"Hear me! Hear me! There is a great story teller telling her tale. The great Ginnie of the lamp is telling a story that started in Nod-Krai."
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It started in Nod-Krai…
In Nasha town, that have its architecture patched together by random metal things to point it look like a stack of food cans, a certain shop on side alley having a certain magical touch. If you dint are careful, guarding your heart tightly; your own Mora-coins will roll out your wallet/money bag, on they own. Then a zing/cink of a bell on a cash register, will seal the deal.
It can began innocently, with you on a walk through the town streets, looking around. On a certain moment you found itself glancing toward that shop. Your eyes already browsing the good displayed on shelfs and on front desk. It already catch you attention like a magic. But before you notice, your own steps lead you closer and closer, until you stop in front of the clerk desk/counter.
In normal case; If there is that old dude shopkeeper behind the counter, you are safe. But if not, prepare for jump-scare… (for your wallet)
The moment,-- you try to glance over the counter, deeper into a shop; a half-loud puff of purple party-magician smoke will erupt in front of you. From it a short pink haired (cute?) girl appear. A female of the half size of a man, jump out from hiding, right onto the desk of counter. With a smile and rascal wink, she make an entry dance like stance/pose, uttering a melodic "Ta-da!", like an actor who enter the stage in style, to heat up the audience.
Before you have a chance to back up or react, she already lean forward where her body language shouting that she demanding your attention with a smile and spark. "Welcome! Welcome! To my humble shop, call me Dori. Thanks to drop by." By making another simple distracting dance move, she lure you in. "Come close and take a look!"
[DoriSangemah Bay; is an elusive merchant who has a fondness for glittering Mora called a "Treasure of Dream Garden". She look like a genie/jinni from a lantern/lamp. She is an Electro Claymore user and use Constellation: "Magicae Lecerna from the The Palace of Alcazarzaray" In fact she is Sumeru Merchant, who have too big love for Teyvat currency.]
As she sit down on the counter, she give you a proper look to see on what you will be interested. No she lie down on the table, making another pose of a tragic heroine with a noble soul, lamenting about harsh destiny. Of course, she role-playing it all. "Oh no! What a tragedy. Its a sad look for a heart of every Merchant, to see a customer who cant afford to buy a merchandize. What I shall do?; to satisfy the emptiness?" With a flip of imaginary switch her expression changed to a spark of inspiration in her eyes. "Oh I know… I will tell you a story tale. And you?... You, will be my audience to hear it out. Hows that, are I am Dori, the generous?"
She do make a proud gesture, on how flawlessly she handled this challenge. But you know, that it was a suspicious. And as she read it from you, her eyebrow twitched once. Whoever she was not give up on her happy interaction, as she continue to act like a lady who got insulted by a improper wording. "How you dare?; to accuse the great Dori Sangemah Bay, from an unfair greedy intent, improper to her generous status?" Then she return to normal speech as she sit down on the counter. "You shall know, that I am not going to charge you, for listening to my tale. So relax a little. Okay?"
At this point it seems, that she got so bored by waiting at any customer, that she is greedy to grasp this opportunity of distraction for herself. "So lets get straight to it."
Making herself comfy she began to tell her tale…
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"World of Teyvat contain and host many mysteries and wonders, mostly hidden from eyes that don't look at ordinary in an unordinary way. And what can be for one man an ordinary stone, its for another man a gem.
(No! I am not going to sell you a rock picked at road! Stay focus!)
There is a legend about legendary (not a battle) that happened in a (not a war) incident to save a humanity. Everybody is well familiarized about the cap of 90 levels of a vision. A boundary of how much blessing from gods can a vision user to get. Its is said that gods send to this world an blessing in form of very rare elixir-item that can move this cap by additional 10 levels up. Of course it will not work on everybody as, the requirement is to fully open your personal constellation of a stars. Compare the constellations, hitting a 90 level vision cap is an easy task, and don't let me start on ones talents.
(Of course!; there are those who clearly have a shown a higher level, but those hardly using vision, or we talking about monsters that have its own rules.)
Anyway this tale is about a person who actually success on this great feat. Shockingly, the one who made it this far is not some great person who will go down in history book. (Although, there is definitely a breath of history on it, already.)
