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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[calla]

[ Kaeya finds himself at the winery pretty quickly. He has already sampled the bar's drinks. Now, it's time to try these out. ]

How is their selection of wine?

[winebar]

[The inevitable wine club begins.]

Mm. I'd say some of these are at least passable, though that is also with some measure of generosity given the size of this island.

[He pauses, considering his glass.]
I'm not especially inclined to play along with our host's demands, but I am somewhat curious about the potential of curating the entire process, god forbid we're left here that long.

[calla]

Haha, Gods forbid indeed.

[ Kaeya has absolutely no intentions of staying for that long, but he will if he has no choice. ]

Which one would you recommend?

[winebar]

[He considers this a moment, taking his choice seriously.]

Of the ones I have sampled so far, the '88 Cabernet, I think.

[calla]

[ And with that, Kaeya orders himself one of those. When it arrives, he swirls the glass around for a bit, smelling the wine before taking a sip. Ohhh. ]

Delicious. You have a fine taste in wine.

[winebar]

[It's hard to tell with his stoic expression remaining unmoved, but maybe van Zieks seems the tiniest bit pleased.]

Quite. I would say it is due to the expectations for behavior of one of my station but... rather, it's a particular hobby of mine.

[calla]

Oh, and what station is that?

[ Takes another sip of wine. ]

[winebar]

The British nobility. I inherited a Lordship. And in the Empire's high society, a certain level of knowledge in particular subjects is expected.

[calla]

Ah, sounds like you came from high up.

[ He doesn't know what or where British is, but he understands lordships. ]

Then I would assume that you're less than pleased with our current situation.

[winebar]

You assume correctly, though my concerns rise moreso from my profession than my station. As a prosecutor in Her Majesty's service, the manner in which we were brought here and effectively imprisoned worries me.

[HE CANT TAKE THIS PROBLEM TO COURT AND HE HATES THAT.]

[calla]

Hmm, well, at least they have good wine.

[ Look at the positive side of things! ]

If this is the '88, what year is it now?

[winebar]

Last I recall it was 1899, however I don't believe any of these bottles have a year more recent than 93.

[Then again they don't say 1893 they just say 93. Hm.]

[calla]

Interesting.

[ well who knows what year it is in genshin land so let's move on before they start to talk more about years ]

Also if you don't mind, I'll be using this opportunity to fill my 'wine tasting' square for my bingo.

[winebar]

[A soft scoff.]

Do so if you wish. I've hardly considered the thing myself.
[He is stubbornly refusing to engage with their CAPTORS DEMANDS.]

[calla]

Being rather stubborn, aren't we? The Goddess makes good of her word, if you're concerned.

[ He's already reaping the benefits so he's been going at the bingo so he can make his place more cozy. ]

[winebar]

Oh? Do you have proof of this?

[SKEPTICAL.]

[calla]

Would you then care to join me to my residence? The proof will be there.

[ he's got it decked out yo ]

[winebar]

[Kaeya really inviting van Zieks back to his place already huh....]

... If we must. I do intend to gather all the information available relevant to our situation.

I do feel as if we should exchange names first, though.
[He holds out a hand.]

Prosecutor Barok van Zieks.

[calla]

[ :) ]

Calvary Captain Kaeya Alberich.

[ He wasn't planning on giving his title, but it only feels right since van Zieks gave his. ]

Now then, shall we? Perhaps we can knock a square off your bingo card after you see the proof.

[winebar]

... Perhaps, though I would not necessarily plan on it.
[HMPH!!!!! In any case, though.]

I must confess you do not strike me as a military man.

[calla]

Oh? And what does a military man look like to you?

[ Speaking as they walk! ]

[winebar]

[Shooting a pointed glance at Kaeya's cleavage.]

They dress far less... extravagantly, for one.

[calla]

Whatever do you mean?

[ Come out and say it, man ]

[winebar]

One expects a military uniform to he brotherly buttoned and devoid of needless oramnamenration.

[calla]

Aha, well, I do admit that I'm not exactly following dress code, but as the captain, I'm rather lax about following it.