crescentview | jan mid-month event.

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.

Submit your applications here by the 20th at 12pm EST. The date auction will go live on the 21st at 12pm EST.

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.

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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.

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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Now, now, I'm not a man with telepathy. How am I to know you're desperately dominant when you've never been as such around me, hm?

( making it worse, arguably on purpose, )

[ :pikadisgust: ]

Perhaps you shouldn’t speak as if it was more than one instance. [ Yes, he does suddenly have a match in hand. Tread carefully. ] I suggest you disengage now, before I begin looking into the most effect bug killers to lay about my fields…and possibly yours.

( piku??? WHY DO YOU HAVE THIS? FOR ME? You shouldn't have, )

Some insects are quite good for the farm, still? I would recommend against it - your wilting flora would most certainly make your partner quite sad.

[ is for you, babe…]

I mainly deal the flora. He deals with his barn full of animals. That’s my problem.

[ You’ve irritated your wife. The penalty is death. ]

Don’t you have other bidders to be harassing? Bugger off before I change my mind.

( Raises eyebrow? )

Syrlya deals with the animals? Or are you and Ryuki closer than simple roommates?

( He understands why Adelis mistook his wording but he's going to ask, )

What in the hells are you talking about.

[ He’s squinting. What the fuck is he talking about. ]

I am neither fairly close with Ryuki nor living with Syrlya. That should be fairly obvious.

[ He kind of gets it, but he’s fishing for a different answer, because…what the fuck? Partner? Is he insane. ]

Oh? You really mean to say there's nothing between you? You do seem quite close to him, and he certainly has made quite a large bid on your behalf...

( teehee )

[ On God he’s Serious. ]

You’re joking. I find his company more tolerable than most, but that’s all it is.

[ Why anybody would assume different is mind-boggling. What part of him screams romantic?? ]

And he merely offered to spare me from the chance of being sold off to someone insufferable. I didn’t force nor request him to do it. Have the maggots finally eaten what’s left of your brain?

( Hoh. )

Oh? You're truly entirely single, then? Then might you entertain a bid from me?

[ Huh.

There’s a moment where he pauses, legitimately caught off guard- just like he was when the other offered to sleep with him, but at least this time he manages to shake it off faster. He’s just fucking with him, as always. ]

Bid on the application you sent? [ And then he flickers his gaze around, grimacing. ] I’m sure you’ve enough dates as is, seeing as you’ve seen fit to throw yourself at everything around us that breathes. I’d be amazed if you had any coins left to begin with.

Oh, as always, I'm too impure for you, then?

( He smiles. )

I needn't coins to procure myself company, but I do worry for you, Adelis. Do try to enjoy your time with whomever finds you their fancy, hmm? You may find that you enjoy them far more than you realized.

Is it a wrong accusation when everytime I blink you’re in the embrace of someone else?

[ Adelis’ gaze narrows. Seriously, he flirted with Otegine 5 seconds ago in front of his salad and he’s saying this rn. ]

And apparently not, if your habits thus far are anything to go by. I’ve little interest in puttering myself about with somebody new on each limb every day, unlike you. I suggest you worry about your own love life.

[ His irritation stems from somewhere in his chest, but he chalks it up to being tired of his woe is me bullshit. ]

Hmm. We come so far from the rotting gulch that was Ostoya and you refuse to indulge in ways you could not before? I believe I taught you to never let an opportunity pass, yes?

I would not ask that you do as I do - you are your own. But if your heart remains so fiercely shut, you will one day forget the means to open it, and you cannot ask those around you to whittle away at your defenses.

Wander away if you wish, but know that if you seek happiness in the company of others, and I know quite well you do, you ought pursue it without grousing.

Edited 2023-01-22 04:36 (UTC)

I do enough, without being fucking coerced without my permission. Do you honestly think that attempting to set me up with strangers without my consent with make me any more amiable?

[ Seething. ]

Better to be shut than ripped out. And I find it ironic you think you can lecture me on this, when you are hardly any better- who do you think taught me to be cautious of everyone around me to begin with?

Or perhaps I should say you were- but you seem to have changed your bloody tune rather fast! Suspiciously so, even, and that compared with your newfound font of knowledge you shouldn't have, tells me you have a very particular reason for your abrupt overnight epiphany.

So either tell me what exactly has made you such a people person- [ With that, he leans in, before giving an abrupt shove to Mishka's chest. ] or fuck off. I'm certain you can find one of your other prospects around here to comfort you in ways I will not.

( Mishka takes the shove, but his eyes narrow sharp.

Adelis doesn't understand, and he wouldn't. He doesn't need to. But there is one matter on which he agrees, and it's that this isn't like him. None of this is - not the way he teases and plays, and not the way he feels a strange twisting when he sees Adelis, at times.

Would that he could take Adelis's wrists and snap them. )

... If you wish to wag your tongue like a child in tantrum, I will see that you have no tongue at all.

( He grabs Adelis by the jaw and yanks his face up, holding him there with such strength it feels nearly like it might bruise. )

I may have been an ally to you, but I must have misled you if you think we're close enough that you can address me with such disrespect. My leniency has only served to spoil you.

( With that, he drops his grip. )

Put up your torches all you like. I believe this conversation is over.

[ This is, perhaps, what he's more used to. The cold. It feels more familiar, in a way he's not particularly sure if he prefers or not. But there's a furious, frustrated heat in his chest to combat it, and the firm grip on his face only serves to make it boil. ]

And which of us, [ Comes the hiss, ] is the child in tantrum, who decides to preach his fucking hypocrisy and detest it being thrown back in his face?

[ The grip may loosen, but Adelis slaps it away before it can fully retreat, teeth grinding against one another against the sharp twist in his throat. ]

Perhaps you have forgotten- there is no Syndicate here, you are not my superior, and the only disrespect you receive is what you so earn yourself. Perhaps if you did not see fit to make decisions for me, it would be otherwise.

But since avoidance like a coward is what you desire, then I will. Step foot on my property again and I'll see you leave partway in ashes, you and your bloody vermin.

[ With that, he's just going to pivot on his heel and leave. Fuck this shit, he's out. ]

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yourlenore - 2023-01-22 07:27 (UTC) - Expand

[Syrlya is Not Joining This Conversation.

But he is overhearing it.]

( By the time Adelis is well and gone, Mishka has returned to the auction, arms crossed. He's smiling, but it's more a sunny day that's chilly than something of particular warmth. He isn't in a great mood after that, either.

Still, he's watching the auctions with moderate attention. Whether he's inclined to continue bidding or not is unclear. )

[Syrlya had been here this whole time.]

... You may wish to ease up on your mischief for the day.

( He glances at him, pausing. )

... Are you certain you oughtn't be with him?

[Syrlya cants his head.] Are you asking because you think he needs the company, or because you think we are really dating?

The former. I cannot very well argue you are engaged if you are not.

( Not literal engagement, mind. )

He was honest with his feelings there. [Syrlya's sure of that.] ... I can't deny I was already considering leaving early to catch up with him. You've left him in quite an upset.

Yes, he does tend to be quite honest. It is one of his finer qualities.

( Sighs - small, and soundless. )

It's for the best, regardless, that he does not understand, so I will not quarrel with his anger. It is only his tone that began to wear on me.

( He is used to it, and he knows that simply is how Adelis is, but he does draw a line eventually. Angry or not, he does not take complete disrespect. )

[Syrlya crosses his arms, raising a brow.] I won't press for all the details between you two, but I know he is important to you--and I think he is fair in his anger to have been put up to this without his knowledge. I would feel the same.

Edited 2023-01-23 21:32 (UTC)