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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!
slams into you with a karaoke thread
...Huh.
Eventually, he wanders over with his drink in hand, setting it down so he can clap when she's done. ]
Hey, you're really good.
:yell:
Thank you! Are you enjoying yourself?
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[ Picking his drink back up, he takes a few steps towards her. ]
I mean it when I saw you're good. Have you trained?
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[ uta lives to perform and make people happy and she brightens at gaku's answer. she'll lower the mic down to her side as he approaches her. ]
Yes, the man who raised me did his best to make sure I was a great singer. His goal was to make me the best singer in the world.
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[ Don't mind him, he'll just be going through a few of the songs on this list. ]
Could you sing another song for me?
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[ uta won't mind at all and she also won't mention that it has only been two years since she has debuted either. but she has had years of practice... ]
I can. [ raising the mic to her mouth and tapping the ground with her right foot. ] Do you want me to sing something from what's inside of there or another one of my songs?
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I want to hear one of yours. People tend to put their whole heart into the songs they consider their own.
[ At least, he and his members do. ]
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[ and since there isn't any music in the karaoke machine that would match what she has written herself, she'll tap her foot a few more times to set a rhythm before starting singing a song a cappella. it doesn't fit the bar environment but it is one of her songs.
a personal song of her's even. ]
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For a long moment, Gaku doesn't say a word. But, he eventually leans forward, a sincere smile on his lips. ]
...If I were in your world, I'd become a fan instantly.
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I'm honored that you think that, but this means you can be a fan in this world.
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[ Gaku laughs softly. ]
Then consider me, Gaku Yaotome, your very first fan in this world.
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As my first fan, is there anything I can do for you, Gaku?
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He gives her question the serious thought that is deserves. ]
Introduce yourself like you’re at a live.
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she'll take a breath and immediately crank up the charm one whole degree...which, to be honest, is basically kind of like her normal self except way more excitable. ]
Hello everyone! It's, me, Uta!
[ raising both her hands into the air and giving a wave to the would be audience. ]
How is everyone today? I hope you're here to have fun and enjoy yourselves.
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I'm enjoying myself a lot!
[ How could he not? She's adorable. ]
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[ uta doesn't blush but she does give another bow. momentarily she'll bring the mic to her mouth before reconsidering. ]
This would be where I play my next song for everyone, but I don't have the music for it and it doesn't quite match the atmosphere.
[ though since he asked this of her, she's curious. ]
How do you greet your fans, Gaku?
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But she did it, so... Gaku stands up, grabbing the extra mic at the karaoke machine before bowing. When he comes up, he waves. ]
I'm Gaku Yaotome of Trigger! It's great to see all of you tonight!
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Wow! An appearance from the one and only Gaku Yaotome.
[ very announcer-like, however it shouldn't be ignored how she brings the mic back to her mouth properly. ]
How about a song for the audience?
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[ He'll find some music with the same BPM and swing style as his solo song. He'll be considering this a little live remix version of it.
When he's switched into performance mode, his stage presence is undeniable—rather than draw attention, he commands it. Even so, it looks like he's enjoying himself, and he ensures that there's no shortage of eye contact that he makes with the audience, but he pays special attention to Uta. ]
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though, what he might expect is that uta will join him for the chorus for a pseudo duet. pseudo—if only because she's hearing these lyrics for the first time and will fade in and out of where she might suspect the lyrics to be the same as the first time she heard them. ]
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Gaku does his best to harmonize with her whenever she does join in, and when they're done, he claps. ]
Good work!
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it seems like their little performance has not gone unnoticed by the bar and they've collected as large of a crowd that one could expect from a small remote island. all of which seem to also give a bit of an applause to both of them. ]
Thank you! [ she'll give him a brief bow and a bright smile. ] That was a lot of fun; I've never done a duet with anyone before.
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I'm glad you had fun. If you wanna duet again, I'd be up for it.
[ It's fun, especially with someone that has stage presence like Uta. ]
I think our voices go well together.
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[ hmm. ]
If we do, then maybe I can write a song for the two of us. I wouldn't know what it'd be or when I could manage it since it'd be new for me.
[ also sometimes you just get hit with inspiration at the most random points in time? ]
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[ After all, it's only fair that a song for the two of them be written by them both. ]
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