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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!
i, HELP
Never seen one of those before?
[ He knows, he knows. It's not really how vampires* work. But maybe something works that way, because he's never seen someone so mystified about the sun. ]
WELCOME TO THE CLOWN SHOW
[Where the heck is the other sun!!!! He glances back toward the sun again, but again looks away before he burns his eyes properly. The only thing he can think of is that maybe they're too close together right now to be able to tell them apart, but if that were the case he should have afterimages of two bright blinding dots, not one!]
I know this place is weird but I'm not gonna believe you if you try to tell me it's that weird...
[Except maybe he will. But he's going to complain about it!!!]
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[ Alright. Maybe the misunderstanding was his, because there's no way someone is looking for a backup sun. That goes beyond M-21's flexible thinking on "plenty of non-human things in this world" and sails cheerfully into "not even from this solar system."
He stares at the guy again. ]
...What are you looking for?
[ Please tell him it's not a sun and he's just confused. ]
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The other sun!
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So they hit you on the head while they were kidnapping you.
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What are you talking about, "kidnapping"? I'm here because my goddess sent me. If she didn't want me to be here, I wouldn't be here.
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[ He's prepared to broaden his way of thinking to pinning the blame on "this guy's goddess, specifically." ]
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[Sometimes you just have a very single-minded belief in your god and their power...]
I'm pretty important back home. [How the fuck he says this with a straight face without it sounding anything other than straightforward fact I don't know, but. He does.] If someone had tried to take me away from Desuya without her permission, I'm pretty sure she would've intervened.
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Not so important that she couldn't spare you.
[ But he also says it more confusedly than snarkily, by his standards. ]
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Or important enough that one of us Summoners is the only one she could trust to go.
[He drops the cheekiness, even though he's still grinning.]
So I gotta figure out what she was interested in me learning or figuring out.
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Maybe that this world's got one sun, to start with.
[ Not like M-21 has a better guess than that about what a goddess will be up to. ]
...What do you summon?
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There's not a lot of water in Desuya anymore. The Maiden gave the Creators the magic to summon water to make sure we wouldn't die out. Their power's been passed down ever since.
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Maybe that's why. Might be useful on a farm.
[ And maybe if they didn't have two suns, they'd have more water. Though that does invite the bigger question... ]
Aren't they in trouble without you? Sounds like they need that.
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Now you see how I know the Maiden wants me to be here. If I'm not there, the others are all gonna have to work harder to make up for it. Or she'll have to step in, if things get really bad. So if she let me come here, there's a reason for it!
Why're you here? There's gotta be a reason you were brought here too.
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Not the fault of anyone else who got kidnapped. He'll just keep telling himself that. ]
I don't have a goddess keeping tabs on me. Probably that's why. Easy to grab.
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[Me holding back from Asuka calling him "buddy" and finishing the reference... but he does seem to mean it; he's here, but it's all part of the plan. People from other places don't seem to be as lucky.]
Then we've just gotta figure out what to do to get you home!
[Easy! And with a gesture toward himself...]
Asuka. You need anything, let me know. I'll do what I can to help.
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Yeah. I might not have a goddess, but I've got people I don't want to cause problems for, too.
[ He tilts his head a little in bemusement at Asuka's offer. This guy doesn't lack confidence, if nothing else, but it seems... weirdly sincere. Things Asuka will regret in four months when M-21 urgently needs someone to propose to. ]
M-21. [ Does he need to add anything to that. ] ...Let me know if you've got more sun problems, I guess.
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...that's a weird name, but all right! I'll come and find you if the sun starts doing anything weird.
And we'll get you home. That's a promise.
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Don't go making promises when you don't even know the situation yet. [ There's a long, tsundere pause. But he is unfortunately weak to earnestness. ] ...Thanks.