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.
threeapplestall: ((mutsumi) choking on words)

[personal profile] threeapplestall 2025-07-06 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[She freezes up instantly.]

Cats on my world like it, so...
Edited 2025-07-06 20:15 (UTC)
literarybehemoth: he is looking grumpy and kind of has his arm resting on a rock a bit lazily. (i suppose i will listen.)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-07-06 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[...

He thinks about it.]


Well, I will let you try it and see how I feel about it.
threeapplestall: ((mutsumi) avoidant)

[personal profile] threeapplestall 2025-07-06 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're sure...

[Slowwwwly reaches behind his ears and gives some gentle scritches.]
literarybehemoth: he is giving the closest thing to a smile that isn't induced by catnip. (proceed.)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-07-06 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[...

Ah.]


...you know, I can see why you were so inclined. This is nice.
threeapplestall: (Default)

[personal profile] threeapplestall 2025-07-06 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Mhm. [She moves on to a gentle pet along his back, then stops, suddenly growing stiff.]

Oh, right... personal space....

Sorry.
literarybehemoth: he is giving the closest thing to a smile that isn't induced by catnip. (proceed.)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-07-06 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
...

It wasn't unpleasant. But please ask permission.

[man. these humans are really good at scratches. why don't we have them.]
threeapplestall: (Default)

[personal profile] threeapplestall 2025-07-06 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Understood.

[The most solemn, serious nod.]

Do... all animals talk where you're from?
literarybehemoth: he is giving the closest thing to a smile that isn't induced by catnip. (proceed.)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-07-07 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Everything with a backbone is capable of speech and reason, yes. And cephalopods.

[for whatever reason...]
threeapplestall: ((mutsumi) dubious)

[personal profile] threeapplestall 2025-07-07 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
.........

How do they speak underwater?
literarybehemoth: he is giving the closest thing to a smile that isn't induced by catnip. (proceed.)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-07-07 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, the same way we speak above water. It is simply a different medium through which sound can pass.
threeapplestall: ((mutsumi) surprise)

[personal profile] threeapplestall 2025-07-09 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It'd just sound all... "burble burble burble," though, wouldn't it?

...wait, no, they could just make that their language. [Look at that little brain working so hard!]
literarybehemoth: he is neutrally looking perhaps a little curious. not particularly grumpy. (how curious.)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-07-13 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I am told the songs of the whales are more beautiful than that. But few of us land-dwellers know their actual language, so for all we know...
threeapplestall: ((mutsumi) flat)

[personal profile] threeapplestall 2025-07-15 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
...your world sounds incredible.
literarybehemoth: he is giving the closest thing to a smile that isn't induced by catnip. (proceed.)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-07-17 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I am sure your world would likely have things that are incredible to me. It is all about what is familiar and what is not.