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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[harimaya]

❀ PROLOGUE

(Hizen Tadahiro is a simple spirit. When he wakes up without any sense of his sword nearby, he panics and it only grows from there when he notices this is not the citadel. It doesn't even look like Japan and he fumbles around the worn down home to try and find himself.

With nothing, he slips on his shoes and goes out to find answers. When he catches a lead, he's makes a beeline right for the crowd he sees forming. He clenches his fist and grinds his teeth in annoyance as he listens to the announcement. Farmers? Who the hell is she calling a farmer? Her explaining she's a goddess certainly explains the feeling he's been getting from her, too.

She finishes her speech and there's this… minute where he's processing everything he's heard. It makes sense but this is stupid. This is so stupid. He was kidnapped for this? Without thinking, he snaps,)

What the fuck?! (He stomps his foot on the ground in frustration,) Is this serious?

(He looks around,)

No one's buying this, right?!

❀ SPRING BREEZE

(The stick figure is smiling. Hizen is not. It's easy to figure out which one is Hizen when there's only stick figure with two-tone black and red hair.

He reads his profile and his face begins to turn as red as half his part of his hair. He looks like he's about to tear the pamphlet in his hands and it's like

he's forgotten how to read. He's staring at the words on the page but there are no words. There are only shapes. He can't read. He's so angry, he begins to shake. The notice board appears and he doesn't even look at what's listed. He just hears the goddess and screams. He can't take it anymore. He yells,)

DO I LOOK LIKE A HOE TO YOU?!

(HE! IS! A! SWORD!)

❀ TASK: CHECK OUT THE FARM

(He isn't doing some stupid task. He's just going back to "his" farm in the forest where he can hopefully be let alone. He's sulking around the farm and really just… looking for his sword still when he notices he's being followed.

A dog. Great. He tries to ignore it. Not finding what he's looking for, he turns back around to leave only to see… the dog. Again. He freezes. If you find Hizen, he's just. Staring it off with a dog. He looks tense and uneasy. Is he maybe afraid of dogs…?)

❀ TASK: TILL THE EARTH

(Hizen can be found at the edge of one of the field. He's crouched down and picking at a weed with his hands instead of using any tools. His heart really isn't into this and it's obvious that he's… a mix of bored and annoyed. He pulls at the feed and tosses it aside, mumbling something to himself.)

This is stupid.

(He mumbles again, cursing under his breath,)

S'posed to be a samurai...

(Grumbles, mumbles. He isn't some poor farmer, wtf this is so rude.)

❀ WILDCARD

❀ Come at me! Let's do tasks and stuff. I'm happy to set up closed starters!
❀ Plotting comment
❀ Profile
❀ BINGO

spring breeze;

[transfusionem]

[HIZEN DO YOU NEED TO BE SO LOUD? SOME PEOPLE HAVE SENSITIVE EARS.

But also.

What a question.

Adelaide is trying so, so, so hard not to say something stupid, but unfortunately she cannot resist the urge.]

Do you really want an answer to that?

[...]

But with shoes like that I'd say "nah". Like, you could be, but I don't think that's the vibe you've got going on.

[harimaya]

(He's so used to people not listening to him, he has to be loud!!

He looks down at his shoes and then back at Adelaide, hissing,)

The hell are you talking about?

(What do his shoes have to do with this!!!)

[transfusionem]

Well. Don't take this the wrong way...

[Which is never a good way to start something, and she knows it.]

But, objectively? You're pretty hot. Handsome face, the bandages and the hair and the attitude lend to this like... sexy badass vibe, but like. Your shoes, the giant hoodie? They don't exactly go "yeah, this guy fucks". They're more of a "this guy hasn't slept in three days and has a major essay due in an hour that he hasn't even started" energy. Not exactly what you'd expect from someone who hoes around, y'know?

[Help.]

check out that farm!!

[tot]

[ he probably is afraid of dogs, isn't he? not that is what uta is able to tell since she just ends up walking onto the last bit of the whole scene where he is having his stare down with the dog. which, to her, looks very cute.

given how new everything is to her, uta has taken it up to take a walk around and explore which leads to her current situation. or, well, more like their situation. ]

Is there something wrong?

[harimaya]

(The dog is perfectly friendly. His tail wags and his tongue hangs out of his mouth and he lets out a happy little bark when Uta arrives. Hizen jumps back at the sound, though,)

This thing keeps following me!

(The dog is oblivious to being the problem.)

[tot]

[ oh cute.

she will temporarily ignore the obvious fact that hizen has been spooked by the dog bark and will go to pet the good dog. all good dogs deserve to be petted after all? ]

Thing? You mean this dog?

[ turning his attention back to hizen after the dog petting business is over. ]

They look so friendly—maybe they want to play with you?

spring breeze

[associative]

[ What is a chaotic start to his day only turns out to be even more so when someone near him yells at the top of their lungs. If this whole situation hadn't left him wide awake, he certainly would be now. ]

Do you have to yell?

