jan event.

[crescentviewmods]

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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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s...par...???

[hearthwarming]

[ Goodness, that's an awfully large sword to be using on palm trees... What have they ever done to him??

At some point, this small tiefling approaches, clearing her throat to get his attention. ]

Is... There something wrong with those trees? They look perfectly healthy to me.

spar... 😌

[pyronic]

[A coconut's probably fallen on his head once, that's incentive enough to take his aggression out on every palm tree unfortunate enough to cross him. That ahem draws his attention, however, and he stabs his claymore into the sand to turn and face her.]

Not to my knowledge. I was simply practicing my swordsmanship on one.

[is that a crime miss, are you the palm tree police]

[hearthwarming]

[ what if she is the palm tree police. what if she dedicates her entire life on this island to forestry. wHAT IF. he doesn't know her life!! ]

I see... And you're lacking training dummies and the like, so you decided a palm tree would do?

[pyronic]

[All these treeple are really harshing his mellow latent rage, man. Where's a guy supposed to go if he wants to beat up trees in peace??]

Correct. If I had a training dummy at my disposal, or even a sparring partner, I wouldn't need to look for alternatives to practice on.

[But Diluc is always happy to beat people up instead? Yes. It's just a shame none of the usual suspects are around today to get slapped in the face by his big ol' slab of metal on a stick.]

[hearthwarming]

Oh, is that so?

[ This is easier than she thought it would be! ]

Well, how about I be your sparring partner, then?

[ says the tiny purple woman with horns in a summery sundress to tall man with big ol' slab of metal on a stick. (She doesn't know she's been nerfed yet.) ]

[pyronic]

[Oh? Easy indeed. Diluc can never have enough sparring partners, but... well, he makes no secret that he's eyeing her in search of a weapon. Just how does she intend to hold her own in a fight?]

If you insist. Pardon my asking, but how exactly do you intend to fight me?

[are you gonna like, step on his toes and pout real hard or,]

[hearthwarming]

[ She's quite used to that measuring sort of glance, and there's only the slightest bit of unease in the way she stands rigidly as he looks her over.

At his question, though, she perks up and offers her answer easily. ]

By turning into a bear!

[pyronic]

[...................By turning into a bear. Right. That judgmental look on Diluc's face only grows more severe.]

Right. So you intend to maul me? That hardly sounds like a fair fight.

[hearthwarming]

[ have a judgmental look back ]

It wasn't a fair or a very productive fight against the palm trees, either, was it?

[pyronic]

[Mm yes judgment, now you're speaking his language.]

Oh? Are you personally offended by my crimes against these trees?

[Because that's what it sounds like. Damn, why's everyone so up in palms arms about these trees?]

[hearthwarming]

[ SIGHS. ]

I am, actually. Especially when I'm trying to offer you a better alternative... You may not think it's fair, but are your combat encounters usually truly fair, sir?

[pyronic]

[He's sure the trees are relieved so have so many advocates on the island. At this rate, Diluc would be better off spending a bingo square on a training dummy so the resident tree huggers leave him alone. He sighs.]

Very well, then. If that is your answer, then prepare yourself.

[Go Go Bear Mode or whatever. Diluc adjusts his grip on his claymore and prepares for a fight.]

[hearthwarming]

[ GO GO BEAR MODE.

Ori takes a few steps back to give herself more room before her body starts to change and shift, growing in size and in fuzziness, the flowers in her hair seem to spread into her fur instead...

Only that, though she certainly meant to turn into a bear and only a bear, a few peculiar features of a different animal have made their way in, too.

Now she is a platypus bear and she. Looks very Confused. ]

[pyronic]

[...Oriphi looks confused and Diluc looks wholly unimpressed, slowly lowering his blade. He was expecting to maybe get mauled and potentially have his sour little face clawed off, but this? He's pretty far from daunted. platybear.................]

How dreadfully terrifying.

[Said as flatly as humanly possible.]

[hearthwarming]

[ At least... she is still the size of a bear, but the platypus features probably make for a very non-threatening look...

She gives a sad little bear growl, but she has a platypus beak so like... Just imagine. ]

[pyronic]

[Uh, yeah. He's imagining the world's least threatening bear coming at him for an all-out brawl and just............... can't. Diluc's sword disappears. He can't perform under these conditions, he swears this never happens—]

...Why don't we shelve the duels until you've regained your bear form properly?

[hearthwarming]

[ Wow, so he got all riled up only to not be able to perform with his sword under these conditions, huh....

She poofs sadly back into her boring little tiefling self, looking completely defeated, ears drooping and everything. ]

I... I'm sorry. That doesn't usually happen. I'm happy to fashion you some real training dummies if that helps...

[pyronic]

[That's right! Sorry to disappoint. Platybears just don't do it for him, Ori.]

I'm sure it doesn't.

[Sarcasm? It's hard to tell with Diluc.]

But if you're willing to fashion me some training dummies, I wouldn't mind humoring a fight with you once you're... a bit more imposing.

[hearthwarming]

[ It truly is, and she's not the best at reading people like him in any case... ]

Deal. I'll see what I can do. For now, why don't you take a break from your, um... Exercise? The trees are probably pretty confused, but at least you haven't cut them down completely.

Is there... a reason that you're training in the first place? I thought this place was pretty peaceful...

[pyronic]

[...The trees? Confused? If anything, Diluc thinks they'd feel antagonized, but he'll take the tree hugger's word for it.]

So it may seem, but recall that we've all been trapped here by a Goddess more powerful than any one of us. Our situation may be peaceful now, but there's no telling when that might up and change. More importantly, I have no intention of staying here and allowing my blade to grow dull.

[hearthwarming]

Hm. I suppose that's fair...

Were you some sort of warrior where you came from, then...?

[pyronic]

[A warrior... He can't outright deny it, now can he? There's little harm in telling Ori the truth, and so he does, nodding.]

I'm a former knight. Still, that doesn't mean the world I come from is safe enough that I can rest easy and place all my faith in law enforcement. There are times when defending oneself isn't just necessary but the difference between life and death. That's why I fight.

[A long and dramatic explanation that could've begun and ended with "yeah."]

[hearthwarming]

[ A former knight... Interesting. But that sure was a long explanation for "yes," but she doesn't seem bothered by it. She's been on the receiving end of many long-winded and dramatic monologues before... ]

Mm. I see! Sometimes the law enforcement can't be trusted, either, right? Especially if they're only interested in protecting the rich or something...

[pyronic]

[did he just hear some... acab......?? ]

That's exactly right. Of course, there are exceptions on both ends, but I've experienced enough of that corruption firsthand that I've made up my mind with regards to the knights back home. Some problems are so deeply-rooted that nothing but full-scale reform can solve them.

[hearthwarming]

Ah...

[ Firsthand experience, huh? It seems rude to pry into that, but she'll definitely keep that in mind for future interactions that aren't the future interactions that are already happening,

Although if he's a former knight, and he's all about staying vigilant and in shape, that seems kinda... ]

I understand. I don't imagine there's anything like a militia here for that, is there...? So you're making sure you can protect, since no one else might.