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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!
taking notes
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I'm not overly delighted to make nice with a group of strangers at the behest of an unknown so-called Goddess-- no offense, of course --but I'd be glad to know if your efforts bear fruit. [He flips through his pamphlet to his own profile, grimacing slightly at the crude drawing before turning it toward Ellis.] Goro Akechi, if you feel so inclined to report.
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As for the inquiry, he shakes his head. He hasn't gotten anything yet, but he thinks it's been too early. He started the moment the goddess stopped talking, after all. Maybe it'll take time for him to get things. (no i'm just lazy and will submit it later) ]
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[It's not asked in annoyance, and he does step just barely closer to look at his profile. If he can't speak, that's... Fine, actually, Goro realizes, since he seems to be managing just fine. Though he does wish his pen hadn't exploded, so he could offer to allow him to write should he wish. He processes the headshake and nods, extracting his own bingo card folded neatly into a square and kept in the smaller change pocket of his slacks. Unfolded, he presses the bottom two folds to splay it open and holds it at an angle that Ellis could look, if he wanted.] Most of these are trite at best, but some... Most certainly are not.
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[ It's a rather loud "ah" because he unfortunately has no volume control, but the sheepish look on his face says that he most likely won't do it again. He covers his ears instead with both hands. He's deaf! And definitely not offended by Goro's question. Deafness is a part of him, after all.
But then he peeks over at the bingo card... why are there smut squares. He's starting to feel bad for everyone who has them so far, but that's neither here nor there. Ellis points at the "compliments" square and thinks that means he should compliment Goro (this counts), so he asks Goro for his hand. Give him your hand
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[The pink remains as Ellis seems to pause on a particular square-- likely one of the, erm, risque ones, and he follows the other's gesture to his hand. Uncertain, but not sure of which square had prompted the request, he offers it anyway, perplexed.]
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Once Goro extends his hand, Ellis gently takes it into his and starts writing on his palm with his finger. Since everything is converted into The Language, Goro shouldn't have a problem deciphering it.
Ellis writes, "You seem to have a good head on your shoulders. It's admirable". }
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I-- oh, that. Thank you, that was hardly... [He remembers the square on his Bingo Card, only because it had felt like the biggest form of mockery for it to be there in the first place, and shuts his mouth quickly. He stands very still for a moment, and then looks up at Ellis, expression strangely blank, and holds his other hand outward, palm-up.] Show me your card, please. [This means bingo war, my dude.]
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Ellis isn't sure what caused such a drastic change in expression, though admittedly, it was cute to see Goro's ears red and all. Confused, but he's not here for conflict, so he hands over his bingo card. So far he has hug, tickle, hand holding, climb a tree, handholding, share a meal, and feed local animals off the list. He's been Busy. But they all just started? Yeah. He's a busy guy. ]
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[He wasn't going to just let the guy mark off one of his squares and not do the same...! So there you go, Ellis, have some head petting.]
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Ellis points to Goro's hand and puts his own hand on the cheek in an attempt to gesture a warm hand being nuzzled into. ]
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It was gentle and very affectionate. I liked it.
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…Well, I suppose that’s preferable to the alternative. [Tightly— he’s not had an affectionate or gentle bone in his body since his age was in the single digits.]
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I am neither gentle nor affectionate.
[His hand holding Ellis' wrist still is shaking.]
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[Stiffly, he raises his eyes to catch Ellis', and says slowly so his lips can be read:] Please let go.
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In that case, Ellis easily lets go. He doesn't quite understand what Goro is going through right now, but his instincts scream at him to let go. He still looks at Goro with concern. Does this guy need water...? ]
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Forgive my rudeness. [He doesn't especially feel sorry or that he was rude, but he has appearances to maintain.
He feels a little bad, maybe.]no subject
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[He doesn't stop Ellis from waving and leaving, too focused on looking plastic and fine to really realize he is until he's taken too many steps away for him to justify stopping him. RIP, dumb awkward rat bastard of the law.]