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: (82)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-15 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...

What.

He doesn't really know how to react as he takes the big block of cheese. ]


What am I supposed to do with this?
framestory: (pic#9234255)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sometimes, Ellis wonders if Kaeya is plotting to kill him for some reason. He has a wild imagination, unfortunately. So when Kaeya asks that, Ellis just nods. A good place for murder? A sacrifice to the goddess? Maybe.

Just kidding. He thinks it's a great spot for camping and wonders if Kaeya brought anything with him...
]
Edited 2022-12-15 00:41 (UTC)
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis makes a "cooking with a frying pan" gesture. Cook something with it? Eat it raw? He doesn't know. He picks up the notepad and writes: ]

This is only a quarter of it.
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[personal profile] feralheart 2022-12-15 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
So it's in the same solar system? Never heard of it...

[ Earth's name will continue to cause problems until further notice. M-21 is a seasoned survivor of lore dumps (thanks Frankenstein), so he takes this in stoically. It's at least an explanation he can get the gist of, even as his brain promptly dumps things like "aetherically" right back out on the floor. ]

You go from one place to another instantaneously? Sounds like teleportation. [ Sorry Trahearne, he's a jock. ] Just on Tyria, or between planets?
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[personal profile] harvestashya 2022-12-15 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Honestly-- ]

If you can grow the most bountiful harvest out of everyone else here without sabotage and murder, I will consider listening to a request of yours.
sugarnaut: (i literally woke up this morning with)

[personal profile] sugarnaut 2022-12-15 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
( satoko giggles a bit- ellis is so cute. )

--Oooh, you got the big ones! Yessss!

( she happily plops down beside him, reaching for a marshmallow. eclair pokes his head up over her shoulder with a tiny 'mew' so she holds it up for him to sniff just a little- when he tries to bite, she pulls it away with a conspiratory smile for her friend. )

He likes to be involved in the process.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Absolutely adorable. Ellis smiles when watching Satoko and Eclair's shenanigans. So this is how people interact with pets. He wonders if he should do the same with his dog, but his dog is a giant samoyed. It's not a baby like Satoko's. ]

"Very cute."

[ Her or the cat? Por que no los dos. ]
associative: (96)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-15 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ He glares at Ellis. ]

You're coming over and eating some of it.

[ Maybe he can make a cheeseboard... or something. This is so much cheese. Why does Ellis have so much?! ]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ BUT HE STILL HAS 30 POUNDS OF CHEESE?! HE GAVE IT TO GAKU SO THAT HE DOESN'T HAVE TO EAT MORE CHEESE.... help. But it sounds like a genuine invitation and for some reason, he doesn't want to refuse it so... after a sigh, he concedes and nods. Fine, idol boy. ]
associative: (90)

rest in fucking pieces

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-15 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ You know what's a good place to go to after hard days of tilling soil and planting trees? The hot springs.

Gaku wants to go with a real change of clothes this time, so he invites Ellis to go up with him, promising views of a pretty spring. And he's right, too! He stands at the side of the natural springs in a t-shirt and shorts, getting out his change of clothes and setting them down on top of his folded towel. ]


It's nice, right? It was really relaxing last time I was here.
associative: (48)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-15 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Look at how happy you've made him, Ellis! ]

That's the spirit! I'll make a plate and everything too. It'll be worth it.
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[personal profile] calla 2022-12-15 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... tips the chair by nudging one of the legs with his foot. ]

[ sorry kaeya's drunk and now just does whatever he wants ]
framestory: (pic#9234248)

today, ellis dies

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ If Ellis could hear, he still wouldn't be able to hear anything from how nervous he is and the total opposite of relaxed. He agreed to go with Gaku because rejecting him makes him feel bad to an extent that he doesn't really like thinking about, so here he is. He just stares at the springs while also getting out his own change of clothes to put on top of the towel. He heard that it was a must to be completely naked in the springs, so here he is (no one tell him).

But Gaku looks so excited that he can't help but to smile too, even if it's awkward. He tried his best.
]
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[personal profile] sugarnaut 2022-12-15 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
( she chuckles as she reaches for one of the sticks, spearing the poor, innocent marshmallow. )

Flatterer.

( admittedly. she almost said flirt. )

Is it big enough, do you think? The fire, I mean.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's honestly really surprised as to how happy Gaku seems to be and it takes him aback. He... doesn't mind seeing happy Gaku more often. Ellis is starting to realize some uncomfortable truths here.

But he just smiles. Yeah! Everything will be fine. Maybe he'll just feed the other 30 pounds of cheese to Souji. He'd probably like it.
]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis nods. ]

"I feel warm."

[ Ellis sticks two marshmallows into a single stick like a kebab, wondering how it'll work out in the grand scheme of roasting them over a campfire. This is his first time, so he's pretty excited.

In fact, he's so excited that he sticks four more branches into four more marshmallows. We wolverine now.
]
associative: (77)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-15 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Are you sore? It'll help you with that too.

[ Don't mind him as he gets rid of his shirt. That's easy enough, what with all of the shirtless photoshoots he's done, but the rest of it makes him feel... nervous.

What an odd feeling.

At least there's a lot for Ellis to look at, considering Gaku is in incredibly good shape and his shorts accentuate his hips. ]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ Wow.

Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow.

Ellis tries not to stare, but he can't help but to glance every now and then. He stares at hot people pretty often, but unclothed?! Have mercy. Ellis quickly shakes his head no, putting his arms inside his shirt to take it off, but is very hesitant.
]
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-15 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Great.

[ He adjusts the block of cheese in his arms. Whatever they can't get rid of with the cheeseboard, He Xuan will surely eat the rest. That man has an Appetite. ]

You can meet my cat too. Her name is Haru.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis holds up a hand, curls it like a paw, and does the cat motion akin to a lucky cat and tilts his head.

Nya.
]
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[personal profile] sugarnaut 2022-12-15 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
( satoko watches, eyes wide for a moment before she starts giggling behind her hand. what the heck, ellis! stop being so cute!

(thankfully, she remembers to move her hand again before she speaks.) )


And I see you're having fun! Are you gonna be able to handle all those when it comes time to assemble them though?
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-15 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gaku notices the way Ellis hesitates to take his shirt off, and he stares for a moment too long before looking away. Why is it that he's just now realizing what he's done to himself?

His fingers are frozen on the hem of his own shorts, his nervousness hitting him all at once. ]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hm.

Ellis didn't think that far ahead, so... maybe. He looks so determined. It's too bad how he severely underestimates how hot these things get. Either way, he starts roasting them over the fire.
]
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[personal profile] sugarnaut 2022-12-15 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
... I'll hold some for you while you work on the others.
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[personal profile] associative 2022-12-15 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ That makes him laugh. ]

Yeah. She's real cute, so I bet you'll like her.

[ But he should probably let Ellis get control of Fluffy first, and take care of those marbles... ]

I'll let you know when I slice some of this up. See you around.

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