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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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It does. [ Maybe not enough to satisfy, but his smile's wandering towards genuine nonetheless. ] Planning to share why you feel the same way?
[ Whether or not Mira's feeling called out, Tartaglia's completely nonjudgmental, pausing mid-stride to glance back at them. ]
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They glance out toward the expanse of the mountain for a moment before looking back at him. ]
My brother used to take me up to the mountains. He said it was where I thrived most and that if it were up to me, I'd never leave. He wasn't wrong. [ A small, bittersweet smile tugs at the corners of their lips. ] I trained up there regularly, even after he passed on.
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It's hard not to respond to kind. He doesn't bother disguising his intent. ]
... And now? Planning to keep training?
[ The offer's there to help, right on the tip of his tongue, to help. It doesn't really matter what it entails, in that regard. But he won't toss out the suggestion if Mira's already succumbed to regrets and little else. ]
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[ Their answer is immediate, without even a breath of hesitation. They get it, though. If he'd asked the same question a few years ago, their answer would have been different.
A few years ago, and they still remember so clearly even through the haze of barely-there memories and a fight that has no end in sight. ]
Even if I had a choice, I would keep going. When there's something that's such a big part of your life, it's not easy to stop, is it?
[ The world moves on, even if it so often feels like theirs had stopped the day their brother's heart had. ]
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[ He sure is a terrible, toxic influence, but there's a complete lack of self-awareness underpinning all of his words. ]
Let me help. Although... when you say "training", I assume you're referring to the obvious?
[ Obvious only in the context of being a bloodthirsty warmonger, at least. Please, let it be sparring. ]
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If you mean climbing trees to build endurance, sitting under ice-cold waterfalls, meditating at the very edge of a cliff...
[ They deliver that so matter-of-factly that it's probably hard to tell if they're joking or not...
But after a pause, they crack a small grin. ]
Just kidding. I'd be glad to have a sparring partner here.
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[ Keep joking around like that and he'll have to take Mira seriously. Look forward to waterfall-related hypothermia in the immediate future as Tartaglia breezes on, undeterred: ]
How long were you planning to leave me in suspense, again?
[ Show him what you got! He'll need some idea of what he's working with, here. ]
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[ They roll their shoulders back, and their eyes are definitely brighter with excitement. ]
Mine's Mira.
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[ Whatever rolls off the tongue easier, apparently. ]
Now I want to see what you can do, Mira.
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[ And that's all they need before they rush forward. They're noticeably faster than a normal human, even with how small they are. Once within reach, they crouch down slightly, and bring their elbow up toward his stomach. ]
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Shoving them back, reflex is clawing through his nerves, and Tartaglia heeds it. Cutting through the space between them, the swing of his fist so precise. His footing's so sharp and unbroken, leaving no easy openings as he aims for Mira's head. Tit for tat. ]
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They raise their arms, taking the blow with a low grunt before twisting around him and jabbing their elbow at the small of his back. And if that connects, they'll sweep their leg at his feet to knock him down. ]
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Plenty of openings in his stance, if they're watching him for weaknesses to exploit. His prowess lies in close-range weaponry. Without any blade to rely upon, his technique's more shoddy and instinctual, utterly reflexive, like it's something Tartaglia taught himself. Technically, it is. Three months spent in the Abyss before he could claw his way back to the surface and now he's just a little ravenous for violence in all the ways that he can find it. ]