crescentview | 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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Why'd you wait so long? Afraid some of us would bite?

[ It'd be weird to wait so long, but... maybe it makes sense too. It's hard to say. ]

Absolutely petrified. I have always been the shy sort, you know. To be brought here so suddenly and with so many people around... It frightened me so much, I had no choice but to hide.

Well, you seem pretty relaxed now.

[ But maybe it’s the farm environment… even so, Gaku isn’t really buying it. ]

Oho, do I? Hmmm.

[ He closes his eyes, and he's.......... ]

Hmmmm.... You are not wrong. The spirits here are quite calming and friendly, you see. I am reassured that there is only pure energy here. It is truly impressive... I have never experienced a place like this in my thousands of years of existence.

So you're really old too, huh?

[ Get in line, geezer. He's met so many of you old men. ]

Ahhh, terribly. The very act of working a field makes my bones ache terribly...

[ He sighs. ]

I truly envy you young ones. Oh, to be so young again... such simple times.

[ He laughs, figuring out now that he's probably being messed with. ]

You look young enough that you shouldn't be having bone problems. Maybe you should go to the clinic.

What a kind young man you are.

[ He gives him a teasing smile. ]

I'm sure you've guessed as much, but I was only joking. Twenty-four is too young an age to worry about such things.

Yeah, it is.

[ Unless he has other problems, but he seems fine working out on the farm. ]

So, you're living with Lucia?

[ gaku you have no idea how many other problems he has ]

I am, yes. She's been very helpful and kind while I've been settling in. You're a friend of hers, I assume?

[ poow gentawo ]

Yeah, I am. I was actually here to see her.

[ But it's fine. Getting to know her housemate is just as good. ]

You get along, right?

We do, yes.

[ ... ]

I believe she's worried about making a good impression. I have no complaints at all.

She's really insecure.

[ I'M SORRY ]

I think she'll get over it when you've been around her enough. Mostly.

[ gentaro voice: damn she just like me fr

Gentaro nods, smiling slightly. ]

I certainly hope so. It's rather convenient that we so happen to be roommates. [ a pause. ] Ah, where are my manners? My name is Gentaro.

Gaku Yaotome.

[ He doesn't extend a hand, but he does give Gentaro a slight nod. ]

I hope you're not making her do everything around the house.

[ It seems like Gentaro is doing work outside, at least. ]

A pleasure to meet you.

[ It's a reasonable question! He shakes his head. ]

Certainly not. It wouldn't be fair if I did. The house is not just hers or mine, and I'm not the sort to shove my work on someone else.

[ unless your name is arisugawa dice. ]

Good.

[ If he hears the opposite... he'll pay a visit. But he's not going to threaten someone he just met, especially when— ]

You sound like someone I know. It's weird.

[ It's like he's here right now. ]

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Is that so?

[ Admittedly, that's intriguing. As far as he knows, there's only one person he sounds like, and...

... ]

A friend of yours, perhaps?

Yeah. We're in a group together.

[ What sort of group? A barbershop quartet? A group of farmers? The possibilities are endless. ]

Is that so? Now I must ask what sort of group.

An idol group. Do you know what idols are?

That I do. Idol groups are.... somewhat obsolete in my world, but I suppose some might consider the six divisions idol-adjacent.

[ Obsolete... that's a surprise, and it has Gaku raising his brows. ]

What are the six divisions?

Rap groups, made up of three people each.

[ He ticks them off on his fingers. ]

Buster Bros!!, from Ikebukuro. MAD TRIGGER CREW, from Yokohama. Fling Posse--my group--from Shibuya. Matenrou, from Shinjuku. Dotsuitare Hompo, from Osaka. And Bad Ass Temple, from Nagoya.

Huh. I'd like to hear you perform sometime. I don't know of any rap groups.

[ It'd be cool if they could have more variety at their shows... ]

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