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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!
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[ Of course you need the baseline stamina, but he thinks Sylvando looks like the type who might. ]
Oh, yeah. Sorry -- I'm Ryuki, detective at the Tokyo MPD.
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[But, oh-]
This probably sounds a bit silly, but what does "MPD" stand for?
[He assumes Tokyo is a place... One that he's not familiar with, but that's perfectly okay.]
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[ D'oh. Forgive him, Sylvando. ]
No no, not silly at all. I'm just used to saying that, "working at ABIS at the MPD". [ ABIS, in the EN, is pronounced like 'abyss'. ] It stands for Metropolitan Police Department. And ABIS is the Advanced Brain Investigation Squad.
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...granted, it also results in more questions. Sylvando crosses his arms and tips his head to the side as he takes it all in.]
Brain investigation...? Oh! Do you peer into people's minds?
[That would definitely be some advanced investigating! Surely Ryuki's squad must be doing that with magic, right?]
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[ A very noncommittal answer. ]
It does involve a lot of forensic psychology, though, yeah. It'll be a bit long-winded if I get into the details, and a few things are classified, so I can't really talk overlong about it.
You could say that, though. In a way, you're right.
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I'll take your word for it, darling. You'd have to spend time explaining "forensic psychology" to me, for one thing...
[Psychology makes sense, but forensic is a totally new word to him.]
This is so fascinating, though! I can certainly say I'd never meet someone like you back home! That is just one of the many things that I love about this place.
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[ He says, lying out of his ass as a detective who studied very hard on these things so he has to love it at least a little bit. ]
I don't mind explaining, but it'll probably be just a lot of droning on and on... really, though. This is way too much praise, I'm not that special.
[ Please, Sylvando, you're embarrassing him. He doesn't know what to do with all of this. ]
Wh-what about you? What do you do?
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[It wasn't his intention to embarrass, so he'll happily take some of the pressure off when Ryuki moves to change the subject.]
As for me, I'm a traveling entertainer! I have a troupe back home called the Soldiers of Smile.
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The... Soldiers of Smile? [ He repeats it, full of curiosity. ] The name is really fascinating. What kind of entertainment do you do?
[ By fascinating, he finds it a cool, meaningful name, combining something that usually has connotation of battle and war with something happy blah blah he's a nerd. ]
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[Sylvando is all here for the nerdy curiosity. He could talk about the Soldiers for hours, really.]
I speak in the past tense because the person responsible for the calamity, the Lord of Shadows, has since been defeated and the world is officially on the mend. That doesn't mean we've laid down our smile-spreading swords, though- far from it! A knight's work is never done, after all! Things are just less dire now.
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Ryuki listens with rapt attention... for the first chunk. And then it dives extremely quickly into some chuunibyou-stinking story, and it's all he can do to smile and politely nod.
It's really the 'Lord of Shadows' that does it for him. Still, every praise that comes out of him next is fully genuine. ]
Wow, that's really good! It sounds like you do some amazing work. I really like how you think... and I agree. Even if I lived in the safest city in the universe, that doesn't mean I'm supposed to sit around and do nothing instead.
[ He can't imagine such a thing. If he wasn't doing his job, then what...? He may as well just not exist. He ties his job, his role, so closely to who he is, he really can't see himself doing anything else. ]
Making people happy... that's a really incredible skill.
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That's right! Even the brightest places still have shadows lurking in the cracks.
[He wants to hope that's not also the case here on the island, but who knows...]
I really take pride in it! That's why it's been a bit of an odd change of pace, running a farm and everything. At least I've had opportunities to perform here and there.
[Like the dance he just put on for everyone.]
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It's what they say, you can't have light without shadow, or something like that. Right? Which makes you... a flashlight.
[ What the fuck. ]
I think it's nice that it hasn't stopped you, despite circumstances. [ I mean, look at Ryuki! He's been smiling a few times throughout this conversation. In a genuine way. ] You're definitely making me smile.
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Also being compared to a flashlight visibly stumps Sylvando for a good thirty seconds before he claps his hands together.]
That's...one of those electric lanterns, right? The ones that you can point like a spotlight?
[He's a ye olde he didn't know what flashlights were before Crescentview.
Whether he's right or not, his expression certainly brightens up like a light when Ryuki points out his own smile.]
Oh, honey, it makes me so happy to hear you say that! I can't go getting rusty while I'm on a farming detour, now can I?