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 2025-07-07 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
The closest thing I had to a planet was pretty heavily industrialized. But in general it was easier and cheaper to use digital storage for everything, yes. Is that not the case where you're from?
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[personal profile] tailoredfate 2025-07-07 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Not quite. We have teleslates - what people outside of Amphoreus would call cell phones - but those are mainly used for quick communication. Our scholars and writers all still use paper.

[Her interest is certainly being piqued. When the Trailblazer and her companion first arrived in Amphoreus, Aglaea had every reason to be cautious. On edge. She had a city and countless people to protect, after all. But while she's still cautious here... the only stakes right now seem to be herself. So she can be a little less strict.]

Fascinating. Keeping all your information on slates like that, aren't you ever worried it could all be lost if the system that maintains the network fails?
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-08 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
We have redundancies and hard-saved backups for that.

[And hubris! So much hubris.]

[nothin' bad evah happens to tha cloud]