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]

[ She takes a moment to look at her drink, and she she sips it... ]

Oh.

[ Her expression is unreadable at first, and there's a bit of a pause before she just.

Drinks a little too much of it at once, considering it's wine. Almost like she's downing a shot or something. ]

[calla]

[ Oh, that's quite a reaction. Kaeya's smile grows a little wider. ]

How is it?

[irresponsibly]

Maybe a bit too good...

[ Ah, how embarrassing. Where are her manners. ]

I see why you chose this. It's...it's surprisingly tasty. I owe you one.

[calla]

I'm glad. Is it calming your nerves?

[ With what she mentioned earlier, needing a drink because (waves at everything) ]

[irresponsibly]

It will in a bit, I'm sure.

[ It'll take a bit for it to sink in.

Then, quietly: ]

But really, I do owe you for the drink. How did you manage to get the money for it?

[calla]

The kind barkeep allowed me to start a tab. I simply need to owe him my crops.

[ Sounds pretty fair. ]

[irresponsibly]

[ 5head Kaeya. ]

Then...can I offer some of mine to you, in exchange for the drink? I may grow some mushrooms at some point, if you don't mind those.

[calla]

Of course. I'd kindly like to accept the offer.

[ He wasn't expecting her to even pay him back, so the surprise is nice. But hmm, mushrooms, which farm is best for that again? The pamphlet had so much info. ]

So, you're in the forest.

[irresponsibly]

Ah, thank you... I will reserve some mushrooms for you, then, Kaeya.

[ She seems genuinely happy about that. She's just glad he seems to appreciate it. ]

I am, and I'm sharing it with a man named Dr. Figaro Garcia. I'm not sure why we were paired together, in all honesty...

What about you?

[calla]

I'm paired with a rather dull man named Diluc.

[ Taking another sip and taking a good look at Lucia. ]

You look remarkably just like him. You have the same hair and eyes.

[irresponsibly]

Oh, I've met Diluc. And...well, when you put it that way...we do look alike, I guess?

[ Hm. ]

He was nice. Annoyed, but understandably so.

[calla]

Don't mind him. He's annoyed most of the time.

[ Perhaps because Kaeya's the one annoying him, but shhhh. ]

I hope he hasn't ruffled you too much.

[irresponsibly]

If anything, I might've ruffled him. I called him an alien...

[ Which was embarrassing. ]

He didn't seem bothered, but he told me he wasn't from earth, so...I assumed...

[calla]

[ There's a pause before a laugh. Oh boy, that's the last thing that he expected that she did to piss off Diluc. ]

An alien. Well, I do suppose that he is quite out of this world.

[ he's the king of buzzkill planet ]

[irresponsibly]

[ Okay, that actually gets her to laugh. Good job, Kaeya! ]

Haha...you sound like you're well-acquainted already?

[calla]

Yes, we hail from the world and city. He's not very much to spend time with, so do seek me out if you want to have some fun.

[ He likes to poke fun at Diluc when he can. ]

[irresponsibly]

So that's how it is with you guys, huh?

[ Poor Lucia. She hasn't even scratched the surface. ]

Haha, well, that's good to know. I do feel like you two give off completely different auras...

[calla]

Is that right? We were quite similar in our younger days.

[ Funny how things have changed so much. ]

[irresponsibly]

A little... Though this is just from an outside perspective, obviously.

[ Though, that makes her even more curious. ]

Childhood friends?

[calla]

[ Kaeya doesn't like to divulge too much information, but this is for the sake fo those tasks. Besides, with the alcohol, his lips get looser. He has already finished one glass and is starting on his second. ]

Yes, brothers actually. His father adopted me when I was a young boy.

[irresponsibly]

Really? Huh, I wouldn't have guessed just from talking to him.

[ It's okay, Kaeya, she's also more chatty because of the wine. ]

Brothers... How coincidental, then, that you'd end up here together. That seems convenient, in a way.

[calla]

Yes, it's quite the coincidence, especially to be roomed together.

[ Who would have thought? But anyway. ]

Well, asides from that, are there any bingo squares that you'd like to complete with me?

[irresponsibly]

Can I take a look at your card?

[ She'll hand hers over easily. ]

[calla]

Of course.

[ And he'll hand his over! It appears that he's already tackled a couple of them. ]

[irresponsibly]

Let's see...

[ (I forgot to link it, but here's hers!) ]

Oh, these aren't so bad. Hmm...

[ ...She seems kind of unsure on what to pick. ]