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mid-feb event.
brisk winds and cloudy skies
As Fallโs characteristic storms continue to cast the island in layers of heavy gray clouds, the season of festivals carries on despite the chill weather. Inclement weather is nothing a nice hot bowl of ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ ๐จ-๐๐ฌ๐ฒ-๐๐ซ-๐๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฏ-๐๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ท๐ถ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ-๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ก ๐๐ต๐ฑ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐ท๐ท๐ข๐ก ๐๐ญ ๐๐ฒ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ถ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ค๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฑ ๐๐๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ถ โญ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ค๐ค ๐๐ซ๐ก ๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐ ๐ข๐ก ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ช ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฑ๐ข๐ก ๐๐ซ๐ก ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ก ๐๐ฑ๐ข๐ด ๐๐ซ ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ฅ โ๐ฆ๐ ๐ข ๐๐ฑ. ๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ฉ๐ข๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ญ๐ข ๐๐ข๐ข๐ก ๐๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ช ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ค๐๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ถ ๐๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ก๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ ๐ถ ๐๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฐ can't fix. There are plenty of leftovers available for those interested.
The yearly animal exhibition is taking place in Town Square along with All Hallowsโ Eve at the end of the season, but thereโs something off about fall this year. Perhaps itโs the pirates who have anchored themselves at the beach...?
This seasonโs crops are eggplant, carrot, yam, spinach, and green pepper. Fallโs seasonal flowers are lamp grass, lilac, sweet pea, chrysanthemum, and petunia. As for mushrooms, porcini, enoki, and portobello spores are available for the fall.
the animal exhibition
The Animal Exhibition is your opportunity to show off the animals youโve spent the last year raising, caring for, and nurturing. Competitors will take the stage to make an appeal as to why their special little friend deserves the title of best in show. The audience will then rate their animal โ and whatever impassioned speech was made on the animalโs behalf โ on a scale from 1 to 10.
Both barn animals and animals from your coop may be entered, but your cats and dogs do not qualify for this competition.
Characters will be asked to fill out the following form to enter their animal in the exhibition:
Name: Your animalโs name! You did name your animal, didnโt you?
Special talent: Animals are just as special and talented as their human counterparts, obviously. Even if itโs complete BS, please tell the audience what your animalโs special talent is.
What qualifies your animal as best in show? This is your opportunity to make an appeal to the audience and talk up your animal. Go on, fish for votes! Thereโs no limit on how much can be said about your animal, so go nuts.
Once again, judgment will be cast by the audience and scores given on a scale of 1 to 10. Reply directly to the applications themselves to cast your votes and/or discuss the animal being presented with the exhibitor and your fellow audience members.
OOCly and ICly, the exhibition takes place on the 15th. Votes will be tallied and the winner announced OOCly and ICly on the 1st, giving you two weeks to enter, discuss the entries amongst your neighbors, and vote. The winner will receive a special animal never before seen on the island. Thereโs only one of it in existence!
all hallows' eve
As the end of Fall nears and Winter approaches, the residents of Crescentview Town have begun setting out carved gourds on their porches and handing out unique handmade candies to the farmers on Fall 30th, otherwise known as All Hallowsโ Eve. The bar has also begun selling hot pumpkin spice lattes that leave you feeling a bit sassier than usual.
It is said that the souls of the dearly departed roam the island during late Fall in search of their final resting places. The townsfolk carve gourds in order to house these wandering souls and allow them to rest before venturing on in search of a permanent home. These carved gourds glow with an eerie blue light when occupied with the souls of the dead... according to the townsfolk, anyway.
It is recommended that farmers use pumpkins from last monthโs harvest to carve their lanterns. Otherwise, a variety of small gourds can be purchased from the grocerโs. Candy and other sweet treats can also be purchased here if you wish to participate in the tradition of handing out candy on the 30th. Additionally, the candy distributed by the townfolk might leave you feeling scared and in need of comfort if consumed on the 30th. Spoopy.
thar be pirates
Remember the strange ship circling the coast? The one that is quite obviously a pirate ship? Yeah. Coming as a shock to absolutely no one, that ship has anchored at the beach and unloaded its gaggle of 100 pirates onto the shore, and the pirates waste no time heading into town to cause commotion and trashing, raiding, and pilfering farmerโs fields.
