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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WEDNESDAY

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NETWORK THREADS

[vellamods]

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

un: colette brunel

[worldregeneration]

Hi everyone! (V●ᴥ●V)

I got a really pretty necklace in the mail yesterday, and I think it might belong to someone else! I think they might've sent it to the wrong person.

It's gold, and it has little round parts that go around the necklace. If it belongs to you, please let me know!

Thank you! (V●ᴥ●V)

[ She'd take a picture of the necklace, but... y'know. How do you even do that. ]

[afterword]

[ Despite making plans to go hit some rocks the day before he.. actually did not get to it until today. So, Dokja decides to try his luck against a rock- if he's lucky and get even some iron nuggets then he'll be able to make that workbench and won't need to go into Tom Nook's tent now and then. If not, well. He tried. But any resources he'll keep just in case.

So, while he can be found mining for a bit, he looks pretty tired and the dark circles are even more apparent now. Is this man even sleeping? Probably not. But he seems kinda use to it.

Otherwise, he can be found near tent two which people there should know that Dokja has been staying there both Monday night and Tuesday night instead of his actual tent assignment tent 11. He might do some more fishing as well later on but can be found trying to figure out what to do with the... squid he caught on Tuesday. ]

[vellamods]

[Well, no iron nuggets, unfortunately... Dokja does, however, get five units of clay and five gold nuggets!]

[regression]

[ He's here with his arms crossed with all the disapproval embedded into his features!! At tent two again! Except this is closer to the evening where all his tentmates have basically left to do their own things.

It's just the two of them and wow the glare is intense. ]

Kim Dokja.

mining

[conceptualize]

[ Laurent has recovered from being rammed with a couch, and all the evidence are hidden under his clothes. It's fine. Laurent thinks he'd probably be like Dokja if he spent all day bashing rocks, since his stamina isn't the greatest either, but it's not that shitty.

Though, he does look a little worried, so he walks over to Dokja. ]

Hey, you doing okay there? You look like you're going to pass out.

[compendiem]

Hi. Um...

[ Minato walks up quietly while Dokja is fishing, watching him out of the corner of his eyes earlier but deciding he didn't want to approach while Dojka is swinging around a sharp, dangerous weapon, just in case he's still sour about Minato offering up his tent the other day. ]

You're still alive.

[ Is he disappointed? Relieved? Hard to tell. ]

X marks the spot oh ye mods

[thezekeinator]

[Victory for the Bringer of Chaos! With the awesome power of iron at his disposal, Zeke has a BETTER SHOVEL now. Find him churning away at the earth where an X once stood out, determined to locate the sweet treasure beneath it!]

[Or maybe you've spotted him trying to get away with a bottle -- despite the really, really big wasp chasing him with oddly an oddly possessive attitude. WHY DOESN'T HE HAVE A BLADE?!]

[vellamods]

[Digging up the X, Zeke finds... Something! Something that looks very, very old and might be a fossil? However, it's impossible to tell what it could be. Maybe some day someone might be able to assess it...?

In the bottle is something he can figure out, though! A fresh new recipe for a wooden-block bookshelf!]

wasp

[sugooooooooi]

Watch out!

[Serval leaps out of the grass in an attempt to claw the giant wasp.]

That's way bigger than normal wasps! Is it a monster?

[southclaw]

[Today, Kevin is trying to figure out what to do with this weird glass rectangle that he was given. He's sitting in the grass, turning it over in his hands, occasionally bringing it up to his face before deciding against biting it.

Finally, after staring at it for a while, he brushes one of the buttons on the side of the phone and activates the screen. When it lights up, he lets out a yelp, tosses it and scrambles backwards as if he's afraid it's about to explode.]

[aggroculture]

[Not having done much of an introduction despite staying in the same tent, just slowly having a mental crisis, as you do, Theo's come to the decision that things are now too awkward and he just has to live with never knowing who these weird kids are, it's too late, he beefed it, time to accept the consequences.

...Or one of those kids could be treating the phone like dynamite, sure. There's a good excuse to initiate conversation despite being a weird (barely-)adult man!]

C'mon, kid, you're gonna break it. You got that one for free, but that shit can be expensive to replace.

