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

[feralheart]

[ M-21 is no cheater! Naturally, he also flips his card. He leans in to scan Gaku's as quickly as he can.

Yes, something on his extremely tame spread apparently flustered him. ]

...Yours is better.

[associative]

[ Unfortunately, Gaku is flustered by what he sees on M-21's card. ]

I thought I had a few embarrassing squares, but...

[ He doesn't have anal, at least. ]

[feralheart]

[ Is he validated or... no, it's more embarrassing that someone else is embarrassed. He's definitely getting redder. ]

Gh... I knew she was messing with me.

[associative]

[ Gaku briefly glances away, because he'll only flush more if he looks at M-21 even longer. ]

Who? The Goddess?

[feralheart]

Yeah. All that crap about falling in love, after she kidnapped us and put us in this weird place?

[ He's stuffing the bingo card away again sulkily. Kidnapping: that happens. The smut squares: this is personal. ]

[associative]

I'm not so sure that'll actually happen myself. It's a nice place, but... being kidnapped doesn't make it feel all that romantic.

[ He would know. He's been kidnapped before. ]

[feralheart]

Makes you wonder what she's actually hoping to get out of this.

[ With ancient or quasi-immortal beings, who could say.

M-21 sneaks a look at Gaku again now that his blush is dying down, gauging the look on Gaku's face. Maybe he's said too much. Not that any of them could really ignore being kidnapped, but... ]

[associative]

[ Gaku looks... thoughtful. ]

You think a lot of marriages between us will get her something in return?

[ He'd personally love to find someone and get married, but he does have to admit that someone else wanting that for him might not be completely selfless. ]

[feralheart]

Maybe. Figures she wouldn't go through all this trouble for no reason. Like she's trying to study us. Or it's just for her amusement.

[ If it were for a good reason, she'd have asked first? Possibly. M-21 might have to try asking her himself, which will definitely end well. ]

[associative]

I don't like to think that someone would do all of this maliciously, but...

[ He frowns. ]

It's not like we signed up for this.

[feralheart]

Malice seems more likely than... what, cluelessness?

[ Then again... that pamphlet. M-21 sighs and shakes his head. ]

Nevermind. Maybe.

[associative]

[ He crosses his arms after sliding his card back into his pocket. ]

It's worth keeping in mind. You're right in thinking that we can't assume everyone has pure motives.

[feralheart]

Not when they do things like this.

[ ... ]

You're right, too. This place isn't so bad otherwise.

[associative]

I wouldn't mind being here if I knew how to farm...

[ He's completely shit out of luck in that regard. ]

[feralheart]

[ With a look of deep, resigned agreement: ]

...I'm a security guard.

[ He's never touched a plant but it would probably die?? ]

[associative]

I'm an idol.

[ Gaku sighs, crossing his arms. ]

Neither of us have the right background for all of this, huh?

[feralheart]

[ M-21 tilts his head and studies him. Not that all pretty people are idols or anything, but: ]

...Yeah. You look like one.

[ Is that better or worse for farming than a guard, though. ]

Maybe the internet works here. Guides or... something.

[associative]

[ You know what? Fair. Even before he debuted, people thought he was an idol. ]

I hope so. As soon as I can get my phone to work again, I'll share whatever I find with you.

[feralheart]

Likewise. If it's that easy.

[ Wait. A beat. He feels like he forgot something here. ]

Name?

[associative]

[ He hopes it ends up being that easy, but he doubts that it will be. ]

Gaku Yaotome. You?

[feralheart]

M-21. [ Maybe he should have made up a fake one but there's those damn pamphlets anyway. ] ...I guess that's one of the tasks, anyway.

[associative]

[ M-21... huh. What an odd name. Gaku at least has enough sensibility not to comment that, however. ]

It is. [ Another packet of seeds added to the pile for him! ] Speaking of the tasks, can I visit your farm?

[feralheart]

That was one too, huh? Sure. It's in the forest. Where's yours?

[ Getting a sense of where things are doesn't sound so bad, and Gaku seems helpful. ]

[associative]

The beach. Pretty cool, right?

[ Do not ask him how the hell he's going to grow things. He hasn't thought that far ahead. ]

[feralheart]

...You'll always have fish.

[ Is that really farming, though... ]

Did you want to go now?