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feb event.
crisp fall weather
Heralded by cooling temperatures and the crunch of orange leaves underfoot, fall has arrived on Crescentview Isle. It’s time to break out your sweaters and scarves in preparation for the cooler days ahead.
Fall is a season rich with tradition and festivals aplenty, so head down to the Town Square to find out what all is in store for you this season. While you’re at it, take a look at the calendar for Fall 1st through 15th.
This season’s crops are eggplant, carrot, yam, spinach, and green pepper. Fall’s seasonal flowers are lamp grass, lilac, sweet pea, chrysanthemum, and petunia. As for mushrooms, porcini, enoki, and portobello spores are available for the fall.
hot! ...or pot?
Every Fall 1st, the townsfolk of Crescentview Isle get together for an island-wide feast with food, beverage, and merriment aplenty... but this banquet is a group effort.
Centralized in Town Square is a massive pot simmering with the Goddess’ special broth, and on Fall 1st, townsfolk are invited to throw an item of their choice into the pot to contribute to the stew everyone will enjoy together during the banquet the following day, Fall 2nd.
The thoughtful, rational contribution would be a vegetable, animal product or other edible item, but no one is saying you have to toss in something edible. For every item added to the pot, the flavor, scent and/or special attributes may change, so choose your addition wisely! Here is an example of how your contribution might affect the stew.
Each islander may only contribute a single item to the pot, but be warned! Throw in anything too ridiculous and the Goddess reserves the right to make you regret it for the rest of your days. OOCly, you have from February 1st to February 8th at 12pm EST to add in your contribution.
fallentine's day chocolates
Fallentine's is a local tradition in which the townsfolk gift their friends, neighbors and loved ones special chocolates to show thanks and appreciation for all the joy they bring to their life. This year, the Goddess has provided the island's farmers with her own special chocolates that have arrived in your character's mailbox on Fall 1st.
Each box contains 20 pieces of buff fairy-shaped chocolates. The notecard tucked neatly into the box recommends that you give out one piece of chocolate per person, which might not seem like much... until you see what happens when that little chocolate is consumed!
As you might expect, something special will happen upon consumption of the Goddess' special chocolates, so be warned when consuming or giving out your chocolates! OOCly, each character's chocolates boast a unique effect when consumed, but characters won't know what that effect is ICly until they start giving them out to their neighbors. The effect of each chocolate (and the chocolates themselves) were distributed via the permanent AC post for January, so if you forget what effect your character's chocolates have, you can refer back to that page.
introducing the dulces sueños resort
Thanks to the efforts of our deep-pocketed islanders, all current community projects have been fully funded! One in particular — the mysterious island — is worth noting for the special resort that occupies it.
The Dulces Sueños Resort is a new destination available to all island residents and its tropical-themed suites aren't notable just for their immaculate decor. Spending the night with another person will result in the two of you exchanging a memory with one another as you slumber. Soaking in the resort's large open air baths will allow you to feel your partner's emotions while you both occupy the water, so if you're struggling to understand one another on a deeper level, a little bath may solve that!
This resort is a new and permanent feature of Crescentview island, so feel free to stop by and visit whenever you'd like. They're open for business all year-round!
task board
The task board is located in Town Square and changes from season to season. In real time, a season is one month long. The following tasks are available from February 1st to March 1st and more tasks may be added mid-month.
Certain rewards are only available through event participation, so please keep this in mind when planning your threads. Multiple tasks may be completed within a single thread, but when turning in, please link to the individual tags in which each task was completed.
Finally, rewards are per character, not per farm, so those with housemates may want to coordinate with one another with regard to what animals you’re bringing home to your farm.
This season’s tasks are all about deepening your bonds and helping you get even closer to your fellow islanders. Some of you may already be in relationships or working your way towards one, so what better way to get to know your partner than to explore their dreams and memories? Curious? Take a look at this month’s tasks!
