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Week 4
Weather: Monday AM & PM - Clear Skies; Tuesday - Thursday AM Cloudy, PM Rainy; Friday - Clear Skies
- The Meteor Shower
On Monday, there are, in your mailboxes, passports for those who happened to not pick them up when the airport opened. Hold onto these--they’re important, after all! Open them up, and you’ll find not only a title, your name, and your hometown, but you’ll also find…
A blank page? That’s right. There’s a page in the back of the admittedly small passport with only one thing on it: a space that looks like it has room for a star stamp. Huh. That’s strange, isn’t it? There are no hints as to what it could be about, but maybe the announcement will shed some light.
There’s also, like last week, a familiar face around the island… it’s Audie! Come around to her house to say hi--she’s very excited to be here, and very fashionably dressed as she strolls around the island.
And like clockwork, at nine AM, Tom Nook makes his announcement once more:
“Good morning, Isla Sonrisa! A few things this morning. Please give a warm welcome to our new neighbor, Audie!”
Audie smiles and waves at you all with both paws--she’s pretty flattered at the warm response. Tom Nook continues--
“We have for you the ability to build bridges now! Yes, yes, these will prove very useful indeed. Of course, you will most likely have to work together to figure out the best places to put these bridges, as we have only a limited number… But I am sure working together will be little trouble for you all! The only thing to note is that each bridge will come with a construction fee of 15,000 bells each. Consider working together to get some bridges up and running...?”
He pauses, and the next part comes with some measure of almost… not quite dismay, but there’s a certain cloud over the tanuki: “It also seems Iori and Mira have also left the island… Again, we’re looking into it, and should any discoveries come to light, I will tell you immediately.”
He nods to himself, and continues on--
“Next, I’d like to tell you all we have a very special event tonight… a meteor shower! Yes, yes, starting at 7 PM, we will have clear skies and many stars to wish upon. Who knows--maybe your wishes will all come true!” He says that with a bright smile, almost like he really believes it… Or maybe that’s just his quiet optimism? Anyway, he continues--
“Finally, I’d like to thank you all for your hard work in making items for our new friends! Yes, yes, you all have been working so hard to create furniture and items for our housing plots, but this week, I invite you all to put your best DIY skills to the test! There are no specific style requirements in mind, but please make sure our potential new friend has:
1 Table
2 Dressers
1 Clock
2 Chairs
Of course, if you’d like to make more, I am sure our friend will not be opposed…” He pauses, and seems to remember something! “Ah, yes, we are very close to opening our museum… I am sure Blathers would appreciate any bugs, fish, or fossils regardless! Hmm… Yes, that is all I have for you! Thank you once more for your hard work, and have a wonderful day!”
Possible Objectives
1. Help Tom Nook prepare a housing plot for the last villager house.
2. Donate more specimens to Blathers.
3. Attend the meteor shower, if you so desire. There may be some secrets waiting for you...
4. Make a money pool for some bridges.
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
(OOC: Welcome to Week 4! Please direct all questions to the FAQ.
Here's this week's Weekly Plotting Post for you all to use!
As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to let us know! Have fun!)
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[ Shooting stars... so pretty. He stretches his arms upwards to stretch out his back muscles a little. ]
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[ But he supposes Laurent isn't wrong. Joonghyuk is used to adapting. However, he isn't sure if this is something he can ever truly let go. ]
You said you would tell me your story.
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[ Laurent gets out his garden bench and sits on one end of it. Joonghyuk is in front of him, but he takes care not to kick him when he stretches his legs out and leaning back to look up at the night sky. ]
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If you disappear tomorrow, I might never know.
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Yeah, that's right. Maybe I'll make this like a will.
[ Is he serious? We'll never know.
Anyway. ]
The place I come from is pretty normal for a majority of the population. Humans are everywhere, no monsters, peaceful unless humans feel like drumming up conflicts--the usual. Or at least, that's how most people view it.
It's not really something you'd think of, but say... if I attempt to cut my hair, you'd expect my hair to be cut. But why? Because I put scissor blades against my hair? But why does that action cut my hair? The sharpness of the blade? Something along the lines of physics?
[ Laurent breathes out and tilts his head on top of the backrest of the bench. He slouched a lot in his seat to make this possible. ]
Such functions that make up the world and everything within it were originally in control of a single entity. But in order to reduce stress and prevent the world from collapsing in on itself, that entity split its functions one by one and either created other beings to control that function or fuse already existing people with them. We call those Concepts. They're essentially personified functions of the world.
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However, this is Yoo Joonghyuk. He hates gods more than anything— ]
That's asinine.
