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

[irresponsibly]

[ Thanks, Ellis... She looks a little embarrassed from all the reassurance he's doing, mostly because she knows it was just a little prank on his part, but once she brings over the bowl, her nerves are for a different reason entirely. ]

Here you go. Please let me know if it's okay.

[framestory]

[ Ellis withdraws his hands so that he can get started on eating what Lucia cooked. He is honestly not very picky when it comes to food, but he thinks this is pretty good, so Lucia gets a thumbs up from him. Great work, Lucia.

After that, he keeps on eating, because he didn't realize how hungry he was. ]

[irresponsibly]

Ah...

[ The thumbs up...how sweet. He seems to be enjoying it. It really touches her heart more than words can express, and she just watches for a few moments before she remembers to make her own plate as well. Before she can leave, though: ]

I-I'm glad you're enjoying it...thank you, for trying it.

[framestory]

[ Ellis waits for Lucia to come back and then holds out his hand towards her. Give him your hand, Lucia. ]

[irresponsibly]

[ Oh...? She looks at him with slightly widened eyes, and then she extends her hand and gently places it on top of his. She hopes that this is what he's asking for, at least. It'd be embarrassing if it wasn't. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis gently turns her hand so that he can write on her palm. ]

Your food was delicious. Is this your best dish?

[irresponsibly]

[ When his finger traces over her palm, she puts two and two together: It's a message. A very kind one, too. Ah, this'll be the second or third time she's teared up today. How embarrassing. ]

Yes...yes, it is. Stew is one of my favorite foods, so I wanted to learn how to make it myself.

[framestory]

[ Ellis gently puts Lucia's hand down and reaches out with his other hand to put his thumb near the bottom corner of her eye in case the tears fall. ]

HOW DID I MISS THIS??

[irresponsibly]

[ Oh...that's such a soft gesture that it actually manages to make her cry a little more. She sniffles, embarrassed by her display of emotion. ]

S-sorry. Sorry. Please...don't mind me.

coco's back. Back again.

[framestory]

[ Ellis shakes his head no. Nothing wrong with crying here and there and he mostly got over Lucia crying very fast. He's no longer feeling overwhelmed. With his other hand, he pats Lucia's back. There, there. ]

[irresponsibly]

[ She takes a moment to compose herself while Ellis does some back patting, and then she remembers the reason why he came her in the first place. ]

Ah, um...give me a second...

[ She'll go ahead and settle down at the table with her own bowl of stew. ]

Okay. ... Food is always better eaten with others, right?

[framestory]

[ Personally, Ellis thinks the taste is the same, but that's only because he's much of a sentimental-less brat. He nods anyway with a smile, because why would he want to ruin Lucia's thoughtfulness like that? ]

[irresponsibly]

[ She eats her stew, still sniffling a bit, but...there we go. They're sharing a meal, finally.

She looks at him after a few moments. ]

Right, before I forget again, I'm Lucia. It's nice to meet you.

[framestory]

[ Since he doesn't have Lucia's hand now, he just opts to write on the table with his finger in a perspective that can be easily read by Lucia. ]

I'm Ellis.

[irresponsibly]

Ellis? Is that right?

[ She just wants to make sure she caught that! Wouldn't want to mess up a kind stranger's name, after all. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis nods and... you know what? Even though he knows it won't count on his bingo, he picks up a spoonful and holds it out to Lucia. Is he flirting? Yeah. Does he want to make her flustered? Also, yeah. ]

[irresponsibly]

[ Lucia needs a moment to process what he's doing. He's...spoon feeding her?? Offering to, anyway. She knew she'd have to do this eventually since it's on her bingo (even if this won't count), but she wasn't expecting him to do this whatsoever.

She is absolutely flustered.

Honestly, the right thing to do would be to eat it. So, after a moment of freaking out, she leans over to awkwardly take that bite he's offering her. ]

H....hah....

[framestory]

[ Oh, but he isn't done yet. Ellis eats a spoonful for himself and then holds out another for Lucia.

:) ]

[irresponsibly]

E-Ellis!

[ She's going to die. Farewell, cruel world.

She'll eat it again, though, even if she's extremely red in the face. ]

[framestory]

[ Why is she calling out his name? He doesn't think the stew is too hot and he's not feeding it to her too quickly. Hmmmm. He wonders why she's calling out his name! :)

He just continues to smile and slightly tilts his head as if to ask what's the matter. ]

[irresponsibly]

Haaaaaa....

[ Ellis...is he truly oblivious, or doing this on purpose?

Either way, up to on the "menace" list he goes. ]

I...I wasn't expecting you to be so...bold.

[framestory]

[ Ellis briefly makes a :O face. This is bold? Really?

He holds another spoonful out to her again. ]

[irresponsibly]

[ Yes. Yes it is.

But she's going to eat it again, because this seems to be what Ellis wants, and truth be told, she's getting used to it.

Doesn't mean she's any less red, though. ]

Are you enjoying this?

[framestory]

[ Ellis smiles and nods. What's better than teasing a cute girl about spoonfeeding her personally? Not much, that's what. But Ellis seems to give off the vibes of "spoonfeeding is fun!" and that's about it. ]

[irresponsibly]

[ She's under the impression that he's just doing it for funsies, so yeah, still a menace!! ]

I see. I'm glad to provide, then.

[ Even if she's embarrassed. It's not bad...?! ]