weekend 1 log

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WEEKEND 1 LOG ♬
Weather: Saturday AM and PM - cloudy and warm. Sunday AM - rainy, PM - cloudy.

The Move-In

You’ve spent the week adjusting to island life by getting to know one another, figuring out what to do with all those presents, gathering your resources and selling them off to Tom Nook. The weekend is finally here, though, and that’s something to celebrate!

...But when you wake up on Saturday, whenever that may be, the environment you’re in is not the tent you remember falling asleep in. Rather, you’re inside of some kind of house with a white wall and ceiling, wood lined across the bottom of the walls. The floor is wood, too, shiny and glossy as the sun rays shine through the one window in your house. Whatever you had lying out in your tents is still arranged in the same general order you had your things in before. Furthermore, you’re still lying on your camping cots with the same people who fell asleep in the tent with you, but if you decide to get up and investigate, you’ll find two other rooms other than the one you’re in.

Facing the door from the inside, if you look to your left, you’ll find...a bathroom! It’s got a basic toilet, sink, and a bathtub with a showerhead for you to use. There are also enough bath towels for each person hanging on a towel rack. The walls are white but the floor in here is tiled instead of wooden. The room across the bathroom, however, is empty. It has the same wallpaper and flooring as the main room you found yourself in.

It’s a small, comfy place you’re staying in, but the real question is… When did this happen? Only one way to find out.

And sure enough, if you’re awake by nine AM, Tom Nook will rally everyone to Resident Services for his morning announcements.

“Good morning, everyone, and welcome to your first weekend on Isle Sonrisa! As you’ve all probably already noticed by now, we were able to upgrade your tents last night into houses! Don’t worry, there is no fee for this upgrade -- but now you finally have a place where you can decorate your house with all the furniture you were able to get in the mail. For any excess items you may have… Might I suggest a yard sard of some sort, hm?”

He tilts his head a little. He thinks this is a good idea!

“Alternatively, houses all come with storage. There’s a small little storage shed in the back of everyone’s houses that can fit many, many items. If you don’t want to sell your items to me or hand them off to someone else, you can store them inside of there.”

Tom Nook nods his head. “Yes, yes. I’d like to suggest that you all take this weekend to decide how to arrange the items you’ve gotten in the mail...and one more thing about those items: You can put them outside, too. For example, oh, an exercise area might be nice…” He sounds a little wistful when he says it, but promptly shakes his head afterwards.

“Ah-! Before I forget...erm… It seems as though one of our friends has unexpectedly left the island. We don’t know where or how he left, you see...but Heimdall is no longer here. We’re still working on figuring out a way to send you all home, and we’re trying to track him down, too.”

He looks very guilty about that, at least. But the moment passes, and he perks up again, smiling at everyone as best as he can. “Alright, that’s it! You can spend the weekend however you’d like to, but with your new homes being built and all the furniture some of you have received, well… It may be a good idea to work on that, no?”




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[conceptualize]

[ Laurent wishes he had something like a flamethrower to torch the wasps. Alas.

But. Oh. It's still raining outside and Laurent does a quick wipe of his face so that water doesn't get in his eyes. ]

What a daring man, provoking wasps and not killing them on sight.

[regression]

I'm not a fool.

[ Him versus over a hundred wasps...? Without powers? Are you kidding him? ]

I intended to catch them, but they dispersed after you entered the tent.

[conceptualize]

[ Huh... are tents magical wasp repellents? Laurent wonders, since he doesn't think wasps just give up once they stop seeing their target in view. But then again, he knows nothing about them. ]

Wouldn't you have angered them if you caught one of the bunch...?

[regression]

[ No, Laurent is right that wasps don’t necessarily stop their hunt. They aren’t nice and polite like bees... However, it’s what Joonghyuk has observed after a couple of encounters. ]

... You catch the swarm in the net and they’re placated.

[ His expression seems the same, but there’s a tint of confusion in his eyes. ]

[conceptualize]

[ Cool. Bug catching nets have bug taming properties. That's what Laurent is getting out of this. He notices the slight confusion, but he can't really fault Joonghyuk for it. Everything about this island has been weird, but in a good way--everything is geared towards conveniency. It still makes him feel a little uneasy, since he's always been acting to ignore said things. What does he do when inconveniences aren't there at all? ]

I'll keep a net in handy for next time then.

[ Laurent... did not have one in his pocket. A horde of aggressive wasps was the last thing he expected in rainy weather like this. ]

Pulling it out of your pocket like unsheathing a sword would be a sight to see.

[ Laurent looks over at Joonghyuk. If it's about looking cool, even with a bug net, he could probably pull it off--but he'll keep that to himself. ]

[regression]

[ Joonghyuk is used to things being convenient to a fault, but that’s because his life was hard. Now there’s convenience and peace, so he’s questioning what’s to come...

