The Demon of Yogurt
By Beth McCoy

Once upon a time, there were two demons of Gluttony, and -- rather
surprising for demons -- they loved each other very much. (And not just for
dessert.) Together, they ran a specialty food store, and on their lunch
hours, they would go to the nearby park and buy food from the vendors
there. They loved discussing their favorite topic: what kinds of food were
best.

One day, the Lightbringer happened upon them in that park, as one spoke
passionately of the beauties of health food, and the other declaimed
intensely upon the appeal of junk food. And the First Balseraph listened a
while, being somewhat impressed by their zeal and fervor on their topics,
until he realized that these two demons cared about each other.

So he appeared unto them and granted them each Words. The first should have
Health Food, and the second should have Junk Food (both Words which
Haagenti had been hoping to acquire for some time now, since a Malakite of
Eli had strangled the last Junk Food with a celestial licorice whip). Then
he left them.

And their new Words did cause them friction. No longer could they think
properly about any other kind of foods. They divided their store between
them, and stocked it with foods to support their Words.

Then they found it: health food/junk food. You've seen those black
packages, with sweet potato chips, or chips made from all kinds of tubers?
The two demons realized that they had a meeting of Words after all. And in
their joy, they went to their Prince, Haagenti, and begged that he would
join selected of their Forces together, that they might produce, and raise,
a demon to serve him even as they did. And, because he was pleased at all
the "healthy junk food" that they were promoting the over-consumption of,
he agreed.

But when Lucifer heard Haagenti bragging about his young Word-bound and
their new imp, the Morning Star was less pleased. These two, who should be
driven apart by their Words, had come together instead? It was . . .
annoying.  So he appeared unto them and their new imp (which was in the
vessel of a baby) and gave the "child" a Word that he was sure would split
Junk and Health apart, as each tried to warp the imp to serve it, and not
it's "mate."  That Word was Yogurt.

But even the Lightbringer can have an off day, for little "Yogi" (as the
imp grew to be called) was a true product of its flexible and clever
parents, and sought ways to serve both spheres of the Word-bound whose
Forces had created it. No-fat soy "yogurt" for the one, chocolate
cheesecake yogurt for the other . . . The possibilities were endless. With
glee, the trio promoted Yogurt.

Now, it will be Yogi's shining moment: not only does the imp (now 6 Forces,
aside from its Word) have control of a small yogurt processing plant, but
it is about to launch a flavor which is a true merger of all the low-fat,
high nutrition of Health Food, and all the taste ecstasy and affordability
of Junk Food. In the honor of the new company, there's been a media event
planned. (The "front owners," ignorant humans, have high society
pretensions which suit the Word-bound trio just fine.)

Naturally, there are enemies who might be waiting to spoil this event
somehow: crash the party, destroy the plant, kill the demons, all of the
above. Why, this little success story is such that even Lucifer himself
might manipulate one last attack to spoil the threesome's happiness. (Are
your player characters, angel or demon, suitably manipulable?)

Of course, if the three Word-bound rise above this last assault, Lucifer
will clearly have no choice. He'll have to make Yogurt a Prince and hope
Haagenti eats him.