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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[accredit]

[ oh... those are definitely some squares. to be honest, he probably could afford to be a bit more abashed about the whole thing, but he decisively opts to focus on the rest of them. he figures it helps if they both seem like they're on the same metaphorical page here...

with that thought in mind, he almost deliberates on what he'll say. 20 questions... ] Sure, it sounds simple enough. [ apt silence... ] 20 questions, 20 questions.... [ before, rightful admittance: ]

What is that?

[calla]

It's a conversation game to get to know one another. We take turns asking questions until we each twenty.

[ It's... long. ]

[accredit]

So just as the name suggests? [ that gets a bit of a laugh from him. albeit this time a bit sheepish considering his own lack of awareness. that said: ] But, it sounds interesting! Let's do it.

If you don't mind me going first. [ a pause. ] What kind of place are you from?

[calla]

The city of freedom, Mondstadt. It's a quaint little place, so not very exciting.

[ Now it's Kaeya's turn! And it's easy enough to think of his question. ]

What about you?

[accredit]

Really? You'd think with a name like the city of freedom, it'd be a pretty crazy place to be. [ not that he doesn't think freedom could be found anywhere, really. after all, he was the sort who basically only did what he wanted, regardless of who orders him. ]

I just came from a place called Trifas. Kind of like here, I was summoned there. [ he says absently with a bit of shrug. ]

The place itself wasn't exciting, but I'd like to think I made my own fun.

[calla]

[ unfortunately, everyone is too busy getting drunk and having alcohol poisoning in the city of freedom ]

Oh? So this isn't your first magical summoning?

[accredit]

[ isn't that peak excitement?

but, he nods along to those words. ] Yeah, but think that applies to most heroic spirits. I have to say this is pretty different from what I'm used to, though. Never been encouraged to marry before.

[ then again, it's usually a bit more complex. it's not like they could have ever recalled it, either. outside of very specific contexts, but achilles doesn't really think anyone would be that interested in such a thing. admittedly, he's barely bothered with it himself.

that said: ] If this is your first time, then have you traveled a lot before now? [ he means whether to different worlds, dimensions, or otherwise. ]

[calla]

[ Heroic spirits??? These 20 questions are going to go by in no time because what the fuck is this guy talking about ]

Here and there, but never to other worlds, no. [ Might as well tell the truth on this one since he can't exactly fib going to other worlds/dimensions. ] You've mentioned heroic spirits. What are those?

[accredit]

[ i'm sorry, fate/ is a ridiculous canon.

a late realization that this all probably sounded insane out of context. a second, before he kind of catches himself. ] As the name suggests, heroic spirits are just the spirits of heroes who've achieved great things in their past life. Not sure if it makes it easier to imagine, but we are summoned in a similar manner as any other spirit... [ except, maybe... with more mana and being infinitely more taxing? he seems to scratch at his cheek a bit at that. ] It must not make a lot of sense, huh?

[ a pause, he tries to think of some sort of frame of reference, and so he settles on: ] Do you use any sort of magic?

[calla]

[ laughs i'm canon familiar so no worries! kaeya is the one going ?????? da fuck ]

I do.

[ Does the Vision count as magic? Sure, why not. He just wants to see what explanation will come from saying yes. ]

[accredit]

[ thank you, but suffers as i explain anyway... bc do i even know fate/ and kaeya sets the bar so high. ] Mm, that's good. [ he nods to himself, as if his explanation would make any more sense... but, it won't because i am the one typing it. ]

Kind of like how you would call upon your magic, Masters would do that on an even higher scale. If you think about it, you could even think of most Servants as a physical form of a spirit. [ simple version... ]

Honestly, it's kind of complicated, but if you're going to fight a war, you'd need at least that level of conviction.

[calla]

[ grips ur hands, trying to explain fate/ is just (sweats) ]

I see. Then what sort of great things have you accomplished to be considered a heroic spirit?

[accredit]

[ grips urs back... ]

Does it count if I won a war? [ with an army, of course, but he'd like to think the prophecy held some stock. that said: ] But, you mentioned you do magic, right? How does that all work for you? I mean, are you a warrior, too?

[calla]

My, that does count. That's quite the accomplishment.

[ Now, as for him! ]

As for myself, I'm but a humble knight, captain of my city's cavalry unit. My magic is ice manipulation, but that's certainly nowhere as impressive as winning a war. Which war was it?

[ They're now at eight questions! ]

[accredit]

[ moved to overflow here! ]