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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Comments

[inceptor]

[ It's probably fine™. The likelihood that he wouldn't unbury her is low, unless she gets on his nerves. Or if he's in a bad mood for literally any other reason.

So actually it's pretty high. ]

Didn't you read about that task? Burying someone in the sand will get you an animal. So, are you in or not?

[ Because if not, move on, he has other people to bury(????). ]

[tot]

[ the task...right...

when he clarifies what he was actually talking about, uta goes from being creeped out to mildly put out. not with helping him, because she will help him with it, but more of the way he goes about it. you'd think it'd be about both but it wasn't. ]

You have said it a little less creepy then. The way you phrased it made it sound so much worse.

[ something something, be a little bit nicer when you ask for things. where are your manners sir? and only because of the impression he has already made on her: ]

It never said how deep you had to bury someone—remember that when you're digging your hole or piling up the sand.

[inceptor]

[ He knows exactly how it sounded when he phrased it like that, but he's not going to give her the satisfaction of knowing that. He wants to get the task done, sure, but that doesn't mean he isn't going to be This Way about it.

It's a coping mechanism, or something. ]

I was thinking six feet or so...but I suppose I don't have to dig that deep.

[ Like he still needs to be talked out of burying a body. ]

So, are you volunteering or not? I don't like my time wasted.

[tot]

[ even if he doesn't give her the satisfaction of it all, she will call him out on the what must be intentional at this point. there's no way that it would be anything less. ]

Six feet is definitely way too deep—won't that also take a really long time? Are you really going to spend all of that time digging?

[ nevertheless—she'll cross her arms over her chest. ]

Yes, I'll volunteer.

[inceptor]

Think of it as a fun challenge to get back out again.

[ But no, she's called his bluff - as much as he might enjoy burying someone that far down, he doesn't want to take the time to do it. Far more trouble than it's worth. ]

Good. I'd say I look forward to working with you, but I really don't.

[ He says even as he digs the head of the shovel into the sand. ]

[tot]

Unless there's a suitable reward for it, I don't think it's a challenge that I'd take on.

[ where uta would normally be enthusiastic to help out where she can, she'll simply watch him start to dig the hole of which she'll end up lying in. ...and belatedly realize that she'll have sand everywhere after this but it's fine? admittedly with how he further responds to her, she feels herself digging her heels into the sand—metaphorically. ]

...and I'd say that I'm excited except that I'm not too sure if I should be.