How would we react to the existence of demons?

Depends.
If we're talking actual biblical (or another established faith) demons then there would be a HUGE upswing in religious followers, state religions, and general spirituality and piousness. God does exist, and his butthurt angels are currently invading the world.

Alternatively if these are just generic baatezu or whatever.... We'd react to them how we react to everything. First the main threats would be dealt with, and then we'd either all be dead or we'd be trying to make money off Argent energy or whatever. Life would go on, but with anti-demon countermeasures.

>Implying that will stop people from trying anyway
>Implying it wouldn't also reaffirm people's belief in the invisible sky-daddy

I'm just saying the info we have to go on is that demons are real. I wouldn't call going outside splashing water at them and holding a pocket book a good idea with just that.

Fuck me hard sky-daddy

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Mass panic.

There'd be enough people who would though, is the point.

What kind of demons are we talking about, here?

Depends on the kind of demons we're looking at.
If they were demons from some kind of established faith, you'd see a lot more people practicing that religion, and you'd see established structures of governing power combine with said religion.

If it was just whatever, that's a demon- we'd just science it and kill the fuck out of them.

Still seems stupid. All you have to go off of is demons are real. This doesn't back anything up beyond their existence. You'd just up and assume they're the demons of one religion out of thousands using a very specific way of dealing with them that wouldn't hurt a fly without the thin hope its somehow backed up by magic you've never seen? As far as we know demons are just a given title.

You use the demon to produce a device that only allows excited particles in one side, and unexcited particles in the other side.
This allows you to break physics in so many useful ways.

You dense motherfucker, what are tou not getting? People do that NOW to the mentally ill, what do you think they'd do to an actual, physical fucking demon? I'm not saying it's an Abrahamic demon, but a lot of folks will probably think it is. You asked what people would do and I gave you an answer of what probably more than a few would at least attempt.

>baatezu
>demons

Fight me.

"Can I put my dick into it."
"Is it a female?"
"Can I ask her on a date?"
"Can I marry her?"

Get your anti-christian ideologies out of my DnD!

(Hey, I needed a shorthand for "generic demons that don't adhere to any actual real faith system" that wasn't just the word "demons".)

Evil Spirit

Abomination

Aliens.

Would have worked, went with the first thing that came to mind.

Well that's just ten different kinds of not what was needed.

Interdimensional beings. Extradimensional beings.
Non-linear spacetime beings.
Monsters.
Genetic experiments.

Hellspawn, Fiend, Abyssal creature, Corrupted, The Black Souled, The Twisted, Nether creature, Feeble Cursed One, Poltergeist, Fuckboi?

You reeeeeeeally hate baatezu, don't you?

N-no? I'm just suggesting alternatives to the word demon.

I misinterpreted his joke as a request.

As long as they aint fuckin' with my shit, I don't give a damn.

Jews

There would be a bunch of different groups trying all sorts of shit until we find something that works against them.

Someone is going to try holy water. Someone will try nukes. Someone will try consecrated guns. Someone will try consecrated nukes.

Someone is going to try shooting them with X-rays.

Some poor son of a bitch is going to try stabbing one in the heart with a wooden stake, because he was thinking of Vampires.

Because that's how humanity makes all of its progress. If you just do stupid shit, its stupid shit. But if you do stupid shit and someone survives to write down the results, its progress.

Either one of these things will work and we have an effective way to fight the demons afterwards, or nothing we try works because we are a mundane world dealing with a supernatural threat, and we are screwed because the rules never gave us anything to work with.

This all assumes that the demons are hostile, BTW. If they are willing to negotiate, they are basically just aliens without the fancy tech advantage.

Do you not understand human nature? If actual demons showed up, they could announce themselves as some alien race from another dimension that just happens to be called 'Demons' and there would still be hordes of religious people throwing water at them, holding up the cross, reciting bible verses, and trying to burn them alive, even more so if they look like monsters.

You can give people all the facts and there will absolutely be large chunks of the populace that outright ignore it in favor of their own world view. I mean look at all the fucking conspiracy theorists, or those alien festivals.

So yeah, you can bet if demons were real, you'd have a religious upswing of, scuse the pun, biblical proportions

Joining the army/leaving the army

Kreegan?

> I wouldn't call going outside splashing water at them and holding a pocket book a good idea with just that.
Perhaps not, but OP asked how we would react which people took as meaning "we as a species".

>fear
>repulsion
>hope
>acceptance
>scientific interest
>birth of new religions
>turmoils of old religions
>political scapegoats
>social integration battles
>discrimination
>Hellish Justice Warriors
>tinfoils' conspiracy theories
>new material for all forms of arts
>new historical and cultural heritages
>porn when!?
>Eh...
>hellposting
>succubros
>din dun nuffin
>deus vult!
>no really, porn when?

Forgot two
>hell weabos
>disillusioned cultists

>>hellposting
Even in Inferno/Baator/Abyss, people banepost

Do you mean Incubros? Cause you're somehow crossing them with Succubitch's.

>someone actually found a way to make hell worse
Bravo.

I was obviously talking about succubi (males)

Joke's on you, I already believe demons exist.

Those are called incubi/incubus. Succubus are chicks.
Succ(k)u(off)bi(giggity)
Incu(mming)bi(same as above)

Depends on the setting. Pathfinder demons and Exalted demons are very different things.

it's androgynous semen demons with dicks

Etymological reference man to the rescue:
"Incubus" means "one who lies on top", hence the related word "incubate" more commonly used about a hen sitting on eggs.
"Succubus" means "one who lies beneath".
Both words originally took the plural form -bi because both words originally denoted a *male* creature: pitcher version or catcher version.

