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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!
here, there, everywhere
...Trahearne, of Tyria. A pleasure, Diluc. [ Does he need his titles anymore? Probably not.
He grasps Diluc's hand firmly, and offers a small, polite smile. ] I suppose this is the part I call you my friend to make this meeting more efficient.
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The pleasure is mine.
[A firm handshake, a polite smile... Yes, Trahearne seems like the sort of man he'll look forward to working with if escape from this island is truly impossible.]
I appreciate your forward-thinking approach. Yes, let's call this a friendship and see if the Goddess blesses us as richly as she's promised to. I can't imagine she will, but it's hardly wasted effort to try.
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If she's as petty as you make her sound, then I suppose we'd best make this declaration of friendship convincing.
[ Because if she is, then this is going to be difficult. Though he'd like to believe in the best of people...
Anyway. ]
I'm glad to have you as my friend, Diluc.
[ ...
...
...and now what. ]
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I would fight with you until my dying breath, friend, and then my soul would carry on in my stead.
[Yikes. This is worse than he thought. Perhaps this is why Diluc has no friends.]
...At this point, we may as well ask her if she's accepted the validity of our friendship.
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Heartening words, Diluc. I'd be honoured to have you fight by my side.
[ That comes from a genuine place, and not a show for the goddess.
He cants his head back towards the plaza, as though inviting him along. ]
She seems to be open for Q&A. [ A strange thing for a "deity" to do, he thinks, but whatever. ] We may as well. Care to join me?
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Following that gesture, Diluc walks alongside Trahearne back towards Town Square.]
Naturally, not that I expect her to answer reasonably or well.
[Talking shit where the Goddess can hear him? Yes. Ask him how many fucks he gives, the answer may surprise you.]
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He does chuckle though, glancing at Diluc as he does so. ]
She seems to treat this as a game, doesn't she? I'm not sure if that bodes well for the rest of us at her whims.
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It most certainly doesn't, but we don't yet know how much caution we ought to exercise around her, either. She was powerful enough to bring us here, but not so powerful that she isn't relying on us to do her bidding for her.
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[ He taps a finger to his chin. The more he thinks about it, the more questions he finds himself with.
Surprisingly, though, he's being very lenient with her. Considering...well. ]
There's too much about all this--and her--that we don't know. I'd say staying on one's highest guard would be reasonable, at least until we learn more.
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What other choice do we have? Until someone invokes her ire, and they will, we're better off avoiding her bad side. I'm loathe to admit it, but you are correct.
[...]
In the meantime, what will you do, Trahearne? Do you intend to do as she wishes and start a farm?
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But he doesn't mind the chatter, either. He looks up at Diluc when he asks. ]
I may as well. As much as this whole situation doesn't sit quite right with me, I am...thankful that I'm here. I don't see any harm in a bit of farming.
[ He keeps it vague and glosses over it. ]
What of you? You don't sound too happy with the idea.
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I have important business to attend to back home. The last place I want to be is anywhere but where I'm needed.
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I imagine many others feel the same. To be ripped from one's business without so much as a warning is jarring, to say the least.
[ ... ]
At least she has suggested that there is a way out, however.
[ At least it's not like. indentured servitude. ]
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Upon reflection, he realizes how very insincere that is. Hence, an alternative. He turns to face Trahearne— and to keep the Goddess out of his sights.]
That she has, but I'm no more interested in getting married out of obligation than I am calling strangers my friends. That said, it seems the two of us have plenty on common. If we're going to be stuck here together, we may as well get to know each other properly— as real friends do.
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He has a point. ]
You know, I'm inclined to agree. I've enjoyed our conversation, and I think I would we would get along well as real friends.
[ Trahearne smiles. ]
Shall we alter our course, then?
that gag tag sent me btw
Let's. Given our situation, we'd be better served by testing the veracity of her claims over asking her directly. If you don't mind, let me see your bingo card.
[And he'll show Trahearne his own, expecting that the man he's specially chosen to be his one and only fwiend will look over the salacious options on that card in favor of the other ones. Fucking? Diwuc Wagnvindw would never.]
im glad.
It seems we have quite a number in common. [ He will ignore how they both have "bites, bruises (smut)". ]
Picnic, hug, try each other's hobbies-- [ He looks at Diluc. ] What strikes your fancy?
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Anyway, squares. 'Trying each other's hobbies' sounds like a safe bet, so he points to that one.]
Care for a game of chess or darts?
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At the indication, Trahearne gives an emphatic nod and a smile. ]
I can't say I'm very good, but I would love a game of chess.
[ And this gives him time to come up with his own hobby to share. Notoriously, he has no hobbies. ]
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Well then! It sounds like they have a plan. With that in mind, Diluc pivots on his heel to direct them to the grocer's. They have a small selection of board games and such there, so with any luck, they'll also have a chess board.]
That's alright. Everyone begins somewhere, and if you find that you enjoy it, you've got a practice partner right here.
[😳]
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