crescentview | dec event.

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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[ when rean first sees crow dragging his boot across the sand, he's a little skeptical but even more curious. he approaches slowly, but when he sees the greeting he raises his eyebrows. ]

Huh, that's not what I was expecting. [ he looks from the message to the messenger himself. ] I'm surprised to see you taking the task board so seriously, Crow. Are you planning on trying any of the other tasks?

[ like tilling the field? ]

[ sometimes you are just treated to a familiar face writing in the sand. what a welcoming. crow does freeze slightly when he realises he recognises the voice talking to him. ]

…

[ huh. ]

Well, you could call it taking things seriously or you could call it time-saving innovation. See, you know my name now.

[ he already did, but if he didn’t… ] And you wouldn’t even have had to ask.

[ with the way crow freezes you'd think he heard a ghost. is he really that afraid of... well, being yelled at, maybe? or maybe he's just pretending they're strangers for the goddess. come on...

rean sighs quietly. ]

After all this time, do you really think I could forget you? [ that's a loaded question but so was crow's statement so crow can deal with it.

for the sake of completing the exchange though, and maybe because crow's name looks too sad on the sand, rean walks over and kneels down. with his index finger, he writes right beside crow's name in letters that are just as big: Rean ]

[ that's the energy, at least. you don't expect to be whisked away by a goddess with a perchant for apparent matchmaking alongside her farming, and you really don't expect someone you know to be caught up in the same shenanigans too. ]

Mm. You'd probably be let off if you'd tried, y'know.

[ but hey. rean's writing his name in the ground and that is a grand topic to focus on. ]

And see? Now if anyone asks you can skip the endless small talk and just point. Nothing like a little innovation to start the day.

[ if crow's here, he's here. they're a set now and that's how it works until it doesn't. anyway they've definitely been over this before but crow looks like he's five seconds away from saying "please forget me" so here they go again. ]

You know I won't do that. You're important to me, Crow—and not just to me. Everyone in Class VII... no, everyone at Thors feels the same way.

[ don't make him say nicer, more sincere things that border on a love confession, crow. because he will and it will be awful. but okay let him look at their names in the sand which...

looks weird now? the tide sure is taking its time washing this away. ]

You do realize when you put it that way, it sounds more lazy than innovative.

[ it's fine... until it's not. y'know. normal things.

crow's lip twists slightly -- somewhere between a reflex at hearing something like the friendship speech redux™ (crow edition) and something akin to a surrender. ]

All of Thors is pushing it, and you know it

[ c'mon. there's probably more than a few teachers tired of his face. ]

Call it whatever you want, it gets me out of identical, repeated conversations so I count it as a win.

[ as usual, crow is underestimating himself. he could argue if he really wanted to but after a moment of thought, rean reluctantly lets it slide — if only because they'd spend all day at this if he didn't.

he stands and starts brushing the sand off of his fingers. the sensation of tiny, gritty grains doesn't completely vanish even after the sand is completely brushed off, but he ignores it and moves his hand to his hip. ]

If you're getting bored with introductions, why not join me for a while? [ with his other hand he gestures at the beach. ] I was planning on taking a walk along the beach anyway and I could use the company.

[ crow looks down at their names, dragged into the sand by hands and feet, stuck there until the sea completes its journey up the beach and washes them away. ]

It’s not like I’m planning on farming any time soon. [ even though that’s literally what they’re here for. ] Not on my first day, at least. Nothing to farm with.

[ so. he shrugs. ]

Lead the way.

Honestly, I'd be more surprised if you were.

[ as for him, he isn't sure when he plans to start or what he should do next. if he were being honest, being here puts him on edge. there's too much at stake back home and too many thoughts and concerns he's been trying to drown out. ignoring his internal problems worked fine when he had something bigger than himself to focus on, but that isn't the case here.

if anything, he wonders if this stolen time might be worse for him. but he can think about all that on his own later, right now he'd prefer to focus on this walk with crow.

anyway, he gives the message one last glance before turning and heading down the beach. ]

When you do decide to give it a try, I'm sure you'll put together something amazing. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

You’ve gotta give yourself some time to get used to the surroundings before you act. The basics at this point, right?

[ it is kinda weird being here. he knows what was happening back home, and what they were on the verge of. it’s disorienting enough to be in a new place out of nowhere like this. it’s disorienting and… concerning? terrifying even to find yourself somewhere on the night of something big as what had been awaiting them at sunrise.

crow’s been in limbo for so long at this point, what’s more time? it doesn’t change anything, really. it’s just… a slow extended torment, maybe. although that might not be the right word. he can’t pretend he’s not annoyed though, to be settled and ready and have that taken away. ]

I’ve got a roommate though. I think? There was someone there when I woke up. Guess that means the fields aren’t all mine to play around with.

