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Week 1

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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[He doesn't know her natural color! It wasn't as obvious as his, with his roots starting to peek through, and -- well. If he asks, she might take it the wrong and make him eat his teeth. She looks strong enough to do that...]

Uh, yeah? Who the fuck doesn't know Texas, be real.

[Giant yeehaw land is famous worldwide, right? That and New York. He's pretty sure.]

...Heh, they do say everything's bigger in Texas.

[She could, but that doesn’t mean she will.... She’s a nice person!!]

I’ve met people here who haven’t.

[She shrugs, rolling her eyes.]

Yeah, I guess they do.

[Whaaat... Are people here that stupid... Theo wrinkles his nose and scratches at the fluffy tuft of his new bear ears while he thinks it over...]

These people that don't know anything like us, or more like, uh. You know. Him.

[the weird demon in the form of a raccoon...]

[Apparently, yes, though Adelaide doesn’t think it’s an intelligence thing...]

More like us. Not like Tom Nook.

[...]

Though I think some of the people here are stranger than him...

[Well. There was the creepy dragon kid.]

He's pretty strange...

[Minato, but Tom Nook, too.]

Dunno why they wouldn't know, then. Pretty sure he's the one trespassing, even if we're obviously stuck in whatever weird thing he's got going on here... Texas is pretty common fucking knowledge, I'm certain of it.

I mean...

[Shrug???]

I don’t know, seems like some people here are just... From entirely different worlds. Talking to some of them it seems like a common occurrence.

[Shit’s wild, fam.]

[ehhh... He goes back to looking at his odd little garden, straightening out the broken tool border.]

Guess you'd know better than me. Haven't really wanted to waste time on that meet and greet shit.

[also he was feeling terrible, but. shhh.]

[Hmm... Time to be nosy!]

Well... Why not?

[what...what!!! people weren't supposed to ask questions! who does this lady think she is!!]

Uh. I had better shit to worry about? I mean, easier to think on my own. It was obvious the other humans didn't know what was going on... S-so...

[Who do YOU think she is!! Of course she’s gonna ask questions!!]

Ah, so you think you’re the cool loner type... I get it.

[screams]

Wha -- hey? I don't think anything, I just am!

[Pffff-]

Wow, seriously? You’re the coolest, then.

[Theo glares up at her, trying to look seriously affronted and not just...pouty. His rounded ears are definitely not helping matters.]

You don't know shit about me? I'm definitely the coolest on this nature-abandoned hunk of delusion... You're just someone going around bothering random people, what authority are you on cool?

I don’t know, I’d say you’re more cute than cool.

[It’s definitely the ears. They look so soft and like they belong on a stuffed animal.]

[they really do need a jail on the island with this MURDERER going around!!]

Wh -- huh?! Wow, I ain't cute!

[just gonna go ahead and slap his hands over those stupid ears!!!]

Shut up?

[Protesting like that just makes you cuter...!!]

I dunno, from where I’m standing you’re downright adorable.

G-go stand somewhere else then, jeez!

[Like in the river. Theo huffs, letting his hands drop so he can push himself up onto his feet and brush any dirt or grass from his pants. Not that he can actually get her into the river or anything...but being on slightly more even grounds wouldn't hurt any.]

You always make a habit of harassing guys? Hell...

[No.

She smiles at him brightly, eyes crinkling at the corners.]

Nah. But there’s always exceptions, right?

[unsure...how to feel about this... more information required.]

Girls, then?

Girls can be cute, too.

[All girls are inherently cuter than any man...]

You’ve just got those really cute ears.

[Yeah, well. She's right about one thing, finally... Girls and guys are both cute! Except for him, and not because of these stupid ears!]

And you've got a fucking tail. At least your major pain in the ass is on your ass... Point is, you're crazy if you think this shit is cute.

[Methinks the Theo doth protest too much...

Her tail swishes and she perks up at the mention of it.]

Do you not have a tail?

[And she takes a moment to shrug.]

I don’t know, I just feel like this kind of thing should be enjoyed while it’s still relatively harmless.

[There's a beat of silence that's just a little too long to go along with his clipped,] No, I don't.

[As long as he didn't take his pants off around her, she wouldn't know any better.]

Huh. They aren't even giving us sunscreen, what's harmless about this? Also the feeling like I'm fucking going crazy, that's not exactly happy funtimes.

[Suspicious....]

Are you sure...?

[Geez... Some people are just so negative.]

Whatever danger’s here is a long con - so there’s no point in stressing out about it. Besides, things could be so much worse.

Did you really just ask me "are you sure"? Yeah, I'm sure!

[It's a lie, but what an odd thing to question!!]

Alright, Ms. Chrysanthemum, lay it on me. Give me reason to believe you can comprehend the concept of bad things happening.

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