dec event.

[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!

navigation

Comments

[associative]

[ Uta, huh? It's a nice name... he wonders if the meaning behind it really is "song".

He scritches underneath the cat's chin. ]

Yeah. Found them at my farm. I couldn't resist letting the little guy stay with me, so here we are.

[tot]

How cute.

[ maybe he won't have to wait too long to find out as she fawns over the cat. she'll hum a little tune for the cat before responding. ]

Do you have a name picked out for them already?

[associative]

[ Oh, how cute. He smiles, content to watch her hum to the cat. ]

Not yet. I was thinking I'd pick out a name with my roommate. [ ... ] But I'm open to suggestions.

[tot]

A name?

[ she'll give a long look at the cat and try to think of what could and would be a good name for a cat. she doesn't have any experience with this so she'll just go with the first word that comes to mind. ]

What about Denshi? [ ... ] But I'm sure it'd be better to think of a name with your roommate than go with what I think.

[associative]

Hey, I can still ask for your opinion, though. I like Denshi. It's a good name.

[ He lightly holds one of the cat's paws. ]

I'll give that to my roommate as a suggestion.

[tot]

If you end up going with that name, you should let me know. Who is your roommate, by the way?

[ also the beans!!! she is kind of jealous of him being touch the beans but they are his cat after all. ]

Wow! I haven't seen a cat that hasn't gotten upset whenever someone has touched their paws.

[associative]

He Xuan.

[ A ghostly and intimidating man, but Gaku doesn't add that. He's sure Uta will see him around to make that judgement for herself anyway. ]

Neither of us know what we're doing, so we have our work cut out for us.

[ He does look surprised, though, flashing her a look. ]

I guess this cat is just really friendly, huh?

[tot]

[ she certainly will or so help me. ]

I don't think I've met them yet.

[ and she certainly doesn't remember their profile within the documents that they were given. not that she has taken much time to study them; a lot has happened between her arrival and the present in more ways than one. but enough about ghost men, she'll smile back at gaku and then to the cat. ]

Maybe it's a sign of what kind of person you are? Aren't animals supposed to be sensitive to people's intentions?

[associative]

I'm sure you will.

[ He's hard to miss! And Uta seems sociable enough that she'll probably go around greeting people anyway.

But he can't put that thought into words as he looks down at the cat in surprise, who just looks back up at him, wide-eyed. ]

I've heard people say that before. Most people think I'm some kind of punk, so I'm surprised this cat didn't think so too.

[tot]

[ ???

that's not the kind of response that she was expecting to hear back. she isn't sure what she would hear but not to claim to be a punk. maybe this was another one of those differences of cultures/world thing? ]

Some kind of punk?

[ she'll tilt her head to one side. ]

What about you makes you "some kind of punk"?

[associative]

[ With his free hand, Gaku points right at his own head. ]

My face.

[ He'll even let his expression fall into a neutral state, a slight frown on his lips and his eyebrows resting in an almost furrow. ]

It's not a friendly one.

[tot]

[ ....

she's just going to stare at him and say nothing for a moment. it's as though she's expecting something to happen. ]

Is it?

[ very bluntly and honestly: ]

It looks fine to me.

[associative]

[ Huh. That wasn't the reaction he expected.

So, it makes him laugh. ]

That's the first time someone's ever said that to me.

[tot]

[ ??? ????? ??

what kind of world do you come from gaku? he may laugh but uta will frown and her hair loops droop. ]

The first time ever?

[ isn't he close to her age? the idea of that is so sad. ]

Anyone who said that it's unfriendly should take a better look.

[associative]

[ Not the loop droop!!!!

His smile evens out into a much softer one as he regards her. ]

It's gotten me a lot of fans, but... thanks. I appreciate that you're so concerned about it. I'll keep your comments with me to revisit anytime anyone assumes things about me.

[tot]

[ as nice as what he ends up saying is, she'll get distracted by something different: ]

Fans? [ she'll tilt her head to one side. there are all kinds of people here, obviously, and she wouldn't know who is or isn't famous because of obvious reasons. ] Are you someone famous?

[ ...

wait. ]

Was it your fans who were saying that about you? It wasn't, right?

[associative]

I'm an idol.

[ He shakes his head, though. ]

I've never had a fan say that to me in person, but a lot of people like guys that look like punks. They're drawn to me because of the way I look, but I like to think they stay because they've gotten to know me.

/2

[tot]

An idol? What kind of idol?

[ because she doesn't want to make assumptions with this. there are different kind of idols out there right? not all of them dance, sing, act, or any of that. ]

[tot]

[ but after a moment of being excited to maybe meet someone else the same as her, she'll give a nod. ]

I see.

[ she crosses her arms behind her back. ]

Well, I hope that's the case. I'd hate to think that people would just stay fans to you based on your looks alone.

[associative]

They stay because they love TRIGGER just as much as we do.

[ He smiles softly, a confidence in his voice that shows he really feels that way and isn't just saying that to placate Uta. ]

As for the kind of idol I am... We dance and sing. We act and appear on television shows too.

[tot]

...TRIGGER?

[ she'll frown at the name because she's not sure how to feel about something named after a part of a weapon. at the same time the thought will vanish from her mind as she absolutely lights up at the singing and dancing. ]

Wait, you sing and dance? [ is "television" part of the one piece lexicon? i don't actually know but i'm pretending it does. ] What kind of songs do you enjoy singing? Do you also write your own songs?

[associative]

We don't write them, but they're still our songs through and through. We put our very hearts into what we sing.

[ Plus, they never had a chance to delve into writing their songs what with the way Gaku's own father ran things. Though he supposes that doesn't matter much now. ]

Most of our songs are sort of like rock songs, and kind of edgy. But we do have a few lighter songs here and there.

[tot]

I see.

[ she doesn't disappointed. sometimes that happens with other people? it's probably more rare for her to write all of her songs. what is important is that there's heart that goes into each song. ]

I'd love to hear one of yours songs one day. I love listening to all different kind of styles of music.

[associative]

It's not the same without the other members here, but if you don't mind me singing every line, I can do that for you.

[ He'd offer to show her the songs he has saved on his phone, but alas. Who knows if he'll ever get to charge it. ]

[tot]

[ hook it up to the harvest goddess and see if she has a way to power it. ...no jk. don't do this. ]

If you have a way to share the music with me, then maybe I can sing one of the parts along with you. I have a fairly large singing range.

[ ....and she hasn't mentioned she's a singer in this thread but it's fine. she might have forgotten it due to her excitement. ]