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

ii. the thread that will end in record time

[hildahilda]

[ Hilda is trying to get somewhere, excuse, and she'd hoped to procure directions from the bard. Unfortunately, said bard cannot be deterred from his drunken music-making, and his melody about the cat persists all the louder for the intrusion.

She sighs, and looks around for anyone else loitering outside this time of night—when something hails down from the sky and bonks her over the head. ]

Ow! What the—?!

[ Hands clapped over her noggin, she tries to discern where in Fódlan—Teyvet the the root vegetable came from. (Aha! The culprit!) It's dark however, and she can't make out the figure very clearly from where he's situated, though the voice sounds incredibly familiar... (It's been years since she's seen Felix, and she probably wouldn't recognize him with his hair down. Something something vague gestures.) ]

Watch where you're aiming!

[ Rude af!! ]

two tags or i riot

[brothered]

[felix's first thought, as he hears that yelp of pain, is: got em. or, like, the ye olde equivalent, anyway. his second thought, however, is that the yelp is of a higher pitch than the bard's singing would suggest possible—and the bard hasn't so much as stuttered, which means that...

...ah. yes. so that is definitely the (vaguely familiar?) voice of a lady—and felix would feel mildly bad about nailing said lady with a vegetable, actually, were he not already in such a foul mood. it's been a long day, okay? he's tired, and thus, almost instinctively:]

Watch where you're walking!

[charming. truly. felix is going to make so many friends in this world; he's determined to make an enemy of this one, hence the way he leans even farther out his window, trying to get a better look at her.]

I'm not responsible for—

[...ah. hmm. time to stop mid-sentence, eyes narrowing the slightest bit, because pink hair? very loud? we are Thinking.]

*this is your final warning (tag)*

[hildahilda]

[ The audacity! Hilda makes what can only be described as a noise of indignation, stamping her feet down once on the cobblestone for good measure. (It does nothing to change the situation, but it does make her feel a little better.) ]

Excuse me?

[ Her voice is now ringing out over the bard's, and pitched twice as high. Simply awful. Look at what you've brought upon all of Mondstadt! Felix!!! ]

Get down here and I'll—

[ —show you exactly who's responsible!

But huh, she thinks she does recognize that voice. ...Definitely. But who? When? A cantankerous cook? A belligerent battalion soldier? (Soldier... she's getting closer...) She loses her train of thought in the process of identifying this Mystery Man, but in either case she picks up the radish. And lobs it right back at the silhouette in the window at full speed.

It's likely to miss, given her accuracy stat, and it's a good thing her strength is nerfed too, or else it might cause serious property damage, but anyway. It's the sentiment that counts...!!!!! ]