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: (88)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-16 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gaku turns around so he could wrap his arms around Ellis instead. There's clearly something outside of his own shyness going on, and he wonders if it has to do with that whole "being real" thing he mentioned the other day.

Sighing, he pats Ellis on the back. There, there. ]
framestory: (pic#9589278)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-16 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ It feels weird being comforted despite how Gaku has been doing it to him many times by now. Ellis doesn't like it ending up like this, so he finally pulls away from Gaku and points to the inside of the building.

They can get refreshing milk and then make their way back down the mountain!
]
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[personal profile] for8000amonth 2022-12-16 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Awful, technically, but not incorrect.

[ impressed he actually got that, tbh. ]

I hope it still counts if you know it, because I'm not digging up another.
pactmarshal: (i wish i could've done more)

[personal profile] pactmarshal 2022-12-16 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Trahearne nods slightly in thought for a moment. ]

I suppose not.

[ He won't mention that the people who operate the gates and waypoints are vindictive, money-grubbing imps. What good people to trust one's life with!

Anyway-- ]


You'll have to tell me about your space ships sometime. [ He pats the top of the TV. ] And thank you for showing me how this contraption works.

[ Now he can show Kaspar! Unless Kaspar already knows. Then he will feel silly. ]
unsync: ([S] Bashful)

[personal profile] unsync 2022-12-16 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ...

He thinks he may have to rent out a second book today. One for the field, one for the kitchen.
]

Do you mind if I practice first? It might be embarrassing for me otherwise. -- But I'm sure yours is great too! We could probably whip up together something okay, if we both put our heads and hands on it.
associative: (85)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-16 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sure. Let's go.

[ He'll take the initiative here and lead them both inside so they can relax a little more before heading back down. ]
bluminescence: (06)

[personal profile] bluminescence 2022-12-16 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[ Kaspar nods, taking that as his cue to rise. His hands slide behind his back, and his smile finds her again. It easier to deliver her due respect calmly, he also finds, as if the knowledge she can do so much only makes him more comfortable in her presence. He'd been forced to display for so many that didn't deserve it that it's almost refreshing. ]

... two hours?

[ Which will give him time to walk back and whip up the best pancakes he can after using and modifying the recipe so much over the past week. ]
associative: (90)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-16 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I do. TRIGGER has a lot of songs, since we debuted a couple of years ago.

[ There are also dance covers and things like that too, but those are details he thinks aren't all that important to mention. ]
bluminescence: (06)

[personal profile] bluminescence 2022-12-16 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
....

We?
edamamepon: (these water filters are useless)

[personal profile] edamamepon 2022-12-16 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Makoto laughs at that, but it's the agreeable and friendly sort. ]

I guess it is, isn't it? But besides that, it isn't so bad around here. Most people are pretty nice.

[ Speaking of which, Makoto wonders if she'd looked at the profiles yet. He's also curious if she got one at all. ]

Have you found me in your pamphlet thing yet?

[ I only just realized I never completed his profile but, look-- I will go right now-- ]
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[personal profile] archivists 2022-12-16 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly! It's impressive.

[ Noé is immune to the deadpan, it seems. Actually, his admiration is genuine. ]

I saw snow for the first time in my life just a few weeks ago.

[ He Xuan didn't ask for that, but he shall receive this very useful piece of information anyway. ]

I think this is a bit more complicated than walking, though. You must have done it more than once.
esurientabyss: (🌊33)

[personal profile] esurientabyss 2022-12-16 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He goes quiet at the expression of genuine admiration, but also doesn't deride it. If he were more on the fun side, he'd twirl them, but alas. ]

...You live in a desert or warm climate, then.

[ Skating them now to the other side now, because yeah. Anyway, He Xuan figured that it was entirely possible the other man lived in a far more colder one due to his clothing. ]

If I ever did, it may have been because someone annoyed me into it at some point.