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[ So prepare yourself, Joonghyuk. ]
After an existence gets converted into a Concept, they retain a small fraction of the world's function. Like the earlier example was supposed to be derived from "Cut". The Concept in charge of that, in the early stages, would be able to cut simple things like paper or hair by simply making a scissor motion with hands. Maturity for Concepts only occur with time, no matter how fitting it seems for them. After a certain amount of time passes, the newly formed Concept cannot die by conventional means and have greater mastery over their function. "Cut" would be able to eventually be able to cut off someone's oxygen by merely thinking about it, or permanently cut bonds between people in the blink of an eye. In reverse, "Cut" could also render all sharp objects to be unable to cut anything.
[ And this is the part that Laurent hates-- ]
The more a Concept matures over time, they learn everything about that function in the world. Someone is getting a haircut? They'll know. Someone cut a place in line? They'll know. The Concept would know everything related to the function in the entire world constantly.
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That's annoying.
[ He doesn't like that and he's glad he isn't one to live that life, even if he lived far too long. ]
Shouldn't that person who can "cut" be able to free you all from your responsibilities?
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[ Laurent laughs a little. ]
Although I'm here... it means there is nothing in the world that controls "ends". I imagine it's a mess by now.
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The world stops for no one.
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[ You start chopping a tree. It never ends. You do your homework. It never ends. ]
Though I suppose other overlapping Concepts are minimizing it.
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I'm a recent one, so it means I can still die. No one wants me to die though. They all want something to end, and they'll wait until I have enough power to do it. They'll happily leave me in an empty dimensional space until I mature.
[ It's an antithesis of Joonghyuk's survival life. Laurent doesn't need to try hard to survive because others want him to live, even if it means jailing him for an obscene number of years until he can no longer die while Laurent waits for every single message relating with "ends" flooding his head at every possible moment. To live life like this with no end in sight, sounds like torture. ]
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[ That's what Joonghyuk would do—or at least, that's what people think Joonghyuk would do. Maybe if he was mad enough, maybe if he didn't learn to love and connect with people again, he would let worlds burn if he can't die. ]
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I thought about it--I don't particularly have any attachment to the world. The number of people I care about back there can be counted on a single hand... one of them can't be saved anyway.
[ Meet mister "0% success rate in saving people". ]
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So in his silence, he's starts formulating some kind of plan. They can pick up the sword to sever connections as their first attempt, though that means they need to bring a piece of the < Star Stream >'s story if they want it or any of their abilities to work in another world. It'd need to be imbued into something portable... Then the replacement to take place has to be sustainable.
A wolf ear flickers as he thinks so more. It's grandiose, but he thinks it's possible. ]
We can destroy the system.
[ From 0 to 100. ]
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[ How does one go against the functions of the world, when you use those functions in the first place in an attempt to achieve it? Laurent thinks Joonghyuk already realizes that, so the fact that he claims that he can destroy the system sounds really wild to Laurent. ]
What do you suggest--that we sever the connections as to what makes us Concepts? We're not particularly linked to the core entity in the first place. Our existence just gets converted after being chosen.
[ He mentions that, since he did bring up "Cut" earlier. ]
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[ Is this the most Joonghyuk has talked ever? Yes. Probably. Anyway, these are just theories, so he doesn't at all guarantee they will work. ]
Then there's confronting the source of your story, the very origin of why things are what they are. Rewriting the narrative is difficult, but also possible.
[ ... ]
I won't know what works until I try.
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Concepts don't leave anything behind when they die. There's no soul or anything, so I don't think reincarnation is possible. Also... what do you mean by stories and plots? It's almost as if you're talking about novels.
[ :) ]
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... You’re a literature teacher, aren't you?
[ Dokja tends to talk about things, so that’s how Joonghyuk knows. ]
Have you never considered the world as you know it is just a story?
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Sometimes, I imagined it like a movie that someone is watching somewhere, apart from the Concepts I talked about. But not in a serious way.
[ Hm. Dokja also mentioned something interesting... ]
Are you, by any chance... from a piece of media, Joonghyuk?
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I was the protagonist in the webnovel titled Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World.
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So that's what he meant... he mentioned that you were a protagonist.
[ He didn't think of it literally, but after Joonghyuk mentioned stories in that sense, he couldn't help but wonder. ]
So, were you suggesting that someone revise the story of my world?
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[ He's so glad you're not stupid, Laurent. It's one of your few likable traits. ]
It's possible.
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[ Hm.
He doesn't like that. ]
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[ Some books are set in stone, but some stories are uploaded chapter by chapter. Some stories aren't thought out since the beginning. However, most importantly. ]
Even if your story is set, you can go beyond where the letters end.
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[ A character recognizing his own story and transcending the pages... Laurent is pretty amazed by it, even if his face doesn't exactly show it. ]
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