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feb event.
crisp fall weather
Heralded by cooling temperatures and the crunch of orange leaves underfoot, fall has arrived on Crescentview Isle. It’s time to break out your sweaters and scarves in preparation for the cooler days ahead.
Fall is a season rich with tradition and festivals aplenty, so head down to the Town Square to find out what all is in store for you this season. While you’re at it, take a look at the calendar for Fall 1st through 15th.
This season’s crops are eggplant, carrot, yam, spinach, and green pepper. Fall’s seasonal flowers are lamp grass, lilac, sweet pea, chrysanthemum, and petunia. As for mushrooms, porcini, enoki, and portobello spores are available for the fall.
hot! ...or pot?
Every Fall 1st, the townsfolk of Crescentview Isle get together for an island-wide feast with food, beverage, and merriment aplenty... but this banquet is a group effort.
Centralized in Town Square is a massive pot simmering with the Goddess’ special broth, and on Fall 1st, townsfolk are invited to throw an item of their choice into the pot to contribute to the stew everyone will enjoy together during the banquet the following day, Fall 2nd.
The thoughtful, rational contribution would be a vegetable, animal product or other edible item, but no one is saying you have to toss in something edible. For every item added to the pot, the flavor, scent and/or special attributes may change, so choose your addition wisely! Here is an example of how your contribution might affect the stew.
Each islander may only contribute a single item to the pot, but be warned! Throw in anything too ridiculous and the Goddess reserves the right to make you regret it for the rest of your days. OOCly, you have from February 1st to February 8th at 12pm EST to add in your contribution.
fallentine's day chocolates
Fallentine's is a local tradition in which the townsfolk gift their friends, neighbors and loved ones special chocolates to show thanks and appreciation for all the joy they bring to their life. This year, the Goddess has provided the island's farmers with her own special chocolates that have arrived in your character's mailbox on Fall 1st.
Each box contains 20 pieces of buff fairy-shaped chocolates. The notecard tucked neatly into the box recommends that you give out one piece of chocolate per person, which might not seem like much... until you see what happens when that little chocolate is consumed!
As you might expect, something special will happen upon consumption of the Goddess' special chocolates, so be warned when consuming or giving out your chocolates! OOCly, each character's chocolates boast a unique effect when consumed, but characters won't know what that effect is ICly until they start giving them out to their neighbors. The effect of each chocolate (and the chocolates themselves) were distributed via the permanent AC post for January, so if you forget what effect your character's chocolates have, you can refer back to that page.
introducing the dulces sueños resort
Thanks to the efforts of our deep-pocketed islanders, all current community projects have been fully funded! One in particular — the mysterious island — is worth noting for the special resort that occupies it.
The Dulces Sueños Resort is a new destination available to all island residents and its tropical-themed suites aren't notable just for their immaculate decor. Spending the night with another person will result in the two of you exchanging a memory with one another as you slumber. Soaking in the resort's large open air baths will allow you to feel your partner's emotions while you both occupy the water, so if you're struggling to understand one another on a deeper level, a little bath may solve that!
This resort is a new and permanent feature of Crescentview island, so feel free to stop by and visit whenever you'd like. They're open for business all year-round!
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 February 1st to March 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 season’s tasks are all about deepening your bonds and helping you get even closer to your fellow islanders. Some of you may already be in relationships or working your way towards one, so what better way to get to know your partner than to explore their dreams and memories? Curious? Take a look at this month’s tasks!
1. Distribute your special chocolates. Fall is the season of love and thankfulness. Share the chocolates the Goddess gave you with your friends and neighbors to receive 1 random fall crop seed. This task can be completed 10 times.
2. Express your appreciation for your neighbors. Tell your friends you care for them, give them a hug, make them a warm meal. No matter how it is you show your appreciation for the people around you, ‘tis the season to make sure they know it. Complete this task a total of 10 times for 1 random fall flower bag.
3. Go foraging. Bushes producing blueberries, blackberries and raspberries can be found in the foothills and are prime for the picking in fall, but be careful: you might get a mild case of poisoning if you don’t know what you’re looking for!
