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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[feralheart]

i. mingle

a. [ Three guesses about who was compelled to join the general exodus to the town square by some kind of strange power. M-21 stands with his arms folded across his chest through the whole introduction, scowling like it's his job. He's too busy glaring after the goddess to actually look at his pamphlet yet. ]

Mind control? On this many people? ...She must be ancient.

b. [ Good news: he's going through the pamphlet now. Bad news: he's found the bingo card. His face is going on a journey as he takes in some of the squares. If he catches anyone standing too close he'll stuff the card inside his jacket like he's got something to hide. ]

What?

ii. forest

[ If a werewolf transforms in the forest does it make a sound? ...Is what M-21 would be finding out, if he could find an uninterrupted place for him to actually try this. Anyone out wandering the woods at night is liable to find a strange man unbuttoning his shirt and glaring at the bioluminiscent flowers like it's their fault this place is sort of conspicuous. At the first sound of an approaching step he'll stop and snap his head around. ]

Who's there?

[ Because he's totally not the one being strange and suspicious right now. ]

iii. wildcard!

[If you want a different starter we can work out whatever! My plotting post is here or you can catch me on plurk/discord.]

b;

[esurientabyss]

[ ...

What even is this feral werewolf doing, pls. He Xuan raises a brow as he stuffs it away. ]

Nothing.

[ ..... ]

Why did you hide it?

[ And here He Xuan asks anyway. ]

[feralheart]

[ His best. Unfortunately. M-21 frowns and answers a question with a question, because he was raised by wolves. ]

Why don't you show me yours first?

[esurientabyss]

[ Bruh.

Well, He Xuan doesn't have an excuse because he was raised by actual humans. But after, you know, some time, his manners are now remnants that leave something to be desired even when they break surface from underwater. ]

Answer my question and I will.

[feralheart]

If you show me your card, then I can answer.

[ Or he could answer just as easily by showing his own card. But that's too embarrassing as an opener. Someone else should embarrass themselves first, thanks. ]

[superg]

Mind control?

[ She repeats. Are there talks of mind control??? ]

[feralheart]

You didn't feel it? Some kind of pressure that made you come here?

[ Is he just paranoid... Okay, he knows the answer to that one, but that's not the point. ]

[superg]

[ She tilts her head, unsure of what he's talking about. ]

No. Last I remember, I was on a plane flying to the United States.

[feralheart]

No, I meant...

[ He gestures a little awkwardly around them at the generally milling crowd of people. Although... ]

America? I was in Korea.

[ Just how broad was this kidnapping ring?? ]

b

[associative]

[ Gaku stands and watches M-21's face, amazed by all of the expressions he goes through in such a short time. ]

Don't like your card?

[feralheart]

Do you?

[ If it sounds a little accusatory, it's only because it is. It would be very polite to ignore the fact that he's turning a little red. ]

[associative]

[ Wow! These accusations! ]

For the most part, yeah. [ ... ] I don't know if I'll ever finish this, though.

[feralheart]

If she refuses to free us until we complete it.

[ Already this morning he's a ray of sunshine. ]

Show me yours.

ii.

[accredit]

[ perhaps, it's normal to be restless when you're summoned to a place so different from your own. even more separate to any experience he's had as a servant. hence, he can see why people seem to be so on edge. while some simply appear to have accepted their fate, he doesn't doubt others have their own share of apprehensions. regardless of what the case actual case is, maybe that's why he ends up tailing behind someone he sees entering the forest at night.

call it concern for a neighbor, or whatever else, but? he does seem kind of suspicious? that said, when he's called out, he comes out from the tree he's been nestled up in.

he jumps down, landing right in front of him. ] You know, even if you strip here, there's nowhere to bathe.

[feralheart]

[ M-21 expected company. He didn't expect his company to be up a tree. When the man lands in front of him he jumps back reflexively—a little too fast and a little too far for a human—and brings up his arm like he's prepared to block. Or strike.

It takes a second longer for the words to sink in, and he tsks in exasperation. ]

I wasn't—

[ ...Which would just invite further prying about what he was actually doing. Lying might not be his forte, but he can think on his feet. ]

...It was too warm.

[ Indisputable genius. ]

[accredit]

[ honestly, it was probably kind of startling to pop out of nowhere like that... but being so used to it, he doesn't seem to see it. hence, he doesn't appear even a inch apologetic. even when it seems... he's somehow hopped in on this guy in his more intimate hours???

except— ] ... Warm, really? Is that the best you could come up with? [ at least he seems amused. ]

Should I try and help you think of something better? [ something tells him this may not be the first and only time this happens to this poor guy. is this what they call the empathy of a hero? a simple act of charity or kindness? who knows, but he just gets the feeling that this person needed some help. ]

[feralheart]

[ M-21 probably should consider 'amused' a better reaction than 'suspicious'. But he bristles just a little at it. Figuratively only, luckily. ]

What? It's true.

[ It's absolutely not, but he's going to double down. Even if, yes. He needs help. He eyes the intruding stranger a little accusingly and tries to think of the quickest way to salvage this. That tone is more friendly than not. But M-21's first reflex, as ever, is to go on the offense. ]

Why were you in a tree anyway?

for jeanne!

[feralheart]

[ It's been a disorienting handful of weeks. Waking up in a strange bed is starting to become more familiar rather than not. The place is a little creaky, but it smells of dust rather than medical chemicals, so M-21 sits up with no particular sense of hurry and glances around at—

What is this place? He bolts out of the tiny bed at enough velocity to nearly collide with the wall. Luckily in the opposite direction of the second bed and its occupant, some woman he's never seen before in his life. ]

Hey. You. Where is this?

[executrice]

[Jeanne can be slow to rise, but she startles awake at the loud noise. Her body goes tense, expecting the worst - but the threat is not immediate. She's simply being questioned.

However... This isn't her bed, nor a room that she knows. What's going on here?]

I would ask you the same, but... It seems neither of us has the answer to that. I'm sorry, I've never seen this place before. [She shakes her head, trying to think back.] Do you remember how we got here? I sort of remember a voice, but...

[Something new, something better, she thinks. But... there's no way she'd let such a thing lead her astray, right?]

[feralheart]

A voice?

[ M-21 frowns sharply—the expression might be stuck for some time, considering—but gradually pushes himself away from the wall and begins pacing around the strange room. It doesn't look secured. It looks... ramshackle, actually. The floor boards squeak under his feet. ]

...I might've heard something like that. I don't remember anything else. [ He glances over at her again, a little lingering suspicion in the look. ] Where were you before this? Lukedonia?

[executrice]

[She folds her hands in her lap for lack of anything better to do with them, but her eyes track the movement. Nothing untoward happens; it really does seem as if he's just trying to work through what's happening (or has happened already, as the case may be.]

I don't either, it seems... Just the sense that it invited me somewhere, perhaps here? And then there's nothing between that and waking up just now.

[The unfamiliar name has Jeanne frowning as well, though, because. Hmm.]

That name is unfamiliar to me... But no, I was in Paris. I'm afraid I've never heard of Lukedonia before... Is that another city in France, or is it another country altogether?

[It's a little embarrassing she has to ask, but it's a good opportunity to learn more.]

i. a.

[tarotcards]

[ hello it's now a souji ]

Ancient?

[feralheart]

[ A TWIST... ]

Older means more powerful. Don't let her appearance fool you.

[tarotcards]

Then should I be wary of the elderly in the park?

[ older = powerful = badass grannies and grandpas ]

[feralheart]

[ He opens his mouth and then just. Closes it again. You know what. ]

...Only if they don't look old.

[ Although honestly Souji look at some of your social links. ]