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jan mid-month event.
midsummer storms
The unrelenting summer heat has begun to let up as of late and those who make a habit of reading the news will know why: a hurricane is set to make landfall on Summer 16th. Spread the word to your neighbors and keep your loved ones and animals indoors. Expect that there may be some damage to your property, field and trees!
Fortunately, the hurricane brings with it only moderate wind and rain. Once the storm subsides and the whipping winds calm, you’ll be handed a letter by one of the Goddess’ many sprightly fairies who look quite a bit healthier and happier than they used to. Some of them look like they’ve been hitting the gym while others have a nice set of shiny new acrylic nails on their fingertips. Good for them.
Anyway, the letter details an upcoming event hosted by the Goddess: the first annual date auction. She has considerately included a form with her letter inviting islanders to volunteer as dates to be auctioned away while others have been voluntold. Oof. With the promise of a fabulous and extravagant vacation for those participating, the reward may very well be worth the price of entry.
With more news to announce, she requests that everyone meet up in the Town Plaza. The task board hasn’t seen any mid-season additions, but the upcoming date auction and the recently opened mines promise to keep islanders well occupied through the rest of the season.
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.
and... sold! first annual date auction
It’s time to d-d-d-date auction! Participation is highly encouraged by both the Goddess and her pushy little helpers. Every islander received a form delivered to them by said pushy fairies that contains the following application:
Describe yourself in three sentences or less:
List three of your best and worst qualities:
If you were a fruit, which fruit would you be and why?
Describe your ideal romantic partner:
Why should the auction attendees bid on you?
...You may have noticed that the form does not include a section for your name. That’s because this is a blind auction in which bidders must place their bids based only on the information provided in their application. Love is blind, as they say!
While some people may eagerly volunteer themselves to be auctioned away, those who are less bold may have been signed up to participate by a friend, neighbor, or the Goddess herself. In so many words, if you’d like to sign your character up but don’t believe they’d willingly volunteer to be auctioned, worry not! You may use the Goddess (or another character) as your convenient excuse so sign them up anyway.
As mentioned in the overview, all auctioned off parties and their winning bidders will win an all expenses paid trip... somewhere. The Goddess’ lips are sealed as to the destination, but you get the feeling this trip will be quite a bit more than you bargained for.
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.
to the mines!
The once abandoned mines have been reopened and are now accessible to any brave islanders who wish to explore their depths! But be warned: doing so may come at a cost. Will you take the risk and come out on top with rare and otherworldly treasures, or will you trip and sprain your ankle after stumbling over a small rock? Only one way to find out!
OOCly, the mines can be explored once per week and exploration is undertaken in a cyoa-style thread. The mines are a permanent feature and can be accessed now until the end of the game. Have fun!
mod notes
⬥ Welcome to our mid-season event for month 2! We hope you have all been having fun and enjoying yourselves. As always, if you have any feedback or concerns, feel free to reach out to us on the mod contact page.
⬥ The next event (and the season of fall!) will go live on February 1st.
⬥ Please plot over at the Event 2.5 Plotting Post.
⬥ As a reminder, please keep all plotting on the OOC post as not everyone uses Discord or Plurk.
⬥ Please submit your completed tasks at the top-level below.
⬥ Have fun!
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[ It's still in the middle of summer, spring has long since left them, yet what remains the same are the usual fun and games, with people finding themselves spread over playing along the sands, still searching for answers that seem hard to grasp, but are well within reach.
Though some merely look to play amongst one another, to gain things anew. He Xuan can be found occasionally among their number, his eyes flickering back over to someone who approaches him on the beach. ]
What do you want?
[ There are bingos to fulfill, tasks to complete. So, not impossible. He doesn't seem too annoyed about someone coming over, though he still doesn't have the most approachable aura. Not that he plans to... ]
ii. frivolous days;
[ He Xuan can be seen at one of the lakes with his feet in. The fish seem to gravitate towards him, and at certain points, his hand can be seen in the water, with said creatures coming up to his hand, seemingly without much fear, perhaps used to his presence or something else.
If someone comes near, they'll have to speak up here to get his attention. ]
iii. a temporary change;
[ Well, things can't always be the same, can they?
At some point icly before mid-month time, He Xuan will be occasionally around the island sporting a different look, though strictly around in the mountains. As in, he may be appearing like a certain Tartaglia. Why is he out here?
Well, a variety of reasons, but there is a saying about netting all goals in one shot, so one and so forth. This isn't on purpose by any means, though people are free to approach. ]
iv. wildcard;
[ My top-level for January is here! If you have any unknown scenarios or other such fun ideas, feel free to throw them here. For plotting, here is where I can be reached, or my discord @ seraphkingdhaos#8538. ]
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Headed up to the summit to do some ice fishing? Take care you don't carelessly drain the pond.
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Well. He suddenly remembers something about spotting a particular activity Tartaglia seemed fond of, from what he recalls witnessing on the man's card, when they first met. ]
...I'm not.
[ As much as he entertains the idea of stringing Diluc along for shits and giggles, he's unfortunately also the type of person to have the size of a sense of humor a gnat or of the gallows variety, so he doesn't bother with the idea. ]
Suppose I should tell you I'm not Tartaglia either. It's He Xuan.
