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.
phototraces: (Most of the time)

[personal profile] phototraces 2025-07-07 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
No... I think I saw him walking around.

[Which is weird! But like... okay, everything is weird. Maybe it's a mask? Maybe he's just a weird looking dude.]

I thought the cat was a joke, too.
do_as_i_say: (Thinking Girl)

[personal profile] do_as_i_say 2025-07-07 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
...huh.

[It...can't be real, obviously, so...special effects? Maybe? Hollywood has some crazy stuff, she's pretty sure.]

They really brought a cat here, too? That's, uh...

[Crazy? Weird? Kind of pointless?]

Unexpected, I guess.
phototraces: (And what the hell is on Joey's head?)

[personal profile] phototraces 2025-07-07 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
He speaks. A university professor... which was weird but we had a talk about my major.

[It's so. Weird.]
do_as_i_say: (Exhausted Girl)

[personal profile] do_as_i_say 2025-07-07 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
...really?

[She is. Not entirely sure she believes this girl. But also. This entire situation is weird. But somehow not less weird that the situation she was in last night. So. Yeah.]

This has been the weirdest Halloween I've ever had...
phototraces: (The second floor is hard)

[personal profile] phototraces 2025-07-07 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Something tugs at her heart but she pushes it down. Yeah, things are weird as hell here. That's okay. She's not being disbelieved on purpose.]

Look-- [She's about to say 'seeing is believing' but her mind cuts her off.] If I didn't see it myself, I wouldn't believe it either. He'll probably still be around. At least it happening on Halloween makes sense. It was near Thanksgiving for me.

do_as_i_say: (Nervous Girl)

[personal profile] do_as_i_say 2025-07-07 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Unfortunately that subject goes completely out the window for Laurie as she recognizes what this girl just said.]

Thanksgiving? Have-How long was I asleep for?
phototraces: (I think the present owner fixed it up)

[personal profile] phototraces 2025-07-07 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
I… can’t answer that. I only know when I was before I woke up here.
do_as_i_say: (Distracted Girl)

[personal profile] do_as_i_say 2025-07-07 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
That...

[She sighs.]

That's alright. It shouldn't be too hard.

I mean, it's still 1978 after all, right?

[Not like she could be unconscious for over a year or something...]
phototraces: (And what the hell is on Joey's head?)

[personal profile] phototraces 2025-07-09 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
I... think we might be from different places...

[Oh no. She's not. Going to answer that.]
do_as_i_say: (Nervous Girl)

[personal profile] do_as_i_say 2025-07-09 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
...how...how could being from different places...make it different years?

[Sorry, she needs an answer. That's...that's a very concerning thing to hear, if she's being honest.]