1. Distribute your special chocolates. Fall is the season of love and thankfulness. Share the chocolates the Goddess gave you with your friends and neighbors to receive 1 random fall crop seed. This task can be completed 10 times.
2. Express your appreciation for your neighbors. Tell your friends you care for them, give them a hug, make them a warm meal. No matter how it is you show your appreciation for the people around you, ‘tis the season to make sure they know it. Complete this task a total of 10 times for 1 random fall flower bag.
3. Go foraging. Bushes producing blueberries, blackberries and raspberries can be found in the foothills and are prime for the picking in fall, but be careful: you might get a mild case of poisoning if you don’t know what you’re looking for!
You can also pick bioluminescent mushrooms in the forest and seashells at the beach to complete this task. You will earn 2 random bags of fall mushroom spores with each submission and you may complete this task a total of 5 times.
4. Check out Dulces Sueños Resort. Travel there alone or with a friend for 1 cow, sheep, alpaca or goat of your choice. This task can be completed once and can be combined with tasks 6 and 7.
5. Contribute an item to the community pot. Throw in an item of your choice, but be warned: the Goddess might punish you if she catches you throwing in any garbage or dirty work boots. Complete this task once to receive a rabbit or chicken of your choice for your coop.
6. Share a memory with someone else. Spend the night at Dulces Sueños Resort with a friend. As you rest, you’ll exchange a single memory with the person sleeping beside you. You can complete this task to receive a Buff Fairy contract that summons a single Buff Fairy to work the farm, harvest and water crops, feed and brush animals, etc. You can complete this task a total of 3 times. That's three times the buff fairies!
7. Feel another person’s emotions. Visit the island and soak in its waters with another person. Doing so will allow you to feel what the other person is feeling. This task can be completed 3 times and each completion rewards you with a Diva Fairy contract. These fairies in their little designer heels are quite sassy, but they'll cook, clean, and do whatever work around the house that you demand of them.
local happenings
The Crescentview Times newspaper has chronicled the latest happenings around the island. A physical copy of the paper will arrive on your doorstep early in the morning on Fall 1st.
The Mines have been expanded to include more rewards and more floors to explore! To continue your mining adventures or embark on one for the first time, please visit the new permanent page for the mines.
Pirates have been spotted off the coast of Crescentview Isle in recent days. They've been circling the island in a large boat flying a tattered banner of unknown origin, but their current intentions are unknown.
A blacksmith has made their way to Crescentview and has set up shop in town! The blacksmith can process any ores and gems you've acquired in the mines and fashion them into fine jewelry in exchange for any leftover materials that come with the ores and gems provided. He can also touch up and repair any farm tools brought to him.
The annual Fall Animal Exhibition is set to take place on Fall 15th. Farmers are encouraged to enter their favorite barn or coop animal in the contest to receive accolades and unique rewards. Participation also comes with its own rewards, so don't hesitate to apply with your finest animal when the time comes!
mod notes
⬥ Welcome to our third event! We've made it to the halfway point and we couldn't be more pleased with how much everyone has engaged with and contributed to the game. Thank you all so much!
⬥ A second event post will go up in mid-Feb.
⬥ Please plot over at the Feb Plotting Post.
⬥ As a reminder, please keep all plotting on the OOC post as not everyone has Discord or Plurk.
⬥ Please submit your completed tasks at the top-level below.
⬥ Have fun!
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He only offers Mishka a bashful glance when he says that. What does it mean? Like this, how?? Irritation bubbles in his chest, for reasons unknown to him, as he feels the tinge on his cheeks settle there.
He's about to grab a cat to remove it, when Mishka's hand reaches out to stroke it. He pauses in his own actions to watch for a moment, how the cat readily accepts the affection; he glances up at his friend, and is taken aback by the gentle look on his face.
Trahearne looks away, and begins to pet the same cat with just as much reverence. ]
I always thought you might have a way with animals.
