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!

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[sugarnaut]

🌸 redux

if i had a nickel for every time i've been kidnapped...

( this is... terrifyingly familiar on some level. waking up somewhere new, being ushered to a gathering place, weirdly invasive profiles- so even among the crowd of most assuredly confused or concerned individuals, satoko may stand out for being especially pale, eyes widened and harrowed. but fine! fine. it's not murder, she won't storm off in a terrified rage immediately. slowly she looks over everything again and. wait.

what the fuck is this bingo- squinting, she looks over some of the options before deciding absolutely no one gets to see this ever. it's getting tucked into an inner pocket. she's not dealing with this right now and she's definitely not blushing. but now what... )

... I can't believe this.

🌸 hitting the town!

or something like that.

( first thing's first: get the locations down. she vaguely remembers the route she took from the... her farm, jesus christ that's going to be a weird adjustment and she already hates it, so there's that at least. so what is there to see...?

she lingers at the library a little, but quickly decides that she'll come back later when she's not full of adrenaline and loathing.

the grocery store she scopes out just to price check and take a note of what there is- she doesn't even know what's waiting for her back at the farm, so she won't be dealing with that just yet, but it doesn't hurt to know.

there's just so much to see though, even for a small place like this- her head hurts. )

🌸 home sweet something- CLOSED TO HIZEN.

oh boy.

( eventually... eventually. satoko finally makes her way back to the farm and oh god she is going to need to get different shoes fast, why is her go-to high heeled boots other than her complex about her height--

ahem.

the thing is, she remembers there'd been someone else there in the room. so... guess it's time to figure out what that's about.

eventually, she'll find hizen though- at which point, she's not actually sure how to proceed. despite her status as the de facto leader of her group, that was more because she was willing to punch people who considered doing a murder and refused to let people wallow in grief for too long- she used to be charming and charismatic, but now she feels like she's floundering.

how the mighty have fallen. )

Uh... hey.

🌸 wildcard

( by all means, grab satoko for any shenanigans! she's a murder game survivor so she's having a lovely time (not), but she'll try to not be too cranky... keyword being 'try'. hit me up at amity_rose ! )

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[archivists]

[ Noé notices her pale face and alarmed expression right away and approaches Satoko, visibly concerned. ]

Are you alright? [ The bingo card she's hidden in her inner pocket doesn't remain unnoticed, but he knows better than to bring that up when she seems unwell. ] Maybe we should look for a doctor? Or maybe I should get you some water and something to eat?

[ The latter might be easier to achieve, though he's ready to help Satoko however he can. ]

[sugarnaut]

( oh shit, someone was paying attention- satoko startles, almost flinching as he comes closer before she manages to straighten herself out again. for a moment she looks up at him, emotional and confused before shaking her head and letting it fade as quickly as it came. )

No, it's nothing. I just... woke up stressed out. You don't have to worry.

[archivists]

[ It really doesn't look like nothing, so he's going to be stubborn. ]

This is a lot to take in, that's for sure.

[ He takes a look around as if to confirm if they're still actually here in Crescentview. It truly seems like a dream of sorts. ]

I think you should get some rest at least. Maybe on that bench over there...? I can keep you company until you feel better.

[sugarnaut]

( oh no. he's persistent. )

Really, I'm fine, it's fine-

( eeeeeeeeexcept she's letting herself be pushed to it anyways to be honest. )

redux

[associative]

Yeah, all of this is pretty hard to believe, isn't it?

[ He turns to address her, but then he realizes that she doesn't look too good. Waking up in a random place like this can really take a toll, and she seems particularly affected. ]

Are you feeling alright?

[sugarnaut]

It's- ( satoko pauses, before running a hand through her hair with a grimace. is she really that obvious? )

... Let's just say this isn't an experience I wanted to have twice.

[associative]

[ Ah, so she's been kidnapped before too, huh? ]

Yeah, it's not something you really want to repeat, huh?

[ Said like someone who knows the feeling... ]

Wanna go see if we can grab a bite to eat somewhere? Food usually helps with nerves in situations like this.

[ They're in a town, so there's gotta be a store or something around here, is what he thinks. ]

[sugarnaut]

... Not really. Can't say I appreciate being pulled out of classes for a new vocation either.

Think they accept yen?

( she sounds more tired than she wants to- but maybe it's the relief of someone understanding where she's coming from on some level. )

redux;

[feralheart]

[ Finally, someone else responding to this in a normal way. M-21 grunts in agreement before he turns to look at Satoko properly. He takes in the strain in her expression and his frown deepens a little further. ]

Hey.

[ ...And his attempt stalls out there, briefly. He's not usually the talker. He struggles a moment more before he comes up with: ]

...Are you hurt?

[sugarnaut]

( okay, she really is being obvious, considering this is not the first time she's been approached about this. damn. her poker face went and died over the past few years. satoko falters for a moment before sighing, shaking her head. )

No, no... just. Stressed. Thanks, though.

[feralheart]

[ He gives an awkward little nod. He's not really inclined to pry, and besides; it's pretty natural to look kind of stricken, in the circumstances. ]

...I don't know what that 'goddess' is up to. But it doesn't sound like she plans to harm anyone.