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Many thing falls from sky, and between them are most know a wish stones of fate:
Intertwined Fate, that is A fateful stone that connects dreams. Its glimmers can entwine fates and connect dreams, just as how its glimmer links stars into the shapes of a heart's desires.
(and) Acquaint Fate, who are A seed that lights up the night. No matter the distance apart, guided by the stone's glimmer, the fated will meet under the stars.
So then; During a pull of stars descending to fulfill a wishes; Both of them cause that certain someone received a lot of wistful blessing.
It was a little girl know as Qiqi. A Cryo sword user who is An apprentice and herb gatherer at Bubu Pharmacy. An undead with a bone-white complexion, she seldom has much in the way of words or emotion. We call her apprentice, but she is fully capable of healing using her adeptly powers. (If she remember that she can do it.)
But the trouble starts to build when she was sucking so much of wishes, that people start ask if a fool play is pulling a string in this strange occurrence.
Soon we had one Qiqi standing next to second Qiqi who standing next to another one and so on. So people eventually asked if Ley-lines caught cold or some ghost just mimikring the little girl, taping on ghost party invitation ticket. But to prove who is the real Qiqi turn to be impossible as our dear Qiqi is a forgetful fella.
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So they let them to hang together thinking that the ghosts will eventually lose all they energy and just puff out from realm of living. Just how bad can be if bunch of awkward kids play together? (*sigh* Oh boy, did they don't see this thoroughly. Not even imagining the consequences of that decision.)
A Teyvat will be capable to withstand a quartet of Qiqi-s, but hardly a hundred of them. As if the gods was doing a cleaning and decide to temporally store a yard of them [One hundred.], until they fix what ever error occurred in ley-lines. (You know?; that when Ley-lines got sick, you can meet and talk with ghost of the past, right?)
They all leveled up, just by walking around and (helping?).
So imagine a scene when you walking on a road, leading up to short hill or something. Then an Hell march like music reach you ears. [Hell march – Comand and Conquer and/or Red Alert; Soundtrack] Ahead of road, right at over the peak, you can see the level number one hundred. Not one but many. And soon a whole bunch of awkward Qiqi-s walking down the hill on a road right toward you.
That's not the only spice thing they do. Do you know the jade palace that flying over the Lyore harbor like a guardian fort? They get up there, filled that place, got politely asked to leave and then in line marched toward the edge and jump down. One of them acted as a tragic officer doing hand gestures of (This way!) guiding the march out of the edge. Of course they dint splashed, by crash landing. No they all had a glider wings that allow them to fly all above the harbor. But as they filled the sky, people and Militech thought that the Liyue harbor is under a sudden invasion.
They were ask to move elsewhere. To vacant the city. (Once again, a decision with unseen consequences.) They went on a trip across all Teyvat.
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Lets skip to the part where they went to a horror movie. Do I mentioned, that Qiqi is actually a zombie? It was all okay while they were siting in Fontaine theater, occupied every seat, making a crowd noise in monotone unison. But something already snapped in them and a mindless groaning crowd exited the theater, hungry like looking, searching for a life to touch.
Of course a word that zombie apocalypse began, spread quite fast and chaos with scream spread across Fontaine city. So the defense was quickly organized lead by Musketries. But when the armed personal saw that one hundred level above them, they were hesitant to engage in combat. Because most of them saw or read a horror movie story, where combat triggered an Agro causing all zombie to dash at them, and eventually overrunning the defensive position. So in fact they will only join the zombie horde as Qiqi.
The situation had reached a critical point where it look like a major battle for humanity will occur.
Then at last someone noticed something fishy and make a (Hold on!!) call, declaring an (Objection!!).
They lure every Qiqi zombie to the central plaza with a big fountain in middle.
A person stand up on a highlighted platform, single facing the entire horde, as they surrounded it with no obvious trace of escape. And as it turned out, this person was a skilled DJ from Natlan with its own musical equipment.
The plan worked flawlessly. All of the Qiqi-s start to dance according the lead of hipped dancer that join the stage.