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I like animals. I'm just lucky they seem to like me.
( He keeps the sight tucked away, like a little secret, and turns his gaze back to the cat. The cat is having the best time of its life right now, and rubs against the both of them. )
... If there is such thing as purity, I think it exists in these things. Animals, beasts, insects, and the land... They mean no harm; they only exist.
( Not that some can't cause harm, but the level of intent between a human and a cat are measured on very different scales.
He gently squishes the cat's face with his palms, which it seems to like in some silly way. It delights Mishka in turn. )
It's a pleasing thing, how the creatures in Crescentview are rarely unhappy.
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Mishka's remark, however, has Trahearne tilt his head slightly in thought. It's an interesting point of view, one he can understand, due to what morsels of information he's heard about Ostoya. He doesn't know the details, of course, but that he would leave people out strikes him as fascinating.
There is one thing they can agree on, though: ]
I agree. That they seem content here speaks volumes to the island's peace.
[ That is true. Even their farm animals, even when they don't quite manage their feeding schedules and whatnot properly, they still seem happy.
And then, there's Trahearne. ]
To be honest, I think all life is inherently good and pure. That includes people. [ He smiles fondly as he watches the cat wander in circles over his lap. ] But through life we harm one another, intentionally or no, and those wounds can fester into sorrow, or evil. It's through that hurt does the cycle perpetuate itself.
[ He looks up at Mishka. ] I think it takes a great deal of courage to acknowledge when one has harmed another, and to step forward and right it.
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Still, he lets Trahearne suggest there is goodness in all things, though Mishka has never seen this to be true. Maybe— in Crescentview, there exists the visage of proof that people are good when left alone. It is hard to tell if this is true, or just a product of how he's softened uncomfortably beneath the complacent warmth of this island.
He considers whether he should move Trahearne off with particular force, when he looks up at him. For one flickering second, he's the one briefly distracted, because he's so close, and his expression is so earnest.
(Not that his wants are sweet. It's just that he sees such determined goodness and he wants to dig his nails into it, with affection. Such is his nature.) )
Courage, and strength of character. Not everyone has the will or means.
( And some people right things wrongly, or try. He is all of these things.
He releases the kitten from his cupped hold grip. )
... Where I was raised, purity and goodness were traits earned, and not all won the privilege. It's difficult to think the default state of a person is not decay.
( He certainly didn't win this privilege; he's certainly trapped in a process of decay.
And he could continue that thought. He could talk ceaselessly of the ills of Ostoya, for there are many. But instead he turns his gaze toward the cats, and the shore, and the sea, and the gentle sound of waves, and he holds these in his mind, instead.
He shrugs, leaning back on his palms. )
But perhaps there's merit to it; to the idea that people are good, too, sometimes.
( He doesn't know if he's comfortable enough to say always. But sometimes seems generous enough. )
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Their circumstances are so different. Ventari's teachings flow through him like his own sap, and these things preach peace and acceptance. He knows not all of his brothers and sisters agree, or find wisdom in them, but he does. He knows, no matter what sort of person they might be, that anyone can pull themselves together for the greater good. But he also knows that Ostoya is blighted to its core; that those who hail from that dark land might be naturally pessimistic makes sense.
Trahearne considers this and tilts his head. As Mishka leans back, Trahearne looks away, back to the cats. ]
We come from radically different worlds. [ He buries his fingers into the fur of a particularly fluffy cat, whose eyes close in contentment. Cute thing. ] I am inclined to say our circumstances have led to our differing views on people, and on the nature of things, but I do understand.
[ Some people just want chaos, or are simply rotten to the core. Whether that's nature, or nurture, it's hard to say.
That doesn't change Trahearne's opinion, though. A wry smile crosses his face; maybe it's the way the cat ragdolls in his lap, or because of the self deprecating thought that quickly follows. ]
Perhaps I'm simply naïve to believe in the goodness of things.