crescentview | 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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( oh. um. so he's really just gonna go with this...?

ugh, she can't say anything when she knows she'll probably cave sooner or later. but... )

Um... alright, let's see.

( some of these... feel so weird doing with a total stranger? and some of them she's just straight up not in the mood for.

... but she does give excellent hugs. pointing to that square, she looks up at him. )

How about this one?

[ He looks at where Satoko is pointing. Hugs! He doesn't mind at all, so don't mind if he just initiates a squeezing tight hug right away as if he's an excited dog. ]

OH-

( somehow that is less alarming than it would normally be? satoko freezes for a moment before laughing, returning the hug. despite how small she is, her hugs have always felt warm like cookies out of the oven. so, enjoy that, ellis. )

Friendly, huh?

[ Even though he's not looking at Satoko's face, he can still tell that she said something through sound vibrations, like how you can feel something in your chest when you laugh. He really appreciates the warmth that Satoko gives off too, and don't mind if he just melts a little figuratively. A hug from a cute girl. The best. ]

( oh... he's the quiet sort, huh? satoko glances up a little, curious. but now she's wondering if she should bother trying again so soon-

but unfortunately, the hug must come to an end, if only because she just met the guy and can't spend hours just cuddling a stranger in the street, bingos or not. she'll step back slightly, but... huh.

maybe she needed that, because she doesn't look quite so frazzled now. )

I'm hoping that helped?

[ It's a shame, but alas. The hug must end. He pulls back when Satoko steps back. He knows when not to go too far over the line. Sometimes. But great! He got [hug] on the bingo, and he nods at her, then pointing to the card and then at her. Does she have one that she wants to do too? ]

Oh- did... it just do that automatically?

( weird. but... neat.

... wait, is he asking about hers- satoko's eyes go wide because there's absolutely no way she's showing hers and immediately she laughs nervously, hands in front of her like a gentle rebuff. )

That's not necessary!

[ Ellis is surprised that Satoko is refusing. He thought they would have some common prompts together, so they can't really be all that bad, right? But perhaps she is more of a private person, so he won't force her.

So he nods, making sure that there's a distance between them so that it's clear that he won't bug her for it again. But if that's the case, he supposes he can do some tasks on the notice board, so he gets out the pamphlet and flips through it, trying to find Satoko's pink hair look-alike stick figure and points to it. This you? ]

( it's not you, ellis, it's the, um. risque prompts she's found. she's so embarrassed, how could they just request that of them...?

satoko can't help but smile in relief when he respects the 'no'. and it's a little sad that this is truly so rare for her. )

--Yep, that's me. ... Hey, um. Sorry if this is a rude question, but- are you mute...?

( close, hon. )

[ Ellis shakes his head no and covers his ears with both hands. He thinks this is clear enough for her.

Deafness has always been a part of his life, so he doesn't think he has anything to be offended about. ]

Ohhhh.

( that does explain some things! but it's no matter, honestly- save for the almost sheepish smile. )

I actually do know some sign language- but only a little. I just started learning. I can let you use my phone to write things down if you want, though?

[ Ellis shakes his head no. He'll be fine without the phone, but he's curious, so he starts signing: ]

"Hello! My name is Ellis. A little sign language is fine."

( aw... he's so cute. )

It's nice to meet you, Ellis. My name's Satoko.

[ Ellis looks absolutely elated when Satoko repies to his signing. There might as well be flowers popping out from his happy aura. ]

"I'm so glad someone knows sign language, even if it's a little!"

( it takes her a moment to figure out a few signs- they don't immediately register as what she knows, but... given that there is a plant man, she isn't going to question being able to read things she normally wouldn't be able to, not gonna lie! the convenience is certainly handy. )

I just have more motivation to learn more now, it seems. If you need anything, just seek me out, okay? I've been stationed on a farm in the forest.

[ Ellis nods. Farms in the forest... he'll have to check them out later, because he can only wonder how they'll be like. He's only known farms in wide stretches of land.

But he also takes that as a cue to leave, because he'll be extremely busy, so he waves to Satoko and bounces off. ]

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