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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!
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Are you sure? I don't mind helping, but won't a few of these be difficult with a complete stranger?
[ Rean says while sounding exactly like a nicer Diluc.
Anyway, he roots about for his bingo card before producing it and holding it out to Kaeya. ]
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Well, a few may be, but some may come easier than others. Which ones do you find difficult?
[ Kaeya produces his own. ]
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[ Honestly, he wasn't thinking of himself when he said that. There are a few that might be less than ideal, sure, but it isn't as though there's anything on his he would absolutely hate. He would've looked back over his card to make sure but then Kaeya produces his card. Rean moves to get a better look at it.
...huh. Well, those are different. ]
After seeing your card, I don't know if I have a right to complain about anything on mine. [ Rean gives Kaeya a look of sympathy. The goddess really meant it when she said "fall in love," didn't she? ] And shouldn't you be the one telling me which ones you aren't comfortable with?
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Are there any that I should be uncomfortable with?
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Since he doesn't know Kaeya at all he brushes his instincts aside. ]
That depends entirely on you. But if it were me, I'd probably have trouble with... [ He hesitates for a few seconds before lifting a finger and pointing at "kissing." ] This one, and...
[ There are actually a lot of options for what he could pick for the next one but in the end his finger settles on "share a drink with two straws." ]
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Is that so? Well, it's a shame that you don't have these squares, otherwise I would have offered to help.
[ :) ]
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For a few seconds. Then, he feels kind of bad about it. ]
That's very kind of you. [ He places his hand on the back of his hip. ] If I had them, I might consider accepting. And while I could offer you my help anyway, it might be better to hold off and let someone who shares those squares help you.
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[ ehehe he has that dumb cheeky smile on ]
Now, which squares on your card are you having trouble with? Perhaps I can assist.
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[ He's had other priorities. Like his hair, which sounds more shallow than it is. ] Why don't we focus on the squares we have in common? That seems like a good place to start.
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[ Going over both cards, he points out the ones that they share. ]
Truth or Dare, try each other's hobbies, camping, movie marathon, and spoon feed.
[ He'll let Rean choose. OOCly, all are good except for Truth or Dare! ]
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I think we should try each other's hobbies. I just hope you don't find any of mine too boring. [ It'd be a shame if Kaeya had to quit because his interests were too mundane. ] I spend a lot of time honing my skills with the blade, fishing, and cooking. Oh, and I occasionally play card games.
[ There's more but those are the easy ones. ]
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What kind of card games? Perhaps I could take you up on that.