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: (90)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-14 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Wow, cute. Gross, but cute at the same time.

Gaku tries to urge the dog off of Ellis so that he can finally sit up and possibly go get a tissue... and stop hiding his embarrassment. ]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-14 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ And so continues my trend of having character pets who listen to someone else more than their owners. The samoyed steps away from Ellis and sits to the side and Ellis sneezes. ALL THIS DAMN FUR... ]
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[personal profile] irresponsibly 2022-12-14 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, okay.

[ They move the spear carefully, slowly towards the front door. And when they reach the door, Lucia attempts to open it with one hand.

Which means she accidentally shifts a little too close to the wall, and hits the spear against it.
]

Gah-!
associative: (85)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-14 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ #cantrelate ]

Huh... I guess that makes sense. You should start believing in yourself more.
associative: (49)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-14 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Good dog!

[ He lightly pats the dog's head before turning to Ellis and holding out a hand to help him up. ]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-14 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ With a sigh, Ellis grabs Gaku's hand to pull himself up. Honestly, he can only be pleased by the turn of events. He should be, but there's something that nags at him in the back of his mind. Either way, Ellis feels exhausted. Good thing his home is right there.

The dog spins once and barks.
]
associative: (103)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-14 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Wow, what a neat trick! Gaku laughs before looking back at Ellis. ]

Are you gonna name your dog?
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-14 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis just shrugs. He's so tired out that he can't properly think. He doesn't see the point of giving it a name when he can't even call it out anyway.

Ellis, forgetting he can use written language to refer to his dog by name:
]
Edited 2022-12-14 05:02 (UTC)
blankpoint: (125)

[personal profile] blankpoint 2022-12-14 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ buddy you have no idea how much they would like to ]

... You make it sound so easy.

[ That's the worst part: It should be easy, shouldn't it? But there's a deep sadness underlying their words, if Gaku is perceptive enough. ]

Sorry. Didn't mean to bring the mood down when we've only just met.
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-14 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Soba. Marshmallow. Snow. Sky. Bear. Fluffy.

[ Ellis stop him he's going to keep giving out suggestions— ]
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[personal profile] irresponsibly 2022-12-14 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
A cat cafe?

[ Huh. She's heard of them but never stepped foot into one before. She'll have to suggest that to Aiko sometime. ]

Did you work there or something?
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[personal profile] catarou 2022-12-14 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Ah.

[ He looks concerned, reaching out toward the door. He can just barely reach it, if he balances the spear on his shoulder and stabilizes with his hand, then inches toward it. He manages to grab it, and he opens it with some difficulty. ]

If we were thwarted by something as innocuous as a door... The bards would never speak of our story.

[ He's teasing, but it's absolutely an attempt to lighten the mood. ]
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[personal profile] catarou 2022-12-14 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oho, do I? Hmmm.

[ He closes his eyes, and he's.......... ]

Hmmmm.... You are not wrong. The spirits here are quite calming and friendly, you see. I am reassured that there is only pure energy here. It is truly impressive... I have never experienced a place like this in my thousands of years of existence.
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[personal profile] catarou 2022-12-14 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ He notices, and it's enough to make him curious. But it would be rude to pry; Gentaro's learned that lesson more than enough.

... Aside from very warranted blackmail, anyway. ]


Excellent. I certainly won't let you down. In the meantime... perhaps you could accompany me on a walk so I can familiarize myself with the area?
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[personal profile] irresponsibly 2022-12-14 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, thank god. Gentaro is already proving himself to be an A+ housemate. ]

Ha...ha...yeah. Would be pretty bad if that happened, wouldn't it.

[ It definitely could have, and she's very aware. That would've been embarrassing. ]

Okay, looks like we can bring it out, now.
associative: (89)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-14 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
You're not bringing down any mood.

[ Despite his frown... but his face is just like that. ]

It's always been easy to me, because if I didn't believe in myself, I'd never excel at anything.
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[personal profile] irresponsibly 2022-12-14 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Honestly, the vendor is valid, but so is Trahearne. Sometimes you have ice cream that's so good that you can't help but eat it all in one go. Lucia gets herself a scoop, too, even though she's still on her coffee ice cream. It just feels rude to let Trahearne try it all by himself!

When they've stepped away from the shop:
]

The vendor seemed surprised...but I think it really was sort of impressive, how fast you ate that.
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[personal profile] catarou 2022-12-14 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
It would be utterly devastating.

[ His tone stays light, though! ]

Teamwork prevails again, I see. Excellent work.

[ Still balancing his part on his shoulder, he waits until she's outside before following her! ]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-14 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis watches Gaku go on and on and on until he suddenly shoves his hand over Gaku's mouth. Enough!! Fluffy is good!! He even writes it out on the dirt below him with his shoe. ]
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-14 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ He pulls that hand away, holding onto it so Ellis doesn't silence him again. ]

Bear is better.
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[personal profile] blankpoint 2022-12-14 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ They're about to ask if he's really sure... but they get the idea that Gaku doesn't say anything he doesn't mean. It's refreshing, but it puts them on edge, too. They're not used to that kind of honesty. ]

... That makes sense. [ a pause. ] No wonder you're a leader. It's kind of amazing to see.

[ Even if they're a bit jealous. That's not Gaku's fault, though. It's entirely on them. If their life--lives--had been different, maybe they'd be able to understand Gaku more. ]
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-14 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
So you're really old too, huh?

[ Get in line, geezer. He's met so many of you old men. ]
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[personal profile] irresponsibly 2022-12-14 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ from here.

Evening approaches. She hadn't realized how long they'd been sitting here for, but time passes when you're admiring the scenery, she supposes. Seeing Kaspar bask in the sunset makes her appreciate it a little more than she usually does, and when the stars come out, she assumes he hasn't seen these either. His comment confirms that, and she looks up at them. Lucia certainly seems a little more enthused by the night sky, that's for sure.
]

Stars? Mm, they're nice to look at. What do you think of them...?
blankpoint: (95)

[personal profile] blankpoint 2022-12-14 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I was pretty lucky, finding that job--it was right next to my other job, a bookstore.

If you ever find a cafe like that, definitely go. In my experience, cafe cats are really friendly.
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[personal profile] bluminescence 2022-12-14 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kaspar considers the question in his own time, unhurried as he stares upwards. A soft hum follows, finally forming his thoughts into almost breathless, sincere sentiments. ]

... beautiful. Far away.

[ Nothing shines that brightly from the depths. Kaspar looks over to her again. It's not hard to find the calm smile when it is dimly glowing in the dark. ]

And you?
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