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crescentview2022-12-31 09:20 am
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jan event.
summer has arrived
As the last of the sakura blossoms fall away and the leaves on the trees grow into ever more vibrant greens, the familiar buzz of cicadas begins to echo all throughout the isle. Summer is quickly approaching and bringing brighter days and blazing temperatures along with it.
Summer also signals the start of the wine production season. Grapes growing on trellises are a common sight on Crescentview during the summer and a notice on the town memo board from the local barkeep encourages farmers to consider growing some varietal grapes of their own.
Temperatures are rising, so put on a comfortable pair of shorts and head to the Town Plaza to see what’s cooking! While you’re at it, take a look at the calendar for Summer 1st through 15th.
This season’s crops are corn, onion, pumpkin, watermelon, and pineapple. Summer’s seasonal flowers are poppy, rose, sunflower, lily, and hydrangea. As for mushrooms, shimeji, trumpet, and common brown spores are available for the summer.
hot! ...or not
Posted prominently at the top of the Memo Board is a cartoonishly-written advertisement for the first annual Hot or Not hosted by the Goddess herself. Contestants will take to the stage while the audience votes on whether they are as hot as the blazing sun or cooler than a dead fish. Leave your egos at the door! ICly, this event takes place on Summer 8th.
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 January 1st to February 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.
This month’s tasks are centered around getting to know your fellow neighbors on a deeper level. As such, the Goddess has put together a small human scavenger hunt to encourage people to learn more about the people they are living with — and hopefully falling in love with.
Find someone who...
1. Was born in the summer
2. Pours milk into their bowl before the cereal
3. Plays a musical instrument
4. Has more than 3 siblings
5. Works out 5 times a week or more
6. Doesn’t like animals
7. Would like to date the Harvest Goddess
8. Has traveled around the world
9. Speaks two or more languages
10. Is wearing socks that aren’t black or white
Each submission will earn you two random bags of summer seeds. Specify whether you want crop, flower, or mushroom spores in your submission. This task can be completed a total of 10 times.
Many ingredients used in wine production grow in the summer, but so do a variety of tea plants and grains. Grapes, tea shrubs and grains like wheat and barley can all be grown on your farm or in your greenhouse, if you have one.
Complete the following tasks to earn yourself some nice beverage-producing crops for the farm:
1. Take something from last month’s harvest and gift it to a neighbor. You can give it to them directly, cook it into a meal, etc. Alternatively, craft them a bouquet, flower crown, or another gift from the flowers you grew last season. Complete 3 times for a total of 6 grape starters.
2. Share a piece of hot gossip with a neighbor or exchange secrets with them. It doesn’t have to be your secret! Complete 3 times for a total of 6 tea starters.
3. Exercise with someone. Go on a run, swim in the ocean, help them stretch out! Complete 3 times for a total of 6 grain crops. You may choose from wheat, barley, rye, or rice.
Summer is the perfect time to hang out on the beach and splash around in the ocean. Participate in some summer fun at the beach and earn more animals for your barn and coop.
1. Swim in the ocean, build a sandcastle, or bury someone in the sand. Do any of the following for one of the following animals: cow, sheep, alpaca, or goat. This task can be completed once.
2. Participate in Hot or Not. It’s an annual tradition! Submit yourself or comment on someone else for a single chicken or rabbit. This task can be completed once.
local happenings
The Crescentview Times newspaper has chronicled the latest happenings around the island. A physical copy of the paper will arrive on your doorstep early in the morning on Summer 1st.
Recently, a group of townspeople have taken it upon themselves to check out the abandoned mine. They’ve made good headway on opening up the path in the hopes that would-be explorers will be able to take to the mines and find some of Crescentview’s fabled gems and minerals buried in its depths. They expect to be done by Summer 15th.
A strange “gurgling whisper” has been reported by some concerned townsfolk living in the mountains. The concerning sounds are coming from one of the lakes at the foot of the mountain. Supposedly, the voice is asking for offerings of... something. The townsfolk have yet to identify what exactly is being asked for.
A hurricane has been brewing off the southern coast of Crescentview. Meteorologists have yet to determine whether the hurricane will make landfall or not, so stay tuned for more updates.
mod notes
⬥ Welcome to our second event! We want to thank you all for participating in our game and contributing your efforts to it. Thank you for playing!
