crescentview mods ([personal profile] crescentviewmods) wrote in [community profile] crescentview2022-12-09 08:26 pm

dec event overflow.



prologue

You awake to find yourself in a bed that creaks with your every movement, motes of dust flitting about the sparsely lit room. Whether you wake alone or with another by your side, you exit the worn-down building to find yourself on an old, abandoned farm. It isn’t long before a familiar voice lilts in your ears, carried to you on the breeze—

“Hurry over to the town square. Chop chop!”

Whether you go willingly or find your feet inexplicably compelled to trudge into town makes no difference. Once you arrive, you find yourself surrounded by a small ocean of new faces— some confused, some angered, and others quite chipper. At the center of the crowd is a bright-eyed woman with an otherworldly allure, her white hair tied up neatly in a bun, pamphlets and assorted papers tucked in her grasp.

“Welcome to Crescentview, farmers!”

Spreading her arms out wide — as much as she can without her papers blowing away — she eagerly regales the crowd with some fun facts about the island and the town while also reminding everyone of one very important fact:

“Remember, you’ve been brought here to tend the earth, fall in love, and begin your new lives together. You’re not leaving until you do. It will be quite the experience for you, I’m sure.”

Complain, grouse, or rejoice if you like, but don’t expect the Goddess to budge. Oh, right, there’s that too: she, the Harvest Goddess, is the one presiding over this land. Don’t get on my bad side, she gently warns as she stuffs pamphlets into the hands of Crescentview’s aspiring farmers.

spring breeze

While you’re here, you may as well check out the pamphlet the Goddess insistently pressed into your hands. Within it, you’ll find a handy infographic on each of your neighbors detailing their likes, dislikes, and... ideal dates? Even the Goddess’ profile is there. How invasive! Each farmer’s picture is hand-drawn by crayon into simple stick figures with the only difference being how the hair looks on top of their heads… if it can be called hair with the mess of crayons, that is. Every single stick figure is smiling. In front of each personalized pamphlet, there’s a stick figure on the cover with the same style as the photo. It’s definitely yours with how the hair color seamlessly matches yours. For the ones who have multicolor hair, you might notice the goddess seems a little more huffy with you.

The pamphlet also includes a map of Crescentview and lists the services available in town. There aren’t many on this small, remote island. Learning how to fend for yourself seems like the best course of action. Finally, a hand-printed bingo card has been made up for each new island resident. The Goddess must have spent quite a bit of time making these...

The Goddess gives her new questionably loyal followers a chance to mingle and mix before speaking up with another announcement. A small group of haggard-looking fairies appear at her feet, and clapping her hands, a notice board springs into existence. When the fairies fail to react, she gives one a nudge with her foot, prompting them all to burst into the world’s smallest round of applause. It’s a little... pathetic.

“Ta-da! Behold: the task board. Every season, I’ll give you new tasks to complete, and in exchange, you’ll be richly blessed by me, the Harvest Goddess. Spring is the season of new beginnings, so let’s take a look at what we’ve got cooking, hm?”

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 December 1st to January 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.

1. Greet your neighbors. For every person you meet, you will be given a random bag of spring seeds. Potato, cabbage, turnip, strawberry, and cucumber seeds are available at this time. Alternatively, random mushroom spores are also available. These include morel, matsutake, and common white mushroom spores. This task can be completed a total of 10 times for rewards. Please specify how much of each you would like when submitting your threads, i.e. “I’d like 5 random spring seed bags and 5 random mushroom bags, please!”

2. Exchange names. Start learning some names and faces: you’ll be seeing a lot of these folks! For each name you learn, you’ll earn a random bag of spring flower seeds. Daffodil, tulip, forget-me-not, primrose, and hyacinth are available this season. This task can be completed a total of 10 times for rewards, and yes, you can cheat the system and introduce yourself to someone you already know, but the Goddess won’t like it.

3. Check out your new farm. Take a look around and settle in! After a bit of wandering, you’ll notice a small cat or dog following you around and looking up at you with them big ol’ eyes. Looks like it wants to stay with you, but will you adopt it? This task can be completed once.

4. Till your field and begin planting. Find the beat up farming tools in your beat up house and begin beating your farmland into submission. Plant some seeds and be rewarded by the Goddess with a single chicken or rabbit to keep in your coop. This task can be completed once.

