october mid-month event

[stellafortunamods]

October Mid-Month Event
Welcome to Teyvat - a vast magical world of adventure.
Two weeks after the Travelers arrive in Inazuma, the conflict between the Shogunate and the Sangonomiya Resistance begin to intensify. At Forneus' behest, you venture west to survey the battlegrounds and consider your next move.

Heading west from Narukami Island will bring you to Kannazuka, the location of the Mikage Furnace. This furnace uses the power of the Tatarigami to produce high-quality swords for the Shogunate. However, sabotage by members of the Resistance have led to the furnace becoming unstable. The Shogunate's soldiers and the Shrine Maidens have set up camp on the island, but the two factions cannot decide on how to address the problem. That's where you come in. Unfettered by the chains of bureaucracy, you can act as you wish. Venture into the Furnace and stabilize it before it blows the island away.

Yashiori Island lies even further west. Its position means that it is currently the middle ground where the Shogunate and the Resistance skirmish. However, the fighting has died down due to torrential rain that blankets the island, as well as the intense Electro energy within Musoujin Gorge. Once, this island was the battlefield between the Raiden Shogun and Orobashi, with the latter defeated and sealed. However, someone broke its seals during the civil war, and the lingering resentment of the Serpent has possessed soldiers on the island, turning them violent.

Once again, a stalemate that can only be broken from the outside. This isn't anything new now, is it?

State of the World

The Sangonomiya Resistance have declared civil war on the Shogunate after the establishment of the Vision Hunt Decree. As you travel through Inazuma, you will eventually meet them, as well as their leader. It becomes evident that the two sides are locked in equal balance, and that the civil war does nothing good for anyone... which is why the overseer of the Narukami Shrine has asked you to come. You are unbound by any destiny, and thus able to tip the scales. But to do that, you will need a complete picture of the situation, and to solve problems that no one is willing to face.

No one has seen the Shogun out in public for quite a while. It seems that only a sufficiently grave danger will provoke her from within her castle. The enemy of eternity is change, and you are just that.

Questions about this event can be asked below!

Comments

[hangfire]

[He's not listening. Or, Lutha thinks, he's only hearing what he wants, and his chest tightens painfully.

Open himself a little bit, try to parse exactly what Elliot asked, and of course this is what he gets in response. Of course.

Why does he bother.

His expression slowly, surely closes up, going cold.]

You're an idiot.

[sufferean]

So I've heard.

[Rean's response isn't cold, just... matter-of-fact. It is what it is.

He'll die someday, probably soon, probably his own fault, and it's fine. It's fine, so long as others can be happy.

Sorry, Lutha. Rean is, in fact, an idiot, and he's far too in his own head about things sometimes to even stop to think that maybe other people really do have a point.]

Should I go, then?

[hangfire]

...

Go if you want.

I don't care.

[It's still cold, almost numb, as he stuffs away what vulnerability he'd tried to crack open. He should say something better. But if Rean's expecting him to be resigned, then he's answered that question all his own, anyway.

Maybe he's the true idiot, getting his hopes up.

Dammit.]

[sufferean]

[There's a part of him that wants to stay. There's a part of him that wants to just sit down and pretend maybe he's just cold, despite the several layers of clothing meant to help protect from this miserable rain, and he wants to enjoy the flames of Lutha's vision.

But... no.

Sitting around and awkwardly hoping won't make things better. He'll just have to try again some other time.

With a nod, he turns and goes.]