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]

...Is there some reason you need small talk to accept a sandwich?

[ He's not intending to be rude or sarcastic. He's genuinely asking. He doesn't see the point in adding the conversation? Feel free to explain the necessity, Rean? ]

[sufferean]

[...is this really Rean's life right now. Okay, he's just... going to answer like this is serious and hope that he's not being punked.]

Because... because it's confusing otherwise. And it'll make people like me stop you to ask, and then have this whole conversation. If you had just explained it to begin with, then I could have just taken the sandwich and you could be on your merry way.

[vayuda]

Do you not desire the sandwich?

[ He can still take it back?

Apparently he's being entirely serious. No punking is occuring. ]

[sufferean]

[Aidios, help him.]

No, I'll... I'll take the sandwich.

Thank you, Xiao.

[vayuda]

I do not know your name.

[ And Rean was just scolding him about manners, too...! ]

[sufferean]

[...Erk.]

O-oh! Um. [THIS IS AWKWARD.] It's Rean. Rean Schwarzer.

Sorry. I just got so thrown off by this...

[This sandwich is probably the most confusing thing that's happened since he showed up here, and since he just got yeeted into an entirely new world, that's saying something.]

[vayuda]

It is not as though I particularly mind.

[ He just felt like he should know the name...even if he isn't certain he'll bother to remember it yet (sorry Rean). ]

[sufferean]

[This is officially the weirdest individual Rean has ever met, and he's friends with a talking cat and a giant robot.]

...I see. Still, it's impolite for you to share that information and for me not to, so.

[He's apologizing for his own sake! It's fine!!]

A-anyway, I guess you can be on your way now. Thank you for the sandwich, and sorry for holding you up.

[vayuda]

I have no complaints.

[ He doesn't mind the interaction, he means. He doesn't totally GET IT, but he's not mad or anything...he just has resting edgy face. ]

[sufferean]

[That's... good? That's good. Probably.

Rean has so many questions.]

Well, I'm glad to hear that.

Have a nice rest of your day.

[And with that, Rean is going to head off back to his apartment to probably give this sandwich to Elliot and scream.]

[vayuda]

[ BYE REAN, ENJOY THE SANDWICH ]