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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taking notes

[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-02 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The thing about being the person Ellis is, he has to be ready to turn his head at any given moment the second he feels like he's being watched. It's not a trait of paranoia (though it can be), but it's to see what the other person is saying. So he turns his head towards Akechi and holds up his bingo card, which already has at least five squares filled out, but not a bingo, before putting it away. But with that, he shrugs. If only there was a way to tell him that it's a good distraction... ]
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[personal profile] forfeited 2022-12-02 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[The quiet from Ellis is welcomed-- more than. Everything in the town center is so loud, he appreciates actions without words. Not that it shows in his brief glance at the bingo sheet and vaguely unimpressed expression to follow. He inhales, holds his breath, and exhales, closing his eyes.]

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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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-02 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis turns his own pamphlet as well, pointing to "Ellis". That's him!

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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[personal profile] forfeited 2022-12-02 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Forgive the crassness of the question, but-- can you not speak?

[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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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-03 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Ah.

[ 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 in marriage.
]
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[personal profile] forfeited 2022-12-03 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[It causes a surprisingly honest startle out of Goro-- he reaches toward his own ears in confusion for a moment before the gesture makes sense and his ears turn an embarrassed pink.] Oh, well how rude of me, I'm sorry. [And he means it-- which is far stranger for him than Ellis, who doesn't know how infrequent apologies from Goro Akechi are.]

[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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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-03 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis just smiles at Goro's apology. He doesn't know him, and he usually gets an apology after people find out that he's deaf. He's more or less used to it.

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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[personal profile] forfeited 2022-12-03 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
[He jolts at the contact to his palm, startled-- he's not a big fan of contact, but once he realizes what Ellis is doing he forces himself to relax as best as he's able. It takes him a moment to process the letters written into his gloved palm, but when he realizes that he's being complimented, of all things, the pink staining the tops of his ears bleeds inward.]

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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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-03 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ ???

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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[personal profile] forfeited 2022-12-03 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Goro pores over the Bingo sheet a moment. With a frown, he offers it back, and studies Ellis for a long handful of seconds before reaching out and petting the top of his head in a stiff motion.]

[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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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-03 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis looks like he's in glee, even leaning into Goro's hand as he's being petted. What a nice, warm hand... ]
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[personal profile] forfeited 2022-12-04 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Meanwhile Goro is mortified on seven different levels— one for each ring of Hell he belongs in, probably. He recoils his hand, his expression not so much a grimace as it is just… perplexed.] You took to that like a pet.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-04 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ Huh. Why did he stop?? But then he sees Goro say that and all he can think was that whoever is Goro's pet must be lucky to have nice headpats like this.

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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[personal profile] forfeited 2022-12-07 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Goro is the type who would probably manage to kill succulents, so luckily he doesn't have a pet-- And he looks somewhat mortified by the tenderness of the gesture Ellis displays. It's not quite a grimace, but he doesn't think to check himself before his lips purse into a fine line and his eyebrows crash together in a concerned frown.] If you're suggesting that was a positive designation you're mistaken, but I suppose I'm glad it wasn't an unpleasant experience given it provided you a square.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-07 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis isn't offended that Goro said it wasn't meant to be positive, but he does finally pull his face away from Goro's hand. He goes back to writing on it with a finger. ]

It was gentle and very affectionate. I liked it.
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[personal profile] forfeited 2022-12-07 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gentle and very— Akechi might explode, please excuse him. He purses his lips tightly and stands rigidly still, willing the skin of his neck and ears to stop burning with embarrassment to no avail.]

…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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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-07 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Since Ellis has to look for cues to see what other people try to convey to him, he catches Goro's body language pretty easily. He slightly tilts his head with a concerned look as if to ask if there's something wrong. ]
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[personal profile] forfeited 2022-12-08 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He exhales a ragged breath, reaching out and stopping twice before he claims Ellis' hand to write in his palm with a shaking finger of his own.]

I am neither gentle nor affectionate.

[His hand holding Ellis' wrist still is shaking.]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-09 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis isn't sure what's happening, but he can see Goro's hand tremble. Feel it too. He isn't sure what to do at first, but he gets his other hand to put it on top of Goro's, and maybe the other hand too if it doesn't jerk away last minute. It's a gentle hand sandwich now with light pats. ]
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[personal profile] forfeited 2022-12-09 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[You're stressing out the rat bastard by being nice to him, is what's happening, Ellis. He wheezes faintly, even if Ellis can't hear it, and goes rigidly still at the hand sandwich made, looking stuck between trying to maintain some semblance of politeness and unrestrained violence.]

[Stiffly, he raises his eyes to catch Ellis', and says slowly so his lips can be read:]
Please let go.
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-09 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh.

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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[personal profile] forfeited 2022-12-09 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Listen, Ellis, Goro doesn't quite understand what Goro is going through right now. He takes two steps backward from him and closes his eyes, taking a full lungful of air in and holding it. When he opens his eyes and exhales, all the stress and anxiety of before is gone, and he smiles again. The expression is tired, despite himself. Again, he speaks slowly, making sure Ellis can read his lips, raising a hand in apology.]

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.]
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[personal profile] framestory 2022-12-09 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ellis just smiles at Goro before giving him a gentle pat on the shoulder. That's all the physical contact he initiates before withdrawing his hand. Goro seems uncomfortable in Ellis's eyes, so he takes a step back, waves to him and spins on his heel to leave. ]
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[personal profile] forfeited 2022-12-10 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Goro is always uncomfortable, honestly--]

[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.]