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...Are you serious?
[He wouldn't put it past the Goddess to swap people's bodies around, but like, look:]
Poor Tartaglia.
[This will be the one and only time Diluc sympathizes with that trash (derogatory).]
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Not that it might be necessarily unusual. They have all been here for months. ]
He will have a difficult time, if he is not already.
[ Stated with an understanding, more than anything. Tartaglia must be in his own body right now; as such, there are things a normal human will not be accustomed to. The nightmares, the constant hunger, the unfamiliarity with being a cold ghost king.
But they have yet to cross paths as of yet, though even so...He Xuan suspects that it would not change things until this affliction wore off. ]
I was unaware that you are acquainted with him.
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On the flip side, He Xuan seems to be faring just fine in Tartaglia's body. Does he feel like useless Fatui trash yet? One can only hope. There's... only so much he can say without tipping too much of his hand to He Xuan, so he'll play it safe for now.]
He and I hail from the same land. I'm certain you've noticed the Vision hanging from his hip by now.
[And no doubt he's noticed the one on Diluc's belt as well.]
But I can't help wondering if you're able to utilize it now that you're occupying his body. Visions are granted to their users by the gods, so being in his body might not be enough to allow you any control over it.
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Jokes aside, He Xuan is definitely paying close attention, because yes, he absolutely has noticed the "Vision", and the same for Diluc. Shiny things that seem ethereal and filled with a mystical power; one of which he has faced at the beach the very day of his arrival.
As Diluc mentions that it is granted by gods, he would certainly find it ironic. After all, if things had gone as they should've, he could've (would've) been a god, not a ghost king. So a scoff leaves him. ]
I doubt I would have any.
The fortune of a god has never smiled upon me. Why would it now?
[ Not to mention, it isn't even his. He hasn't bothered trying to use it. ]
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The gods act according to their own whims, nothing more, but what good are words from someone "blessed" by the gods?
[Diluc stares at the Vision glowing red on his hip.]
I don't believe the gods are in any better position to judge than man is. Their wars and petty squabbles are a clear sign of that.
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'The man who asks a question may be a fool for a minute, but the man who does not ask is a fool for life.', After all. ]
Naturally, they're not. It is simply that they've had the opportunity to make themselves appear like perfect idols who should be worshipped en masse.
[ Truly not something he imagined he'd be in agreement with someone about. ]
Wars, squabbles, and even other certain crimes against those who still live, but are far less fortunate to have the power to strike back.
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So his doppelgänger— or really, his body, gone up and walking around without him— receives an abrupt greeting, as Tartaglia steps out of the underbrush, bleak with his stare and these misgivings. ]
He Xuan. [ He knows it's you in there, under his skin. ] We need to talk.
[ Whatever reason has kept He Xuan roaming around the mountains for eons could stand to mean less; Tartaglia's got nowhere to go but closer, and he really isn't interested in escaping an issue. One way or another, he'll handle it. ]
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At this time, anyway.
Either way, he's sure that not even Tartaglia has been happy to be in a powerful body as his, even without seeing the kind of look on his own face. No one can stand being in He Xuan's shoes but himself. ]
It would also be best if we can find a way to return to our bodies as soon as possible, though like all curses given by the wretched goddess so far, it is bound to wear off.
[ Beat. ]
I'm sure you will never adjust to that body before then.
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[ A victory like that would prove so worthless, though. None too bothered with the odd inflection of his voice, Tartaglia's just walking now, taking the lead with his temper, contrary and strung-out. ]
Assuming it went the same way as it did last time for me, it's only temporary. [ So that isn't particularly his issue here. Is that a note of self-loathing he detects, He Xuan? ] Why make yourself so difficult to find?
[ In front of him, the path is congested with leaves. He's kicking at them. For an adult, well-used to causing destruction and havoc everywhere he goes, Tartaglia's being awfully difficult right now. ]
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[ He Xuan quips shortly. That is how he knows Tartaglia won't bother. But, as it is, he quietly accompanies the other, angry and irritable as he is.
As for himself, perhaps there is a tad, though it's unintentional to let it slip by. He's not feeling like himself, for as much as he's had three days to adjust to this body. Though he's done his best. Normal humans don't need an overindulgence of sleep, need healthy rest, and a warrior's body needs exercise. ]
...I typically have no reason to do otherwise. But, it isn't as if I didn't keep an eye out for you either. Therefore, the answer in this case is that we simply kept missing one another.
[ Watching the other pitch a fit in his body makes the situation feel more ridiculous than it already is. ]
And so here we are, meeting this late.
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Even back then, I wondered... how you came to attain this power. I should have known. Nothing comes without a price. Of course it cost you dearly.
[ And there's the frustration, caustic and gouging like it's been cut out of him. Tartaglia wears his fury so badly, but he doesn't give much of a damn how he looks now, minding company with this emotion. Strange how his voice sounds, pitching so oddly, like he's been struck full across the face and now he's trying to talk around all of the hurt welling up inside of him. ]
Losing one's humanity... what a farce you asked me. You're no longer alive.
