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.
atu709: (how lucky we are)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-07 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know what that is, but yes. With the dwarves and all. And you must be from somewhere the stories actually get told instead of lived.

[ Disney... is that one of the Authors? Much to think about. ]
rockymountaindie: (✈ take me home‚ down country roads)

1/?

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-07 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ @ Mickey Mouse your motherfucking life ENDS-

Alex is clearly like. He is the woman doing math. He's doing SO much math. It's all in front of his face. ]
rockymountaindie: (✈ rocky mountain high)

2/just wait

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-07 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ There would be nothing to gain from lying about something like this. And also, she clearly looks wildly not like...a normal person, considering she is a walking corpse. ]
rockymountaindie: (rocky mountain high)

3/let me cook

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-07 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Weren't those fairy tales really grisly at one point? They were, right? ]
rockymountaindie: (✈ and i pray there ain't no hell)

4/let him cook

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-07 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah, no, he remembers picking up a book in the library once when he was like...eight and Cinderella was all like "and then the stepmother cut one of her daughters' feet off" and he started crying. It was honestly really embarrassing. Ohhh, why does he have to remember that now. Yikes. ]
rockymountaindie: (✈ to carry on)

5/getting there

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-07 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ BACK ON TRACK ANYWAY. If he acknowledges this. It means that fictional things, they're real. Like, in some other...reality, they're real. If she's telling the truth, then there's this world out there where fucking Banjo-Kazooie are off having adventures and kicking Gruntilda's butt and that's just fine and normal and he has to go through his brand new second—

...third-

...WHATEVER chance at life just KNOWING that, and is that really something he's ready for today? ]
rockymountaindie: (now he walks in quiet solitude)

6/i would apologize if i were sorry

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-07 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Like. Well. Was he ready for a premonition and an exploding plane and the FBI, no, but life, uh, found a way, so, like, fuck him, the world turns madly on, all the world's a stage and we are merely players- ]
rockymountaindie: (✈ and listen to the casual reply)

7/8

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-07 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...this has gotten away from him.

he's just been standing here doing mental jumping jacks in front of zombie snow white.


if she's a zombie is she gonna eat hisgOD NO WE CANNOT GO DOWN THAT LANE OF LOGIC TOO, STOP IT- ]
rockymountaindie: (🧱 don't want to go by the devil)

8/8

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-07 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ After a full two minutes of hard thinking that completely overheats his stupid little brain, Alex, who has been absolutely doing that little thing he does where he's gesturing, hands spinning around his head as if it helps him think (it does not) and saying completely nothing, just claps his hands together in front of him and declares— ]

OKAY.

[



YEAH BUDDY? ]


I guess that's just- that's just how it works!

[ *Grimdark Fairy Tale Universe Has Been Adopted Into Alex's Worldview! ]
atu709: (how lucky we are)

1/2

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-07 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]
atu709: (to the elements)

2/2

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-07 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]

You know, it didn't occur to me that would be news to you, that's on me.
rockymountaindie: (there'll be one child born)

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-07 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
That is extremely news to me, but I- I'm adjusting! I'm with you now! So, like, you know there's stories.

[ this is the next part he needs to wrap his head around. fourth-walling. ]
atu709: (how lucky we are)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-07 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
I've met several different versions of myself and others by now, so... yes, it stands to reason that each version of the Neverafter is the same stories told over again. And you could be someone from the Neverafter who I'm unfamiliar with, but... they tend to be easy to spot and sort.
rockymountaindie: (you might say he found a key)

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-07 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
...Because you're all fairy tale people. Yeah. Yeah, I...think that'd be easy to sort out from...a guy like me.

But like, you know, that people're tellin' all these...versions of who you are and what you did, that just- that's just normal for you?

[ Now that his hamster brain is not running on overdrive trying to keep up with the thoughts, Alex seems...honestly rather engaged! And not absolutely fucking panicked, for once! ]
atu709: (marrow made a wife of eve)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-07 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I know they exist, and I know they are stories being written by a force above us. It follows that where stories are written, there must be some manner of audience.
rockymountaindie: (life is old there‚ older than the trees)

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-08 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Forces like...gods?
atu709: (upon the mountainside)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-09 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose you could call them that.
rockymountaindie: (⚡ don't want to die uneasy)

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-09 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
What would you call 'em?
atu709: (marrow made a wife of eve)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-14 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
We don't say their name out loud. It draws their attention, and I'm not risking our safety through complacency.
rockymountaindie: (✈ and i pray there ain't no hell)

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2025-07-14 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. [ Eeeesh. He has no doubt that Death is always listening to him, but like, if what he said ATTRACTED it... Skin crawling, thanks. ] Under-fucking-standable. Forget I even asked.