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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[associative]

[ If he's a little embarrassed too, don't worry about it... ]

You're nice and fun to be around, don't bother with thanking me.

[irresponsibly]

No, I...

[ She's getting more flustered, rip. ]

You don't know how much it means to me. [ ... ] But - I've enjoyed your company as well. So...would you like to stay for a bit?

[associative]

[ Well, when she asks like that... ]

Sure.

[ Gaku goes ahead and lays back against the ground, pillowing his head on his arms. ]

The sky's nice out here, huh?

[irresponsibly]

[ She doesn't quite lay back, but she does put her hands out behind her and lean back on them. ]

Quite so... I don't think I've ever seen it so clear before, but I also...

[ She pauses, as if debating what to say next. Ultimately, she decides on spilling the beans. ]

...I don't go out a whole lot in general.

[associative]

Why not? Is the weather bad? Or are you too busy?

[ Work or weather is what he immediately jumps to. But with other worlds, it's hard to know if it's something a lot more complicated than that or not. ]

[irresponsibly]

...

[ Hm. She goes quiet for a bit. Should she tell him the truth? She ponders this for a second, but her profile states that she likes honesty. She should offer the same in return, she supposes. It's not out of generosity; it's returning a favor. She wouldn't want him to find out later and hold it against her. ]

There's a reason why I said that wanting to be my friend meant a lot to me.

[associative]

Why's that?

[ Everyone here comes from all walks of life, so he has no idea what the reason could be, and that's why there's no judgement in his tone, only curiosity. ]

[irresponsibly]

I didn't have many friends back at home.

[ She shrugs. ]

That's all.

[associative]

Oh.

[ Seems like she doesn't want to elaborate so... he's not going to pry and make things awkward. If they were closer, he absolutely would, but he knows when he should let things go. ]

Well, you've got one friend here already.

[irresponsibly]

Yes.

[ Two, actually, but details! Her frown turns into a little smile, but she's already blabbered about how glad she is about friends, so she doesn't say much more about it. ]

... On the bright side, I learned how to game because of it, I think... So if you're ever bored here, I know they have a selection of board games. Not that I how much you like those, but...

[associative]

I don't have much time for games, but I'd be up for playing some board games.

[ He's not a nerd like you, Lucia. Instead, Gaku is cringe. ]

Do they have a good selection?

[irresponsibly]

It's not bad. If you know chess and checkers, those are good to start with, I think.

[ Those games may be more universal. ]

[associative]

Yeah, I do know those. I haven't played them in a long time, but if you want to do a round or two, we can.

[ He thinks it'll be fun!! Maybe they can have some snacks while they play. ]

[irresponsibly]

Sure. I won't go easy on you...I think that'd be an insult to your character.

[ She may not know him well, but that's the assumption she gets. Buckle up, idol boy. ]

Unless you want me to, of course.

[associative]

I'd be insulted if you went easy on me. Don't do that just because I'm a celebrity.

[ He grins at her. Is he attempting to fluster Lucia by saying that? Yes. ]

[irresponsibly]

H-hey, you said not to think of you any differently...!

[ Gaku 2. Lu 0. ]

[associative]

[ He laughs. ]

Then go even harder on me. I like a challenge.

[irresponsibly]

Okay... I'll give it everything I've got!

[ Get ready to get wasted, Gaku -

She ends up lying down herself (very hesitantly, in case he finds it weird for some reason), and her eyes look up at the stars. ]

I will look forward to it. I haven't played against anyone in a while, but I'll definitely provide a challenge.

[associative]

[ He doesn't think it's weird at all, instead smiling as she finally lays back. ]

Fine by me. As long as I've got a challenge, I don't care if you've never played against anyone else at all before.

[irresponsibly]

Good to know. Games are kind of my thing, so...

[ She's a little giddy at the thought that someone's willing to indulge her here. She was a little worried about that. Also, she's dying without internet, so thanks, Gaku. ]

What do you think about being here, by the way? Has anything interesting happened to you?

[associative]

[ He's also dying, although he's not an avid internet user. ]

I guess. I've met people who can use magic, which doesn't exist in my world.

[ Turning his head a bit, Gaku glances over at her. ]

I need to go home, though. I have things to do.

[irresponsibly]

Oh, right. That's a thing.

[ As is going home, apparently. For her, she can stay longer, it's fine. But she can imagine it's not easy for him to be stuck here. ]

Were you in the middle of something important?

[associative]

[ Gaku frowns slightly. ]

We terminated our contracts with our company. We're going indie now, and I need to be there to lead us in climbing back up the ladder.

[ What good is he as a leader if he can't do that? ]

[irresponsibly]

[ oh, goodness. ]

That's a very inconvenient time to be pulled here. Can I ask what made you decide to go indie?

[associative]

Blackmail.

[ It's a very long story, so Gaku pauses as he tries to think of the best way to summarize it. ]

We'd been caught up in manufactured scandal after manufactured scandal, all in an attempt to ruin us and buy us out. So, we terminated before that could happen.