crescentview | dec event.

dec event.

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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Because, surface level as many of them are, it raises the question of how this information was obtained by our host if, it is in fact genuine.

[Plus if he's going to assess people on their profiles he needs to make sure it's accurate.]

[ sir.

guess she should be more worried about it but you know. sometimes it isn't that important to you for one reason or another. ]

She did claim to be a goddess, didn't she? Isn't that a good enough explanation?

People can "claim" anything. That hardly makes it true. Any claim, especially one as outlandish as that, requires evidence.

[DONT JUST ACCEPT HER CLAIM OF OMNIPOTENCE]

And what kind of evidence would she need to do in order for you to believe her? Isn't us being here already kind of hard enough to explain?

[ SHE ISN'T REALLY but at the same time... ]

Is it? Just because she is the only one we see now does not mean she is working alone. An organization would be perfectly capable of individually incapacitating a group of people to transport them unawares.

[Hm. Well. Guess that's just as likely as magic.]

If you're familiar with a way to transport people from places that I've never even heard of then I think that also says a lot.

[ because time is fake and i'm gonna say that she's at least had one side convo about someone being from a world not that of her own. ]

It may seem beyond mundane explanation at first. However, I've seen plenty of cases that defy reason before, and inevitably, they were uncovered as simply incredibly elaborate fabrications.

[The others could be lying! The weird looking ones in costume! He is going to go through hoops to deny hocus pocus as long as he possibly can.]

[ ...

given what kind of world she is from?? sometimes it is just easier to accept some things. do gods really exist in one piece?? looks into the camera. looks at spoilers. ]

You're putting a lot of effort to avoid looking at what is in front of you.

It is my job to not simply take crimes at their face value.

[He's only concerned with the TRUTH.]

Your job?

[ ??? doe she look like she knows what you are just by looking at you, van zieks? ]

Are you a detective or something?

[He doesn't have to explain himself to you!!! He will though.]

Not quite, I work closely with the detectives of Scotland Yard, but I myself am a prosecutor of Her Majesty's courts.

[ this tells her absolutely nothing. nothing at all, and it will show on her face because wow. does the world of one piece even have defense lawyers or prosecutors in the first place?? so, instead of sweating that stuff, she's just going to comment on the other stuff. ]

"Scotland Yard"? "Her Majesty's courts"?

[He nods. It's fine, from her outlandish appearance she's clearly from a very foreign land.]

I hail from London, England. Our current sovereign is Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and thus the legal courts are consequently hers. Scotland Yard is the colloquial name for London's police department.

[ these words mean absolutely nothing to her and while some parts of it might be understood in a contextual sense there is nothing here that would help her in terms of understanding anything. ]

Those names don't sound familiar to me at all. I think it would be safe to believe that I'm not from anywhere located in your world.

[ ... ]

Though it certainly sounds like you're very important.

[It's a country with a queen and also law whats there to understand!!!!! Anyway van Zieks frowns, not at the first statement because hes still in denial tbh. But also not at the suggestion he's important, because he sort of is, but... If he were really someone important, shouldn't he have been able to put a stop to the Reaper and the spectre of the Professor so much sooner?]

... Not enough for it to make any difference.
[Ominously vague!!!]

[ THE FACT THAT SHE CAN'T PLACE IT ANYWHERE!!! the words mean nothing to her on their own!!! but that's all gonna take a back seat because wow? that is a bit of a tone shift and she's not going to ignore it. ...though the likelihood of him dodging it is high.

not like she cares. ]

A difference?

[ hair loops drop. ]

...were you trying to change something?

Any prosecutor worth his salt should be, by trying to remove crime from the streets. And yet the truth of one of the biggest crimes of the century was lying right under my nose for a decade and it took the intervention of a wet behind the ears foreigner to take it down. If anything, my position had made things worse.

I almost wondered for a moment, upon waking here, that this place was some sort of punishment.

[ frowns.

uta doesn't quite understand the kind of work a prosecutor does but from the sound of it, she can understand that it is a heavy burden. imagine going after someone who did something heinous and then being unable to pin then down... it would make her so angry with herself and frustrated. she probably wouldn't know what to do with herself, honestly.

though, she'll tilt her head to a side. ]

Why would this be a punishment? [ she'll look around at everything. sure things are run down and all of that but it isn't terrible is it? ] Could this not be also seen as a break? It sounds you could benefit from one.

How is this a break? We're meant to work the land here. Work I am to understand is strenuous and also work I'm not trained in.
[They basically are in a labor camp as he sees it!!!]

Even if I were to try and view it as pleasant, I hardly have earned any sort of relief as you suggest.

Neither am I, but there could be enjoyment in learning something new. Creating and growing something with your own hands as a result of your hardwork—isn't that rewarding in its own way?

[ there's also the bit where they're helping the harvest goddess out but van zieks is still in denial about that!!!! so let's just focus on what's more tangible. ]

And I don't believe that. I think that there must have been something.

[Uta trying to get van Zieks to start up singing What Else Can I Do or something.]

That-
[And then his rational brain catches up.]

It's a very complicated situation I neither care to nor should burden you with. I've already said too much. It's... I suppose because you... remind me of someone.
[Someone who he wishes he could speak freely with. Iris's smiling face, now familiar in an echoed sense, is fresh in his mind, but for how long? What if he never speaks to her again? What if he never earns the right to tell her everything he wants to say?]

[ she'll make a musical out of this, don't test me. ]

I understand, but you don't have to worry about burdening me. If I've asked then that means I'm ready to carry that weight. Having someone else there makes it easier, right?

[ once again i, naru, am looking into the middle distance... however uta doesn't want to push van zieks any further about it since it does seem to be a fresh-ish wound. or, well, something that might take a while to come to terms with. so let's try something different. ]

Would tell me about the person I remind you of, at least?

[Van Zieks giving real "seven foot frame, rats along his back when he calls your name it all fades to black" energy. He looks away, frowning, for a long minute. It's not his policy to share... well, anything, about himself. The Reaper is a powerful and unpopular figure, many people would seize on any weakness. But... He isn't the Reaper here. He isn't a prominent figure at all. Maybe having someone else to share with would help. Maybe? He can't get into the whole sordid story. But her compromise...]

My... my niece, Iris.
[He hesitates to say it, secret as it is, but it doesn't matter here. And maybe knowing that, a small part of him really wanted to say it. Even if only once. For the first time, really.]

She styles her hair much like yours, and is far too mature for her age, trying to support others as if she's not the one who should be supported. Though with how capable she is and how... inconsistent her guardian is, I can hardly blame her.

[ yeah, so what? uta has had experience dealing with people who give off that energy and, honestly, people who cross her father the wrong way might have to deal with a worse kind of energy. not that it matters here since she's just going to patiently wait to see if she'll get an answer from him or not, and when she gets one she'll be pleasantly surprised.

especially considering that he equates her to a member of his family. her hair loops will rise at the mentioning of similar hairstyle because, good taste. ]

Inconsistent guardian?

[ since uta couldn't fit into the box of being "too mature for her age" due to the circumstances of her upbringing. though this is a point that she's curious to see where it goes. ]

As in they are not around very often or is it something else?

[ hopefully this will be something pleasant to talk about? maybe?? ]

[The spectre of Herlock Sholmes passes across van Zieks's mental landscape.]

... Something else. Suffice it to say that calling him eccentric would be an understatement.
[Pinching his brow as if just this much reference to the man is giving him a headache.]

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