Week 1

[vellamods]

WEEK 1 LOG ♬
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).


OOC Questions
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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Comments

OOC Questions

[vellamods]

Re: OOC Questions

[turntoashes]

Are the phones capable of video or just text and voice?

[vellamods]

The phones are actually just capable of text between the cast! Tom Nook can send texts and calls, but between PCs it's just text. Sorry for any confusion!

EDIT: Also, for further clarification, usernames on the phone are just character names! No edgy teen phase for y'all.

[livefreely]

Important questions re: phones - do we have emoji.

(Both of the regular variety and like Japanese kaomoji.)

[vellamods]

Yes! Live your dreams, Iori.

[regression]

would they be able to extract seeds from the vegetables provided to them and attempt gardening?

[vellamods]

Yes! Hope you have a green thumb, Joonghyuk!

[livefreely]

More stupid questions:

1) Do the phones have autocorrect.

2) Also, do the phones have voice to text. And text to voice. Are our illiterate characters gonna suffer.

[vellamods]

1: Yes, autocorrect is a function! May all your dreams house horse.

2: If necessary, the phones will have voice to text/text to voice!

[philoxenia]

if someone were to take a swim in the ocean, how far could they get? is there like.... a mysterious barrier or something preventing them from going too far?

[vellamods]

They can get out relatively far - and they'll even be able to see another island in the distance! However, they can't reach it because there does seem to be a barrier keeping them penned in.

[compendiem]

bites the bullet and asks plane questions--

is the door locked? presumably there is no fuel? would people be able to take the plane out onto the water and let it drift around like a boat? if yes, how far would it drift before hitting the barrier? please I just want a floating platform to sit and fish

[vellamods]

Sorry for the delay!

Door is locked; there is no fuel, yes; you can take the plane out to water, sure, and it'll go around...100-150ft. out before you hit the barrier. Live your wildest fishing dreams, Minato.

[seacub]

is handing nook a bug going to make him call blathers

I'm not asking for npc threads that's silly I just think it'd be funny to have someone stuck watching while Nook goes OH MAN THE ISLAND SUPPORTS BUTTERFLIES HANG ON I GOTTA CALL A GUY

[vellamods]

You know what? He's going to call someone, yes. Go forth, Emporio.

[turntoashes]

when our characters get mail, who does it say it's from?

[vellamods]

Per the Rewards page, they'll be receiving the mail from Timmy and Tommy, if that's what you're asking!

[philoxenia]

do the apples grow back as fast as in-game--that is, in three days' time?

[vellamods]

They sure do!

Addendum: Veggies and all other produce grows that fast, too!

[regression]

With the ingredients sent over, is the island provided a set of basic kitchen tools and eating utensils? like plates, fork, spoons, kitchen knives... pans. I might as well ask.

[vellamods]

There will be a basic set of utensils provided - plates, silverware, pots, et cetera! Except pans - or cutting boards. Better hope a DIY drops if you really need a pan.

[jokersonyou]

Is medicine available yet on week 1?

[vellamods]

Tom Nook will willingly provide medicine to those who need it!

[sugooooooooi]

Do DIY recipes have words or just pictures a la IKEA instructions? Asking for the illiterate.

[aggroculture]

another phone question: faq mentions the photo app, but on here it only lists the on-island communication functions. is that live yet, or nah?