[ He's not even going to dignify that question with an answer. ]

[harimaya]

(He hisses!!!)

You gotta a problem with it?

till the earth

[accredit]

[ it isn't like he doesn't completely understand the complaints. he figures this may be one of the most ridiculous uses for a servant (and no doubts, others who have been brought here from their world and their worlds own pressing issues). but, he figures in every task and world there were people who may still required... some form of saving, and that's what a hero does, right? or so he's been telling himself. in reality, he's figuring out what tools to make with what they have, and thinking how best to provide for his housemate given what they currently have.

that is, until he was conveniently distracted by "samurai." ]

You a warrior? [ he doesn't mean for this to come out... offensively, but. listen, he was just caught off guard here. ]

[harimaya]

(Wow, don't make it sound like it's so hard to believe. Hizen glares!)

What? (It's hard to not sound on edge when his pride is already hurt as it is.) Think I ain't good enough or something?

spring breeze

[judascontract]

[Tara just loses her shit laughing at that, sorry Hizen.]

[harimaya]

(WHY IS HE BEING LAUGHED AT!!!)

The hell are you laughing at?!

(It's him. Isn't it? He's not stupid.)

checking out the farms

[framestory]

[ There sure are a lot of strays here, is what Ellis thinks when he sees Hizen having some staring contest with a dog... until he sees that expression of his. Hm. He gets out an apple and tries to bait the dog. Hizen is now between the dog and this boy. This... 180cm tall boy. ]

[harimaya]

(The dog lets out a low woof and bounds over to Ellis, tail wagging and looking at the apple with big ol' brown eyes. Who's a good boy? This is a good boy.

Hizen, meanwhile, holds his ground because now he has an animal and a stranger to deal with. Great. Animals and people! Two things Hizen hates.)

What're you doing?

(Can dogs even eat apples???)

prologue;

[esurientabyss]

[ Honestly, Hizen reacting like that is probably one of the most normal reactions he has seen so far. Not that people acting calm or... like him aren't 'normal' responses either. Though, if she had brought him here a bit earlier, he would have found himself reacting quite unkindly himself. ]

Buying it? Maybe, or maybe not.

Having to do something about it? Not much choice.

[ Right now, anyway. ]

[harimaya]

(How dare you use reason with Hizen who is a simple and straightforward sword boy?)

Tch!

(He bites his tongue because what can they really do? Hizen can sense that this woman is the real thing. Really a goddess?? What the hell why would a goddess pluck someone like him out of bed...)

I know that...! Now. But c'mon, this is just... (He growls, fumbling to find the right word--) stupid as hell.

spring breeze

[archivists]

[ As far as he knows, hoe is a hand tool to shape soil, remove weeds, and harvest root crops. And Hizen most certainly doesn't look like that. ]

You look... like a person to me. Hoes can't yell so loud.

[ Or can they... ]

[harimaya]

Damn right I ain't one!

(Finally, someone with a brain cell. This one might be okay.)

I ain't a farmer either! I didn't sign up for any of this!

spring breeze

[passthrough]

[Well, he'd been keeping quiet when the guy started popping off after the Goddess's initial monologue, distracted by the fact that this guy feels way too much like another spirit... but there's no sword, he doesn't recognize how he looks or sounds, and it doesn't help that this sort of sense has never been his strong suit anyway. Leave it to the wakizashi, not him, because apparently he can't even figure it out with something eight feet from him.

But then there's a lull, and the imminent explosion, and the stranger voices exactly what Otegine's been biting his tongue about. Yeah.... yeah, this guy has a damn good point!]

Seriously! What kind of stunt does she think she's pulling here??

And why are some of these people so relaxed about it?

[harimaya]

(Oh, a familiar face. He looks visibly surprised thrown off to see Otegine here. Otegine, who he doesn't know very well but has always seemed like a reasonable enough person to him. It's acceptable company and far preferred than say... Mikazuki Munechika that asshole. )

Prol'ly thinks she can do whatever the hell she wants just 'cause she's a goddess...

(Yet another situation where the big guy picks on the little guy.)

Having a farm and all that sounds cute but it ain't.

till the earth;

[chevaliered]

[ bites your ankles hi eski. ]

… Samurai probably have to earn a living too. Y’know, when not waving swords around.

[ there are a good few people who might come for him back home for referring to it as “waving a sword around” and the one that would look at him not mad just disappointed is actually here, in this weird harvesty waking dream he’s found himself in so.

let it never be said crow doesn’t live life on the edge. ]

Need a hand?

[harimaya]

People become samurai so they don't gotta farm!

(That's the whole point of moving up in the world... But he looks up from his new visitor,)

... Y'know how to farm?

check out the farm

[tarotcards]

[ Souji is exploring the island when he comes across Hizen's farm! And sees him... hmm. ]

Having a staring contest?

[harimaya]

(Why are people coming to his farm. Wait no this isn't his farm because he refuses to be a farmer. Why are people coming here. Stop.)

You just gonna stand there and stare?