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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[unsync]

I. NONSENSE INITIATED

[ Things are... fine.

He's just woken up and crawled out of his cabin, the sunlight far too bright for his eyes, semi-disheveled when he's given the spiel by the Harvest Goddess about this and all that -- and the only thing he's thinking is that Boss probably put him up to this.

Waking up suddenly in a mysterious land and something about being stuck on it... probably far, far away from Tokyo, and most of all, these silly bingo cards with, erm, rather interesting options... not to mention, the bit he caught about 'falling in love'. Though he thinks that's a tad sentimental for Boss, it's still within the realm of possibility.

Once that's over and people begin dispersing one by one and Ryuki still hasn't quite gotten that sharp pain out of his temple, he croaks to you, the nearest person to him, in a voice that sounds like he seriously has not gotten any sleep: ]

Did I... hear that right? Farmers?

II. NONESSENTIAL INEBRIATION

[ Or, at some point, you'll find him at the local bar -- one of the first places he swung by, once he acknowledged what kind of establishment it was. Being there, though, he realises he doesn't have the kind of money that the place takes.

Inside his mind, he's having a bit of a conversation.

"Wait... so you can't access anything?...
...so that means I can't pay...
I don't really carry my wallet around...
I mean, I have you?...
...
...I'm sorry......"

In a matter of seconds, he's learning that he is essentially kind of broke on this island, as well as finding out he's a bit technologically stranded. This puts his future prospects here into a bit of jeopardy, as he slowly starts to realise he's not sure how he's meant to do basic transactions here.

...That's all on the inside, though. On the outside, it just kind of looks like his expression has glazed over slightly and he's staring blankly into the barkeep's face, who is starting to look a little concerned and perhaps considering Ryuki doesn't need island currency to buy some drinks after all.

Help. ]

III. WILDCARD

[ Feel free to hit me up for whatever you'd like! ]

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[judascontract]

[Tara doesn't know what this guy's deal is or why he's suddenly frozen, but she's also from the DC Universe, so the places she jumps to aren't immediately pleasant. She considers whether she cares if one of their number has already had their soul stolen or whatever extreme she's jumped to and comes around to the begrudging answer of "a little."

Not out of compassion but because she doesn't want to be a suspect. So she walks up to him just as she was about to leave, reaches forward, and snaps her fingers in front of his face.]

[unsync]

[ Aeuh.

He blinks, a little slow to the reaction but nonetheless, probably with his soul intact as he looks at Tara, eyes a little wide. He glances between her and the barkeep who raises their brows a little bit, and Ryuki has enough wherewithal to look a little sheepish. ]

Er -- ! Uhm. I think I'll come back later.

[ To the keep, first. And then he glances at Tara, only to drop his eyes because he feels a bit embarrassed. ]

Sorry about that.

[judascontract]

Eh? Don't apologize to me, I was just checking you were still alive.

[She does seem a little relieved.]

Were you just staring into space or getting haunted by visions or what?

[unsync]

Of course I'm alive.

[ He actually becomes briefly uncertain. And then immediately reject the notion of being uncertain, because that's ridiculous. ]

No... neither of those things. Well -- it might be the first one. Not on purpose, though, I -- I was just thinking about something else.

[ Eugh. Glancing back at the bartender even as he's stepping away. ]

Did it look that weird?

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[lapidation]

[ Zhongli is beside Ryuki, arms folded and listening to the goddess throw her spiel a second time. They've heard this before, haven't they? It felt like a dream, a strange nebulous experience, when they were taken.

Anyway, he says this with a calm tone and expression. ]

That's right. The notion of "falling in love" and "getting married" are also still main points, too.

[ Zhongli thinks this is the weirder part. Farmers, not so much. ]

[unsync]

[ He rubs his face with a hand, so very tired. ]

So I'm basically on the equivalent of a romantic cruise ship, except it's farms?

And also I have to do the farming myself...

[ It seems ridiculous enough that he really does believe that his boss sent him here. He's withering. ]

I'm -- wait, married?!

[ Voicecrack. ]

[lapidation]

[ This is quite a normal reaction, he thinks, so he lets Ryuki have his moment. Let him become a fetus, return to the womb, cringe, etc.

Then... ]

Not yet.

[ Married in the future. ]

[unsync]

Oh, no, I didn't mean it like that, I got that part...

[ Ouch, his nonexistent dignity. Life is nothing but unstopping cringe. Anyway, current or future or not, this is one hell of a retirement plan he's been forced into. ]

I don't think... I'm ready to marry, Mr...

[ Who is this guy, anyway? ]

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[bravesteel]

[ He's not surprised to hear someone asking that. Bringing them here to play farmers is a strange request, as are the ones accompanying it. Falling in love? Starting new lives together? Putting aside his feelings on the matter, does this goddess really think this is going to work? Feelings can't, and shouldn't, be forced like this.

