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crescentview2022-11-30 11:55 am
crescentviewmods) wrote in crescentview2022-11-30 11:55 am
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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[ But he clears his throat. That glance at the bed won't go unnoticed. ]
I guess we're clearing out one square already...
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[ ...Yeah, it looks like they are. At least it'll be for a good cause, for them? And honestly, if he has to share a bed with someone at least it's someone who is attractive. He Xuan does have eyes, after all. ]
...How about I try out a hobby of yours, and you can choose what you would want to do with me on another one of your squares?
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notcatch him. ]I'm fine with that. I don't have many hobbies, though. Are you any good at dancing?
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Anyway, how funny that even He Xuan might have had enough manners to do the very same...but here, it's different. ]
...No, I'm not.
[ TEACH HIM HOW TO DANCE, GAKU!! ]
Will you volunteer to teach me?
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[ Ballroom? One of Gaku’s dance routines? The world is He Xuan’s oyster. ]
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What do you know? I'm not familiar with many 'dances'.
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[ But that might be hard to do for a first-timer. ]
Or... we can slow dance. That's easier.
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[ Not that He Xuan cares too much about his presentation, just carrying it out for the most part. Though... ]
...Slow dancing would be easier. Show me the proper form.
[ Should be simple enough, as far as he's concerned. It's ironic that he hasn't even seen what a slow dance looks like, but such happened to have been the nature of his life. ]
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Put your hand here.
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Easy enough. What next?
[ Placing (1) hand on Gaku's shoulder. ]
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Closer.
[ He uses that hand to push He Xuan close enough that they're less than six inches apart. ]
Move your foot back and I'll move mine forward.
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When is the last time He Xuan has ever willingly allowed someone to get this close? Technically, not all that long ago, since he was once playing at being someone's 'friend' and they had a habit of being touchy-feely at times. But even then he never let that person touch his waist. That was with someone else a long time ago... ]
Fine.
[ He Xuan says that even though he clearly has allowed Gaku to push him closer...but he is doing better than he thought he might at this. ]
Then I follow?
[ The man follows the words simply, moving his foot backward, and expecting Gaku to follow up on his own movement. ]
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[ Gaku presses forward with his foot, and then again with his other, waiting for He Xuan to get the cue and step back. He also uses his hold to guide him a bit, hoping that makes this process easier. ]
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[ He is a little unsteady as he's following along due to the awkwardness of this on his part, but at least they're going slow so he just barely also misses stepping on Gaku's foot. If they had chosen something with a faster rhythm and complex maneuvers, it is doubtless there'd be a lot of that happening...RIP.
Anyway, he doesn't have anything else to say at the moment because maybe it will make his initial mistakes imperceptible. Also, he is bad at smalltalk. ]
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Softly, he tuts out a beat on his tongue, using his hold to guide He Xuan. ]
Left, right, left.
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Whatever, it's just filling out a square, what does it matter.
As this goes on, he continues to follow the steps, getting used to it. He imagines a time instead where he hasn't had his fate exchanged for another's. Or...perhaps...he thinks back to a certain event when he had extracted revenge in his domain. But he decides there's no point in over-thinking particular what-ifs.
The distant look leaves his face whenever they end up coming/or are coming to a stop. ]
Your skill in these movements is decent enough. It hardly felt like a waste of my time.
[ ...it sounds so simple, straight to the point, but it is an actual compliment. ]
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Whatever it is, Gaku notices that it disappears when they stop. ]
If it was, I'd be pissed that you didn't say something earlier.
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I'm not the type to withhold my judgments. If you ever do something worth criticism, I'll speak up at the very moment, no matter how inconvenient it is for you.
[ This is probably not the most reassuring thing to hear. But then again if Gaku doesn't mind such brutal honesty... ]
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Good. I'll do the same. Knowing that you have the same habit makes me feel better about it.
[ He really isn't one to mince his words, so he can work well with people who operate on the same level. ]
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Good. This will make dealing with all of this nonsense easier.