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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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[ maybe uta can sing her introductions. spice it up a little. ]
There’s probably a way to improve it, even if we have to stuck it up and do it ourselves. You good with wood work?
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[ not that uta hasn't considered it because pirates and everything but at the same time...pirates and everything. but look she could totally sing her introductions if that's what the people ask. ]
I'm not; it's not something I learned. How about you?
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[ like. blunt as hell. yeah. he’d believe it. ]
Mmm. [ he wobbles a hand. ] With enough time and effort I could probably put together something. Whether it’d be good or not, I don’t know.
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[ she doesn't know how to feel about this knowledge... she certainly doesn't want to sus people pointlessly. ]
That's better than me. Well, I could probably learn how to make something but I'm not sure how safe it would be to live in.
[ or sturdy. or. legit anything. ]
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[ pause. ]
Worlds.
If you’ve got to do something, then you do it, y’know? Giving up’s not really an option, especially if it’s something like patching a giant hole in your wall.
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[ nods. ]
I'm certain that if it's a big hole in the wall then almost anything would be better than the hole. [ ... ] You don't have a huge hole in your wall, do you?
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[ worlds. ]
… [ he tilts his head. ] Not a giant hole, but there’s some drafts and parts of the wall that probably need patching and reenforcing.
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[ looks into the camera and at uta. ]
Oh. There are holes like that for me as well, but at least the weather is still nice and we probably won't have to worry too much.
[ unless imagine that we wake up one day and see a sudden rainstorm happening. and because this will happen in a semi-organic way or so help me: ]
Isn't the card she gave us supposed to help with that, too?
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Well. Weather changes, so… better to be prepared, right? And uhhh… I guess? I should probably do some of those. Get some basics done and some supplies stocked, that kind of thing.
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[ to both the matter of changing weather and multiple worlds. the latter of which is a bit... well. one piece gonna one piece and uta will bring out her card that she has stashed away god knows where. ]
I'm not exactly sure what all we can get when these things are finished, but maybe we can exchange a square for each of us and see what happens?
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What appeals to you? Matching t-shirts? Grabbing a bite to eat? A hug?
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[ looks at our plans and then throws them out the window. ]
But getting something to eat is nice too.
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It’s a freebie really. For me at least, you got one as easy as that one? Other than eating at the restaurant — might as well grab some food. Although if they charge we’re gonna be in a bind.
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Yes, I have a hug as well, so it was like two birds with one stone, right?
[ but hmm. ]
The goddess never mentioned anything about money, but maybe the locals would be forgiving to us since we're still new. Or we could pay them back in other ways.
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Look at us go. One day, however many more to go.
[ and she is free. ]
We can always go and ask. Work something out. I… got flower seeds? So, y’know. Maybe they want a bouquet or something.
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what is currency in this place anyway? she hasn't seen any. ]
I have some flower seeds as well and some for other plants. They take a while to grow but maybe that'd be fine for them. Maybe it's a barter system here.
[ since. money? ]
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They must have something. Maybe if we give them real kicked puppy faces they’ll be nice and tell us we can eat for free.
Or maybe we’ll just toss them an IOU. It’s not like we’ll know if we don’t ask.
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Hopefully it is the IOU versus them kicking us out if we had to pay something.
I'd be perfectly fine to do other work for them if it meant paying for the meal. ...that's a thing that could work, too, right?
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If we ask first they can’t get mad at us. Or maybe you can do big doe eyes at them and we can get a meal in exchange for doing some dishes.
—[ ah. he snaps his fingers. ] Yeah exactly. See? Same page. Look at that teamwork.
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and she'll laugh softly at crow's comment on their teamwork. not like the concept is foreign to her, but it is nice to hear. (also what is "big doe eyes" exactly?? a question she will not ask.) ]
If you think me talking to them would really help our case then I'd be happy to do so! I just hope that they're understanding.
[ a fist pump into the air. ]
Shall we go then?
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Statistically, a pretty girl will probably melt hearts more than a difficult guy, right? Worth a shot.
[ cute. he'll fist pump back. ]
Alright. No time like the present.
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