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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[framestory]

[ Well.

Okay.

Ellis smiles again and leads Gaku to his home! Souji is probably out somewhere. He doesn't know. His property just keeps upgrading every time Gaku gets here... ]

[associative]

[ Wow. If Gaku wasn't impressed before (he was), he sure is now! ]

You must have that bingo card almost filled out...

[framestory]

[ Hm? Ellis nods and shows it to Gaku. It really helps that he doesn't have any smut options.

The house is clean because Ellis keeps it clean with the amount of free time he has now, and he leads Gaku to the couch then gets some water for them both. ]

[associative]

[ Gaku gets the wrapped sandwiches and chips out, setting them on the coffee table. ]

Your card is pretty easy. You got lucky.

[ Meanwhile Gaku has bites and bruises... it's fine. It's fine. ]

If you need help with the last few, I don't mind doing them with you.

[framestory]

[ When he comes back with the water, he looks back at his own card as he gets settled next to Gaku on the couch.

...

He looks at Gaku dead in the eyes and points to "getting drunk" on his own card. You wanted to do this one?? ]

[associative]

[ He looks away, pretending to preoccupy himself with the VHS tapes before he remembers he actually needs to look at Ellis for his sake.

...He looks up. ]

Is that really a good idea?

[framestory]

[ That's what Ellis is trying to ask, Gaku, so he insistently points at it like "are you sure??" ]

[associative]

[ He sighs eventually, giving Ellis a half-hearted shrug. ]

I don't know. I'm still not over you kissing me like that.

[framestory]

[ ... ... ...

Ellis tilts his head with a confused look on his face. Huh? ]

[associative]

[ He stares at Ellis for a long, long moment. ]

You kissed me.

[framestory]

[ Well, Ellis sure isn't watching the movie now if it's on, because. Huh. What? He kissed Gaku?

He points to his cheek. That's what he's talking about, right?? ]

[associative]

[ Gaku shakes his head, a light blush on his cheeks, and points to his lips.

Let that sink in, Ellis. ]

[framestory]

[ The sink is banned!!!

Oh. Well, then.

Ellis will very much remind himself that he isn't a good drinker, because he really doesn't remember what he did while drunk. He kinda hopes that was all... and it looks like it was, since it doesn't look like Gaku is bringing up anything else. But he'll try to understand the situation a little and opens his notepad to write in it. ]

What did you do right before? I think I remember writing...?

[associative]

[ Gaku takes the notepad from Ellis and flips a few pages back to their drunken, messy handwriting. ]

This.

[ It's all way too embarrassing for him to repeat it aloud, so Ellis can read it instead. ]

[framestory]

[ It's like a diary of sorts, or some sort of fucked up log. Ellis usually tries to be neat and make as much room as he can so that he can write more per page, but the drunk page is quite chaotic.

But after reading all that, he seems to finally understand.

He looks away from Gaku for a moment. Ellis needs to think for a second. ]

[associative]

[ While Ellis is doing that... Gaku is going to put a movie in the VCR player. It's some terrible 80s action movie, probably. As he's getting it set up, he's sure to turn on the closed captioning.

When he's done configuring everything, he walks back over to the couch. ]

So, that's what happened. I don't usually kiss on the first date, you know.

[framestory]

[ Wow, Gaku really made Ellis reflect on it. He sighs when he sees Gaku coming back and just leans on him like he didn't just commit a kiss crime. He even writes on Gaku's leg with his finger: ]

Sorry.

[ He has his notepad....... ]

[associative]

[ He puts his hand on top of Ellis' head. ]

It's fine. I'd be pissed off it that was my first kiss, but it wasn't.

[ The first person to kiss him not remembering it? Yeah, he'd be malding. ]

[framestory]

[ Time to never mention that it was Ellis's first kiss. But Gaku's hand feels nice on his head and he finds himself leaning into it. ]

[associative]

[ Gaku sighs, and Ellis can probably feel it. Genuine physical affection is a bit strange for him to dole out, so he detaches himself from Ellis and moves to sit on the couch.

He watches the title screen for the movie, bright yellow words appearing over a city skyline. ]

Give me some warning next time.

[framestory]

[ At this point, he wonders if people just don't like physical affection. He did it to two people and neither of them reacted favorably. After Gaku sits, Ellis watches the movie too, completely missing his suggestion about giving him a warning next time. ]

[associative]

[ Gaku reaches out to the coffee table, grabbing their food and bumping Ellis on the arm so he can take it.

While he's got his attention— ]

Did you miss what I said?

[framestory]

[ Ellis takes a sandwich and... huh? Did he miss something? ]

Sorry, I was watching the movie.

[ He can't see both at the same time. ]

[associative]

Yeah, I should've been paying attention to that fact.

[ That's on him. It's not like Ellis would've known Gaku was talking. ]

Anyway, I said you need to warn me next time you kiss me.

[ No "if"s here. Just next time. ]

[framestory]

[ ...

Ellis still doesn't remember, but he nods anyway. His face turns a bit pink and he looks ahead to watch the movie again. Please don't perceive him... ]