☀ SETTING ☀

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SETTING

So, you're not familiar with Animal Crossing or just want to know how things are going to work around here? Well, this guide is for you!

◦ Give me the low-down. What happens to my character when they first arrive?

Well, in short, your character will black out from whatever point in canon you're taking them from and wake up just as they arrive on a train to Turnip Town. No sooner have they gotten off onto a brightly-colored station, they'll be greeted by an excitable raccoon, standing inexplicably on two feet.

The raccoon's name is Tom Nook and, without letting your character get a word in edgewise, he'll introduce himself and explain that he's heard all about their troubles and it's no problem! He has a house for them, already generously furnished and what's more? He doesn't even expect all the money up-front, as long as they pay it back eventually through installments at the Post Office.

Without giving your character time to protest, he's off and your character is now a proud resident of Turnip Town!

◦ So, what about this house, then?

It's small and located in a lot with most of the other characters. Inside there will be an orange box, a journal, a bed, and a radio that only plays one song. Once you've paid that off, Tom will be around to give you the chance to upgrade your house to be bigger or have additional stories.

◦ Does this mean I can't share a house with friends or canonmates?

Not at all! In fact, we encourage it for more hijinks (and it'll save in mortgage costs).

◦ So, I can't build my own?

Tom Nook's kind of got a hold on the real estate market here in Turnip Town, but you're always welcome to clear off a plot and start building, with mod permission. Stand up to the man-- err, raccoon --and his high housing costs! Just don't be surprised if he charges a little extra on building supplies.

◦ What about the other town residents? NPCs?

In Animal Crossing, you are a human living in a town of animals who will gladly gossip, guilt-trip you into doing favors for them, and more. However, since the point of this game is more-so interaction with your fellow players as opposed to mod-controlled NPCs, we encourage you to focus on interaction between the players.

That doesn't mean you won't still see the animals around, a cast you can read up on here. But it means, instead of playing out twenty errands, thirty trips to Tom Nook's store, we'll let those be in your characters' downtime for the most part.

◦ What if I want to interact with a specific NPC? Play out an errand or two?

Throw a ping our way! We'll be glad to send an NPC to go bother your character.

◦ Is there any kind of currency?

Yes. In Animal Crossing, characters use money called 'Bells' to purchases things from the store and pay off their housing loans. How can you get this? By doing errands for townspeople, selling fruit, bugs, fish, items, or fossils to Tom Nook, shaking trees (careful, if you shake too many, you'll be stung by bees!), and ever so often, finding money buried in the ground (And a hint? If your character buries that money again, they'll find a money tree in the same spot in a couple days, provided someone doesn't cut down the tree or step on the fledgling).

◦ So, how much money do we start with?

The characters start with a fixed amount of Bells, but they will hand it to Tom Nook as the first payment for their house. So basically, you're broke at the beginning. But don't worry! As we already mentioned above, you have various ways to earn money. Fish, digging fossils, or shaking trees, whatever you'd like to do!

◦ Are the mods going to monitor how much money I have?

Nope, we're trusting you to assume your character will earn what you think they'd earn. If your character is the type to go all out and do lots of errands or collect lots of fruit? They'll be a lot richer. But don't feel limited to just that. Characters less inclined to hard work are welcome to try and exploit the gains of other characters.

◦ My character's power level is over 9000, will that be affected? Are powers allowed at all?

No, your character's power level won't be affected. However, they'll find that any destruction that they do beyond pulling weeds or cutting down trees is immediately corrected if they walk away from the area. And they'll find that their attacks do really little more to harm the town's residents than annoy them.

◦ Town residents, huh? So, if I attack other characters...?

Same effects as they'd have in their own world, although we do want you to work out the effects and so on with the other character's player first.

◦ Can my characters die? Will they be revived?

Yes, your characters can die! However, they'll find dying just lands them on the train right back to Turnip Town after three days in the black abyss that is the Animal Crossing afterlife.

Don't be surprised, though, if an angry gopher pops out of the ground to scold them for 'resetting' their game.

◦ How will characters find food?

Characters will find that there's no shortage of food available. Peaches grow on the trees daily and, should any character be lucky enough, other fruits can be discovered and planted as well. But the food doesn't stop there. Characters can also buy fishing rods from Nook's store and indulge in a bit of fishing. Or, if they're so inclined, there are plenty of bugs to sample.

◦ So, fishing?

Characters can buy a rod from Tom Nook (don't worry, they're cheap!) and spend as much time as they like on the many banks of the ample water that surrounds the town. To know what sort of fish you're catching at what times of the year, check here!

Also, watch out for the litter that tends to end up on your line a fair amount of the time, too.

◦ And bug catching?

Same story! Tom Nook sells nets and you can find a list of all the varieties here! You're welcome to keep them, set them free, or sell them back to Tom Nook for whatever nefarious purposes he buys them for.

◦ And the fossils you mentioned earlier?

Every day, there are new suspicious spots on the ground where you can find fossils. Of course, not being a paleontologist yourself, you can't identify them. But if you send them away to the museum, they'll send you them back with a verification of exactly what they are!

From there, feel free to donate them to the local museum (they'll also take your fish, bugs, and paintings for their collection!), keep them for yourself, or, you guessed it, sell them to Tom Nook.

◦ What does this place look like, by the way?

Glad you asked! Here's the layout of your new home~: