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

[unsync]

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By... sea? By air it'd only be thirteen hours or so. I know COVID was a whole thing, but I'm pretty sure lots of people have been going to England anyway.

[ Thank you real world events and AINI's modern-futuristic timeline. Granted, he thinks saying decades is a bit much. He's just going to gloss over getting called stupid, people are mean enough to him that he can just skip right over that. ]

You say that but Hokkaido and a lot of the northern half in general has a good amount of farmland... still, Japan isn't the tour de force when it comes to agriculture. And I'm from Tokyo.

[ Empire........... he's wondering if he's speaking to a particularly concerning brand of human. ]

Uhm, I'm sorry, but going back to a different thing -- Empire?

[winebar]

[HELP I DONT WANT AI TO EXIST IN A WORLD WHERE COVID HAPPENED.]

Yes? The British Empire? You can hardly tell me you aren't familiar with it.

[That said.]

But what are you saying about "by air"? I suppose it's technically possible to travel from Japan to England by balloon, but it would hardly take such a short amount of time.

[unsync]

[ I guess in this universe the Statue of Liberty is on Ellis Island for no other reason to fuck with you so there's that. ]

I mean, sure... in history class.

[ He hopes this isn't some kind of imperialist ass he's run into. He's got the whole cosplay. ]

I mean... a plane, sir.

[ OR YOU AMISH? The Amish probably know more. ]

[winebar]

[Does England even have amish???? If so they probably wouldn't live in London.]

.... A plane?

[JUST STARING AT HIM IN UTTER CONFUSION.]

[unsync]

[ Good question but I'm sure it has communes that completely miss the flow of the modern world because somehow they exist in every nation. ]

Yeah. The, um, giant metal bird, that you ride.

[ He thinks this is what the old timey would probably call a plane, never mind that it sounds terrible. ]

[winebar]

What in god's name are you talking about?

[HES NOT AMISH HES JUST FROM THE PAST, RYUKI]

[unsync]

[ Ryuki has not yet learned time travel because he's normal.

He's thinking. ]

Big... metal bird... flying car... but huge...

[winebar]

Are you quite mad? Flying cars do not exist.

[unsync]

I wouldn't say quite. But Mizuki has a rocket powered scooter, and I've seen it, so. If I could show you, I would.

[ And then slowly, as if trying to avoid some offense landmine: ]

You seem... really old fashioned. Mister.

[winebar]

I hardly see how refuting your delusions with facts makes me old fashioned.

[Ryuki I'm begging you to ask him what year it is.]

[unsync]

[ HE'S BEEN TRYING WHILE TRYING TO AVOID ASKING IT STRAIGHT ON. He asked "Empire?" and Ziekers really just said "yes", in full "France is Bacon?" fashion. ]

Because... they're not delusions. It's been over a century since the first airline was built.

[winebar]

Oh? And In what country and what year precisely was this so called "airline" yours built?

[unsync]

United States, actually. I think it was 1914. We got ours in 1951 after the second World War.

[ You making me look this up but also fortunately Ryuki is well-educated and also has a past with planes so could probably feasibly know this even without Tama helping him out. Please. Wifi. ]

[winebar]

[FROWNING INTENSELY. WYM THE "SECOND" WORLD WAR??? IMPLYING A FIRST ONE???]

This is lunacy. The year is 1899, and I don't take any stock in any claims of future prognostication such as these.
[Welp.]

[unsync]

[ I like how this is the second time at minimum you've had to go through the exact same WHAT DO YOU MEAN SECOND? scenario after Ogata.

But wow. 1899. Like the Netflix drama. ]

And I don't take any stock in your accusations of parachronism!

[winebar]

[LOWE I WAS LITERALLY SAYING THAT IN THE DISCORD A MINUTE AGO ITS SO FUNNY TO ME. Shame about Ogata's death he would have loved World War 1.]

Any claim requires proof! What, pray tell, are you claiming the current year to be, and what proof do you have of it?

[unsync]

[ STOP YOU CAN'T JUST SAY YOU LOVE WORLD WAR I ]

I just said that because I wanted to sound cool too...

[ Okay, he'll try to be serious, question mark. ]

Uhm, well. I guess I have my ID. [ AND ALSO HIS EYE BUT HE'S NOT GOING TO TAKE OUT HIS EYE IN FRONT OF A STRANGER. ] Do you have any proof either, though?

[winebar]

[I DIDN'T SAY THAT I SAID OGATA WOULD HAVE!!!! Anyway this is... arguably a good question. He reacted on instinct demanding proof, but how would one prove one thing over another?]

... What we need is corroboration. Rather, now that I think on it, in general, it would be valuable to gather everyone brought here to get everyone's stories straight.

[unsync]

You... want to hold a convention just to prove what year it is?

[ The dedication... ]

[winebar]

I would have used the word "group meeting" myself, I don't know how you arrived at that one.

[unsync]

[ ( What else would I call a group of supposed time travelers? ) ]

I don't think it's a big deal, Mr... oh. Um.

I realised I never asked your name.

[winebar]

[If he were in a better mood he'd just say van Zieks but Ryuki has agitated him and therefore he's pulling rank;]

Lord Barok van Zieks. And you are?

[unsync]

[ This means nothing to him but since van Zieks offered his... rank...? He supposes he should. Man, Europe is wild. ]

Detective Ryuki, Mr. van Zieks. It's... nice? To meet you?

[ Well, at least one of us has had an okay time. ]

[winebar]

[A JAPANESE DETECTIVE YOU SAY.... Van Zieks freezes up for a moment.]

... I see. Apparently the standards in your country have dropped.

[unsync]

You shouldn't talk about yourself that way...