dec event overflow.

[crescentviewmods]

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!

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Comments

[blankpoint]

[ Oh. They consider that, and-- it wouldn't be too much, would it? Besides, it's only one square out of a lot, and they really should just start getting used to it.

... Well, they don't find the idea unpleasant, really. They nod. ]

I haven't, either. [ They give him a slight, but genuine, smile. ] I won't be too harsh a critic if you won't.

[pyronic]

Firm, eh? You can count on me. You may be wet behind the ears, but I have no intention of breaking you in gently.

[i can do this all day, don't test me unkie]

Now then, your house or mine?

[associative]

Yeah, like soba. But I'll teach you easy things too, like hardboiled eggs.

[ That should be a good thing to start off with, he thinks. ]

[lapidation]

[ To the reception area! And they do find an employee of the library here, asking if they need help. ]

Hello, we wanted to ask about the history section. Are those rented out?

[ And what they are told is that the books will be returned soon! Hm. ]

[blankpoint]

[ Geez.... Mira clears their throat. ]

I'm sure I will. [ ... ] But I'd like to cook for you some time, too.

[blankpoint]

[ Oh. Mira picks one out too, then taps the wrapper where the seam is. ]

You tear this part, then as you eat it, you'll keep tearing the paper.

[esurientabyss]

...those shouldn't be too hard.

[ How much do you want to bet that he burns those poor eggs somehow. There's probably a reason why he doesn't cook... ]

[pyronic]

[Well then, that's settled. It's a plan as far as Diluc is concerned, and he nods as he briskly pockets his bingo card.]

We can make quick work of that square here and now. If you would, turn around.

[blankpoint]

Sure.

[ Realization hitting in 3... 2... ]

... Oh, I didn't get your name. I'm Mira.

[pyronic]

[...Oh, they're right. How terribly rude of him. Diluc steps back around to offer them a proper handshake.]

My apologies. That should have been the first task on our list. I'm Diluc. It's a pleasure to meet you, Mira.

1/2

[framestory]

[ Oh!

Ellis looks at Mira and then tears his open gently... then nom. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis shudders and whines, putting a hand to the side of his own head.

Brain freeze... ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis isn't sure how to answer the question. It's more that he has the answer in his head already, but to explain it to Gaku feels... difficult. So he skips some lines in the notepad to write something else. ]

If you were told to stop doing something that you think you were born to do--something passionate for you, I guess... you can just look for something else to do, right?

[framestory]

[ Ryuki's head voice is so bold...

Ellis makes a small, awkward smile, but he'll answer the question anyway by writing in the air: "America".

Well. It's not wrong. ]

[blankpoint]

[ It's a miracle they've fared this well so far. Not interacting with people much can really do a number on you, as it turns out!

Anyway, they shake his hand. ]

Nice to meet you too, Diluc.

[ And with that, they turn back around. A lot of their tension is in their shoulders and neck, Diluc will find, muscles so tense and tight that it's a valid question to ask how the hell they're walking around like it's nothing. ]

[blankpoint]

[ They should've warned him about that... But Mira quickly says, ]

Press your tongue up against the roof of your mouth. That might help ease it.

[framestory]

[ Ellis looks confused and thought he interpreted Mira's words wrong, but he does that. It helps a little, but it's Ellis's first time with brain freeze that he still feels some aftermath of brain freeze surprise. He whines again, but it's quieter this time.

He takes another bite of the ice cream sandwich anyway, like the dumbass he is. ]

[unsync]

[ A little too bold at times, he thinks. He fortunately has no problem following the air-writing. A fortune of having exceptional vision, if you will. ]

Oh, the United States? That's really nice. I've only ever been in Tokyo, really... overseas is really so far away. If you ever visited, I could show you around.

[framestory]

[ There's a small, wistful smile on Ellis's face for a brief second before it turns into a better smile and he squeezes Ryuki's hand.

He'd like that, perhaps. ]

[associative]

[ And much like Ellis, Gaku isn't sure how to answer that. It's a question that he feels needs context. There's a very specific reason Ellis is asking this. ]

That depends. What were you told to stop doing?

[associative]

I'd like that too. What's your specialty?

[ That's the most important question here! ]

[associative]

Yeah, you should be able to make them no problem. It only takes a few minutes too!

[ At least someone in this house is optimistic. ]

[irresponsibly]

...You don't get brain freeze?

[ There it is. She's guessing he doesn't, so she'll elaborate: ]

It happens when you eat something cold too quickly. Your head starts hurting. It's unpleasant, but it goes away in a few seconds.

[ A beat, then: ]

Heh, well, if you're good for another round, so am I.

1/3

[framestory]

Existing.

[ It's taking a lot to stabilize his mood right now and it only gets worse. ]

He took away my purpose for exist

[ He never gets to finish that note when something plops onto his lap. ]

CW EYE GORE

[framestory]

[ Upon a closer look, they look like marbles—the kind that kids used to play with. But the design is rather eerie. It looks like a real pair of golden eyes that stare back at you— ]