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!
hypnowhip: (💖 pleased)

[personal profile] hypnowhip 2022-12-21 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[The inside of Sylvando's little beach house is light, airy, and...a bit sparse in the furniture department. But at least it's dust-free! The building itself is made up of materials that are well-suited for the salty ocean air, and what little furniture there is looks like it's seen better days, but it's clear that Sylvando did what he could to make things look welcoming.

Once they're both properly inside, Sylvando lifts his hands in a showy gesture.]


Welcome to La Casa de Sylvando! I know it's not much yet, but I think it's cute!

[He shows Ellis over to the couch in the living room. On the coffee table in front of it is his bingo card.]

Here we are! Let's see... Ah! I knew it! [Holding out the card for Ellis to see:] "Wine and paint"... Are you much of a wine drinker?
exiguous: (mona012)

[personal profile] exiguous 2022-12-21 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
A princess?

[ Excuse her?? Did she hear that right? This girl certainly doesn't have the presence of a princess, and her explanation sounds a little too incredulous to be true, but. ]

Oh, this all must be some kind of strange dream. Please, I'd like out.

[ She shakes her head, knowing full well that this isn't a dream, but she hopes it is anyway. For the time being, she'll humor Tara. ]

Well, since I'm here, your highness [ no ] – where is this goddess you speak of? I'd like to have a word with her.
exiguous: (mona010)

[personal profile] exiguous 2022-12-21 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ A salesman, huh? Interesting. Not her favorite occupation by far, but he seems modest enough.

At his question, she hums.
]

Hm? Of course I have. It's my job as an astrologist to study the stars, regardless of where I'm located. Why do you ask?

[ Is he asking for a reading? ]
hypnowhip: (💖 haaaay)

[personal profile] hypnowhip 2022-12-21 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Not that anyone could manage it, huh...? Sylvando's lips curl into a mischievous smile.]

Will you at least allow The Great Sylvando to try to work a little of his magic? You never know, I might just surprise you!
exiguous: (mona3)

[personal profile] exiguous 2022-12-21 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh? So you've done this already? How convenient.

[ She has a little grin on her face. She's certainly considering something...but what it is has yet to be revealed. ]

I'll go with you to retrieve them, and once you do, we can get started right away.
hypnowhip: (💖 ah ah!)

[personal profile] hypnowhip 2022-12-21 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, the bingo card! Well, let's take a look!

[He gently takes it to pore over... Going by the theme, a few of these squares do stick out to him. However, he chooses to be a little playful because why not, honestly.

He lifts his eyes off of the page and back to Kaspar.]


I suppose it depends on what you consider to be a fun date.

[Wink!]
bluminescence: (03)

[personal profile] bluminescence 2022-12-21 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
....

[ Trigger, Pop Rock. It's a good thing Gaku is straightforward and not lying, because Kaspar would've believed him. Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes.

I'm sorry for pop 101 questions.
]

Varieties?
pactmarshal: (i'm listenin :))

[personal profile] pactmarshal 2022-12-21 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ wow????

At this point, Trahearne doesn't know Kaeya well enough--it's unlikely he'll recognize it. But maybe if he comes back again...

Living beneath one's means? He can't relate, considering he spent much of his life sleeping on blighted dirt. ]


I suppose some of the activities may come easier to some. [ He muses aloud. He means in general. Not calling you a whore, Diluc. ] Still, it is reassuring to see someone taking this seriously. I recognise diligence when I see it.

[ He's calling you diligent, though. He likes diligent. ]
edamamepon: (oh shit hes looking)

[personal profile] edamamepon 2022-12-21 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ More modest than the omissions let on. But he's a farmer for now. ]

Oh, I've just never met an astrologist before. Find any constellations, yet?
for8000amonth: (pic#16106240)

[personal profile] for8000amonth 2022-12-21 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ what does he think. god, that's a loaded question. he actually takes a moment to think about it, expression unreadable for a second before he deigns to answer. ]

I think half of you would be fortunate to last more than a month where I hail from. [ he's just telling it like it is. ] And the people could do with a little more wariness in their lives.

[ a pause. ]

...I don't hate it, however.
pyronic: (diluc017)

[personal profile] pyronic 2022-12-21 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it?

[He repeats, because how necessary is it to keep someone around who can't pull their own weight? Diluc is well aware that he's being harsh, but ask him how much he cares. The answer may surprise you.]

That depends. [You're funny, Makoto. Real funny.] Do you take me for the murderous type?
pyronic: (diluc091)

[personal profile] pyronic 2022-12-21 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[And continue on he will. Sorry if the silence is awkward, Mira. Diluc's touch remains firm, but he's eased up a bit, diligently working those knots loose until everything north of their shoulder blades has been worked over.]

There. Do you feel any less tense?
sluice: (220924 (10))

mona...... 🙇‍♂️

[personal profile] sluice 2022-12-21 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's all he said?

[ Nice guy! Didn't even reveal his status as a Fatui agent, apparently? He's watching her for tells otherwise, but nothing appears to be amiss. ]

Doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason to our arrival so far. If you'd asked me before, I would've told you it was mere happenstance that so many of us hail from Teyvat... but after today, doesn't it seem intentional? That we've all been drawn here. Maybe there are conditions that make it easier to fetch people who possess a Vision? Everyone I've encountered so far has owned one.

