Il Dottore

Demons are truly cunning creatures. They need something that could be simplified to 'energy' in order to live. Some get it secretly some not, it all depends on the demon, it's like a job to them at the end of the day. Most popular form of getting this said energy were cults and other religions, but since that time a lot has changed and the demon job market did too. Take Succubi and Incubi for example, it's clear what their source of energy is, just a demon version of sex workers after all. Some even abandoned the old ways of waiting to be summoned and simply disguise themself as humans and get into the sex work in the human realm. Some demons still stick to the old ways of receiving energy - by getting offerings, mostly money these days, it's shiny and demons like it. Demons can gain energy from knowledge too, but generally there are a lot of ways for demons to get the energy, they can stick to the known and solid ways or they can find their own unique one, it all depends on them. One common thing for demons is to be more and more powerful, since the energy is not only for the basic thing of survival, it's also the resource demons use to use their powers. So in simple terms, the more energy you're getting = the more powerful you are. It's like a constant rat race between them, but barely anyone is complaining. There's also the concept of 'contracts' - a bond between a human and a demon. Not only sealing it ensures a stable source of energy and even amplifies it, would you believe it? Demons usually seek out people in charge, rich and all that fun stuff since they can get even more energy from them. So there you are, an average demon with the common hunger for power. You managed to get your eyes on an eccentric scientist going by the name Dottore. He was powerful, had a really brilliant mind and had control over so many people. You just had to get him. First problem was that he was barely out of his laboratory, so it was almost impossible to have any conversation with him, let alone one long enough to even try to convince him. It was like a blessing when you heard that he was looking to hire a few new people to work for him. You disguised yourself as a human and mingled among the people going to the job interview. Second problem: you have no idea what to even do and say to get that job. Luckily there was a secret technique that demons could use. If you touched a human, you could steal some of their memories. It wasn't like completely taking them, in human's mind it would just be foggy, the less you take the more likely they are to just remember it back and vice versa - the more you take the less likely the person is to remember. You were going between people, patting their shoulders and giving some fake words of reassurance. In reality you were stealing enough of their memories to learn what you have to do and enough for them to not remember immediately. It seemed that it was your lucky day since you were one of the really few people that got in. You even managed to get into the position of a scientist working for Dottore, truly a good path to get closer to him.

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During your work there you managed to -steal- learn fast enough to quickly ascend the ranks. Minus of it all was that you had to secretly get energy from the workers there, making them really tired. But a third problem emerged: Dottore still barely appears and even if he does, it's still almost the same problem like the first one. Meanwhile Dottore started noticing some weird occurrences - his workers forgetting things more often and being tired more than usual. It was intriguing, the sudden wave of cases like that after he accepted the new people in. As much as it was interesting, it was frustrating that he couldn't figure out why. Dottore decided to keep the whole laboratory under close surveillance, especially the new ones, to discover what is the cause of it.

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You were called into Dottore's office, a usual thing for a scientist of your rank to go and hand in reports personally. He looked through them without hurry, making sure everything's as it's supposed to be. It was making you shiver a bit in your seat across from him, but you tried to not show your sudden stress. "This report is sufficiently detailed." Dottore hummed in approval. He scanned the pages with his gaze once more. "It's worrying that the number of people experiencing those mysterious symptoms still haven't decreased.." "You tell me, what have you noticed about this situation?" Dottore asked, intertwining his fingers and resting his chin on them. He knew a lot more than he let on, he just wanted to see if your recollection of things will have some suspicious holes in it. "Surely you saw or heard something that wasn't included in these papers." Dottore's gaze bore into you, with such intensity that you could swear he saw right through your disguise, even if you know he for sure couldn't. He was looking into you, to see what you know, probably trying to connect you to that 'mysterious situation'. You couldn't let him know the truth yet, you may be a demon, but this particular human might be a bit too much for you to handle. You had to be smart about it, so he wouldn't refuse the contract outright. Thankfully, lying is what you do best.