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

[compendiem]

I dunno. A key, or with magic. Can you help me up onto the plane?

[ Clutching the rope, he's half submerged in the water, not dragged all the way down to its depths only because he's holding onto the safety line. ]

[sugooooooooi]

Okay! Hold on!

[She jumps off the plane onto the dock, then reaches down to grab Minato and hoist him up out of the water. How is this girl that strong?]

How's this?

[compendiem]

Whoa—!

[ It's- definitely more than he expected, pulled bodily out of the water and he scrambles to find his footing so Serval doesn't need to keep holding onto him. ]

Surprised me... Thanks for that. Now I know who to count on if I'm ever hanging off a ledge anywhere.

[sugooooooooi]

No problem! I'm pretty good at lifting things. Even if people say I'm clumsy. And you're all good at plenty of things I can't do!

[compendiem]

Strength's a great asset. So is diversity. [ He points at himself. ] Me, I'm very good at meowing like a cat. Cool, huh?

[sugooooooooi]

If that's a skill, then I'm good at that, too! But does that count, since I am a cat?

[compendiem]

Playing to your strengths. So of course it counts.

[sugooooooooi]

Great! I thought so. And since you have wings, maybe you're good at flying, too! Have you tried?

[compendiem]

[ ...There's a prolonged silence before he answers ]

Yeah. I'm not good at it- but I'm going to keep trying. I'll get better.

[ Anything's got to be better than dropping straight out of the sky like a boulder, he's certain ]

[sugooooooooi]

Great! I know you can do it. Is that why you want to fly in the plane?

[compendiem]

Sort of... It's more that it's there. So I want to see if it works.

[ It's the equivalent of a large red button in the middle of a dashboard, clearly the most interesting thing on this island. ]

[sugooooooooi]

I can understand that, too! If it doesn't work, do you think it needs a battery? Our bus uses one, but there aren't many places to do that thing... what's it called? Charging it! But I bet Tom Nook-san knows how.

[compendiem]

Probably something like that. A battery, or fuel... There's probably some in the airport, but I can't get in.

[sugooooooooi]

Aww. I guess we can't play with it until we get those.

[compendiem]

Yeah... Hey. [ Bad idea incoming ] You're very strong, right? Do you still have your axe? I broke mine.

[sugooooooooi]

Yeah! I couldn't get the hang of it, so I didn't use it. Do you think we can?

[compendiem]

Practice makes perfect. Let's try it out on the airport door.

[sugooooooooi]

Okay! I left it in my tent with all the other stuff I'm not using. Come on!

[And she starts bounding down the dock.]

[compendiem]

Coming--

[ He will be... several paces behind her, weighed down by the ungainly wings on his back, but does his best to keep up and at the very least keep Serval in sight at all times.

It's never too late to start learning where everybody lives too, he supposes. ]

[sugooooooooi]

[She pops into tent 8 and comes out with a practically spotless axe, then runs the gap between them to hand it over and starts back toward the airport.]

Come on, let's go! This'll be fun!

[compendiem]

[ Don't hand it to him-- but okay, he will carry it back to the airport, but then he's handing it back to her because between the two of them, Serval is the stronger one. ]

mods i'm so sorry

[sugooooooooi]

[Okay! She aims for... some random spot on the door, she's not very good at this, and tries to hit it.]

Myaaaaa!

[vellamods]

[ Serval’s strike will shatter a good amount of the door! Her sheer force will be able to get a little less than half of the glass on the door out — keep going? ]

[sugooooooooi]

[She's going to put her face up to it and try to see inside first. Any sign of a battery?]

[vellamods]

[ No sign of a battery, nope. But there might be more things inside... Continue? ]