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

[catsgothistongue]

... Death as in the reaper, or...

[sweetsynergy]

The reaper or the abstract concept of mortality.

[She hates a little bit that this apparently needs clarification.]

[rockymountaindie]

Death.

[ Welp. Might as well just burn this bridge immediately!!!! ]

It that hard to imagine, with us all...talkin' about gods, that Death could be a real, thinkin' entity? One that's got a...a plan, for each and every person, everyone born into the world?

[sweetsynergy]

...yeah, just a little.

[rockymountaindie]

[ He lets out a plainly frustrated sigh. ]

Well, It does, alright? And it already got me. So 'scuse me if I'm a little- wound up, right now.

[ Fine. He'll be the freak again. Screw it, what does he care? ]

[sweetsynergy]

Oh, certainly, just making sure I understand the exact nature of the wounded-ness.

[murchada]

[maybe other people think otherwise but uhhh]

...That doesn't seem that strange at all.

[like maybe objectively, but

today is already so goddamn weird?]

[rockymountaindie]

[ RIGHT??? LIKE TODAY IS ALREADY SO GODDAMN WEIRD!

Some relief floods Alex. Not a lot, but some. ]

Thank you.

[murchada]

It just seems silly to deny it when we're talking to a literal Goddess already.

[catsgothistongue]

[no no that's the fifth movie with the bridge]

Aaaaaah. Gotcha.

[nod nod. congrats alex you got one person to believe you]

[rockymountaindie]

[ ...........he's just kinda waiting for the other shoe to drop. really???

cough. ]

Y-yeah.

[catsgothistongue]

[listen death being a sentient entity who gets pissy when its plans are ruined isn't any stranger than the shit that goes on in ranma 1/2]

[latinumsbetter]

It's a big universe and there's a whole lot of strange stuff out there. And that's not even counting the mirror universe. Death being a thing seems like small grubs in comparison.

[murchada]

Just today is weird enough already... What's a little more weirdness.

[latinumsbetter]

Exactly. You'd have to have a pretty narrow eye on things to think it was that big of a deal.

[sweetsynergy]

Please elaborate on the words "mirror universe" sooner rather than later.

[latinumsbetter]

Now, see, that wasn't so hard, was it?

[sarcastic. But anyway--]

It's an established alternate universe. There's supposedly other versions of ourselves over there with alternate personalities and lives to ours. I've never been there, but they've gone over to our side and some of ours have gone over to theirs. Mostly by accident on our end, but usually on purpose from their end.

[phototraces]

Oh, thank god… someone is making sense! He’s not here… at least for now… I can catch my breath for a minute.

[rockymountaindie]

[ Alex seems...shocked, still. Super shocked. But- ]

We- we don't have to be...on guard, every second. What the fuck.

[atu709]

Oh, he certainly is real where I come from. I don't know about the plan part, but the Wolf is out there.

[phototraces]

A giant black wolf…yeah that sounds like Him.

[atu709]

It's an appropriate form, though I've only met him the once.

[rockymountaindie]

...wh- what like if- if Death was an animal or something?

[ the word he's looking for is fursona but tragically alex is not online enough to know that in 2001 ]

I-it's not, like, physical. It just influences the world and like...things like that.

[atu709]

The Big Bad Wolf is very good at not being seen. But you know he's there.

[ She shrugs. ]

Again, though, I feel we must all come from different worlds. Certainly you're all from beyond the Neverafter.

[rockymountaindie]

[ WELL... ]