crescentview | dec event.

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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≫ Solar Blindness

[ now, perhaps most people would be arguing or milling about, or other what-have-yous. normal things, in these circumstances. however, there is one in particular who is, at the moment, not doing that.

should you meander near the nearest small alley from where you all all, you'll hear a vicious, furious muttering, hissing of curses you've probably never heard and other various expletives. peeking in, you'll see a man crouched, one leather-gloved hand pressed to his face and the other crumpling the pamphlet. seemingly busy as he is, his head snaps in your direction as if he knows you're there, and through the gap of his fingers you can see the sliver of his squinted eyes- oddly bloodshot and watering as he strains to glare at you. ]

And what in Solyma's bloody halls are you looking at?!

≫ Howdy Neighbor

[ now that he's...adjusted somewhat, although he blinks and squints frequently and keeps to pockets to shades more than anything, he can pay attention to...whatever this is. perhaps it's the scoff that hits your ears first. ]

Pretty sure I've seen children scrabble together more well-drawn garbage in the dirt than whatever this is.

[ scathing, uncensored critique.

alternatively, once he gets his bearings and squints through the task board, and begrudgingly decides to give it a whirl. sure, he's got charisma when he wants to, but he's still a bit sour from the whole 'sun' thing, so it comes off as less than enthusiastic. ]

Adelis Rosell. A pleasure.

[ is it, though.... ]

≫ Eyes Down

[ the scribbled pamphlet was bad enough, but the bingo card on the other hand, just looking at it is threatening to give him hives. is this supposed to be a bad joke? she was actually serious about the whole love thing? ]

You've got to be fuckin' with me. [ something akin to an accent slips from his lips before he up and turns to the nearest person, hoping to find someone equally disgusted. ] Frolic in the grass? Are we bloody infants? Nevermind her suggestions for intimacy. I need a drink...

≫ Star Shower

[ for any night owls, you may be surprised to come across somebody working as the cover of darkness falls. should you venture to the rural farmlands, you'll see someone milling about, examining the tools with a particularly displeased look in his eyes. ]

If you want people to work, then why are all these tools in such dogshite conditions? Hells, just as bad at the nightwalkers...

[ that being said, you'll notice the place has been cleaned up considerably already should you peek around. dusted, nearly organized, and there's a light sheen of sweat on his brow. despite his appearance, apparently he knows how to work. amazing.

linger too long, and you'll blink and find he's looking at you now, bright blues narrowing. ]

Do you get off on trespassing? Or do you plan on doing something other than standing there like a fool?

If it makes you feel any better, you're not the only one who needs a drink or two.

[ She's not too pleased with some of her options, either. Though this guy seems to be handling it far worse than she is... ]

This all kind of feels like being trapped some sort of nightmare. She can't be serious about requiring us to find love before we can go home.

[ Dehya is aware that the Goddess is probably serious, but still. ]

At this point, I'll drink the whole forsaken bar.

[ isn't that an idea. at least someone agrees, which makes it more bearable. ]

I couldn't care less about being stuck here, since it's better then the shithole where I came from. I'll work, if I must. But I'd sooner stride into a street-sweep than fall in love on command.

[ another baleful glance towards the card in his hand. seriously, who decides these things. ]

Not to mention, I can't parse half the things scribbled on here.

Falling in love on command is a ridiculous thing to ask of anyone, yeah. I don't know what she's expecting from me personally, but whatever it is, it's probably not happening.

[ Dear Goddess, you're full of shit! Xoxo, Dehya. ]

Oh, yeah. There's a lot of bogus stuff on there. But it can't be all that bad for you though, can it?

[ She glances over at his card. Can she peek at it, disgruntled stranger? ]

Absolutely not. Where she gets off thinking anybody has the patience for something so ridiculous is far beyond my ken.

[ can we follow the ostoyan example, where all the gods are dead...that would make things so much easier. ]

Tch. Speak for yourself.

[ adelis' sharp gaze slides to her for a minute, before he gives an exasperated noise through his teeth and tilts the card so dehya can take a little peek. ]

Do you know what a...VCR or a phone is? Because I sure the hells don't.

Nope, not a clue.

[ She shrugs. His attitude doesn't seem to be getting to her – not yet, anyway. She's giving everyone a bit of leeway since this is a pretty unpleasant situation, and it's not like he's being especially yelly (like some people!!). ]

...Eating at a restaurant isn't so bad? And camping's a piece of cake. So's paddling. The rest...well, good luck.

[ She'll show him hers in return. ]

Not like mine's a walk in the park, either.

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≫ solar blindness

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howdy neighbor

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≫ Solar Blindness

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star shower

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