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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Mm?

[ She's addressed, but unlike others, he's not asking her about a task. He wants something to write with, and Lucia opens up her satchel and feels around for any writing utensils. There are a few moments of searching, and alas, it is fruitless.

She frowns and shakes her head. ]

No...sorry. Are you...taking notes? That seems pretty important.

[He does appreciate her looking, and his smile is gentler than what he may have normally offered.]

Alas, I may have another back..., [He makes a vague gesture toward the mountains, not yet prepared to call his farm "his", and glances at his pamphlet and then back to Lucia.] This drivel, important? Forgive me, but that's laughable. It has a stick figure on the front of it.

Oh, no, I mean...just on the situation. Documenting what she's saying and stuff...

[ She laughs a little, though. The stick figures sure are comical, sorry Goddess. ]

They're pretty unflattering. People kept mixing mine up with someone else's... A-anyway, I don't have a pen, but there might be one at one of the shops?

[Comical is the kindest term to use, and not even remotely the first Akechi would choose. He is making a vague effort to be charitable, but the stick figures cross a line. Maybe if his hadn’t had a grin like he were actually a reasonable, happy human being, he’d be less caustic.]

[He waves a hand gently.] There wasn’t much worth notating, unfortunately. Or, perhaps fortunately, since I’ve no specific interest in trekking back to what appears to be my newly owned property or going into debt for pilfering a pen with no finances.

[ No finances...yeah...yeah. That's a very good point. The Goddess couldn't even have given them money to start their farm right away, they have to go through all these godforsaken tasks first. What a troublesome situation.

She's sympathetic to his feelings. Lucia gives him a nod in response. ]

Then...what do you plan on doing, since we're here? ... It's an honest question. I'm not sure what to do otherwise, myself.

[His expression pinches inward slightly, looking somewhat like he ate something sour.]

I believe... dusting may well be in order. [It's a surprisingly honest answer, and one only half-thought, leading it to be equally as earnest.]

[Of course upon realizing the nature of the response he flusters, making a bit of a gurgling sound in the back of his throat, clicking his jaw shut and pushing air against the roof of his mouth so it's forced to escape from his nose.]

--That is, on a small-scale list of tasks to accomplish in the near future. In a grander sense, I want to say I have a plan, but there are simply too many details lacking to form one with any sort of structure. [Therefore: dusting.]

[ Dusting? Not the first thing she'd think of, but it's an answer that makes sense. Given the state of their homes, yeah, she gets it. No judgment here. ]

You have a good point... I should get to doing that myself. It's not like we have anything else to do, right?

[He’s fastidious by nature, given the fact that he knows his skincare regime is going to suffer here, he at least would like his living space to be cleanly. He adjusts his gloves against his wrists.] Not presently, unless you’re aiming to test the bingo cards efficacy.

...That wouldn't be a bad idea.

[ But the look on her face reads that she doesn't exactly want to. It's not one of utter disdain like some of the folks' here, but yeah, she's not excited about it either. ]

We get something out of it, so I suppose it couldn't hurt to do a few?

[Akechi looks up sharply at the suggestion, and then reads her expression and body language and relaxes slightly. It's just a suggestion, he could easily blow it off since she doesn't appear especially enthralled by the concept.]

[He squints.] Have you seen proof that there are boons for completing the squares?

[ ...I forgot the Goddess didn't technically mention a reward but you know what we're rolling with it – ]

Oh... I just assumed we would, since she's giving us stuff for tasks, and the Bingo cards seem like a big deal, so.

[It's implied...., Akechi is mostly just dubious of it actually being true.]

Again; have you seen proof of things being given for tasks? Forgive my mistrust, it isn't personal.

...No, I...I haven't seen anything yet.

[ He's really pushing this, huh? Well, she won't argue with him. She's a bit embarrassed, though. ]

I'm sorry, this isn't very helpful.

[He gives her a once over, shaking his head.]

No need to apologize-- as I said, it isn't personal. I simply require proof that it will be worth my while to accomplish menial tasks on a Bingo card created by a self-proclaimed Goddess with the artistic prowess of a preschooler.

[ Heh. She lets out a little laugh at that, but stifles it immediately, nervous that the Goddess heard that. ]

No, you have a point. In that case...there's no harm in waiting to see others' results, I think.

[Let her hear-- if there's one thing he won't stand for, it's someone else being punished for his mistakes. A hum, and he nods, looking her over briefly.]

I don't believe I caught your name.

Ah, right, sorry. It's Lucia.

[ Where are her manners... ]

And yourself?

[You don't need manners when talking to a sewer rat, it's fine.]

[He smiles, stepping forward and offering a gloved hand for her to shake.] Goro Akechi.

[ No, no, she'd argue that she's the rat here, but.

Anyway, she blinks and remembers that hand shaking is the polite thing to do, so she gives him a...mediocre one at best, but there's a small smile on her lips now, at least. ]

Nice to meet you. I hope your stay here is as painless as possible.

[ What a thing to say to someone... ]

[She is no such thing. Akechi may be an awful person but he does respect the fuck out of women. His handshake is a little stiff, but firm.]

[He exhales a rush of air through his nose with a faint sound, something like a laugh, and smiles with his teeth as he releases her hand.] The same to you.

dec event.

pen and paper

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pls ignore protag-kun

it's him!!

the boy, the man, the legend

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please do not read this icon as sexually as it is meant to be