[sugooooooooi]

Oh! I don't get these either, but they look fun, right?

[aggroculture]

[It's the first day Theo really feels up to leaving his tent for any extended period of time, the disconnect from his magic and inability to communicate with the flora here leaving him so anxious he'd made himself sick. There'd been some confusing snafu where his tent was commandeered for jail(??) reasons -- still needed to figure that one out -- that got him haphazardly climbing a tree, and that's one of the spots he's hanging around today. Back against the trunk of a tree, he digs through his knapsack, past the cards and the phone, and pulling out a batch of the weeds he was supposed to sell to that weird raccoon.]

You look normal... I can't hear you, but if you can hear me, sorry about this. You were too close to the cosmos. I'll try to keep a place for you to keep your natural space...

[He'll be trying to make good on that promise, laying out splintered tools around his tent, tent five, and using them as a crude plot marker for more carefully-gathered weeds to grow.]

Need a "do not pick" sign... Or "pwease no steppy"...

[His tent isn't far from the river, so he ends up rolling his pants up and letting his legs dangle into the water while he fusses about with the flimsy rod. Doesn't have anything to show for his efforts except for a hint of red burning into the dark skin of his neck and shoulders, and a mouth full of curses. Help...]

tent;

[transfusionem]

[She's following the river, shitty fishing rod in hand when she finally makes her way close to tent five. She's not surprised to see someone there - there's so many people on this island and it's really not that big, running into people is inevitable - but she can't deny she's curious about the little plot he's set up.

Huh.]

Doing some transplants?

[compendiem]

[ Minato has said nothing about his volunteering the tent up the first night and will continue keeping his silence, scarce as his presence is at the tent anyways, whether day to nap or night to sleep. In the passing days, he does a fair amount of napping elsewhere, though, flopped on the ground and sunning himself like a cat whenever he isn't sitting on one of the plane's wings and staring off into the distance, but today! for interaction's sake! he returns to the tent midday just in time to eavesdrop.

Silent, he twists to pull his knapsack closer to him, and digs out the notepad and pen, holding it out to Theo. Make your sign dreams come true. ]

river

[hypnowhip]

[Sylvando's wandering alongside the river today, looking for promising fishing spots. Once he comes upon Theo, well...he knows a struggling angler when he sees one.]

Need some help, darling?

[Oof, that looks like some nasty sunburn forming, too... Hopefully Tom Nook has something for that.]

Tree trunk

[whereswalder]

[...you know, it’s kind of hard to miss hearing something like that as he passes by...]

Hm... we probably should see if we can move some of the weeds to better parts of the island instead of selling them all, shouldn’t we...? It’s better to have a variety of plant life around, I think.

[freckledarcher]

[Today Ashe can be found by the cooking supplies looking at the milk, eggs, vegetables, and seasonings as he figured out what he could do with these ingredients. He could make something with the eggs then maybe cook some of the vegetables too. Oh! He could have some apples ready for people to eat too. Ashe grabbed some apples and placed them to the side, he did the same with some of the vegetables. After that he grabbed some eggs to begin to cook them. He looked up when someone walked past and grinned over at them.]

Hello! I haven't cut up the vegetables yet, though you're welcome to some apples.

[philoxenia]

Ah, you're cooking?

[ So helpful... Instead of taking an apple, though-- ]

If you'd like a hand with anything, I'd be happy to help.

[livefreely]

Don't mind if I do!

[Enthusiastically going to take an apple with a bright smile.]

Do you need help with any of the vegetables, though?

[pinkmacaron]

Hello~

[Sonico is attracted to the food by the smell, it's so good already!]

Thank you, but do you need any help?

[hypnowhip]

[After helping himself to an apple, Sylvando leans on the counter for a little chitchat.]

Oh darling, the eggs you've got going smell heavenly! What are you thinking of making with them and the veggies?

[jokersonyou]

[The scent of the food catches his attention first, and considering that his diet the last few days have primarily consisted of raw apples, Ren is immediately drawn to it. He sees Ashe cooking, and immediately sends a thank you to who knows what that there are some people who can cook here.]

Smells good already. Do you need a hand?