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

un: lio fotia | text

[turntoashes]

[So there's like thirty people on this island and at least one's a child, so...well, Lio isn't going to not do anything.]

I'm hoping we're not going to be here long, but in the event that we are, would anyone else want to pitch in and combine skills and resources to make staying on this island less

annoying? I'm used to living rough and on the run so this isn't all that different for me but that's probably not the case for everyone

un: walder | text

[whereswalder]

That’s no problem for me either! I am the brave warrior of the forest, so I’m here to offer whatever lessons you need in living in harmony with nature!

[turntoashes]

such as?

[whereswalder]

Well! We need to make sure we manage our resources properly so we don’t take too much and wreck the environment. But beyond that, there’s fire starting, outdoor cooking, trapping fish, and maybe building shelters if anything happens to our tents? It never hurts to be prepared!

[turntoashes]

I think the fish is the biggest priority in case they don't keep up with the supply drops

[compendiem]

Sure.
What sort of things do we need?
I can hunt. Haven't seen any cows yet though.
Still holding out for alligators.

[turntoashes]

not sure yet. Kairi mentioned spearfishing, and if they keep with the supply drops that will help a lot

wait

alligator??

[compendiem]

I've never spearfished before, but I've used a spear.
Alligator.
Think they live in a place like this? There's water.

[turntoashes]

I hope so

I haven't had it in ages

[livefreely]

hi, hiiiii! nagase iori here, reporting for duty! (´• ω •`)ﾉ

i can help with a bunch of stuff myself: i know how to cook and clean myself, so i can teach any skills related to that. especially for any of the girls who might need it! those are the two MAJOR important things i know that i can utilize right now, but there are others as well

btw, i have some other thoughts re: making living here "less annoying", too!

anyway, i hope we all can become good friends! or at least work together for a common goal!

ヽ(≧◡≦)八(o^ ^o)ノ

[turntoashes]

other thoughts such as?

[livefreely]

1. we should hold a GET TOGETHER! like, not over the phones, but 100% in person! maybe at night or something, so we have a huge campfire and have fried fish and food, tell each other stories, have ice breakers... like a party where we get to know each other better! (⁀ᗢ⁀)

2. also: mr. nook said he'd buy anything from us and if we DO have to stay here for another week, i was wondering what we should do regarding that - since there's only a limited amount of weeds we could sell, right? along with other things, right? do we want to, like - keep track of everyone's money? or like, have a collective sharing pool and allowances? or just keep it as first come, first serve - whoever gets the weeds and sells things first gets to keep the money and doesn't have to share it? i don't know how to really handle that sort of thing, though, so i'd really prefer to come to a group consensus on that front... (￣▽￣*)ゞ

sorry if it's a bit tl;dr ehehe

[worldregeneration]

HOW AREYOU MAKINGTHOSEFACES?

[ ........ she'll figure it out, please be patient. ]

[livefreely]

ヽ(°〇°)ﾉ

there's a button on the keyboard for it!

[winterforecast]

Well, well, well. Haven't you changed your tune?

[livefreely]

i have no idea what you mean (￣▽￣*)ゞ

[conceptualize]

If we're short on cooking staff, I can either lend a hand or try to teach others.

Is there any job that you think is particularly useful or valuable? I can ask around.

[turntoashes]

looks like plenty of people can cook and fish, so there is that. no one's mentioned anything like growing food though

[conceptualize]

Isn't that because apple trees take about 10 years to grow and potatoes take about 10 weeks? There's not much we can grow in the first place, so that's probably why no one mentioned it.

un: Byleth Eisner | text

[rupturingheaven]

[It took her a bit to figure out the phone, but--]

I'm a passable cook and I fish... I do gardening back home, if that's applicable, and I can do laundry. I can also help teach these things to others if needed.

[turntoashes]

gardening might be, if we find seeds or something

[rupturingheaven]

Shouldn't be too hard, since vegetables were flown over, apparently.

[afterword]

Well, we can probably make use of the resources we are getting our hands on currently. For example, we can use seeds gathered from the vegetables provided to start making a farm. Of course that isn't my idea but my companion's so I would suggest asking Joonghyuk Yoo more details on that. He's uneasy that our life may not be completely easy and we might not get another chance for more food being flown over to us.

I'll be helping him though, so if there's anything else we can maybe help with feel free to throw suggestions our way.

[turntoashes]

gotcha

right now I think it's just going to be a lot of taking stock, making a map, and figuring out what all is even here

[afterword]

From the looks of it right now, the rivers surrounding us are kinda stopping us from exploring more of the island. Maybe if we could get around to building a bridge? Just to make for easier traveling.

In which case I guess we'll need a lot of wood.