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!

navigation

Comments

[sicklysweet]

[What?]

What.

[He doesn't have friends? Much less a buddy. He can at least acknowledge Gaku might not be the worst but that makes him terrible. He's too nice.

Anyways.]

A phone? No. They don't exist in my world, but I heard about them from the Sage.

[He says like that's something they should both already know about.]

[sluice]

[ Other world? Sage? Look, he's the lowest of the Harbingers for a reason, his brain is struggling to wrap itself around the concept of phones. Owen probably isn't talking about spices, either, and Tartaglia's a little buzzed from the wine, so his word-to-mouth filter is a bit fucked at the moment.

To Gaku: ]

I take it you learned from a 'Sage' as well?

[ Is Gaku also a 'Sage'? To reiterate: this conversation is on speaker. Everyone can hear Childe being stupid in high fidelity. ]

[associative]

[ Gaku blinks at Childe. Is he serious right now... ]

Huh? No, I don't know what a Sage is. My world just has more technology than yours.

[ And then to Owen: ]

What's a Sage?

[sicklysweet]

[…Oh. Right. Nobody knows shit about how his world operates.]

They’re a human who gets summoned from another world to help in the fight against the Great Calamity. There’s probably been thousands of them, at this point.

[All very normal things he has literally never mentioned to anyone on the island.]

The current one is named Akira. He’s from… [let his half a braincell struggle to remember] Japan? Tokyo? One of those places.

[…]

He also said phones could take “pictures”, too, so he was clearly lying about them anyways…

[sluice]

[ Incredible how little sense any of this is making right now. Technically, Childe knows He Xuan as the "Great Calamity", which adds another layer of confusion to this debacle, given that He Xuan also couldn't tell him what phones were?

The main takeaway: someone's lying to him here. Instantly, Childe's on-guard, a whole lot less receptive to this conversation than before. Since Gaku's in the room, he's privy to that sudden, radical shift, his eyes a whole lot colder than before. ]

Ring any bells to you, Gaku? Do phones take "pictures" in Japan?

[ Admit that Owen's full of shit so he can disregard everything and go on his way. ]

[associative]

[ Great Calamity... Gaku decides he's not even going to touch on that right now.

And it's not like he could anyway, not with that cold look Childe is giving him. ]

Yeah, of course they do. The one I brought with me takes pictures, but it's dead now.

[sicklysweet]

[We don’t need to talk about the moon.]

Maybe because we’re not in Japan they’re just worse phones?

[He doesn’t really have a horse in this race, but. It’s a theory.]

Like how the elevators in Japan don’t take you to other countries. Same but worse machinery.

[sluice]

[ Okay, hold on a second. Maybe he jumped to conclusions (again)... it sounds far more likely that Gaku and Owen are from the same place. They both recognize Japan, after all. This makes so much sense. Good luck dealing with that Great Calamity threatening to destroy everything, Gaku. ]

We use boats where I'm from. [ Childe's a little hesitant to confide anything, but he may as well contribute to the conversation: ] As far as I know, phones don't exist in Teyvat. Kameras are what take "pictures".

[ Not that he can demonstrate that right now? Just trust him. ]

... What are elevators?

[associative]

[ Ah, yes. Boats. Gaku decides he won't even bring up cars right now. ]

Elevators are like... boxes you step into to go up another floor in a building.

[ That added no context whatsoever. It's fine. ]

How the hell do they take you to another country? That makes no sense.

[sicklysweet]

I'm not the one who built them, so why are you asking me? All I know is that you put a mana stone in, and it takes you to the elevator in the country you want to go to. They've been around for centuries.

[Which of course makes perfect sense and explains everything.]

They're faster then flying on your broom, not that that's something humans can do anyways.

[sluice]

[ Crazy how he is just third-wheeling in a conversation that makes less sense as it goes on. Maybe Gaku is magical, after all? This could track. What the hell is this deep lore... Childe almost asks if elevators are like stairs before he's thrown into another loop.

Not even going to talk about flying brooms right now. One mind-fuck at a time. ]

So, they're a lot like Domains? [ Listen, he can use weird buzzwords no one will understand, too. ] Except they aid in crossing continents... and through buildings? I see.

[ No, he doesn't. Wait a second. ]

That does sound convenient. What else are these "mana stones" used for?

[associative]

[ What is going on anymore... Mana stones? Domains? What the fuck is any of this?

Don't mind him as he lets out an exasperated sigh. ]

...I'm so lost.