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

[unsync]

[ PLEAAAASE

Ryuki takes a bit of a moment to understand this, and when he does to Ellis's credit -- he laughs shortly before cutting himself off in a slight cough. ]

Uh -- no. No, no, it means -- hole-in-the-wall means an establishment that's really casual. Not like your usual place that has a big sign, and really obviously looks like a restaurant. A little bit out of the way, and really humble. That kind of thing.

Though I guess some places kind of do that...?

[ HE MEANS NO/LOW-CONTACT RESTAURANTS WHERE THEY GIVE YOU FOOD THROUGH A SLOT. He's just entertaining Ellis's assumption but doing a terrible job. ]

[esurientabyss]

That will be useful.

[ Crying...it's ok (?), Gaku is at least helping?? By teaching him how to use a phone. For future scandalous purposes, but hey.

Though there is a longer pause when he releases the other must have forgotten his scandalous squares. Which, fair, tbh. ]

...It's a "French Kiss".

[associative]

[ He finally lets go, but instead moves right back in to cup his cheeks, patting them to soothe them. ]

[framestory]

[ Oh. He thinks he gets it... until Ryuki tells him that people really do feed others through a hole in the wall?? Wow. Other cultures are so wild. He nods as if he understands. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis whines some more, but then he realizes what Gaku is doing and his eyes widen just a little. This is... really intimate. Really, really intimate. They're both inside the hot springs, completely naked, and Gaku has his hands on his face.

He feels like he's going to combust and the steam isn't helping. ]

[associative]

Oh. That.

[ He looks away, completely forgetting about the eggs for the time being. ]

That's just kissing... with tongue.

[blankpoint]

[ ... oh, that's cute, actually. Their expression softens, more than they realize. ]

That kind of thing takes practice, right? And you'll only keep getting better.

[unsync]

[ Taking Food Hole to a new meaning. ]

I think Gen would like you. If you do ever come to Tokyo, how about I buy you lunch there? Or dinner.

[blankpoint]

[ She's the best girl, and don't you forget it. She meows loudly at the squeezes, but she also keeps purring, so it's absolutely not an objection.

Mira crouches down, arms around their knees. ]

... A little bit. [ They're not sure how they feel about it, but... ] What about you?

[associative]

[ It really is, and it's a situation that Gaku has no idea how to navigate. The reality of it doesn't dawn on him until he thinks about kissing Ellis, his gaze briefly traveling to his lips before he looks back into his eyes.

...

And so he drops his hands. ]

...Sorry about that.

[blankpoint]

[ Don't think too much about it, it's surely nothing. ]

Ah, well. I was curious. That's all.

[ Yeah ok, sure. They didn't feel bad at all, shut up. ]

[framestory]

[ Real life Tokyo... He has that same wistful expression just like before that only lasts half a second. It sounds nice. Ellis already feels out of place on this island. What's not an entire populous city? Everything is so real, while he feels so, so fake.

He smiles and nods again, writing down on his notepad again. ]

Can you cook?

[blankpoint]

[ They let out a quiet, slightly startled noise. Their eyes widen, and they're absolutely dumbfounded. ]

Take it easy. You don't want to go overboard and make your head hurt even worse.

[framestory]

[ Ellis shakes his head. Yeah? That? Completely fine. Absolutely. He sinks into the water some. Can he have his existence obliterated yet? Thanks. ]

[associative]

I hope so. I feel like a bad leader now for being away.

[ And with no clue when it comes to how long he'll be gone. ]

[associative]

[ Gaku sighs, shifting around and settling right next to Ellis in the water. Maybe this is too close for comfort, but... he doesn't know what else to do.

Leaning his head back, he closes his eyes. If he does this for long enough, that urge he felt earlier will go away. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis watches Gaku close his eyes for a moment, letting it sink in that there's an incredibly handsome man right next to him without clothes with a wet look. Spare him.

He grabs onto Gaku's hand and writes on his palm: ]

I'm not much to look at, you know.

[framestory]

[ Weh....................

But Ellis listens this time and only takes tiny bites like how a hamster would eat a sunflower seed. Nomnomnom. ]

[associative]

[ That prompts him to open his eyes and finally look at Ellis. ]

I'll decide that for myself. I think you are.

[framestory]

I didn't know you were into sticks... there's plenty in the forest.

[ But he smiles a little anyway despite the sass, because he feels a little more relaxed. ]

[associative]

But you're the one I think is nicest to look at.

[ He is completely serious. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis is thin, fragile, and not very strong. He's not skin and bones but he could be with a simple change. He knows all that about himself. It's the truth. He supposes beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but he really wonders why Gaku seems to like him so much.

... ]

But it doesn't have to be me, right?

[calla]

[ Kaeya has!! brought very little with him because he only recently stormed out of his house, taking only his jacket and fur boa with him. He did stop by the market to pick up a few picnic blankets so they at least don't sleep on the ground, but he hasn't brought much more. ]

[ Did Ellis bring anything... ]

[framestory]

[ He was in the middle of a walk when Kaeya found him, so he only has some fruits he got from the grocery store. He holds out some apples and oranges.

So, no. He doesn't have jack shit. ]

[exiguous]

If you insist...

[ She still feels a little guilty that she hit him like that. She was being careless. What a first impression to make on someone, though he doesn't seem to be too bothered by it at all, which is a relief. ]

Yes, you can consider me a new arrival. Newer than the rest of you, at least, by a week. As for settling in, what we're expected to do is fairly straightforward. Though if you ask me, quite frankly, I think what this "Goddess" is asking of us is quite ridiculous.