This game definitely does exist

Main Quest (2)

Perhaps just throw the grimoires out of the Demon portals? Make them a reward from clearing them, creating a random pool of item as a reward, seem feasible. No... Magical grimoires with angelic language are a poor fit for demons.

Unless I want to go straight into a storyline like 'it was actually the demons who created the world, and the angels took the credit'...! But in that case, the shown aggression of the newly summoned demons did not look particularly good.

Unless I want to move the plot towards cementing that demons were generally normal guys, and went crazy over something? But then what about when I literally called someone, apparently, the oldest of the demons, an Enemy? Not 'the enemy of something', but THE, all caps, Enemy?

Hmm, let's keep that in my back pocket.

On the other hand, Jabberwocky has a ritual for summoning an angel, because someone read something similar to the ritual, right? Well, yeah, that's how it's gonna be.

Hmm, really, I shouldn't just give magic to everyone at once, a couple of players as a try first, to cover the most obvious loopholes...

Hmm, but how to justify the fact that this couple of Players will have magic and the rest won't?

That's a good question... I blinked a few times before clapping my hands as a figurative lightbulb appeared over my head.

The Pirates, of course!

***

Yersinia, a girl of short stature and unremarkable build, made the short way to the docked pirate ship before lounging behind a small line of people, slowly getting answers to their questions and shifting away from the small bridge thrown between the ship and the hovering island.

The pirates, or, as they, grinning as if from some private joke, called themselves the 'Wanderers of the Endless Sea', had appeared in the game yesterday afternoon. Yersinia had heard of at least two groups, excluding the one she was lining behind, armed with quite working equipment and relatively high level, and thus probably not bad skills.

The Pirates didn't respond to the players' appearance and interest, instead handing out quests first for supplies and equipment that the Players had worked together to scrape, before allowing the players to start joining their factions. At least three of the pirate groups were, in their own words, seriously battered during the journey, so they were ready to seek help from the Players, giving out quests to find other teams and information about them.

And of course, a couple of Players even tried attacking the pirates, either for the loot or just for the heck of it. Keyword there being 'tried'. Even if the Pirates were 'weakened' of 'lacking supplies' they ran roughshod on the idiots and send them away to be reborn by means of gratuitous violence.

Yersinia was quite surprised by how the NPC seemed fully alive, full of emotions and even reacted and communicated quite realistically to the sudden attack. Especially at their bafflement of why a bunch of people using only salvaged weapons, that being broken-off chair legs and literal sticks, tried to attack them. Trash that were quickly discarded by the Pirates, showing off just how above the Players the NPCs were in terms of equipment.

No Players tried to attack the Pirates after that. And with nothing interesting happening around her, all she could do was shuffle along as the line in front of her was becoming shorter even as the one behind her lengthens.

The pirates were giving out a rather vague but simple quest; but seeing as it was easy to accomplish, and one of the more reliable and safe way to level up, the work went quickly completed, newcomers and repeaters alike. Unfortunately, Yersinia herself was going to take the quest solely because she saw no other way to level up. Having invested her ten starting points in wisdom, she found herself in a bad position, that is, being incapable of hunting monsters.