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.
stringup: (velvet14)

[personal profile] stringup 2025-07-08 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Velvet shrugs. ]

Eh, it's nothing. Pretty sure most people'd look at this sky and think, "Oh, this definitely isn't a bad sign of things to come."
murchada: (031)

[personal profile] murchada 2025-07-10 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
That makes me feel a little better. Or at least a bit less of a downer.

I mean, I know I agreed to come here, but, still...
stringup: (velvet20)

[personal profile] stringup 2025-07-11 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I can at least say that you'd have to try really hard to be a downer by my standards.

[ Whether that means the bar is on the floor or is about six feet in the air is a matter of perspective. ]

But if you agreed to this supposed...world-saving gig I guess that's what it is, I guessing you don't think this is some kinda doomed endeavour?
murchada: (002)

[personal profile] murchada 2025-07-11 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, man, I sure hope it isn't. I'd like for this to actually go... somewhere.

Mostly, though, well... Someone asked for help. I... didn't feel right saying "nah, I'm good, figure it out yourself", you know?
stringup: (velvet17)

[personal profile] stringup 2025-07-12 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I can get that... Even if it is basically signing up for a world of trouble.

[ Considering she just got out of another situation that more or less started because of that same sentiment. ]

Name's Velvet, by the way.
murchada: (023)

[personal profile] murchada 2025-07-13 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
At least that part's business as usual...

[though this time she's volunteering, instead of it just happening to her. someone's stupidity must have rubbed off on her.]

...Cerejeira.

I guess in a situation like this I'm supposed to say... nice to meet you, mm?
stringup: (velvet21)

[personal profile] stringup 2025-07-13 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Unless it wasn't nice to meet me?

[ Velvet's joking, probably. ]
murchada: (002)

[personal profile] murchada 2025-07-13 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, you're fine. The day is starting weird. The sky's making me anxious.

[...]

It was neutral to meet you.
stringup: (velvet25)

[personal profile] stringup 2025-07-14 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. It was neutral to meet you, too.