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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Comments

[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]

[ Before even attempting to guess, Lio gets an EXTREMELY concerned stare from the red-head. ]

What kind of life did you have?

[turntoashes]

A very unstable one.

[Just saying.]</small.

[kouhou]

Sounds like you've had it rough.

[ bud...dy???

It's basically a shot in the dark as to what even seems plausible. Time to just guess at this point. ]

... The second one is a lie?

[turntoashes]

That's lie. It was Gueria who got high, not me.

[kouhou]

Gueria... what?

[ He's not judging, just extremely confused by all these words being thrown around. HIS BRAIN CAN'T COMPREHEND THIS. ]

Friend of yours, I take it?

[turntoashes]

Yeah, and usually smarter than that. Still, it was pretty funny watching him stumble around high off his ass.

[livefreely]

It has to be the cactus one, right?!

[Mostly because she thinks Lio is smart enough to not do it, considering.]

[turntoashes]

Yeah, that one's the lie. They tried to get me to eat it, but one of us needed to be sober.

[livefreely]

It'd be silly to have the leader do that, though.

[turntoashes]

We were relatively safe and I don't exactly relax. They thought it'd help.

[livefreely]

But why with a cactus? Geez.

[turntoashes]

There's not a lot of plantlife around Promepolis. Cactus is all we had.

[jokersonyou]

The lie is that...you're the leader of a terrorist group...?

[Please be the lie.]

[turntoashes]

No, that one's true. Assuming the Mad Burnish stick around when it's all done, anyway.

[jokersonyou]

[Pause.]

Well, I definitely need to know some more details, because you've seemed pretty cool so far, but I generally try my best to stay away from terrorists.

[turntoashes]

[He shrugs.]

We were only terrorists because everyone else said being Burnish was a crime.

[Still, he'll understand if people want to avoid him after that.]

[jokersonyou]

What's "Burnish"? And...what exactly did you do, then?

[turntoashes]

Humans with fire powers. We never asked for them, but we have them, and we need to burn something or we'd go crazy. So, all we did was burn things and try to avoid the Freeze Force.

[We're going to ignore the whole "setting fires to buildings because honestly fuck the government" thing.]

Never hurt people if we could help it.

[pinkmacaron]

[This cute guy sounds so badass?!]

Can you really survive in a volcano for five days?

[turntoashes]

Seven, and Burnish can.

[pinkmacaron]

Woah~

[Colour her impressed.]

Are you one of them, then, a burnish?

[turntoashes]

Yeah. Leader of Mad Burnish.

[pinkmacaron]

OH! That's so cool!

[Badass boy, for sure.]

Do you fight a lot with other people? Do you get into a lot of trouble?

[turntoashes]

I mean, I'm the leader of a "terorrist" organization.

[Air quotes yep.]

Trouble's my job.