5. Visit another farm. Pay one of your neighbors a visit to receive a stationary set blessed by the Goddess herself. There are no cell phones or Internet on the island, so get used to sending all your “LOL”s and “XDDDD”s by hand. This task can be completed once.

6. Make a new friend. Isn’t friendship wonderful? For each person you proclaim to be your friend, you will receive two random gacha items. This task can be completed 3 times.

7. Pray to the Goddess. Whether you do so grudgingly or willingly doesn’t matter much to her so long as you’re doing it! Clasp your hands together and bow your head or throw an offering into her pond— she’ll hear you either way. Praying to the Goddess will net you a barn animal of your choosing: a cow, sheep, alpaca, or goat. This task may be completed once.

Caution: throwing certain items into her pond may have consequences. Choose your offerings wisely.

mod notes

⬥ Welcome to the game's opening and our first event!
⬥ A second event post will go up in mid-Dec.
⬥ Please plot over at the Dec 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!
associative: (15)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-12 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Soba it is!

[ He grins, clearly excited about the prospect. Sharing the food he loves with people is always extremely fun... ]

Hope you like it.
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-12 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gaku usually isn't struck by others who are flustered, but this situation feels a little bit different. He considers Ellis for a few long seconds before finally speaking up. ]

You look cute.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-12 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ ???????????

Question marks are flinging off Ellis's existence. What does that have to do with anything?!
]
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-12 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ He raises his brows. ]

What? I'm telling you that you look cute right now.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-12 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ IS GAKU FLIRTING WITH HIM??? Ellis just stares at Gaku with wide eyes, because he doesn't think of himself as cute............ his face turns red again. Help. ]
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[personal profile] blankpoint 2022-12-12 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Mira tries not to think about how fucked up it is that this is the most they've felt actually, truly alive in a while. They can't deny it at all, but that doesn't mean they have to think hard on it. It's better to stay in the moment, anyway.

And they feel it. It makes them breathless in a way that's far, far different from the fight. There's that stirring from deep in their chest, something that's both them and not them. It's dangerous to chase that feeling, but they're tired of being overly cautious. They just want to feel.

They take that punch just enough that Tartaglia's fist grazes against the side of their jaw. Shifting with that inhuman speed, they move behind him and aim a hard punch at his left side. ]
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-12 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
...

[ Can this even be called flirting if he's being so direct? He's pretty good at flirting just by the nature of his work, but he doesn't do much of it in his personal life.

Still, he wonders if he should let go. Part of him thinks that he should, but he also can't stop thinking about that first "date".

Hm. There's nothing wrong with a simple question, is there? ]


Can I kiss you?
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-12 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis is honestly not sure how he should answer that question with how Gaku's expression is, but well... it's just a kiss, right? How bad can it get? Not bad, hopefully.

So there's a small nod.
]
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-12 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's only done this a couple of times outside of filming, so he isn't perfect as he leans into press his lips softly against Ellis' own. It's a simple, gentle sort of thing as he only tries to feel out the way their lips slot together.

Despite his whole bad boy aura, it's chaste. ]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-12 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's a chaste kiss, and Ellis feels his face flush even more. The feeling of his lips against Gaku's sure makes him remember what happened on the first date, which makes it worse, really. But, wait... what does this kiss mean? And what does it mean for Gaku to initiate it after calling him cute? He feels like there's so much going on at once. Help.

He looks off to the side with his head lowered.
]
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-12 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ When Ellis pulls away, Gaku gives him a moment to collect himself before he leans to the side so that he can see Gaku's lips. ]

...Was it okay? I'm not really used to it, you know.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-12 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis nods a little. Is this sort of thing allowed? Gaku is real and Ellis isn't--

It's so hard to pretend right now.

He hurriedly scribbles, tears the page out of the notepad and puts it in Gaku's hand before running off. There he goes, out of his own house...
]

The kiss was okay. I need some time to myself. Sorry.
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-12 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well. This sort of feels like a rejection, even if he didn't confess. Gaku sighs as he writes out a quick see you soon on the page before leaving it on the coffee table. Hopefully Ellis finds it first!

He works on cleaning everything else up, straightening up the couch and grabbing his movies before heading back out. ]
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[personal profile] unsync 2022-12-12 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, but I'd hate to trouble you too much...

[ Surely, Ellis has much to do... like farming intensely. ]

Too bad study isn't on here. Uhm, well. I've got these two?

