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crescentviewmods) wrote in crescentview2022-12-31 09:20 am
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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[ It's a good thing he already knows, because that should mean the sarcasm is pretty obvious. He has made 0 active effort to attain any animals thus far, and it's going to stay that way. ]
You are more than welcome to collect what you like, just know I'm not touching them. They're your responsibility and yours alone.
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[ He's responsible! Or tries to be. ]
I'm guessing you've settled in better.
[ Went from cursing the sun in the first month to sexiling him in the second, you're doing great honey. ]
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[ He does not vibe with animals...they do not pass the vibe check. He's too used to freaky Ostoyan creatures and he's just never dealt enough with any normal, non-lethal animal that wasn't a stray cat or dog. ]
Well enough. [ He is NOT out shaking his fist at the sun, thank you. ] I would have, however, appreciated warning that the sun burns.
[ Somehow, for all the bountiful knowledge, somebody forgot to mention that. And he isn't particularly pleased about it, since his pasty ass complexion isn't helping. ]
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[ People are more concerned about money in this island than he expected. The wonders of being privileged in at least one thing. Sort of. ]
It's not supposed to... not for a short, daily outing. If you're out for too long without suncream or some UV stuff though, yeah.
[ Nobody introduced Adelis to the summer staple of SPF. ]
You don't have a sun umbrella?
[ Like Mishka? ]
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[ Do you know??? How many years he spent scavenging every coin he owns?? Money doesn't grow on trees. ]
You're acting as if I'm supposed to know what UV means. [ Duh. ] And I'd rather get things done at once than hide away.
[ Buddy he's never even really had a summer. This is hot enough he's visibly sweating, but he's not a coward. ]
I didn't believe I would need one.
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Ultraviolet light, it's the rays from the sun that actually cause damage to you.
[ So he says, just to say it. He stands there, fiddling with his sleeve minutely. This asshole is still in his oversized sweater in this weather, someone come kill him. ]
Yeah, but would you want one?
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The explanation...does not improve his understanding, really, and it shows with a light twitch of his face. The sun is the sun, he cares little for the schematics of it all. All he knows is it fucking burns and he's not happy with it.
The question makes him squint. ]
However useful it may be for outings, I can hardly be expected to work whilst holding an umbrella over my bloody head.
[ Not that he wants to particularly tote one along, but...well. ]
And I'm not particularly interested in charity.
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What if we just had one around, though? Would you use it?
[ Going right over the charity comment. ]
It'd be nice if we had shade. You know how I have black hair, so it's so bad and sweltering. I don't know how you keep your hair so nice.
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...I suppose if the need arose.
[ For fuck's sake, this guy is persistent. But if he wants to spend his hard-earned...whatever to barter, then it's none of Adelis' business. It's not him buying it.
The swan dive into talking about hair, however, is enough of a swift topic change he merely eyeballs Ryuki with a slowly raised eyebrow. ]
...We don't have temperatures like this back home, so no, it's not something I know very well. [ Like, that's your problem. Sun-dweller issue. ] And I takew care of it, or tie it up. There's no point in allowing myself to look like a drowned rat, regardless of the weather.
[ It's actually the part of him he takes the most care of, but he's not going to reveal that. It's Personal Reasons. ]
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He just can't help it -- he has a pathological need to be helpful to someone, even at his own detriment. ]
It must feel awful, then. It feels pretty bad to me, and I'm used to some days getting up to 38 degrees. If only we could get an air conditioner installed... then it'd be nice and chilly inside.
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What is he even blathering on about now...his face smooths over to blank once more, merely boring holes into the taller man with sharp blues. ]
...Once again, you're speaking as if that word means anything to me. [ Ryuki, please. If he doesn't know what a coffee is, he sure doesn't know what an air conditioner is, either. Back to grousing. ] But I will admit could do without the bloody heat. The light and warmth, fine. The sensation of being perpetually next to a bonfire, however, is not how I enjoy spending my day.
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Also he's barely taller. Adelis is taller when he's in his heels. Ryuki pays absolutely no mind to height. ]
Sorry, I just don't really have a grasp of what you might not be familiar with.
[ Honestly. He's well-aware he grew up with a silver spoon, materially speaking. He may have had other kinds of troubles, but in terms of utilities, he did not. ]
Do you like swimming? Out of curiosity. The water's nice and cold, after all.
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Most of what you're used to, judging by every other thing that comes out of your mouth.
[ Coffee?? Air conditioners?? Sunglasses? Complete nonsense. Still, he supposes the confusion is fair, as it's on either end of the table- something to work on, he supposes. If only the library wasn't utterly useless. ]
...I don't make a habit of it, no. Sticking your toe in most waters back home is likely to get it diseased or bitten off.
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The water here is clean and predator-less, at least in swimming range. I've been seeing lots of people go out and take a dive.
[ Diseased or bitten off... yikes. He feels for Adelis's home situation. He wonders if they can't get a kotatsu table for their farm before winter rolls around... ]
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Adelis' doesn't look anymore thrilled at that revelation, despite it all. If anything, it still leaves him a bit dour looking, shifting his gaze to the side. ]
...I believe I'll stick to shore, regardless.
[ He's definitely not afraid of the water. No sir. He never was, and he never will be. It's just...the sun is one thing, isn't big open water another? No, he's perfectly fine doing his jogs near it, watching it from a distance, but going inside of it is...
Hm. ]
I've better things to do with my time, anyway.
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[ Each person has their little thing that they dislike. Ryuki, he doesn't much like fire, loud noises, any place with a stopped clock.
Everyone has their reasons. ]
What have you been doing, lately?
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Working, obviously. [ Isn't his sunburn a dead giveaway... ] Idle hands are the devil's playthings.
[ A moment of pause, as he considers for a moment- ]
And dealing with a familiar arrival.
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The mango trees are nice.
[ Semi-offhandedly, a passing thought. Mangos are a luxury! He'd never seen a real mango tree before, just the fruit itself in the supermarkets. Sometimes, these little things are really jus... something to appreciate. ]
What do you mean, familiar?
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I was just curious. [ Dismissive, as always. ] I'd never heard of them before.
[ All fruits are a luxury where he's from- he's pretty much never had anything that wasn't a sad, withered apple or the occasional forest berry. The fact you can just grow them whenever is just mind-boggling.
Should he bother saying it? Well, he does live with him, and since a certain Living Bog will likely be making his appearances more in the future... ]
An acquaintance from home. You'll likely see him about, followed by his nest of plague.
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[ Fruits are... expensive. It is maybe one of the nicest things this island has to offer, one of the boons that offsets the general pain of being stuck on sunny farm island.
What's not nice, however, is how Adelis describes Mishka. ]
...Sounds like someone you don't get along with very well.
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Well. Something to consider. ]
I'm speaking literally. [ Like, he's diseased. Internally. ] It's merely a warning. He is my mentor, so I'm merely used to him in a way most others would not be.