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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Comments

[lapidation]

[ Zhongli hums and stares at Kaeya, debating seriously. ]

Both the eyepatch and hairstyle aren't distinctive as individual features, but the combination makes it difficult to mistake the art for anyone else.

[calla]

True. I can't say it'd be as easy to distinguish the redheads, though.

[ why do they have so many redheads ]

[lapidation]

... We do have quite a number. Fortunately, they're distinguishable in person.

[ INSTEAD OF WHAT? LOOKING LIKE STICK MAN DRAWINGS? ]

Find anyone of interest?

[ Since the goddess is very marriage obsessed. ]

[calla]

[ Oh, jumping straight into it, huh? ]

Hmm, I haven't chosen my pick of the litter yet. Have you?

[lapidation]

I haven't, either.

[ Zhongli is picky—kidding, it just isn't something he thinks about. ]

... In all honesty, I'm not used to being rushed.

[calla]

Then you're used to being matchmade?

[lapidation]

I had meant more in a general sense... But I have experienced parents offering to arrange dates for their daughters.

[ THAT ISn'T THE POINT, THOUGh, so he easily moves on without any awkwardness. ]

All of this is sudden.

[calla]

[ THAT SHOULD BE THE POINT look at zhongli getting all these dates ]

Yes, it's not everyday that we're summoned to fall in love with complete strangers. Rather than parents, it appears that we'll be having an actual goddess pressuring us to marry around.

[lapidation]

[ He rejected them all because he didn't see himself a good candidate. He is not marriage worthy..... But it is hard to adjust to mortal life where he? Should? Maybe??

Still foreign. ]

She seems rather assertive. [ As if he wasn't. ] But a god needs to know when they must wield an iron fist.

[ OVER MARRIAGE? ]

[calla]

Over kidnapping strangers and forcing them fall in love with one another?

[ that's fucked up bro ]

[lapidation]

I cannot condone her methods, but I understand drastic times call for drastic measures.

[ Sometimes, saving your people or home is worth heinous crimes. However... ]

It isn't without consequence and I foresee a lot of trouble from those who resist. [ Hm. ] Will you be one of them?

[ are you a troublemaker ]

[calla]

Perhaps, depending on how I feel.

[ Once he sees that all the rewards are real, though, he'll start to do his bingos and be a good boy. He doesn't want to sleep in a shack thanks ]

Though don't tell me that you're going to do what she says. You'd be no better than a dog if you simply follow orders.

[lapidation]

[ foreshadowing: kaeya becomes a dog for capitalism. ]

Rules are meant to be followed, but there is no contract in place where I am expected to follow any orders. I'll do what suits me for the time being.

[ So... Yeah. Depending on how he feels, too. ]

Though it's hard not to be curious.

[calla]

[ shh no spoilers ]

Ohh, are you more curious about falling in love or possibly getting struck down by a goddess?

[lapidation]

[ hm................. he's starting to think kaeya is either annoying or a funny guy. ]

What results these yield.

[ Bingo cards. He takes his out as an example. ]

[calla]

[ kaeya's funny, not annoying excuse you ]

Would you care to fill one out with me then?

[lapidation]

[ verdict is still out ]

A square for a square?

[calla]

[ He nods. ]

May I?

[ He'll pull out his own bingo card to exchange for Zhongli's. ]

[lapidation]

[ bingo business card exchange. ]

Hm... These really are a mix of innocuous and also suspicious activities.

[calla]

And it appears that we share a few of either category. Any preference, new friend?

[ might as well reap in those task board rewards by referring to everyone as friend. also i have spoon feeding and camping free! and bathing but zhongli probably won't fuck on meeting huh lol ]

[lapidation]

[ He looks at him when he calls him a friend. Wow. An opportunist. ]

I can fix us a dinner. [ Not going to specifically point out spoonfeeding, but that should be implied. ] How does that sound?

[ you won't know until kaeya asks ]

[calla]

Sounds delicious. Your place or mine?

[ damn ok well i guess he gotta ask now ]

[lapidation]

As I've invited you, I'll be the host.

[ so his place. ]

[calla]

Then lead the way.

[ Kaeya will follow! ]

What do you plan on serving?

[lapidation]

[ He leads the way!

To... The grocery store cause he didn't have time to get anything since the summon. ]

I had in mind a soup, but I am somewhat familiar with the cuisine of other nations if you happen to have a craving.