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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[calla]

[ Upon arriving, Kaeya takes a seat by the bar. After a quick conversation with the bartender, he turns to Ellis. ]

How lucky. We've arrived just in time.

[ He'll then slide over the single-paged menu. ]

I highly recommend the dandelion wine, if you haven't tried it.

[framestory]

[ Ellis has frankly, never drank alcohol in his life, so he feels a little wary about drinking, but his need for new experiences override that worry. He nods to Kaeya, since he would know better than he does. Dandelion wine, it is. ]

[calla]

[ Kaeya will order himself the same. While they wait, they can engage in a bit of small talk! If Ellis even can engage in it. ]

Have you since come across something to write with?

[framestory]

[ Not exactly, but he holds his hand out on the table. Give him your hand, Kaeya. ]

[calla]

[ Oh? Kaeya extends it out! ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis gets his free finger to write on Kaeya's palm. ]

Is dandelion wine bitter?

[calla]

[ Oh! This certainly makes it a lot easier. ]

Why don't you try and find out?

[ When their drinks come out, he'll offer the first sip to Ellis. Indirect kiss indirect kiss!! ]

[framestory]

[ He lets go of Kaeya's palm and takes a sip, unconcerned about indirect kisses and the like. He samples a taste and thinks about it a little. It's slightly sweet from the citrus fruits, but he's not sure what dandelion tastes like... he never accidentally swallowed one when he blew one before.

...

He gives it back to Kaeya and writes on his palm again: ]

I can drink it. It stings my throat a lot though.

[calla]

[ He laughs. ]

That's part of the fun, isn't it? [ But he slides the single-paged menu over. ] You can order something else, if you like.

[framestory]

[ Ellis saw the menu earlier and points at the "menage a trois" wine. It says it's sweet, so he wants to try the sweeter wines, thinking the bitterness of the alcohol will balance it out. ]

[calla]

[ i'm going to say that kaeya knows what meange a trois is even if maybe he shouldn't because this is too funny to give up ]

Oh, so you're interested in those types of relationships. I see.

[framestory]

[ Ellis tilts his head and then looks back at the menu to check what he ordered.

...

His face turns red and he throws the menu at Kaeya's face. ]

[calla]

[ The menu is thrown at his face! And he does nothing but simply laugh. ]

What's wrong with a meange a trois? Especially on an island like this?

[framestory]

[ Is he talking about the wine or the actual threesome? Either way, Kaeya gets something like a pout from Ellis and he grumbles. ]

[calla]

[ Kaeya breathes out another laugh. It's at this time that the alcoholic beverage arrives. ]

Your drink, sire.

[ He's curious about Ellis' reaction. ]

[framestory]

[ He pours some inside his glass and drinks it all in one go.

...

He shouldn't have done that. It feels like his throat is burning more than before with some sort of sweet and bitter aftertaste. Ellis ends up coughing off to the side with his mouth covered with a napkin. Ugh. ]

[calla]

[ Another breath of laughter. ]

A little cocky there, don't you think?

[framestory]

[ Ellis vehemently shakes his head no!! He huffs and puts the glass down, then reaching over to Kaeya's hand so that he can write on it again. ]

Cut me some slack. This is my first time drinking.

[calla]

[ Kaeya's smile grows. ]

And you thought downing it back would be a smart idea?

[framestory]

[ ... Yes. He wanted to see what it would have felt like to drink so much at once. He regrets it a little. He just lets go of Kaeya's hand and drinks a little more. He's practicing moderation. ]

[calla]

[ That's much better. Kaeya will take large sips of his drinks in the meanwhile. ]

Congratulations on breaking your drinking virginity, by the way.

[ Anything sex-related seems to fluster Ellis, so Kaeya's actively saying things that he thinks may get any sort of rise from him. ]

They say that you never forget your first.

[framestory]

[ Ellis suddenly has an urge to splash the wine at Kaeya, but he holds himself back. He just looks at Kaeya with a mild level of exasperation and holds out his hand. Give him your hand again. ]

[calla]

[ should have splashed him anyway ]

[ He gives out his hand! ]

[framestory]

[ He's not here to make enemies, unlike someone.

Ellis writes on Kaeya's palm. ]

Has anyone taken your virginity on not being able to tease them on their first date?

[calla]

Not yet. Are you willing to take my virginity?

[ wink wink ]