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.
rockymountaindie: (blue ridge mountains‚ shenandoah river)

statues

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-07 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Alex is looking at the statues with worry too...but not quite in the same way Sayo is. He's giving them a wide berth, a little frown on his face as he regards them. He can look his own in the face, its features more defined than Sayo's, and it seems like it's looking back...

He shivers, even though it's not particularly cold, with his jacket and hoodie. Kid's all about layers. ]


Jeez, these things are creepy.

[ He mutters it, not really intending for it to be to anyone. But still, Sayo can definitely hear it well enough. ]
tripartites: (386671033)

[personal profile] tripartites 2025-07-07 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ that actually gets a slight laugh. he's saying what we're all thinking!!! ]

Oh, they are. [ compared to the portrait in the main hall on rokkenjima, though, the bad vibes are more... personal. ]
rockymountaindie: (🧱 don't want to go by the devil)

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-08 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Alex Browning, the voice of the people...

The laugh draws his attention. A little sheepishly: ]
I guess I'm a lot more used to abstract art, as a tribute... But it's also kinda weird not knowing who did these. Right?
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[personal profile] tripartites 2025-07-08 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
... 'A manifestation of the rules of this world.' [ she murmurs that, absently. like remembering something from a fleeting glimpse of a fragmentary memory. gods. witches. what's the difference, really? ] I wouldn't overthink it. They're with the rules and those profiles for a reason, surely?
rockymountaindie: (miner's lady‚ strange to blue water)

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-08 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His lips purse in thought. What's that...? ] All the more motivation to figure that reason out, I'd say. What was that you said, a...manifestation, like...a sign?
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[personal profile] tripartites 2025-07-16 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
... More like an embodiment, than a sign... a result, perhaps. [ after a beat, though: ] I'm sorry, I don't think I'm making much sense.
rockymountaindie: (don't want to go by demon)

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-16 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean. I don't completely get it. But that doesn't mean you're not making sense.
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[personal profile] tripartites 2025-07-17 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
A polite way of calling yourself incompetent? My, that seems a bit unfair to you.
rockymountaindie: (you might say he found a key)

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-17 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Wh- n-no! [ Alex flushes. ] Jeez, I-I just meant I need a little time to wrap my head around it.