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.
psychonductor: (just thought that was interesting)

[personal profile] psychonductor 2025-07-06 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Eh, they don't seem to mind the staring at least.]

Mm, buddy, see, there's not really a whole lotta wiggle room when it comes to that kind of thing - you kinda are, or you aren't.

[And, as if to reassure.]

And you don't look dead to me.
markofnobility: (17)

[personal profile] markofnobility 2025-07-06 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I do not feel dead either.

[His hand goes to his side though, like he expects something there that isn't]
psychonductor: (she tee on my hee)

[personal profile] psychonductor 2025-07-06 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...it's probably not a dead one!

[They catch that motion, and grin expectantly.]

Does this mean it's time to celebrate?
markofnobility: (95)

[personal profile] markofnobility 2025-07-06 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
...huh. Yes, I think it is, actually!
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[personal profile] psychonductor 2025-07-07 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Where’s the confetti? They really wish they had confetti right now.]

Woo-hoo! I’ve never celebrated anyone being alive before.
markofnobility: (4)

[personal profile] markofnobility 2025-07-07 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
... is that not what a birthday is, techically?
psychonductor: (um AKSHUALLY)

[personal profile] psychonductor 2025-07-07 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You know what, you’re right. I’ve never celebrated one of those either.
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[personal profile] psychonductor 2025-07-08 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. Everyone I meet is dead.
markofnobility: (44)

[personal profile] markofnobility 2025-07-08 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
What of your own?
psychonductor: (she tee on my hee)

[personal profile] psychonductor 2025-07-09 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. Technically, I wasn’t really born anyway.
markofnobility: (19)

[personal profile] markofnobility 2025-07-09 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that is no reason not to celebrate existing regardless.
psychonductor: (just thought that was interesting)

[personal profile] psychonductor 2025-07-10 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess…but it can’t be that important, if Mother never celebrated it.