FARMING SIMULATOR;

[last_resort]

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To the east of the village, past the crumbling manor houses, is farmland in varying states of disuse. There are flat fields of wheat and corn, orchards of apples and peaches, and terraced rice paddies carved into the rolling hills that lead up into more impassable mountain -- these appear to be in relatively good condition, as though recently maintained by someone.

There are no modern sprinkler systems yet, but there is a series of canals and acqueducts in slight disrepair. There are also many plots long abandoned -- dried up vineyard, trampled vegetables of all kinds, et cetera. It would take some doing to get them back in order.

THE GOOD NEWS
As you may be aware, I do not know shit or fuck about farming that I didn’t learn from watching youtube videos of people with big backyard gardens and Li Ziqi. Fortunately, a realistic farming simulator game would be tedious as hell anyway, so this is a magical fantasy farming simulator game. Therefore the plants all grow super fast.

How fast, you ask? Well, in the real world, a potato takes between 80 and 100 days to grow. Since we are working off a variable time system, it will presumably take at least a year for us to reach IC day 100. Frankly, even 100 OOC days is a long time for some goddamn potatoes, so for the purposes of this game we will be basing things loosely off Stardew Valley grow times, or close equivalents for any plant that isn’t in Stardew Valley.

For instance:

• Quick crops can grow in as little as 4 days
• Crops that have a longer grow period can take as many as 14 days
• A fruit tree can grow from a sapling into a fruit-producing tree in 28 days

To be clear, I have no intention of policing this and this standard only exists for our convenience, so it’s an extremely loose estimate. You don’t need to be counting days since you planted your corn or whatever. This is just to give you a rough idea. You can use this handy Stardew Valley farming time guide if you want something to give you an idea of where to get started. (Note that seasonal growing times will NOT be a thing because that makes shit way too complicated. Crops can just kind of be grown year-round here, don't worry about it.)

THE BAD NEWS
The bad news is that whatever magic makes the plants grow very fast also seems to have some unusual side effects. You can think of this as sort of a reversal of "you are what you eat" -- in Last Resort, the food people grow tends to take after the people who grow it, take care of it, and harvest it. Are you a compulsive liar? Those strawberries you picked might cause anyone who eats them to have a bit of a problem with the truth as well. No alcohol tolerance? Your radishes will turn anyone into a lightweight. Are you an energetic hard worker with a positive attitude? Disgusting, but a bowl of rice you planted will make anyone who eats it feel equally cheerful and industrious. Or maybe you're normally a happy person, but one day you were in a bad mood and went out gathering mushrooms, and now those mushrooms make everyone feel like shit. Bummer!

Now, you don't have to play out every single thread like you're under a status effect. The strength of these effects will usually be pretty low-key (although certain events may make them stronger) and the effects are impermanent anyway. Additionally, it's possible to grow some food with no effects in your greenhouse after you've repaired it. Plus, with a little doing you can use effects to cancel each other out. Mix Lying Lettuce with Truthful Tomato and get a coveted Nothing Salad, the salad that does not do shit other than be a salad. Or get a cheerful happy person and a depressed fucko to work together in the corn field in order to produce some regular-ass corn.

On the other hand, this means that if you eat a salad where all the ingredients were grown and harvested by someone with a bad temper -- or if multiple bad-tempered people worked together to produce the apple you're eating -- you might find yourself getting Big Mad. By the way, absolutely no one is going to explain this phenomenon to any characters, so enjoy figuring this all out on your own!

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