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It’s Saturday in the house of Lamentation, and because the younger six brother’s grouped together to pull a prank on their Eldest Brother, they were all grounded to their rooms with no sources of entertainment. Leviathan had refused to let Lucifer take his phone, so Lucifer just took the third-born’s personal router.
However, an effect of this punishment Lucifer did not anticipate was MC’s immense boredom. The human is currently banging their fist painfully against Lucifer’s door while chanting “Entertain me, Lucifer.”
The Avatar of Pride, inside his room, sighs while getting up, and says “You can stop, I’m opening the door.”
MC grins and teases “I knew you couldn’t resist my charm, Luci~”
“You’ve been spending far too much time with Asmodeus.” The first-born states, as MC skips into the demon’s room. “And how, pray tell, do you expect me to entertain you?”
MC sits down and thinks. They then spout “I want to start a Dungeon World Campaign.”
“What is ‘Dungeon World’?” Lucifer asks, unamused.
MC gives a Cheshire cat smile and explains “Dungeon World is a tabletop RPG game using the Powered by Apocalypse system. It takes place in a fantasy world with Elves, Dwarves, and Halflings-“
“I wanted to know what it is, not it’s entire premise.” Lucifer inturrupts.
MC pouts, then gets an idea to try to get Lucifer on board, “If all your brothers willingly agreed to play, you could get them to settle down for at least a couple hours biweekly….”
Lucifer raises an eyebrow “How do you expect to get my brothers to agree to this?”
“Well, Mam will just play because I’m going to be the GM and he wants to spend time with me. Levi will play just for a chance to show his gaming abilities, or maybe because of some oddly specific anime. I’m not sure exactly how yet, but I’m certain I can get Satan to agree. I may need to offer something to Asmo to get him to play, but I’ll something else first. Beel with play if I just tell him there will be snacks at every session. Belphie….” MC’s brain goes blank.
Lucifer chuckles “Exactly, how will you get my younger brother to commit to expending large amounts of energy ‘at least a couple hours bi-weekly’ as you said.”
“If all else fails, I can just pull out the same tactics I used to get in here. But him and I spend a lot of time together, so I don’t think it’ll come to that.” MC decides.
“If you can get them to agree to this.” He pauses “I suppose I can make your game sessions an exception to their grounding. Although, I have one last question.” MC gestures for him to continue. “How do you expect to convince me to play this roleplay game?”
“That’s a two-step process. I won’t try to convince them to play Dungeon World. And I’m not telling you step two, but if you don’t agree to play then you’ll regret it in due time.”
Lucifer frowns “What could you possibly do to make me regret a decision?”
“Wanna find out?”
MC knocks on a door in the House of Lamentation, and hears a loud yelp come from the room on the other side. The door opens, and the occupant of the room looks surprised, his room behind him, for once, is clean.
“Are you allowed to be here!?” Mammon asks.
MC nods “Lucifer told me I can visit each of you once for my grand plan.”
Mammon grins at MC’s wording “Grand plan?”
“Mammon, can I come in?” MC requests.
Mammon seems startled anew, upon realizing he was blocking their path in, and steps aside for them to enter his room. “I really hate that Lucifer grounded us. We ain’t children, he shouldn’t be treatin’ us like this! I’m even so bored that I actually cleaned my damn room!”
“Do you want a way to get out of this room sometimes before your punishment is over?” MC questions.
Mammon turns to look at MC after closing the door, “’Course I do, but how are you gonna get me that when Lucifer’s watching us all like a hawk?”
MC grins “Play Dungeon World with us.”
“Us?”
“Yeah, Me, Luci, You, and, hopefully, your younger brothers too.” They state.
“Nuh uh, I ain’t playin’ nothin’ with Lucifer.” Mammon says.
MC Pouts “Fine, I’ll just get all your brothers to play, and I’ll just leave you stuck in here. I’m going to Levi’s Room to tell him about the game now~.” MC heads toward the door.
“W-wait. I’ll play!” Mammon cries.
MC cheers “Awesome, I’m still going to Levi’s room though.” They leave Mammon’s room and head toward the Otaku. Mammon sulks at the human’s absence.
“What’s the Password?” The third-born asks when a knock sounds at his door.
