crescentview mods ([personal profile] crescentviewmods) wrote in [community profile] 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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howdy neighbor

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-02 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis smiles when Adelis greets him and flips through his own pamphlet and points to his own name, "Ellis". He understands why people can get grumpy right now though, so he won't try to assauge his crankiness(?).

Distractions are always nice though, so he points to the notice board and lightly tilts his head. Does Adelis want to do some tasks with him?
]
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[personal profile] for8000amonth 2022-12-03 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ huh. his nose wrinkles for a second as the other simply hands out the pamphlet, before he pushes his glasses further up his nose and actually looks at it. not the talkative sort, apparently. well, it's not like there's none of that where he comes from... ]

...Ellis, then.

[ he does not return the smile, because he isn't quite in the mood for that, but his eyes follow the pointed finger to the board and squint in obvious displeasure. ]

...You wish to do one of these? [ half of these are not appealing in any way, but at least some of it is doable. ] Very well, but I'm not praying. Not even Lady Vengeance gets my worship on a whim.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-04 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ A bingo would be nice too, but in just meeting and greeting, they already knocked off two tasks, so Ellis seems happy about that.

So if Adellis doesn't want to pray to the goddess, that obviously means he's okay with making friends, right? He points to that task for Adellis to see.
]
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[personal profile] for8000amonth 2022-12-04 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. He's serious about that one, isn't he.

The look that flickers across Adelis' face is disbelief for a brief moment, before a small sigh escapes him. ]


...I don't have a need for friends. [ wow, edgy much. ] If you're looking for someone to get particularly buddy-buddy with, I'm afraid you've picked the wrong person.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-04 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His grin only gets wider, because that's good! He isn't particularly looking for friends either despite his disposition. Ellis points to "visiting another person's farm" task. Does he want to check out the same decrepit farms that everyone has since this is super early? ]
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[personal profile] for8000amonth 2022-12-05 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...well, isn't this an agreeable one. maybe this won't be as big of a waste as he thought. ]

The lesser of the evils, I suppose. Very well.

[ means he has to leave the protection of the shade, but that was unfortunately inevitable. ]

As long as I don't have to stand out in the...light for too long.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-05 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis has a look of realization pass his face as if he finally managed to connect the dots together. He takes off the hoodie sweater he has--thankfully he's still wearing a shirt underneath it but he hands it over to Adelis. Ellis hopes he can use it like a makeshift shade of some sort while they go. ]
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[personal profile] for8000amonth 2022-12-07 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ for a brief moment, he thinks the other is just...stripping?? for no reason?? but the moment he holds it out is the moment adelis opts to stare with absolute bewilderment.

...he takes it, with the tips of his fingers, and stares with a near scowl threatening to dip over his face. not for the reason you think, though. ]


...I'll be giving this back. I don't like having debts.

[ people just being nice...what a concept. ]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-07 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. Don't worry, Adelis. Ellis fully expects his hoodie sweater back. He nods and cheerfully leads him to his farm. It is... decrepit like all the other farms. Rural farms, man. This thread takes place before I did bingo, so everything is starter level. ]
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[personal profile] for8000amonth 2022-12-08 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ well if he insists. it takes adelis a minute as he stares at it's...odd look, before he finally pulls it on with a mildly distasteful look and follows behind. it's a little big on him, but whatever.

naturally, it's a bit of a new sight, because he was a little too blinded as all hell to look at his surroundings when he got marched out of the house. naturally, the look on his face when he turns to look at ellis is flat and unimpressed. ]


...Do they all look this terrible.

[ yikes. ostoyan farms aren't the most put-together, but this is still pretty sad. ]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-09 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis holds up his bingo card up to his eye level and gestures out to the farms. Maybe doing these will make it better, is what he's trying to say.

But he sees some worn out tools just hanging out randomly on the ground in other farms. Man. This is depressing. No wonder the goddess wanted people to work these fields.
]
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[personal profile] for8000amonth 2022-12-09 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ it takes a moment for the gears in his brain to click at the connection, but when it does, he finds himself looking vaguely disgusted. ]

Wonderful. So we're expected to debase ourselves just to slightly improve our conditions, are we? How delightfully draconian.

[ he nudges the dirt with one heeled foot, exhaling softly. circumstances aside, he wouldn't mind it as much if he wasn't being yanked around like a clown for someone's entertainment. ]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-09 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis didn't think of debasing himself, but then again, he barely has any pride to speak of. He holds his hand out as if to ask Adelis to see his bingo card. His squares can't be that bad, right? ]
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[personal profile] for8000amonth 2022-12-10 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ he cocks an eyebrow at the hand for a few moments, as if debating whether or not he wants to hand it over, before adelis finally sighs and reaches down to pull the bingo card from one of the pouches on his leg.

with that, he unfolds it and promptly drops it into ellis' waiting hand. ]


If yours ended up far less embarrassing, I'm going to be cross.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-10 03:16 am (UTC)(link)