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: adelaide cooke | text

[transfusionem]

So... Nook said we're the ones who are naming this place, right? We should actually come up with a name, don't you think? If we're going to be here for a while while he figures out how to get us home, we should be able to refer to this place as Something...

Does anyone have any suggestions?

((ooc modly note: there will be an OOC poll posted on thursday, closing friday evening! so please get your submissions in by wednesday evening!))

!!!!!

[pinkmacaron]

How about Apple Bounty Island?

[transfusionem]

Well that's definitely on the nose...

[philoxenia]

That's not a bad name at all, actually... I like it.

[rupturingheaven]

I wouldn't mind this name for the island...

[spiritoso]

That's a super cute name!

[turntoashes]

we could just call it The Island

[compendiem]

+1
Sounds ominous

[pr159]

[ This is dumb, but there's a good chance other options will be dumber, and he doesn't really want to acknowledge this joke of a place with a real name anyway. ]

I could live with that.

[transfusionem]

I mean I guess so if you want to be boring and lazy.

[afterword]

Why not < Tom Nook's company >? He does seem like the one in charge thus far.

[transfusionem]

Do you think he would appreciate that?

[turntoashes]

let's not encourage the guy any more, okay

not here

[regression]

[ ............ why ]

[spiritoso]

What about Vivace? It's a music term meaning "lively" and I think that describes everyone here so far!

[pinkmacaron]

(b ᵔ▽ᵔ)b

it's really cute! and we could always play lively music!

[rupturingheaven]

That's a nice idea.

[worldregeneration]

[ Okay. She's got this. Eye of the tiger. ]

How about Poochie?

[jokersonyou]

Gay Baby Jail.

[He's joking.





Or is he?]

[sugooooooooi]

[Is Serval responding to this? Can she even understand it? Not really, but it would appear she's trying to figure it out.]



[Or at least trying to figure out the phone camera.]

[freckledarcher]

Hmm, how about Cosmo Apple Island?

[He's not much of a names guy, maybe putting the names together would be a good idea.]

[guideyouhome]

Um... maybe it's a silly suggestion... but how about Sora?

[ Because that'd make her feel a little more at home honestly... ]

[hypnowhip]

So many excellent suggestions, dears!

I'll toss another into the ring: Isla Sonrisa, or Smile Isle! Has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

[livefreely]

Ooh, I do!

Ringoshima! [Iori that is literally just apple island in Japanese.]

Or maybe Apple Infinitum! Or Heavenly Skyapple!

text | walder

[whereswalder]

I think we should call it Jade Island! Or maybe... Cosmo Apple Jade Paradise!