crescentview | dec event.

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?”

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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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profiles;
There’s a lot of redheads here…

[An observation muttered more to herself than anyone else as she flips through the profiles, skimming a few that stand out. The stick figures kind of make it hard to figure out who’s who when there are people with hair colors that are eerily close…

Still, after flipping through and making notes of some of the people who stand out more than others and noting some of the… interesting interests people have, she’s folding up her pamphlet and stuffing it into her jacket pocket.]

I’m not sure if stick figure drawings are more or less weird than if they had somehow gotten our pictures. It definitely took a lot of time, which seems weirder, right?

[Probably wrong.]

task board;
[She’s gotta admit, there’s something charming about the task board. What’s on her bingo card… not so much, but it’s fine. She’s an adult, and there’s worse things she could do.

Probably.

Definitely?

You know what, she’s not gonna think about it. What’s she’s gonna do instead is clap her hands together and spin, raising her arms in a perhaps over enthusiastic greeting.]

Let’s get this started, huh? I’m Adelaide. Let’s get along!

[She grins, bright and - sharp? Or maybe that’s just the lighting.]

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[It’s late a night, but it’s nicer to look at the beach then the dinky little farmhouse she’s currently perched on top of. Moon, stars, all that stuff that’s usually hard to see with all the smog and haze in the city… Might as well enjoy while she can, though she might end up on sand with more purpose.

If she hears anyone else on the beach she’ll be sliding to the edge of the roof - carefully, because she doesn’t know her new roomie’s schedule yet - and will wave. No yelling out a greeting because she’s still trying to be respectful, but wander close enough and she’ll hop off the roof in one fluid motion.]

Howdy! Gettin’ the lay of the land?

[Or maybe you’re on the beach closer to the early morning - around sunrise - and you see a tall, dark-haired woman jogging up and down the sand. The resistance is nice, the view is nice, and meeting new people is nice, which is why Adelaide will greet any other early risers with a cheery “good morning!”

Though it’s incredibly unclear as to if she actually slept? She also seems to pick up people are around from much farther away than you would expect, but it’s fine. She just has good ears and walking on sand is so loud…]

wildcard;
[Come at me with whatever or use it for things we’ve plotted out once I get my OOC plotting up/tag around there!]

[Yes! This is exactly the kind of energy that Sylvando loves and wants to see!!

He does a little spin back to match Adelaide's enthusiasm. The finesse in which he does so reveals that he probably does this a lot.]

I couldn't have said it better myself, darling!

[He bows after completing his spin, offering her his hand in the same motion.]

It's a pleasure to meet you, Adelaide! My name is Sylvando. If I could add one little thing, though? Let's have fun while we're at it!

[Thank god there's someone out there picking up what she's putting down.]

Nice meeting you too, Sylvando! If we don't have fun then there's not much point in all of this, yeah?

[So she is one thousand percent on board, even curtsying in return and taking his hand.]

And I gotta say, you're pretty graceful.

[There's two of them...]

[For actually taking his hand, Sylvando gives her a gentle twirl. Truly, this is the most exciting of handshakes.]

Why, thank you! It wouldn't be a stretch to say that it's my job to be.

[But going back to something else Adelaide said:]

Really, everyone would have a much better time if they simply relaxed for a second. Everything's going to be okay! And besides, if things get rough, we have each other to look out for.

[Sylvando is absolutely taking the most optimistic approach here.]

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