crescentview | 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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Same time, huh...

[ Wait, hand? What does this mean? M-21 looks around to see if there's something else Ellis could plausibly be reaching for. After a couple seconds he awkwardly sticks his out. Is this right... ]

[ Ellis seems to be happy when M-21 sticks his hand out, so he holds it gently and starts writing on M-21's palm with his finger.

"We can do another one together tomorrow" ]

[ Oh, okay. This is fine, actually. Though it takes a bit to 'read' things like this. ]

So there's a system to it. Got it. [ ... ] This be easier if I found you something to write with?

[ They could scribble on the pamphlets, it's fine. ]

[ Well, yes, but Ellis doubts that either of them have a writing utensil on hand at the moment. He nods anyway while still holding M-21's hand. He's not letting go unless told otherwise. ]

[ This same realization is making its way through M-21's head. Belatedly. ]

...Don't have one. [ A beat. ] I'll find one next time.

[ Ellis writes on his hand again. ]

Which bingo square do you want to do?

[ He looks through it again. All the easy ones are taken, but... he points at 'frolic in the grass.' ]

I've got this one too. I think it just means rolling in it.

[ Ellis doesn't mind doing that, if it isn't apparent from his willingness to do anything and everything. He nods to show him that he's fine with it.

As for a grassy area, Ellis looks back at the pamphlet to see if there are meadows or something.

... ]

[ ... ]

This map is terrible. Maybe if we just walk until we see some.

[ More and more this is seeming not as easy as he thought. Damn goddess. ]

[ Ellis nods, though he suggests the forest area more by pinning his free thumb on the pamphlet, since that would probably have grass. ]

Yeah, good thinking.

[ Okay, they can go that way... Actually, since they have the pamphlet, maybe he can look through the profiles for this guy's. Is it weird to go frolicking in the grass with a dude whose name you don't know? ]

[ It's only weird if you think it is! Ellis doesn't seem to mind that fact anyway. While on the way to the area near the forest, M-21 will find Ellis pretty easily because the goddess can't draw white hair properly and he's one of the few who matches the color with his height at 180cm.

Anyway, he is leading M-21 because they're still holding hands. Don't worry about it. ]

[ M-21 isn't worried about it! You know, maybe Ellis is just hanging on in case he has something else to say. Seems fair. Also M-21 is pretty sure he could toss him like a football if he needed to. ]

Ellis, huh? I'm M-21.

[ Good thing Ellis happened to turn around with excellent timing and catches what he says. He recognizes that name because it really stood out in the pamphlet, but not because of its peculiarity, but because it was different from everyone else's. He smiles and slows down on leading so that he can stand alongside M-21 instead of ahead of him.

He writes on his palm again: ]

"It's a nice name."

[ He's very genuine about it too. ]

[ Side effects of the timing: M-21 hasn't yet realized that Ellis can't hear him. He matches his pace to Ellis's, tracking the letters carefully.

A nice name, huh. That's a complicated feeling. The uncertainty crosses M-21's face before it settles into his usual stoicism. ]

...Thanks. Yours too.

"My name used to be Fifty."

[ So he understands the complications of having numbers in your name, or them being outright the name. ]

"21 means new beginnings and opportunities."

[ M-21 definitely didn't expect to be emotionally compromised this quickly. Or, like, at all. He looks away and gives that a few moments to sink in, a little painfully bittersweet. By the time he glances back at least he's not looking quite so stricken. ]

I never heard that. ...It's not so bad. What about 50?

[ Ellis pauses for a second, his conflicted expression fleeting and is put into a smile soon enough. ]

"Personal freedom and a need for change."

Freedom. That's a good name, too.

[ A little antithetical to the way M-21 thinks of people who give numbers for names. Maybe it's kind of complicated for both of them. ]

[ It sure is. Ellis has his own reasons, but the fact that M-21 has a number name makes him feel like he could actually forge a legitimate bond with someone else, but only for a second. He keeps the smile on his face and eventually arrives at the forest area! Luckily for them, there's some grass out here. Not too short, not too long. ]

[ M-21 hasn't totally forgotten their goal here. He gives the grass an undeserved look of challenge like it's partially responsible for this, but the glare drops the moment he looks back at Ellis. ]

Right. So... Rolling, I think. [ A beat. ] You going first? [ His dignity... ]

[ Ellis looks at the way M-21 almost (what he thinks) glares at the grass. He lets go of his hand and immediately goes to tumble into the grass and rolls several times. His clothes are going to get dirty, but does he care? Not really. ]

[ Okay, well, dignity is dead here. That's fine. In that case M-21 can flop himself down after Ellis and do a little rolling of his own. His suit's seen worse days, Frankenstein can just have a fit when he gets home. ]

[ The bingo cards have been stamped the next time they take a look at it, but Ellis doesn't check. Instead, he rolls right on top of M-21 and laughs a little. ]

[ M-21 puts a hand up as if to catch him by reflex, like he's in any danger of squishing Ellis. But the laugh actually gets a smile out of him. ]

...Not so bad.

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