You can also pick bioluminescent mushrooms in the forest and seashells at the beach to complete this task. You will earn 2 random bags of fall mushroom spores with each submission and you may complete this task a total of 5 times.
4. Check out Dulces Sueños Resort. Travel there alone or with a friend for 1 cow, sheep, alpaca or goat of your choice. This task can be completed once and can be combined with tasks 6 and 7.
5. Contribute an item to the community pot. Throw in an item of your choice, but be warned: the Goddess might punish you if she catches you throwing in any garbage or dirty work boots. Complete this task once to receive a rabbit or chicken of your choice for your coop.
6. Share a memory with someone else. Spend the night at Dulces Sueños Resort with a friend. As you rest, you’ll exchange a single memory with the person sleeping beside you. You can complete this task to receive a Buff Fairy contract that summons a single Buff Fairy to work the farm, harvest and water crops, feed and brush animals, etc. You can complete this task a total of 3 times. That's three times the buff fairies!
7. Feel another person’s emotions. Visit the island and soak in its waters with another person. Doing so will allow you to feel what the other person is feeling. This task can be completed 3 times and each completion rewards you with a Diva Fairy contract. These fairies in their little designer heels are quite sassy, but they'll cook, clean, and do whatever work around the house that you demand of them.
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 Fall 1st.
The Mines have been expanded to include more rewards and more floors to explore! To continue your mining adventures or embark on one for the first time, please visit the new permanent page for the mines.
Pirates have been spotted off the coast of Crescentview Isle in recent days. They've been circling the island in a large boat flying a tattered banner of unknown origin, but their current intentions are unknown.
A blacksmith has made their way to Crescentview and has set up shop in town! The blacksmith can process any ores and gems you've acquired in the mines and fashion them into fine jewelry in exchange for any leftover materials that come with the ores and gems provided. He can also touch up and repair any farm tools brought to him.
The annual Fall Animal Exhibition is set to take place on Fall 15th. Farmers are encouraged to enter their favorite barn or coop animal in the contest to receive accolades and unique rewards. Participation also comes with its own rewards, so don't hesitate to apply with your finest animal when the time comes!
mod notes
⬥ Welcome to our third event! We've made it to the halfway point and we couldn't be more pleased with how much everyone has engaged with and contributed to the game. Thank you all so much!
⬥ A second event post will go up in mid-Feb.
⬥ Please plot over at the Feb 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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Which is why, despite nearly jumping out of his skin when he's snuck up on like that, he smiles sheepishly as his hand retreats from the plant. ]
Thanks. I... don't really know what is and isn't poisonous.
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A proper check would do you far better.
[ The dark circles on his eyes seem ever darker as he steps forward, both over Gaku and his supposed spoils. ]
Pick and consume those, and the symptoms will begin with nausea, then getting rid of whatever is in your guts. Then will come the headaches and convulsions, the muscle spasms and rapid beat of your pulse.
[ He'll idly reach...and then bypass them, hand reaching further in the bush to come out the other side and return, hand now holding far more recognizable things- blueberries. ]
Learn the difference, lest nobody hear you choke out here in the woods.
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Wow... that bad, huh?
[ He looks up at those blueberries. ]
But those are safe, right?
[ Yeah, he's definitely struggling out here. ]
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At the question, the tone is rather blunt. ]
No, these ones will kill you rather horribly as well.
[ ...There's a beat, before he sighs. ]
...That is, if they were nightshade. [ Lmao. ] Fortunately for you, these are blueberries. A far less chance for you vomit blood over the forest floor.
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It takes Gaku a second before he laughs. ]
Well, I’d be concerned if they did that! [ He smiles. ] Wanna split this bunch in half?
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Adelis fixes Gaku with a rather blank look, before sighing. What the hell. He snaps the bundle's thin branches in two and unceremoniously drops one into Gaku's basket. ]
I would recommend studying that book further before making future trips. After all, I highly doubt you've ingested anything poisonous before, so your tolerance would be hellsawful.
