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

[chevaliered]

i. art

[ crow can be found tilting his pamphlet back and forth thoughtfully. he doesn't seem unimpressed or unamused by it though - quite the opposite, really.

eventually, he'll hold up the pamphlet by his face. ]

I dunno. They really captured my good side, don'tcha think?

[ no. ]

ii. "hello my name is..."

[ if anyone's down by the beach at any point after that initial dazed confusion and awkwardly figuring out what's going on while you squint at a pamphlet of all your innermost likes and dislikes and favourite dating spots... they'll see crow down on the sand.

he seems to be wandering back and forth, occasionally dragging the toe of his boot through the sand in oddly specific patterns. get close enough, and it'll become clear he's writing letters. watch for long enough, and the message will become clear...


HELLO MY NAME IS... CROW.

... when he looks up and realise he's being watched, he'll just shrug and gesture to the phrase in the sand.

hello there. his name is crow. ]

iii. toss a random object to your harvest goddess

[ well. it's not like he ISN'T going to check out some of the places indicated in the tasks, even if those things are mostly just fields and farms and the goddess's pond. ]

Offerings, huh?

[ he looks like he's thinking deeply for a moment, before he claps his hands together like he's about to make an announcement. ]

Well, I've got nothing. Think she'll appreciate it if I throw myself in?

[ sometimes you just have to be thrifty. or incredibly generous, depending on your outlook. either way, this can only go well. ]

ii

[irresponsibly]

[ ? Is this just how this guy communicates? His name is Crow, okay, she gets that now. Honestly, writing is more comfortable than speaking, anyway.

So, after a few moments, she replies in the same manner - by writing in the sand. She glances over at him from the side, hoping he'll notice. ]

HI CROW.
LUCIA

[chevaliered]

[ haha.

he waves. ]

Congratulations. We're introduced.

iii

[calla]

[ Kaeya had no intentions of praying to the Goddess, though he is curious to see who do, so that's why he's here! With a hand on his hip, he smiles at Crow. ]

Well, it's certainly worth a shot, isn't it?

[ do it ]

[chevaliered]

[ he throws kaeya in. ]








[ imagine. but he does look like he's really considering throwing something in - himself, kaeya, a fancy looking stick? who knows. ]

What's she gonna do, smite me?

[ said by a man about to be smited. ]

ii

[judascontract]

[She just glances down, half amused.]

Why's it always birds with fake names anyway? Robin, Raven, Canary, Crow apparently. What's next? Pigeon?

[chevaliered]

[ hm. ]

... I mean, a crow's a crow. They can't be too mad sharing a name with me.

iii

[pyronic]

[Diluc's fine with this idea not because he's mean-spirited like a certain blue haired manchild he could name, however...]

Why not? I'd like to test the strength of this so-called Goddess myself, be that her wrath or otherwise.

[Because she gives off the impression of having little to no power, frankly. Diluc just wants to be proven right.]

[chevaliered]

[ he looks thoughtful. ]

So, you're saying you want to fight god?

iii

[sugarnaut]

( how dare he make her snicker when she's trying to be upset and angry- )

Man, if she wanted human sacrifices she invited the wrong girl. She's got one of those profiles too, right? Maybe something there will help.

[chevaliered]

Think I could find a pen and just write "attractive twenty something men with silver hair" and pretend it was there all along?

[ his plan is foolproof, aside from the lack of stationery. ]

ii

[tot]

[ well given that her farm is stationed on/near the beach, she's going to be around the area for sure and will be quietly watching him draw in the sand with his boot. she'll keep watching him until he finishes and gestures to it and will look between it and him and just...

?? this might a well happen? ]

Is there a reason why you're writing it in the sand?

[ like is he mute or something? either way, she'll place a hand on her chest and give him a smile. ]

But I'm Uta; it's nice to meet you Crow.

[chevaliered]

[ beach buddies beach buddies. ]

It's there until the tide comes in. If they want me to introduce myself to everyone, then here's my welcome sign.

[ amazing logic. ]

And hey. You stationed around this area too, or did you go for a walk and end up here?

iii

[pactmarshal]

[ Really? Really???

Trahearne stares at Crow for a moment, shocked, before answering. ]

Are you sure it's safe? [ He is genuinely concerned for the wellbeing of this individual. ] I was under the impression she keeps what's offered to her.

[ Like. is he going to die. ]

[chevaliered]

She wants people to “find love and till fields” or something, right? Can’t do that if she’s keeping us hostage in her pond.

Unless you want to kiss god, I guess.

ii

[framestory]

[ Oh! He's writing! Ellis thinks communication will be easier with this, but he wonders if the ocean will suddenly swallow his feet and make his feet gross.

Anyway.

He gets a stick and writes: ]

I'm Ellis!

[ neat ass handwriting, even on sand. ]

[chevaliered]

[ well… this is the first person to write back.

interesting. ]

Easier than finding a pen, right?

[ he taps his boot on the sand. ]

ii;

[esurientabyss]

[ He Xuan stops and watches Crow as he's making strange symbols in the s—

Ah, it becomes clear that these are not "strange symbols" but rather a unique way of greeting.

When in Rome, hm? He sinks down to his knees, writing in the sand with infinitely smaller handwriting:

HE XUAN ]

...Do you usually try to introduce your way in an innovative manner?

[chevaliered]

It’s here for everyone to see. Think of it like a time saver.

[ he innovates.

sort of. ]

ii

[associative]

[ How innovative. Gaku can't help but laugh, even as he starts to draw his own name. ]

Gaku

[ He'd comment on Crow being an unusual name, but it's kind of hard to write all of that in the same, so he'll stick with just his name. ]

[chevaliered]

That’s the spirit.

[ he draws a little smiley face in the sand under his name, idle and relaxed. ]

And now if anyone else asks you, you can just point.

iii.

[accredit]

[ to be honest, offering and that sort of thing wasn't anything he was unaccustomed to. gods were fickle creatures and it wouldn't be unsurprising if the smallest or more innocuous of gifts (not saying crow is any of these things) could move them under certain circumstances. that said, he isn't quite sure this guy knows what he's signing up for. was this an offering? or human sacrifice? ] You might want to be careful what you wish for.

[ or should this actually be said to this goddess? ]

In what way would you prefer she takes you? [ ...

hm, does he want to know? ]

[chevaliered]

[ he whistles, slowly. ]

Ooh, you thinking of something naughty?

[ he will see the low hanging fruit and go for it. ]

ii

[bravesteel]

[ when rean first sees crow dragging his boot across the sand, he's a little skeptical but even more curious. he approaches slowly, but when he sees the greeting he raises his eyebrows. ]

Huh, that's not what I was expecting. [ he looks from the message to the messenger himself. ] I'm surprised to see you taking the task board so seriously, Crow. Are you planning on trying any of the other tasks?

[ like tilling the field? ]

III

[passthrough]

[He has to swallow back a chuckle, though it's entirely unsuccessful. Being on another spirit's home turf is making him nervous, maybe it's easier to just laugh a little...]

Probably not. She doesn't come across as that kind of god.

Showing respects can kind of be more of a matter of intention, anyway.