Arrival

[letsplayamod]

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.

Comments

[yourheroine]

Oh. Do you need to recharge too?

You can use Aoi. My battery's full right now.

[...she may have the wrong idea.]

[sweetsynergy]

[Oh, huh. Dang. Impressive.]

[yourheroine]

[Impressive? Aoi seems a little confused by the stare.]

[sweetsynergy]

[She just gets a small nod in return. Vanity is perhaps putting a pin in this for later.]

[catsgothistongue]

[gurl]

[yourheroine]

...? Is there something on my face?

[Everybody is staring at her like she just did something weird.]

[pariunt]

[....what the fuck is a battery.]

I'm not sure you understand what you're offering.

[yourheroine]

You need to feed on somebody to avoid disappearing, right? Aoi does too.

It'll cancel out. Athena said there's no death here, anyway.

[pariunt]

Not disappearing, no.

[Though he's a vampire, it's clear he's actually quite uncomfortable with someone outright volunteering.]

Athena did say the kitchen is well-stocked. I shall investigate that, first.

[So he brushes it aside very quickly.]

[yourheroine]

Oh. Good. You won't disappear.

Aoi's still an option if you run out.

[Her tone is emotionless, as if she's simply offering to lend him some money and not. Well, saying that he can suck her blood.

It's good that nobody is going to vanish.]

[catsgothistongue]

Maybe save being a human juice box as a Plan Z.

[NOT. IMMEDIATELY SAYING SHE CAN'T BUT ALSO GIRL DON'T LET THE SPARKLY VAMPIRE MAN ZUCK YOU BLOOD BLAH BLAH BLAH]

[pariunt]

I'm good, thanks.

[He's never killed someone feeding from them, but then again when it's not a battle to the death he's only fed from one person.]

[brokenhabit]

[ Hey hang on a second, she caught that ]

...What do you mean by that? The disappearing part.

[yourheroine]

...if Aoi's battery dies, it's all over. I'll stop existing.

Aoi doesn't know if charging works the same way as the last game. There's a different goal.

[brokenhabit]

[ Okay. She's from the 19th century so she don't know shit about fuck with some of those words but "stop existing" is pretty bad!! ]

I'm sorry, but could you explain to me what a battery is?

[ Let's just start there though. ]

[latinumsbetter]

[girl what.]

[yourheroine]

[Aoi is getting the feeling that she's said the wrong thing.]

[latinumsbetter]

Maybe keep that for yourself, kid. The guy's got plenty of other ways to fuel up.

[yourheroine]

[Given Astarion pretty handily turned her down, she's a little less concerned when Quark does tell her to keep her blood to herself.]

Ok. Aoi thinks he's interested in somebody else's, anyway.

[latinumsbetter]

Not a bad thing, as far as I'm concerned.

[murchada]

Don't just offer that to someone you just met...

[yourheroine]

...is it that bad?

[The amount of "everyone disliked that" she's getting has Aoi second-guessing her approach now.]

[murchada]

You don't know anything about him. We don't know anything about each other.

...Don't just offer yourself up to some random guy. It isn't safe.

[pariunt]

....she has a point.

[He already refused, but the point remains.]

[murchada]

[thanks for the backup]

See? Even he thinks so.