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: (And what the hell is on Joey's head?)

[personal profile] phototraces 2025-07-07 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah. The very first was way over a hundred years ago but it really didn’t pick up steam until I’d say the 1900s?

Though, I can’t say I know that but it sounds… Russian? Maybe Eastern European? I don’t think I’d learn about that in high school at least but—I remember one of my professors suggested I try Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

[Something something about guilt.]
literarybehemoth: he is staring Intently. (:catstare:)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-07-08 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
...hm. How peculiar. Our worlds are very different, but it does seem as though there are some strange similarities... it is, indeed, Russian, and we do have a writer under the pen name Fyodor Dostoevsky who wrote a book called Crime and Punishment, among others... though, I would imagine ours was penned by a very different paw than yours.
phototraces: (I never knew how we went without)

[personal profile] phototraces 2025-07-09 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
I imagine so. Ours didn't have paws... though, maybe if I knew more about Russian literature I could help you out more. I imagine the themes were still the same.
literarybehemoth: he is looking grumpy and kind of has his arm resting on a rock a bit lazily. (i suppose i will listen.)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-07-12 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder... but then again, it is difficult to imagine something with the name "Crime and Punishment being that different, thematically.