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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touring

[framestory]

[ Ellis stares down at the dog. It's cute... but then Zhongli says that, which makes Ellis tilt his head. Maybe it smells food off this guy?

So he gestures while eating an imaginary bread. You got food on you?? ]

[lapidation]

[ He sees the motions and tilts his head, then looks at the dog. ]

I do not have any treats or food on me, no... [ Strokes chin. ] Now that you mention it, I thought I had some Liyue snacks in my pocket, but they're gone.

[ His old man tea crackers. ]

[framestory]

[ Does Zhongli smell like tea crackers...? He sniffs, but doesn't register anything. The scent of everything else overpowers it. The dog can smell better than he can, so he's not too worried.

So he gets out an apple. He thinks dogs can eat apples and holds it out to Zhongli. Feed it? ]

[lapidation]

[ He does not because his tea crackers were wrapped well... And he guesses he will let this happen because he kind of understands the train of thought. ]

It's unlikely the dog is following me because it would like biscuits made for tea.

[ Cookies might be different, though.

Anyway,

an apple?

...


He takes it. Holds it. ]

Thank you.

[ Keeps on holding it. ]

[framestory]

[ ... ... ...

Ellis stands there for a while and when he sees that Zhongli continues to hold the apple, he points to it and then at the dog. Feed!! ]

[lapidation]

[ Oh. It's for the dog. ]

Do you have a knife on hand?

[framestory]

[ Ellis looks a little taken aback. No?? Why would he have a knife on him?! ]

[lapidation]

It'd be difficult for a dog to eat a whole apple... Let us enter an establishment and see if they'll let us borrow one.

[ THEY NEED TO CUT THE FUCKING APPLE, ELLIS. ]

[framestory]

[ It can just chomp off the apple? At least, that's what he thinks. Well, it won't hurt to look around some more so he reluctantly nods. Maybe it's the way Zhongli crosses his arms a lot, but there's something like commanding charismatic vibes around him.

Show him where the knife is, Zhongli. ]

[lapidation]

[ The dog will STRUGGLE with the apple, Ellis. Zhongli isn't going to let a poor dog struggle.

They can waddle to maybe the inn, which he gently commands the dog to wait at the door. ]

Hello. [ To. I guess. The barkeep? ] We would like to borrow a knife.

[ No explanation. ]

[framestory]

[ The barkeep just stares at Zhongli for a moment. Ellis figures he should provide the context by gesturing to the apple that Zhongli is holding.

The barkeep finally understands and tells Zhongli that he can cut the apple for him. ]

[lapidation]

[ Nice. He gives the barkeep the apple. ]

Thank you for your assistance. [ Since he's also here— ] Do you know if anyone by chance lost a dog?

[framestory]

[ "Not as of late, no. There are many dogs and cats around the island though. They're very friendly towards people." The apple is nicely peeled and sliced, returned to Zhongli in a small cup.

Ellis can tell as he looks down at the dog that probably followed them here. ]

[lapidation]

It must be indicative of the locals here.

[ A compliment to the barkeep before Zhongli takes the apple and also look at where the dog should be, if it followed them in here.

It did not. They're staring at empty space. ]

[framestory]

[ ... ... ...

Ellis walks out of the bar by himself so that he can try to find the dog. Where did it go?! Don't make him waste an apple!! ]

[lapidation]

[ Zhongli follows with the peeled apples, looking around. They went out of their way for this!! ]

Did our furry friend get into an altercation?

[framestory]

[ Ellis isn't sure what an altercation means but he'll just assume it means trouble. Didn't this thing follow Zhongli for so long and suddenly it ditches him? Ellis can't connect the dots. He tries looking for the dog around the corners of the nearby buildings, but there's no dog. He wonders if they're playing Blues Clues right now. ]

[lapidation]

... Perhaps he found his owner?

[ Zhongli has been following Ellis the whole time, not searching as fervently as him though. You can even describe his search kind of leisurely.

While holding this apples. And like the devil, the dog appears with a big stick. ]

[framestory]

[ Ah... there you are. Ellis looks at the dog with a big stick. Does it want to play fetch? He tries to take the stick from the dog. ]

[lapidation]

[ The dog actually doesn't resist when Ellis takes the stick, which allows Zhongli to offer it an apple slice. It starts monching happily. ]

Thank you for this gift. This young man will take good care of it.

[ The stick is a gift. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis just stares at Zhongli.

What?

What???

He just holds the stick, not sure what to do with it. ]

[lapidation]

[ This stick is yours.

Zhongli pats the dog as he feeds it another apple slice. ]

This reminds me... I do not know your name.

[ He's talking to Ellis, not the dog, but it may be difficult to tell. ]

[framestory]

[ Yup. He thinks Zhongli is talking to the dog instead of at him, so he continues to stand there with the stick in his hand.

The dog just stares up at them. What you doing. ]

[lapidation]

[ ... ]

My name is Zhongli.

[framestory]

[ Ellis continues to think that Zhongli is talking to the dog instead of him while still being mystified by this stick. Why???

The dog nudges Ellis's knee. What does it want?? Ellis holds out the stick, but the dog doesn't want it back right now!! ]