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.

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[justicefang]

Avoiding Critical (Mikage Furnace)

[In Anima city, when things can't be solved by the laws or law enforcement, Shirou Ogami is called in. No one is calling him in here, aside from his fellow immortal. As he walks up to the entrance to the furnace's lower entrance he can feel the slight nip in the air.

There's no one around right now. He kneels down with one hand on the ground. He breathes in and the world inverts, scents drifting to him as the imprints of people who passed by flick through his mind.

He opens his eyes and narrows them.]

Not enough. I'll have to go in. I can't get a look at how it all started out here. If it's even recent enough to tell... [He climbs to his feet as he glances at the nearest person.]

Well, are you ready?

Instability (Mikage Furnace)

[Inside the space housing the furnace, Shirou has climbed up a couple of levels to study everything from a higher vantage point. He steps back into the shadows. Even if he is beholden to neither faction...the hostility and careful bias against foreigners kicked up familiar feelings. The old rage and distrust are hard to shake. He's carried it for a thousand years.

He'd caught himself more than once resisting the urge to snarl some curse about humans. They don't even know what he is. He sighs and drags a hand over his face as he drops his human disguise.

Then he steps out, he needs a closer look at the furnace itself. Catch him before he leaps to the center and he'll motion for you to follow. If you're falling there will be a brush of wind to slow your fall. If you need it. He's here and this is the sort of case he would take back home.]

Broken seals (Yashiori)

[A long time ago Nirvasyl fell as Beastmen lost themselves. He can remember how it felt when their united pain and rage pulled him from the brink of death. The moment he steps on Yashiori island with the rain pouring down he can feel that simmering fury. It presses against him. He could almost imagine the voices of his people contained with him finally whispering to him again.

They are silent.

But the island isn't. He adjusts his coat and glances around, looking human...for now. He needs to find a place where humans are not to drop the falsehood and use his senses.] Can you feel it? They let this problem linger like this.

If we don't act this will get worse.

Bones of a Fallen God (Yashiori)
[Or one can find him studying the bones jutting up out of the ground with narrowed eyes and the wind curling around him. His shoulders are tense and he looks ready to send that wind out at any moment. He sighs.]

Sorry. For one of my kind, this is not the best of places.

[He shakes his head and walks around to the side of a massive rib bone. His hand presses to the old weathered bone as he circles around to crystallized marrow sticking out of the side of it. He stares at it then shakes his head.] There is a shrine further up the island near a lagoon. Come with me.

Lutha | PYRO

[hangfire]

[Though he had been sporting a pretty impressive black eye for their first week in Inazuma City, Lutha now appears relatively normal. Looks like someone was gracious enough (or was threatened enough) to heal him. Still, he's far more subdued as they head out, always staying off the bows of the boats in favor of staying beneath deck. Boats are bad and he will never stop being a boat hermit.]

MIKAGE FURNACE

[The atmosphere around the furnace drips of an unfamiliar element, one that sinks into the bones and almost hurts. Lutha's legitimately surprised to see that other living things are actively brooding around the grounds. The color of the water on the grounds underneath their feet has his blood running cold, but with plenty of entrances up above the ground, it's easier to swallow down his dread.

Besides, they have more of an issue at hand. Listening to the Shrine Maidens and the Shogunate army bicker back and forth was too much of a pain when neither would bother to action. It's... familiar, in a way, this impatience that stirs him up.

Thankfully, he's not stupid enough to go alone this time. He's tagging along with the group that's headed off to investigate, having to take an alarmed breath at the feel of Electro that comes from the Tatarigumi.

By reflex, his hand reaches for his gun. Instead, he grips his Vision, letting out a breath.]

If something can be sabotaged, it can be put back together. And if other people are in there, there has to be a way to get to the middle of it safely.

[He'll give a nod of his head.] Come on. We need a better look.

YASHIORI ISLAND -- THREE OPTIONS

[Wow! This sucks!

Whenever the boats land on the shores to the sound of heavy rain battering the decks, his soul about exits his body through his mouth. Clearly the gods hate him and he's just going to be in a constant state of disaster. Woe is him.

Thankfully, Lutha's combat is almost completely ranged. While he can't quite set things on fire due to all the rain, a gun is still a gun, and so long as the young man has cover he'll still provide support to others trying to fend off those affected by whatever is infecting this island. The serpent's head, for as intimidating as it looks, is a blessing in disguise, and one might find him off in a dry corner trying to re-collect himself.

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It's when the group first encounters the gorge that something changes about Lutha's countenance. His face goes almost ashen, even with their height up from the water below. Water which radiates an unnatural purple, that radiates with the same manic energy as the furnace. It looks like a safe enough jump to make with a glider, and others might be making it themselves to get to the village, or to get to the serpent's winding skeleton. So why does he seem frozen in place?

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The village itself that sits on Yashiori Island has its own combat. So many soldiers, so much combat, and exhaustion comes quickly. He's stumbling onto the porch of one of the many buildings, catching his breath as he slides his back against the wall, making sure he's faced away from the wind. To look over what remains of the people who still live on this island, of houses that were very obviously once lived in and now driven empty by something beyond their control...

It's hard not to see this possibly happening at home, and his exhaustion turns somber as he takes a softer look around the village, now littered with the downed bodies of the mad samurai.]

...It's too quiet like this.

[drewthetower]

Shrine

[Honestly, August is only like. Half listening to whatever it is the overseer of the shrine is saying about being able to tip the scales. Even if he was interested in fighting a civil war (he's not), it's not like he'd actually need to get both sides of the store. The Shogun is clearly off her rocker. The Resistance doesn't have to be good people or whatever to be right.

August is literally the antithesis of what's just bog-standard social conservatism in a funny hat (as far as he can tell, anyway). It's kind of funny that anyone might think otherwise.

Eventually the overseer finishes and August...settles down a bit away from the entrance to the shrine, finds a flat rock, and starts messing with his tarot deck. Julian perches on his shoulder, giving August the look of a Very Weird Fortuneteller.

That is kind of the point, and if someone stops and asks for a divination...well, August isn't going to say no to money he gets that isn't reliant on him trying to fight shit.]

Yashinori Island

[Excuse August, he's leaning against a tree and laughing his ass off at the poor guy who approached asking for help purifying the island and fixing the seals.]

No, no, it's not you, dude, I get it, the situation is fucked. It's just this is the single funniest fucking thing anyone has ever asked me to handle. I literally cannot help you here. Literally, I am physically incapable of helping anyone purify anything. I'd probably break out into hives or some shit.

[God, where's Alexandre or Clara when he wants them? This is hilarious.]

Wildcard...ish

[August can be found hopping around the other islands a bit, finding a place to work on his commissions, and at one point at the shrine, to a shrine maiden:]

So if I reverse these characters, will that tell people that I super can't help with any purification anything? Or, like, is there a color or something I can wear for that?

[Yeah, he's still losing it over that.]