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.
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[personal profile] fillets 2025-07-08 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't believe I told you in the first place. Where are you from?
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-10 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[okay fair]

...the Aegis Corporation. You?
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[personal profile] fillets 2025-07-10 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
The Western lands of Lautrec. In the end, it's just as meaningless to you as yours is to mine, right?
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-10 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Don't be annoyed she hasn't heard of Aegis, don't be annoyed she hasn't heard of Aegis-]

Right. Is Lautrec the planet or the continent?
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[personal profile] fillets 2025-07-11 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
... Well, that's my fault for not being as clear as I should. Lautrec is the what the entire Western quadrant is called. The continent is nameless, but of course it's on earth.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-11 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
There are a LOT of people here claiming to be from Earth.
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[personal profile] fillets 2025-07-11 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
My, that's an interesting way of putting it... I wouldn't lie about something like that.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-11 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Lying about it would be absurd, yes.

[Which makes it weirder, for her.]

It's just a strange number of people who seem to be from the same planet, or planets that are named the same.
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[personal profile] fillets 2025-07-12 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
The idea of coming from anywhere else might sound just as strange to us, you know.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-12 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
...That sounds like it's about to get more philosophical than I'm capable of being right now.