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crescentview2023-01-14 04:51 pm
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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!
I'M CRYING
Owwww...
[His poor face. That's definitely going to leave a bruise.]
Did you have to do that? I was going to see if he would lead us to more if I gave him some candy...
[Sure, there's a ruby, but at the cost of a nice bruise on his cheek. ;_; This is not what he signed up for!!!]
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Looks like they'll have to march on if they want to find more things! The rest of the first floor seems uneventful. ]
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...If we come across another, I'll approach it differently.
[ Though sadly it will not take away Jack's bruise. He ensures the object is going to be floating nearby them so they don't have to use their hands to carry it.
But, he will turn on his heel, moving forward once more. ]
We may as well keep going.
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[IT COULD BE WORSE!! But he appreciates the floating, He Xuan, you're a bro.]
If that mole found one, that means there must be others around in here. We just need to figure out where they're coming from.
[And following obediently! He's smart enough to not want to be the one who goes first, so he'll just bring up the rear here.]
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When it sees He Xuan and Jack, it tries even faster. ]
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[ He Xuan looks at the fairy with the coins, looking pitiful picking them up. He could come closer, but, hm.
Then he turns to Jack. ]
Feel free to handle this one.
[ He 'took care of the issue' (lmao) the previous time, so this is definitely Jack's time to shine (?)
Aren't you glad you got He Xuan to come here with you, Jack... ]
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He'll take a step forward and wave, holding the flashlight up to show that he's got some light that might help.]
Ah, excuse me, miss! Do you need some help? Coins tend to roll everywhere, after all, and it would probably be much faster if the two of us looked for them together... I wouldn't want you to lose any that rolled off into a corner! Here, you can borrow my flashlight if you'd like...
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This is a mine. There aren't many places where it would roll to and I can see on my own! Besides, I don't want you taking any of it.
[ Poor Jack. He tried (again).
Steal the fairy's coins anyway? ]
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He Xuan really doesn't care about the coins. Let the fairy roll the coins around until its blue in the face or something. ]
If this fairy insists on refusing our help, we can just leave it to the trouble. We've better things to do.
[ You tried, Jack, and that's what matters. He makes a 'follow me' motion and will simply aim to leave the thing behind, seeing what else they can discover ahead. ]
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[... probably best not to answer that.]
I assure you, that's not what we're here for, but if you really don't want our help...
[He is not about to be a thief today! So he'll follow He Xuan and leave the fairy in peace unless it decides to change its mind.
No stealing here from either one of them.]
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The two men resume their adventure into the mines... and perhaps He Xuan will notice first, but there seems to be a very quiet body of water. Maybe it's a reservoir? But when they get a closer look at it, the water is... green. He Xuan might find that his powers don't work on it, whether it be moving it or whatever else. ]
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Does it stink? Is there something in there from where one can see upon giving it a closer look? ]
...Strange.
[ It's kind of like an affront that the water resists to be moved by him, but it's whatever. ]
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... we might not want to go in that.
[But that won't stop him from getting closer to take a better look anyway, holding the flashlight up to see if that reveals anything they couldn't see before.]
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Perhaps a sample of it could be taken back up to the ground level if either of them have a container of some kind. ]
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If I didn't know better, I'd say this smells like some sort of fruit. Perhaps it's trying to trick us into drinking some?
[As luck would have it, Jack does indeed have a flask of water with him that could be emptied out to fill with this fruity-smelling water.]
Should we take some with us, do you think...?
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But he is just too curious about it to leave it alone, and so... ]
You may as well. It might be useful.
[ He Xuan does not carry around bottles, or anything of the like. So it is Jack who ultimately saved the day here! ]
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The party has earned honeydew water! It can be split enough into two cups. The one who drinks it will feel very affectionate with the one who offered the beverage to them.
Hopefully they don't forget to extract the gems out of the chunk of rock they got earlier with a pickaxe! That concludes the mining journey. ]
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Man though, this is not his day for getting bashed around. WORTH IT, THOUGH??]
Owwww... well, at least we didn't come out of this completely empty-handed...
I do wonder just what this water does, though.
[This is probably literally the worst possible thing these two people could have received from the mines, lbr here.]
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For the record, he doesn't have a hairbrush with him right now, and sadly his hair is not up in a ponytail so he looks like in the exact icon? Kind of. Anyway, fuck the goddess. Easy fix when he has the time but He Xuan is a spiteful bastard. ]
No, we didn't.
[ Luckily they should be able to take care of the gem soon enough. But also: ]
...But, there are ways to figure it out.
[ It really is, lmao...closes eyes, this is totally going to be fine.png ]
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[... oh no He Xuan's hair. He may be trying to smother a bit of laughter, but he's mostly keeping a straight face! Just gonna remember this for potential future blackmail purposes, though.
And thus ends the manzai comedy routine... until the next time.]