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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Original top level is here, feel free to start something new!

asuka

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[ here

Gods suck, Asuka!! But that's just their own baggage. They're not going to judge him for thinking favorably of her, though.

... Sand-walkers sound terrifying, though, like spiders gone horribly wrong. ]

Hmm... the world I'm from is big and unpredictable. [ They shrug. ] They could exist. Just because I haven't seen them doesn't mean they're not out there.

ellis

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[ here

Ah. Mira nods; they got you, Ellis. ]

I'm happy to help you, either with these cards or with farming. I've done a lot of it throughout-- [ ... ] Throughout my life.

[ Lives, actually. They'd nearly spilled the beans, which unsettles them. They're usually way more on-guard than this. ]

[framestory]

[ Hmm? Ellis wonders why they repeated a word in there, but he won't think on it too much. He just smiles in response as they arrive at the grocery store while still swinging their hands.

The ice cream... Ellis wants at least two, but he knows that he should only get one for now. ]

[blankpoint]

[ Don't worry about it, Ellis, it's Fine. It's weirdly easy--not by much, but still--to relax around him. Maybe it's the way he doesn't mind touching them, or how he swings their hands... ]

Anything look good to you?

[framestory]

[ Ellis plucks out an ice cream sandwich, because he's never seen this before. What is this? How do you eat it?? He turns to Mira, waving the ice cream sandwich around. ]

souji

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[ here ]

Thanks. I found her when I was looking around my farm. She just ran up to me and gave me those big eyes... I couldn't say no to her.

Re: souji

[tarotcards]

I wouldn't have been able to say no either.

[ He gives the cat a bunch more pets before he looks up. ]

I'm Souji, by the way.

[blankpoint]

[ Flora is in heaven. She purrs even louder and kneads at the ground, ears twitching happily. ]

Mira. Nice to meet you, Souji. [ They look around, gesturing to the farm. ] I'm not the only one kind of bewildered by this, right?

[tarotcards]

[ This is the best... Souji adores cats, so this is absolutely making his day. He gives her all the pets and scratches, using both hands to really squeeze those cute cat cheeks. Who's a good girl? Who's a good girl! ]

No, you're definitely not. It's a lot to take in. [ He says as he happily pets the cat, loving every second. ] Have you started on your bingo?

tartaglia :worry:

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[ here

They take each blow, and for once, they're glad they're much sturdier than a normal human. Silver linings, they suppose, even if it's a reminder that their body is not just their own. At least the thing nestled against their damaged soul has stayed mercifully quiet.

A few good hits is right, but Mira isn't going to let them go without retaliation. They grab his wrist right before another blow can connect, and they swiftly bring their knee up into his stomach. With that bit of leverage, they move up into a crouch. Grabbing both wrists, Mira tosses him a short distance away. It's enough for them to get to their feet and catch their breath, at the very least. ]

:weary:

[sluice]

[ Soon as he hits the ground, Tartaglia's laughing like a lunatic. No fixing this dysfunction in him, bearing that glancing blow to the stomach that gets him so topsy-turvy, coming home to the only feeling he's ever sought out with such desperation.

It's clear now that something's weird happened. Neither his Vision or Delusion are responding properly to him, but it's hard to give much of a damn right now, sitting back upright with his sore wrists to observe Mira where they're huffing and puffing some ways away.

Here's the taunt: Tartaglia's beckoning fingers, daring Mira to brave this proximity.

Come closer. ]

closes my eyes

[blankpoint]

[ They're certainly breathing a bit harder, and they're not quite at the level of unhinged as he is, but there's a brightness in their eyes and a grin that's edging on feral. A fight's never made them feel quite like this. Maybe it's their ability to sense others' emotions, which they've tamped down as much as they can. It doesn't work as well when they're running on adrenaline, though.

It's usually uncomfortable for them to feel others' emotions, but right now, they don't mind at all. Maybe that says something about them, but whatever it is, they don't plan on dealing with it. Tartaglia's a hell of an opponent, so they focus on that.

They move a bit closer, eyes locked on him. ]

Losing steam yet?

lucia

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[ here

They watch Lucia for a short while, then nod. ]

Yeah, when I was a kid. He was just as affectionate as she is. [ They rub the back of their neck. ] And I used to frequent a cat cafe, so...

[irresponsibly]

A cat cafe?

[ Huh. She's heard of them but never stepped foot into one before. She'll have to suggest that to Aiko sometime. ]

Did you work there or something?

[blankpoint]

Yeah. I was pretty lucky, finding that job--it was right next to my other job, a bookstore.

If you ever find a cafe like that, definitely go. In my experience, cafe cats are really friendly.

gaku

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[ here

He's so nice that they're kind of at a loss, but... they shake their head. ]

N-no, it's really okay. I don't mind. [ It's fine!! ] I'm just... usually the one doing the cooking.

[ That's a reasonable excuse, right? ]

[associative]

[ Reasonable or not, Gaku at least takes the excuse. ]

Then let me be the one to do it. I like cooking.

[ If he didn't, he'd never offer. ]

[blankpoint]

R-right.

[ Is he single? If so, why? ]

I, uh... You can choose what to cook. I'm not picky.

diluc

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[ here

It seems like someone thinks the same as they do, which is... a little reassuring, at least. ]

It is. If she weren't hiding something, she'd be more forthright. [ A pause as they consider something. ] ... If you'd like to share information between the both of us for now, I'd be willing to do that. If not, that's alright, too.

[pyronic]

[Mira's forward-thinking approach is refreshing, of course. Only time will tell if he can count on them, but he's willing to gamble when there's relatively little on the table. Diluc nods.]

Naturally. I have no intention of talking to her at present, but if my reconnaissance manages to turn anything up, I'll let you know. In the meantime... what do you intend to do about your card?

[The bingo card, he means. Seeing as Mira is of a similar mindset to himself, it doesn't hurt to see if they are looking to make quick work of their bingo card. Diluc is all but dying to know what wish the Goddess might grant him upon its completion.]

[blankpoint]

Thanks. I'll do the same, then.

[ It's nice to have something close to an ally here. They're still not totally sure they can trust anyone here, but at the very least, it's a start. They'll still be on their guard just in case, but they can't deny that Diluc's convincing.

... Ah, right. Mira withdraws their card and holds it out for Diluc to see. ]

If we have any at all that match, I'm not too picky.

kaeya

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[ here

Ain't that a mood though. They understand. ]

Hmm. [ Well, they are in a bar. ] Ask the bartender for the worst drink they can come up with, then drink it.

[calla]

Starting off rough, aren't we?

[ Yikes... well, Kaeya waves over the bartender to ask for the worst drink that they can serve. After a bit of thinking, they nod and pour him a shot of vodka then... puts a ton of soy sauce in it. "The Black Death," they call it. They present it to him and Kaeya, being the brave fool that he is, takes one look at it before he drinks it in a single go. ]

[ ... the look on their face is probably priceless. It tastes so bad and so salty!! ]

[blankpoint]

[ Oh... well. Mira isn't at all the type to enjoy someone's discomfort when they don't deserve it, so...

They look at the bartender. ]

I'll have one too.

[ The bartender gives them a Look, but Mira doesn't at all budge or give an indication that they're anything but serious. Once they get their nightmare of a drink, they also down it in one.

It tastes absolutely terrible. They have so many regrets, and they can't keep it off their face. ]