[ Looking at the Flirting and Wine & Paint options. Please, lord. Ryuki looks uncertain the moment he points either of them out, because he isn't sure which he'd be worse at, since he's not got an artistic bone in his body, and the closest thing he's got to knowing how to flirt is the dictionary definition. ]
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[personal profile] winebar 2022-12-12 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[The mention of the romance seems to throw van Zieks off guard a little.]

Yes, well, I suppose at least one of those is something one could work out with time, the other... Is honestly too absurd for me to even give it a second thought.
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gakunyan

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-12 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ Several days after the second date fiasco, if Gaku tries to visit Ellis at his farm, he'll notice that it's pretty much running on its own. But upon a closer look, he can probably see white balls of puff on the fields. Cotton...?

No, it's dog fur.

Soon enough, there will be the sound of barking and there's an adult white samoyed dog that's running around with a stretch hogan in the likeness of the goddess in its mouth and Ellis is chasing after it. Someone stop the dog!!!
]
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[personal profile] frenchkiss 2022-12-12 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
I appreciate the second chance.

[ He doesn't exactly want to be on her bad side... not so early, at least. He smiles with as much calm as ever, continuing his easy stride, but choosing to stay just a step behind her stride now. ]

So if there's no hobbies... I wonder what your duties are, outside of what we've been shown.
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-12 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, wow, that sure is a fluffy dog! Gaku doesn't think he's ever seen one quite like that, and it reminds him a bit of the... rabbit... at Takanashi Productions.

He should probably stop the dog with poor Ellis running after it like that, but all he can do is stand there and laugh.

Sorry not sorry. ]
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[personal profile] frenchkiss 2022-12-12 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ah, he's peeved already. Laurent is pretty used to it, but at least he doesn't seem as furious as he did before they got here. Resolving things - as much as they were resolved - had done something for their situation. He could accept if Makoto hated him, but he was fond of him and didn't necessarily want to be hated. ]

I suppose it'll take all day if I don't. My skin is going to get all dried out in the sun, though... and me with no moisturizer here. It's cruel, really.

[ But they do need to eat and he does need to figure out how to fill his time. He can't possibly be out here often, lest he risk wrinkles, but he can't bare the idea of being bored.

He moves to the opposite end of the patch of land and gets his hands down in the dirt, squat down, grabbing at too many roots and pulling.

And pulling.

And pulling.

Until out pops the weeds and down goes Laurent onto his ass, staring at the clump of green in and roots in his hands with a bit of bewilderment. The curse of being a man with noodle arms. ]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-12 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kinako should be offended

Ellis doesn't notice Gaku is here until he gets close enough to the entrance of the field of where Gaku is currently standing. He freezes in place for a second but then the samoyed comes circling back, tackling Ellis to the ground, wagging its tail all the while. Ellis lands face first into the dirt. Ow...
]
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-12 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ He bites back a laugh when Ellis gets tackled to the ground, thankfully.

Walking over, Gaku holds out a hand to the dog for it to sniff before reaching down to help Ellis up. When his face is in view, he finally asks: ]


You okay?
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-12 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis points to the flirting one immediately. Please swoon him. ]
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[personal profile] edamamepon 2022-12-12 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Makoto rolls his eyes and tries to finish his cigarette to deal with this headache. He watches him, blinking when Laurent moves to start pulling at weeds. Makoto stops smoking. Laurent falls before his surprise can wear off and it pulls a genuine and light-hearted laugh from him, despite himself. But as he laughs, Makoto is already walking over to the source of his amusement.

Halfway there, his cigarette burns his fingers. But he doesn't stop. He just clicks his tongue and flicks it forward to stomp on it, only coming to a stop once he's offering Laurent his hand.

Makoto might be thin, but his arms are less noodle than they used to be. And despite having just done the same thing, he learned something from watching so whether Laurent accepts his help or not he says it flatly--
]

Get some proper shoes first, would you? I'm not looking after you if you lose a foot.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-12 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ The dog circles Gaku once still with the stretch hogan in its mouth. Play with him!! Ellis stands with Gaku's help, and sighs, brushing the dirt off his face.

He's not sure what to say...
]
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[personal profile] frenchkiss 2022-12-12 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ Laurent accepts being laughed at. He deserves it right now. The offered hand is worth the mocking chuckles, in his honest opinion.

He takes that hand and pulls himself up onto his feet. He tosses the weeds and dusts off his butt with a sigh.]


Ah... I suppose so. I've never seen stylish work boots but I suppose it'll be a change.

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