[ Maybe that's the worst thing, more than his carelessness or omissions of truth from a dead man, but the horrible feeling that it's all gone awry. He has plenty secrets of his own, but this is the one that sets his blood to boiling. ]
Why didn't you say anything?
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And why is it exactly his fault if he didn't? That isn't to say he didn't plan on telling Tartaglia. Of course, there is a part of him does say that he should've done so sooner, if he had known the man would have been in his body. Though even then even with that not being the case...
Still by all accounts, unintentional all the same. ]
During the midst of all that you believe shouting to you that I was dead happened to be on my mind? And even before that...I don't always go around simply stating that I am a ghost king in every conversation.
[ Usually, he'd stop there, but in comparison to Tartaglia's fury writ on his own face, He Xuan's on the other male's face is full of pained frustration. At himself for not saying enough, but also at Tartaglia's words. Though certainly not the same kind of unrestrained anger by far. So this time he even says a little more than he intends. ]
Do you believe I originally desired to exist like this? After I took care of that trash from my home town, I died that day. And then the creature that desired to consume what was left of me came to collect. It was either oblivion or I overpowered it with whatever hatred I had to do what to it what it wished to do with me.
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[ Who cares about what other people know? Should what He Xuan confides to anyone else mean anything to him? ]
Was I that inconsequential to you? Like I matter.
[ Signora and then Zhongli, and now He Xuan, too? He can't look at him anymore. Don't expect that from him. Tartaglia just starts walking, walking, upset with how slow the anger is to fade. Was it so much that he was asking for? After all of that, it wasn't worth mentioning, not even in passing, until he forced his hand?
Humiliated, Tartaglia comes to a sudden, lurching stop, shoulders ostensibly heaving. ]
Even if you told me, nothing about your past would change. But I would understand you better.
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...You're many things, but I wouldn't call you that.
[ He can only watch as the other moves away.
But all the same, he doesn't have anymore to say to that, as the other man continues to walk off, so that he can stop, some ways from him.
And then at that very moment, he sees the way the other's shoulders shake. Perhaps this was more of an eventuality; making someone he'd never thought he would make upset. He doesn't look down on the other male for it, he'd never. With the knowledge that he is simply likely to make it worse, no matter what he says, because he acts so foolishly so far, he can only continue to speak. Maybe until Tartaglia would wish if he hadn't at all. ]
But, what else would you like to know, Tartaglia? I could tell you everything, so that you would understand. [ ... ] Or you can try to turn your rightful frustration on me, even when I'm like this. When we both have little but our hands and feet to work with.
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[ Trahearne looked at him for one second too long, and here they are. Not that he really minds. A part of him feels the need to say hello, anyway, considering the nightmare. Not that he'd bring it up. ]
Nothing in particular. I just thought I'd check in and say hello. It's been a while.
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Doubt you cared for how our last meeting went, but it is what it is.
[ He Xuan says, just going ahead and referencing it anyway. Considering all of that which was shown to the other man, there's no need to evade not making the comment. ]
I wonder if anyone else had the misfortune to have others appear in their personal dreams like that.
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...I have, unfortunately. I recall others--strangers, even--appearing in reflections of my lowest moments.
[ He frowns. ]
I'd hate to think this more common than we realise.
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[ He Xuan doesn't bother pretending that he hasn't decided who has been responsible for this; people may be inclined to state that others showing up in dreams is simply just that.
But, the fact he has had conversation with others following it dispelled that aspect relatively quickly, and that there is a difference felt between it being simply a dream element, than something a bit...more. For lack of a certain word for it. ]
It'd be preferable if this nonsense didn't repeat itself. The goddess potentially believing it to be something that would help work the situation in her favor doesn't make it any less of a nuisance.
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It doesn't. I understand the need to push people closer together so that we may "form bonds," as she puts it, having one's nightmares revealed feels...somewhat perverted.
[ He feels bad for that stranger who dreamt of his own worst. ]
I doubt you need my reassurance, but regardless, I don't think any less of you, He Xuan. I won't pry as to what it all meant.
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[ For all of his dislike for most gods/goddesses, they don't do things in half-measures. Except, of course, when it comes to righting wrongs when it would not be to their benefit to do so. Those who do are in the scant minority. Though, at least it is an experience he has not faced alone. ]
...It would take too long to explain, either way. And as you surmise, reassurances aren't necessary. But, I won't object to them; you can attribute that to how much of a nuisance this was.
[ And ironically, not just to himself. But, not all his dreams involved himself in an ideal position. Most didn't, in fact. ]
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[ And he sympathizes.
But his expression softens a bit at that as he regards He Xuan cordially. ]
I hope things have been going well, nightmares aside. How have you been?
[ It is a genuine question, and not fluff. Things have been quite eventful recently. ]
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Well, He Xuan is not going to say they're going incredibly well, because that's an absolute lie. But, things are peaceful as of this moment, so they can certainly be worse. ]
Fine. No one else has found themselves in my nightmares when they shouldn't have been. And no nuisances have been making themselves known to me.
[ So, yeah. ]
You may as well answer the same question.
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