I've only had a handful of encounters with demons but I can recall one in particular that stands out the most. It happened while I was out camping and this is one of many reasons I'm pretty wary whenever a certain friend brings up camping trips..
It was probably close to midnight I think, if not a little afterward, and something caused me to wake up. You know how you can get the worst feeling in the pit of your stomach, this sinking feeling like something is very, VERY wrong even though you can't quite pinpoint what it is? Yeah. I'm generally not that easy to frighten when it comes to stuff like this when I'm at home - like, I'll just shrug it off and turn over and go back to sleep or whatever, no big deal. But this time it was different, for sure.
So I get up and go to wake up my friend, who was with me (because who's gonna go do something in the woods like that alone lmao - the whole point of camping is to have fun with other people), except he was already awake as well and just as consumed with that same feeling of dread. That was weird enough in itself, but then we started hearing things. It's hard to describe but it was kind of like white noise + that indistinct murmuring/mumbling you hear when you leave a TV on in the background where you can't really discern exactly what's being said. When you're out in the middle of a forest you expect there to be ~nature noises~ and stuff but this definitely wasn't that, so we were both on edge.
We both tried to turn on our flashlights and the lantern we brought with us but they were dead, and, like a couple of complete idiots, we didn't think to bring matches or anything that didn't rely on electricity. As you probably know, paranormal entities feed off electricity or whatever, so yeah, smooth move on our part. Anyway the sounds we were hearing got progressively louder, and apart from the mash of different noises I thought I could make out rattling chains (yes, in the middle of the woods), but I asked my friend if he heard chains and he swore up and down that he didn't, so there I am thinking I'm crazy...
And in the darkness we couldn't see a thing so we were just huddling together and waiting for it to stop when I felt something basically whip me in the chest. HARD.
Then my GM had us roll initiative because it was a goddamn Chain Devil. My friend didn't notice the chain sounds because he failed his perception check. And yet somehow he got out alright (because he got extremely lucky with the rest of his rolls and fled after 3 turns) but I died mid-encounter and had to sit out the rest of the session making a new character.
F***in' demons.