MC clears their throat and calls, “I’m not inviting you to my Dungeon World Campaign unless you open this door.”
The sound of something falling over reaches MC’s ears just before the disheveled looking demon opens his door, a pile of Ruri-chan figurine boxes on the floor as if he was just inside a fort of them and stood up inside of it. “Did you say you’re hosting a Dungeon World Campaign? Like the tabletop RPG?” Leviathan says.
MC looks past Leviathan worried “Are the Ruri-Chans okay?”
“They’re in their boxes, they’ll be fine. This is more important.” Levi hastily answers. His answer makes MC feel special. “You’re going to be GM-ing a Dungeon World Campaign?” MC nods. “This is just like the anime I was watching before we were grounded called ‘My Best Friend is the Game Master of My Tabletop Game, and Now I Can’t Stop Thinking About What She’d Look Like In the Antagonist’s Skimpy Battle armor’!” Leviathan rambles.
MC stares at the Otaku apprehensively “Why does that sound suspiciously like hentai to me?”
Leviathan goes red from embarrassment, immediately responding “IT’S NOT HENTAI, I SWEAR!”
“But, um, will you join the campaign along with your older brothers?” MC asks.
The third born nods and wonders aloud “How did you get Lucifer to agree to play though?”
MC giggles “That’s for me to know, and you to never find out. Well, Ta Ta for now Leviachan, I’m visiting Satan to have a long roundabout conversation about Dungeon World.” They spin and head toward the cynical brother’s room.
MC knocks on the fourth-born’s door. The door swings open, the brother in question looks like he was about to start yelling, but upon seeing MC he calms and asks, “Why are you here?”
“Can I come in?” The human replies. Satan nods and steps out of the way. The first thing MC notices is that there is not even single book in the demon’s room. “What… What happened in here?”
Satan sighs wistfully, “Lucifer took all of the books and hid them.”
“Where?”
Satan yet again sighs, “If I knew that I’d have gotten them back. Now, why are you here?”
“Would you like to be a part of my Dungeon World campaign?” They ask matter-of-factly.
Satan raises his eyebrow, “What is Dungeon World?”
“It’s a tabletop roleplaying game set in a magical fantasy setting. I imagine you can figure out what the players do in the game from just the name though.” Satan nods, as MC continues “If all of you agree to play, then Lucifer said you guys can come out of your rooms for game session, of course I would need to get all your character’s sorted out first, which might take a week in-and-of itself, then there is me planning the plot of the campaign, side quests. But before I can do that, you seven would need to decide where the story takes place.” They take a breath, then continue, “I think you’d like the part of the game where it’s basically you seven world building and lore building.”
“Really?” The cynical demon smirks.
MC nods “You all even get to decide what the races actually are, although I assume there may be bias on that topic from any stories you guys have read, or games you guys have played, where the races already exist.”
Satan asks, “Is Lucifer going to be playing?” MC nods. “Hm… Will I have to cooperate with his character?”
MC thinks for a moment, and carefully explains, “The answer to that question is yes, however, your character nor you have to like Lucifer’s character or him himself.”
Satan chuckles at their answer. He nods while stating “I’ll play, but I’m going to give Lucifer’s character as hard a time as I can.”
Satan talks to MC for a bit longer, and the human parts from his room to head to Asmodeus.
“Asmo, can I come in?” MC asks through the door.
The fifth born opens the door and says “Of course you can, my dear. I did say that you’re always welcome in my room, did I not~?”
MC chuckles entering the room, observing the room, they decide to vocalize their observation, “Lucifer took your nail polishes.”
Asmodeus sighs “He took my bath salts and soaps too.”
“No bubble baths.” MC pouts, and Asmodeus nods sadly. “I actually came here to ask you a question.”
“If you’re asking if I’d like you to buy me some emergency supplies, then yes.” The narcissistic brother smiles.
MC sits on Asmodeus’s bed and continued what they’d started before Asmodeus’s not completely unwelcome interruption, “No… I wanted to ask if you’d like to be a part of my Dungeon World game.”
“Why would I want to play that?” The fifth born asks uncaring.
MC declares “Imagine this: Asmodeus the most famous performer in all the land, every king, queen, and evil doer stumbling over themselves to afford to get you to sing or tell a story for them, and every boy and girl in the land wishing they could spend countless nights with you. Although I guess the former is more like reality. But still, even though I’m obviously not going to let you name your character after yourself, imagine that.”
