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 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.