Let's Play A Murder ([personal profile] letsplayamod) wrote in [community profile] letsplayamurder2025-07-06 02:51 am
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Arrival

The moment is a bit different for everyone. Perhaps you were just minding your own business somewhere, others may have been in more... dire circumstances. Regardless, you were approached by a figure you can't quite picture, and they offered you an accord; in exchange for aiding them in the healing of a world lost to chaos, you would be granted something almost unheard of. Godhood.

And each of you said yes, more or less.

A blurry hand, shifting and rippling, reaches out to you. You feel a glow of warmth, unlike anything you've known before. As soon as you think you can describe it, you wake up.

The room you're in is plainly furnished, but it's about the size of a small flat. Plenty of room to stretch your legs. Don't get too comfortable, however. On the bedside table each room has is a letter; handwritten, it's wrapped around a bronze key. The lettering could only be described as the platonic ideal of 'neat and precise'.

If you are reading this, than our deal has been made. You've awoken in a place that will surely feel strange, so I want you to take some time to acclimate. Meet with the others. Breathe. I shall be along shortly.

-A


Whatever that means becomes more apparent as you step out of your housing and behold the world around you. The building you were in, and every piece of architecture you happen across, is blatantly pre-modern. Yet, something about it is otherworldly. Stone and iron and glass as far as the eye can see.

But above you was where the real questions were. It wouldn't be right to say the sun was shining on you now, nor would it be right to say it's the dead of night. Instead, the sky is a hazy mixture of both, wrapped in suffocating storm clouds that are threatening rain. Everywhere you look, into the horizon, it's the same.

Welcome home. Take your time and explore. Nobody ever said godhood was easy.
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Profiles

[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-06 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vanity takes a moment to read over the profile in question.]

Referring to the fun ice-breaker trivia, I assume? You're not alone in getting something- ah. A bit backhanded, at least.
atu709: (marrow made a wife of eve)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-06 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
The very same.

[ There's a look of perplexment on her face for a moment or two as she reads over Vanity's profile, but the last part, well. ]

Ah, I see. Recently usurped?
sweetsynergy: (C)

[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-06 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
One way to describe it, yes.

[She waves a hand, expression just a bit fixed.]

My sister and I had a rather intense disagreement on things.
atu709: (but the stones are laid)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-06 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I see. The more power, the higher the stakes in sibling arguments.
sweetsynergy: (C)

[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-06 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed.

[The smile twitches, just a little.]

[Vanity looks away, glancing over Snow's profile again.]


Princess of what, if you don't mind my asking? There's typically some kind of nation or organization associated with a title like that.
atu709: (to the elements)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-06 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's more of a title for... when you're the girl in a story who the terrible things happen to. Usually that's a literal princess, but I'm not so fortunate.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-07 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. A Disney face character, got it.

[She does not got it.]

Sounds like rough work.
atu709: (but no one gave up a rib for me and mine)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-07 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
There are no wars ever won or lost that were not rough work.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-07 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
The fans get pretty wild, huh?

[Yeah that scans.]
atu709: (upon the mountainside)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-07 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
... Fans? I'm afraid my number of those is dwindling these days.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-07 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hm? Hm.]

...We may be need to reorient a bit here, was the "war" thing literal?
atu709: (marrow made a wife of eve)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-07 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes. It's not easy work, overthrowing the destiny of infinite worlds.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-07 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Infinite, okay. Most people start with just one and work up.
atu709: (brick and mortar between my bones)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-08 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
I mean in theory it's infinite, I'm after the people in charge. Much easier once you know where to find them.
sweetsynergy: (J)

[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-09 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
And you do?

[There are. So many questions.]

Wouldn't infinite worlds by necessity imply infinite people in charge?
atu709: (upon the mountainside)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-09 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
If a clockmaker makes infinite clocks, every one of them still ticks by his rules.
sweetsynergy: (B)

[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-10 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
...not saying you're necessarily wrong but that kind of sounds like it came out of a fortune cookie.
atu709: (callous and untouched by man's design)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-14 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ She chuckles a little. Not quite a full laugh, but. ]

Sorry, you get used to talking that way when you have to do a lot of inspiring.