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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!
for asuka
After the whole introduction thing, Mira's mood is fairly sour, to say the least. They aren't sure if their mysterious roommate is back at the house yet, but they're going to take a chance and check. It won't be comfortable if Mira avoids him forever.
Quietly, they step inside after only a brief moment of hesitation. ]
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Asuka, standing about two feet away from the TV staring at the screen in interest, head tilted. There are people in there!
If Mira doesn't speak up, he'll notice them in a moment--but for the moment, they've got the drop on him!]
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Once they've finished in the kitchen, they follow the sound. ... Has he never seen a television before? Well.... seems like there are all types of people here.
Mira clears their throat. ]
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How do they get the people in there?
[Welcome to your new roommate, friend...]
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They're not really in there. Television is like... putting together hundreds of pictures or paintings so they all move. It's recorded, so it's just a repeat of something that's already been done. Moving pictures -- that's what they used to be called.
[ .... ]
Sorry. That's about all I know. I'm not good with technology things.
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...that's weird.
[AND THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO SAY ON THE MATTER! As long as there aren't some weird tiny people living in his house about to creep out of the box while he sleeps and run amok, then he guesses it's okay???
So moving on!]
Are you the one that was here earlier?
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[ Don't worry about any tiny people, it's the gremlins you've gotta worry about, Asuka.
At that question, they turn a bit pink. It's a reasonable question, but what a way to make a first impression, right? ]
Yeah. [ Just bury them six feet under already. ] I guess I panicked a little bit. It wasn't you or anything. Waking up with a stranger next to me wasn't how I expected to start the day.
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Really? Seems pretty normal to me. Though most of the time they at least try to sneak a last feel before they sneak out.
[Or maybe that's just Cel, who knows.]
But I guess we're supposed to be living together through all of this?
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You know what, they can respect that. They've had their own wild nights, but they don't consider those strangers... anyway. ]
Fair enough. [ They shrug. ] Yeah. Seems like we are. I won't bother you much, though. And I have plenty of farming experience, so I won't slack off or anything.
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...and he laughs. Loud, unrestrained laughter, I'm so sorry he's like this]
You think I'm worried about any of that? Farming's not that hard--
[wait. Hang on. Asuka makes a face. Farming's not usually that hard.]
--though everything here's weird, so maybe growing stuff'll be too. Everything's exposed!
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Well-- of course it's not hard.
[ If they sound a little huffy, don't worry about it. ]
... Are farms not like this where you're from?
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We don't have any of this where I'm from.
[...beat.]
...well, that's not true. We have chairs. And homes. And mattresses, though ours usually don't make loud squeaking noises when you roll over. ...let me do that again.
[The TV's still on as he walks away from it toward one of the windows, whether it's one in this room or if he's gone back through the house to find one. HE NEEDS TO GESTURE GRANDLY TOWARD THE WINDOW.]
There. We don't have any of this where I'm from!
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... Windows?
1/2
--you'd think we would, actually, glass is really easy to make for anyone with fire magic...
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--but I meant the stuff outside. On the ground.
[THERE ARE SO MANY LITTLE GREEN WEIRD PLANTS ON THE GROUND WHY DO YOU JUST STEP ON ALL OF THEM]
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They have the feeling that they come from vastly different places. ]
The grass and the other plants? [ .... ] What's your home like?
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Okay, anyways. He spreads his hands in a broad "I don't know" gesture; it's.]
Normal? Everyone lives below unless we need to go replenish supplies. We've got a couple layers so that there's not as much lateral weakness and if a sand-walker ever gets in, we can keep everyone safe... up above's more like this, but this place is weird. There's only one sun up there!
[And where's all the sand?!]
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Underground, you mean? [ In a desert, they're guessing. ] It's no wonder everything's so weird to you.
[ They're not bothered by that; it just means they'll have to do a little more work. Honestly, though, they welcome it. It gives them more to do, so they don't have to think about... things. ]
I can teach you how to work a field aboveground, if you want. That's what I'm used to, anyway.
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That's what Harvestia said, that stuff would grow outside. So I'll take you up on that offer.
[And yes, it's weird!!! It's all weird here, all the way down.]
I don't think she's lying, but it's gonna be hard to get used to. In Desuya, if you stay out on the surface too long you're dead.
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[ They assume "Harvestia" is the goddess, and they do a decent job of hiding their disdain. Anyway! ]
Luckily, I don't think dying just from being out there is going to be much of an issue. But if you need time to get used to it, I'm pretty patient.
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...how common are sand-walkers outside of Desuya? [And he's figuring he'll have to explain so, with some giant arm motions to describe it properly--] Big giant motherfuckers with a bunch of legs. They crawl a lot faster than anyone can walk, and they're attracted to magic. You don't use it above ground unless you have to.
[Or unless you're standing next to a goddess who could probably blast them if they tried.
...or would she have let him get eaten because that's how nature works...? Hmm, a question for next time...]