JANUARY MINGLE

[stellafortunamods]

January Mingle: A Ballad in Goblets
Welcome to Teyvat - a vast magical world of adventure.
You open your eyes to an unfamiliar sight. A cool breeze flits through rustic buildings and sunny streets, carrying the smell of flowers and wine. The very air itself seems charged with mana, the warm pulse of the land palpable beneath your feet. This is a new world, a world where the elements compose all of reality. Before you is a bubbling fountain, and a key is entwined between your fingers. And that weight on your hip? A sparkling bauble that you've never seen before, yet it feels natural, as if it had always been there.

Asking around nets you the name of this world - Teyvat - and the name of this city - Mondstadt, blessed by the Anemo Archon, Barbatos. Your new home is accessible with the key placed in your hands, though this also brings to mind another question. How will you get money? Food isn't free, after all.

Luckily for you, there's plenty of jobs available for the enterprising Traveler. Be it taking requests from the Adventurers' Guild, or working part-time at one of Mondstadt's many food establishments, Mora is to be had when hard work is involved. The cuisine of Mondstadt is best paired with its wine, served at bars or enjoyed in private with a few friends.

And about that shining gem. locals will tell you that it is a Vision, a sign of favour from Teyvat's elemental gods. With the Vision on hand, you find yourself capable of commanding one of the seven elements. What will you do with this newfound blessing? Use it for good... or for evil?

Mondstadt's liveliness doesn't diminish when night falls. Bards sing through the wee hours of the night, and the lights of the city help keep most evildoers at bay. All seems peaceful, a pastoral idyll of a life that seems more at home in a storybook. Yet for those Travelers who venture out beyond the city's walls and into the ruins dotting the landscape, they may discover hints of a bloodier past now forgotten.

Glancing at any of the calendars in the city will tell you the current date. August 10th was the day you arrived. As soon as the last minute of August 16th slips away, the world around you changes. A blink, and time itself rewinds by seven days. Looking outside, the mown lawns have regrown, the windmill needs fixing again, and the well is once again full. Just what is happening here? It seems only you, Traveler, remembers the week that never was.

State of the World

For the first two weeks of the game, IC time will be looping from August 10th to August 16th. It's currently late summer in Mondstadt, and the trees are just beginning to turn out their autumn colours. The weather is cool and pleasant, with light showers on Tuesday (11th) and Friday (14th). It's also a good time to go out gathering berries and nature's bounty from Mondstadt's forests and valleys.

These two weeks will let us trial out our commissions and regains system and craft improvements for February onwards. There will be no activity requirements for January, so all threads started during this time period can be used for regains!

For all questions regarding January's mingle and events, please head over to our OOC post.

Comments

[whiteshroud]

[Wow she is stubborn about this. Jun personally doesn't see the point, being thrown into dangerous situations was how he trained growing up, but it's not like he feels so strongly about that method that he'll keep arguing.]

If you wish to commit your time here to making those changes, go ahead and do that.

[And he means that! He won't stop her if she decides to go about that. Be the change Ochako]

Though...being more aware of your surroundings is a crucial part of training.

[infreefall]

[ ah, she’s pouting. that does sound like something aizawa would say, anyway. ]

Well, yeah, but throwing people right into fighting monsters if they don’t have experience is how people get killed. Maybe this time it was just a slime, but what if it’s something more dangerous that someone isn’t prepared for? Just leaving them to handle it on their own wouldn't be any good, would it?

[whiteshroud]

[ ...

Jun goes quiet for a moment, unsure what to say since what she just described was essentially how he was trained. And sure while he turned out, uh, fine-ish. Well, he can't say everyone else did. And while he had accepted it was necessary back then, looking back now...

Huh.

Excuse him a moment as he stares off, he needs to process another aspect of his fucked up childhood. ]

Hm....

[infreefall]

[ um ]

Are... you okay?

[ what happened here ]

[whiteshroud]

[Aw fuck. That's right. He was talking to someone wasn't he? It's much easier to go quiet when you're in a group.

He really doesn't want to say what he was thinking about, so he'll fall back on his age old tactic - REPRESSING THE HELL OUT OF STUFF AND FAKING IT TILL HE MAKES IT]

Ah- y-yeah, sorry! I just got a little lost in thought there. That was a good point you made.

[N-Nailed it]

[infreefall]

[ she stares at him for a long moment - long enough that it's probably obvious she isn't convinced.

but then ochako smiles, as if she absolutely did buy it. ]

Right! But I guess to make it happen, we'd have to talk to someone in charge, huh...? I wonder who that would even be.

[whiteshroud]

[Jun has a great poker face so he keeps up like nothing wrong, but Jun on the inside]

Oh, I heard it's Acting Grand Master Jean. Not sure how you get an audience with her though.