[ Taking the bread bag up to the register, he haggles it down to the promise of future crops. With a few twists, he's opening the crinkly cellophane to hand her two soft slices— one for him, one for her, as they wander over to the main plaza. ]

What do you make of it? As the latest person to arrive, you might have a better idea than the rest of us. Has anyone you know gone missing recently?
Edited 2022-12-22 13:49 (UTC)
sluice: (220924 (260)1)

[personal profile] sluice 2022-12-21 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Something awful: he doesn't retreat, curiosity betraying him even when completely out of his own depth, the spear's tip piercing He Xuan with a wet splash but connecting with nothing solid. Forcibly dragged forward, his breath locks up in his throat, concentration sliced to nothing. ]

I'll pull even the gods out of their heaven. Overthrowing their dominion... if I'm capable of that, then I'll surpass them!

[ Though it's hardly convincing when Childe's shocked out of any elaborating any further, pain-struck and crumpling to the floor when he's dealt that blow. His powers haven't come all the way back; his Delusion makes for little more than a convincing paperweight, and Foul Legacy has been suppressed.

But on his knees, socked out of air, he's full of ferocious laughter. ]


How badly I'd like to see it... what you must look like when nothing's holding you back. Don't you think it'd make quite the view?

[ Better than these paintings and better than even the sun glossing the sea in colors; Childe calls for his bow, and it responds to him in kind. Wrenching himself up, his boots go sliding back across the sand dunes as he lobs a few charged shots. The form's all wrong; he hasn't yet mastered this weapon, and even arrows stained by his power leave plenty to be desired, but every one of them will hit as long as the Riptide mark remains on He Xuan's shoulder. Only in the proximity of fire will that curse he's left burn away any sooner. ]
lapidation: (pic#15322086)

[personal profile] lapidation 2022-12-21 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
A variety in one's diet is important... As much as I enjoy root vegetables and mushrooms, only having one type to eat would make life dull.

[ FOOD IS A CULTURE. ]

The icebox provided is lacking.

[ The fridge really is just meat. Bread. Essentials. ]
associative: (77)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-21 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Thank goodness he's an honest man!! ]

Yeah. Pop rock, electropop, bubblegum pop, dance pop... the list goes on. It's defined by a simple melody with choruses that repeat, so it's not a definition that's hard to fit into.
associative: (101)

[personal profile] associative 2022-12-21 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh she's conspiring...... ]

Then let's go to my place.

[ He'll motion for her to follow as they start walking towards the homes on the beach. ]

So, what's your name?
esurientabyss: (🌊33)

[personal profile] esurientabyss 2022-12-21 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He Xuan still hasn't smiled, not to anyone here. Unless somewhere along the line someone manages it, but that would be an incredible feat in of itself.

But he sees that mischievous smile.... ]


What kind of magic are you speaking of?
hypnowhip: (💖 calling)

[personal profile] hypnowhip 2022-12-21 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not literal magic, if that's what you're asking. I just have a way of bringing joy to others!

[He's asking He Xuan to let him try to charm him, basically.]
sicklysweet: (o16)

[personal profile] sicklysweet 2022-12-21 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Owen takes his hand after another moment of hesitation, pulling himself to his feet.]

...Yeah, I am. Um.

[He looks down at their clasped hands, wondering if it's too much to ask for anything more then this.]

Um... Could we get something sweet?
sicklysweet: (o24)

[personal profile] sicklysweet 2022-12-21 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not saying these things to be nice.

[Being mean is the whole point!]

I'm sure everyone else on this island will say nice things, if you ask them to.
framestory: (pic#9589279)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-21 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis shakes his head no, but he writes down on his notepad for Sylvando to see. ]

I get drunk with one glass. [ Absolutely weak. Definite lightweight to the max. ] But I haven't done that and painted before, so I want to try it!
bluminescence: (02)

[personal profile] bluminescence 2022-12-22 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ So many new words. He definitely has to figure out what bubblegum is, for such a fun sounding thing.

He wants to try coming up with a pop option too. Happily, but unsure--
]

... pop opera?
frenchkiss: (I can break out to keep up with her)

[personal profile] frenchkiss 2022-12-22 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Why cook when I can support the culinary artists out there? Really, I'm just being a patron to those who have mastered their craft.

[ And bumming food off of Cynthia. But who can blame him? She cooks SO well.

Laurent watches Makoto move around him to continue weeding. He's much more serious about this hand Laurent is. He's aware he'll need to participate... but now that he's doing it, he realizes how impressively boring it already is to weed a garden. Tending to a terrace herb garden was much less drab than... this.

He sighs about it, but keeps yanking up weeds to keep from getting punched while he's in such a close proximity to Makoto. ]


Why not some pasta? I would hope we have some in there, don't we? Doesn't take long to sauté some veggies and boil some noodles.
framestory: (pic#16129590)

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-22 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ To Ellis, stars are just shining dots in the sky that has no relevance to him whatsoever. He knows that people find it special and awe-inspiring, but why? ]

"Do you like stargazing?"

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