crescentview | dec event overflow.

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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[ When he's being shirtless, Ellis would be pretty sure they're not swooning because of Gaku's face... ]

You should smile when you want to.

[ #realpeopleprivilege ]

[ He leans a little closer towards Ellis, really examining him. ]

So should you.

I do.

[ Just not around Gaku, for some reason? ]

I don't know how I should feel, since you never smile around me.

[ Is it a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Does he simply never inspire Ellis to smile? ]

[ Hm. He's not sure what he should write, so he just there, slightly turned to Gaku with the hand that writes holding onto Gaku's. Ellis seems to be thinking. ]

Do you want me to?

[ He has to think about it, huh? Hm. What does that mean? ]

I want it to be because you want to. Don't fake something just for my sake.

[ Well. Ellis would say that Gaku is wrong because his smiles were never for anyone except himself, but he's not sure if he can handle another breakdown right now. ]

I won't.

[ He'll accept that answer, and at least it doesn't seem like Ellis isn't smiling because he doesn't enjoy Gaku's company.

... ]

Go on another date with me.

[ Ellis stares at Gaku. Huh.

What did he just say? He thinks he interpreted it wrong, so Ellis slightly tilts his head. ]

[ Does he need to repeat himself? That's fine, he has no shame. ]

Go on another date with me. I want to make you smile more.

[ He doesn't see what going on a date has to do with making him smile more, because he's thinking of the context that uses fake smiles, so... he just looks confused, but nods anyway. ]

[ The nod is nice but the confused look isn't. ]

...Why do you look so confused?

[ Is he not being straightforward enough? What does he have to do here?! ]

I smile a lot in general, so I'm not sure why you want me to smile more.

[ He is, perhaps, an idiot. ]

[ Look, Gaku knows he's not the smartest... but Ellis has a leg up on him in that department. He's winning the dumbass contest.

Not knowing how else to make himself clear, Gaku cups Ellis' cheeks and closes the distance between their lips. ]

[ Huh.

His eyes are wide when their lips meet. They're kissing right in the hot springs?! His face turns even redder, since it was slightly red from how he's just continuously dunking himself in hot water.

But at least he reacts this time, in which he presses on just a little, just slightly to kiss him back. ]

[ It's totally fine to kiss while naked, don't worry about it.

Gaku lets this kiss linger much longer than the one before, but he keeps it just as chaste. He pulls back, frowning at Ellis for a moment before giving him another quick kiss. ]

Does it make more sense now?

[ No, not really. But the question doesn't really register for Ellis, because he feels like he's about to pass out. That was way too much--normally he would have handled it better, but the steam is really getting to him.

He nods a little, but his head starts feeling fuzzy. He's been in here for way too long for his tolerance. ]

[ This isn't really the reaction he wanted after kissing someone, but it's fine. Concern takes over any feelings of rejection anyhow. ]

You okay?

[ He gets his hand out of the water--the one that was writing on Gaku's palm--to hold his own head. He's feeling dizzy... ]

Okay, come on...

[ He grabs Ellis' other hand and starts guiding him out of the springs. Please don't pass out on him... ]

[ Hold on.

Wait.

Wait wait wait.

Even though Ellis feels dizzy, he doesn't want to get out of the hot springs, especially with Gaku so close?! Unfortunately, that just makes him feel dizzy even more for getting internally worked up, so he just... passes out. He doesn't get a choice.

Blub blub... ]

[ This is exactly what he didn't want to happen, Ellis!! It's kind of hard to drag someone through water, so he maneuvers himself so that Ellis is now draped over his back as he trudges out of the water.

Naked.

It's fine. It's totally fine. This is just guys being dudes. ]

[ Ellis wakes up eventually with Gaku's help of lightly tapping his face. There's a towel around his waist and everything just feels... a little cold. Gaku is the first person he sees though as he slowly blinks into consciousness.

...

What happened, seems to be etched all over his face, but he still feels a little out of it. ]

[ He leans down, getting a close look at Ellis' eyes to make sure his pupils look fine. When he leans back, it's obvious that Gaku hasn't changed back into his clothes yet either, a towel wrapped around his face instead. ]

You passed out and I carried you back here.

[ So he saw everything. Sorry, Ellis.

Gaku uncaps his water bottle and presses it into Ellis' hand. ]

Have some water.

[ Ellis tries to sit up and he does with some effort while still in the daze. He could only interpret some of what Gaku said, but it's enough for him to understand--on the surface level, anyway. He drinks some water and stabilizes his temperature and status.

...

Okay, he feels much better now and drinks some more water, patting Gaku's knee in thanks. ]

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