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Week 1
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).
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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[The cart sounds like the best idea ever, actually!]
We can share whatever money he gives us too.
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[ Trying to think the best of Nook, but... Well. He'll just try not to think, finding one of the carts and emptying it out before wheeling it over so Sonico can empty her pockets out of what she already has. ]
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[She empties her pockets on the cart, and oh boy that's a lot of weeds and sticks.]
That's all I have! Let's get more!
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[ Your priorities, Nook!! ]
We'll see... [ He goes ahead and pushes the cart along, making his way towards the grassiest place he sees-- and then sort of stops and frowns. ] Can you tell the difference between weeds and grass?
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[She stops, and stares, and then stares some more.]
Yes.
[She crouches down, and pulls on grass.]
This is grass, nice and when you pull it, there's no root!... Well, they do have a root but it's very small.
[she moves a little more, looking around until she spots some weeds, pulling it out.]
These are weed! See how when they grow a lot they have flowers? Well, they have roots!
[She's proud of this, her grandma showed her how to keep the garden clean!]
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[ Color him impressed, crouching down next to Sonico and not giving anything an experimental tug until he finds something similar to the weeds she points out, trying to match what the leaves look like because otherwise he'd be going around tugging everything to see if it comes out easily. And he can't exactly put grass back if he messes up. ]
The flowers are nice. Shame we have to pull them out... but they make it hard for the grass and other things to grow, right?
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[She smiles, and looks around.]
There is a lot of flowers here though, so as long as we take out the weeds, it'll make it easier for them to grow!
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Job's a job, though, and he grips the next closest bunch and pulls close down by the base so he can get out all the roots. ]
--mmph! [ It comes out in a little shower of dirt, and then a larger shower when he tosses it unceremoniously into the cart instead of walking it over and dropping it inside. ]
All that's left is dirt. Should we plant something in its place? Or would that crowd the flowers?
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Let's close the hole with the dirt around it so it doesn't make anyone trip!
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man, they should've left the holes in the ground to use as pitfalls. in case the island does have rabbits or something. ]
Sure thing. Hopefully the grass can grow and cover up the bald spots.
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[She looks at the cart and nods.]
Just a bit more and we can go to mister Nook!
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[ And then they can get paid and Minato's going to immediately deposit the money so he doesn't have to carry all of it around with him, he's done his time being the team treasurer and no more. ]
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[she's gonna get right on that! There's not a lot to pick but still enough to get some exercise!]
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Do they... dump it all next to the tent? Pour it inside? How do they want to do this. ]
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[They get their stuff done and some good coin bags!]
Let's deposit all of this~
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[ As in, deposit it all into Sonico's account instead of going halfsies. ]
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[GASP!]
But you helped too!
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[ Splitting things evenly doesn't matter to him. He doesn't want to be treasurer. ]
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[She really honest want to have someone else's money!]
what if there's a store one day and I want a pretty dress?!
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[ ??? that's the point of giving her all the money ]
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No worries there: I'm not going to want a suit. The things I want isn't really something money can buy, so... I'd rather you keep it, and get things that make you happy.
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[She's gonna get something cool for Minato if there's ever a store!]
Thank you for helping me!
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You're welcome. I want to see you in that pretty dress if you ever buy it, okay?
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