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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[framestory]

[ Oh, he's sitting next to him. Ellis takes the fork and just eats the noodles. He thought there would have been some sort of special procedure, so he can rest easy, knowing that there really isn't one. It's taking a while for him to chew since there was so much food, but he looks like he has sparkles in his eyes.

It's good! Definitely wins approval from Ellis. ]

[associative]

[ Oh, that's cute. Gaku laughs as he scoots back over to his side of the table. ]

It's good, right? There's a reason why it's my favorite food.

[ And since he might as well share a bit about himself: ]

I make it all the time at my grandfather's restaurant.

[framestory]

[ An idol that cooks at his grandfather's restaurant... that sort of thing should be endearing. Ellis doesn't really understand the sentiment behind that, but he knows it's supposed to be a great amount, so he smiles and writes down on his notepad to slide it over to Gaku. ]

An idol working at a restaurant? I never heard that before. Do you get a lot of customers?

[associative]

[ He reads it and nods, having a bite of his own food, swallowing before answering. ]

Yeah, but not because of me. Their food is just that good. No one knows it's actually me working there other than the employees.

[framestory]

[ Honestly, that's a little impressive. How could no one recognize Gaku working there... unless-- ]

Did you only work in the kitchen?

[associative]

[ Gaku shakes his head. ]

Nope. I do deliveries too. I just look a lot like that idol Gaku Yaotome!

[ He laughs. Shockingly, people are fooled by this. ]

Without my hair and makeup done, it's easy enough to pretend that.

[ Despite his movie star looks even now, hair and makeup undone. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis continues to be slightly surprised. Gaku is hot even without hair and makeup done. He would definitely be noticeable... then he concluded that there's something wrong with the people's eyes.

He slurps up some more of the soba and nods. He sees. But also not really. ]

You really stand out even without them.

[associative]

[ He shrugs. Gaku isn't the kind of man to deny things like that, so he won't. ]

Yeah, I do. Not every day you see a face like mine, for better or worse. I got attention for it in school too.

[ He eats some more of that soba, enjoying every bit of it. It really is his favorite food. ]

[framestory]

[ The fact that Gaku isn't too humble about his appearance makes Ellis feel more at ease, since he wouldn't have to persuade anyone. He thinks he's terrible at it.

So he just nods, because he doesn't have anything else to say to Gaku. Instead, he also enjoys the soba on his plate. It's actually really good... He's not even a glutton, but before he knows it, the soba on his plate is gone and his fork clinks on the plate. ]

[associative]

[ The silence is fine with him as Gaku works on his own food. But when he hears the the fork clinking against the plate, he looks up and laughs softly, resting his chin in his hand as he smiles, a mixture of self-satisfied and endeared. ]

Liked it, huh? I can always make more... another time.

[framestory]

[ Ellis nods and grins, but then blinks, staring at Gaku all the while. What's with that pause? Is he saying that there can be another date? Well, he thinks the atmosphere with the candles set some precedence, but...

He's not sure what it is. ]

Is this another date that you're planning?

[associative]

[ Another?

Another. Gaku looks up at the ceiling, then down at the table, then at the candles, and then finally at Ellis.

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Is this a date?

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[framestory]

[ Yes?? Wasn't it?! He invited someone over to his house and cooked together--is this not a date? Ellis is about to lose his mind.

He just looks at Gaku with a sheepish smile. Ellis will not be answering this with words. ]

[associative]

[ Ah, yep. That sheepish smile tells him everything. This is absolutely a date.

Gaku clears his throat. ]

My apologies.

[ His cheeks turn a little bit pink, and he can't help but look away. ]

It is one. I shouldn't ask dumb questions like that.

[framestory]

[ Oh.

Cute.

Ellis shakes his hand back and forth as if to say that it's fine and laughs a little. ]

I hope it was a good date. I had fun.

[associative]

Had? It's not over.

[ He reaches over the table—careful of the candles—to take the glass of wine he poured for Ellis and hold it out to him. ]

[framestory]

[ Ah, right. The wine that Gaku brought. He nearly forgot despite them being right off to the side. He takes the glass of wine with a nod and takes a sip. He doesn't know proper wine drinking etiquette, also considering the first time he ever drank alcohol was when he came to Crescentview. ]

[associative]

Look.

[ Gaku picks up his own glass, swirling it around. ]

Do that. It smells and tastes better when you do.

[framestory]

[ He's looking. Damn, Gaku looks like a fancy ass noble when he does that regardless of the clothes, but then Ellis tries it out and now he feels like some fancy ass noble despite his clothes. Amazing. He takes another sip. It tastes... the same to him. Maybe he's not that well-versed in tasting wine. ]

[associative]

...So? How does it taste?

[ Ellis, give him your review! Don't leave him waiting. ]

I put a lot of thought into what would go well with the dinner.

[ It's a red wine that is not overly intense on flavor, but not particularly sweet either. ]

[framestory]

[ He drinks some more and honestly, he doesn't know what to say. He seems like he's blanking out when writing in his notepad. ]

It's not overwhelming. Kinda... lukewarm? I don't usually drink wine, but it doesn't feel as burning in my throat.

[associative]

[ It's surprising to see Ellis take some time to come up with an answer. Interesting! ]

Yeah, it's not supposed to be too strong. I don't know what kinda stuff you like, so I went with something pretty easy.

[framestory]

[ Well, it's definitely easy on his throat. Ellis nods and drinks a little more. ]

I never drank alcohol before coming here, so I'm not too familiar with it.

[associative]

I just know what goes well with certain flavors. I don't drink much myself.

[ Though he hopes he isn't messing around with Ellis' tolerance too much here, even though he knows the could both easily get drunk off of this bottle. ]

I mostly have a single glass of something at an event and call it quits.