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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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[ Kaspar agrees with a little laugh, unfazed. So, he'll find van Ziek's farm someday probably.
He expected nothing else than pragmatism from his walking companion, but the comfort he finds in being taken seriously without fear surprises him.
These pauses of silence are becoming predictable, aren't they? ]
... what would your ideal country be like? Whatever you think of first.
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[Without a moment of hesitation. England and London in particular may have its problems, but he wouldn't work so hard to preserve the peace of it if he would toss it aside for somewhere else so easily.]
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[ He believes him, humming softly and wondering what England is like. Corrupt, apparently, and yet van Zieks was able to help fight against it, or was actively trying. It hurts, somewhere in the pit of his stomach. ]
... does that mean, you have more freedom, here?
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[His work makes him miserable but at the same time he truly does not know what to do with himself without it because it's also what he lives for.]
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And...
[ Kaspar is reminded, again, by how little the resource seems to matter to so many here. Being around nature like this for the first time, surrounded by plants grown freely and wildly, almost brought him to tears. How much meaning do people take for granted, he will never fully understand. It's hard for him to explain. But for once, he really tries.
He shoots him a smile, gesturing to van Zieks and then himself with the hand between them before going on. ]
If we decide we are friends, then it only... has meaning, because we provide it. So, I think, maybe you have to provide it? Or find it?
But the potential is always there.
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I understand how these things have value, but only to those experiencing it. I don't see how it benefits our host enough to justify her extreme actions.
[And for that matter, he doesn't see himself as the sort of person meant to or capable of having it.]
... I do not have many friends, and those that I have... [He pauses, thinks about it, realizes he really only has Albert at this point.] The... one that I still have, I met years ago when I was a different person.
[This is all to say he's not good at it and is not great friendship real estate.]
But I cannot say I find your company unpleasant, Mr Kaspar.
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[ Kaspar wonders briefly about England's gods too when he hums. But he doesn't ask. Gods have always been real to him, even if he abandoned the stricter doctrines of the Avus in spirit long ago. Part of his soul, he still believes, was touched by Orm like any Groscian that can bleed. The big picture is too much for Kaspar to think about for too long. Not surrounded by such lovely things in the present. He doesn't want to fight over their divergent views of the goddess.
Kaspar remains quiet. He knows what it means to be a friend in little more than conviction alone, arms length for their own sakes. Some souls are meant to orbit, others not. Kaspar's had acquaintances, surface level friendships, and strangers that became comrades or doomed friends that were far closer to his heart than his own family. But there are none left alive that he'd consider close to him at all now. A constant, years long truth that no longer bothers him as far as he cares.
It's not often that he's reminded of that, though it is a fact he'd accepted before arriving here. All of that is to say, Kaspar's response to van Zieks is delayed. And it's hard to tell how far inward he dives, briefly, while his eyes still wander out in front of their aimless path; up along the foliage with open but subdued fascination. When was the last time anyone struck his bones like a tuning fork like this?
He stops, turning to the other man with a renewed smile. Kaspar lifts one hand for a handshake. ]
... then let's, be friends? Who we are now matters too. And we can, give this value, since we're here.
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However, he also usually uses them to imagine the potential responses, and in this case, it's mostly negative. There's good reason Albert is the only one left, and while he can no longer attribute it to their distance, with how Albert had continued to call him a friend even after reuniting, he can certainly attribute the lack of others to his personality and reputation. People don't want to associate with the Reaper. Even Naruhodou had been put off by him without even knowing the Reaper's Curse.
But so far, his impression of Kaspar is that of an unflinchingly polite man, even in the face of van Zieks' rudeness. Surely, his explanation gave Kaspar ample excuse, and he was simply finding a polite way to rebuff him, or simply even excuse himself. A small part of him, though, waits in hopeful anticipation, and is surprisingly rewarded.]
I- [he hesitates, simply out of surprise. Once his brain catches up he's got several different ways to shoot this down, and a few short weeks ago he would have. But...] Well, if you're sincere in your asking, I hardly have any reason to say no.
[So yes, he'll shake that hand.]