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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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How is she taking it...?
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She'll come talk to you soon, I hope. I let her know I don't think you or your winner over there are gonna be angry, but... I think at least knowing your feelings about it will put her at ease, you know?
[Though he should probably scoot off in a different direction... he... may not know a wizard has bet 1000 coins on him and is now looking for him. But he stays put for now.]
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Right. I'm not angry at all, and I think M-21 was just trying to protect me. We're teammates after all!
[ teammmates ]
By the way... I saw you reach out for her...
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...Mn? What do you mean?
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You wanted to hold her hand, perhaps?
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[Surprisingly, of all things, he winces.]
I... I know it was a little out of line, I promise I didn't mean anything by it! I just... didn't know how else to help her.
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[ okay, back up. ]
Do you know... If she's okay with such things? Casual contact, I mean. Have you two held hands before?
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I mean... sometimes, if she needs help or we're trying not lose one another, sure, but...
[He can't quite pin why it's so hard to try with her, when even today he was able to do so easily with someone else to try and comfort them. Was... there something wrong with him?
...]
She... she hasn't asked, and that's not something I just want to push on her.
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[ But she saw him reach out for her, so she has a feeling that maybe it is something you would want. ]
I don't know Miss Pyra as well as you do, of course, but I get the feeling from her and based on what her sister said that you have to be direct with her. Otherwise, she might never voice how she feels. It could mean the world to her for someone to simply ask what she thinks or how she feels.
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...
I don't... want to ignore her.
[And it twists his gut to think that he might have been clueless doing just that. But he still chews over the thought, the hesitation that anchored him so heavily as a flaw just rearing up, ugly and anxious.]
Feelings are... t-they're not my strong suit. [Just like everything else.] And if she needs someone to understand, I... I mean, I want to try, but...
What if I mess it up?
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But what she knows is that those answers will never come to her if she never tries.
She offers a gentle, understanding smile. The kind that says I get it. Because she does. ]
That's alright. I think feelings aren't a strong suit for many here... [ She shakes her head. ] But if you want to understand her, you've got to try. If you don't, then you'll never understand. If you do, then you give yourself that chance to be able to... And you give Miss Pyra a chance to be understood, too.
You won't "mess it up," Otegine. You've been nothing but caring and helpful since I've met you, so I find it very hard to imagine you "messing it up." But even if things don't go as planned, then you work to figure it out. Together. As equals.
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It's still such a new predicament to be in - to have autonomy, to have the ability TO try, instead of being a tool and nothing else. To pry himself from the mindset of usefulness and the anxieties it brings takes more effort than he'd like.
But he already put his all into whatever he did. He already knows his team gets after him for this over and over again, encouraging and bullying and chastising over the simple fact that he could do many, many things if he tried, and that he was the one determining that his worth stopped at his utility.
He wanted praise, so he tried. He didn't want to let down his master, so he tried. He wanted to avoud becoming a liability for his team and cause more injury, so he tried.
He... can keep trying. He's tried for much worse, much grander, much more dangerous -- but not much more intimidating than a single girl's heart.]
No... no, you're right, Ori. I...
I'm not good at very much. But I get so caught up in that, in trying to make up for it... I forget what should be right in front of me. I... miss my chances.
[It's said with the cadence of a man who has had this talk before, the undercurrent of some shame that it is, apparently, still a problem. But 500-year-old habits die hard.
His hand rubs at his neck idly, looking towards Ori's empathetic gaze, before dropping his own eyes to the ground.]
Heh... my teammates would probably tease me for months if they knew about this.
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At the very least, she can tell when she's talking to someone whose sense of self-worth is warped. She may not know why such is the case for Otegine, but she can relate. She really, really can. Her upbringing as a mercenary, and her life as an adventuring healer doesn't come without its moments of self-doubt. The guilt that comes when she can't save everyone. Questioning what her worth is outside of her magic...
And she knows, too, that she saw Otegine talking to Pyra earlier, and saw the way he kept her from spiraling, and that alone tells her that he's so much more than what he gives himself credit for. ]
Well, your teammates aren't here, but I'm happy to give you a boost or even tease you, if that's what'll motivate you?
[ She's joking, in hopes of lightening the mood... is it working... ]
But seriously, Otegine. Because of what you did just now, Pyra feels better about talking to M-21 about what happened, and I'm sure she'll do fine when we talk later, too. You gave her that push! You're good for so much more than you think. I understand how that feels. When I was down on myself like that... It was my teammates that helped me out of it, too. So let me do the same for you. There's no shame in needing a little bit of that from time to time.
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He can see now, maybe a little, why Pyra would take comfort in someone like Ori.
He glances off towards where Pyra currently chatters with M-21, some of the nervous tension deflating from his posture with a weak little chuckle.]
Yeah... I mean, that's the point of a team. Covering each other's weaknesses and everything. I know I'd be in plenty of trouble without other people.
[...
A beat, and he meets her eyes a little stronger, something softened and grateful.]
Thanks, Ori. [His lips quirk, something boyish and playful behind his look, a welcome acceptance of the consensual teasing.]I might judge you if you start forcing me into dance practice or anything with your encouragement, though. I get enough of that.
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Then, she meets Otegine's eyes with something equally soft, and somewhat teasing on her end. ]
Oh, no, no, no. You don't have to worry about that from me. I will do anything to avoid something like dancing. That's why I usually turn into a mouse for any fancy parties we go to...
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[That's surprising... here, she seemed like the type that might like that sort of thing.]
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[ She is much more likely to stick to the open bar at a fancy party if she is not a mouse... Which also tracks given her liveliness at the meeting... ]
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--... Buuut... it's not really the task for you, maybe?
I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I'm not all that good at it either. [Can he do choreography and perform the splits from a standing drop? Yes. But he still isn't very good, he swears.] I guess it just surprises me a little.
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Yeah! That's exactly it! I'll happily provide flowers and magic to help all the dancing feel more wonderful and whimsical!
But uh... Yeah.
[ a beat. ]
That surprises you?
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Maybe not for anything flashy, but, uh... I don't know. You kind of made me think of one of those sorts that likes to hum and dance when they're alone.
[Maybe it's because she's a little quieter? He's not sure.]
Ah, but, that's a guess!! I'm not always sharp with that...
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[ She closes her eyes, falling silent for a moment because wow, way to call her out, Ote. Not so much with dancing, but definitely the type to hum while she's going about her business by herself... ]
Well... No, you weren't completely off! With the humming part, at least...
Speaking of, I bet you would be an excellent dancing partner. Have you done that sort of thing before, Otegine?