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crescentviewmods) wrote in crescentview2022-11-30 11:55 am
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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[She gestures with the pamphlets, as if that's going to explain anything. It's not her fault the Goddess chose to represent everyone this way so she's going to have to find out who's who because the profiles are kinda useless............]
But I probably would dye my hair green before red, yeah. I don't think I'd make a good redhead.
[Something about drinking blood and having red hair seems like it'd be a bad look.]
You don't think it's sus?
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he gives a bit of a smile at that. ] Sus? [ ... ] I'm not sure, but gods tend to be fickle from my experience. [ he says this with an almost lighthearted laugh, if just because it probably sounded a little ironic coming from himself. but, well. ]
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[It seems to be lacking in quite a few things, honestly.]
Suspicious.
[Guess some people aren't up on the HIP NEW LINGO the YOUTHS are using...]
I don't have much experience with gods, so I'll take your word for it. Kind of a shitty review of them, though?
[But looks at mythology books... looks away...]
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he shrugs. sus being suspicious made sense, he guesses? he supposes he should try and remember it... because maybe it truly was a thing?? if valentine's is a thing, he supposed anything in this world could be. ]
Is it? [ hm... he seems to ponder on it. even back home, while he doesn't doubt the history of gods is one that was steeped in love and other equally powerful driving emotions, he does think it's kind of strange to summon people here with that express purppose. where's the war? the battles? that said, it also brings another question to light, one he... probably should be more sensitive about, but this is probably exactly what semiramis hated about him. ]
Have you ever been in love?
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[Which seems unlikely? It doesn’t seem like something to just casually tack onto a serious, heartfelt prayer, but it also seems rude to just hit up a goddess for lowkey chitchatting…
Still, now that she has the idea, she’s going to have to ask.
Anyways, any comment about god review is thoroughly derailed, Adelaide looking vaguely stupefied for a moment.]
…Maybe?
[An incredibly vague answer, but so it goes.]
I mean, it’s not like I’ve been married before or anything, but probably at some point I was in love with someone in some capacity.
[She’s not even old so why is she talking like this. Help.]
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she seems kind of thrown off my his sudden shift in topics. instinctively, he gives an easy going motion with his hands. ] My bad. Didn't mean to catch you off-guard, but... [ so she has. he supposes that shouldn't be all too surprising. oddly enough, he isn't sure if having been in love before or having this prior experience really made it any easier... so it might have been a pointless question, but what did they all have here but time, right?
it's a thought that gets a small smile from him. ] Are you perhaps older than I thought?
[ also while vague...?? maybe kinda deep?? ]
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[People thinking she’s younger than she is is a relatively new phenomenon… She never had the issue some of her friends did where people thought she was, like, 12 when trying to get into a bar, but once she started hanging around a bunch of stuffy old immortals views shifted.
Not that she had much choice with her shift in social circles, but. Beyond the point.]
Saying something like that makes you seem older than you look, though.
[It’s joke!! Surely he is not also a stuffy old immortal… That would be silly, and Adelaide isn’t about to actually believe that. Everyone is a normal human until proven otherwise, so the trees get a pass.]
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but, either way, he seems to be moving past that point to.
... ] You're probably not too far off. I am from a time Gods existed. [ though, he isn't sure if that would simply be a difference of worlds as much as it is a difference of time. but, that said, it doesn't seem like new information considering what he's already revealed, but he supposed it was fair enough insight to him. ] Hope that doesn't ruin your impression of me.