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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!)
feeesh
... How long as Ren been waiting here for some fish? He tosses some bait toward his line, too. Let's see if you can catch some big fish with this support. ]
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Ren, unfortunately, has yet to actually catch anything. Which is dumb. He's had more luck in Ichigaya, but apparently that doesn't apply to the whole darn ocean. When Joonghyuk tosses some bait his way, he gives him a crooked smile.]
Thanks. The fish don't seem to like me today.
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Sometimes, it's better to relocate, but something should be attracted by the bait.
[ ... But if they just only come from the bait and left, then Ren is Unlucky. ]
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[He hums, glancing down at where his fishing line disappears into the water.]
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[ So it's probably better to sell them or put them back into the water.
There's a shadow nearby coming closer to their lines. Arching an eyebrow, he tosses lighter bait that floats over the ocean's surface. Is it fish or is this garbage? ]
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[Whoever figured that one out was going to be the richest person in the world by far.
Glancing back at the water, he notices the shadow. C'mon. Bite, be something good.]
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[ Huffs. The shadow continues to linger and eats the bait, then moves closer to Ren's line. Oh, boy. What will this be? It tugs a bit? Joonghyuk doesn't say anything, merely watching in silence like this is on his line instead.
Patience. ]
RNG HAS SPOKEN...
What the--
[Trying to reel it in is definitely a struggle. He's caught a few huge fish before back home, but this is near-extreme in comparison. And then finally, he wins...
The prize being an enormous whaleshark flying right out of the water. It's good that Ren has more than decent reflexes, because he barely manages to dodge being flattened by the creature flopping onto the rock.
He stares.
How.]
oh my god
Huh... ]
You can't eat that.
[ Yes. Most importantly. ]
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[He just stares at where the shark flops about on the ground.]
Do you think I should...sell it? I mean, we just talked about sharks being expensive, and Tom Nook said he'd buy anything.
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Kim Dokja sold his for thirteen thousand bells.
[ Is that enough incentive? ]
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I'll give you 10% if you help me haul this thing over to resident services.
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But he remembers while attending the mingle party (just listened and accompanied a friend) he heard Ren killed a god. That could be useful if they ever regain their powers and bad luck finally crosses them. Be Nice to Ren. ]
You can efficiently store it yourself.
[ Let him show you. The whaleshark is quite heavy, but Joonghyuk picks it up and shoves it into Ren's pocket. ]
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That... Huh.
[How else to respond?]
Well, I'd better be careful to keep my hand out of my pocket for now.
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... If you do that, how will you take it out to sell?
[ Ren. Tell him. What will you accomplish by keeping your hands to yourself? ]
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[He's never had any live creatures in his pocketspace before, okay.]
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You should go sell it before it eats everything in your pocket.
[ That should be the real worry... ]
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[And with that, he's just going to start jogging over to toss that shark right at Tom Nook's feet.]
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(It's a whaleshark.) ]