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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Comments

[associative]

[ Hydro nation... there's too many of you!! ]

At the store. I actually have two already.

[exiguous]

Oh? So you've done this already? How convenient.

[ She has a little grin on her face. She's certainly considering something...but what it is has yet to be revealed. ]

I'll go with you to retrieve them, and once you do, we can get started right away.

[associative]

[ Oh she's conspiring...... ]

Then let's go to my place.

[ He'll motion for her to follow as they start walking towards the homes on the beach. ]

So, what's your name?

[exiguous]

Mona Megistus. I'm a renowned astrologist from Teyvat.

[ She says it proudly, not even apologetic for forgetting to introduce herself earlier. ]

And your name is...?

[associative]

Gaku Yaotome.

[ But the mention of Teyvat gets some recognition from him. ]

There's someone else here from Teyvat. Actually... a few people.

[exiguous]

[ timeline shenanigans are weird so i'm just gonna say she met kaeya already– ]

So I've heard. I know of at least four, though I can't say I was acquainted with some of them up until I arrived here.

[ A beat, then: ]

Where are you from, then?

[ He doesn't dress like someone from Teyvat, though his name does sound like he could hail from Inazuma... ]

[associative]

Japan.

[ And I'm assuming they're at his house, so he goes inside and grabs the guns, filling them up before coming back out. ]

Here.

[framestory]

[ Ellis is just passing by and he eyes the water guns. Oooh... he wants to play! But then he sees Gaku and keeps up his grin anyway. He walks up to Mona to show his bingo card to tell her that he has a square on that too and maybe... if he can join in? Maybe?

It's obvious why he's not asking Gaku so lol ]

[exiguous]

Gaku! We have another challenger!

[ She'll call over to him just before Gaku walks out into full view. She's under the impression these two don't know each other, but she looks delighted to have another contender in this silly little contest. She takes a water gun and gives it a once over, trying to figure out how it works.

She decides to hold it oddly, without her finger on any trigger or pump (whatever the gun may have), and cradles it in her arms with a confident smile on her face. ]

Well, if you'd like to join in this badly, who am I to say no?

[associative]

Yeah, why not?

[ Gaku points the water gun right at Ellis and sprays him right in the face. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis shakes his head after getting a direct hit on his face... u rude lil binch. He wipes his face with an arm and hm. He doesn't have a water gun, and it's not like he can just take Mona's... ]

[exiguous]

[ Oh, but he can. ]

Over here!

[ She'll gesture to her own water gun and just...toss it towards Ellis...and while that's in the air, she'll go ahead and use her Hydro vision to send a splash of water towards Gaku's face in retaliation. Justice for Ellis! (No.) ]

[associative]

[ He laughs, shaking his glorious wet hair. What a beautiful look on him—

Anyway.

He aims right at Ellis again, pulling the plastic trigger a few times. ]

[framestory]

[ Oh!! He catches the water gun but then gets splashed by Gaku again because what was that? Water moving by itself? Hydro vision? That's so cool! Well he can't really hit Mona now, especially with Gaku continuously shooting at him, so he shoots some at Gaku's face, mouth in particular.

He surprisingly has good aim?! ]

[exiguous]

[ Wow, you two?! Mona suddenly dips under the ground, using her Hydro vision to get her to move quickly, as a burst of water – she pops up in between them and holds out both hands and sends small jets of water at both Gaku and Ellis.

Take that, punks!! ]

[associative]

[ Where did she go—

Oh, she's right in front of them! Too bad Gaku can't process that because he's busy spitting surprise water out of his mouth, only to be blasted with even more water.

At this rate his clothes are going to be soaked...

He switches his aim to Mona, trying to get her in the face too. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis looks so confused when Mona just... sunk into the ground. Huh?? After getting splashed by the small jets of water, he wipes his face again.

He just shoots both of them, aiming for their foreheads. ]

[exiguous]

[ She's having a little too much fun and isn't paying attention when she gets shot in the face with water. By both Ellis and Gaku.

A critical hit...to her ego, more than anything. She lets out a little growl and huffs before she sends sliiiightly more powerful jets their way. They are all going to be soaked after this. ]

[associative]

[ They sure are! Gaku just barely manages to get out of the way of the wrath of those jets of water, but he doesn't come out unscathed, his hair now completely soaked and his shirt desperately needing to be wrung out.

Ugh.

He takes his frustration out on Ellis, shooting at him a few more times. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis has decided that he needs some adrenaline in this water gun fight, so he dodges all but two jets sent in his way, which he uses to refill his water gun of whatever he can get into the tank hole. He ducks Gaku's shots at him and shoots some more water to his face before abruptly diverting to Mona for some more headshots. He's moving around and being agile. ]

[exiguous]

Ooh, you-!

[ Her anger is directed solely at Ellis now, who landed a few headshots on her. She goes to Gaku's side and starts directing all her attacks at Ellis. Time to gang up on the (fictional) boy! ]

[associative]

[ It sure is!! Gaku will be Mona's backup here, shooting stray shots at Ellis to keep him distracted. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis shrieks and tries to run off to anything that could shield him at the moment. Is this a coconut tree? Maybe a column from the house? A side of a barn? Coop? Either way, he's going around to make this very annoying for both of them. ]

gonna timeskip a bit if that's ok?!

[exiguous]

[ Wow! Screw you, Ellis!!

There's gonna be some chasing on Mona's part, aggressive water gun-ing with her Hydro vision, and maybe getting some residual damage onto Gaku here and there. She'll admit, though, she's having fun.

And by the time things start winding down, she's absolutely soaked. Of course, that won't be much of a problem in a few seconds, but she assesses the other two and lets out a little laugh. ]

Even I have to say that was more fun than I'd anticipated.

o7

[associative]

Yeah, could have been worse.

[ This was a lot of fun, even if his shirt is completely soaked through and clinging to his skin... his pants too. Ugh.

Gaku tries to wring out his shirt, twisting the hem up into a knot and squeezing. ]