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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!
he who hoes;
He goes to see what kind of restless ghost he will come along tonight, while also ensuring that he gets something out of it (it's called visiting other people's farms.) ]
You must have been at this for awhile.
[ Or maybe he just started, though He Xuan doubts it if the man is working so late... ]
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It's a sizeable field, and with only one set of arms here to help, tilling the soil takes time. In any case, I've nearly finished.
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[ Posing a question. Too bad the food doesn't prop up immediately and harvests take awhile.
Otherwise he might have plucked something up and ate it already. ]
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Not quite. I've tended to vineyards, but you wouldn't call that farming, would you? I'll have to hope my efforts here are enough to keep me from starving.
[A little dramatic, but that's Diluc. He's pretty far from happy to be here.]
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[ He Xuan sounds as unenthusiastic as ever himself. Yet, he bothered to trek all the way out here...whatever, it is just to get shit.
Then he addresses the vineyard thing. ]
Vineyards should be somewhat connected to farming.
[ But they are different; not like he knows much about either. He didn't intensively study vineyards and farming techniques in academia land, after all. ]
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Yes, but if you think in such basic terms, your lack of consideration will be reflected in the produce you grow. Simply put, there's no point in doing things in half measures, be that farming or anything else.
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Hm. I'd rather not be stuck here for an eternity.
[ Because he doesn't age... ]
But, a skill should be easy to be cultivated with enough practice.
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Then we're of the same mind. I don't intend to remain here when I'm needed back home, but I presume the same is true for you.
[...And more importantly, but frustratingly:]
It's a shame we have no choice but to cultivate these skills, at least for the time being. Diluc, by the way. Diluc of Mondstadt.
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...I do need to return home.
[ Not quite, since, well. His raison d'etre has mostly been accomplished, the only reason he hangs around anywhere now is to still vaguely give a middle finger to the idea he would die miserable. Spite is a good motivator for a lot of things, tbh. ]
Unfortunate that it is. I do wonder if that woman also intends to honor her promise...regardless, I am He Xuan. [ Beat, because lol he has no true residence. Well, maybe one. ] Of Black Water Island.
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[Is he from Liyue?? Hmmmmmmmmm, but Black Water Island doesn't ring any bells, so perhaps not. It may be for the best that he hasn't met many here who hail from Teyvat— not yet, at least.]
As for that woman, I suppose we'll see. She's given us a number of simple tasks to complete, so we'll have our answer soon.
[Considering one of those is 'make a friend,' Diluc laughs snidely.]
For example, were I to proclaim our friendship, she'll supposedly bless us with some random items. What nonsense.
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Who does she think we are? To bond so easily with strangers and in such a stupid manner. No one sane goes around shouting sudden declarations of friendships to those they've just met.
[ Wow... he sure has Opinions. ]
But, we could say the words 'we're friends' just to gain some items, without meaning. It would still be somewhat beneficial.
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It would be, wouldn't it? While the Goddess is being so generous, [his tone oozes sarcasm,] we should take full advantage of her silly little tasks... but I doubt yelling will be necessary.
[Unless that's your pref, He Xuan...? Yell all you like, Diluc won't stop you. Shout their fwiendship to the heavens.]
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I don't intend to yell it. But, let's get it over with.
[ If he's yelling, it's probably because someone has been viciously murdered by his hands because they got on his bad side, or something. ]
...We're friends.
[ ...well, it isn't like he's said worse before. As dry as he sounds, He Xuan is fully capable of acting or doing what he needs to get what he wants. Something like this included. ]
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We certainly are. How wonderful for us.
[This? It's a little ridiculous. Diluc shakes his head.]
Enjoy your free items. Do let me know if you gain anything of value.
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I will. You should do the same in turn.
[ And with that, He Xuan thinks it's a good time to end this conversation here, having nothing else to say. So then he is soon making a quick exit. ]