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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!
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But she's going to ignore that for now.]
I mean, I'd like to take care of all of them, but I could settle for one or two right now.
[She's not gonna kiss on the first date!! Probably.]
Anything off the table for ya? Because some of mine do sound fun, and some I'm not so sure about just yet.
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A few of them. [ He will not specify. ] Let's do one that'll help us get to know each other better first.
[ In other worlds, nothing scandalous right now. ]
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…Do you like wine? Or cooking?
[Though. Hm.]
Though the kitchen in my place is kinda crap right now, so I’m not sure that’s the best idea.
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[ They're not the brand he likes... it's such a drag. ]
But even a bad kitchen can have something good, right? It's like a challenge.
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[She laughs, softly. She can't say she's not competitive, and actually cooking sounds more fun then just sitting around drinking wine. (She's not even sure she can still get drunk... She hasn't had as much time to just sit down and drink wine and be ominous as she would've expected, which is kind of disappointing.)
Anyways. Not the point.]
Well, I have "cook together". Do you have anything that'll work with that?
[...Wait, she doesn't even know his name yet.]
If it does, I'll need your name before I let you into my house. No strangers allowed, after all.
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[ He grins, the thought of sharing a meal a nice one. He was going to feel a little lonely if he had to eat by himself all the time. ]
...Gaku Yaotome. What's yours? We're still strangers if I don't know your name.
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[That’s the best part about cooking for someone, she thinks.]
Adelaide Cooke. It’s a pleasure to meet you!
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[ It's why he doesn't mind doing delivery. People are always so happy to get their food that it's nice to see. ]
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[She beams, rocking back on her heels.]
We can check out if there’s a place to grab ingredients and see what we can make?
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[ He starts looking around now to see if he can spot it from the square. ]
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[She joins him in looking around, before spotting something that looks promising.]
Hey, that looks like it might be our meal ticket!
[And she is going to start walking…]
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Gaku jogs a few steps to catch up. ]
At least point out where we're going before you start walking off.
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Oh.
Adelaide slows down a bit, looking back and Gaku, visibly flustered.]
Ah, sorry! Sorry, sorry, I just got ahead of myself. But it's right there!
[Now she's pointing...]
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He laughs, though, unable to hold that back. ]
It's fine. It's exciting finding a place we need here.
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At least she doesn't have enough fresh blood in her system to blush bright red, so she doesn't look as flustered as she feels.]
Ah, yeah... Running off without thinking or saying anything is also just a bad habit of mine, so I'm still sorry for doing that to you.
[But she laughs, too, shaking off the embarrassment.]
Hopefully this place will have something good, at least!
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[ It's cute, honestly!! But he can tell she's flustered and he isn't trying to kill someone their first day here.
Looking up ahead, Gaku furrows his brows. ]
It looks pretty small.
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[It’d be rude!
And at his observation, Adelaide grimaces.]
Yeah, it’s… pretty tiny. But they have to at least still have the basics, right?
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[ He'll be optimistic about this much, at least!
But they probably won't have any of the brands he likes most. Ugh. ]
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[She hopes so, at least, even if she doubts she'll get the chance to explore before these four months are over.
She's not picky about brands, but once she enters the store she's immediately on the hunt. Please let them at least have rice...]
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That's what I'm thinking. I wonder if this island is off of a much bigger mainland.
[ Goddess or not, Gaku doesn't think all this food will magically appear when it needs to be restocked. ]
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[Suddenly it becomes a horror game...
Adelaide is picking out what she can, the options here reminding her of broke college days... It's probably a good thing she doesn't need to worry too much about her nutrition any more.]
I wonder if we'll ever be able to go to the mainland... Even farmers can have vacations, right?
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[ That's kind of an important piece of the puzzle here!! He doesn't want to do camping if he can help it. Weekend getaways are supposed to be fun...
Gaku spots some noodles. Yoink! ]
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[She snorts, wandering over to the dairy aisle and looking over their choices. It's kind of weird how... lacking this whole place is, while having the most bizarre selection of things.]
Are you good with cheese?
[Always gotta check for lactose intolerance lest you make your not-date shit their brains out.]
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[ He ponders over the idea of a sleepover... hm. ]
I don't know, though. If I was going on a getaway, I'd rather just... get away. You're supposed to go find some small town and go to a bed and breakfast, right?
[ He's just too much of a romantic for a sleepover. ]