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

[calla]

How about the local restaurant? I believe I saw one in the map.

[ They should serve soup or ice cream or something. ]

[lapidation]

[ As Kaeya makes a Very Good Suggestion, Zhongli is perusing the board games and hobby items. For some reason, he has picked out a few (twister, monopoly, seven water guns, can you get a fishing pole here ichi, mostly useless things).

And brings it to the register. ]

[calla]

[ yes to fishing pole ]

[ Kaeya follows him to the register and waits to see what how Zhongli decides to pay or handle the whole 'no money' situation that many of them are in. ]

[lapidation]

[ Well, he does have a bag of mora, so he shows them some of the coins. However, something else comes naturally to him. ]

If you don't accept foreign coin, then put this on Childe's tab.

[calla]

[ zhongli with money?? impossible. anyway, the owner running the small grocer is satisfied with having some foreign as a souvenir, so they accept it, along with a promise that they'd also like some of Zhongli's crops when they're grown. ]

Oh, using someone else's tab so effortlessly? Are you close with Chlide?

[lapidation]

[ This is actually a blue moon, the .0001% chance that he'd remember and he just happened to get kidnapped then. They can exit... and now Zhongli has a shopping bag on this detour.

To the inn now. ]

He was my benefactor when our employers signed a contract, but we do get along quite well.

[calla]

[ must be nice to have a sugar daddy to leech off of ]

[ Kaeya nods. Soon enough, they'll come across a little restaurant. Cute! It also has the bar attached so they can drink too. ]

Would this be suitable enough?

[lapidation]

[ They can share Childe if that's what Kaeya wants. Zhongli gives the place a quick glance, appraising the aesthetic. ]

It's quaint. [ So, yeah, it is suitable. ] It reminds me of a place I visited in Mondstadt.

[ May they have a window seat or a corner seat. ]

[calla]

[ They get a window seat! And two menus. Kaeya will order something small, since he's not super hungry. ]

Is that so? Then it appears that we're from the same world. [ Looks like there's a handful from the Genshin world. What a coincidence. ] When did you last visit Mondstadt?

[lapidation]

Not too long ago.

[ Zhongli will order something that isn't fish despite probably the amount of fish on the menu, as this is an island. Chicken tendies. ]

You never mentioned where you were from.

[ Since they know they are genshins. ]

[calla]

[ is zhongli going to spoonfeed kaeya chicken tendies ]

Mondstadt, actually. It's a shame that we've never crossed paths until now. We could have gotten a drink at Angel's Share.

[ sighhhh gonna miss drinking from there ]

[lapidation]

[ yeah. if this was modern au, they would be in mcdonalds and zhongli would just be feeding him mcnuggies. ]

Angel's Share. I believe that is the bar I visited... [ Watch him cut these chicken tenders like it's steak. ] It would have been nice to share a bottle of dandelion wine with better company. My host was subpar.

[ is kaeya better company, he doesn't know yet. ]

[calla]

[ wow so romantic i ship it ]

Is that so? May I ask who was serving you?

[ Please say a man with red hair, please say a man with red hair ]

[lapidation]

A man with vibrant red hair was mixing the drinks that night. I believe he is the owner.

[ Zhongli looks at the array of dipping sauces they provided to him and chooses the red. I am picking spicy ketchup.

It's offered to Kaeya, gracefully and carefully, despite it being a chicken tender piece. ]

[calla]

Well, that same man is on the island with us, so I'm sure he'd appreciate it if you forwarded him the same criticism you told me.

[ ehehehehe and oh, a chicken tendie with spicy ketchup. Kaeya will lean in forward to eat the tendie. Hmm, not bad. ]

[lapidation]

[ This island needs more spicy food. Anyway, Zhongli raises his eyebrows and figures finally they're not on the same page. ]

When I said my host, I had meant an acquaintance of mine that offered to show me around.

[ Before Kaeya can clap back with a quip or something, Zhongli feeds him another nugget coated in a different sauce. ]

Curious that you seemed excited for the owner to get a scolding.

[calla]

We have a history, you could say.

[ He eats the next nugget with the same amount of hesitation as the last one aka none. He's fearless as to all the nuggies that he's getting. ]

Interesting flavor. Would you like to try any?

[ Kaeya will grab a fork to stab at a nugget to dip into some BBQ sauce. He then holds it out. ]

[lapidation]

[ (zhongli voice) gay ]

Thank you. [ He takes this nuggie and savors. ] Hm... The flavor is interesting. Familiar on some notes, yet different. Nothing like I've had before.

[ AMERICAN BBQ? IS SO WEIRD? ]

[calla]

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