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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!
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Well, aren't you fortunate.
[ whether or not that's mean-spirited, that's up to interpretation.
he can open his eyes almost fully now, and so he leans back across the wall, squinting back at the question. well, they've already gotten this far... ]
...Adelis. Adelis Rosell. And you would be?
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Kaspar. Kaspar Blumlund.
[ He pauses, forgetting the 'nice to meet you' in words but making the calm, happy expression for it anyway. Eventually, Kaspar nods to the presumably(?) still crumpled pamphlet. ]
... can you read it now?
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[ his tone is sarcastic, but it doesn't have as much bite as he did before. kindred spirits can do that, at least. considering from what he could hear and parse from earlier, nearly everybody else seemed fine...the odd ones out, they are.
he furrows his brows at the gesture, as if he'd forgotten what he was holding, before he finally lifts it up and takes a good, long look.
he doesn't open it yet, simply peering at the cover before his face falls flat. ]
I can see that a street rat could probably piss out a better drawing than whatever this atrocity is supposed to be.
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The criticism hits his ears just as he glances down at his own likeness. It pulls an unexpected laugh from him, because he thinks they are cute little doodles. But he isn't going to argue any masterfulness.
Kaspar holds his cover up as an extra example. At least she got his hair pretty nicely for a stick figure. Loose curls are cheating with messy crayon, and she wisely skipped trying to capture his bluer roots. She tried.
Helpfully, he adds-- ]
There's a map too.
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a slim eyebrow cocks upwards at the figure on kaspar's pamphlet...well, it's a little bit better than his, but her artistic talent definitely leaves much to be desired. ]
Indeed, that's the only useful part.
[ because, really...what else is all this garbage supposed to be. ]
I like information as much as the next person, but why on earth would I care if someone likes... [ SQUINTS. ] romantic walks on the beach? Fucking hells.
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[ Kaspar idly looks in his own pamphlet for Adelis as he answers, flipping through some pages. He tilts his head.
Drinking. What's so special about that? He glances back up, rolling his pamphlet up until he can tuck it into his belt. There's no way he's asking. On one side of Kaspar's belt is a leather box, his holster on the other.
Is he still squatting? Yes, and even after spending time in the sun, he looks like he could maintain it all day. ]
I don't think there are curses there.
[ The beach. It's next on his list suddenly. Kaspar wants to know what it's like where the land ends (according to the map). ]
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[ if someone wanted to drink with him, that's all fine and dandy, but he couldn't care less about people's date preferences. the only 'dates' he's been on have been for soliciting information, and nothing less. definitely not the romantic sort.
well, this is mostly useless, but knowing names and such at least will serve him in the future, so he folds it up and tucks it into the pouches strapped to his legs, sharp glimmer of metal peeking out before he snaps it shut. ]
Wouldn't that be fortunate? Perhaps I'll avoid the touch of Devil's Grip for a while yet.
[ and yet, he feels a cold settling into his bones and under his skin, agonizingly familiar in a way that has him rubbing his gloves up his bare arms with a grimace. no new curses, yes, but the old? still lingering like a pox. ]