dec event.

[crescentviewmods]

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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[esurientabyss]

[ He Xuan takes notice of the pride in Gaku's expression. Well, only time will tell if he is as good as a cook as he says.

But boy his interest is more than piqued. He doesn't look apparently excited, but perhaps it is evident he's more attentive than he was a moment ago... ]

Tell me about them. Your favorites, that is.

[associative]

Soba is my favorite, so expect to have that a lot.

[ Like, a couple of times a week. ]

But I like tonkatsu, udon, and different fish dishes too.

[ And aren't they lucky, living on a beach? That means he can catch fish... once he learns how. ]

[esurientabyss]

If you prepare it differently sometimes, I might not get sick of it.

[ His stomach is rumbling already, just a bit... ]

Never heard of tonkatsu or udon. But, there's plenty of fish dishes I've had.

[ He Xuan can always try to ""help"" Gaku catch fish. Look, if he's getting something out of it? He's motivated to do things. Besides, it will be the best way to put his water manipulation abilities to use.

(He has no idea those have been nerfed a bit as of yet...though if it's a fish in a lake, it should be fine.) ]

[associative]

You'll get to try it all eventually.

[ Since he's the only one cooking... ]

You know, you can tell me about those fish dishes and I'll help you make them.

[esurientabyss]

Not now?

[ He Xuan, pls.

But besides his big appetite and little bit of impatience in being eager to try out the food, there's probably some fishy dishes he has in mind. So, while I do not know what they are so pretend in this space that he is saying those random traditional chinese fish dishes. ]

I assume you'll be able to remember them.

[associative]

[ Just hearing it spoken aloud doesn't do much for him, and he stares at He Xuan in semi-disbelief. ]

At least write them down for me...

[esurientabyss]

...

[ He Xuan immediately goes to search for writing materials.

Then, he comes up short because it is likely by the time he even went to someone else's farm it would be after he met Gaku. So when he returns back in the room, short of anything to write anything on or anything to write with, there is a visible change on his face since they met.

It's disappointment. ]

...I can't.

[associative]

Huh. We don't have anything to write with in our house?

[ He crosses his arms, frowning as he looks at the exterior. ]

I guess that shouldn't surprise me. It's pretty run down, so there's probably not much inside. You can tell me later.

[esurientabyss]

[ ... ]

I can.

[ He Xuan wonders if perhaps the goddess is making fun of them. He still has his pride. He could kill her if he wants. ]

...Have you dealt with anything like this before?

[associative]

Waking up in a completely new place and being told I need to get married to leave? No.

[ He regards He Xuan, raising his eyebrows in curosity. ]

Have you?

[esurientabyss]

[ A sigh escapes him.

He's still annoyed at being inconvenienced like this, despite the fact that once again, he's been through worse. ]

No.

[ ... ]

Maybe she is a demon more than a goddess.

[ He Xuan, pls. ]

[associative]

[ Oh god. Gaku pulls a face as he makes a move to go walk into the house to get a good count of what they have. He'll need to go to the store later to get their kitchen properly stocked. ]

A demon? Don't say scary things like that.

[esurientabyss]

[ He Xuan...follows, because yeah. Home sweet home. ]

Is it really that scary?

[ ... ]

...We may need to work on fulfilling those little squares.

[ He suspects they will also receive rewards for those like the 'tasks'. He will not lose out if he has to be in a place like this anyway. ]

[associative]

[ Inside they go! Gaku is just not going to acknowledge the single bed they have. If neither of them ever mention it, it's not weird. Right? ]

Yeah... what's on your card? Can I see it?

[esurientabyss]

[ . . .

...

He Xuan is silently acknowledging the single bed. But he isn't doing so out loud (for the moment.) ]

...Yes, go ahead. Let me see yours in turn.

[ We're doing well, fam. Anyway, he will show his! ]

[associative]

[ Gaku slips his own card out of his pocket and holds his out for He Xuan. There are a good number already completed.

He takes his time to read all of He Xuan's and clears his throat. Mirrors? Gags and silence???? ]

...We have a couple in common.

[esurientabyss]

[ He will die a second death if they are pointed out. Honestly, he doesn't even know what 'Mirrors' even means... this rper does, though. He gives him a blank stare when he clears his throat, though. Just point it out, he dares you. ]

I don't have much painting skill, but there's that, stargazing, then technically...

[ He Xuan glances back at the bed and then back at Gaku. Because 'sharing a bed' is in here and honestly it doesn't mean they have to do anything. Though, He Xuan isn't human either, so, he doesn't necessarily have to sleep. ]

...hugging, and another on on the card. We could also choose to not do the same square.

[associative]

I don't mind taking care of one of yours if you take care of mine.

[ But he clears his throat. That glance at the bed won't go unnoticed. ]

I guess we're clearing out one square already...

[esurientabyss]

Doable. On both counts.

[ ...Yeah, it looks like they are. At least it'll be for a good cause, for them? And honestly, if he has to share a bed with someone at least it's someone who is attractive. He Xuan does have eyes, after all. ]

...How about I try out a hobby of yours, and you can choose what you would want to do with me on another one of your squares?

[associative]

[ You know, He Xuan isn't bad looking himself, and it's easier sharing with him than some lovely lady. He'd simply sleep on the floor in that case. These gay thought cannot catch him. ]

I'm fine with that. I don't have many hobbies, though. Are you any good at dancing?

[esurientabyss]

[ Attack of the gay thought.

Anyway, how funny that even He Xuan might have had enough manners to do the very same...but here, it's different. ]

...No, I'm not.

[ TEACH HIM HOW TO DANCE, GAKU!! ]

Will you volunteer to teach me?

[associative]

Sure. What kind of style do you want to know?

[ Ballroom? One of Gaku’s dance routines? The world is He Xuan’s oyster. ]

[esurientabyss]

[ ...not me realizing there was a whole ass sea pun in there, bless. The thing about that, though? ]

What do you know? I'm not familiar with many 'dances'.

[associative]

I know all types. I can teach you one of the dances to one of the songs I perform.

[ But that might be hard to do for a first-timer. ]

Or... we can slow dance. That's easier.

[esurientabyss]

Might be too difficult, unless you want me to step all over your feet.

[ Not that He Xuan cares too much about his presentation, just carrying it out for the most part. Though... ]

...Slow dancing would be easier. Show me the proper form.

[ Should be simple enough, as far as he's concerned. It's ironic that he hasn't even seen what a slow dance looks like, but such happened to have been the nature of his life. ]