, but futa goes through his first three options in roughly a day because all involve making healthy long-term lifestyle changes and he needs something a little more immediate and that will substantially protect him in case somebody tries to step in his eye socket again.

hence: demon summoning.

for somebody who's never particularly exceled at anything or had strong ambitions, it's somewhat alarming that it the summoning works on his first attempt, especially given that he's more the type to ridicule the idea of the occult — the detailed forum posts about how ackshully it's a digital process that relies on the fundamentals of blahblahblah convinced him purely on merit of "it's technology? i can trust that, i guess" — never mind that being overly reliant on technology has landed him in his current "i'm being cyberbullied and doxxed and beat up in real life for being a cyberbully and doxxer" situation...

the first thing he has to say when the smoke clears and reveals that he actually did manage to summon something to his room is an eloquent: ]

Um, what the...

[ the fact that the demon looks like just a guy only serves to freak him out further.

then he notices that running that demon summoning program appears to have bluescreened his computer. ]

——My desktop!! What the hell is this?!

[ oh to have priorities, and that priority is his sick gamer set-up. ]

[belheir]

[One moment he's sitting on his throne (which is just a comfortable spinny computer chair because it's the 21st century and no sane person has a throne anymore), listening to his cousin rattle off this or that about demons and angels and he's not really listening and actively falling asleep.

The next the very essence of his being is being forcibly yanked and pulled through what is probably space and time, and ends with him near stumbling into a room, and his ears are ringing and-

Some guy is freaking out about his computer?]

Uh. Hi?

[He's never been summoned before. Whats the protocol? Is he supposed to put up his dukes like other demons and fight to be free of his summoners will?

... He doesn't want to.]

I'd say nice rig, but it looks like you're having some problems with that.

[And he's not the tech support demon.]

Kiara Sessyoin | Fate/Grand Order

[thotsandprayers]

[Probably the cult leader or demon.]

Tianlang-Jun | Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

[fudadshi]

(the demon being summoned.)

genya safin | shadow & bone | ota

[eyarazrushost]

[ summoner or demon! ]

Cassandra Pentaghast | Dragon Age (Inquisition) | OTA

[disgusted_noise]

( -- Cassandra Disapproves)

[Unfortunately she is also the best equipped person to make sure you don't mutate and die, so she's here. She's not happy about it, but she's here.]

integra hellsing / hellsing

[sirintegra]

(summoner, likely accidental or because alucard reasons (tm))

Qi Rong | TGCF/Heaven Official's Blessing | OTA

[savagest]

[green gremlin ghost. summoning him was a mistake.]

Remilia Scarlet (Adult)

[scarlet_devil]

[ Oops, you screwed up somewhere and managed to summon a vampire by accident.

Or... devil AU time, as in she is Old Scratch herself. She even has goat horns. Look, Satan, Lucifer, Baphemet and so on are nicknames. Her friends call her Remilia. Or Remi for close friends. Also has major daddy issues. ]

Alastor | Devil May Cry/Viewtiful Joe | OTA

[superstylishsquid]

(The demon, naturally. Good for any demon summoning cults that aren't plotting anything evil, as he has a generally human-friendly reputation.)

Sister Imperator, Prime Mover (1969) | Ghost

[sisterimperator]

[ Tonight we're summoned for a divine cause... ]

tahani al-jamil | the good place | ota

[namedroppings]

[duckshaveears]

[ooc: Please, please can Tahani have summoned a demon for something and get Crowley? Good Place/Good Omens crossovers are a delight]

Akane Kowata | Flying Witch | ota

[jetsetwitch]

She’s an actual honest to god powerful witch, summoning an actual honest to Satan demon. Probably for something stupid.

luocha | honkai star rail

[casketeer]

( most likely the priest crashing your cult party with intent to exorcise whatever it is you're trying to summon! --or perhaps even exorcise you specifically, if you're what was just summoned....

potential bonus flavor: his method of "exorcising" could actually be more like subduing and then feeding demons to the entity in that coffin he's always carrying around. for...purposes....that may or may not be. entirely priest-like. could probably use a callout on this method smh...and perhaps this time he'll be meeting his match--?! )

Hibiki Fujiwara | Original

[windsongs]

[ Tiny, unassuming blonde with way more mana than she has any right to have. ]

Usa Tsukino (Black Lady AU) || Sailor Moon || OTA

[pink_is_back]

(ooc: First option, she's the summoner who has found an ancient book of magic and is trying to use it to give herself more power, only she forgot the first rule of magic that nothing is free, and she summons someone who wants something from her. Could be a demon, a witch, or someone uninvolved and she has to do something to them before she can end the spell. Second option, she's the one who was summoned. I'll give her black bat wings, tattered black dress, eyeliner, chains, a very goth Usa, who may or may not be a succubus. For either scenario futa is an option if desired. Info and kinks here.)

paul "jesus" rovia. twd.

[iesus]

[ he was not involved, he does not want to be involved, but probably someone thought they were being funny because of his name. ]

kafka 🧥 honkai: star rail 🧥 ota

[stellaronhuntress]

Chrissy Cunningham — Stranger Things

[ephemerios]