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

[flamenova]

H-huh?

[ she's just as perplexed, when he responds to her: she honestly didn't even notice him there, too focused on her new feline friend to catch sight of anyone else there. but when he starts to shout, it all falls into place — this playful rascal must be... ]

Have you two...already been acquainted, then?

[ clearly there's some kind of history between him and this cat. she gingerly scoops the little one up in her arms, with a bit of trepidation: as though she's afraid that she'll break it, if she holds him for too long, or too closely. ]

I was just trying to help him find his way, is all...

[accredit]

[ at least, it doesn't seem like she's all too offended or ... weirded out by his prior misstep. it's both a relief and another matter to take up with his cat, atalanta. (naturally, if the person it was named after had ever known, she'd likely only view the whole thing with a sense of chagrin or displeasure, but... listen, he is free here).

which, he does: ] You really are a troublemaker. I almost feel like you're trying to make things awkward on purpose. [ he says as he notices the way, the cat obviously seems to prefer being in this stranger than him. that said: ]

Sorry about that. She's more fickle than she looks, I guess. [ he reaches out, but the cat seems to firmly make it a point to ignore him.

he half-wonders where was the cat that seemed to follow him around when he first arrived. ]

[flamenova]

They can be like that, can't they? But I wouldn't feel too bad about it. It's probably just because I'm a bit warmer than the average person.

[ ... ]

In...the temperature sense, I mean. It sort of, um, comes with the territory of being a fire Blade.

[accredit]

You think so? [ it'd be a relief if that were true. even if it was a cat, it'd feel kind of bad for this cat to hate him in light of her namesake, or so he'd think. still, at her statement... he falls silent for a second.


warmer than the average person.

at first, he isn't sure if that was more of a statement against him, or? ] To be honest, I was thinking I just made that bad of an impression on you just now. [ which, he laughs about now. but, as she speaks, he does... find himself all the more curious. ]

Fire blade? Like an actual sword?

[flamenova]

Well, in my case, yes. But a lot of Blades take all sorts of different shapes and sizes. I...can't exactly show you right now, but I usually have a sword that goes along with my Core Crystal.

[ ... ]

...Which... probably sounds strange, doesn't it? I'm sorry, I'm...not really used to being in a place where people don't know about Blades and Drivers.

But you don't have to worry about any of that stuff, if it's complicated. You can just call me Pyra.

[accredit]

[ honestly, as surprising as it is, it isn't so conceptually out there that he can't understand. or so he'd say, but whatever he doesn't understand, he does his best to conceptualize in things he does understand. he supposed even for famed figures or other servants, he doesn't think if a belief or legend could truly take a form of its own, then why not a weapon.

that doesn't mean he really comprehends what that is, but he gives an easygoing smile all the same. ] It's not strange at all. I have to say, I haven't encountered a Blade or anything like that before, but it's nice to meet you, Pyra.

Guess, all I really got to know is that you're the one to go to when I'm cold. [ a joke, but, he continues in tune. ] You can call me Rider.

[flamenova]

Oh! Um, yes, that's certainly true! If you need a warm fire when you get a little chilly, you can count on me. I don't even need kindling either!

[ it may be a joke, but she's...taking it very seriously? is she bad with that sort of thing? ]

I would give a little demonstration, but I don't want to startle your poor little one, here...so I suppose you'll just have to take my word for it, for the time being.

[accredit]

[ oh... she's actually offering herself, which is kind of impressive in its own right. he seems both excited at the prospect actually coming to fruition and... also kind of worried about her. ] I'm happy to hear you say that, but I gotta say I'm a bit worried. Just make sure you're very careful with who you share that with.

[ but, obviously putting it out there that he is... safe.


in theory. that said: ] ... Is it that startling? [ should he be concerned now... ]