Asmodeus looks away from MC pensively, “Well I do love being famous.”
“And you can make fun of Mammon’s character, who will almost definitely be a thief.”
Asmodeus chuckles “Probably a bad one at that.”
“I dunno, he’s about as good with dice as he’s bad with everything else.” MC says jokingly.
Asmodeus gives in, saying, “Okay MC, I’ll play, but only because I don’t want to upset you.”
“Yeah, that’s totally the only reason” They say teasingly. Asmodeus gives a small laugh. “I should visit the twins, bye Asmo.”
“Oh, Lucifer has one of them grounded in the Attic, I’m not sure which.” The fifth born continues, “He didn’t want them keeping each other entertained during our punishment.”
MC nods and heads over to the twins’ room to see which of the pair is there.
The human knows who’s in there without even knocking because when they stopped outside the door, an inhuman growl matching the sound of Beelzebub’s stomach can be heard from in the room. They knock on the door apprehensively because who knows what the ever-famished brother would do while he’s hungry.
Beelzebub opens the door and sadly says “Oh… It’s you. I don’t know if it’s a good idea for you to be here right now.”
“Well hopefully I won’t have to stay long.” MC slips into the room. “I want to ask if you’d like to play Dungeon World.”
“What’s that?” Beelzebub asks, “Is there food involved?”
MC opens their mouth, then closes it while thinking about their words. “Not in the game itself really, but I did mention before to one of your brothers that I’d make sure there were plenty of snacks at each game session.”
Beelzebub salivates at the word snack, and his stomach loudly growls, “Okay, I’ll play.”
“Great, I’m gonna go see Belphie, then I’ll see about getting you some food.” MC promises as they make their way out of the room.
MC follows the familiar path to the Attic door and cheekily says “A human walk up to an attic door and says ‘Please join my roleplaying game’”
A similarly familiar voice responds, “That’s the worst joke I’ve ever heard, and I live in a house with Mammon so that’s saying something.”
“Please join my roleplaying game, Belphie.” MC asks as Belphegor comes up to the door.
The seventh born chuckles “Why should I?”
“Do you want the crappy answer, or a couple legit answers?” MC counters.
“The real answers, obviously.” Belphegor chortles.
“One, Beel is playing.” MC starts, “Two, the rest of your brothers are playing.”
“I thought you were supposed to be convincing me, not repelling me.” The demon snorts.
MC nods reflectively “You’re right that second one was the wrong angle.”
Belphegor mumbles “You’ve got that right.”
“You’ll get to leave the attic for a bit during sessions.”
“I’ll have to be awake though.”
“It’ll be fun.”
“With my brothers? Really?”
“You had fun pranking Lucifer with them.”
“Yeah? Look where that got me.”
“I will let it slide if you try to kill Lucifer’s character.”
Belphegor looks shocked “He’s playing?” The human nods. “You’ll let me kill him?”
“Try to kill him” They correct, “And only the first five attempts.”
Belphegor thinks on it. “Ten.”
“Six.”
“Eight.”
“Seven, no higher.”
“Fitting.” Belphegor states.
MC chuckles “I thought so too.”
“You have yourself a deal human, on one condition.” MC looks at him questioningly, “Please get Beel fed, I can’t sleep because of how hungry he is.”
MC nods “I was already planning on it.”
“Lucifer, I did it” MC calls out, banging on his door for the umpteenth time today. The prideful demon opens his door with a glare. “Sorry, I should have knocked normally, instead of banging. I’m just really exc-“
“Come in.” Lucifer says, his face softening.
MC bounces into Lucifer’s room. “I got them all to agree.”
“I assumed” Lucifer tells them.
MC looks up at the First-born swiftly, “Oh, can I take Beel some food? He seemed really close to snapping when I showed up.”
“I’ll take care of that; you can go get your materials together for the game.” Lucifer assures.
MC smiles “I’ll be back so we can create your character within the next few days.”
“Don’t let this distract you from your work. I wouldn’t want our exchange student’s grades falling because of a game.” Lucifer lets his loosely implied threat hang.
MC nods and leaves.