⬥ A second event post will go up in mid-Jan.
⬥ Please plot over at the Jan 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!
flowey crowns!!
He seems momentarily taken aback to be given something, especially out of the blue like this. The surprise shows on his face for a moment before he is glancing away, pulling his hat down to obscure his gaze. ]
If I take it, can I opt out of the questions?
[ He doesn't like answering questions!!! ]
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They're not prodding questions.
[ tighnari turns his notepad around to face the wanderer, where all the questions are scratched out in neat handwriting. ]
Can you tell me if any of these apply to you?
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He groans in apparent displeasure, but he doesn't refuse once Tighnari shows him the list. Oh, right, he'd seen these questions before. Childish, but ultimately harmless. ]
Fine.
[ ... ]
What's cereal?
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Cereal? In this case, it's a breakfast item, usually sweet and made of grain, that you eat with milk. There are several varieties and flavors. I'm assuming this question doesn't apply to you, if you don't even know what it is.
[ they're grrrrrreat ]
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Then that's no to all but the third, sixth, eighth and nineth question. Satisfied?
[ That's all the scavenger hunt asks for, isn't it? ]
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All right, thank you. Are you participating as well?
[ he can give u some answers too, because he's fuckin nice!! also, he hands over a lovely bioluminescent flower crown. ]
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...Oh.
[ He...hadn't actually thought about participating in scavenger hunt, because he doesn't like to talk to strangers, which was kind of necessary. He busies himself for a moment, taking the flower crown from Tighnari without protest. ]
I guess. What an inane game...
[ After hesitate a moment longer, he removes his hand to don the flower crown, looking pointedly away. He's not used to...accepting things. Gifts. ]
...Thanks.
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anyway, tighnari can't help his mild smile. aww. look at you. ]
Excellent.
[ he won't make a comment about the flower crown, he's bigger than that. ]
I speak more than two languages, I play a musical instrument, and I'm wearing orange socks.
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Hm. Noted.
[ ...
What, they don't need to have a conversation about the things they may or may not have in common now, right? ]
...Orange socks?
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Yes. You say that like it's a problem.
[ the heck is wrong with his orange socks!! ]
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[ He doesn't really care what color of socks Tighnari is wearing, but it is kind of funny to rile him up, so... ]
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[ this coming from a man with a hat five times the size of his head. ]
I'll trust my own fashion sense, thanks. I enjoy color.
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Whatever you say. Did you want me to keep this?
[ He motions to the flower crown on his head. ]
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Yes, of course, it's for you. Though while I have you here, how do you feel about a swim in the ocean?
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"It's for you", Tighnari says like it's just the most obvious thing in the world. Lifting a hand to his head, he touches the flowers again, making sure they're secure, before setting his hat back on his head, right above the flower crown. ]
Hm. Are you sure you want to spend more time with me?
[ Surely he could ask literally anyone else and have a better time. ]
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I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't. You can just say no, if that's your preference.
[ he would definitely have a better time with someone else, that's for sure, but the bar is pretty low lbr. ]
I'm sure I can tolerate you long enough to satisfy the requirements.
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...Very well. Rejoice, lowly insect, for I will deign to go swimming with you.
[ Tighnari is so lucky...!! ]
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anyway, off they go toward the beach! ]
Insects aren't lowly. They're necessary creatures integral to the environment.
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It's a metaphor. Don't take it so literally.
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I'm well aware that it's a metaphor, and it's a bad one. No creature is any more lowly than the next, you and I included.
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Oh, I get it now. You're one of those "all lives have meaning and equal value" types, are you?
[ Is he gonna tell him about the circle of life now... ]
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All life does have meaning. If you don't believe that, it says more about you than it does about me.
[ don't you fuckin shittalk mufasa that mfer was WISE ]
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[ Just that lives are unequal by nature. Eons of being treated as lesser for being an artificial creation will do that to a person. ]
I just don’t bother deceiving myself.
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[ he repeats, word for word, his expression flat. ]
You know as well as I do that that makes it sound as if you believe the opposite. How exactly do you think you're deceiving yourself?
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[ In other words, he just doesn't feel like explaining himself. He can't say to a perfect stranger that he was used up like an old handkerchief and discarded, again and again, that it was hammered into him indelibly -
Whatever. It doesn't matter. ]
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