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crescentview2022-11-30 11:55 am
crescentviewmods) wrote in crescentview2022-11-30 11:55 am
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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She shrugs.]
I mean, I figure back in the beginning people didn't have shit, an' every farm starts somewhere so... maybe? I guess?
[A beat.]
You're gonna fuck up your fancy shoes, mister.
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[Case in point;]
Unfortunately, I was not given ample time to prepare the proper footwear for this... trip that has been foisted upon us. Not that I own clothes suitable for farming in the first place.
[ALL HES GOT IS FANCY SHOES.]
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[She knows she's not equipped! But she also knows she's not gonna be the one suffering if the farms fail, so she's not too worried.]
Really? I hope you're not too attached to your clothes, then. Maybe you'll be able to get something here, if you're not too concerned about style.
[He seems like a man who is concerned about style.]
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You needn't worry about my iron-heeled Wellingtons. They are riding boots, and thus some amount of dirt will not ruin them.
[That said.]
I suppose if I am to... buy into the conceit of our imprisonment, I aught to change clothes. However, that conditional still weighs heavily on me.
[He doesn't want to buy into this nonsense.]
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Not sure you'll be able to afford to not buy into the conceit, anyways. I mean... this place is kinda lacking on some things? Which just makes the equipment situation even more unfortunate.
[She would clap him on the shoulder like they're besties, but she's too far away for that, luckily for ol' Barry Z.]
Also, even if your... iron-heeled Wellingtons are sturdy, are riding boots all that comfortable for hard labor? Plus you'd probably want iron toes if you're gonna be dealing with cows...
[Maybe?? She wouldn't know. She didn't join the FFA in high school.]
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I will not be dealing with cows.
[HE REFUSES.]
But I am aware these are not suited for farming, I simply meant that for the current activities these are sufficient.
[Traipsing around the woods.]
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What's wrong with cows? They're cute.
[Also incredibly dangerous, in some respect...]
So your riding boots are now hiking boots... I'm not sure if that's an upgrade or a downgrade. [...] Actually, if you just put spurs on 'em, they'd be perfect for farming.
[Yeehaw.
Also, is she being serious? Absolutely not, but she's giving him the best poker face she possibly can. She wants to see this British man with spurs that jingle jangle jingle...]
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How exactly do you figure that? Spurs are for directing a horse. What does that have to do with farming?
And I'm not handling cows because they are filthy and dangerous creatures.
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[Yeehaw.]
I'm pretty sure most creatures on this island are filthy and dangerous, the two of us included, so don't be rude to the cows.
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[Said with extreme disdain. HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST HE COSPLAY AS A COWBOY??? YOU WANT HIM TO PRETEND TO BE SOME SORT OF YANKEE BARBARIAN??? THE NERVE.]
If I'm going to be handling any animal here it would be horses and hounds.
[Like a proper British gentleman.]
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[He’d look better as a rugged outlaw instead of a vampire LARPer, though. At least in Adelaide’s opinion.
Vampires suck, after all. 🥁]
Wow, so you’re not gonna fuck around and find out? Guess the Goddess is gonna be preeeeeetty disappointed in you come marriage time.
[She is 100% sure she can outrun him if she has to.]
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[SIR HAVE YOU ACTUALLY ALREADY STARTED PLANNING YOUR FARM.]
As far as the aspect of "marriage," goes, I don't care what she's asking of us. If I was interested in such a thing, I would have done so ages ago.
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Anyways.
Ignoring that he wants to be a hunter instead of a farmer like some sort of hoity toity rich bitch from England, because that's not important.]
Right, sure, I guess.
[Now.]
Are you saying that because you're actually not interested in romance or commitment, or are you just like... a sad old man who works too much and doesn't know how to form a genuine connection with someone?
[She's assuming he works a lot because he's wearing fancy clothes... flawless logic combined with that being something you probably shouldn't say to someone you just met.]
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Anyway, van Zieks suddenly realizes he's made an error because part of the reason why he's never been married isn't something talked about in Polite Victorian Society.]
I'm not interested in the... current form of the institution of marriage, and I am also relatively busy. Among other reasons. Not that it's any of your business, really, especially after suggesting I am a "sad old man," when I am only 33 years old.
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Oh, so you're just a gay workaholic.
[Who is also sad and bad at forming genuine connections, it sounds like.]
You're still way older than me, though, so I can still call you a sad old man.
["Way". Nine years is a lot, isn't it?]
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You seem to have taken the wrong impression. I am not opposed to marriage because I would prefer to... gad about like a mayfly. [Eugh.] To comport myself like some sort of Parisien is not the sort of negative press my family name needs.
[There has clearly been some sort of miscommunication.]
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[What does that even mean? Give her a second. Maybe she can scrounge up some braincells hear to figure out what he means.
Gadding about... Not being opposed to marriage because he wants to do that... Negative press... The French(???)....
She is trying so hard, but then it clicks. The short angry man. Hoes. Slang.]
...What does "gay" mean to you? Because I think we're not seeing eye to eye here.
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[You can see how there was an issue.]
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Oh, wow, yeah, it... definitely means something different in 2022.
[She should probably be delicate with this... Probably. It's a big deal, and he's so stuffy and acts like he was born 80 years old.]
Where I'm from - when? - it's just, like. Slang for homosexual?
[Which. She doesn't know when that term cropped up, either, because it's not like she studied this in college, but she's just powering through at this point.]
So, you know, I basically just called you a guy who wants to kiss other men who works too much.
[IS THAT HANDLING IT DELICATELY]
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Enough, enough, I know the meaning of the word.
[And NOW he's flustered because she's clearly hit the nail on the head.]
I was using euphemisms for a reason, woman, have some tact!