Let's Play A Murder ([personal profile] letsplayamod) wrote in [community profile] letsplayamurder2025-08-31 01:13 am
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Epilogue: A New Day

In the end, hope triumphed over hate. A new pantheon of gods, gathered from all corners of the universe, came together to unlock the ultimate power and it it flow over the land once more. They proved one goddess that her wisdom was correct, and another that her wisdom was keeping her trapped in a vision of the world that would never be.

You exit the temple of Olympus, battered and bruised, but more together than ever before. Athena raises her hand and drags it before her. In the distance, the keen-eyed will see the barrier that's long protected you finally fading away.

The sun shines down. Two months and you're finally, finally free.

Athena takes care to thank each of you personally. This was exactly what her and Fenyx had theorized was possible - not exactly, but the outcome is greatly acceptable. And now, Athena is bound by her oath to return you home... or wherever it is you'd like to go. You're gods now, you have the privilege.

Speaking of! Once everyone's rested and healed, Fenyx prepared a little get-together for everyone on the cliffs, with a special bonus: they can bring in any person you desire. Family and friends are preferable, but who are they to question if you want to smack your rival across the face for the first time in weeks?

They may react in confusion, however, if you tell them about the bits of Hope buzzing in the air like glowing fireflies. They're not gods, after all. They can't see them.

Dipping lower around half-day, you may peer over the side of the area and see far, far down into the valleys of ocean and cities. And beyond all of that, sailing in from the horizon, ships. Old ships of man-made nature. Sails billowing in a wind that no longer tears them asunder. Now that the storm has passed, life can resume picking up the pieces.

It will be messy, probably a disaster at times, but there's always hope. And if that carried you here, then maybe it will bring those people to the top of the mountain.

[This is the final post of Let's Play A Murder! Players are welcome to invite cast members to this log for the purpose of tagging out reunions (Fenyx and Athena will have personally greeted and asked to bring them here). You may tag this at your leisure, whatever last-minute endeavors you'd like your characters to get into will go here.

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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-09-02 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
My world didn't have much use for religion and we were pretty fine.

[sitcom laugh track]

[the punchline is space capitalism]
Edited 2025-09-02 01:12 (UTC)
literarybehemoth: he is loafing with a neutral expression, which still looks pretty grumpy. (Default)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-09-02 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Well, some people seem to like it. Others do not. I suppose to each their own.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-09-03 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It'd be pretty weird to not believe in gods after the last two months, but I think my own's still gonna be not doing the whole religion thing.

[Even if she'd ever been inclined to religious beliefs seeing how the sausage is made would probably have ruined things.]
literarybehemoth: he is giving the closest thing to a smile that isn't induced by catnip. (proceed.)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-09-05 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I think there is a difference between being aware something exists and believing in it, you know?
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-09-05 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I can see that. Like the difference in knowing a chair is actually there and going around like 'oh great chair, praise be for supporting the weary asses of mortals'.
literarybehemoth: he is giving the closest thing to a smile that isn't induced by catnip. (proceed.)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-09-06 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly. Or knowing that your landlady exists and is happy to make you breakfast, in a context where you appreciate them but do not necessarily put them on a pedestal.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-09-06 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
That feels like a very specific example.

[Vanity, who has never before had a landlady-]
literarybehemoth: he is giving the closest thing to a smile that isn't induced by catnip. (proceed.)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-09-07 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it not always?
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-09-08 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
My chair thing was pretty non-specific. You were close with your landlady, though?
literarybehemoth: he is neutrally looking perhaps a little curious. not particularly grumpy. (how curious.)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-09-09 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Well, she is more like... my non-blood aunt, but I would feel like a leech if I did not help pay for my upkeep, so I call her my landlady.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-09-09 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Family, but not family. So the usual complication squared.

[glad she doesn't have anything or anyone like that, she thinks as the sitcom laugh track plays]

You going back there or gonna travel a little first?
literarybehemoth: he is neutrally looking perhaps a little curious. not particularly grumpy. (how curious.)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-09-09 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I should probably check in with everyone and make sure my substitute has been adequate... but I ought to be able to travel when break rolls around.