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crescentview2022-12-09 08:26 pm
crescentviewmods) wrote in 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!
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[ even if i haven't marked down any of them yet as of this tag..... living life on the edge......... ]
Seeing is believing, right? So let's do one together.
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[ She'll hold out her card for him to look at. She's not exactly thrilled about a lot of these, obviously, so she'll be upfront about which ones she's willing to try with a stranger. ]
How about feeding one of the animals? Seems simple enough.
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Birds would be an easy bet, if it makes no difference to you. [ Pigeons count as wildlife, right? Probably. ] There's a glade up ahead that I've noticed some often frequent. All we need is some bait to lure them in.
[ Prey doesn't move without some nebulously-defined reward for the risks taken, after all. ]
How about we stop by the shop first?
[ For some bread... anyways, he'll lead the way to the grocery store to start perusing the shelves. ]
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[ She'll punctuate it with a nod. Pigeons are fine, nothing she isn't used to (especially with Timmie around). As she turns around to follow him, she makes note of the Hydro Vision casually sitting on his hip. Interesting. It seems like introductions are in order, now. ]
Before I forget: My name is Mona Megistus, a renowned astrologist from Teyvat.
[ Hello there, fellow Hydro user. He may have caught a glimpse of her vision, sitting near the nape of her neck on her backside. ]
And you are?
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Childe, at your service! People also call me Tartaglia. [ An astrologist, huh? She strikes him as more of a witch, but there's nothing that explicitly says that Mona can't be both. ] Since we're both from the same place, I don't have to keep tight-lipped about this, do I?
[ Idly, he points to the one at his hip as Childe continues perusing the shelves for bread. Wow, he's not even in the right aisle. Time to head into the next one. ]
I can answer any questions you have, by the way. I've been here about a week already, but you're a new face, right?
[ He'd remember seeing a hat that distinctive. ]
finally gets to this!
[ Her eyes glance to his Vision, and she shakes her head. (There is also no indication that she knows of his Fatui status whatsoever.) ]
Therefore, no secrecy is necessary. In fact, I've got one myself, but I'm unable to show it to you right this instant. You'll know when you see it.
[ It's on her back. She simply doesn't want to reach around and point to it. ]
Strange, how I've been pulled here after the rest of you...so yes, I suppose I'm considered a new face around here. It's been quite an adjustment, but it's not entirely unwelcome, if I do say so myself.
mona...... 🙇♂️
[ 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?
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[ Hm...suspicious. Should she have suspected more? Well, no matter. She doesn't make it into an issue. He's saying things that are far more intriguing, anyway. Happenstance isn't something that sits well with her, as an astrologist who should be able to predict big events like these...but she says nothing of it, maintains a straight face and answers him with an even tone: ]
Not that I know of. Kaeya seems to have been here for quite a while, but there were no mentions of his or Diluc's disappearances back in Mondstadt. They would have been the talk of the town if anyone had noticed them being gone for this long.
[ Which is suspicious in itself...but she takes the bread and gives him a nod in thanks as she holds the bread in hand. She's unsure if she should save this for the pigeons, so she'll hold off on snacking on it, even if she's hungry. ]
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[ He sees you... making googly eyes at that piece of bread...
Anyways, ripping his own slice to shreds and offering the crumbs to the pigeons roosting in the pavilion, he wanders over to the nearby grove of trees to wait it out. ]
I only knew Mr. Zhongli before arriving here. [ May as well get that out of the way. ] Much like you, I hadn't heard any news of his disappearance before winding up here. [ He'd also been in an entirely different nation upon abduction, but whatever. Semantics. ] Looks like we're back to square one. We can at least confirm one thing: time is being manipulated to make it seem as though it isn't passing back in Teyvat. That, or...
[ The world is fake? The sky isn't real? It's all an elaborate Samsara cycle? ]
We aren't actually from the same place.
[ Different universes or continuities, how fun. Mull over that existential crisis a bit as Tartaglia rips up another bread slice for the birds. ]
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Well, if you're offering. You're sure you wouldn't like some for yourself?
[ Please give her the whole bag.
Anyway. ]
Oh? Are you suggesting some sort of alternate universe theory? [ She sounds like it's a ridiculous one, but truth be told, after learning about the false sky....there aren't a lot of things that are out of the realm of possibility. Hm. ] Time is certainly being manipulated, one way or another. Whether or not that's exclusive to Teyvat has yet to be discovered. I haven't heard of such a phenomenon with anyone else yet, but I also don't know if I've run into two other people from the same world just yet.
[ Bird feeding time! She'll start feeding them bits and pieces of her bread while she mulls over this. ]
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[ Probably worse, if Mona's a magi of some sort. Not like Tartaglia's using this brain of his for much to begin with. ]
Will you keep me posted if you find something out? I spoke to the Harvest Goddess, but she wasn't receptive to hearing me out. [ What with gifting her a sus conch and challenging her to a fight, she likely isn't in the mood for confiding any secrets. ] If she's concealing anything, I wouldn't be able to tell you.
[ It is what it is. As the birds get to pecking away, Tartaglia hands her the whole-ass bread bag. ]
Your reward for humoring me. Take it! I have no need for it. [ Infinitely more useful than a single loaf is Mona's trust, after all, so he relinquishes it easily. Fishing around his pocket for his bingo card, Tartaglia openly displays it to her. ] Looks like that checked it off. It should be the same for yours. Anything else I can do for you?
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[ Which...is a low key diss, she supposes, but she's committing to the bit. Mona's a confident girl, she can handle herself in front of a goddess, it's all good. (Probably.)
She tosses more bread at the birds flocking around them, and when he hands her his bag, she lets out a little chuckle and takes it from him. ]
In that case, don't mind if I do! Thank you. For now, I think this will suffice. I'll keep you posted on anything regarding the goddess, but in the meantime, should you need anything from me, my home is up in the mountains.
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[ That exchange went so pleasantly? This girl is way too perceptive, however— perhaps as much as Kaeya, if not more so, and Tartaglia doesn't loiter for very long, swiftly exiting the scene. Goodbye, Mona. Here's hoping their next encounter goes just as smoothly. ]