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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!
LMFAO me thinking my eyesight was just going!!
Fine. Good? It all came in at once. I don't think that's how plants are supposed to work, but...
[ He's not complaining! He'll be in potatoes for weeks. ]
What about you and Kaspar?
ITS JUST ME IM A FOOL
Fairly well. We have an abundance, just like you. I don't think we've even gotten around to harvesting it all.
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[ He perks up a little, visibly reminded. He has too many potatoes, but also he has neighbors. ]
I'll bring some by. [ A threat? ] That's one of the board tasks anyway. I can give you a hand with yours.
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I hope you like mushrooms and flowers. We have plenty of both.
[ Who is also a fool for getting so many flowers... They are technically edible, but. ]
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Mushrooms are good. Ori probably likes flowers. [ She just seems like she would? A little belatedly as he considers that: ] New roommate.
[ Nailed it, that covered the situation. ]
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Oh, Ori! That's right. I met her not long ago. [ She did mention that. What a coincidence he gets to see both of them in one day! Incredible. To be honest, flowers would suit her...
Trahearne beams as a thought comes to him, and he lands a fist into his open palm. ]
She's beautiful. You should give her flowers--feel free to use what we donate to you.
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But M-21 nods in ready concession to that point. She is beautiful! He's obscurely pleased that Trahearne noticed. ]
Yeah. ...That seems like the goddess' hobby. [ He's sort of used to it, but everyone here is weirdly pretty. ] But yeah, I can do that. Didn't think you were shy.
[ The confidence to wear a skin-tone thong and the confidence to give a beautiful lady flowers being different things is kind of fair, though. ]
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Why are you pleased Trahearne said it out loud, M-21?? what's going on in that wolf brain of yours??? ]
Shy? [ Where is that coming from? He tilts his head, eyeing M-21 with a confused look, when-- ] Oh, no. I'm not asking you to give some to her on my behalf. [ He already bought her ice cream he is perfectly capable of giving her flowers on his own?? ] But to share with her, perhaps.
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Oh. [ Does Trahearne not want to give her flowers...? M-21 is giving that confused look right back. ] ...Yeah, okay. She seems like she should get flowers. [ ...Was what he successfully put together from that. And he's right, so it's a win. ]
Thanks. I'll bring more fruit.
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Pleased that M-21 is in agreement, Trahearne nods. There we go. Could giving her flowers independently be construed as being too romantic? Probably.
At ease now, he chuckles a bit. ]
I appreciate it. I'll be by later today with our bounty.
[ Trahearne is a man of his word, because he absolutely will come knocking around sunset... ]
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Hey, Trahearne. Come in. I'll get the potatoes.
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With a bright smile and a nod, arms full of mushrooms and some vegetables and flowers, he steps inside, taking a look around at the house. ]
The house is in much better shape than the day we arrived.
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[ That's a lot of harvest bounty there... M-21 waves him through to the kitchen, where he's at least obtained a suitable vase-like pitcher to put flowers in. ]
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As he stops at the pitcher and begins putting the flowers in it, he looks up at his neighbor. ]
No, surprisingly. I was ready to take up hammer and nail to fix our leaky ceiling, but it was repaired simply through holding hands.
[ He says this like a joke, but it's true. He and Kaspar held hands day 1 to fix that leak. ]
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Almost like she's trying to tell us something. [ The goddess, that is. ] I wish they were all that easy.
[ Well, Trahearne's got the flower situation! And he probably has more of an eye for aesthetics than M-21, so he'll just occupy himself getting a basket of produce. ]
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If only.
[ honestly, what is a paddleboat.
Done with the vase, he steps back to admire the arrangement. His eyes don't leave it as he keeps talking. ]
How has that been going for you, by the way? The squares.
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I've done most of the easy ones already. Everything else is kind of a pain... I wonder what animals she wants us to feed, anyway.
[ He feeds the farm animals every day as it is... ]
What about yours?
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[ Flowers finished, Trahearne deposits the basket of produce beside the vase and turns around to watch M-21. ]
Mine is going all right. I'm...surprisingly further along than I thought I'd be by now.
[ thinking about and ignoring those smut squares ahahaha ]
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[ M-21 absentmindedly digs out his bingo card, still mostly looking at the flowers. He's got a good feeling that Ori'll like those. ]
Huh. Wonder if you got an easier one. Want to trade anything?
[ He's not so self-conscious anymore... maybe because his smut squares and even french kissing is so conspicuously unfilled. ]
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Some of those. Sure are filled. ]
I'm certain we must have some in common.
[ come take a look, buddy. whaddya buyin'? ]
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[ Hang on, the rest of the card is sinking in, and M-21's eyebrows are going up a little. Trahearne... isn't shy, alright. ]
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Oh, that's right. When I met Ori, she did mention watching a movie together. [ Unfortunate he has both movie marathon and watch a movie on there...which means he has to do this multiple times. ]
Why don't you two come over sometime? We could make an evening affair of it.
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Yeah? Good idea. Those things are better in groups, anyway. We can bring food over.
[ Maybe this place has popcorn? He wonders if the others have tried that. He's getting a little more enthused the more he thinks about it. ]
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[ are you going to contribute, trahearne... ]
That settles it, then. I can't wait.
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[ This has M-21's pleased attention! ...He might notice the worms more in pancakes. RIP. Good protein, though. ]
Heh. Looking forward to it. [ And he offers Trahearne the produce bounty in return. Potatoes! Lots of potatoes. ] Thanks, for the flowers.
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