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crescentview2022-11-30 11:55 am
crescentviewmods) wrote in crescentview2022-11-30 11:55 am
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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How about we eat at the restaurant? It's almost dinnertime anyway.
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[ Please, by all means. Lead him. ]
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Would you care to join me for a glass of wine to begin with?
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[ Fire-water is where it's at, but that's hardly suitable now, so Childe points to some random appetizer instead. Probably one with a really ominous name. ]
Do you always drink before a meal?
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Now and then, depending on my mood.
[ Luckily, the wine comes out rather quickly and they're already pouring him a glass. He takes a nice long sip, enjoying it immensely. He then tilts the glass towards Childe. ]
Care for a sip?
[ indirect kiss indirect kiss ]
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[ Reaching over, he kisses Kaeya
's glass. Not the man, the glass. Way too irreverent for his own good, Childe leans back. ]
I don't recall catching your name. [ Another smile, more offhanded than anything purposeful. ] You can call me Tartaglia. Childe works just as well.
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Kaeya. A pleasure, Tartaglia.
[ He'll take back the glass so he can take another sip. Also, don't think this particular little thing got past his attention; ]
I've noticed that you have a Vision.
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So do you. [ Luckily, Kaeya didn't insult him at every turn like a certain redhead, so Tartaglia's a lot more equitable as the appetizers come around. Licking his lips, he helps himself to one of the crab cakes. ] What do you want to know?
[ Must be a reason why Kaeya brought it up. Ask away, then. ]
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Nothing, just pointing it out. [ Nope, no questions! Just wanted to bring it up :) ] We seem to have a handful of us from the same world, so I was curious as to where you hail from.
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Mondstadt. [ haha ] I can't say that I've ever been to Snezhnaya. How is it?
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[ Look, he's all but admitting what he is. Planning to return the favor? ]
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[ All right, he'll be nice and return the favor. There's no harm, not when they're in some other dimensional island. ]
Then perhaps I'll come visit sometime. A vacation would be nice.
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You're welcome to invite the others hailing from Teyvat as well, if you'd like. Run across them yet?
[ May as well see how much Kaeya knows. ]
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[ haha yeah fuck diluc ]
Have you met your roommate yet?
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[ In case that was what Kaeya was really asking, a question that exists neither here nor there. ]
Does your roommate happen to be Diluc? I'm curious! He seems to fit the bill, and since you both call Mondstadt home... it only makes sense you'd rough it out together.
[ Fifty-fifty chance he's wrong, but between Diluc and Dehya, only one of them hails from the city of freedom. Zhongli's not bad company, either. Misfortune just makes that fluffy redhead a dead ringer, unless Kaeya reveals some unknown third party. ]
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[ gonna dunk on diluc every chance that he gets ]
I hope he hasn't caused you any grief.
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Agree to disagree? Sure, he could dial back on the doom and gloom. But don't you think he's pretty soft-hearted as well?
[ Patted his head and everything, what a real champ. ]
Hardly what I'd call boring. So, no grief. Diluc promised me an excellent time, actually. I plan to accept, but as for when... you could say he'll be the one to decide?
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[ He's curious. What is Diluc getting up to with other strange men? ]
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[ Kaeya, please. ]
It's nothing concerning. Rest assured, I won't do anything undue to him.
[ Nothing he wouldn't also inflict upon himself, at least. ]
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[ Honestly, he's less concerned for Diluc than he is for Childe because Diluc is going to tear this man apart the moment he finds out that Childe is Fauti scum. ]
Well, that was a pleasant meal. Shall we take off?
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I'm of the same mind. See you around, comrade.
[ With that, he's off. Farewell, Kaeya. With any luck, he can stay his hand from killing Diluc, although the animosity will make any victory hard-won at best. ]