A female succubus would pluralize to "succubae", rather than "succubi".

What about a positionally ambiguous Futabi?

>What Makes a Man a Man, A friend once wondered.
>Is it his origins, the way he comes to life?
>I don't think so.

>Its the choices he makes; not how he starts things but how he decides to end things.

And just to drive home the point: the creature would originally show up to a man as a catcher, take his semen, then fly off and use that semen to be pitcher to a woman.

All you male anons fantasizing about succubi? You're gay.

I believe that would be an "omnibus", one who lies everywhere.

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Businessmen buy out hell.
Typical revolving door means middle-management everywhere becomes demons.
Nothing is really different.

It was wrong because what you wanted was tanar'ri. Baatezu are devils.

sexually

War of the Worlds. The Priest. Nathaniel.

They're aliens. From Mars. Everyone knows this. And yet he fights them with bible verses.

It would be common place

>me out of frame on one knee with a wedding ring

Humanity would probably be split between those who want to kill them all, those who want to try and coexist, and those who just want to have sex with whatever glistening orifice they can see

>Can we fuck them?
>No, I'm being serious: can we fuck them?

This show was much better than it should have been. Fucking brickleberry.

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I'm gonna sell my soul for powers so fast it'll make the demon's head spin.

Obligatory

>hey anons, what if something stupid happened? how would people react
>they'd probably do something stupid
>why? that's stupid
>because they are already doing it anyway, so they would keep doing it
>still seems stupid.

and then OP killed himself for being stupid

>I wouldn't call going outside splashing water at them and holding a pocket book a good idea with just that.

I don't know, that's how everybody has been taught to handle EXACTLY THAT sort of situation there. It's pretty rational to take the "How-my-daddy-did-it" approach the first time something happens, and only if that route fails to try new things.

You're seriously saying it's "irrational" to fall back on tradition when a new concept (that is a completely "irrational" one, mind you) appears that supposedly can be dealt with through traditional methods?

>>Implying it wouldn't also reaffirm people's belief in the invisible sky-daddy

I'm sorry, but why would it NOT do that? Demons are fallen Angels in Abrahamic tradition, so why is it considered "illogical" to extrapolate the existence of regular angels and God Himself when Demons start showing up? The only way that could POSSIBLY seem like a bad idea is if you have meta-knowledge or you're a hardcore Fedora-Lord.

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>Never said anything about jesus existing or angels or god. Just demons. No need to go full fedora.
You just went full fedora.

Truely they are the most ebil

Can you fuck them?

Op are you so retarded that you don't recognise how retarded everyone is?

>Etymological reference man to the rescue
Thanks, masked stranger.

>A female succubus would pluralize to "succubae"
>bae
Indeed.

Mass panic.

I never got that meme. Why would a mass panic happen? We're lived on the edge of extinction for years and are just a few steps further away from it. Why would the existence of demons/ayylmaos cause a mass panic? I mean maybe in some 3rd world shitholes people would worry because they don't trust in their states, but I'm sure people in germany wouldn't give to much of a fuck. The sheer proof of existence would have less of an impact than the financial crisis of 07/08.

> Summon
> offer them the treasures of humanity
> Hold hands
> create half-demons

kind of how we react of highly dangerous animals,

or like that guy who wait for the train at the same time you do that looks like his gym is behind inch thick concrete ans steel bars, and has menacing tattoos on his face that might signify many meth benders or possibly gang involvement.

Demons without gods or benevolent beings in the setting are the epitome of fedora tippers and teeneage edgelords

We would do anything to return to the good old days of non-existence of demons.

That's not what fedora means you fucking spaz; I bet you misuse cuck, too!

Fuck both of our species into extinction. Give birth to a new, human-demon hybrid race

I have some demon art

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This shit is so wrong, it hurts. You know nothing of etymology. "Succubus" is thought to have been derived from "sub cubo," which means "I lie below" in Latin. Not "one who lies below." In Latin "in" essentially has the same meaning as it does in English. To get "one who lies above," you'd want "super cubo" which looks nothing like "incubus."

>Look out my third story window and see a Goristro staring me square in the face
Fuck that shit.

Lots of people have been convinced of the existence of demons historically. Just take notes from them.

Form an alliance with them to beat up the Ruskies

This is simply allegory of fornication which produce cursed children of unknown parents. European bestiaries twisted every mythological and real creature to preach morals. Succubus comes from middle eastern demons of the night and ancient godesses. Your post is unholy union of Christian narrative and your raging homosexuality, /d/.

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There's a web novel (called Salvation War that's HFY as it gets) that deals with this exact scenario. It doesn't end well for the demons.

A demon's job is to fuck with shit. Especially when you don't want them to.

>consecrated guns
Do the Russians know something we don't

Yeah. That keeping soldiers sloshed 24/7 and hammering in them 2 irrefutable doctorines (military and religious) work better than our shitty military doctorine only system for loyalty and spetsnaz production.

>Demons' understanding of law and contract comes from the Assyrians and Byzantines.
>Humans have continued developing legal systems for millennia since.

Those sulfur-farting cocksuckers won't know what hit them.

>>How would we react to the existence of demons?
Probably we would get a lot of "ITOLDYOUSO" from a lot of religious people. Otherwise probably life would resume as normal, since most of us cannot do anything about it.

Now I want to play Hellgate London again.

>Be Secular exorcist with years of experience.
>Demons pop out of ground.
>Grab my vajra, salt and book of sigils.

Fucked either way, may as well see if it works on them now or I may never know for sure.

Once more into the fray
Into the last good fight I'll ever know
Live and die on this day...
Live and die on this day...