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!
archivists: (020.)

[personal profile] archivists 2022-12-18 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I spent most of my life in southern France.

[ Not that He Xuan asked, but it might just become a thing with them. At least it confirms his theory about him living in a warm place. ]

You don't remember it? [ Noé takes his words at face value because of course he is. ] Or... are you one of these kind of people who would never admit that they enjoy something?

[ Also known as grumps. ]
esurientabyss: (🌊16)

[personal profile] esurientabyss 2022-12-18 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Never heard of that place. Still, you're dressed adequately for cold weather.

[ Maybe stylishly as well? He Xuan knows nothing about fashion, nonetheless.

...he comes to a stop as he hears the question, because they were taken at face value. Well, somewhat, given the follow-up inquiry. ]


No, I remember it. It's a figure of speech...unfortunately. I once knew someone who was enough of an irritance at best.

[ He also refuses to acknowledge the secondary question by not answering it, assuming his first response will serve adequately as an answer. Though, he's also the sort of person to not acknowledge if the thing he's enjoying isn't a terrible thing. ]
framestory: (pic#9234251)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-18 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis nods. No more awful jokes for Adelis... for now.

Also I think we can handwave the rest of the "farm tour"!
]
archivists: (109.)

[personal profile] archivists 2022-12-18 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes. But I'm always more worried about the comfort of the other person. They might have something they don't want me to see, so...

[ He takes Kas' gloved hand a bit reluctantly and casts his eyes down for a moment before raising his head and smiling sheepishly. ]

Sorry, I didn't mean to bring the mood down or anything. It's... I had no idea that someone could find it so interesting.
archivists: (083.)

[personal profile] archivists 2022-12-18 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean... I knew where I was going, so... I dressed appropriately.

[ Honestly, the clothes aren't as warm as they might look like, but he's not freezing cold at least. ]

Oh, alright. I understand now. [ His senses need to stop tingling when someone says that they don't remember something, really. ] I'm usually considered an irritance, I think. By one person who reminds me of you a little.

[ Why does he sound a little proud? It is a mystery. ]

Would you tell me something about that person?
bluminescence: (01)

[personal profile] bluminescence 2022-12-18 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Kaspar shakes his head and squeezes Noé's hand gently. He thought he'd been the one to bring the mood down, and not the other way around, but he can't find the words. Predictably, he smiles anyway. ]

... I still find it so.

[ Another beat of silence from Kaspar, distracted by the movement of birds and then allowing his gaze to be held by nature. For once, his words carry a sort of brittleness. ]

Have you seen war, before?
harvestashya: (pic#16102802)

[personal profile] harvestashya 2022-12-18 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The goddess seems to be thinking seriously, because she thinks this warrants it. ]

This sort of pancake would go very well with bergamot orange tea. The flavors would complement each other quite nicely.

[ Something very similar to earl grey. ]

As for itself, the first bite is great. However, the tea would be necessary for further bites.

[ She says that, but she's still eating it anyway lmao ]
frenchkiss: (I am good)

[personal profile] frenchkiss 2022-12-18 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing, nothing.

[ Laurent waves the question off with a short motion of his hand. No point in kicking up a fuss in his current roommate.

He does opt to continue watching Makoto instead of helping now that he's not being scolded. ]


So what should we even do with this plot? Any plans, Edamame?
bluminescence: (06)

[personal profile] bluminescence 2022-12-18 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Kaspar nods, biting his tongue past the criticism. It is an well practiced thing, to keep the hurt out of his expression or tone. He won't know it's validity until he tries it after all. So she may very well be correct.

He says nothing about her continuing to eat it, since he suspects she might cease if he does. So he remains quiet at her side. All he has for tea is whatever came with the farm or can be found at the grocery store, but he airily offers after a few moments delayed--
]

... Would you like tea, after this?
harvestashya: (pic#16102796)

[personal profile] harvestashya 2022-12-18 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. I would like that.

[ The goddess finishes the pancake with the grated lemon zest! She moves onto the next one, which has brown sugar and cinnamon in it. She has several small bites, and decides that all of them could go well with tea, but of different kinds. She's not the kind of person that would just stuff a stack of pancakes into her mouth with nothing from the side.

