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: ([loyal subjects do])

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2025-07-09 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose that is true...

[Well, even if she's doubtful it will help, it probably won't hurt.]

I never would have thought to do such a thing.
latinumsbetter: (10)

[personal profile] latinumsbetter 2025-07-10 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course not. You're not Ferengi. We're taught about contract craft from the moment we can hold a datapad.
raisethemoon: ([cling to my convictions])

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2025-07-11 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[She smiles a little. Luna's not unfamiliar with other species having wildly different outlooks and priorities.]

Contracts are not unimportant to ponies, but it's not a skill taught to all, no. I would have someone else to arrange such matters, were I to wish a contract drawn up. Any laypony would.

[Like, she has People For That as royalty, but lawyers are around everywhere! Somepony's gotta have a briefcase cutie mark!]
latinumsbetter: (11)

[personal profile] latinumsbetter 2025-07-11 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, then, that answers why you wouldn't have thought to do it. So you're one of those cultures where only certain people know how to handle a contract, huh?
raisethemoon: (Stand and Answer)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2025-07-11 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, they must attend extra schooling for it!

[It doesn't sound terribly interesting to her, really.]