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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[tarotcards]

ɪ. ᴄʟᴏsᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴇʟʟɪs

[ Souji wakes up in a bed that's not his and with a roommate he doesn't know in said bed. ]

[ ... well, there could be worse ways to wake up but Souji goes still when he opens his eyes and sees Ellis. He takes a quick glance around before noticing that Ellis is also awake. He should say something-- ]

... good morning?

ɪɪ. ᴛᴏᴀᴅ-ᴀʏ, I ᴄʜᴏᴏsᴇ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ʜᴏᴘᴘʏ!

[ Later, Souji is out and determined to do his squares. He's come a little later than everyone else so he knows that the rewards are real. So! Here's his first square. ]

What happens to a frog's car when it breaks down? [ And without waiting for a response. ] It gets toad away.

[ Bam, first square done. ]

ɪɪɪ. ʟᴇᴛꜱ ɢᴇᴛ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴛᴏ ʙᴜꜱɪɴᴇꜱꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴇꜰᴇᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀʀᴅꜱ

[ Later on, he tries out more things! By just being real direct about it. ]

Trade a square for a square?

ɪᴠ. ᴡɪʟᴅᴄᴀʀᴅ

( ooc: hmu on my plotting comment and i'll be more than happy to write up any starters! you can best contact me either through plurk at northpaws or discord at ichihara#6064 )

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[framestory]

[ He just woke up, but now there's someone else in the bed? He thought he compromised with Sherry, but apparently that was a dream. He shrieks and tumbles out of bed. Who is this intruder?! He throws a pillow at Souji's face. Robber!!! ]

[tarotcards]

[ Pillow to the face! Souji kind of deserves that for suddenly appearing in someone's bed, but he doesn't know how he got here! But it's clear that he's not welcome so he'll start to sit up. ]

Sorry, I'll get out.

[ He'll just... leave tbh ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis is ao confused. Where is Sherry?? He runs out and around the house. It's not like he can call for her, but... huh??

Then he runs back inside and looks at the pamphlet. Is Souji on here?! Where is Sherry!! Aaaaa ]

[tarotcards]

[ Souji is in the pamphlet! While Sherry is now gone. haha get gaslist ellis ]

[ Anyway, Souji is standing outside the front door, unsure what to do or what is even happening. Not that it matters since Ellis can't hear, but he turns around and knocks on the door. He doesn't know where he is, so he would like to talk to Ellis again but maybe without a pillow to the face ]

[framestory]

[ His life is just one big gaslighting anyway, it's fine...

Ellis feels so wary and weary that he just drops the pamphlet on the bed and looks at the door. He can't hear the knocking, but he basically kicked Souji out and he kinda feels bad. So after he gets dressed in sweatpants and a t-shirt, he finally opens the door.

He's startled when he sees Souji right there, but there's no pillow to the face this time. ]

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[archivists]

[ Finally, someone is being straightforward about the squares... bless. After peeking at Souji's, he pulls out a cat shaped pebble (???) from his pocket. ]

Here, a surprise gift.

[tarotcards]

Purrfect.

[ Looking down at the pebble, he'll treasure it furever. Hmm, he has a surprise gift on his bingo card too but he doesn't have anything! Going through his pockets, he pulls out a half eaten jerky (it was for the strays...). ]

Sorry, but this is all I got.

[ Placing it in Noe's hand... ]

[archivists]

Purrfect? [ Is this how Noé learns about puns... ] I'll take it.

[ And he'll give it to the strays anyway. It's probably fine. ]

My cat would eat it in a few seconds.

[ Cat owner flex. ]

[tarotcards]

[ gasp......... a cat owner flex........... souji is so jelly ]

What kind of cat do you have?

[archivists]

He's white and fluffy and his name is Murr.

[ He's so great at describing cats, it's not like lots of cats are white and fluffy. ]

I wonder if he got lost somewhere around here... [ That's what Noé's going to think until Murr actually appears. ] What if he already was here and married another cat and went back home?

[ Theorycrafting at its finest... ]

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[flamenova]

[ oh! how proactive... ]

...Have you eaten, yet?

[ only because... ]

I...might be able to handle some of your food-related ones. ...And I have a few too, so it may be a good place to start.

[tarotcards]

Well, the only food-related ones I have involve wine and spoonfeeding.

[ wine is totally food ]

Will that be okay?

[flamenova]

Spoon-feeding doesn't sound very hard. In fact, it's on mine too, so that's pretty convenient. And in a pretty good spot, at that...

[ anything along the sides is good, right? like a jigsaw puzzle? she's never done bingo before... ]

I can probably make us something that's easy to scoop up with a spoon, if that makes it simpler. We could share a nice, hearty tomato soup? ...Or are you more of a dessert person?

[tarotcards]

( over here! )

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[tot]

[ (naru voice) "i hate thinking about one piece technology"....then proceeds to address technology with uta. do cars exist in one piece? franky has built motorbikes but—either way, she's going to give souji a weird look as she processes the joke.

it is a joke, right? ]

It gets toad...away?

[ i'm sorry. ]

I don't get it.

[tarotcards]

[ does one piece have cars............ if they have motorbikes then they should have cars.......... but cars in one piece............... ]

That's toad-ally okay, I got plenty more. What kind of music should you listen to while fishing?

[ After a pause. ]

Something catchy.

[tot]

[ technology in one piece......... touches the ground and then slowly lies down.

as for uta, however, she won't say anything for a moment before snickering. the fact that he is just saying things like this. ]

That's so bad!

[ yet she laughed?? ]

[tarotcards]

[ technology and now language in one piece................ ganba naru u got so much ahead of you ]

It wasn't half-bad.

[ He's smiling, enjoying that she laughed at his awful joke! ]

[tot]

[ shuts my eyes. it comes up whether i want it to or not. ]

No way, it was completely bad.

[ says the one who is still trying to control her snickering. ]

Where did you learn jokes like those?

wildcard

[framestory]

[ To celebrate all their upgrades in their farm and house, Ellis and Souji decided to watch a movie. Which movie? Ellis doesn't know any movies, so he told Souji to pick them out or they'll be watching some random Hallmark stuff on the available channels. Ellis makes himself comfortable on the couch with his head dangling off the couch upside down, the throw cushion over his stomach, and his legs draping over the backrest of the couch. He's so ready. ]

[tarotcards]

[ Souji has chosen his movies! They're intentionally bad ones, like The Room and Titanic the Animated Movie-bad. Those are always the most enjoyable, so after heating up a bag of popcorn, he comes out to their very nice living room (he'll help out too, he promises). Sitting on the couch, he places the bowl between them then tap Ellis to make him look at him so he can mouth-read. ]

Don't choke.

[ He'll start to start with the first VHS tape, dubbed 'Killer Seal Part II: The Reckoning'. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis hasn't really watched a movie before (it's complicated), so he looks forward to his entertainment for the night. With Souji's warning, he sits up and gets in a correct posture on the couch next to him.

Also don't mind if he dooo—he takes a popcorn. Munch. ]

[tarotcards]

[ Souji will grab some popcorn here and there, but it's mostly for Ellis so he doesn't take a lot. As they watch the movie about this seal, a killer seal, going around and getting revenge for its dead son, Souji pulls out his tiny notepad (that i'm going to reward myself when i submit for rewards shhh) and quickly writes in it. He then shows it to Ellis. ]

I guess that seals the deal.

[ Since getting his stationary kit (shhhh), he's been trying to also communicate with Ellis through writing - well, only during slow moments where responses weren't time sensitive or when he doesn't want to poke at him just to make him turn around and read his mouth just for a dumb joke. ]

[framestory]

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