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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[calla]

ɪ. sʜɪᴛ ᴅʀᴀᴡɪɴɢs ʙʀᴏ

[ Kaeya is perfectly amused by the pamphlet, smiling at the crayon scribbles. Look, even his eyepatch was drawn nicely! Or as nice as these drawings can be. ]

Our goddess has quite the penmanship and artistic ability, doesn't she?

[ He speaks to whoever's closest next to him. Might as well start getting introduced! ]

ɪɪ. ʙɪɴɢᴏ sʜᴀʀɪɴɢ

[ And a little bit later when he flips through the pages, ending up at the bingo page, he bothers yet another person nearby. ]

Well, let's share bingo cards and see what we got, hm?

ɪɪɪ. ᴍᴍᴍ ʙᴏᴏᴢᴇ

[ Of course, one of Kaeya's first trips in this new town is the local bar. It's nowhere near as impressive as Dawn Winery, but a drink is a drink, and he can't complain where he gets it. He doesn't have any of the local money, but a little bit of persuasive talking and an open tab later, he manages to grab a glass of wine. Mmm, delicious. ]

[ For any who wander in, he'll wave them over. ]

Care to join me for a drink?

ɪᴠ. ᴡɪʟᴅᴄᴀʀᴅ

( ooc: hmu on my plotting comment and i'll be more than happy to write up any starters! you can best contact me either through plurk at northpaws or discord at ichihara#6064 )

ii

[pyronic]

[He'll be bothering Diluc at ""home,"" but everywhere is a bother when it's Kaeya.]

Are you that eager to kowtow to some nameless goddess' orders? I expected better of you.

[MMM, JUDGEMENTAL.]

[calla]

If we're forced here against our will, we might as well make some fun out of it.

[ He's curious! He wants to know what these bingo squares are, so is Diluc's pamphlet out? He'll annoying look over or even try to grab at it. ]

iii

[sugarnaut]

( a part of her wants nothing more than to down the entire bottle. another part of her knows that's stupid as fuck. kaeya can most likely see the internal struggle anyways. after a moment she sighs however, shaking her head. )

I probably shouldn't. I don't take to alcohol well already- I was just taking a look around.

[calla]

It's lonely without a drinking partner.

[ He swirls his glass as he tosses her a friendly smile. ]

Just a sip.

iii

[judascontract]

[She huffs a laugh, but goes ahead and joins him all the same.]

Might as well. What's on the menu then?

[calla]

See for yourself.

[ He slides the single-paged laminated sheet across the bar with a single finger while he holds his glass in his other hand. ]

I'm having the Dandelion wine. It's quite good.

iii

[hypnowhip]

I'd love to.

[Sylvando wouldn't be stopping by the bar if he wasn't in the mood for a drink and some good old socializing, so he'll happily take a seat by Kaeya!

He glances down at the menu to peruse the wine selection before he returns his attention to Kaeya.]

And to whom do I thank for this lovely invitation, hmm?

[calla]

Kaeya, Knight of Favonius.

[ the lazy rp, copying exactly what canon says ]

And to whom will I be sharing this drink with?

ii

[archivists]

[ They might have not exchanged names yet, but should that stop Noé from exchanging bingo cards with Kaeya? Absolutely not. Even if his first square literally says anal. ]

You can combine sharing a drink with two straws, trying a new restaurant, spoon feed, wine tasting, and getting drunk... I think.

[ This is how you speedrun the game!! ]

[calla]

Now that's thinking with your head.

[ Consider him slightly impressed! But hmm, looking over Noe's anal bingo card. ]

It appears that we have quite a few squares that could overlap with one another.

i

[pactmarshal]

[ Trahearne so happens to stand besides Kaeya, staring in dazed dismay at his own "drawing". Could this even be called a portrait? It's like she didn't even try. ]

I don't know. [ His tone is flat, clearly unimpressed. He stretches his arms, pulling the picture away from him so that his neighbor can see, too. The goddess so kindly drew a single green leaf atop the stick figure's head and apparently called it a day. ]

Her shading could use a little work.

[calla]

[ Kaeya's smile grows a little wider at the drawing. Wow, their goddess really didn't try but that's kind of cute in a funny way. ]

Really? Well, I think she did a splendid job with the leaf on your head.

iii

[breweries]

[ of course the bartender would nyoom towards the bar first thing. shylock smiles, in any case. ]

Don't mind if I do. [ sits beside him ] What do you think is their special for today?

iii

[irresponsibly]

[ Lu curiously peeks her head inside the bar. She'd like a drink, that's for sure, but what is currency? Though this stranger is offering, so maybe...free alcohol? That'd be nice. ]

Sure. What do they have?

ii

[framestory]

[ Oh.

Ellis thinks about it, but then immediately puts his hands at Kaeya's sides. Will he start dancing? Throw him? Nah, he attempts to tickle Kaeya instead. ]

i;

[esurientabyss]

[ ... ]

Her penmanship's better than some. But there is hardly much artistic ability.

[ He Xuan isn't exactly the most kind with his words, but he doesn't see a point in lying about it. ]

iii

[obliviscor]

[ Congratulations, Kaeya! You've asked the magic question. How terrible for you. ]

What an invitation. A man after my own heart.

[ Don't mind him if he walks over to join him. ]

There's nothing like a drink to get to know someone, right?

i

[tot]

[ as someone with multiple hair colors and thus a pain in the goddess' side by pure virtue of that alone, uta seems no less amused by the drawings. it's cute! how many other people can say that they have a drawing of them done by a goddess? ]

It's a little rough around the edges but it's not a bad start.

[ pointing to her face and his. ]

And she made sure to have everyone smiling in them.

ii.

[accredit]

[ the sudden inquiry, somehow, doesn't really throw him off. instead, he gives an easy smile followed by a half-shrug. relinquishing his bingo card, he straight up just hands it over to kaeya; he shows it shamelessly, despite some of the dubious content on it.

still, unabashed, he continues: ] See anything you like?

ii

[sluice]

Since you're asking so nicely... [ He'll part with his bingo card without batting an eye. ] ... sure, if you insist.

[ It's absolutely plastered with depraved shit, but nonchalance is evidently the way to go. ]

Any idea what 'Twister' is?

[ Listen... it's on both of their cards, it warrants some kind of explanation. ]

ii

[bravesteel]

[ Rean Schwarzer reporting for duty! He's startled when Kaeya comes up to him and very suddenly brings up the bingo page, but he isn't repelled by it. If anything, he understands why someone might be tempted to go through the whole sheet on the first day. ]

Are you sure? I don't mind helping, but won't a few of these be difficult with a complete stranger?

[ Rean says while sounding exactly like a nicer Diluc.

Anyway, he roots about for his bingo card before producing it and holding it out to Kaeya. ]

ii

[blankpoint]

[ By now, they've gotten used to the whole card exchange thing. They turn to Kaeya when he addresses them, and-- What the hell. Is everyone here just really pretty? ]

Sure. [ They offer their card. ] I'm willing to do whatever matches up with yours, for the most part.

[ Cuddling? Head petting? Date night? Terrifying. ]

I

[frenchkiss]

[ Laurent is nothing but amused by the... scribbles was a generous word here, he thinks. A goddess should be so graceful and perfect, if she really is one, but here she is, floundering through art like a grade schooler. How charming. ]

She does. It's quite... avante garde. I prefer her face to the faces she's doodled down here, though.

I

[passthrough]

[His laugh is halfhearted, more exasperated than anything else as he thumbs through his own pamphlet.]

Ah... yeah, who's to say? I guess I've seen a lot worse.

At least yours is pretty recognizable right away, though, right?