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Week 1
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).
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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And feed him grapes?
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Have to cultivate grapes, first. Apple slices to start with, maybe.
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Couldn't he just magic some up? Y'know, if he's a demon.
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It ruins the point of us doing all this shit for him, though. He seems to get more satisfaction watching us run around doing shitty labor for him, having us wreck all the nature here...
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I guess so... [She glances back at the Future Weed Garden.] Is it really wrecking nature that badly, though?
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Anyway, don't judge his weeds, they're just as valid as the field of cosmos.]
Uh, removing local floral and fauna at an alarming rate for the sake of fake-ass money? Chipping away at all the natural resources this place has to offer? Hell, if the animals here weren't people, he'd probably be having us hunt whatever wandered by, endangerment be damned.
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She will judge him and his weeds all she wants.]
...You know, it is kind of weird there's no actual animals on the island. Like, I think I saw a bird once? But there's nothing else.
[She's just going to ignore everything else in that statement.]
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Theo heaves a great sigh, tension in his arms going completely limp in defeat.]
Ms. Chrysanthemum, that is so besides the point. It’s fucked up, yeah, but this isn’t how you argue with someone.
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Why do you keep calling me Chrysanthemum? [Also don't call her miss, that's weird!] And I'm not trying to argue! I'm just saying...
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Because it means ‘optimism’. Not arguing is the point, I’m trying to make you argue. You don’t seem like an airhead, but you’re just going easy-breezy like dandelion fluff in the wind.
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[Optimism, huh...
She rolls her eyes.]
I'm glad you think so highly of me. I don't see why I shouldn't just roll with everything that's going on... I mean, what's gonna happen is gonna happen no matter what we do.
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[And hmm, that’s a depressing way of putting it, when you’re a dreamer like him.]
So you shouldn’t try to achieve goals, then?
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[Of course she's trying to make this okay!! This shit is wild and crazy but... She wants to believe they're not in danger.]
Goals like what? Planting weeds?
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[Now that she’s solidly a person with a name and everything, he feels a bit more comfortable with all this and rocks back on his heels a little. Of course, her words earn her a new frown and a sigh.]
Keeping important parts of ecology alive is low-hanging fruit, now? [Yeah, it’s basic, but it’s also important! His weeds are valid!!!] It’s just the tip of the iceberg, anyway. I’m not kidding when I said my island would be Ashikaga flower park — I’m gonna be a botanical rockstar. Best flowers around with the most meaningful and beautiful arrangements, delicious goddamn produce, trees that’ll live for centuries they’re so valued! Gonna get rich off my passion and make people more earth-friendly in the process!
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Okay... [That's not a bad goal, all things considered, but...] And how are you gonna do this with everyone else wrecking the island?
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[Way to take the wind completely out of his sails.]
Oh, Curse Island? Curse Island ain't gonna be my Ashikaga. I'm just trying to salvage whatever the fuck I can, here. Hence, the shitty garden of weeds under my personal protection.
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I see... [She doesn't.] So you don't have any plans for what to do on this island.
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...Overthrow Tom Nook and his violent campaign against the environment.
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Is it going to be a one-man revolution?
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He holds out a hand to her.]
Depends. Wanna join the cause?
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She hesitates for a moment, before taking his hand.]
Sure. Do I get any perks?
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Not gonna have the Bells to even cover dental, but I can give you a look at my pearly whites whenever you want. That's the best perk.
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Pfff- [She laughs, dropping her hand.] Is it? I've never heard of it being a privilege before.
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[He'll give her a charmingly winning smile to prove it. Look!! Feel blessed!!]
Isn't your life greatly improved, now? Not everyday my smile graces the world, especially in weird places I didn't intend to go.
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And she gives him a smile back, shaking her head.]
That just makes you sound like a total grouch; a grumpy old man.
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