He cocks an eyebrow before reaching into his pocket—instead of pulling out his net, he pulls out one of the wasps he caught earlier. If a net is akin to a sword, would a wasp be like a bomb? The bug doesn’t seem bothered. ]

[conceptualize]

[ Laurent has a very unsure look on his face for a split second when Joonghyuk takes out a wasp from his pocket, because what the fuck--though he had great restraints not to try and smack it on sight. When it looks like the wasp isn't going to attack him, he calms down immediately. ]

You just... You kept a wasp in your pocket.

[ yjh................ ]

[regression]

[ Why are you looking at him like that...? His eyebrows now arch into his bangs. The wasp goes back into his pocket inventory. ]

I was chopping trees.

[ You were watching him chop them earlier. Of course, he must have ran into another hive before. ]

[conceptualize]

[ What is your luck to keep running into wasp nests... Laurent feels pretty lucky (as he usually is), since he's also chopped a lot of trees, but he hasn't run into any wasp nests so far. ]

For the hardwood?

[regression]

For any logs. It's better to have more than not enough.

[ That's how Joonghyuk thinks... But he's been on a survival mindset forever. Anyway, he's walks into Nook's tent and sells the wasp. Good riddance. ]

[conceptualize]

[ Laurent thinks the same regarding logs and was about to comment on it until he sees how much the wasp is sold for. ]

... They sure are pricey. Though, for the danger involved, I'm not sure if I'd like that risk.

[regression]

[ ... For some reason, when you give the bugs to nook, it's in a container............... He really. Doesn't understand. ]

They're easy to catch, [ For him. ] so it's free bells.

[ He really is... A big gary stu. Watch him put these bells into his pocket. ]

[conceptualize]

[ That statement is when Laurent thinks, Yoo Joonghyuk is Yoo Joonghyuk: does ridiculous things without batting an eye, someone with a lot of pride, leaks murderous intent when slighted, sometimes fun enough to tease when Laurent's life doesn't feel forfeit--even though he knows that Joonghyuk is relatively human (despite animal features), if he had to put him in a category, he would get his own--something like a unique species.

Which might as well be correct because if Yoo Joonghyuk were to die, Yoo Joonghyuk would be extinct.

Which leads to the analogy of being compared to a dinosaur, but it screeches to a stop when Laurent can't help but snicker. He couldn't hold it back. His analogy has failed. ]

I suppose... for you alone, maybe.

[regression]

[ Joonghyuk doesn't know what Laurent is thinking. He doesn't even try to guess, but his statement makes him think a bit. Not about how different he is from everyone, he has thought about that long enough.

But more so— ]

... Did you not need to survive in your world?

[ He may not have his abilities or sword, but his current strength, speed, endurance, etc. are all a result of the world he came from. ]

[conceptualize]

Everyone needs to do something to survive--even in "peaceful and normal" worlds. They're just not as brutal as yours seems to be. The usual making enough money to pay rent, making cutoffs for something you want to stay in, trying not to be taken advantage of by people... things like that.

[ Everyone's standard of "normal" has been different, but Laurent had seen that Joonghyuk is from Korea and not some otherworldly country that happened to use Korean sounding names. Thank you, passports--and from how Joonghyuk noted that before monsters, stars and such, it was "normal". He thinks he can safely assume that his "normal" and Joonghyuk's "normal" are similar--at least before the gods came and fucked everything up.

He squeezes some water from his clothes and gets his drenched fringes away from his face. ]

Hm. I guess I lived pretty comfortably on my own after I moved out. Though I wouldn't consider catching wasps as part of a regular survival routine.

[regression]

[ He's heard of something like that. He's lived that life, most likely. And he can understand the struggles once basic necessities are barely met. Everyone is surviving and going through their own scenarios. He shakes like a dog and his tail puffs up now that it's dry. ]

You would survive a wasp sting unless you're allergic.

[ Of course, a part of him will always be jealous of those who lived relatively comfortable lives, but he knows better than anyone that it doesn't mean they didn't go through hardship. ]

[conceptualize]

[ Laurent opened his mouth to say something, but then Joonghyuk shakes like a dog... you bitch. Laurent probably got some water in his eye. It's fine!! He blinks several times rapidly and shakes his head a little. ]

Survival is a great thing to live by, but I don't think it's something you'd have to direct your entire life with when you can.

[ Sure, he can get stung and live through it, but if he could afford to, he'd rather not get stung in the first place. Just call pest control or torch the nest and the wasps in it with a flamethrower. 10/10. Would recommend when remodeling a house. ]

I just wouldn't put "the ability to catch a wasp" on the list of desperate survival requirements.

[regression]

[ He blinks at what Laurent says... Because that's true, but it's really the only thing he knows right now. However, he's been taking breaks and doing things in leisure which is something.

Still, he doesn't comment on that because he still doesn't know what he plans to do at the end of the scenarios. ]

Fast reflexes can save your life.

[ That's what it is, but he thinks Laurent already knows. ]

I'm going.

[ To chop more wood. Follow him or not, it doesn't matter. He exits the tent and continues into the rain. ]