Festival Help: Dark Harvest

Festival Help: Dark Harvest

​

The Dark Harvest Festival is almost upon Falderen. This annual festival is the biggest and spookiest highlight toward the end of autumn. Since there are a lot of preparations to be done, there are notices asking for help everywhere you go in Falderen. In the weeks leading up to the festival, Falderen economy experiences an incredible boon as the crown eases up the tariffs on importation, increasing business everywhere in the Kingdom.

Below are a collection of domestic quests, which are looking for hired hands right now!

Note: All Dark Harvest Quests will be labeled as (DH)

What is this?

This is a special series of quests that's only around for October and the first week of November. The faire will start in roughly 3 weeks, where all of these quests will affect it. Each character may only take one of these at a time.

 

DH Hefty Brew

Difficulty: Easy
Posts: Min 4 posts per person
Repetition: Non-repeatable

Party Size: 2-3
Location: Pormont


Every year around the Dark Harvest season, the demands for brews spike by a hundredfold, all farms are especially overworked to finish the last of their harvesting and producing an numerable number of alcoholic kegs to be delivered to the capital city in Dunnstads.

To begin, your party must possess either Cooking or Alchemy to take the quest. Each of the mastery help determine the quality of your brew by the end of the quest.

Objectives: All of these objectives must happen within your thread for it to be considered complete!

• Harvest the crops
• Process the crops and brew them
• Optional: Ship them to Dunnstads

Cultivation/Engineer:

• Allow that person to roll to see how much crops they can harvest.
• This determines the number of batches the group is able to brew.
• Roll d8 to determine how many batches of crop you are able to harvest. Modifier: +0.5 for every mastery tier excluding beginner, round down.

Cooking/Alchemy:

• These mastery allow you to brew, you roll to determine the quality of all of the batches.
• The number of batches of crops you can brew is determined by the roll result of the person with Cultivation or Engineer mastery.
• If there is no one in the party with Cultivation or Engineer, you can only produce 2 batches.
• Roll #xd100 where # is the roll result Cultivation or Engineer. You apply the modifier to all dice that are rolled. Each batch has their own quality.
• Modifier: +10 for every mastery tier excluding beginner.

Brew Quality:

• 01-30 Poor
• 31-70 Average
• 71-95 High Quality
• 96-100 Superb

Process

• Roll in (Roll) Dark Harvest Preparation before posting.
• You can only roll for a one of the actions IF you had one of the listed mastery.
• If there are multiple people in the party with the same mastery, everyone can roll, but only count the highest dice (also include modifier).
• Mention your roll and modifier at the end of your post. You can only roll once per thread so roll whenever you're doing the actions below.
• You can't roll for an action unless you have that mastery.

Hidden: Harvesting

Code:

[center]
Harvesting
[dice]d8[/dice]
[/center]

Hidden: Brewing

Code:

[center]
Brewing
[dice]#xd100[/dice]
[/center]

 

DH Faire Artisan

Difficulty: Medium
Posts: No min or max posts
Repetition: Non-repeatable

Party Size: 2-3
Location: Dunnstads


It is not a festival without all of the big and showy attractions that occupy the faire's ground. With an incredible number of festival activities planned for the faire, builders are necessary more than ever. And so, you and your party has been hired by private investor who asked the party to design and construct a unique attraction for the faire that would garner enough interest to make them money.

Objectives:

• Design an attraction at the faire
• Make a plan for the attraction in-character
• Construct it
  
• The DM will rate its potential afterwards

Process:

• No rolling necessary, simply work together to design an attraction (festival games, mirror house, haunted place, etc.) and build it.
• This thread will involve a lot of dialogues and planning, it is recommend you do shorter posts to accomplish more!

 

DH Strange Exhibition

Difficulty: Medium
Posts: Min 3 per person
Repetition: Non-repeatable

Party Size: 2-4
Location: None


One of the most popular attraction in the recent years has been none other than the Strange Exhibition, ran by none other than Earnesto Munster himself. Earnesto was once a famous hunter of bizarre creature and turned his business into a very successful business by touring around the world. However, he's rather old now and can only depend on the younger generations to go out and help capture strange beasts and monsters for his exhibit.

You might have encountered one of his ads in a city somewhere, looking for young and able adventurers to find the most exotic beast or monster and capture it for his showcase at the faire.

Objectives:

• Attempt to capture a strange beast or monster within 2 rolls
• Only subdue the creature, do not kill it
• Deliver it to Earnesto and his company
• DC is # player times 120
• Modifier: (Beast Taming, Hunting, Geomancy, Hydromancy, & Malefimancy) +5 for every mastery tier excluding beginner.

Process:

• Each person must roll in (Roll) Dark Harvest Preparation before posting. label the roll with "Strange Exhibition"

 

DH Battle of the Spook (Music)

Difficulty: Medium
Posts: No min or max
Repetition: Non-repeatable

Party Size: 3-4
Location: None


This year, there appears to be a contest the fair has been aggressively advertising, that is a musical contest between groups known as the Battle of the Spook. You are backed by a private investor to participate in the contest. However, the band's assembly and practice is entire up to you.

Objectives:

• Assemble a band
• Come up with a theme or style and a name
• Compose a song that your band will compete with
• Practice and prepare for a band battle during the faire

Note:

• This is an entirely social thread
• The time span is roughly a few weeks
• Only characters with the Music mastery or people whose background is in music should consider going on this quest.

 

Rewards

Falderen reputation
Also 20 MP & 50g​

 

Update

Greetings everyone, we are now escalating this thread to the level of World Quest as it is the precursor to the event that will be happening on Halloween!

Anyone who has completed one of the quests may link to their thread and list all of their party members for the updated reward. Even if you had failed to capture a beast for strange beasts, you can still claim the completion reward.

Code:

[b1]Quest:[/b1] Name
[b1]Thread Summary:[/b1] What did you capture, what kind of establishment did you make, etc.

[b1]Members:[/b1]
[b1]Link:[/b1]

The thread is now open for posting!

 

@Cain Darlite @Harveste @Surrechis
Your quest completion has been recorded and you may now add your quest to your reputation trackers.

 

@Solaria @Verity @Sylpha Astarte
Your quest completion has been recorded and you may now add your quest to your reputation trackers.

 

@Yuichi Ichinose @Anabelle Zhang
Your quest result has been noted. Once the thread is marked as complete, you may add it to your reputation trackers.

 

@Aria @Stelluna @Magi Heart @Stampede
Your quest completion has been recorded and you may now add your quest to your reputation trackers.