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
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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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TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE

[livefreely]

Aaaand here's an ice breaker~!

Let's play a game - specifically, two truths and a lie. It's a pretty easy one, don't worry. Basically, you say three statements. Two of them are true, and one isn't. I'll even go first as an example:

1. I'm a club president!
2. I had five fathers.
3. I used to have a boyfriend, but we broke up back in February.

And now all you have to do is figure out which of those is the lie! Oh, and feel free to come up with your own statements as well, too and have people figure out which one is the lie!

[sugooooooooi]

Hmm... uhh... I don't really know what a club or a boyfriend is, but some animals have lots of parents, so that one sounds normal. So maybe it's the first one?

[livefreely]

Boooo.

That's the truth!

[thezekeinator]

The third one's the lie!

[Zeke pronounces this with utmost certainty.]

[livefreely]

Correct~!

You get a point!

[spiritoso]

The second one is the lie! You're super cute so you've definitely had a boyfriend and I can see you being a club president!

[ She crosses her arms, thinking about her own truths and lie. ]

I've played piano for a king before, I hate bubble tea, and I like the color pink!

[livefreely]

Nope, the second one is absolutely true.

But, hmm... I want to guess the second one?

[turntoashes]

...the third one?

[lightsmith]

Hm...okay, let's see.

'I've visited five different worlds', 'I'm an accomplished cook', or 'I'm pretty sure I'm sort of claimed by the king of the faeries'.

[transfusionem]

[Two of them are so outlandish and one is so normal that...Hm.]

You're a bad cook?

[pr159]

[ Just kind of a smirk over here at "five different worlds"... amateur. ]

[worldregeneration]

"Claimed?" What do you mean by that?

[sugooooooooi]

Other worlds besides this one? That sounds pretty out there, maybe it's that one!

[transfusionem]

Wow, I don't think I've done this since high school...

[She puts a hand to her chin.]

Hmm... I sell knives for a living, I've got a boyfriend back home, and I once braided a demon's hair.

[turntoashes]

[Hmm....]

The boyfriend one. It sounds too boring compared to everything else.

[livefreely]

. . . The knives?

[pinkmacaron]

A demon's hair?!

[Demon's have hair?]

I'm gonna vote for that one being a lie!

[turntoashes]

Alright...

[Hm.]

I'm the leader of a terrorist group, I once got high from eating a cactus I shouldn't have, and I survived a week in an overactive volcano.

[kouhou]

[ Hmm. Well, he already knows about the first one from their meeting. So it's down to number two or three.

He ponders for a few seconds. ]

Going to go with the second one being a lie? You're extremely cute, so I imagine that boys ask you out all the time.

[pr159]

[ Raises an eyebrow... ]

I'll assume the fathers weren't concurrent.

[ Anyway, let's see, what can he come up with that Jude and Milla wouldn't be able to blow his cover on... Well, honestly, who cares, it's not like he's going to win anything for fooling people, so he might as well use the opportunity to make himself look good. ]

Hm... My favorite food is mabo curry, I'm a director at the largest company in my world, and I wasn't fully able to read until I was twelve.

[jokersonyou]

Can a person have five fathers? I'll guess that, but if that's true, I'd love to know the how.

And let's see, for me...

[He hums in thought. Ren could definitely make it interesting, but it'd basically expose his old identity. Still, does it exactly matter? No one here is from his world or will go to it, and it isn't as if he's a Phantom Thief anymore anyway. No harm in a little fun.]

I have a talking cat, I've already been offered scholarships to universities even though I haven't started my last year of high school, and I've destroyed a god on Christmas Eve by summoning Satan.

[rupturingheaven]

[She rests a hand on her cheek in thought.]

Let's see... A few of my students are close to my age, I'm pretty hopeless with magic, I don't have a heartbeat.

Re: TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE

[winterforecast]

Alright. I'll play along.

My "brother" is a wannabe pop star, two idiots once played a tennis match for my hand in marriage, and I've kissed the Dark Magician Girl.

[freckledarcher]

Hmm, for a guess I'm going to go with five fathers. As for me let's see, oh I'm not an archer, I like cooking, and my adopted father was a noble.

[pinkmacaron]

Why would anyone break up with you?

[You're cute, and cool, and can climb trees!]

I want to play though! Let's see.....

I'm a gravure model, I have five cats, and I'm good with mornings!