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

[livefreely]

[Today, Iori is playing it safe and making sure to get rid of any weeds she finds in her path. She plans on selling all of the ones she finds, although what she plans on doing with the money is certainly going to be a mystery for a little while longer.

Eventually, she does find the foraging and crafting to be a little tedious and boring, something that makes her frown to the point where she just falls down onto the ground, staring at the clouds above her. And it's then that there can be glimpses of something rather... wistful, in her eyes; a stark contrast to her energetic persona.

But it's only there for a moment before her eyes flit over to where another person is, smiling.]

Hey! Wanna play a game with me?

clouds

[worldregeneration]

Sure!

[ Colette had seen Iori fall over, so she wanted to come by to make sure she was okay. Tripping sucks, she gets it. ]

What did you have in mind?

[livefreely]

Maybe a word game?

Word association?

Clouds

[whereswalder]

[...hmmm... You know, even if Walder’s a little bit of a weirdo, he can occasionally pick up on things like a bit of wistfulness, especially after someone just kinda flops. Maybe Iori could use some Ranger Insight?

...but like, before he can say anything about it, she does interrupt his thoughts. Well, maybe he can get to it in the game!]

Sure, that sounds great! I’m always up for a challenge!

[livefreely]

A challenge, huh. . . then I gotta go with this: a word game!

The rules are: you have to take the last letter of the other person's word and use that as the first letter of your own word! Sounds easy enough, right?

[whereswalder]

Oh, I think I saw my crew playing that game a few months ago! You can’t repeat words either, right? Yeah, that sounds like the sort of deceptively simple but actually really challenging thing that can go for hours!

You’re going to start it off, right?

[livefreely]

Yes, no repeating any of the words.

And of course! I'll start it off with - island!

[whereswalder]

Hmmm... deciduous!

[May as well throw out a weird one early so he can go for a common one later, right?]

[livefreely]

Summon!

[whereswalder]

Nature!

[livefreely]

Entry!

[whereswalder]

Yew!

[livefreely]

That's a kind of tree, isn't it?

[She can still make casual conversation while she's playing.]

Water.

[whereswalder]

Yes, it is! We have a few of them back home.

[good, that doesn’t break the rules... he was worried about getting chatty and being dinged on a technicality.]

Rabbit!

clouds

[spiritoso]

[ Kaede had come over to see how Iori was doing, especially after she fell back onto the ground. What stops her from saying anything is the look in her eyes, but before she can ask about it, Iori has already beat her to the punch. ]

Sure! What game are you thinking of?

[ She sits down on the ground next to her, smiling. ]

[livefreely]

A word game, like shiritori!

[spiritoso]

Oh, I haven't played that in a long time! Do you want to start?

[livefreely]

Mmhm, I can go first!

We can do a simplified version, too.

[English shiritori, anyway.]

Apples!

[spiritoso]

Sandcastle!

[ Which immediately comes to mind, considering where they are. ]

[livefreely]

Hmm... escape!

[She does want to go home, after all.]

[spiritoso]

[ She pauses, thinking about everyone leaving. It makes her a little sad, honestly, but she understands why they want to go back. ]

Elegy.

[livefreely]

Y, huh.

Yellow!

[spiritoso]

[ She laughs. ]

I couldn't help but think of a musical term.

[ And she has another one too: ]

Waltz!

[livefreely]

You must like music a lot, huh.

Zero!

[spiritoso]

[ She grins. ]

It's my favorite thing in the world!

[ But she'll stray from music terms for now. ] Orange!