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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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Unfortunately, Gaku is no good when it comes to fighting, which is why he is now limping through the house in an attempt to get to the bathroom. His clothes have been torn in places and scuffed up in others, and his hair is disheveled.
At least his face is fine. ]
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Fluffy perks his head up and makes way to the bathroom right away. Ellis is a little wary, so he grabs a shovel just in case and goes over to the bathroom...
... to see Gaku rather battered and injured. He throws the shovel aside and goes up to Gaku right away, examining his condition up close with a look of heavy concern. ]
"Did you get attacked by pirates?"
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Yeah. They were stealing your stuff, so I confronted them. I know they took a few things, but they eventually ran off...
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[ And they've done both, so Ellis is not pleased about that. He gets out a first aid kit that's been stowed away in one of the bathroom drawers. He's not a medical professional, but he's learned some things like putting on sterile gloves. It's fine. He gets out the equivalent of 70% isopropyl rubbing alcohol to clean the area around the cuts and scrapes, applies ointment on them, and then puts a band-aid or wraps bandages depending on the area. Gaku can probably tell that it's being done with great care, because Ellis is doing all this while he has stabilization on so that Gaku isn't in too much pain. ]
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...Hm. His heart beats a little faster despite himself.
He reaches out and puts a hand atop Ellis' head when he's almost done. ]
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[ And the contrast from Ellis helping out with Ten in his memories to this moment is so vast that he can't help but smile. ]
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[ Ellis keeps having stabilization on and this much isn't any trouble at all, so he gets up and holds out his hands to Gaku if he needs help getting up. ]
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Something stirs within him, and he almost says something, but decides against it at the last second. Gaku takes Ellis' hands and stand up. ]
...Thanks. It means a lot.
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"You're not the type to run away."
[ It's a question and a statement. ]
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No. I never have been. I'll always stay and fight, even if I lose.
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[ Hm.
He pauses signing. Ellis actually feels upset as he frowns, looking down and then back up. ]
"Learn how to run away. Stupid."
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I will. I promise. I would've run away today if I thought my life was in danger.
[ Even though he got bruised up... ]
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[ You could have gotten stabbed, Gaku! Please. Ellis sighs. ]
"It's either you get involved and hurt or run away possibly unscathed. You can't just enter a fight and expect them to let you take back what you did as soon as they want to kill you."
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[ Unfortunately, he and Ellis have very different perspectives on this sort of thing. ]
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[ It feels weird conveying this, but he wants Gaku to know that he means something to him now. ]
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Gaku sighs, doing his best not to grab Ellis by the face and kiss him. ]
I like to think I'll make things better, but... if you really feel that way, then I won't.
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[ He couldn't even save himself when he was actually supposed to, so he knows how it feels. ]
"Thanks for trying to defend my crops. I know your intentions are good, but no more fighting unless you're absolutely sure that you can win."
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[ Now if those pirates insult Ellis or something, then Gaku will defend his honor. But defending his crops? He can hold off on that.
For now. ]
You know, I wanted to ask you if you had given going back to my world any more thought. That's what I was coming over here for.
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"Can I bring some things?"
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[ He hopes that he's mentioned this... but if he hasn't, well, Ellis knows now! ]
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Ellis points to Fluffy. ]
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[ ... ]
Tenn will yell at me, but it's fine.
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[ Yelling is very ineffective to Ellis, so it's fine. ]
"I also want to bring gifts that I got."
[ Including his talking dagger. ]
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[ He's been yelled at plenty of times over the years, after all. ]
As long as you aren't bringing any huge pieces of furniture, it should be fine.
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