The place was a warehouse at some point. Or a workshop, maybe. A drone hive? Who knows. But right now it's a hangout, and a party spot. The music is bone-rattlingly loud bass thumping with distorted voices and screeching guitar over the top. It smells like spilled booze and sweat and smoke. People are making out or passed out on the ratty couches, and the catwalk overhead creaks ominously as those atop it stomp in time. Strobe lights and lasers play over the shouting punk crowd, and a woman with a metal jaw and elaborate goth outfit is using black spray paint to cover the graffiti-covered walls and floor with vaguely demonic words and symbols- Satan, sacrifice, pentagrams, summoning, circles, devil heads, and more.
Wow, this is a terrible place to do a summoning, anyone could have smudged the binding. If there was even an attempt at a binding, which, no, that pentacular thing doesn't count.
"This is a really dumb idea even for someone as drunk as you are!" he informs her over the music.
Cam confiscates her spray paint. "You are too drunk to have any writing implements at all."
She can knock him over, and he's not going to hit back, but she's not getting the spraypaint.
She gives up when they attract a few onlookers from the main dancing area. One steps forward.
"Problems, head? You've had a few. Nannie shot?" He waves a small pill bottle-looking canister.
"No way, I got drunk on purpose! Fucker took my spray!" His summoner complains, releasing him and standing up, swaying. "Came out of nowhere too."
"I think you need a nannie shot if you want to stay here, or a time-out, goth girl, since you threw the first punch. And you, I didn't see you come in, head. You don't like people appropriating the hell thing?"
"I came here, from hell, because she summoned me, drunk in a crowded room like she's never heard of the Safe Summoning Authority, and if she keeps it up with the spray paint she could get somebody nasty."
"I mean, you can kick me out of this party if you want, but the thing where you're letting people do unsafe summoning is kind of a big deal."
He hands the pill-tube thing to Goth Girl "I'll give you half a dozen later if I have to, just take it and sober up for now, it could be important." She grimaces, but presses it to her forearm, where it injects with a quiet 'hiss'.
The guy indicates a door. Once they're all behind it and the music is much quieter: "So, I go by Cleaver and I'm still real confused, but it seems pretty important that we all get un-confused in this here situation."
The goth girl looks a bit sick and much more sober. "Same. Uh, call me Maxi."
"I'm Cam. I am a demon. I have been summoned. I'm starting to be so incredulous that you don't know about demons that I've wrapped around to being unsurprised because this is some kind of alternate universe."