crescentview | dec event.

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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( oh shit, someone was paying attention- satoko startles, almost flinching as he comes closer before she manages to straighten herself out again. for a moment she looks up at him, emotional and confused before shaking her head and letting it fade as quickly as it came. )

No, it's nothing. I just... woke up stressed out. You don't have to worry.

[ It really doesn't look like nothing, so he's going to be stubborn. ]

This is a lot to take in, that's for sure.

[ He takes a look around as if to confirm if they're still actually here in Crescentview. It truly seems like a dream of sorts. ]

I think you should get some rest at least. Maybe on that bench over there...? I can keep you company until you feel better.

( oh no. he's persistent. )

Really, I'm fine, it's fine-

( eeeeeeeeexcept she's letting herself be pushed to it anyways to be honest. )

[ He'll guide her to that bench and sit next to her, watching her carefully. ]

Maybe I could walk you to your farm after you rest here for a while. Unless you have some business in town, that is. My name is Noé and I promise I won't let anything bad happen to you.

[ That's grand, but... yeah, that's how he is. ]

( that almost makes her laugh, but she somehow doesn't. it wouldn't have been sincere if she had, anyways; despite her best efforts satoko has been left cynical and such an earnest act has her thinking in the back of her mind, "you would have died back then". )

I- I want to look around, before I go back. We need to know more about this place while we're here- and I don't know if we have food back at the farm or not-

( at least she'll know what to budget for if it turns out they don't. )

... My name is Satoko. You don't have to make such a grand promise. It's... ( don't be rude don't be rude don't be rude ) ... If the worst comes to it, I don't want someone putting themselves in danger for me. Okay?

I'll accompany you, then. [ Honestly, her priorities are at the right place. They might have got all these ridiculous pamphlets and bingo cards, but they can only do so much if there's no food or water. ] I mean... we don't have to talk or anything, but it's probably safer that way.

[ Somehow, the town doesn't look like a dangerous place, yet Noé still insists on going with her. Surely, Satoko looked a bit lost and scared back there and that's the reason why he's here. After mentioning food, he notices something about her...

The scent of her blood. The hint of sweetness doesn't escape him, even if Noé knows better than bringing it up during a conversation. ]

I understand what you mean, but I'll be fine, I promise. [ Noé wouldn't want anyone to get hurt because of him either, so in that way he gets it. ] I know it's too early to say it, but this place doesn't look dangerous at a first glance.

It doesn't, no. But things can always happen.

( watch as this foreshadows like, a forest fire plot or something- no.

but if he knows its fine, why is he hovering?

(it's because you're on the verge of a panic attack and he's nice, satoko.)

(and also he's a vampire and you're delicious.) )

... It'd be a nice travel-through spot if not for everything.

[ Silent Hill is also considered a nice travel-through spot... I mean what. Back to Crescentview: ]

If the goddess brought us here, she wouldn't want us to get hurt, I assume. [ Oh you sweet summer child, you. ] Especially if she wants us to marry... there must be some kind of a reason for that, right?

[ What a funny moment to bring this up when he can't ignore the sweet scent in the air. ]

( it's fine if you manage a day without fog! shh! )

No, she just wants us to upheave our lives and do as she says.

( says the girl with 'bruises/biting' on her bingo card.

she is ignoring the bingo card. )

... If there is one, it doesn't make sense to me. But the demands of kidnappers rarely do.

[ Her words make Noé sober up in an instant. ]

Kidnappers...

[ He murmurs and allows the silence to linger for a bit. Well, she's not wrong—they were brought here against their will, even if their surroundings don't seem particularly dangerous. ]

Maybe we can find another way out along the way? I'll try looking into it if you don't want to bother with the card.

[ It's okay Satoko, his card starts with 'anal', so he's in no place to judge. ]

I- I don't even get the point of that- it's-

( satoko flushes, looking away in frustration. who says 'have sex with a specific kink for a bingo card'?! shaking her head, she tries to clear her throat and recompose herself. )

I don't plan on sitting down and looking pretty, despite current evidence to the contrary- I just...

( she falters, before sighing. )

I don't understand anything again and it sucks.

You don't just look pretty, you also—

[ Did he really SAY THAT. Absolutely flustered, Noé looks away, hoping that she won't see the blush spreading across his face, all the way to the tips of his ears. At least he managed to not finish that sentence. ]

I wish I understood what's going on here, too. I'm sure we can get to the bottom of it if we try, though.

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