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.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-06 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
And this is a documented phenomena, where you're from.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-06 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
...Which part of the galaxy did you say you're from again?
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[personal profile] latinumsbetter 2025-07-07 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Which galaxy?

[he waves a hand]

I'm originally from Ferenginar, but I own a bar on the Starfleet space station Deep Space Nine in the Alpha Quadrant.

What galaxy are you from?
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-07 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
The Milky Way, AegisCorp orbiting HQ in Quadrant 1 near the hub systems. I assume that means as little to you as all that stuff about Starfleet did to me?
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[personal profile] latinumsbetter 2025-07-07 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
I know the Milky Way, at least. I flew my nephew there myself when he started at Starfleet Academy on Earth. The rest of it is gibberish.
Edited 2025-07-07 00:14 (UTC)
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-07 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
...Would asking which Earth mean anything? There's a few at this point, the original hasn't been inhabited in quite some time.
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[personal profile] latinumsbetter 2025-07-07 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Really? There's only one Earth that I know of, and many hyu-mons consider it a utopia.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-07 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
[That gets a little snort of laughter.]

For people who like to believe in some kind of idealized past that never existed, maybe. There's a reason humanity spread out as much as we did LONG, long ago.

[She is not from the Mirror Universe but she is kind of from the Anti-Star Trek.]
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[personal profile] latinumsbetter 2025-07-07 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
What reason is that?
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-07 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Can't exactly live on a planet that's gotten uninhabitable.

[A beat.]

Well, technically you can, but no one wanted to.
Edited 2025-07-07 20:04 (UTC)
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[personal profile] latinumsbetter 2025-07-07 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Inhabitable? [Quark's mouth twists] Don't tell me your Earth was bleached, too.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-14 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, nothing that dramatic. But eventually all the toxins and radiation built up to the point that no one wanted to deal with it.