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 so I keep on])

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2025-07-09 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
They must have been brought here from someplace that burned.

[Because there's no sign, to her eyes, that there was a fire here. Yet, she holds up a scroll in demonstration - definitely charred.]

But some is still legible. I am trying to discern how much.
catsgothistongue: (Guess we're doin' this?)

[personal profile] catsgothistongue 2025-07-09 03:41 am (UTC)(link)

[No kidding... The fact that there's any surviving scrolls to bring here when they got scorched is nothing short of a miracle. Ranma goes to pick one of... grimacing as all but a scrap crumbles apart to ash. Good news was there's legible text on this piece, bad news is no matter how hard he squints his eyes...]

Good luck readin' the ones that aren't completely toast. I'm not seein' any language I know on these.

[though. he's only really looked at one piece so it's too early to cut their losses.]
raisethemoon: ([for you])

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2025-07-09 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Well, perhaps someone shall. Or perhaps they shall just know a translation spell.

[It is, anyway, something to busy herself with.]