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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[associative]

[ Oh! He's surprised that she looks touched, but he doesn't address it. It's best not to rub those kind of emotions in people's faces. ]

I can hold the baking stuff and whatever else you can't. What do you want to put in the stew?

[irresponsibly]

Hmm... Carrots, celery, potatoes, meat – if that's available...

[ She'll kind of mumble a list of things, but Gaku should be able to catch most of it. ]

What about you? What do you plan on doing for dinner...?

[ Can she cook for him! Can she make him want to be her friend even more... ]

[associative]

I was planning on having dinner with you, but if you've got other plans...

[ He smiles, fully aware that she will probably say he's welcome to join. ]

[irresponsibly]

[ !! ]

No. No, I don't – I don't have plans. You're welcome. To come over. I will make dinner.

[associative]

[ Her embarrassment doesn't faze him whatsoever, almost like he's used to it. ]

Great. We can bake dessert too. And some bread to go with the stew.

[ This works out perfectly! Sorry He Xuan, you're on your own for dinner tonight. ]

[irresponsibly]

Y...yes...haha, that's true...the bread would go nicely with it.

[ Gaku you're so embarrassing. Anyway, once they get to the store – ]

If you can grab the salt, I'll get some vegetables.

[ She's sure there won't be many since they're expected to grow them themselves, but it wouldn't hurt to check, anyway. ]

[associative]

[ He sure is!!

Gaku does as he's told and grabs some salt. When Lucia is done getting the vegetables she needs, she'll find Gaku looking at the small selection of boxed cake mixes. ]

Chocolate or vanilla?

[irresponsibly]

...Vanilla?

[ She says this with uncertainty. She has no idea, both seem like they're good. ]

What do you like?

[associative]

Vanilla if it's not too sweet. Chocolate is fine, but I prefer darker chocolate than what they have.

[ He picks up one of the vanilla mixes to get a better look at it. ]

[irresponsibly]

Vanilla is a safer bet, then.

[ She prefers chocolate, but she will follow Gaku's preferences. She's not super picky when it comes to sweet things. ]

Okay...I think that's everything on my end. Are you finished?

[associative]

I am!

[ He proudly holds up the salt, vanilla cake mix, a carton of milk, and a carton of eggs. ]

I think this is all we need.

[irresponsibly]

Ah...you got quite a few things. Well, good. We're prepared.

[ They can finally leave!! Thank goodness. And when they do, she turns to him – ]

You know quite a bit for not baking a whole lot.

[associative]

[ He laughs. ]

Don’t give me too much credit. I only got eggs because I saw it on the box for the mixes. You found me after I grabbed them.

[irresponsibly]

Ah- w-well! Even so, you knew about the salt...

[ And she didn't. He's already a step above her!! ]

Do you enjoy cooking, then? Is that what you do in your free time?

[associative]

...I work at my grandfather's soba shop, actually. I cook and do deliveries whenever I have a day off.

[ He's a little embarrassed to admit it... but he figures it's fine to let that information run freely here. ]

[irresponsibly]

[ Ah- ]

Really? I used to do deliveries, too, for a family-owned restaurant.

[ The more you know!

Do you not have much free time, then?

[associative]

No. I'm too busy with work. Days off are pretty rare for me.

[ He laughs, deciding he'll only reveal what he does if Lucia asks. ]

[irresponsibly]

[ She will, in fact, ask as they approach her farmhouse. ]

What do you do other than deliveries, then?

[associative]

I'm an idol. I'm the leader of a group named TRIGGER.

[ He's not expecting her to know the group, since no one else here has. ]

1/3

[irresponsibly]

2/3

[irresponsibly]

[irresponsibly]

A-an idol? You're? An idol?!

[ She is going to expire, thanks. ]

N-not that it doesn't suit you, you look great-! I just meant, uh...

[associative]

[ He's used to reactions like this, so he doesn't even think about it. ]

Don't worry about it. [ he knows he looks good dw ] But yeah, I am.

[irresponsibly]

[ We love a confident king. ]

Oh, god. Ohhhh god. I - haaaah...

[ She starts mumbling something about first impressions. ]

Sorry, I've never met a celebrity before!

[associative]

Haha! Don't worry about it.

[ Sorry he's laughing, Lucia... ]

Just treat me the same as before. I didn't change just because you found that information out.