She finishes eating it anyway.
]
edamamepon: (nuts aka this stone is freezing my ass)

[personal profile] edamamepon 2022-12-18 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh-uh.

[ Unconvinced, but with more important things to worry about-- like the rest of this section of their farm. ]

Well, it depends on the seeds we get. But I think we should plant as much as we can.

[ He whips his head around to Laurent suddenly, like he's just realized there is no help from the flip flopped blond. Pointing at him with an accusatory weed-- ] hey, have you been doing any tasks?

Edited (Sometimes I expect autocorrect to do its thing and it doesnt... ) 2022-12-18 22:11 (UTC)
irresponsibly: (i015)

returns

[personal profile] irresponsibly 2022-12-18 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Looks like it.

[ Okay, okay. They got this thing outside...and Lucia starts gently lowering it to the ground, on the porch. ]

Okay...what do we do with this? It just showed up inside.
exiguous: (mona013)

[personal profile] exiguous 2022-12-18 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ GANBA TIN, ]

I can't safely say I have. The Goddess' drawings weren't all that helpful in giving me an idea of putting faces to names.

[ Which is extremely unfortunate. She feels a little embarrassed for not knowing who he is, especially if his information was in there... ]

I'll go ahead and introduce myself first, then. I am Mona Megistus, an astrologist from Teyvat. And you are?
catarou: (aware of the things I had avoided)

[personal profile] catarou 2022-12-18 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm.

[ He considers that, looking down at the spear. ]

I'm not quite sure. It doesn't belong to you, correct?
associative: (77)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-18 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, we're going to continue on and perform wherever we can.

[ He pauses. ]

As soon as I can get back home.
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[personal profile] sicklysweet 2022-12-19 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh... It's clear he wasn't expecting to hear something like that, because he brightens up before immediately curling in on himself.]

Are you sure...?

[It seems too good to be true, after all.

Still, he's a good boy, and he'll be polite right back.]


Owen. It's... nice to meet you, Gentaro...
frenchkiss: (I need my girl.)

[personal profile] frenchkiss 2022-12-19 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Guess that's true. It's not often things are totally out of our hands like this. It's interesting, at least.

[ Maybe not in a good way. He may have resolved one of the biggest complications in his life... in a sense. But a lack of control frustrates him - not that he'd let that show. ]

Sounds fair. Besides, the more we plant, the more wiggle room we have for failure.

[ Ah, caught.

Laurent chuckles before submitting to his fate, getting down on his knees to grab some weeds and the base of their stalks. ]


If you mean on the card we were given, nothing yet.
edamamepon: (watch me get in over my head)

[personal profile] edamamepon 2022-12-19 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ It exists now 🌟, pretend there are likes and dislikes while I tag instead. ]

Makoto Edamura, from Japan. I, uh, worked in sales. [ Makoto bows his head in greeting. ] Nice to meet you.

But now I have to ask-- have you seen the stars around here yet?
Edited 2022-12-19 02:59 (UTC)
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[personal profile] edamamepon 2022-12-19 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Makoto drops his head and sighs a bit dramatically. He'd hoped Laurent would've at least accomplished a couple.

He wipes the surprise off his face when Laurent starts helping again.
]

Tch. Let me see it. Maybe we have some that aren't too annoying in common.

[ Too bad Laurent's card doesn't have rough sex (smut), or Makoto might've gotten himself in trouble with the goddess by ripping the card up. ]
catarou: (Humourless tales written)

[personal profile] catarou 2022-12-19 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Is that so? Now I must ask what sort of group.
associative: (17)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-19 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
An idol group. Do you know what idols are?
catarou: (Coming together as one)

[personal profile] catarou 2022-12-19 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
It's nice to meet you, too. As for the offer, I'm very sure.

[ A smile, before he holds out his hand. ]

You must be hungry, hm? Would you like to get something to eat with me, Owen?
catarou: (We won't stop moving)

[personal profile] catarou 2022-12-19 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
That I do. Idol groups are.... somewhat obsolete in my world, but I suppose some might consider the six divisions idol-adjacent.

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