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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6297550" data-attributes="member: 87792">Scary is as scary does.  That demon just destroyed people who would casually enslave it.  The demon isn't even the bad guy in the scenario.  Nasty and pissed off, yes.  I'd be pissed off if people tried enslaving me when they had trouble.To  make the demon scary, first it needs agency.  Summoning is a way of  controlling a demon.  You do not summon demons if you want them to be  scary.  You invite them to bargain with and they can leave at  any time - get the summoning wrong and they can leave into this world.   Second, to get to the demon, you need to deal with intermediaries first  who build it up  both because it's giving them occult powers and because  they are themselves scary.  Then the PCs find a corpse of a would-be  summoner and realise that means the demon itself is loose.(And  the best way to stop a demonic ritual from working?  Spam the ritual  until the demon gives up and creates a new one because the proverbial  phone was ringing off the hook).</blockquote>