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INTRO

Whoever you are, wherever you were, the last thing you remember is the salty smell of the sea breeze and a distinct tickle of electricity across your body. Enough to cause alarm perhaps, but in the next moment it all goes black, or blue to be more precise. When you stir into consciousness, those fuzzy sensations are all that you have as an explanation, though there's certainly more to experience around you.

The warm bright rays of the sun, the rhythmic cresting of the waves into the shore, the unfortunate feeling of sand sticking to you everywhere, because you're lying flat on your back on a beach without a beach towel. At least you're not alone, and at least it doesn't seem like you've been completely dumped unceremoniously, as there's orderly space between you and the 27 others who share your predicament. Whoever left you here probably could have dumped you into a pile, but they have better manners than that.

However you decide to react to your sudden vacation, you'll find that you're dressed just as you last recall and that you have at least one possession of yours on hand. Whatever else you had on you appears to be affected by baggage routing, unfortunately. You'll also find a key inscribed with a particular bird and a strange device in your pocket, ostenstibly some type of cellphone from the period when blackberrys were all the rage. A pop-up window will greet you when you turn on the device, prompting you to pick a username (this pop-up can be ignored for up to 24 hours) and also walking you through a basic tutorial on its functions. For now, it seems like the public network isn't running, but the direct message function is availiable. It ends with a cheerful blurb instructing that "For further questions and help, please contact one of the hotel staff!"

As there's nary a soul that seems to actually work here on the beach proper, it might be worth it to explore. Around the resort are robots manning the buffet, sweeping, and even making cocktails if you want to drink your problems away. While they'll answer to basic commands, provide you with a map of the island, or even be happy to tell you the weather, they're incapable of engaging in any meaningful dialogue. Any questions or demands they can't answer will yield the statement to please contact the administrators.

Whoever they may be, but they'll show their faces eventually. Probably.

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Comments

[felame]

[ she could say something about a job half-done is a job not worth doing at all, but she'll refrain. at least that makes one less thing to mentally note down... and at least xiao has manners, even if he is an absolute boomer.

speaking of— ]

It's antiquated technology. Rather than my familiarity, it's your unfamiliarity with it that's particularly noteworthy.

[ hm. ]

I'm curious to hear where in The City you're from.

[plunges]

[ Thank you for showing this old man how to use modern technology... ]

Hmph, it is far more unusual to see others who are familiar with such a device.

[ Boomer words. "The City" doesn't sound like anywhere specific, so: ]

I am from Liyue.

[felame]

... Liyue.

[ where tf is that. boomer please, ]

I suppose The City is large enough for there to be places I've failed to take notice of. [ THERE ISN'T ] Which District is this "Liyue" in?

[ she has such a cursed feeling about this. ]

[plunges]

[ MA'AM? ]

You must be joking. Liyue is not a district, it is an entire region.

[ Surely you jest, other Xiao... ]

... There must be some sort of misunderstanding. Liyue is one of the largest landmasses in Teyvat.

[felame]

[ stop throwing made up words at her, other xiao

there's— another pause, and then something resembling a sigh. ]

Then you'll find the fact that I find "Teyvat" as a whole unfamiliar even more surprising.

[ oh boy. ]

... If you're being forthright with your origins, it seems being brought to an unfamiliar location is just one puzzling thing in a sea of many others.

[plunges]

Of course I am. I have no reason to lie about this.

[ Or, well, in general, really. Xiao is a horrible liar. ]

Something isn't adding up. ... I believe that we do not originate from the same world entirely.