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Defender, people, and even authorities were shocked that it actually worked. Someone boldly say that "I cant believe that the brainwashing actually worked." It was a Jinks as they heard an (Oh!) of realization from a Qiqi that was there, between them on a safe spot. Manny horror story have this trope; when heroes lover they guard thinking that they won that they saved the day and so on; only to realize that one monster slip through and as will finish them all. They all look her way, with a sweat on they face.
But it was not they end as she start to explain. "Oh, Qiqi forget, that she is immune to brain washing." She pointed at her tilted head and drop the punch line. "Qiqi is brain dead."
I don't need to point out how stupid some of them felt and look, when they found of that this is just one big misunderstanding and there is no zombie apocalypse as Qiqi-s just went with a flow of a movie experience and just forget, they role-playing. Curiously, no one got seriously injured, as the only ones who need to be saved, were those who overreacted and trip or something.
And that's how Teyvat was saved from catastrophe by music. If all those Qiqi-s returned to ley-lines or something similar, is a different story.
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(What?! Why are you looking with that look on you face? Wasn't this story of me an good enough for an adventure?)
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Well is still better that the story about this very hot beauty in jump suit that hold together by massive zipper. The tale is speaking about how this battle maniac using her loud metal horse something as a blunt weapon. That thing using so vigor fuel that it can shout flames from its rear in such intensity, that that entire thing include its driver rise to sky for a moment. And the reason it dint explode on impact when she descend from above at her enemies is, that she use the (soft?) part to smash, when she swinging it around like a oversize cub.
Forget a mace or a hammer. It can look like she was just grab anything and start swung it around to prove a point. And she continue to use it until it break, then she grab something else.
Yes! She have a dedicated weapon, A Thousand Blazing Suns. A greatsword that dazzles like the rising sun. It has witnessed the extinguishing and rekindling of innumerable suns.
But during peace she using, Ultimate overlord's Mega magic sword. A nice name isn't it?
Until you realize, that this claymore is made of paper cardboard and hold together on paper origami, glue, stickers and decorative ribbon duck-tape! How the heck is that thing capable, to hurt anybody?
A magical sword that can only be wielded by the ultimate overlord who rules the seas. As it has been made with special water-resistant materials, it will not get ruined by water damage even after being immersed. Why, one might even call it invincible!
She is a walking torch! She bluntly smashing through the challengers who dare to stand up in her way. And while its ensured that the toy she carry will be not stained by spilled blood or oils.
Plus I heard that she breaking a precious artifacts, given to her as memento by her companions, to gran some kind of ridiculous power-up. Allegedly it allow her to shot a rainbow from a sun.
Can you image that someone like that will walk into this alley? Leaving a trail of fire line behind? Breaking merch, like those drunk barbarians who will toss and smash an empty bear mug, to get hipped for brawler action? That's a walking catastrophe for a business woman like me."
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*There was a giggle that interrupted the story telling of Dori. She and her visitor dint realize, that there was a crowd of people who stop to listen to her story.
One of them was this hot woman that perfectly fit onto description of the second story star. It was her, who giggle at the theatrics of a Ginnie.
As they gazes meet, Dori freak out like a scared cat, that scare jump into air. She tried to jump back, but forget that she is on the counter. So she back trim on the edge of table and lost balance. At single second she was throwing her hand like a wheel propelled ship in desperate attempt to regain her balance. But she fallen anyway. Her back crash on shop floor, knocking her out.
Last thing we know is that DoriSangemah Bay, with spinning eyes in circles, got knocked out from the storytelling game.
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[Notes:] Story is inspired by that lv 100 mysterious item. For this story I pick up a method of not externally describing by narrator (What's going on background.), while she speaking. I understand that this require a certain level of knowing Dori, to imagine all her attic while she delivering her tale. But I still wanted to show if I can deliver story where direct speech is the story narrative. (It the explanation was confusing, then do not worry, its just a writer things and I have like 10 years personal experience in this.)
Oh, I wonder how it will look if I write down, (no if I went to complete) this story and post it, before the foretelling event in Fontaine got released. That will be funny idea as how Qiqi got there, when she was on a walk. As Fontaine is an Island, she had probably take accidental nap in crate and wake up at port.