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] sweetsynergy 2025-07-09 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, good, we actually are on the same page then. Some people are so squeamish about necessary violence.
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[personal profile] pariunt 2025-07-09 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed.

I didn't have that problem with my last group of companions. It's true, we often had our differences, but taking down threats was something we were quite good at.

I do hope we don't have many bleeding hearts in this current one.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-10 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
They'll learn to deal with it, I'm sure.
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[personal profile] pariunt 2025-07-11 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
That would be a shame.

[Astarion is more than happy for it to come to blows if it has to.]

I fully intend on staying alive. Here's hoping nobody has a problem with that.

[He will absolutely fight back.]
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-11 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Funny how often people have no problem with living your life until you're willing to fight for it, isn't it?

[definitely an accurate description of things she's experienced]

How are you at hand to hand, or do you need some kind of weapon? Hypothetically.
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[personal profile] pariunt 2025-07-11 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
I can't say. I've always fought with daggers.

[In a pinch, he can use his teeth. But that'll be something he keeps to himself for the time being.]

The knives in the kitchen aren't the same thing, but I suppose they'll do.
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[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-07-14 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
The weight's off but better than nothing, at least.
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[personal profile] pariunt 2025-07-14 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Precisely.

Given the rules, I suppose it might be unnecessary, but I don't like taking chances.