There are disadvantages to being a favored Servitor of your Superior. Sure, you get to go to Earth, blow up members of the Other Side, and get to play with all the neat toys, but this can be handily counterbalanced by the fact that a transcendently powerful being knows your name. Sometimes they want you to take care of something: whether it's vitally important ("We need that Tether to War/Fire/Death shut down now. Here's the address where you can pick up the plastic explosive. Sorry that all of the Malakim/Calabim are at the convention in Sydney") or trivial ("Make sure that they put the extra starch in the robes like I asked. Sorry that I can't seem to find the claim ticket"), it can be counted on to be an irritating distraction. Earthbound celestials can be expected to have this sort of thing happen at least once in their careers.

It's just that they usually all don't 'ask' for a favor at the same time…

Random Superior X has decided that a newly fledged celestial of his or hers needs a little seasoning. Luckily, one of his or her more experienced Servitors (a PC) has shown energy ("trigger-happy"), resourcefulness ("makes napalm in the kitchen sink"), drive ("pyromania"), loyalty ("sneakiness"), proper respect for channels ("bootlicking") and fostering cross-Word relationships ("he'll stop whacking on the other PCs when an angel/demon shows up"). The new celestial would be well served to follow the PC around for a few days: he/she/it might learn a thing or two. No doubt the favored Servitor is planning something well worth watching, anyway?

Well… probably not, if you're talking more than a month in advance, but that's really only a minor problem: finding a quick project to do is the second thing any worker in a large, vaguely impersonal hierarchy learns to do (the first is, of course, "how to look busy"). Babysitting some wet-behind-the-ears kid will promise to be a pain, of course, but when the Boss 'requests' something, you smile and say, "Yes, sir/ma'am/whatever celestials use when kissing up to Kyriotates/Shedim/Elohim". You can work around this, really: you can even work around the last-minute addition of another clueless wonder from a Superior allied to yours. You just keep them in the back, make sure they keep their mouths shut, and don't let them wander off. And you don't let them get killed. Piece of cake.

The only problem is, well, you're not the only one who's been asked for a favor…

This complication can be run for either angels or demons ("mixed parties" will find this scenario an unmitigated disaster, which actually makes it even more interesting). It works best if each player is spoken to individually several game sessions beforehand. The encounter between Servitor and Superior should be run to give the PC the impression that he would be better off keeping this little piece of news to himself until the Day. After all, the other PCs may feel obligated to tell their Superiors, possibly warranting unwanted attention and interference. Of course, if one or more blabs, this won't spoil the fun: it'll just increase the slapstick. Tell the PC about the extra friend one session before you spring this on the party.

Now, average parties seem to run from 4 to 6. Assuming two NPCs per PC, that will give you 8 to 12 extra, grotesquely inexperienced Servitors to follow the PCs around while they try to accomplish their now hideously overstaffed "showcase" mission. All of them have 9 Forces, basic Choir/Band Attunement, no Earthly experience, the same Songs and Skills (it'll be easier for you if you have one character sheet and a list of names), vessel/6s… and the stereotypes associated with a Somebody of Whatever, taken to obnoxious levels. Bear in mind that it's likely that every NPC is going to be prejudiced against somebody in the party… and that they won't be quiet about it, either. They'll also not follow anybody's orders except "their" PCs (who will find everything that she says written down in little notebooks and underlined. Getting those notebooks back, or destroyed, will be another adventure).

Incidentally, they're really pumped for this mission: they're expecting something really, really big: why, their Superior said it could even be critical to the War! They can't wait to tell their Superior all that they did on Earth, once they get back: why, yes, they're going to be personally debriefed. Isn't everyone?