Stardew Valley and 38. Give me the Zucchinis.
Yeah, okay, so new farmer arrives in the Valley, and Robin and Lewis go to greet them and Lewis gives them the parsnip seeds, to get them started and they look at them for a long while and are like:
“These are not zucchinis.”
Yeah, no, they’re parsnips. Turns out that the farmer really really wants to grow zucchinis, nothing but zucchinis. Nobody has zucchini seeds in the village, Pierre orders some just to keep the new resident happy, figuring that maybe they’ll buy some other seed once they have had a go at zucchini farming.
Except the farmer is really good at it. And really passionate.
Pierre orders more zucchini seeds.
The whole plot of land is covered in zucchinis. Farmer gives everyone zucchinis as a gift, they don’t wait around to see if zucchinis are appreciated. Sometimes zucchinis appear in people’s mail boxes or window sills. But at least they’re fresh.
Quirky, but harmless, eh? Funny, this new resident.
People figure that the farmer has to give up on zucchinis by the next season, because zucchinis don’t grow except during spring.
Farmer doesn’t. Farmer needs their zucchinis. So they keep at it. It’s better than office works.
They manage it. Even during winter. Zucchinis.
People are a bit worried what the farmer is eating. Can’t be all zucchinis, right? No one can live like that.
Robin, who’s a bit worried goes to visit. All the cupboards are full of zucchinis and so is the fridge (there’s also a half-empty mustard bottle in the fridge, but Robin doesn’t ask).
“Don’t you eat anything but zucchinis?”
No, farmer doesn’t eat anything but zucchinis, farmer really likes zucchinis.
They sell the extra crops to Pierre who has hard time selling them to the village people, seeing that they get all the zucchinis they want from the farmer. So he starts selling outside the town, first in the nearby city, then the next city over, and so on and so on.
Few years later Stardew valley is the zucchini capital of the world. There’s festivals. Zucchini merchandise. Gus’ saloon serves exclusively zucchini food.
No one remembers the times before the zucchinis. They’ve always been here, haven’t they?
THE END
