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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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Unfortunately, looks like it. Not sure what use she really has for it, but... [ he might get it in theory. after all, a rebellion on the farm is probably the last thing she needs, not that he necessarily thinks people are that hot-headed here. besides, if she was a goddess capable of bringing them all here? she probably was pretty amazing in her own right.
or so he thinks. naturally, it's all speculation, but with that said: ]
Touchy...? [ m-21?! ] So you both... [ i silent "i see" is written on his face before he cocks his head to the side at his next set of words.
that's his mother you're talking about, sir?? ] Mmm. Not exactly. I mean, she was affectionate, but probably not in the way you're thinking. ... or experienced.
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[ It's more of a grumble than anything. It's not hard to guess that she wouldn't want all of them armed--for the trouble they could cause each other, if not any threat to her--but the principle of the thing bothers him.
Wait. ]
'Affectionate'? Is that what you'd call-- [ Wait, wait, wait. The word choice is dawning on him way too late. ] No! I mean, she's... [ Now he's too flustered to think of a synonym and busy just staring at Achilles in disbelief. M-21.exe is rebooting for a few seconds.
Then finally, through gritted teeth: ]
I mean, don't fight the goddess. [ Even if she's hot. That's neither here nor there, for the fighting or the other options either. ]
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but, that said...
when he sees the look on m-21's face, he isn't exactly sure he believes that nothing at all happened. after all, that was the look of a guilty man as far as he was concerned. but his own assessments aside: ] So why'd you fight her? [ ... and then smash her? or vise versa. he's not judging. he is pretty broad-minded, after all. ] Not that I'm against having a good time, but I figured something must have made you act.
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[ He can all but hear that anticipation and... man, he thought he was the hothead here. Who gets excited after hearing that? ]
...Wasn't really planning on it. But I made her lose her temper. [ There's a contemplative pause for that where he considers adding some sort of justification, but no, that sentiment kind of stands alone. In the face of all logic he adds a little proudly: ] You could call it a talent. It wasn't much of a fight, though. I couldn't've landed a hit on her if I tried.
[ Read: she completely backhanded him. Then again, that's how a lot of his fights go. ]
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What'd you do to her...? Do I wanna know? [ is this a kink thing...
jk, but he does seem to be genuinely curious. he supposes even goddesses had all their own temperament, but you'd think a goddess who pushes for marriages and harvest would be less susceptible to such dark considerations? maybe? the more he thinks about it, maybe not. but that said, he whistles at his description. ]
She sounds impressive. Now I feel like I might regret it if I don't try at least once. [ m-21... love yourself even if noblesse doesn't. ]
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[ Maybe it wasn't a good idea to share that with someone who's obviously looking to start a fight. Then again, he'd manage it one way or another. ]
If you want a fight that bad, just ask her for a date. It was on her page in that thing she gave us. [ Achilles please love yourself more than M-21 and do not take this advice. ]
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Maybe you should have seen how things played out first...? [ is the only advice he can offer after the fact, but. ] Oh. I never did read, but I might have to try that. [ thanks for the advice....
this can't possibly go wrong. ] That said, you still going to get naked? Or did you want to head back together? That way, maybe I can give you some advice for next time.
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[ What he means: Souji started it and M-21 wasn't about to back down at that point. How it sounds: ...better for M-21 to never become aware of, actually. ]
And I wasn't going to get naked. [ ...Which brings them full circle back to the beginning. M-21 can't simultaneously glower and look sheepish, and the latter is winning. ] ...Let's head back. I'm not gonna do it tonight anyway.
[ And he needs the advice, desperately. All advice. Without any other supporting context he adds, ] M-21. Name?
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that said, he seems to be taking it in stride though. regardless, of what happened between him, achilles figures that's probably something... that's kept between them. maybe he'll ask the goddess one day, or maybe it'll come up organically, who knows. still, with all m-21's defensiveness...
this is all only looking that much more suspicious to him. ] But, well, it sounds like you had a pretty good time all considered. Guess you can save your body for when it really matters. [ when is that...?? ]
Rider. You can call me Rider.