[ Read between the lines...the 'may' is definitely a 'did'. Let's be real, he's been around for centuries and gone on a lot of journeying with a certain ex-god. There definitely was nonessential ice-skating because I said so and it's funny. ]
feralheart: (12)

[personal profile] feralheart 2022-12-16 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ M-21 passes another day without his newfound images of cool fantasy magic being shattered by capitalism-- ]

It's nothing. If you run into more things like that... [ Well. They've kind of exhausted the technology in the houses, actually. But it's not like he has anything else to offer, so he finishes awkwardly: ] ...you know where to find me.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-16 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis nods. If he pulls up his bingo card, it'll be marked! Good job, Adelis. Ellis smiles at him as if to say, "that wasn't so hard, right?!". ]
framestory: (/sparkles at)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-16 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis wonders if this is an invitation to cook together... and that Ryuki is inviting him over to his house even though Adelis would probably be there? Wowee. Ellis thinks that's exciting. He only has one recipe that he can actually make well and pass it off as looking impressive, so he thinks he'll make that. Yeah. Simple enough.

He shakes his head to show that he doesn't mind and grins since he's looking forward to it now. Can't wait.

But here they are! They have finally arrived at the cafe.
]
calla: (kaeya085)

[personal profile] calla 2022-12-16 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, yummy. At least they have food, though Kaeya isn't very hungry. Honestly, he could go for a drink instead. Maybe he should have brought some alcohol too. Well, looking at the apples and oranges, he nods then starts to set out one of the blankets on the ground. ]

Are you prone to getting cold?
framestory: (pic#16129584)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-16 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis thinks so, but he has his powers so he doesn't have to worry about it. That's why he shakes his head no and then goes to Kaeya's side to hug him. This is what he's trying to ask, right? About how he's cold so obviously they need to share body heat!! Or something.

Ellis just made all that up in his head.
]
calla: (kaeya083)

[personal profile] calla 2022-12-16 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Okay, that gets a small smile out of Kaeya because what's with the sudden hugging? ]

Did we not already complete the 'hug' square on your card?
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[personal profile] calla 2022-12-16 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And he leads! It doesn't take long before they arrive, though it's a bit of a trek uphill. ]

Here we are. [ He sits down on the grass, waiting until Mona sits with him. ] Now, where we were? Ah, yes, others from Teyvat. Including myself, there are four others here; Diluc Ragnvindr, whom you must know, and two men named Tartaglia and Zhongli.

[ He pauses to see if she recognizes either of those names. ]
calla: (kaeya128)

[personal profile] calla 2022-12-16 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I dare you to tell me the truth why you also drank that concoction.

[ haha he got around it, love loopholes ]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-16 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He mimics a gesture that is a burning fire, but coming from Kaeya in an attempt to convey warmth. He's free to misinterpret that as he wants, since he just got out of an argument with a fire person. Good thing Ellis can still see Kaeya's mouth from where he is. ]
calla: (kaeya042)

[personal profile] calla 2022-12-16 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He misinterprets it as Ellis being cold! So hmm, a campfire? ]

I can build us a fire. I assure you that it'd be much warmer than me, but you're free to continue hugging if you'd like.

[ He would normally tease more about it, but he's still in a Bad Mood and he can only cover it up so much while the wound is still fresh. ]
associative: (13)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-16 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He laughs, figuring out now that he's probably being messed with. ]

You look young enough that you shouldn't be having bone problems. Maybe you should go to the clinic.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-16 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He thought Kaeya would tease him more about it, so he wonders if there's something on Kaeya's mind. How he behaved earlier is a pretty dead giveaway too. He doesn't know Kaeya that well, but it just seems off based on his previous interactions. He writes in Kaeya's palm though: ]

Are you okay? Do you feel bad? I can make that go away.
calla: (kaeya124)

[personal profile] calla 2022-12-16 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, is it that obvious? Hmm, Kaeya's not the type to wear his emotions on his sleeve, much less allow others to take notice of them, so he's quick to try and cover up. ]

Are you going to kiss me until I feel better?

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