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.
fillets: (CAUSE I'M SO SAMMY SOSA)

[personal profile] fillets 2025-07-07 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
This wall wouldn't glow nearly as brightly if the sun were out, though.
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[personal profile] cannotunravel 2025-07-07 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
We can observe the wall shining at night. During the day it's better to have sun.
fillets: (GIRL I'M MADONNA)

[personal profile] fillets 2025-07-08 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
... To be honest, one way or the other, it's all the same to me.
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[personal profile] cannotunravel 2025-07-08 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it just indifference or is there another reason?

[She asks because she has known people who don't mind that much because, well, they had some circumstances going on. Like being shut-ins, for example]
fillets: (BUCK ON MY FINGER)

[personal profile] fillets 2025-07-09 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She actually has to take a second to mull it over! Girliepop has spent untold decades dwelling in the depths, after all. ]

Well, it's simply not worth getting worked up over either way. That would be the first option, yes? Not a very interesting answer, but that's just how it is.
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[personal profile] cannotunravel 2025-07-09 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It's an okay answer. [Misane stares towards the distance] The open island is kind of making me uneasy. It's so...empty.

I'm used to cities full of people. In comparison, this feels lonely.

[And the open skies and the sea increase this feeling, kind of]
fillets: (GIRL I LOVE RAPPING)

[personal profile] fillets 2025-07-10 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
That's exactly what makes it so beautiful. All this empty, ruined land, simply waiting for someone new to come and make their mark upon it... it's all potential, you know? There might be a city here, one day.
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[personal profile] cannotunravel 2025-07-10 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
I think it's up to us to make our mark upon it...

[They're all someone new, after all! And the deal is that they'd heal...something. Looks like the potential will be up for this bunch to use!]
fillets: (FIFTY ON MY WRIST)

[personal profile] fillets 2025-07-10 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She smiles. Like, more prominently than the preexisting 90% smile icons have already implied. ]

Well, there you have it.

[ Admittedly she's just running her mouth while thinking exclusively in terms of herself making a fucked up little lair in the ruins somewhere but look.......... we can pretend it's a statement meant to inspire everyone to do their best! If she weren't thinking about a fucked up little lair, she wouldn't sound so positive, so it's actually cool and good! ]

What's your name?
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[personal profile] cannotunravel 2025-07-10 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Misane Mikoto. I hope we get along, despite my lack of worldhealing skills.

[This is a less formal introduction than usual, truthfully!]
fillets: (pic#17922616)

[personal profile] fillets 2025-07-11 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Riful. I have many imperfections myself, but let's get along well!
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[personal profile] cannotunravel 2025-07-11 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Perfect people would be boring. You're fine as you are.

[Probably!]