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!
pactmarshal: (i wish i could've done more)

[personal profile] pactmarshal 2022-12-15 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
Ah-ha. Long-term mischief, then.

[ Trahearne was planning on ignoring the marriage thing, too. Not out of spite, but just because...yeah. ]

I suppose we'll find out what happens in due course, then. In the meanwhile... [ His eyes dart to the lake, then back to Crow. ] ...try not to get into too much trouble.
pactmarshal: (it was a travesty)

[personal profile] pactmarshal 2022-12-15 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Space is an oft-neglected part of studies on Tyrian nature mostly because...dragons tend to be a more pressing issue. Trahearne tilts his head--he can sort of glean what M-21 means by "solar system" but.

Sorry, jock, you've walked into a nerdy conversation with a nerd. ]


Between planets? No, no--just on Tyria.

Do your people have links between planets where you come from, then? [ Because that's what it sounds like. ]
pactmarshal: (i'm listenin :))

[personal profile] pactmarshal 2022-12-15 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
My farm is in the forest, so mushrooms, I suppose. And whatever else will grow with limited lighting.

[ He isn't particularly interested in growing anything in particular--it's just a practical choice.

He observes the rows and rows of farming books... This is a lot. ]


And what of yourself, Zhongli?
bluminescence: (06)

[personal profile] bluminescence 2022-12-15 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Kaspar nods in agreement, willing to indulge both of their curiosities about the odder things. He keeps noticing the flush, though he does nothing but smile if caught looking. They probably could've shopped faster. But it wouldn't have been half as fun that way. Besides, Kaspar makes sure they don't forget anything too important.

The admission does have him look over to the vampire though, blinking and only looking even more curious than before. He almost trips. After, he keeps a leisurely pace and goes on with words, watching where he's going. Though Kaspar speaks softer somehow, despite his wild thoughts. He'd really hate to traumatize him, but he's more fascinated than anything.
]

... do you mean you see it? Feel it?
bluminescence: (Default)

complete [ pre dance ]

[personal profile] bluminescence 2022-12-15 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Greet your neighbors: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
I’d like 4 random spring seed bags and 5 random mushroom bags, please!

Exchange names. [1] [2 (in the tl)] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
+ x7 random spring flower seeds

Visit another farm: [x]
+ stationary

Make a new friend: [1] [2]
+ (x2) two random gacha items. This task can be completed 3 times.

Pray to the Goddess: [ongoing]
rng says: + goat. This task may be completed once.


[ ooc: I mentioned in beta already that he's been working on the field but I am now realizing I should've maybe had a thread to put here for it.... :|a

I'll have one after the dance probably so this is complete for now and I can respond again for the last couple later? ]
Edited 2022-12-15 16:36 (UTC)
esurientabyss: (🌊28)

[personal profile] esurientabyss 2022-12-15 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...the look on his face can't be put into mere words, though some historians might try later down the line-

Jokes aside, he just looks unimpressed. ]


So just making a term more complicated than it sounds. Ridiculous.
esurientabyss: (🌊28)

[personal profile] esurientabyss 2022-12-15 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Cheeky shit ]

I did. Stop fooling around and get moving.

[ Since he made him get up. How rude.

He tries to turn elegantly on his foot but his stride isn't exactly as composed or perfect due to the liquor. ]
archivists: (086.)

noé archiviste | mad

[personal profile] archivists 2022-12-15 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
archivists: (011.)

[personal profile] archivists 2022-12-15 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Greet your neighbors: one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | nine | ten

➞ 6x mushroom spores, 4x spring seeds, please!

Exchange names: one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | nine

Check out your new farm: one

➞ cat ฅ/ᐠ . . ᐟ\ฅ

Visit another farm: one

Make a new friend: one
framestory: (pic#9329083)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis nods. He can savor it like this too, but his fingers feel gross now. He supposes that isn't really a problem since he can lick his fingers, so he'll do just that. ]
framestory: (pic#9117773)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He gives a hand gesture that means "so-so". Ellis can only cook basic things, or things with easy instructions that doesn't require too much measuring. It's definitely more than just instant ramen though. ]

I want to try your cooking.
framestory: (pic#9117773)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ah, yes. Ellis looks at Gentaro, up and down (mostly down), and he gets what he's saying. He nods, grabs Gentaro's hand, and starts lightly running over to the Boutique. Time to run!! Why? Just because. Ellis wants to spend some of his energy. ]
framestory: (pic#9234306)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis doesn't mean to say that he's exclusive!! Gaku!!

He just withdraws his hands for a moment before reaching how to grab Gaku's nose. Punishment.
]
framestory: (pic#9234254)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"I never did this before. It's fun! Did you do this with your friends?"

[ Tell him stories, Satoko. He wants to know. ]
framestory: (pic#9234304)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-15 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Give a moment for Ellis to genuine think about this for a few seconds before writing out in the dirt: ]

Terrible.

[ As in, they smell terrible. ]
harvestashya: (pic#16102796)

[personal profile] harvestashya 2022-12-15 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Okay, but consider: murder is also sabotage. The goddess seems to understand that Childe is capable of many things, but whether he likes doing them? That's probably a different story. It doesn't seem that he's too put off by it anyway. ]

It's just a part of the agreement, dear. Will you accept those conditions?
blankpoint: (147)

[personal profile] blankpoint 2022-12-15 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ They can't stop the shadow that passes over their face, the disdain that rests there for a moment.

... But it's interesting that he doesn't care about the source, just that it gives him power. It's a thought that's crossed their mind here and there. Hearing someone else echo that feels surreal. They'll be thinking about it for a long time, unpacking what it means for them. In the meantime, though....

They mull over his last words, and it would make sense, wouldn't it. When they'd realized their speed and strength had diminished here, they'd assumed it was to keep the outworlders from killing each other. ]


... You've got a point. [ They cross their arms over their chest. ] It seems as good an explanation as we'd find, anyway. Maybe if we get our powers back some time, we might have to test your theory.

As for myself... Primarily, it's light magic. Aside from the healing you saw, I can command it in a way that suits whatever I need. Tracking, creating weapons that burn on contact, taking the light from one place and using it as amplification, and likely others I haven't discovered yet.

I'm usually a lot faster and stronger and can heal more quickly, too.
associative: (89)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-16 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Where are your manners, Ellis!! Gaku pries his hand off of his nose, but he doesn't let go. ]

Even if there are people you think are cuter or nicer or whatever, that doesn't really matter if I'm gonna decide things for myself.
framestory: (pic#9404591)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-16 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ Um. Why isn't Gaku letting go? Ellis thought he would, but. Uh?? The confusion makes him forget to "speak" with his finger on Gaku's palm as he just stares at him in mild bewilderment. ]
associative: (92)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-16 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Unfortunately, the truth is that he's not thinking about it. ]

What?
framestory: (pic#9234253)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-16 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...

Ellis wiggles his hand, but not enough to pull away just to call Gaku's attention to it.
]
associative: (77)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-16 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Huh?

[ Oh. Right.

He lets go. ]


Sorry. You don't like that, right?

[ Ellis seems affectionate enough, but some things are probably off limits... is what he thinks. ]
framestory: (pic#9234255)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-16 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis shakes his head no, seemingly fine with it. But then he grins... ]

You're so aggressive.

[ lol ]
associative: (85)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-16 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
I've been told that a lot.

[ It's unfortunately a trait he inherited from his dad. At least he's not an asshole through and through, though. ]

Do you hate it?
framestory: (pic#9117760)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-16 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis shakes his head no. It's too bad... he wanted to see Gaku getting flustered. He really is built different. ]

It's just kinda funny.

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