[ Says local man who has ingested multiple poisons. ]
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[ And he knows he’s kind of the odd one out in this place when it comes to this.
He looks down at the blueberries in his basket and sighs. ]
I need to find the right motivation to memorize this stuff. I thought foraging wouldn’t be that hard, but there’s a lot to think about.
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[ But he's #notahuman anymore, so what can he say.
Adelis follows his gaze for a moment before back to the book, and quirks a slender brow. ]
I would assume not dying would be a suitable motivation. [ C'mon, idol boy. ] Whilst I highly doubt the wilderness where you come from is as bloodthirsty as mine, should you ever become stuck or lost, it would do you well to know what will keep you alive and what will you hasten you towards an early grave.
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...I guess now would be the right time to start studying all of this, especially since all the plants look like ones from back home. How do you memorize this stuff, though? Flashcards?
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No. [ The fuck are flashcards...anyway. ] My teacher forced me to learn by putting several in front of me and having me attempt to discern which was poisonous and which was not. I would have to eat the one I picked.
[ This is...a wholly casual admittance, like he didn't nearly die. ]
If I failed, I would have to endure the symptoms before I was given any form of relief. You learn rather quickly, that way.
[ He also had to just drink straight poison at other times, but that's a different kind of training. ]
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...What the hell?
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If you're not prepared in a life or death situation, that's the end of you. That's how it is where I hail from.
[ Hell, as they say. ]
I would stick to your...'flashcards', or standard memorization, however. Without someone with the proper knowledge or antidotes on hand, you're more than likely to simply waste away.
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...Does anyone here have that knowledge? I guess you would, considering you had all that training...
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I would. [ Blunt acknowledgement. ] My teacher is here as well, and I'm sure one or two others might dabble in it. But if you're going to ask if I'll watch over you whilst you writhe on the floor, I'm declining. There's nothing in there for me.
[ He mellowed out a little...but he's still a dick. ]
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You know, I think I'm fine not testing it out that way.
[ Just... putting that out there. ]
Who's your teacher?
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[ The question makes him pause for a brief moment, before he finally shrugs. Well, he'd probably find out at some point, since he doesn't really hide it. ]
Mishka. He's turned himself into quite the social butterfly, so it wouldn't surprise me if you've seen him somewhere.
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[ And this is some very interesting information he's learned about him! ]
We rode a paddle boat together. [ ... ] Are you happy to have him here?
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Adelis' face blanks over for a brief moment, expression going unreadable at the question. There's tension that hangs over before he opens his mouth, and he turns his head to pick up his own basket without blinking. ]
I fail to see why I should. [ The relief in the moment is still there, buried deep, but the anger, among other things, drowns it out. ] We are not close, per his own insistance.
[ A sideways glance back to Gaku. ]
And if I were you, I would not listen overmuch to his chatter. Putting on his friendly façade is merely his new hobby.
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This is the guy Mishka was talking to him about. That anger says it all. ]
Honestly, more than a liar, he just seems really clueless.
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Lying is practically his job. [ And Adelis' own, but this ain't about him. ] But I suppose clueless wouldn't be too far off, either.
[ Small man is salty as can be. ]
An utterly insufferable git is what he is, content to throw himself about without a care. He can let the rot consume him, for all I give a damn.
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Wow, you have a lot of problems with him, huh?
[ Well. Aside from the whole making Adelis drink poison thing, but you know. Details. ]
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[ Captain salty-ass over here. ]
He holds no remorse for his slights against me, and thus I see no need to forgive him for it. If he continues to test me, I'll balance my scales in blood.
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[ What a hardcore way of saying that... he thinks that's pretty cool. ]
But yeah, I guess it really is solely your decision to forgive him.
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[ This is totally normal behavior. ]
If you thought otherwise, I would have questioned your own self respect.
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[ Yet he also chased after a guy that said he meant nothing to him, but it's possible Gaku is just dumb. ]
But where you're from sounds... intense. I heard a little bit about the way justice is figured out there.
[ Which is why what Adelis says isn't all that shocking, because Mishka told him something extremely similar. ]
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