Let's Play A Murder (
letsplayamod) wrote in
letsplayamurder2025-07-12 03:19 am
Event 1: Gods and Monsters
[Time is a bit difficult to measure in this place. The storms that rage beyond your safe barrier, overtaking the horizon with their shifting lights and shadows, aren't doing it any favors. If you were to ask Athena, she'd say it's been about a week since your arrival. And since then... there's been scant signs of things improving.
Today, you wake up to quiet. No drone of distant winds. Not even birdsong breaches your bedrooms. Like a inhaled breath, the world seems to have paused.
And then, it exhales. The ground under your feet trembles and shakes. Dirt flies. Rocks shower down from the direction of the cliffs.
There, like an open wound stabbed into the earth, was a large crack where there wasn't before, spilling out an oppressive red light. Stranger still, some larger rocks are floating over the opening itself.
...Investigate?]
Today, you wake up to quiet. No drone of distant winds. Not even birdsong breaches your bedrooms. Like a inhaled breath, the world seems to have paused.
And then, it exhales. The ground under your feet trembles and shakes. Dirt flies. Rocks shower down from the direction of the cliffs.
There, like an open wound stabbed into the earth, was a large crack where there wasn't before, spilling out an oppressive red light. Stranger still, some larger rocks are floating over the opening itself.
...Investigate?]

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[That's probably fine. Anything stopping her from approaching and looking down into the crack?]
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Keep thine distance! I shall investigate!
[Flapping closer to see what's what!]
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Be careful Your Highness!
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[they fought a trigger-happy robot together, trust them they got this]
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Quark is defnitely going to be hanging back away from it, looking really pretty nervous about it.]
So, uh...who's gonna go check that out because it isn't going to be me.
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[voice of girl about to get picked up by a robot]
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Yeah she's absolutely going to approach. The glint of her threads appear and disappear around her, almost like a barrier, and every so often, there's a crackle of electricity along them.]
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[That's not good.]
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Ranma doesn't panic when the ground beneath him quakes, though as the fissure erupts in the earth, he makes haste rushing over to check it out.]
Uhhh... Is this... normal?
[red flags so many red flags]
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[ And he begins to do just that. ]
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Cool, have fun.
[nah.]
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But... everyone's been so kind to her. She's got to pay them back, right? So slowly, ever-so-slowly, she creeps outside her room. Holding a frying pan. Just in case.]
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...Don't get too close, okay?
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The sudden shaking makes the beast flap his wings and roar, and Ferdinand curse, clinging to his flank to not fall over. With a grunt he grabs the near by pole he used a few days ago in his spar with Athena and hauls himself onto the saddle. Up they go to investigate]
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she still looks like she'd blow away in a stiff breeze, though. ]
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We don't love not having Anima here, but y'know, we can cope.]
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…is this…an update?
[She looks to the sky. How’s it looking?]
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S'more like a downgrade if you ask me...
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Also, because I forgot her stupid powers: can she sense anything specific about the crack that others might miss? Any sign of an intelligent presence? ]
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She ducks into the garden to grab a hatchet from the little hut, then heads over to the fissure to...take a look... ]
BOSS FIGHT: Soldiers
Round 1
Roll a 1d20 to avoid their initial attack. 1-10 means you will be locked in combat and unable to act, 11-20 will mean you'll dodge them and be able to act however you wish.]
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Round 2
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NAT 20 BABYYY
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Inspiration +2
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13, 19, and also 1/2
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Round 3
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DOUBLE NAT 1S BAYBEEEEEE
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ANOTHER NAT20 BAYBEEEE
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[ DOUBLE NAT 20'S ]
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Round 4
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16 byeeeee
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DOUBLE 19 BABYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!
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Epilogue
You can't celebrate just yet, however. The sky darkens once again, flashing a stark red, like the glow of the tear Athena just sealed. Then, seemingly from everywhere,]
Poor, poor Athena. Wisest of her kin, but still content to toy with the lives of mortals for her own ends. Know this: this is not over. Gahahaha-!
[The voice, one that none of you recognize, and rumbling like an avalanche, darkly taunts you. Just as quickly as it's suddenly in your ears, it's gone. The sky fades back into it's usual colors, and you are left to sit on this moment, not knowing how long it will last.]
Re: Epilogue
[ATHENA.]
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BAR MINGLE
Once it's ready to go, Quark is going to add an addendum to his sign:
Alcoholic cocktails: 4 tokens each.
Then he's going to retreat back behind the bar, and wait for anyone who might join them]
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What a disaster...
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oops.........
Well.
It sure is covered top to bottom in thick, rigid vines.
On the other side of the door Lebkuchen's voice can be quietly (and tiredly) heard trying to call out: ]
Hello...? Is anyone out there...?
[ Thanks plant powers, you're a real one. Maybe be a little less protective and reactive next time. ]
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Lebkuchen. Are you all right?
[Even as she says this, her threads are trying to weave through the vines, finding weak points to pull or cut through.]
Do I need to bring you any medical attention?
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