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Week 7
Weather: All Week - Clear Skies
- A New Week
It’s the week of the event, and now’s your chance for any last-minute preparations! The entertainment area is coming along just fine with the new chairs and decorations and the lineup of musicians ready to put on a concert for everyone. A concert is the perfect way to get someone like K.K. Slider’s attention, surely! Furthermore, with a library underway, the bottom left hand area of the island is coming along nicely.
Tom Nook’s announcements are all about the event, too. You have a big weekend coming up, after all!
“Hello, everyone! Thank you all for your hard work with the event these past few weeks. We’re not done yet, but I’ve gone ahead and copied all of the flyers. Orville is helping me mail them all out to residents all over, so we’ll hopefully have a great turnout to the Isle Sonrisa concert this weekend! Now…
“For more preparations, I’d urge you to consider food for the event as well. Perhaps today may be too early to start preparing anything, but as K.K. Slider will be here on the 15th, maybe Friday evening would be a good time to do so. Oh-! Speaking of food…”
Tom Nook will turn towards Ren with a smile on his face. “I went ahead and added a few little bits to Cafe Leblanc. I thought it might be a popular spot this weekend, so I went ahead and added more tables and chairs for people and added some wooden plank flooring for you! Yes, yes -- er, if you’d rather me take away these changes, I can do so, but I hope you do enjoy them.”
Then, he’ll turn back towards the rest of the group: “Ah, the only other thing I have for you is a little Q&A for our island residents! I thought that our visitors would enjoy getting to know those responsible for putting on such a fantastic event and creating such a nice island. Normally I’d ask you to write it on a piece of paper, but… I thought it’d be fun to do this over messaging so you can all learn more about one another, too! Assuming you all don’t know enough about one another already… Of course, if you’d rather it be private, then you can submit it to me personally in writing.
“I’ve sent the questionnaire to each of you in a group chat. Please give me your answers as soon as possible.”
The questionnaire is as follows:
What would you do with 10 Million Bells?
What do you like most about Isle Sonrisa?
If you could describe all of your fellow islanders (as a group) in one word, what would it be?
Name one of your favorite Isle Sonrisa memories.
Is there anything you want to say to all of your other islanders?
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For anyone checking the bulletin board, there are a couple of requests, just like when Snake asked you all for items! One is from Raymond:
I don’t like to think of myself as too picky, so anything that would be at home in an office is good for me. Printers! Plants! Fax machines! Coffee makers! The sky is the limit... I think.
Another is from Audie!
Thanks bunches!
Possible Objectives
1. Fill out the questionnaire
2. Do the quests for Raymond and Audie
3. Any other last minute event preparations
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
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...He came to us actin' like he wanted to cooperate. And he did do that, more or less--helped us out of a few tight spots, even if he was an insufferable bit of work 'bout it. Did hurt my friend and want me to turn into a giant world-destroyin' monster to cause a Rejoining, but that's kind of in line what we actually expected from an Ascian.
[jesus christ, scintilla.]
'The victor shall write the tale, and the vanquished become its villain'. I wanted to think it wasn't gonna end like we both knew it would, but it came to that anyway. Didn't matter how much I understood him or how much he cared about someone I used to be thousands and thousands of years ago. Only one of us was gonna leave that fake Amaurot alive.
...Emet-Selch was his title, but he's the only Ascian that's ever given me his name: Hades. 'He who shall awaken our brethren from their dark slumber'...bleedin' dramatic bastard, he was.
[Scintilla laughed in much the same way--a short and bitterly tired thing.]
Sorry, kid. Wouldn't wish that one on anyone--still hurts a hell of a lot, no matter whose emotions I'm feelin' about it.
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Hades, hm? In my world, that's the name of a mythological god. Greek god of the underworld, associated with death. I doubt there's any kind of connection, but it's interesting. Pretty unique name.
[He does shake his head at that last part, though.]
It's okay, no need to apologize. It is what it is. The guy in my own situation shot me in the head--well, a cognitive version of me--and I miss him more than anything, so I'm the last person to judge. I understand how complicated these things can be.
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...Given he went and recreated a dead city full of walkin' and talkin' Amaurotine shades, I almost wanna guess there's more connection than you're thinkin'.
[At this point, she wasn't sure much would surprise her anymore.]
Wanna tell me 'bout him? Since I'm talkin' your ear off 'bout my own bad choices n' all that.
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[He's quiet for a little as he figures out where to start.]
Goro Akechi. Detective prince, media darling, at least that's what most people saw. I first met him at one of his interviews, when my class was on a field trip to the TV studio. We hit it off pretty quickly, and I didn't have any reason to suspect him of anything at first. I don't know if he had any reason to suspect me, either, but he's more clever than he lets on. And trust me, he lets it on.
[He gives a little huff of a laugh.]
I don't know when he realized I was part of the Phantom Thieves, the group he was in part going after. And it took me a while to put the clues together and realize that he wasn't exactly what he seemed, either. He's a fantastic actor, and I might have been completely tricked if it weren't for the fantastical kind of situation we were in. Turns out he was one of the people we were trying to go after, the person who was causing people to have cognitive shutdowns and...in most of those cases, die. Two of my friends had parents die directly because of his actions. Things like that, I can't forgive, but...he was also a pawn. Manipulated by his dad, who was really controlling things behind the scenes, and by the god that used me as a pawn as well, who...right, really was controlling things behind the scenes.
The thing is, me and him? We got put into similar situations. Awakened to these mysterious powers. But I had support. He didn't. He had a shitty, traumatic childhood. He was completely alone, angry at the world, no one giving a damn about him. You put a gun in the hands of a kid like that, and what do you expect, really? In his shoes, I could've ended up the same way. I was angry too, getting arrested and charged and expelled and shipped off for a crime I didn't commit, but I ended up having friends and people around me to support me. It helped me pick the better path.
Even though he eventually realized that I was a Phantom Thief--leader of them, at that--and I realized that he was going to try to pull a fast one on us, we still spent a lot of time together. I like to think all of that still meant something. Akechi didn't have to tell me the actual details of his past the way he did. Sure, you can argue that he was trying to gain my trust to lower my defenses, but I just...feel like there was more to it. Hard to explain, but... I could tell that there was something genuine to it. Genuine to him.
[Just something he felt. And maybe it's wishful thinking, but he has a good feeling that Akechi didn't simply spend time with him to manipulate him, either.]
So of course he betrays us, tries to kill me, shoots me in the head. But since we got wise to what he was doing, we figured out a way to make it so my death was faked, and he was none the wiser for a good time. 'course, I still ended up getting arrested and beat up and drugged in custody, but hey, no death.
[But not a fun time.]
We fought. But ultimately, he ended up sacrificing himself for us, to get us out. To stop his asshole dad, the guy who got me charged of that false crime to begin with, the guy really behind the mental shutdowns. And we did. We stopped him, we stopped the god manipulating it all, too. And despite everything, it was my biggest wish for Akechi to somehow come back safe and sound.