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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Comments

[sluice]

Aren't you considerate? Repeating yourself is only cause for alarm, you know. [ Bodes nothing well to be this vague, at this junction. Leaning back in the seat to stretch, Childe considers deflecting a bit more for all of a second. ] Fortunately, I'm partial to a good surprise. Here's hoping yours lives up to one.

[ Barring that, he can come prepared for a fight and then some. No big deal. His eyes are no longer on that glass and its draining contents in Zhongli's hand, but straight ahead, counting up all of the bottles on the shelves. Nothing like his favorite appears to be here, but Childe doesn't consume anything vaguely alcoholic for the taste. ]

Unless you plan to follow me back, you'll need to give me directions.

[ So he can stop by at some indeterminate point and menace Zhongli some more, as he's wont to do. How quaint, domesticity with all of these nebulous, ill-defined perks. Sounds almost like he didn't nearly send Liyue Harbor into a watery grave. ]

When do you want to meet up?

[lapidation]

[ Zhongli tilts his head at the mention of surprise... Is he supposed to be the one bringing it? He guesses they'll see later, unless Childe changes his mind.

It doesn't take him long to finish what's left of the glass. ]

My plot is in the mountains. Quite hard to miss when you take the trail. [ Befitting of someone who once shaped mountains and created structures. ] When you visit, you should bring a fishing pole.

[ Implication: they can go fishing. When asked if they'd like another drink, Zhongli politely abstains. Childe can order another, though. ]

Without work, my days are freer, but I suppose the hours would be replaced with tending the fields. Anytime is fine.

[ If he's there, then he's there. ]

[sluice]

[ Sold on reassurances and brimming over with these bad habits (carelessness, a bottomless appetite for all that rebukes him), Childe stops waiting for the next move in order to make his own. ]

Supposing you're willing to go the distance with me, I'll bring two.

[ And he can wait it out with Childe over the water, as long as his patience can sustain itself. Surprise, surprise. Already, he's thinking of ways to unravel Zhongli, if the possibility of breaking that strait-laced composure even exists. Only one way to find out. But for today, he's done. Hailing the bartender over for the bill, Childe slides off the stool, relinquishing his obligation to this shared debt. ]

See you then. [ Hand flung out in a wave, he turns on his heel to leave, smile so guileless for once. ] Good luck paying the price, Mr. Zhongli.

[ The cost might just prove itself too exorbitant to bear. ]

[lapidation]

[ Well... He looks at the price and no cost is outrageous to him, despite knowing he has no relevant money on his person right now. Whatever it is, he doesn't gawk or lament nor does he curse Childe for abandoning him with this financial burden. This was over his invitation, so it's Fine.

It would be too easy, too familiar, to foot the bill onto Childe since he finds no guilt in draining the Fatui's (organization, general) coffers... But they are not on contract anymore. ]

I'll open a tab.

[ And so Zhongli owes this place fresh produce. ]