For now, he turns a sympathetic eye and even more sympathetic smile to Ryuki so he can answer. ]

It is a little hard to believe, isn't it? Kidnapping so many people only to tell them to "tend the earth" and "fall in love" isn't the easiest thing to process.

[ Okay, neither is what might be dimension hopping...? He's unclear on if that's what this is, but he only wants to process one headspinner at a time, thanks. ]

[unsync]

[ He likes this guy, that's a smile one can trust. That being said, his expression flickers and eyes widen a bit in surprise -- one eye, the red one, faster at it than the other. ]

...Sorry, kidnapped?

[ ??? Bro? You okay? ]

[bravesteel]

[ Bro?? You're the one that sounds like a corpse, shouldn't that be his question??

Anyway while he's startled, it only shows on his face for a few seconds. ]

Well, something like it. I'm not sure what else to call being forcibly pulled into a place like this.

[ But contrary to his expectations, maybe not everyone here was "forcibly" pulled in. He just assumed. ]

But let's put the semantics aside for now. [ He turns to face Ryuki more fully and looks him up and down. ] Are you feeling all right?

[unsync]

[ Self-awareness is for losers. Or rather, it's the norm for him sometimes, so he will instead focus on this other thing.

He is carefully considering the ramifications of what Rean is saying. Even if he does think that Boss probably signed him up for this and he either didn't know or totally forgot about it, he supposes it kind of counts as kidnapping, as he clearly wasn't lucid during the actual transportation process. So, thusly the question. Was he kidnapped?

A voice in his head answers him. "Probably." ]

Me? Er, yeah, I feel fine.

[ Even if, as he says so, he runs a hand through his hair and hopes it doesn't look too bad. It's hard to tell, his hair is naturally kind of Spike Spiegel anyway. ]

You? Uhm... Ryuki. Me, I mean -- that's my name. You?

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[breweries]

[ it does look worrying for most people, but to shylock, the poor boy may just be too indecisive on what to get. or maybe he's distracted with other things?

either way, ryuki will get a light tap on his shoulder, and a short wave of shylock's hand once he's snapped out of it. ]

Have you decided on what to get?

[ take your time... ]

[unsync]

Oh -- uhm...

[ He snaps back to attention, feeling a little embarrassed when he realises he's spaced out for a minute. He glances at the bartender, and then at Shylock, thinking to himself what a well-put-together man. ]

Oh, they don't take yen. I think. Er, I forgot my wallet? It's fine. Maybe it's in the cabin...

[ Scratching his head with a slight pinched expression, still looking at a bit of loss for words. ]

[breweries]

[ he watches ryuki ramble on some more, and shakes his head. ]

Never you mind. So long as you give the barkeep freshly picked produce every season, he'll be happy to put whatever you order in a tab. Isn't that right, my good sir?

[ the barkeep nods his head! so it's fine, totally. ]

[unsync]

[ Wow, how smooth. ]

Freshly... picked produce.

...Every... season.

[ Huh. Well. That's something he's just going to have to digest later. ]

Do you know each other?

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[framestory]

[ Well.

Voice aside, Ellis can tell that Ryuki is having a rough time by looking at him. He just seems to give off that sort of vibe with how he stood there for a while. But he asked a question, so he simply nods with a hint of something that looks like concern on his face.

You good? ]

[unsync]

[ No. He has a lot of skills in his repertoire but farming is definitely not one of them. He looks a bit defeated at the notion that he had indeed, heard that correctly. ]

Right. [ Oh god. ] And, you too?

[framestory]

[ That he heard correctly or that he's also a farmer? He nods anyway and tries to be comforting, offering some gentle pats on the shoulder. ]

[unsync]

[ Oh... huh. He just accepts the shoulder pats because he doesn't know what else to do. One slow blink. ]

You... are one of the people brought here, right? A... visitor?

[ Visitor doesn't sound right, but it's too involved to say tourist. His expression is one of slight uncertainty as he decides on that title. ]

I'm Ryuki, by the way.

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[chevaliered]

[ hi lowe.

crow’s just… waving a hand in front of his face. heeellllooooooo? ]

[unsync]

[ Hi Becks. I'll free you from capitalism if you free me.

At least the sudden new thing waving around in his eyesight distracts him, snapping him out of his self-absorbed conversation. ]

Wuh-huh?

[ And blinking... meeting eyes with Crow McCrow over here. ]

Oh, uh -- [ Glancing back, to see if there is a LINE and he's just been doing something mega-cringe without realising it, like looking like he has no idea what he wants to order. ]

Sorry, I'm not getting anything.

[ Stepping back. AFTER YOU SIR. ]

[chevaliered]

[ i’m about to sleep but i hope you can break free like troy and gabriella soon. ]

… Uh. No, I’m not bothered about the line, but you looked like you were completely out to lunch and then some. Did you just disassociate?

ii

[tarotcards]

[ Souji helps! By waving a hand in front of Ryuki's face. Hello?? ]