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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Comments

[framestory]

[ Ellis looks at the square Uta points to and nods. He thinks that would be really cute to see. But then, he needs food to feed... what will he get?

He tries to form an apple shape with his hands. Maybe an apple? ]

[tot]

[ apple shape... apple shape can be translated to so many different things, unfortunately. fortunately, uta is pretty good about using common sense to realize that it is a food that you would feed animals versus whatever else. ]

Are you trying to suggest something? [ hmmm. ] A fruit of some sort?

[ it's definitely not a banana, pear, or whatever else strange fruit that exists in the one piece world but doesn't translate to anything else anywhere else. ]

[framestory]

[ He nods. He points to Uta's red hair. A red fruit! After opening the pamphlet, he points at the grocery store and gestures to Uta to follow him. ]

[tot]

Like my hair..?

[ she'll follow him dutifully as she tries to think of a red fruit that was the shape he made with his hands. her first thought was a strawberry but that's something you'd feel to an animal, right?

hmmm. ]

Oh! Like an apple?

[framestory]

[ Ellis looks positively elated when Uta says it's an apple, because she's absolutely correct. It's also because he knows it's difficult to try and guess the fruit based on his poor attempt at charades. His nodding is very enthusiastic. Time to find themselves an apple. ]

[tot]

[ yay! uta will look pleased with herself for getting the answer correct as they go get this apple! what kind of animals eat apples... plenty, right? rabbits eat apples (probably). horses definitely eat apples. could cows eat apples?

...actually what kind of animals were around here? guess that's a future problem for them. ]

Should we cut it up into smaller pieces? I'm not sure what we'll run into but an entire apple might be hard to eat for something small.

[framestory]

[ Ellis nods. He mimics an apple peeling motion with his hands and splitting it in half. Perhaps the workers at the store will do it for them? ]

[tot]

[ the locals here seem friendly enough so they're likely to help with that. imagine if they didn't... either way given that they're still not talking, uta will consider introducing herself so that if it was due to any hang ups about being unknown strangers then that could get settled. ]

I'm Uta, by the way. [ um. well hope this will go down okay? ] Are you shy about speaking?

[framestory]

[ uta-chan... that's an easy enough name to remember. However, Ellis shakes his head no and closes his ears with both hands and then crosses his arms to make an X after that. Hopefully this is enough to get it across. ]

[tot]

[ give her a second to process this. hmmm. it isn't exactly clear at first but when she puts everything together: the lack of verbal responses and reliance on gestures— ]

You can't hear?

[ ... ]

Then...you've been reading my lips?

[framestory]

[ Ellis claps his hands together and nods, seemingly delighted that Uta understood him. He starts leading her to the grocery store though, so that they can get an apple, making sure to face her so that he doesn't miss what and when she says anything. ]

[tot]

[ as a musician and a songstress, it's immediately upsetting for her to imagine a world where she couldn't hear anything but it seems like he doesn't seem to be too bothered by it.

for now she'll just keep the mood positive. ]

Should we get two just in case we run into more animals than we think we might?

[ she'll grab just a random two apples. does she know how to pick them out? absolutely not but it shouldn't matter too much, right? ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis nods. He thinks there will definitely be more animals than expected, so he walks over to the snack section to get something like animal crackers.

He briefly wonders if this is morbid, so he puts that back to get other bland tasting snacks in exchange. ]

[tot]

[ she'll see him pick up the animal crackers and then put them back down. it's not hard to guess what he's thinking. ]

I, I'm sure the animals wouldn't think too much about it if we fed them that. ...but normal crackers would also be a safer bet.

[ since they don't taste like anything. ]

Should this be enough for now?

[framestory]

[ Ellis lets out a quiet laugh, though it sounds awkward. He has no way of controlling his volume, tone, and everything else that comes with speaking, but sometimes it ends up well. He nods with the exchanged bag of crackers in hand and leads Uta to the... check out? It doesn't look like they have to pay, so he just stands there, looking confused. They don't have to pay? Huh?? ]

[tot]

[ uta likes ellis' laugh despite it sounding funny because it's nice to know that he still can and will laugh!! she'll smile in return of the laugh and follow him towards the non existing check out which she'll share and equally confused look on her face. ]

Is...this really okay?

[ it definitely looks like it'll be okay? ]

When start growing things on our own, we should probably repay them back.

[framestory]

[ Ellis nods. He might as well give back when they're forsaking profits for the new farmers' sake... when he has enough resources anyway.

But it's time to feed the animals! Ellis sees a cat in the distance so he points over to it. Catte. ]

[tot]

[ it sure is time to feed the animals and as soon as ellis points out the cat to uta, she'll immediately whip her head to see where it was. ]

Oh! A cat!

[ but they have apples and crackers.... ]

...can we feed them any of this? I've never seen a cat eat an apple or bits of cracker before.

[framestory]

[ Ellis doesn't know either, but he opens the bag of crackers and holds it out to Uta so that she can take some. After that, he lowers himself and tries to beckon the cat over to him while holding a cracker out to it. It does not move. ]

[tot]

[ uta will help herself to a few crackers before joining ellis. admittedly a bit more carefully because of the length of her skirt and all... ]

C'mon kitty. Do you want to give it a try?

[ she'll reach out with a hand, low to the ground, for the cat to sniff if it chooses to. ]

I promise we won't hurt you.

[framestory]

[ Someone take Uta to the boutique after this...

The cat toddles closer, sniffs Uta's hand, the cracker, licks the cracker, then gently bites it, taking it away from her hand. It's eating it! Ellis smiles wider upon seeing it. The cat is cute. ]

[tot]

here we go haki