[ he can't argue with that.

anyway, since rean saw the map earlier he isn't altogether surprised to hear crow is already bunking with someone. even if he's a tiny bit disappointed they won't be staying together, he's glad to hear crow plans on being conscientious of his housemate.

not that he'd expect anything else. crow's considerate when he wants to be — granted, he definitely can be a menace too. ]

I'm sure you'll find a way to make it work. [ making the impossible possible is one of the things crow is good at. ] But if you do find yourself wanting to carve out a little piece of land all for yourself, you're always welcome to a plot on my farm.

[ sometimes he’s a nice guy. ]

I don’t think we have a lot of choice in the matter, if the lady in the pond’s got anything to say about it. [ his new bestie, the harvest goddess. ]

Your housemate’s not gonna be pissed off by having their home invaded randomly to stomp all over their fields?

[ can't wait for the inevitable goddess/crow date! ]

Well... Let's just say that won't be a problem. [ as if suddenly realizing something, rean slowly comes to a stop and looks over at crow. ]

This might be a little late, but how much of the island have you already seen? If you've already come this way, this probably isn't that much more fun than standing by the beach.

[ haki is definitely lining crow up to be thrown off a cliff, i can sense it in my bones. ]

How so?

[ oh. hm. he looks around. ]

I went to the farm I'm at, and then the beach. So I can't say I've done a lot when it comes to scouring the area. Don't worry about it.

[ but would crow deserve it

anyway rean is sorta startled by the question. he looks away and scratches his cheek. ]

It's probably not worth talking about.

[ now that rean's heard crow confirm he hasn't done much exploring, he starts walking forward again. ]

About the same as me, then. [ he nods. ] Let's keep going for now. Oh, but if there's a place that's caught your eye, we can cut our walk short and head there first.

Your roomie not being bothered about house invasions isn't worth talking about? Either you wrapped them around your finger already or... [ well. hm. ] ... or something. Not sure what.

[ probably nothing violent? ]

Lay of the land first and foremost. We'll probably come across something that'll grab our attentionat some point.

Yeah, I don't know where you're getting that from. [ said flatly as rean puts his hand on his hip. reports of his finger wrappingness have been greatly exaggerated, thanks. ] I don't know what you're imagining, but there's not much to say. I don't have one.

[ and who knows how long that will last. ]

Like a farm? I doubt we'll be lucky enough to see islands in the distance.

[ huh. ]

... I figured we all got one? Maybe our friendly neighbourhood goddess just felt like you needed more of a challenge. Or less of one, depending on how you look at it.

[ a mystery.... crow just appears from the ceiling one day and then it's all over. ]

Or a farm. Or another farm. Maybe even a farm. [ ha. ] There's gotta be something more than just farms and nature here though.

I think it depends on why she made these pairs to begin with. [ he glances away. ] Who knows, maybe she didn't think I was compatible with anyone here.

[ rean can't help reaching a hand up and touching his chest. or it could be she didn't like something about him specifically. he thinks on that for a few seconds, thinks on how his hair's gone back to its normal dark shade, but after a while he slowly lowers his hand. ]

Yeah, I agree. But even if we find nothing, getting a general sense of the island's size is enough for me.

... [ crow just tilts his head. ] Right, because I'm a martial catch who'll stick around for the long run.

[ there's nothing aggressive about the way he says it, but it's certainly dry enough to make his point. ] Counter consideration: you had too much compatibility, so she couldn't make the choice for you.

[ rean tilts his right back and releases a small laugh. ] You say that, but I'm looking forward to the day someone makes an honest man out of you, Crow. I'll finally be able to rest and stop chasing you around.

[ towa probably feels the same way. having to wrangle together george, angelica, and crow all at once is a pretty tough job. ]

And I doubt it. If she thought about that at all, she probably just would've put us together. We already lived together at the dorms anyway, it wouldn't exactly be a difficult adjustment.

Edited 2022-12-14 16:31 (UTC)

You might be, but they'd be regretting it pretty soon. Like I'd settle down like that without a fight -- there'd just be more of you running around all over the place. Maybe you could start a support group?

[ there's an elephant in this proverbial room, and neither of them are looking at it. ]

I dunno. They're farm houses, not dorm buildings. Maybe there's limitations there we just aren't aware of?

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