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JANUARY MINGLE

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.

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i. outlanders

[ How are your first few days in Teyvat treating you, traveler? Have you sampled the new foods and drinks? Found treasure stashed behind bushes? Gone fishing in the fountains to scrounge up any mora you can find?

Or maybe you've been beating up the native fauna with that new Vision on your person -- either way, the next time you stroll through Mondstadt's main thoroughfare, one of the city's many bards meets your eye. He leaps down from where he'd perched on the terrace ledge, landing improbably lightly on his feet. ]

Aha! A traveler!

[ He drifts over, twirling around you a few times with sharp, curious eyes. Perhaps it feels a bit like being a bug under a magnifying lens. He comes to a stop in front of you, grinning. ]

And from far away, it seems. Come, why don't we walk -- you can tell me all about where you came from and I can show you all the best parts of Mondstadt! It will be a proper cultural exchange.

[ Read: you're buying him lunch.

That's what this is.

Sorry. ]

ii. anyway here's wonderwall

[ It's not that Mondstadt is a city that never sleeps -- ironically, it's a bit too sleepy for that -- but it certainly does stay up late, celebrating the day spent and anticipating what's to come next. That's just how it is in the City of Freedom.

If you find yourself in one of Mondstadt's many taverns, it's no surprise that each one is lively to the point of raucous. Knights and Adventurers alike gather to drink and jeer at the bards who fill the establishments with music. This bard in particular differs ever-so-slightly from the rest, though -- the tunes he plays are less tavern song and more ancient storytelling, songs of the Archons and Celestia and the magic that makes up the world. And it seems the more he plays, the more the tavern-goers seem to be slipping him drinks.

How many drinks has it been since you've been standing here? Six . . . ? More?

Well -- at any rate, he eventually takes up a perch nearby, fingers idly strumming his lyre strings. They glow with an Anemo-blue light. ]

Do you have any requests? Ehe, I only charge one drink! That's a steal!

iii. dire straits

[ Mondstadt has many things -- flowers, taverns, bards, windmills . . . and also stray cats. Some of them are even bartenders, if you go into the right tavern!

Ah, but maybe that's just a pointless anecdote. As you stroll through the streets, you may find a small, green-clad figure crouched behind a fruit stall, looking around nervously. Like he's being stalked, perhaps? This seems like excellent work for a Knight or Adventurer--

Except he starts when he spots you staring and immediately starts shushing. ]

Shhh! Don't draw attention, they'll find me-!!

[ (He sneaks an apple off the fruit stand while you're watching.) ]

iv. wildcard

[ Hit me with anything let's goooooooo

You can grab me on disco at mel#0024 or aelesti ]

Edited 2021-01-19 03:00 (UTC)

[ Venti finds Zhongli standing underneath the great tree at Windrise, his eyes closed in meditation. The thought occured to him that he might attempt to restore his own power like how Venti did, but a cursory attempt showed him that it was no use. Either the Anemo energy refused to respond to him, or that the black seal cut him off from the rest of Teyvat. It would be a lie to say that he was completely unbothered, but... he has time to figure this out, at least.

When the Anemo Archon appears next to him, Zhongli lets out a long sigh. ]

Hello again, old friend.

[ Venti is connected to Windrise more than anywhere else. The Anemo energy that pulses through the area may as well be his own bloodstream, so it's no surprise that he can feel a foreign arrival. Especially one attempting to tap into the wind. Who would even know to attempt such a thing . . . ?

And when he arrives: a tall, noble looking man with bright amber eyes . . . heh.

Venti looks him over with a discerning eye -- it's been hundreds of years, after all, and he's not familiar with all of Morax's mortal guises. (Really, Morax has it easy in reverse -- it's not like Venti ever changes his.) But fortunately there's no mistaking it. ]

So it is you I sensed.

[ He takes a seat at the base of the tree, cross-legged. ]

It's been a while, Morax.

It has. [ Zhongli smiles - it's hard to get that out of him, but he always has one saved for his oldest friend. ] Would that our reunion happened under better circumstances...

[ He doesn't need to explain himself to Venti, because the other Archon would already know his reason for coming. The black seal placed on Zhongli's form is perceptible beneath his clothing, feeding off his divine power like a many-headed serpent. Yet the distinct aura of this seal makes it wholly foreign - neither a punishment from Celestia, nor a curse from the Abyss. All he knew was that the decay ate away at his very soul. He could endure, but for how long? ]

It seems I am in your care, for a change. [ His voice turns resigned - it is quite unbecoming for him to be rendered impotent like this. ]

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