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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[ You know, as someone who also cried on the first day, Lucia is in no position to judge this guy's emotional reaction to the sunset. She has her own silly things she gets teary about, so does he. And, to be entirely fair, sunsets are quite beautiful.

She isn't expecting him to catch her standing nearby, though, so her eyes widen when he apologizes. She freezes in place. Awkward, awkward – but, oh, he's inviting her to sit...?

She'd feel like a jerk if she declined, so she walks over and takes a seat next to him. She's not one to watch these, but...perhaps it won't be so bad, this time around. ]

Are you okay?

[ Kaspar just gives her another smile when he glances away from the sky again, with a nod of reassurance. But he'll only cry more if he doesn't take a moment to clench his jaw against it. He can't not look though, so he's back to watching again. The tears slow, even as he sniffs a little and uses his sleeve to soak them up.

He sighs quietly, content as he leans over to rest his elbows on his knees and his chin in his palms. ]

Thank you. ... Will it do this again, you think?

[ She looks out at the sunset, but holds her hand up above her eyes, shielding herself from some of its brightness. Unlike Kas, who's marveling at the sight, Lucia is squinting and wondering how this is making him cry.

His question, though, gives her pause. ]

Will what do this again?

The, uh...

[ He is squinting too, looking farther up towards the darker parts of the sky. Kaspar leans back comically far to accomplish that. What's one more embarrassing admission when she's already caught him crying? ]

Space above us. It must go pretty far.

...The sky?

[ Does he not have one, where he's from? She can't help but wonder. ]

The sun will set every day, if that's what you're asking about. You'll be able to see it again, I'm sure.

Right, that.

[ Kaspar smiles over at her reassurances, thankful for the help. The darker it gets, the more of a glow starts to illuminate his skin, brightest at his eyes. It brings out the ring of blue in his grey eyes.

Genuinely making sure he's got it right-- ]

Sun. That's the bright one falling into the... ocean?

[ Something about this is endearing. Perhaps it's that this guy is literally glowing, or that he's learning something new that would ordinarily seem so mundane... That's beautiful in itself. But – ah, when did she get so profound?

She can't help but grin at his curiosity. ]

Yeah, it is. It's...well, it's not really falling into the ocean, but it looks like it is, I suppose.

[ A beat, then: ]

So...I'm Lucia, by the way.

[ Kaspar breathes a little laugh at the correction. He still does think it looks like the sun is falling, but no one else seems panicked over it. Maybe it's a trick of the light, then. Faintly, he still wonders where the Sun goes and what it really is. Is that what they'd labeled so dangerous back home? Well, his pink ears and hair parting say maybe it is still a little dangerous.

He could ask her about the sun and the stars, and how big the ocean is, maybe, but being curious is almost as fun as finding out the answers. Kaspar watches the sky darken, trusting her claims as the light takes heat with it. He's gotten through a lot by enjoying the moments like these when he can, however common.

It feels more casual to trade first names without the distance of the second for once. Actually... going forward he probably will stick to his first name now. ]

... Kaspar. It's nice, meeting you.

[ He tries to think of more to say after all the new socializing he's worn himself out doing today, but he ends up chilling quietly and comfortably beside her for some moments after that unless she breaks the silence. ]

Good to meet you, too.

[ She's more than content to sit in silence for a bit, though when it stretches for a little too long, she shifts a little, wondering if she should say something. He seems to be enjoying himself, though, so she decides to stay quiet and let him take in his surroundings.

It's fascinating, meeting someone who's never seen the sun before. She wonders what kind of place he's from, what sort of life he must've lead...

Briefly, she glances over at him, as if she wants to say something. Ultimately, she bites her tongue and glances back at the sun. ]

[ Kaspar notices her glance. And after a beat, he follows it with one of his own, pausing to appreciate the way the waning light illuminates her and the nature around them. It is still such a strange thing, too see a human that can get lost so easily in the dark. His smile is soft and warm, even if she catches him, before he returns to looking out at the sky.

He's never been that great with spoken words, not like his thoughts on the beauty of this place; he could wax poetic given enough time. Kaspar takes a stab at her curiosity, based solely on the other questions he's gotten today.

It is almost out of the blue, yet he doesn't seem to worry about it being odd-- ]

... Groscia is under a mountain.

[ Under a mountain, he says. Interesting. ]

So that's why you haven't seen the sun before.

[ She can't imagine what that's like. Even though she doesn't go out very often, a life without sunlight would be gloomy. She wonders idly if that'll be the case for Kas, whenever he goes back home. ]

This is a huge moment for you, then. Um... [ A pause, then: ] Congratulations...?

[ This laugh is almost a hum, mouth closed with the lion's share of the warmth residing in Kaspar gaze. His words don't trail off, because uncertain or not, Lucia's words hit their mark on his heart.
This is meaningful to him, more than he has the words to explain to her. But he tries to convey as much in his grateful tone. ]

Thank you.

[ Kaspar falls back the rest of the way once it is mostly dark, hands clasping behind his head; blond curls spread against the grass. The blades of green are illuminated, hazy against the glow of his skin flickering happily, as if to match the stars above him. That awed look is back. Though the night sky reminds him more of home than the sun. Glow worms and their nets of silk and bioluminescence create ceilings of star like patterns in the caverns. He wonders if that is what these are, giant celestial worms seeking even larger prey for their beautiful trap. ]

... these too.

dec event.

KAAAAAAS

LUCIAAAAA

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