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Week 1

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
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(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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[ He thought he accomplished something when he tossed Minato back into his tent after "persuading" Joonghyuk, but seeing him like this makes him worry again. He immediately stops making a flower crown and just stares at Minato for a second. ]

What happened to you...? Actually, come sit here first.

[ Laurent gestures to the space next to him after clearing out the flower crowns of various qualities, some flowers in a watering can, and another watering can that occasionally moves. ]

Nothing happened...

[ Nothing worth sharing, anyways, that takes precedent over the apples Laurent isn't handing over. He complies, though, plopping down next to him and

makes a face at that shaking watering can. He peers inside, expecting bugs or fish or tanuki. ]

You're a mess.

[ Laurent quietly sighs and brushes some sand off Minato. He wishes he had a towel, but he does have an apple, so he turns a little and when facing Minato again, he has an apple in his hand. Maybe it'll forever be a mystery...

When Minato looks into the watering can, he'll see several small, common fish in there. ]

Did you really eat all the apples I gave you yesterday?

I didn't.

[ He doesn't plan to eat this one either, taking the apple and skewering it on his left horn before holding his hand out for another. ]

Did you catch all this? With the apples?

[ Laurent doesn't move to get another apple. Minato... please... ]

No, I used grasshoppers as bait. I'm not giving you another apple until you finish the ones I gave you.

And you baited the grasshoppers with...? Apples? I used up all your apples already.

[ They're put to good use! Grabby hands... please... ]

[ Laurent is admittedly curious, so he'll bite-- ]

What did you do with the apples if you didn't eat them?

Left them to rot.

[ He sticks his hand inside the watering can-- and immediately withdraws his hand, having nearly been bitten by a fish, yikes. ]

[ ...

Laurent grabs an apple and sticks it on Minato's other horn. ]

You're not getting another one until you eat these two.

[ The fish will bite!! They angy. ]

Wha-

[ It's been one (1) day and he's already sick of apples, don't do this ]

How many do I get? One to rot per two eaten?

You get more when you don't leave any to rot.

[ Stop wasting food!! ]

It's not like I'm wasting them... I'm farming ants and other bugs for Tom Nook. I'll pay you back for the apples, with whatever I get paid for them.

[ apples --> bugs --> bait for fish --> he does not have to live off fruit, it was a good plan in his mind ]

[ What is this--"Don't Starve"?? Laurent, unfortunately, gives up and tosses another apple at Minato. It's a gentle underhand toss. Don't get hit in the face. ]

I assume you want to eat fish some time if you don't want to eat apples?

I want to eat cow........

[ RED MEAT. AND CARBS. ]

Please pick something that's on the island that you know of.

[ He's not going to suggest eating people. ]

Soylent green...

[ he hears that suggestion ]

I can't see you having the energy to make one.

[ Saved? By laziness?! ]

Why am I the one who has to make it?

[ He can supply ingredients, but cooking? Leaving that up to somebody else was sort of the agreement he was hoping to make with somebody else here. ]

...I hope Tom Nook's surprise next week is a vending machine...

Because I'm not going to be killing anyone here and neither will anyone else.

[ Smile!

...

He also hopes that vending machine won't have it. ]

Or I'll subject them to apple hell.

[ "Neither will anybody else." Minato lowers his gaze, watching the fish inside the bucket, their flails getting weaker and weaker. ]

...I guess I'll learn to live off apples. And grass. Seems safely edible.

[ Laurent reaches over to ruffle Minato's hair. ]

There's a cook on the island. Remember the guy you were going to give up the tent for?

[ When there's a strong tug on the fishing line, Laurent grabs the fishing rod and reels it in. It turns out to be a squid. He immediately shoves it into a spare watering can. ]

Ask him to cook this squid for you.

[ His hair is wet and sticks up in sticky salty spikes when Laurent withdraws his hand, similarly damp and smelling like salt and apple juice. This is karma.

Minato takes the watering can and peers inside at the squid, and then scoots over towards the end of the ledge and peers over the side of it, where there's a short drop before the water. ]

Can you fill the can up with water too?

[ Karma, you say...

Laurent takes the watering can with the squid in it and sweeps some water into it, careful so that the squid doesn't escape. Then he hands it back to Minato. ]

There. You're good now, right? Go take a shower some time too.

Gonna go back to sea today, so I'll wash up before nightfall. But thanks for this.

[ He holds the can of squid in his lap, arms curled around it in a hug, and settles comfortably where he sits, gaze turned out across the sea. ]

...can I ask you a question? About humanity.

[ Laurent hopes Minato won't lose the squid in his seaventures. Ganba, minyato. ]

Sure. What's up?

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