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]

[ 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... ]

[associative]

[ Gaku's kind of surprised Ellis has the audacity to be embarrassed when he was the one who introduced that into their dynamic.

Oh well. Gaku sits back to watch the movie too, some sort of action duo movie about Santa Claus and a boxer taking down a crime ring.

His expression shows exactly what he thinks about this movie. ]

[framestory]

[ The audacity of this faker. Ellis doesn't seem to understand the plot and just stares, trying to comprehend it. Damn. At least he was in a story that made sense. ]

[associative]

[ When the credits roll, Gaku gets up and goes to switch it out with another movie. When he's at the VCR he turns back around to Ellis. ]

What'd you think?

[framestory]

[ ... ... ...

Ellis just has a blank expression on his face. Was it bad? It's not like he has any right to judge a story, but that sure was something.

Gaku should just start the next movie. ]

[associative]

[ The look on his face makes Gaku laugh before he turns around to switch out the movies. This one looks like a slasher flick, so hopefully that's the actual case here.

Turning back around, Gaku stands up and walks back over to the couch. ]

You didn't know what to think, huh? Maybe I should've read the movie summary on the back before picking it out.

[framestory]

[ Ellis just gives Gaku a Look that says "yes maybe you should next time", but it's not meant to be scathing in any way.

Ellis doesn't really have any idea how music is supposed to be like when the closed captioning just tells him [suspenseful music intensifies], so he just watches it without blinking an eye. Violence on screen? Looks like he can handle that well. But is there horror? ]

[associative]

[ Gaku watches it like any other movie, even when there are jump scares and dark, uneasy looking buildings.

The horror vibes are definitely there, even if the focus is more on the group of rambunctious college students running from a killer. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis doesn't really react to the movie apart from the jumpscares, in which he squeaks and hides his own face with a cushion. It looks like he's okay with everything except that.

He hates horror, but it only seems to be real horror that he hates. ]

[associative]

[ About three-quarters of the way into the movie, he tugs on Ellis' sleeve. ]

Not a fan of this one either, huh?

[ The way he jumps and doesn't seem to react to anything else suggests as much to Gaku. ]

[framestory]

I don't like jumpscares.

[ ...

Ellis ponders before writing some more, but he does anyway. ]

I can't immerse myself into the movie.

[associative]

I get it.

[ Hmmm. He thinks the movie is almost over, and he wants his bingo square, so they'll need to finish it.

Gaku studies Ellis for a moment. ]

Let's talk the rest of the movie. What do you like to do?

[framestory]

[ Well, if they'll be talking for the rest of the movie, Ellis turns to face Gaku and criss-crosses his legs with the cushion on his lap. He starts writing on his notepad. ]

Calligraphy is my hobby. It's fun.

[ That's probably why his handwriting is so neat, even when he's writing fast. ]

[associative]

Can I see some? Your handwriting is already really nice.

[ Don't mind him scooting closer so he can get a better look at Ellis writing stuff down. ]

[framestory]

[ Oh. What is this closeness... it's fine. It's just so that Gaku wants to see. That's totally it. Ellis uses a normal pen that was part of the stationary set (the one he always uses) and writes "Gaku and I watched movies today." but it gives off the feeling that some pretentious rich people wrote it in a cursive equivalent. ]

how has this not hit my gmail yet

[associative]

[ Gaku watches intently, taking note of the way Ellis' pen curves against the paper with every word. He waits for Ellis to look up before saying something. ]

Heh. Pretty cool. How long have you been doing this?

[framestory]

[ Ellis pauses, not sure how to answer that question, so he just writes: ]

For a while.

[associative]

[ What a weird way to answer that question. It has Gaku furrowing his brows, tilting his head just a bit. ]

So is that years or months?

[framestory]

[ Ellis just points at what he just wrote. No exact time for that, it seems. ]

[associative]

[ Hm. Something about that just... tugs at him the wrong way, and Gaku can't put it into words. He doesn't think he's being lied to, though.

But, he knows he shouldn't pursue it right now. ]

What else do you like doing?

[framestory]

Looking at pretty people.

[ Apart from calligraphy, Ellis doesn't seem to have... hobbies. ]

The stuff on the pamphlet too.

[ Ellis honestly... didn't realize he liked those things until he read it himself. He's still learning. ]

[associative]

[ Well. He wasn't expecting that, but it's fine. He isn't flustered by it. Still, he's kinda surprised Ellis doesn't have hobbies. ]

Going exploring and relaxing with someone, right?

[ Gaku studied the profiles of the people he likes, so... ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis nods. He doesn't think he's a people person by how much he has to pretend so much around others, but perhaps the "relaxing with someone" is something that carried over to when he had something like a "friend". "Exploring" was definitely one of them. Unfortunately, it makes his mask slip for a brief second as he frowns.

He bites into the sandwich. ]