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mid-feb event.
brisk winds and cloudy skies
As Fallβs 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 ππ«π¬π π¨-ππ¬π²-ππ«-ππ¬π²π―-ππ°π° π π¬π¬π·πΆ ππ¦π©π¨-π ππ°π’π‘ ππ΅π±π―π πππ€π¦π ππ© πππ·π·π’π‘ ππ ππ²π«π°π₯π¦π«πΆ ππ―ππ€π―ππ«π± πππ³π¬π―πΆ βπ¬π―π«π±ππ°π±π¦π ππ€π€ ππ«π‘ πππ¦π π’π‘ ππ²π°π₯π―π¬π¬πͺ πππ©π±π’π‘ ππ«π‘ ππ’πππ’π―π’π‘ ππ±π’π΄ ππ« ππ¬π¬ ππ²π π₯ βπ¦π π’ ππ±. ππ°π’π©π’π°π° ππ―πππ’ ππ’π’π‘ ππ―π¬πͺ ππ²π―π€ππ±π¬π―πΆ ππ¦π±π₯ ππ’π«π‘π’π― ππ²π¦π πΆ ππ¬π―πͺπ° 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 Hallowsβ Eve at the end of the season, but thereβs something off about fall this year. Perhaps itβs the pirates who have anchored themselves at the beach...?
This seasonβs crops are eggplant, carrot, yam, spinach, and green pepper. Fallβs 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 youβve 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 β and whatever impassioned speech was made on the animalβs behalf β 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 animalβs name! You did name your animal, didnβt you?
Special talent: Animals are just as special and talented as their human counterparts, obviously. Even if itβs complete BS, please tell the audience what your animalβs 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! Thereβs 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. Thereβs 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 Hallowsβ 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 monthβs harvest to carve their lanterns. Otherwise, a variety of small gourds can be purchased from the grocerβs. 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 farmerβs 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 arenβt above using force and underhanded tactics to get them. Itβs quite possible that, if aggressed, they wonβt 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 youβre bringing home to your farm.
This monthβs 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, βtis 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 donβt know what youβre 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 SueΓ±os 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 SueΓ±os Resort with a friend. As you rest, youβll 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 personβs 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. Islekeaβs 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 yearβs 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
β¬₯ 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!
β¬₯ Event 4.0 will go live on March 1st.
β¬₯ Please plot over at the Mid-Feb Plotting Post.
β¬₯ As a reminder, please keep all plotting on the OOC post as not everyone has Discord or Plurk.
β¬₯ Please submit your completed tasks at the top-level below.
β¬₯ Have fun!
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Hopefully. ]
Your gaze is a lot sharper than usual.
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So? Not a bad thing. Why should I be hesitating when I know exactly what I want now?
You know how to grab what you want and hold it tight, don't you, Ellis?
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He feels uncomfortable.
He was hoping that he interpreted that wrong, and it's not because Otegine said that, but rather what those words remind Ellis of. It also reminds him of the times when he feels absolutely obsessive when he doesn't want to be and connects that with "love". He doesn't like anything about it and there's a combination of a squint and a frown for a moment on his face. ]
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You're starting to sound like a tempting devil on the shoulder.
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Am I here to report your good deeds, then, Ellis? Or your bad ones?
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You can decide, though one is bound to be more boring than the other.
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Most everything is boring, isn't it?
Or maybe you could say almost nothing can be boring, in comparison to having nothing at all. You get that, right?
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Why do you think I'd understand that?
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[It seems like this Otegine, unlike his counterpart, has absolutely no hesitation talking about this. Why would he? He's far better than the fear. It's not his fault everyone moved on, that the "he" that he once was was lost and forgotten, leaving no place for him now.]
Feeling nothing, being nothing. It's as boring as it can get, isn't it?
Why not take advantage of everything we want before we lose it all?
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But it's different in Crescentview. As far as he knows, no one wants to kill him here, he's been overguarded about himself and it really makes him look like a fool. There's some sort of bitterness that he still can't wash away no matter how many positive experiences he has had.
Perhaps if Otegine had talked about this with Ellis much sooner, he would have broken down. However, as things stand now, he's gotten a little better about his existential crisis. He'd argue that empathy has its pros and cons, but feelings things has been new to him ever since he got here.
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What do you want, Otegine?
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[Without hesitation.
There's a beat, before his smile returns. It doesn't really reach his eyes.]
But I don't get to have that here. Nobody worships a dead god. Nobody needs one.
So why not make my own? I answer to no one here. If I have to be a devil about it, then who cares. It means people will remember, and their eyes will always stay on me. Even if it's with those annoying emotions of fear and disgust. They will have to keep that. It's fleeting to me. To hesitate is stupidity.
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What do you want, Ellis?
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Ellis didn't think Otegine was a god, and while he doesn't like gods because all they've done to him was wrong him for simply existing, Otegine gives off a different vibe from that. He's kind, helpful, trying to get used to the life here. He felt that was genuine, unlike himself, who only did it at first so that he could secure aide if something went wrong. Well, at least until this happened. Ellis still thinks Otegine got cursed the same way Gaku did.
Making one's own purpose is quite the bold move for Ellis, who was never regarded to be anything except something people wanted to get rid of. After having his taken away, he thought he could never regain that sense of worth ever again.
What does he want? Ellis had put off the thought for so long ever since he came here. To want something was to be real. To have passion was to be real. ]
People remember you here. You don't need to be worshipped, but people know who you are, even if you decide to do annoying things now. You already have the recognition you claim to want, so there's no need to do things like that.
So if you want something more than what you have now, maybe that's a you problem.
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People remember a coward and a joke. Not something worthy of reverance or fear or beauty. Maybe I woke up and decided enough was enough for once. No one wants to be remembered like that. I don't deserve it. If it's a problem of the me of the past, then I'll deal with it. Who I am now will have to crush his mistakes.
You don't get to decide how much is enough for me, Ellis. No one does.
Besides. You're dodging the question.
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You're definitely not going to get anyone to be in fear of you now. Looks like you'll have a lot to clean up after yourself. Being remembered as an annoyance isn't any better either.
[ And just to spite Otegine, he will continue to not answer the question and laughs a little. ]
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People can be as annoyed as they want. It doesn't matter to me. I could wipe out this entire town single-handed, if I truly had to.
That leaves me with nothing, though, save for an angry goddess who far outranks me. Not my idea of fun. So I'll find my ways elsewhere.
Until then, why not poke some fun? Watching tempers explode is just a reminder why emotions are nothing more than an inconvenience.
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[ While Ellis also likes to be entertained once in a while as he watches others, he doesn't think he takes it as far as what Otegine is suggesting and that alone reminds him of his maker that he absolutely hates. ]
Emotions are how you connect with other people. It takes skill to master them at an acceptable level. Are you saying that you can't, so you have to fall back into saying that it's just inconvenient for you? That's weak.