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.
atu709: (but the stones are laid)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-06 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations, if you're of the disposition to enjoy that sort of title.

[ She nods, and sounding like she's just ]

Oh, yes. Part of my story - I die, I'm put into a glass coffin, a prince is supposed to come around and kiss me back to life. Happens to plenty of versions of me.
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[personal profile] tailoredfate 2025-07-07 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Aglaea simply shrugs at the congratulations. There are many she thinks beautiful, some that possibly have stirred the hollow heart of hers, but such things haven't occupied a place in her mind in centuries.

But... versions? That's... interesting.]


... But you escaped on your own?
atu709: (and my heart stayed exposed)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-07 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
I had to. I woke up, after all, and it was still locked.
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[personal profile] tailoredfate 2025-07-08 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
... I'm sorry to hear that.

[Gently. It's not just empty words.]

But your strength and determination to live... that's quite admirable.
atu709: (but no one gave up a rib for me and mine)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-09 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
It's been a while since then, and well... I don't know if I'd call myself fully alive, but I'm still around.
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[personal profile] tailoredfate 2025-07-10 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
If you're still here, then you're alive. No matter the status of your physical self.

... And I hope the one who left you in that coffin found an end appropriate for them.
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[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-14 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't know. I left my story behind entirely as soon as I could after waking.

[ Is this true? Who can say? Not her on a first conversation, that's for sure. ]