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.
raisethemoon: ([and yet I keep on waiting])

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2025-07-07 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
'Twould be our responsibility, if there were.

[She meant it in the singular, and catches herself. But the mistake does make her reflect...it is impossible to really tell from their ages, being unfamiliar with their species, but she has started to think that some of the others present are...young? At least, several she has spoken to struck her that way. She lands, ears twitching.]

Mine, that is. [.....] If - I may ask. Are - are not some of the...people...here rather...young?

[She's decided that Snow does not strike her as young in the same way, so she's probably a decent one to ask.]
atu709: (but no one gave up a rib for me and mine)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-07 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's fine she looks like..... 20??? Ish????? But that's not really how she carries herself. ]

True, but... The world often asks much of the young.
raisethemoon: ([days fade])

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2025-07-07 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps, but one pony in particular has brought us here.

[She's not interested in the world just now! Something to be...possibly revisited later, whenever they meet the mare who brought them here. Unless she isn't a mare, because that does seem increasingly likely.]

Though I do worry that they may not have yet developed their magical abilities well enough to handle whatever this may entail...
atu709: (to the elements)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-08 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
They can be protected, if there are enough of us who are more experienced.
raisethemoon: ([child know that meanwhile])

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2025-07-08 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods. She'd been thinking of it already, though she does not know anyone here well enough to consider asking them to help just yet. Snow bringing up the idea herself is something of a relief!]

Such is the responsibility of a princess! Even if no one else here is from Equestria...

[She doesn't claim any particular authority in foreign lands, over foreign peoples. All the same, though.]
atu709: (and my heart stayed exposed)

[personal profile] atu709 2025-07-09 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ Equestria... what a fairy tale sort of name. Not a story she's ever heard of, but how many stories are out there? ]

Well, two princesses is better than none. It's a start.
raisethemoon: ([I'm sorry])

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2025-07-09 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Ah! You are a princess as well? Of what?

[What, not where, because it does have a number of additional connotations to Luna.]