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

spring breeze

[passthrough]

[Well, he'd been keeping quiet when the guy started popping off after the Goddess's initial monologue, distracted by the fact that this guy feels way too much like another spirit... but there's no sword, he doesn't recognize how he looks or sounds, and it doesn't help that this sort of sense has never been his strong suit anyway. Leave it to the wakizashi, not him, because apparently he can't even figure it out with something eight feet from him.

But then there's a lull, and the imminent explosion, and the stranger voices exactly what Otegine's been biting his tongue about. Yeah.... yeah, this guy has a damn good point!]

Seriously! What kind of stunt does she think she's pulling here??

And why are some of these people so relaxed about it?

[harimaya]

(Oh, a familiar face. He looks visibly surprised thrown off to see Otegine here. Otegine, who he doesn't know very well but has always seemed like a reasonable enough person to him. It's acceptable company and far preferred than say... Mikazuki Munechika that asshole. )

Prol'ly thinks she can do whatever the hell she wants just 'cause she's a goddess...

(Yet another situation where the big guy picks on the little guy.)

Having a farm and all that sounds cute but it ain't.

[passthrough]

[one-quarter of the entire crescentview cast: "fuck the moon in particular"

The surprise doesn't catch him horribly off guard - maybe this guy's just not used to having someone agree with him. Who knows.]

It's not. Just handling it as a chore is enough of a pain, but putting it on a bunch of us that don't know any better? You'd treat tree branches with more dignity than that.

[He's so salty. He is salty for the people here but mostly he is salty for himself. HE'S NOT MADE TO PLOW!!!!!! Ugh. Ugh. He blows his bangs out of his eyes, expression flattening as his hands plant against his hips.]

If this is just some sort of joke, it's not a funny one. This whole... farm thing, asking for something like marriage... mn, the damn place went and took my weapon, too. Can't find it anywhere.

[harimaya]

(He! Is! Nodding! He agrees with Otegine. What a reasonable yari. Doing fieldwork is a pain. Taking care of animals is also a pain. It's good that they're on the same page! It'll make working together easier.

(The fact that Hizen is even considering this is A Thing.)

He also notes how Otegine mentions his spear being taken. So his was missing too? Hm. But really, the most important thing to address right now is,)

Shoulda picked someone that can get married then.

(Swords can't get married!!! They are swords! )

[passthrough]

...Yeah. Yeah, hey, wait a minute!!! That just makes her goals for getting out of here impossible!

[is the goddess being inclusive or exclusive with this decision to her fellow spirits

and what weirdo would even want to marry a sword, anyway]

Is this supposed to be torture or something? What did we do?

[harimaya]

(If a man can marry Hatsune Miku then they can probably marry a sword too.)







Ya think we did something?

(DID HIZEN DO SOMETHING WRONG???)

[passthrough]

[if everyone wants to marry buzen and hasebe clearly there is someone out there for them too]

I don't know??? Why else bring something in here that can't meet up to the standards of the task, unless she's just plucking at random? Who DOES that?

[Good thing this lady isn't a saniwa because wow. :/

Still, he has to take a second to try and calm down before he gets too worked up here. He runs a hand through his hair with a glance down at the shorter spirit.]

I mean... I can only really speak for myself. If it's really not possible for you, either, then maybe we're more alike then I thought.

[harimaya]

... Don't look at me like that, beanpole.

(He knows you're tall but don't look down on him like that!!!)

[passthrough]

[HELLO?

He chokes a little.]

O-oi... who are you calling a beanpole?? How else am I supposed to look at you?

[harimaya]

You don't!

(IF YOU CAN'T LOOK HIM IN THE EYE ON EYE LEVEL THEN JUST DON'T LOOK AT HIM. Actually, even then? Don't look at him!!!)

[passthrough]

That doesn't make any sense!!

[this is a very productive conversation]

I'm already too short as it is...

[harimaya]

You wanna talk about getting shorter?

(LOOK AT HIM, OTE. ALL 167CM OF RAGE.)

[passthrough]

[Ote, oblivous:]

No. [That's too sad.]

Look, uh... do you want me to crouch down or something? I don't really have a lot of options like this, you know! And that seems, uh... mean.

[harimaya]

Just quit looking at me weird.

(He huffs,)

What? Never seen me before or something?

[passthrough]

What's weird about it? Ah... anyway, I'm not trying to, I promise.

[What a weird thing to ask, though. He takes a moment to look Hizen over again, to glance at the unfamiliar black seal against red fabric, crossing his arms over his chest with a tight look of thought.]

...No, actually. Not that I remember, anyway.

[Mn. He should be careful about this. His voice lowers a bit.]

You're, uh... not part of the citadel, are you?

[harimaya]

overflow!