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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[associative]

How are you just now feeling weird about it?

[ HELLO??? ]

[framestory]

[ DON'T LOOK AT HIM... Ellis just runs away to the couch. Bye!! ]

[associative]

[ WOW? Gaku walks after him, taking the bag of apple chips with him. He drops them on the coffee table when he gets to the couch. ]

Seriously?

[framestory]

"Seriously what? I don't know what you're talking about."

[ :T He's hugging a cushion... leave him be. ]

[associative]

Yeah, you do.

[ He sits on the couch right next to Ellis, scooting into his personal space. ]

[framestory]

[ Ellis leans against Gaku's side, still hugging the cushion. ]

"Is it normal for things to be written like that about you?"

[associative]

[ He leans forward to kiss the side of his head before shifting so Ellis can see his face. ]

Yeah, but I don’t look for them.

[framestory]

"Because it's weird?"

[ He feels like having something written of him would be... no, he doesn't want to think about that, even if it isn't a self-insert smut fic. It makes him feel weird, being a character, written by someone else. He wonders how he would respond.

But then again, he doesn't want to meet a writer or an author of any degree. It feels like a fear. He scoots closer to Gaku. ]

[associative]

Yeah, it is.

[ He won't lie. It's like a crossed boundary, but at the same time... ]

It's not really my business either, if that makes sense. It's not me that they're writing about. It's the image of me.

[framestory]

[ Ellis puts a fist on top of his palm as if he just realized something important. ]

"So if someone writes about me, it'll be like that too?"

[associative]

[ Huh.

Well, if Ellis wants it to apply to him too, then Gaku will leap at this chance. ]

It will, yeah. I mean, they can't fit everything about you into their story. You're your own person, figuring out what you do and don't like... they wouldn't know how you feel about every little thing.

[framestory]

[ Ellis nods. ]

"But I'm a character. That's a given to everyone except the maker, isn't it?"

[associative]

[ Gaku shrugs. This is all a little too high level for him conceptually, but... ]

That depends. Have you figured things out about yourself here that your maker wouldn't know?

[framestory]

[ ... ]

"But I wouldn't know what my maker knows. I just assume he knows everything about me, since he made me."

[associative]

[ ...Hm. ]

You think he knows about me, then? Or your thoughts about me and the other people here?

[framestory]

[ ...

Ellis stares at Gaku wide-eyed. He had never thought about that in particular. Sure, he thought of their interactions as something "Ellis would do X when greeted by a Y sort of person", but to have specific thoughts about each person that his maker doesn't know about... Huh.

It's so brain-breaking that he just simply stares at Gaku with those same wide eyes while letting go of the cushion in his arms. ]

[associative]

Anything you think, say, or do here is something your maker doesn't know about. That goes for anything you feel too.

[ Doubly so, Gaku would like to think. ]

[framestory]

[ His mind is reeling. Everything Gaku says is right! His maker isn't here! Then how is he still running and developing empathy and thoughts on his own, especially towards Gaku? Huh?? He's still so shell-shocked that he sits there. ]

[associative]

I'm right, aren't I?

[ You are your own person here.

But Gaku doesn't say that, knowing Ellis well enough now that he's aware Ellis needs to come to this conclusion on his own terms. ]

[framestory]

[ He's right, but now that the shock has passed over, he feels vaguely uncomfortable with his own existence. Is it that easy to become a person? To stop being a character?

The thing that gets to Ellis is that it was such a simple thought. Now he doesn't know what to do with himself. ]

[associative]

[ Gaku reaches out, cupping both of Ellis' cheeks in his hands. ]

This grants you a lot of freedom, but you don't need to think about what all of that means all at once. Take your time with it. Let yourself process it.

[ There's that word again, "process". ]

[framestory]

[ "Process". Right. Ellis has been trying to, but it's been a struggle lately. His distractions always take priority and he claims the things that need to be processed are done and over with.

Well, he's still trying. He supposes that will count for something.

When Gaku cups his cheeks, the sheer amount of intimacy with this action made him a little red in the face.
]

[associative]

What's that blush for?

[ He laughs, his thumbs lightly brushing at his cheeks. ]

1/2

[framestory]

[ Ellis just sighs and closes his eyes. He might as well enjoy the sensation for what it is. ]

[framestory]

[ The peace doesn't last long though. Not when Ellis raises his hands to sign. ]

Was nothing about you correct in that writing?