The level of damage wrought to your farm and the items taken is up to player discretion. The pirates are looking for fresh fruits and vegetables to take back to their ship and arenโt above using force and underhanded tactics to get them. Itโs quite possible that, if aggressed, they wonโt hesitate to attack farmers and villagers. If you give them what they want, the damage done to your farm may be minimal, but if you refuse, prepare for a fight!
The pirates will continue to take to the streets and ravage the island at random from Fall 18th to Fall 30th. Characters may attempt to deal with the problem on their own, partner up with their neighbors, hold town councils to arrange a larger-scale effort to thwart the pirates, etc. This is a very loose and open-ended event, but if your characters want to coordinate a special effort to deal with the pirates that require mod input, please give us a poke through the questions toplevel below. Additionally, the Goddess can be contacted ICly for assistance.
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 youโre bringing home to your farm.
This monthโs current tasks are as follows. New additions have been highlighted in red.
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, โtis 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 donโt know what youโre 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 Sueรฑos 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 Sueรฑos Resort with a friend. As you rest, youโll 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 personโs 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.
8. Submit an Islekea furniture set. Islekeaโs application process has been streamlined and simplified! Applications are now free to submit and you may choose a maximum of of 5 items to supply in a set regardless of which room in the house they suit best. Submit an application to complete this task and earn a wardrobe containing 4 outfits from home. This task can be completed once.
9. Carve a gourd for All Hallows' Eve. Those lost, wandering souls need a lovingly carved gourd to roost in. Get together with your friends to carve a spooktastic gourd to set on your porch and earn a Halloween costume to go wandering around in and scaring your neighbors with. When submitting this task, tell us if you want a specific costume or if you'd like us to choose one for you.
10. Participate in the animal exhibition. Submit your finest barn or coop animal to be presented on the main stage in this yearโs animal exhibition. All participants will be presented with the Animal breeding 101 guide and a specialized breeding kit that will allow them to breed their animals. The winner will recieve a rare and unique animal of which only one exists. This task can only be completed once.
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 Library's shelves have been stocked with a slew of new additions. You may learn something interesting! As they say, knowledge is power.
The sound of church bells can be heard ringing distantly throughout the island. It's tradition for couples to marry on the eve of the new year on Crescentview Isle, so it may be no coincidence that the Fall wind is tickling the bells tucked high up in the church's steeple.
mod notes
โฌฅ It's time for event 3.5! We hope you all have been having fun. Next month is the beginning of endgame and the final month of the game. We're looking forward to seeing you all there!
โฌฅ Event 4.0 will go live on March 1st.
โฌฅ Please plot over at the Mid-Feb Plotting Post.
โฌฅ As a reminder, please keep all plotting on the OOC post as not everyone has Discord or Plurk.
โฌฅ Please submit your completed tasks at the top-level below.
โฌฅ Have fun!
sweater weather
He remembers that from after the dance. Hm. ]
You still have his sweater?
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Why would I throw it away?
[It's a genuine question. It's not like there's anything wrong with it, though it's not like he's checked it for bloodstains... Are there bloodstains? That would be awkward because he doesn't know how to clean out blood without magic, and he squints at the sleeves like that will give him the answer.]
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Don't know. Anyone who's seen Otegine in it will know it's his, so I figured you wouldn't wanna be seen in it too.
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Okayโฆ? I donโt care that itโs his. Itโs comfortable.
[Getting this old and staying so stupid and oblivious is a skill.]
no subject
Are you dating? Couples usually share jackets like that.
1/2
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[willful ignorance is a hell of a drug]
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Back in my world, couples usually share things like jackets. That's why I was surprised that you kept it. But I guess it doesn't have the same meaning for you, so it doesn't really matter.
