Welcome to the Netherworld!

[lazyvassals]

[It is difficult to define what a normal afternoon is by Netherworld standards. In the dark, torch-lit halls of the Overlord's Castle, penguin-suited prinnies totter about pretending to do work, while most other vassals make no effort at all to pretend. No fights have broken out yet, but it is questionable how long that will last with the Overlord being awake. It is just the sort of calm that comes before something unexpected happens, or someone makes it happen out of boredom.

And that is precisely when the first stranger comes through the swirling vortex of the Dimensional Gate.

It doesn't seem so unusual at first, because people use that gate on a daily basis. But more people start to show up, people who aren't demons. The Gatekeeper herself has no idea where they've come from, or how they've found their way to the Netherworld.

Unfortunately, neither do the unexpected guests.]

Comments

[trademark_skull]

Gaah! [It's squirming around too much, he's not going to--]

[Never mind.]

[Drops.]

[Oops.]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

[A heavy thud precedes a grim, ominous silence.]

Pick. Me. Up.

[The words are muffled and kind of squashed, much like the Overlord's face.]

[trademark_skull]

[Sorry! Sorry! Wait... maybe he's not that sorry...]

[But picking you up is what caused this in the first place. Though...maybe he could a little sympathetic and at least flip you over so you're facing up... With his foot. Clearly it is the most dignified way to turn over an Overlord, after all.]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

[Somewhat righted, the Overlord rises ominously into the air, the mighty tome glaring at Emizel with blank white eyes.]

So, you think you can mock and taunt the almighty Zetta, the most badass freaking Overlord in the entire cosmos!?

[trademark_skull]

[The-...Did he just say he was...]

Y..you're... [But, it was just a book!]

You can't be...that Zetta.

[Emizel is pretty sure this must be a mistake somehow. Although, the book is a little bit scary now.]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Hyaaa ha ha ha ha! So you've heard of me! That's more than I expected for some random demon in a third-rate Netherworld in a backwater universe!

There IS only one Zetta! None other is worthy of the name! Book or body, I'm top of the heap, baby!

[trademark_skull]

[This was... a little hard to believe though. It's so easy to claim to be someone without any proof. And..it's also a book. On the other hand if this really was Zetta... Oh man.]

..N-no Zetta I know is a book!

[You can't fool him, strange book demon B|]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

And no YOU you knew was in this Netherworld before today! Things change fast if you're not prepared. It's been a very weird day!

[Zetta continues to say all of this like a boast, despite the fact that none of it is boastful in the slightest...]