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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[ to be honest, offering and that sort of thing wasn't anything he was unaccustomed to. gods were fickle creatures and it wouldn't be unsurprising if the smallest or more innocuous of gifts (not saying crow is any of these things) could move them under certain circumstances. that said, he isn't quite sure this guy knows what he's signing up for. was this an offering? or human sacrifice? ] You might want to be careful what you wish for.

[ or should this actually be said to this goddess? ]

In what way would you prefer she takes you? [ ...

hm, does he want to know? ]

[ he whistles, slowly. ]

Ooh, you thinking of something naughty?

[ he will see the low hanging fruit and go for it. ]

[ crow, why... are you the way that you are.

but, achilles doesn't seem to mind. ] Are you? I'd say a goddess' wrath is pretty scary.

[ it's fine, don't worry about it. he's a stand up guy. ]

Maybe she's into people with white hair. Who knows?

Or she could hate 'em? [ he says with an easy shrug. ]

Think I heard green was more popular here by the way. [ he winks, but really... there's no basis for this statement.

... and it's not like he's thinking of throwing himself into this pond. ]

[ he shrugs. ]

Same for green hair. It’s all a mystery.

[ eh, at this rate he’s gonna catch like five colds at once. ]

You could jump in and test the theory.

I thought that was your plan?

[ a pause. ] Should we bite the bullet and have a nice swim together?

[ throws crow away from the pond no more. ]

Eh.

Drying out my jacket sounds like a pain. [ he pats the fur trim. ]

[ wow??? ]

You really going to embarrass me like that? [ he offered for you like any good hero would!!! ]

[ look.... look... ]

Don't let me stop you if you wanna go meet the goddess. But if you're really up for swimming, there's a whole ocean over there.

[ he's looking??? ]

Then, did you have anything else to offer her?

... Could throw some flowers in and see what happens. You're meant to get something from doing that, aren't you?

[ me sobbing and holding crow's new alpaca in my arms ]

[ cute. alpaca and crowkun.

but with that said, achilles does sort of seem to agree to whatever he is suggesting. with that, he bends down picking up some grabs a few flowers, maybe even some grass along with it. normally he would have tried to make something like a flower crown at least, but before he finishes...

he has a better idea. ] Ah, I picked some stuff up, but it's missing the main ingredient. [ ... and with this, he is reaching over to try and pluck out one of crow's hairs. i'm sorry.... flower voodoo doll thing. ]

[ i love alpaca… ]

— Ow?

[ he reaches out on autopilot and yanks one of achilles’ hairs as well. fuckin’ vengeance will be his. ]

[ ouch?? there goes one of his hairs?

he rubs the back of where he just lost a piece, before he reaches back out and grabs another one of crows. ... is this going to be the way this goes. the goddess just getting pieces of white and green hair?? ]

A-are you really pulling back? That's petty.

[ yeah, they’re yanking hairs. crow pulls back. ]

Yeah I’m pulling back, I don’t remember say you could have one of my hairs anyway??

Don't be so cheap. You got at least a thousand, I'd say? [ or 100,000? i should google how much hair the human head has, but. ]

Besides, where did all that confidence go?

They're all very precious. I take good care of them.

[ does he? ]

You're a terrible liar, you know that? [ still, he doesn't seem at all offended. as he speaks, he's already... stringing this together somehow, before tossing ... strange hair, flower, and grass into the pond. ]

But, thanks to you and your "precious hair," I think I made a pretty good offering. What do you think?

Hey, I do take good care of them. Look? [ he flips his hair, like a shampoo commerical. damn. that sure is hair. ] Could a dry haired, split ended guy do that?

I mean. You'll have to see what the goddess says to get the answer to that.

[ crow...

always putting on a show... honestly, achilles isn't sure if that means he takes good care of it, or his hair was simply healthy... for whatever non-caretaking reason. he wasn't an expert either, after all. ] I'll let you know how it goes. [ probably end up cursed, but listen. ]

But, keep taking good care of your hair then. You never know when I could need it next.

[ thanks crow!! harvesting.... crow's hair instead of actual veggies, i guess. ]

Sure. I wanna know how she curses you.

[ HE'S A BELIEVER. ]

Right, how else would I blind people with the sheen of it.

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