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

[vayuda]

I meant it wasn't a good idea to open your window and let the rain in.

[ If Figaro WANTS to be out in the rain, that's totally fine, though. ]

Some of your things might be ruined.

[ ...Oddly considerate of him...? ]

[extinctive]

[ figaro pauses as if to consider xiao’s words and just... closes the window after him. ]

There! Problem solved. [ no shit ] Come on, I bet the view’s nice at the very top.

[vayuda]

It is decent.

[ Nothing on the Wangshu Inn, but what can you do? That's MUCH higher up...

The clock tower would probably be good, but Xiao doesn't feel like climbing up there just yet. ]

[extinctive]

[ a shrug. ]

Could be worse. Maybe the view on top of the fortress overlooking the lake would look better than this.

[ he places the wine and glasses on the roof before hoisting himself up there. ]

Wanna check it out?

[vayuda]

...I have no objections to accompanying you.

[ Whoever the fuck you are.

Mostly because he likes tall places, and he still hasn't explored every inch of Mondstadt yet. He's not unfamiliar with things, precisely, but it has been many hundreds of years since he was last in this country. ]

[extinctive]

Excellent! I'd thought you're too young to drink, but I know better than to judge books by their covers at this point.

[ he takes the glasses in his hand and walks over to the edge of the roof. ]

Ah, hold this, will you? It's too bad I don't have my broom with me, but I guess we're gonna have to hop our way there.

[vayuda]

I am much older than you - and how would a broom help anything?

[ He's assuming, here. Maybe this guy isn't human either, but it's just...usually true that he's one of the oldest people in the room.

...But fine, he'll take what is being offered. ]

[extinctive]

For flying us over there, what else? Can't be a wizard without one.

[ so no, figaro's not human. he's a couple thousand years old as well, but who knows whether he's older or younger than xiao here.

he gives a running start and leaps onto another rooftop. careful, careful. ]

But jumping from roof to roof can be fun every once in a while, I suppose.

[vayuda]

Have you yet to acquire a glider, then?

[ It's probably better than a broom, okay. In Xiao's mind, anyway... ]

[extinctive]

You mean those wings you strap on your back? I’ll think about it. I hear you need a license for it before you can go gliding anywhere.

[ even then, flying and gliding aren’t really the same? the latter is just falling with style. ]

[vayuda]

I suppose that is true for most humans.

[ Xiao does not concern himself with that overmuch. No one is going to tell a yaksha they can't glide unless they pass an exam. ]

[extinctive]

[ a chuckle. ]

Well, I'm no human so maybe I shouldn't have to follow the standard protocol here? Not that they'd be able to give us time to give one with these time discrepancies we've been having.

[ figaro continues to hop from one rooftop from another, the wall overlooking the lake almost at reach. ]

[vayuda]

Oh? What are you, then?

[ Not an adepti, he thinks, but what else? ]