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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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[ Ori isn't doing much better; she already sticks out like a sore thumb on this island full of genshins and tall men, but now she's also wearing a cute dress and sandals... with a very large t-shirt on top!
It's too bad about the sunburn, though. Maybe she ought to get him some sunscreen, sometime. It's important to protect your skin against those harsh rays! ]
Where is your farm located, Childe? Mine's in the forest. I don't suppose we're neighbors, are we?
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[ Kind of masochistic to make the long walk up to the mountains, considering he couldn't live further from the area. Rubbing at the sunburn scaling his forearm, patchy-red spots while the rest of him is pale as a sheet, Tartaglia hums. ]
Before you ask, my guess is as good as yours. I just woke up there one day. As for my roommate, well... be careful around her. Power isn't someone I'd underestimate.
[ That messy girl is unfathomable to him. ]
Is anyone living with you?
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Oh, me? Yes. I live with a gentleman named M-21. Do you know him?
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[ If she's referring to M-21 as a gentleman, he's probably pleasant to be around. Up the hill they go! ]
Let me know if it's too steep.
[ Otherwise, he'll go slow, coming up the path with the familiarity of having traversed this same-old route for nearly two months now. ]
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[ Which is to say, no, they really are just roommates... She will not mention that there is only one (1) bed.
She's able to keep up with Childe reasonably well, though perhaps not as well as she would be if she weren't wearing a dress. But she's happy to let him take the lead - he's the one who's hiked this path before, after all. ]
This hike seems like it's second nature to you. Do you go up this way often?
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[ Childe's tromping on awhile, more than happy to regale Ori with something as mundane as one of the only real hobbies he regularly indulges in. ]
... A lot of people here have been nice. I think there's only one person in this place that I can't get along with.
[ Dislike is putting it lightly. The loathing is there but it's muddled with everything else, animosity and frustration and whatever empathy he can manage to retain for someone who can't make up his mind regarding their truce at all. ]
It's normal, because we're always at each other's throats. But I doubt he'd hate you. I'm just the exception.
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[ It's been quite some time since she traveled anywhere like that. She'll have to ask him about it, sometime.
But what he says next also draws her interest, causing her glance up at him, eyes fixed on his back as he forges on up the path. She supposes it's unreasonable to assume that everyone would get along, but to hear a confirmation of there being beef is a little disappointing nonetheless. ]
It sounds like you have— history, with this someone? From the same world as you, then...? Or someone you got off the very wrong foot with here...
[ Or. All of the above.]
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[ The malice Diluc bears for the Fatui is deeply personal, after all. But Tartaglia doesn't explicitly mention him by name, because it doesn't matter in the end. It could be anyone at all. ]
You don't do the things I do and not get detested. [ So, whatever. It's just one more person who can't stand being around him, and Tartaglia's lapses into silence. ] It is what it is. I can't get along with everyone, so I've made my peace with it.
[ He won't mind if Ori joins the number of people who resent him on sight. ]
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Everyone has their reasons...
[ Is what she'll say now, and what she'll reiterate later on when they talk again at the meeting... ]
How interesting. The Goddess wants us all to get to know each other and get married and the like, but it looks like she's brought in people from opposite sides. I wonder what she's thinking...
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If I had to guess, probably that we should all try to get along.
[ To the best of his knowledge, there's no crossing that divide with Diluc. He's tried? He's really, really tried, it's just that people don't take kindly to the fact that he's part of an evil organization that may or may not endorse murder.
Up on the cliff, Childe gestures out to the view he'd saved for Ori— the bluffs overlooking the town, where all of the buildings are so small they appear to recede into the distance. On one end, there's the cluster of trees that make up the forest, and on the other end there's the turbulence of the sea, and caring for very little of the risk of falling to his death, he sits on the overhang, legs dangling out over the edge. ]
Do you think it's possible to reconcile your differences with someone who will never see eye-to-eye with you?
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If not for the fact that she knows he's been up this way many times before, she would be more worried about the way he's precariously perched on the cliff. She doesn't know him, but she knows herself, and she knows that if something were to happen, somehow, she would be able to do something about it. She has seen her adventuring friends do much worse for much less - and a stunning view like this, to Ori, is far more valuable and fulfilling than blindly springing into a chamber that's clearly riddled with traps for treasure.
All that to say: she will also join him in sitting on the overhang, legs and tail dangling and all. ]
Well, I guess that depends on the people involved. Reconciliation isn't a one-way effort. The other person has to be open to it, too... But if it's a hopeless cause, then perhaps it's wiser to focus on the relationships that do feel fulfilling...?
[ She takes a moment to draw in a deep breath, filling her lungs with that crisp mountain air, before she exhales. ]
This is a beautiful view, Childe.
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At the time, I didn't want to understand him... because that would have meant admitting I was being selfish.
[ Holding onto that grudge went on for so long. All of these plans to see Mr. Zhongli undone for his deceit, only to sputter out in forgiveness. ]
Come to think of it, I've had plenty of encounters like that since. Looks like I'm just a disagreeable guy! [ Ahahahaha. ] What do you think? Am I easy to hate?
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With a long, contemplative hum, she leaves his question unanswered, hanging in the air for a moment as she watches his face. ]
I think... If you were that easy to hate, I wouldn't be sitting here at the edge of a cliff with you.
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[ The risk of that exists, just by virtue of being a bad guy? All of this friendliness doesn't negate what he is. Without waiting for her answer, if such a thing even exists when they're barely acquainted, Childe clambers up to his feet again to stick his hand out in entreaty. ]
C'mon, I'll take you back down. You can always hold onto me if you lose your balance.
[ Like the lawless deviant he is, Childe wiggles his fingers, not-so-subtly imploring her to clutch tight before he decides to make the trek all by himself. ]
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[ Hello?? Ma'am? Easy, teasing words spoken by a woman who can turn into a giant owl at will. Still, it's not like she enjoys falling off of cliffs, and so she does indeed take Childe's hand, grasping it tightly to pull herself back up to her feet. ]
Thanks again for showing me this spot. I'll have to come back sometime.
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[ Life in one hand, death in the other, and the indescribable rush of still coming out in top. ]
Should you brave that danger again, make sure it's with a friend who can face the risk with you head-on. [ It's a thrill best enjoyed with like-minded company. ] See you.
[ On that note, he skedaddles! Catch you later, Ori. ]