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โฆThatโs- absurd. Absolutely ridiculous. Iโm sure thereโs no one else who would assume such a thing, because why in the world would Otegine be with me? What a stupid, human tradition.
[hlep]
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[ He thinks Owen has good qualities despite the... everything else about him. ]
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Nobody in their right mind would want to be with someone like me, and it's not a matter of not being good enough. If anything, I'm too good for him. I'm a powerful wizard, and he's just- Otegine.
[He almost outs that he's not human, but he can't find it in himself to say that to Gaku. He has no idea who knows and who doesn't, but from the way Otegine acted about it, it seemed like something he was trying to keep a secret.]
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So? My boyfriend is from a story and I'm from a world with no magic or anything. If you like someone, those things can be worked around.
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[Said way too quickly, but Owen doesn't even notice how suspicious he sounds. He's on the defensive, like he always is with Gaku or his feelings.]
What is even worth liking about him? He's an utter fool, thinking he can do things like promise to protect me from harm. Me, as if I'm not so much older then him and is something as inconsequential as dying is worth intervening about. He's far too kind, and far too gentle, even when making love - what kind of person would touch something like me like something worth treasuring? It's disgusting, not to mention he's so tall and warm, with eyes that are rich and soothing like freshly brewed tea...
[He somehow sounds insulted, even with everything that he's just said not sounding like terrible things at all...]
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[ And he knows what it's like now, to touch someone like they're worth treasuring and to promise to protect them despite being unable to do much of anything at all.
He knows exactly how it feels. ]
But you're not used to this treatment, right? [ Gaku has fully committed everything Owen has told him about his world to memory, including the surprise he expressed when Gaku didn't immediately condemn him for being a wizard. ] Are you scared that it'll all stop if you start to like him?
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โฆWhat?
[Owenโs not afraid of anything, much less losing something he doesnโt even want in the first place! That would just be - no. Thatโs not whatโs happening here at all. Itโs impossible. Owen will be glad when Otegine stops treating him like something precious.
He will.
He will, but why canโt he get himself to say that? Why does the thought bother him so much? He didnโt ask for it and heโs tried to tell Otegine countless time that heโs not someone who should be cared for, tried to warn him about how he would just be disappointed in him and how awful he is and he simply refused to listenโฆ
Owen doesnโt notice the way heโs grasping the fabric covering his chest, over where his heart would be, but he can feel how unsettled he is. His brows knit together.]
Itโs going to stop whether I like Otegine or not. He doesnโt know what heโs doing, but heโll learn soon enough. Heโll find someone who he finds more deserving of that kind of pointless attention, and Iโll be glad for it.
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But what if he doesn't? Are you gonna lead him on and sleep with him while you hope he moves on? You know that'll backfire, right?
[ When things like that get involved, it's hard not to get attached. Plus, it causes all sorts of problems. Gaku has seen it firsthand with all of the drama going on around this little island. ]
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...It doesn't matter what I do. He and I can't get married. There's no happily ever after for something like me, and I have a fate I'm tied to that I can't escape. No matter what, I have to go back home, and he has his own duty he can't abandon.
[He had gotten glimpses of Otegine's memories, at the party Oriphi hosted. He knows there's weight on his shoulders - and can he leave that behind? Would he want to, for someone like Owen?
Owen is too tied to the Great Calamity, to being a Sage's wizard, to even consider the possibility. Even though it's been centuries, even though he wants nothing more then for the Great Calamity to be dealt with, between the wound on his self and the fact that without him the Sage's chosen are so much weaker... He has to go back, but he can't go back with Otegine.
Unless there's another option, but... That would be too easy, too clean, too kind for what he deserves.]
I don't think you understand. We - I'm not human. I can't live like one. I can't love like one. I can't bind my heart to someone else with a promise I know will end up broken. It's so much more dangerous for me then it could ever be for you.
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But still.
It sounds like an excuse to him anyway, and Owen seems like the kind of person that wouldn't normally let stuff like that get in the way of doing whatever the hell he wants. ]
Have you even tried? How do you know it's gonna be broken? Otegine doesn't seem like that kinda guy.