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

[calla]

I'm sure they do. Do you too?

[ Might as well go straight to getting to know each other. ]

[tot]

[ hmm.

now that's a question and uta mulls on it for a moment. ]

...not exactly.

[ her voice gentle and a hand coming to rest on her chest. ]

If anything I just need to be more patient.

[calla]

I see.

[ Well, let's switch the topic to something happier! By introducing themselves. ]

I'm Kaeya, Knights of Favonius. May I have your name?

[tot]

[ she'll welcome the change of pace a great deal and brighten up at his introduction. ]

You're a knight? I've read plenty about knights but I've never met one before!

[ granted he doesn't seem like the kind of knight in her books but her books weren't always the best at explaining everything. ]

I'm Uta.

[calla]

A pleasure to meet you, Uta. Although I may not be like the knights in your stories, I would be happy to answer any questions you may have.

[ Assuming that he can answer them. ]

[tot]

You are a bit different from the knights in my stories. The ones I've read about are supposed to wear these big suits of metal armor and carry around large swords. Sometimes they'll have shields too.

[ re. see the most generic of medieval knights that could be described, and she is not blind and is very clearly using her eyes as she looks him over. not a part of that is reflected in kaeya for a single moment but...maybe he just doesn't have the armor with him? ]

I'm guessing you've never dressed like that?

[calla]

No, I did actually, in my younger days when I was a rookie. Now, I'm a captain so I can dress however I like.

[ Which includes tights, an open chest for all to see, and a feather boa. ]

And unfortunately, my sword was confiscated.

[tot]

[ for some reason after looking at him closely as she has, imagining him in a full suit of armor seems almost impossible. though instead of making a comment about that, she's going to be extra !!! because wow! not even a knight but a high ranking one!! ]

You're a captain too?

[ enjoy having someone will think kaeya is cool until they learn to think otherwise. ]

That's so impressive; you're a lot younger than the other captains that I've read about. You must be talented.

[calla]

Haha, thank you. Your flattering means a lot.

[ cute... now to turn the spotlight around! ]

And how about you? Tell me about yourself.

[tot]

Flattery? I meant it.

[ she just doesn't hand out compliments like they are candy? nevertheless, she lets it go and shares a bit about herself. just a bit. ]

I'm a famous singer in my world, and I had just finished my first live concert before I woke up here.

[calla]

[ A famous singer?? That's cooler than a knight, at least to some. ]

That's quite impressive. Your first concert, that must have been exhilarating.

[tot]

[ depends on who you ask? not that she won't deny that being a famous singer isn't an achievement that she isn't proud of. all in two years' time, too. ]

It was; I had a lot of fun and so did everyone else. I was nervous at first but it ended up working out okay.

[calla]

Then perhaps you should run a concert here too. I'm sure it'll lift everyone's otherwise sour moods.

[ Look at all the sourpusses in this intro ]

[tot]

[ on this day i did, in fact, read "sourpuss" as "sourpuss" and not the cursed alternative. ]

I'd love to hold a concert for everyone here. There's nothing that would make me happier than to cheer people up with my song.

[ hmmm. ]

Perhaps after people have had some time to get a better feel of everything—myself included.

[calla]

[ sourpuss sourpuss sourpuss sourpuss how about now ]

But of course, this is a lot to take in. It's not every day that we're called upon by a goddess to fall in love with complete strangers.

[tot]

[ ICHI WHY....but by the third time it sure did not read "sourpuss" anymore. sobs. ]

It's certainly not a situation that I would have thought I'd find myself into, but it s one better than any other alternative.

[ like anything involving violence. ]

[calla]

[ :) ur welcome sourpuss ]

It's certainly better than most alternatives, yes, but it's still not favourable. Could you imagine falling in love with any one of us?

[tot]

[ :yell: this word is going to haunt me now. ...and i almost replied to this with my sabo journal. closes eyes. ]

I wouldn't know just yet; I'm not used to dealing with so many people on a face-to-face basis.

Besides isn't that a bit hard to decide when you've just met someone?

[calla]

[ LOL uta now has the ability to turn into sabo anytime naru wants. honestly an ability that i'd approve ]

That's what the bingos are for, I suspect. Would you like to exchange cards and see what we can do together?

[tot]

[ LMFAO.... what is the difference between the two of them? there is a big difference between the two of them. ]

I would say that you're probably right with that, and I'd like that.

[ and she'll dig up her card from somewhere. ]

Do you see anything interesting?

[calla]

[ there's no difference at all, what are you talking about, they're the same person ]

How about a game of "would you rather"? We both have it on our cards.

[tot]

[ i wish i had photoshop so i could do that one office meme.... or had fan art of sabo and uta swapping clothes. ]

Sure! I like games like those. If you don't mind me starting...

[ hmmm....what's a good one to start off with? HMMM. oh!!! ]

Would you rather get trapped in the middle of a food fight or a water balloon fight?

[calla]

[ damn same we need that photoshopped asap ]

Oh, a choice between a fight or a fight. Hmm, I think I'd choose the water balloon fight. It'd be a shame to see so many drinks wasted in a food fight.

[ Plus, it's easier to deal with water than alcohol or other drinks thrown on you. ]

And how about yourself?

[tot]

[ looks at my pc from the other room.... maybe tomorrow.

uta will make a face when kaeya turns the question back around on her and her answer is immediate. when you grow up among pirates there are a few things that are just unavoidable. it wouldn't be right if there wasn't at least one bar fight. ]

Having been caught up in a food fight, I'd have to agree that a water balloon fight is much more desirable even if I've never experienced one.

I'd take being wet than being covered in food any day.

[ and as long as it wasn't sea water then she would care very little. ]

Did you want to ask a question yourself?

[calla]

[ does that mean that uta will be handy in a bar fight. would she like to join kaeya in a bar fight ]

Hmm... [ He thinks for a moment. ] Would you rather have a cat with human hands or a human with a cat head?

[ Might as well make it fun! ]