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May Mingle: Entombed City
Welcome to Teyvat - a vast magical world of adventure.
Everyone's hard work resulted in the gate to upper Dragonspine opening. These ruins have not been traversed in years, if not centuries - everything within has been lost to time and living memory. An entire city has been buried in the snow.

People once lived there. The broken buildings host damaged furniture and weathered streets. There are various cloth-covered mounds in a house here and there, accompanied by a sprig of blue flowers. Someone has laid these people to rest after they passed away.

Traces of technology can be found in the city - golden boxes that contain crystals capable of recording and playing back holograms. One of the boxes introduces this place as Vindagnyr; a land once full of greenery and life. Just what happened to these people? What caused the eternal winter?

The highest point in the city is occupied by a temple built into a Domain. Within the Domain is a pale white tree, split in half by a strange object that has fallen through the Domain's ceiling. This temple was once a site for worship for Vindagnyr's people, and even in death they continue to pray for salvation. The priests have been frozen in ice, and the sheer cold emanating from the Skyfrost Nail makes it obvious that it is the cause of winter.

The city's inhabitants worshipped Celestia. Why then were they left to die?

State of the World

On October 1st, the entombed city of Vindagnyr becomes open for exploration. Travelers can choose to look for clues or try to scavenge the city for ancient materials or tools. Recording boxes all around the city tell stories of Vindagnyr's greener past, and of the days when winter suddenly arrived. This is the cruelty of Celestia that Forneus wished you to see.

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

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[He can relate to this. This would be much easier if he could at least call the other members of Class VII or his family...]

Why don't you try writing letters to them? I mean, you can't send them right now, but you can always show them when you get home.

I find it's a good way to feel like you're talking to people you miss.

I could do that... There'd be a lot of people to write to.

[Though he could make the one for his household just be one big letter. Though if Sora wasn't home yet, then those letters would just sit for a while.

It still would be something to do.]

I'm not gonna write while on this mountain, though. I don't want them to fall into the snow.

That's alright. Different friends like different things? So I'm sure you'd be able to come up with new things to say.

[Since really, the main point was just to give him something to write about- a way to connect to his friends even when they're far away]

Good thought. Wait until we're back at camp at least.

That's true. I could always just write about the food here.

[Since this food might not be what he's used to from back home.]

It'd be easier if we had working phones. They have notepad apps.

Ah, yes. That's always a option!

[he does hope this kid finds more to talk about than just THAT but...whatever!]

Oh, my phone works actually [What] Though I think I'm still more comfortable with actual writing than typing.

[FOOD IS GOOD DON'T JUDGE HIM]

Wait... you came here with a phone?

Mm!

[He reaches into his pocket and pulls out his ARCUS - albeit with a red cover instead of blue. He flips it open and sure enough it's a phone with some magical crystals at the bottom- though only some of them are glowing.]

It took awhile for the Master Quartz that powers it to work again, and I can't get any of my calls to connect - but all the apps work fine!

... that thing is really big.

[Somehow gummiphones are smaller??? And the smartphones in the last world fit very comfortably in Roxas' hand.]

What kind of apps do you have? My last phone had a sleep and meditation app on it.

Eheh, well it's also used to channel magic. [His thumb will indicate at the gems near the bottom] So they can only make it so small.

A meditation app, I wish I had something like that... [it'd help so much with anxiety!] Mostly I just have music on here. There's a camera too and girl back home got me to install some game, but I haven't gotten around to playing it much yet.

Why are you channeling magic through a phone...

[What kind of world does that.]

I hated having it even if it was useful. [Games?] What kind of games?

Haha, I could explain...but I'm not sure you want to hear me give a lecture about orbal arts and energy. Let's just say it's the easiest way to cast magic where I'm from.

[Cause yeah he gets the sense that'd be real boring for this kid to listen to, especially when it's not really relevant to Teyvat

Also figures he'd hate the meditation app. Oh well.] It's called Pom Pom Party. You match same colored creatures for points while trying to beat whoever you're playing against. Though without another working phone around, my only opponent is the computer...

R-Right...

[No lectures please!]

That sounds like something Sora and some of my other friends would play.

[He chuckles. Yeah, he thought as much]

Mm! There's a lot of kids your age that enjoy it back home. If you ever want to give it a try, just let me know! I wouldn't mind letting you use my phone for a bit.

[He wouldn't be able to cast any magic from it since it's made for Elliot's specifications, but hey phone game!]

[Kids his age... if only Elliot knew actual versus looks like age, that wouldn't be said.]

Uh. I'll think about it. I'm not the best with technology.

[No, it would be. He's known a few test tube kiddos that were much younger than they looked.]

Eheh, well consider it a good way to practice using technology. Phones are an excellent way to keep in touch with friends, so it'd be good to get comfortable using one.

[Elliot, what kind of life do you lead?]

... that is true... I only got to use a smartphone for a few months back in South Sister, and I know I didn't understand it fully.

[One only slightly less weird than a KH life.]

Well, there you go! A little more practice, and maybe you'll be using it like a pro by the time you head back home.

The phones back home aren't that advanced. We can use it for Kingstagram and calling. I don't even know if we can text on it.

[Yes. It's really called Kingstagram. Thanks, Disney.]

Kingstagram...?

[The heck is that]

Uh... it's like a place to put pictures you take, and you put a comment with it and tags. And other people can comment on it.

[Even if only like twenty people total have it right now.]

That...sounds like more than what my phone has... [Zemuria has yet to establish social media ok]

So, I'm sure you have texting! You just hadn't learned how to use it yet.

I know how to text, just not on the gummiphone. I texted Sora and other people a lot with the phone in South Sister.

[His gummiphone might just have a similar layout and he just learned about it a few months ago on a different phone.]

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