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

[passthrough]

Mn. Fair enough. Part of this feels more like a hostage situation than anything mutually beneficial. [His stuff... stuck at the bottom of a pond dimension somewhere... :(]

Still, uh. Antagonizing her won't help that if we're on her territory anyway.

[chevaliered]

If half of what she wants is “stuff growing”, how’s crippling an extra pair of hands or ruining what he grows gonna get her what she wants? I’m not here to piss off god on purpose, but I’m not gonna have anxiety about it.

[passthrough]

Who knows. If she got us all here, maybe she can easily replace us if she thinks we're too troublesome. I really don't think she's kidding around with what she actually is.

I just wish she were a little, uh... easier to understand. It's kind of hard not to be irritated when it feels like you're being toyed with. Or, you know... to want to toy back, I guess? [Is that what you want here, crow. Spite bath in the pond?]

[chevaliered]

[ i think he’s had enough baths today. also i don’t know when/if he should be doing his curses but the curses are there in spirit, maybe. or going to attack him soon. ]

I don’t think being “easy to understand” is part of any spiritual or godly being’s handbooks. But it’s easier if you give your “toys” the carrot as well as the stick.

[passthrough]

Hey, to be fair, not all of them are like that. [the nerve. It's fine he won't bother to explain.] It's on her if she wants to be so obtuse.

If she went and did all this... research on us, or just knows what we like or don't like, then I'm just confused why she isn't using that to her advantage. Marriage isn't even possible for some of us.

[chevaliered]

It’s like part of the rule book. Annoying on this side of it, but it’s probably kinda fun hiding facts and secrets from people honestly.

[ hmm. ]

Kinda weird though isn’t it? Like — if she did do all this research on us, why? And also, notably, how? I don’t recall anyone asking any weird questions out of nowhere recently. No weird than usual.

[ the “marriage isn’t possible for some of us” thing gets a tilted head. ] If that’s her end goal I doubt she’s gonna be like “actually, you few are banned from the altar”.

[passthrough]

Good question. She got us all here somehow, so I'm guessing she's not exactly playing with powers that make any sort of sense anyway. But if she's a mind-reader, then she's... kind of bad at it?

[As far as marriage is concerned? He just shakes his head.]

Ah. No, she's... made it pretty clear she's expecting all of us to do it. Just... uh... [Damn, how does he put this...]

...It doesn't line up well with, uh... occupation.

[chevaliered]

She could be guessing. Like ballparking and hoping for the best? But enough of it is accurate that it makes you wonder.

[ he pulls a face. ]

Good luck with that, goddess.

[ …… ]

“Occupation”. [ that’s a new way of saying “i’ve never had a girlfriend/boyfriend” to crow ]