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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!
coo..king...
But the fact of the matter is that He Xuan is here when the door recieves a knock and he opens it. ]
...If it's food, I won't refuse it.
[ He's going to reach for some helpings now, thanks. ]
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You'd be a fool to discard something I spent so much time preparing. Then again, if I knew you'd be the one to receive it, I might have prepared it differently.
[Like adding some extra spicy peppers. Perhaps a dash of poison.]
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And maybe He Xuan's too, given that he is getting free food that ISN'T poisoned. Even with his status as a ghost king, that could make him wish he put the person responsible through a wall. Maybe extra spicy peppers too, but it depends on how much...
Anyway, he takes the container. ]
Why would I discard it?
[ He holds it close to him now. He will definitely have a portion and then some. ]
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Arms crossed, Diluc's just chilling in the doorway, no biggie. Tomato vampires don't come into people's homes uninvited.]
Who knows? Not everyone would be so keen to eat a meal their enemy prepared. I'll have to bring a second helping for Gaku.
[There's more than one in that container, of course, but Diluc doesn't trust He Xuan not to gobble it all down himself.]
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A waste of food is still a waste of food, and you make it obvious that you didn't have the opportunity to make it inadvisable to eat. But, if you want to see Gaku now, he's likely inside.
[ ...which probably counts as an invitation of some kind?? ]
Or you can stand foolishly outside...or come back with more food. The secondary of those would be preferable.
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That's alright. I wouldn't want to drop in on Gaku unannounced and disturb him.
[Unlike He Xuan, who he has no problem disturbing.]
Don't be so quick to beg for meals when you've yet to try it. Go ahead and help yourself. I don't know what good your feedback will be, but I'm open to suggestions.
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You're open to suggestions?
[ If He Xuan sounds a little incredulous, well. It's not Diluc's imagination.
But, he will not kick him out of the house, and goes to get a spoon from the kitchen, before opening up the container, and then beginning to dig in with it without much preamble.
Assuming the dish here is gordon ramsay voice: cooked to perfection? ]
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He will kind of continue dig in through at least a good amount of it before giving any sort of rating whatsoever, which actually might be a sign that he's enjoying the food at all. But, then he will pause and say: ]
...Tastes surprisingly good.
[ Like, far better than he anticipated...what the hell how is this so perfect? ]
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That's far from helpful feedback, but I appreciate your honesty.
[That's a funny way to say "I'm glad you like it," but it's Diluc's way.]
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...No point in going ahead and lying that it will need any improvement. But, you could've always made more.
[ Probably not all that surprising he'd like to have more, considering his big appetite. Though if he wants to make a comment as such, he sees no reason to shy away from it. ]
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[More, eh? Diluc wouldn't mind... depending on who is asking for seconds. He has more than enough tomatoes at his disposal to feed a small army, but does He Xuan, the motherfucker himself, deserve any of those tomatoes?
Diluc snorts, a bit derisive, but then—]
Well then, I'll look forward to seeing how you intend to pay for your tomato soup in the future. I don't exactly owe you any favors.
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[ He Xuan asks, being completely unrepentantly shameless in confirming that he wants more. Because of course he deserves more food, always.
Happenstances, bonuses or not, he won't pass up the chance to easily get it. That being said, that comment... ]
And to think you asked for feedback and seemed so disappointed upon receiving none. Don't think I'd go ahead and beg for your food. But, I'll take what you have to give freely.
[ And then just like that, his insufferable self comes out in full force. ]
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Then consider this the last meal of mine you'll ever eat. I owe nothing to beggars.
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If you expect me to beg for anything from you, then you're a fool. And now, you've no other business being here.
[ He Xuan says, and gestures to the door, being the most welcome 'host' (if you can dare call him that) that has ever existed in the history of this island. By which we mean, he is not. ]
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