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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NETWORK THREADS

[vellamods]

Please post any network threads that take place on this day as a reply to this comment.

[afterword]

Does anyone need a new friend? And by that I mean, in my mail I got an orange stuffed tabby cat. Goes by the name of Cha apparently.

If anyone has the materials, I have a couple of recipes as well. Mini DIY Workbench seems very useful that way we don't have to keep bothering Tom Nook for the DIY table in this own tent.

[toushiro]

That does sound useful. Have you tried attempting to make one yourself, yet?

[afterword]

Thought about it, but I'll need to go find some rocks first. It requires some iron nuggets ad handful of different logs.

[toushiro]

I see. I have some leftover wood from some trees and I'll be attempting to gather resources from the rocks today. If I have any that I can spare I'll let you know.

[afterword]

That's awfully kind of you. If you want one of your own, I'm sure I can make you one with any resources provided. Fortunately it doesn't ask for too much.

[toushiro]

I'd appreciate that, thanks. I'll find you when I have the resources.

[afterword]

Of course. And if you can't find me, just ask Joonghyuk Yoo. He should know.

[conceptualize]

Why not make it your new friend?

[afterword]

I was never one for stuffed dolls. I can give it to you if you like?

[conceptualize]

No, it's fine. They can make good pillows though.

Alternatively, you can use that instead of your tail.

[ He fondly remembers when Dokja kept smacking Joonghyuk's face with his tail. It was pretty funny. ]

[afterword]

My tail does seem like it would make a good pillow, but kinda awkward for me to use it.

I'll make do without.

[ Good times. Dokja felt really good about doing that. ]

[conceptualize]

Why not stuff his face with the stuffed animal instead?

[ Don't kill him, Joonghyuk. ]

[afterword]

Yoo Joonghyuk's? A murder might happen.

[ Dokja's murder. ]

[regression]

[ Joonghyuk would usually go straight to Dokja to talk to him, but he's fishing right now on the other side of the map. ]

What else did you receive?

[afterword]

[ Constellation, 'Demon King of Salvation', is looking at Incarnation, 'Yoo Joonghyuk'. ]

[ Constellation, 'Demon King of Salvation', is very surprised you asked! ]

DIY Recipes for Swinging Bench, Cardboard Bed, Mini DIY Workbench and Ocarina. Broom and dustpan.. some leggings and a tiara headpiece. Oh, and the stuffed cat.

[regression]

[ .................... Dokja gets the better DIYs. what god is in charge of this and how does he hit them? ]

Why are you doing that?

[afterword]

[ Constellation, 'Demon King of Salvation', doesn't know what you mean. ]

[regression]

Kim Dokja.

"Demon King of Salvation" is an embarrassing title.

[ HE SAYS THIS CAUSE THIS IS ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!! ]

[afterword]

[ ?????????? ]

[ Constellation, 'Demon King of Salvation', says it is not. ]

[ Constellation, 'Demon King of Salvation', states that it is a very normal-sounding Modifier. ]

[ Constellation, 'Demon King of Salvation', thinks out of most Modifiers it definitely is strong-sounding. ]

[pinkmacaron]

CHA?!

is... is it my kitty in plush form?

[afterword]

I'm not familiar with your cat but you can come see for yourself.

Since I don't plan on keeping it, you can have it.

[pinkmacaron]

Thank you so much! If it is my kitty I'd love to have it, and if not, it's a cat so it's great!

[afterword]

There's no need to thank me. Chances are it was probably given to me by accident. What tent are you staying at?

[pinkmacaron]

Tent number one! ( ´ ω ` )ノﾞ