[ He's a little grudging to admit it, and it's weak as reassurances go. But it's something? ]

[sugarnaut]

( ... he'd doing his best and she acknowledges this. which is why she doesn't keep complaining out loud. honestly she kind of wants to go find someplace and just... hide. maybe cry a little, where no one can see her. pretend it's all a bad dream.

but she knows by now when she's wide awake. )

Yeah. Just... urge a bunch of people into marriage. Weird goals, gonna be honest-

redux

[forfeited]

[If anything, Satoko's reaction stands out to Akechi because while she looks like she's being forced to relive childhood (or perhaps more recent) trauma right at first, she still takes the time to look at everything before muttering to herself. He angles his head at her words, as if only just having noticed her.]

I believe the saying is seeing is believing, but I'm certainly with you on not believing, whether I'm seeing it or not.

[sugarnaut]

( what can she say? after the first kidnapping, you learn to take everything in before you find someplace hidden to cry. informed panic, or something like that

satoko sighs, one hand on her hip and the other pinching the bridge of her nose. )

It would figure that this would just be a regular occurrence, wouldn't it? Because of course it is!

( ah. there's the temper. )

What do you make of this nonsense, then?

[forfeited]

[Anger is something Akechi understands quite intimately. That Satoko has a temper makes them similar— and maybe makes him equal parts wary and more respectful of her. He hums, taking his chin in one hand.]

I daresay there must be more to it than the information we’ve been given— I don’t trust the word of a so-called Goddess who can’t even draw a stick figure any farther than I can throw it, myself.

[sugarnaut]

Oh, there definitely is. She's getting something out of this...

( she's the harvest goddess, right? they woke up on... really, really shitty farms. satoko runs through the profiles again- there she is. )

She needs the land tended to, I bet. Farming is right up in her domain from the title. But why marriage and why us?

And now for something different - Hitting the Town

[chronosynthesis]

[That there's actually a town with locals here, actually... makes Syrlya feel a little less skeptical that this is all some sort of trap. Something's not right with his magic but he's fairly sure, as he strikes up conversation with folks around the library or the grocery store, that they aren't some sort of illusion.

It's all still weird and off-putting, but... it seems to be genuine. A god generally presides over the island. The community needs help to revitalize their home. He isn't quite sure where the romance falls into that, though.

The pamphlet is still tucked under his arm, though he's been mindful not to share it with any locals. He's on his way out when he sees Satoko staring so intently... and it dawns on him.]

Oh--there must be a currency here. Of course.

[sugarnaut]

Mmmhm. Though it's a matter of earning it, I suppose-

( she doesn't look away from the store shelf just yet. are they supposed to get by on crumbs while things take their time to grow? or is there going to be something at work? she thought produce took more time...

ugh. her headache's just getting worse. )

[chronosynthesis]

[He puts a hand to his chin, thoughtful.] Right. Unless the people here are willing to work on trade as well. It looks like farming will take most of us a while to yield anything.

[sugarnaut]

Oh that's going to take forever-

( maybe that's why there were farm animals being offered: instant income, while everything else grows.

finally she glances over to the other and- oh that is a plant person. okay. wow she was not expecting that- )

Uh- anyways. It's still good to know what's available to us and what it'll cost, right? So, I figure it doesn't hurt to look around.

home sweet something

[harimaya]

(This doesn't make any fucking sense. One moment, he'd been sleeping comfortable in his futon and the next, he found himself in a bed. He knows he drank a lot at dinner the night before (as he usually does) but it wasn't enough to knock him out like this. How could he have slept through a kidnapping?

And worse, when he woke up, he found evidence that someone else had been there. How could he sleep through that, too? This sort of obliviousness would get him and his squad killed on a mission. It's his job as a wakizashi to be alert and one of the first to know when things are wrong.

So he awakens and begins to turn things upside down trying to find his sword that he can't sense at all. If he's being honest, it's kind of anxiety-inducing to not know where it is.

He's shoving the mattress off the bed and looking under it when Satoko enters. He reaches for his side, expecting his sword to be there... and finds nothing. His eyes are scanning the room for a weapon and he makes a couple of notes as he glares at Satoko,)

Who the hell are you?!

(She's just a girl. A short one at that. She doesn't look like a threat but... well, he can't trust anyone here. Where ever here is.)

[sugarnaut]

( oh wow he is tearing the place up. yikes. satoko winces. this... is already going to be an awful talk, she can tell. but it has to happen sooner or later... )

Satoko Fukui. One of the other kidnappees on this island, and apparently your new housemate.

( it's a simple strategy: her name, and the fact that they're in the same boat. maybe it'll open him up more to... not biting each other's heads off.

maybe. )

[harimaya]

...

(It's a smart move and the right thing to say. He looks her over once and well, he doesn't sense that she's a threat... so he relaxes his posture some and frowns,)

Hizen Tadahiro.

(That's his name.)

I'm not here to play house.

[sugarnaut]

I wish we met in better circumstances than this, Hizen.

( heaven knows it could be so much worse, but like. interdimensional kidnapping. satoko sighs and leans against the doorway, crossing her arms. )

It's... I don't think we have a choice. The Goddess who brought everyone here has two requirements: she wants us to work farms, and...

( she trails off, scrunching up her nose. there's literally no good way to say this!!! )

And to get married. Presumably to one of the other kidnappees.