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Week 1
Weather: Clear skies all week!
- Arrival
At 9AM Monday morning, Tom Nook will take his place at the microphone once more. He has several bins in front of him that are filled with tools. Shovels, fishing rods, bug nets, watering cans, and axes. They look...well. Functional, but flimsy. Next to the tool bins are foldable carts that you can wheel around, presumably for the tools, and some Nook Inc. knapsacks. And now that the sun is out, you can see all of the red, yellow, and white cosmos growing about the island alongside all of the weeds.
Now. Whether you’re around or not, he’s going to start his announcements when a sizable group is present.
“Good morning, everyone! Now, I know yesterday was quite a rough start for all of us, but while we’re here, let’s make the most of our stay, hm? We have a few things to go over today.” He gives everyone his best smile (though he isn’t expecting much in return) and continues: “I know a lot of you must be hungry; overnight, we had another plane fly over seasoning, milk, eggs, and vegetables for us! Soon, we’ll have more ingredients; for now, if you need anything, the food we have on-hand can be found inside of the fridge in my tent.”
Well, that’s one thing taken care of, at least. It’s not much, but it’s better than nothing.
“Next, the tools! These are what you have to start with, and, well, they aren’t exactly the most durable...but they will last for a little while. I estimate 20 uses each -- but when they break, never fear, for we have DIY Recipe cards for you to use in order to craft these tools again! I’ve included the DIY cards for your tools inside of your knapsacks; they give you the ingredients necessary to craft different things. You’re free to use the workbench in my tent to craft your new tools after they break. My best advice is to lay the materials out in the general formation of what you’re crafting and let the workbench do the rest.”
If you reach inside of your knapsack, you’ll find the cards in there...along with a cellular device of some sort. “Ah, yes,” Tom Nook says, “those are your Nook Phones. So far, you’re only able to send mass texts to everyone and receive text and call alerts from myself. Feel free to play around with those as much as you’d like, they’re solar-powered; just try not to break them, yes?”
And then, finally… “Lastly, I would like to talk about currency. I’ll provide you our currency -- bells -- and I will buy anything from you! Weeds, fish, bugs...anything! I have an ATM set up in my tent for you to easily deposit and withdraw your bells if you wish, yes, yes. If you’re wondering what you’ll be using those for...we’ll be having some special features for you starting next week! … If we can’t send you back home by then, that is.”
He looks nervous at that last part, but doesn’t mention anything beyond that regarding your situation. Tom Nook smiles at you and closes out the announcements; you now have several things you can do this week.
Possible Objectives
1. Gather natural resources to sell to Tom Nook and make some money! Bugs and fish list can be found here.
2. Use those resources to craft a variety of different things -- DIY Recipes will speed things up and make them more refined, but you're free to do your own variant of crafting, too!
3. Do some other exploration; the island section of the setting provides you with possible ways to get more resources (bottles, x-marks, balloons, etc.). Shaking trees and hitting rocks are also ways to get special items as well! If you are going to do these methods of exploration, please write “MODS” in your subject header and ping us on Plurk or Discord so we can reward you appropriately! All we ask is that you try not to go too overboard with this method of exploration (ten times a week per person, as an exaggerated example); use your best judgment!
As far as resource gathering + currency goes, we won't be keeping track of those so feel free to handwave as much as you'd like; as long as it's within reason (i.e. a character getting 1 million bells by the end of this week is...a little extreme).
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
(OOC: Welcome to your Week 1 Log! We apologize for the info dump; Mod Coco who plays Tom Nook has work and will not be able to NPC throughout the week, so we wanted to get the information to you folks as soon as possible. That being said, our OOC Questions top level is available for you to use!
And last but not least, we have a Weekly Plotting Post for you all to use. We aren't sure how these will shake out, but we thought we should give them a try anyway.
As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to let us know! Have fun!)
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Oh... Do you get to meet a lot of drunk people?
[ The most interesting people: drunkards, and children. It's the unfiltered honesty. ]
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Sometimes they're drunk. They tend to get out of hand when they lose, so I have security drag them out. Despite how most people lose their money, they keep coming back. Though, it's just my job and I kinda like it.
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Just "kinda"?
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Would you prefer it if I said something like, "seeing their frustrated faces fuel me with satisfaction I'll never be able to obtain otherwise"?
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[ Kinda? It would make more sense, and is infinitely more relatable, but, ]
There's some pretty satisfying things in the world on level with frustrating others. But otherwise, yeah. That answer is better.
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[ Laurent lives life on the edge, it seems. ]
There really is some sort of satisfaction when you see certain kinds of people's faces contort with frustration.
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[ Movie Makoto would've been up for it, but Minato gets his kicks killing things instead, playing with the only strength he has confidence in. ]
You aren't worried, though? About the jail guy.
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I'm not strong at all, but I'm not worried, because he's very predictable.
[ Laurent is gonna eat those words later. ]
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Huh... I didn't think he is. But I'm no good at reading people, anyways.
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Really? Sometimes, when you watch other people, you can find out a thing or two about yourself too.
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[ It better be along the lines of "I'm a damn good babysitter, actually" because look at Minato, he's still alive and that's a feat in itself. ]
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[ lol ]
I'm kidding, though it's nice spending time with you. You're like a small silver lining here.
[ Of fun and intrigue. ]
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makes this face at "silver lining" ]
Please get out and meet other people.
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[ Love yourself a little? Minato?! ]
I've met plenty of other people. Maybe it's because you're not like most others.
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You can say that about anybody... Everybody's different. For what similarities there are, the differences far outstrips them.
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[ And. Okay. He'll admit it. ]
You also make me worry.
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[ His first impression with Laurent probably wasn't all that great- probably, he was making Laurent worry from the start, and that thought has him falling quiet. ]
...Sorry. For making you worry. [ For the fact that he knows he will do nothing to change that. ]
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[ Laurent will say that for both of them. ]
Just like what the passport implied, I'm pretty good at taking care of other people if they let me.
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[ He's too used to being around people who can take perfectly good care of themselves that he never feels like he's looking out for anybody- outside of battle, anyways- and the other way around is the same. Being looked after, being worried over, it makes his skin crawl and chest tighten. ]
I probably don't have to ask, but I will anyways. Please take care of the people here.
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[ Yeah. ]
I try my best every now and then. Speaking of which, I'll have to go make the party preparations. Don't forget to come.
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[ He'll be there to play with the hermit crabs after they've finished racing, thank you for finding them for him. ]