crescentview | 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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Unfortunately, I do not.

[ He holds swords, not pens, y'know. ]

What are you writing down?

I was making an effort to fix the expression on the one meant to represent me, [He says, glowering faintly at it. Now, at least, there's an inkblot over his entire face, which does do away with the smile.] I spent some time working with the police, so I found it's helpful to always have a pen on-hand, anyway.

[Finally taking a minute to look Kaeya over, he fights to keep his expression neutral, understanding quite entirely why he isn't carrying a pen of his own-- are those leggings, sir?] Ah, I suppose a lack of pockets would make that more difficult, though.

[ They're fashionable leggings, excuse you. ]

I'm afraid that knights aren't well known for carrying writing utensils. [ just realized that pens wouldn't exist in ye olde genshin ] I thought you were writing down notes, but it seems that you're merely doodling over your own face?

[They don't leave very much to the imagination, so Goro understands, but he doesn't go walking around in public in something that displays the full extent of his ass. Or a furry feather boa, but that's a different conversation entirely.]

[The "Knight" bit only confuses him further. Knights dress like this? With their entire tiddies exposed?? This is a very different sort of Knight than Goro read about in storybooks as a child. And he can at least have recognized a ballpoint to be similar to a quill-- Goro chuckles.] Doodling is one way of putting it, yes. The object was to decrease the degree of amicable glee depicted, but it appears I've made myself something of an Eldritch Horror, instead. [If the shoe fits.]

It appears you take much offence to being drawn so happy.

[ dude what's wrong with having a smile on your face weirdo ]

More specifically, I dislike being depicted as this happy and carefree, as it gives a very different impression than actually meeting me might.

[He glances at Kaeya, raising his eyebrows. You're making assumptions, sir.]

Then tell me, what sort of impression should I have from this meeting?

[ wow someone is a GRUMP ]

[He glances sidelong at Kaeya without moving his head, giving him a moment to surmise his own conclusion from the fact that he is, in fact, a whole grump.]

You appear to already have one.

Ahaha, perhaps.

[ Well, this is as good time as any to introduce himself. Hopefully, this other man will do the same. ]

I'm Kaeya. What's your name?

[He rolls the name around for a moment, trying to discern where it may hail from, and squares his shoulders just a little when he looks at him more fully.]

...Goro Akechi.

[ Unlike Goro's ...s, Kaeya speaks immediately after. ]

Well, Goro, asides from the inaccurate portraits, what do you think about our situation?

[He closes his eyes at the immediate use of his first name-- but this man is obviously not Japanese in any capacity, so he really can't take it personally.]

[Smoothing his figuratively ruffled feathers, he offers a too-sweet smile.] Succinctly, it's bullshit.

[ haha goro goro goro ]

Oh? Care to elaborate?

[ He knows why everything is bullshit. He just wants to hear Goro get salty because his reactions so far are pretty funny. ]

[His eyebrows shoot skyward, creasing his forehead under his fringe, and he gives Kaeya a careful once-over.]

Do you disagree? [He is not a spectacle, and won't be made one-- he sees that mischievous glint in your eye, Alberich.]

[ He'll make him into a spectacle, he'll try. ]

No, but I'm curious as to hear your thoughts.

[Rude,]

[He watches Kaeya for a long moment, rolls his eyes and shrugs one shoulder neatly.] Being some degree of kidnapped, spirited to who knows where, expected to tend land and foster relationships... It sounds contrived and asinine at best, if not entirely ludicrous. Add to the fact that she claims herself a Goddess, but draws informational portraits in crayon, of stick-figures wherein the only accuracy is hair color, lists of likes and dislikes and date suggestions she somehow seems to know with startling accuracy, and the result is definitely something out of one of those "what are some unbelievable stories that are totally true" threads on AskReddit. [...don't worry about the canon redditor, Kaeya.]

[ And the only thing that Kaeya is going to get out of that (so he can annoy Akechi) is-- ]

AskReddit?

[The muscle below his left eye twitches.]

It's a subreddit. [From Kaeya asking, he is well aware that he has no idea what Reddit is in the first place.]

[ Kaeya is having much enjoyable tormenting Akechi. ]

Not a very helpful answer, I'm afraid.

[ explain further ]

dec event.

pen and paper

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god why are all my icons from porny doujin.

because he's a slut

you're not wrong. also pls ignore protag in this icon he is in so many of these.

oh my

listen milky is the reason i write him is anyone surprised here

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