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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Comments

[sugarnaut]

( ... he'd doing his best and she acknowledges this. which is why she doesn't keep complaining out loud. honestly she kind of wants to go find someplace and just... hide. maybe cry a little, where no one can see her. pretend it's all a bad dream.

but she knows by now when she's wide awake. )

Yeah. Just... urge a bunch of people into marriage. Weird goals, gonna be honest-

[feralheart]

[ Honestly, he has a naturally suspicious personality and even he can't see what she gets out of the marriage thing. Ancient beings can be strange beyond comprehension. ]

Yeah. Whatever programs the TVs here receive must be terrible.

[ If she's that bored. Because—okay, the delivery's a little lacking. He fidgets. ]

[sugarnaut]

( okay, no, that gets her to laugh a little. )

Oh, no doubt. But this is the worst way to go about entertainment, dontcha think?

[feralheart]

[ Hey, look at that. Definitely better. M-21's expression relaxes a tiny bit in turn. ]

No kidding. Maybe someone should throw a game into her pond.

[ Or rocks. Rocks are good. ]

[sugarnaut]

I'm considering it, honestly, but I wanna see what happens to other people first.

( satoko dON'T SASS THE GODDESS )

[feralheart]

Alright. I'll try it first. Then you can throw her clown paint.

[ A KINDRED SASS SPIRIT... HE'S FOUND ONE. ]

[sugarnaut]

( how dare you make her laugh when she was busy being terrified and reliving the start of the worst event of her life- )

Oh, we're going to get so cursed.

[feralheart]

[ This is an absolute win in his book! He gives her a little smile too. ]

She can try. I'm not expecting much from a goddess that can't even make the roof not leak.

[sugarnaut]

--RIGHT? She can grab all of us from wherever we came from, but not give us a stable roof?

[feralheart]

Or a floor that isn't half busted. Doesn't seem like she's very good at this.

[sugarnaut]

Ugh, did you see the barns and stuff, too? I'd feel so bad for putting anything in there!

( in several days, she will have a sheep. this feeling will only intensify. )

[feralheart]

Not yet. She expects us to raise animals, too?

[ Wait... He feels a premonition of unease. Would livestock even be alright with him? ]

...Maybe I'd better stick to plants.

[sugarnaut]

I saw a barn house and what looked like a coop while we were being ushered out.

( which still makes her skin crawl, gonna be honest. )

... Not sure you can handle taking care of them? That's fair, honestly- animal husbandry's no joke.

[feralheart]

[ The reminder of that makes him roll his shoulders unhappily like he's shaking it off. Yeah, he's got a bone to pick with the goddess still. ]

Never even had a pet. I'd probably scare them off.

[ And then where will he be? Chasing sheep through the woods, that's where. ]

[sugarnaut]

( satoko glances up at the man, before humming thoughtfully. )

You don't seem that bad to me.

[feralheart]

[ Humans aren't as sensitive as animals, right? But that's. Kind of nice. M-21 fidgets, looking a tiny bit pleased. ]

...Hm. If you get something, maybe I'll visit.

[ Yeah, good compromising start. See if he scares someone else's sheep first. ]

[sugarnaut]

( 'if'... she doesn't want to be responsible for another life here. she doesn't want a life for herself here. the two would conflict too much. and she's not happy with the state of the buildings. she doubts it will happen.

(in several days, she will have, at the very least, a sheep, a cat and hizen's dog.) )

I'll let you know. ... Oh, uh- I'm Satoko.

[feralheart]

Oh, right. M-21.

[ It's still a little strange giving his 'name' out that freely. But it's in the pamphlet, and what else is he going to ask her to call him?

The future is bright with cute animals, thank you Satoko. ]

...My farm's in the forest. If you need anything.

[sugarnaut]

( she wants to question that but there are tree people. there are people. who are plants.

so nah.

the kitten will fall asleep on him so fast. )

Mine too. Wonder how that's gonna work out as actual farmland...

[feralheart]

[ Thank you tree people for being the 'obviously non-human' lightning rod.

THANK YOU KITTEN. ]

I guess something must grow out there... Moss? Haven't gotten a cell signal since I got here to check.

[sugarnaut]

( satoko huffs a little, nodding. )

Mine, too. I figure we're at the very least too far out from any service...

( but given the tree people, there's no guarantee they're even on earth. )

I guess... mushrooms? Or types of trees?

[feralheart]

Yeah. Your name is Japanese, isn't it? I'm from Korea.

[ 'Out of range of Japan and Korea' doesn't rule out a lot, but. It's... something? ]

Huh. Those sound right. Mushrooms should be fast...?

[sugarnaut]

Mmhm. I live in Tokyo, too. So... normally this isn't an issue.

( and the town......

...




she's not into architecture, she doesn't fuckin' know, dude. )

[feralheart]

Yeah. Well... focus on what we can do right now. There's probably other places to get information about growing things.

[ Please???

The town is 'old,' that's all he's got. ]

[sugarnaut]

I think I saw a library on our way in? But I don't have it in me to try and read all that right now.

( like. it could be so much worse but she is so overwhelmed and a little overstimulated because of stress- )