Joja Warehouse
| Joja Warehouse | |
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| Type | Location |
| Open Hours | Always |
The Joja Warehouse is what the Community Center becomes once Morris's five-thousand-gold membership has been bought. The Junimos go, the bundles go with them, and every repair the valley needs is paid for in cash through a form pinned up inside JojaMart. Nothing has to be grown, caught or foraged any more, which is the whole appeal and the whole cost: the town gets fixed by a corporation rather than by its own people. Once the last project on the form is paid off, Morris asks for half a million gold to pull the warehouse down and put a Movie Theater on the spot. A save only ever gets one of the two endings, so buying the membership is the point of no return.
Area
The warehouse stands exactly where the Community Center stood, on the north side of Pelican Town, and its doors are never locked. Inside, the rooms that the Junimos would have restored are redressed in corporate style and filled with boxes and supplies.
The building does nothing on its own. Every transaction happens over at JojaMart, at the form by the kiosk, so the warehouse itself is less a place to visit than a monument to a decision already taken.
Notes
Work finished before the membership is not undone. A minecart system already repaired, a Greenhouse already raised, anything the bundles had completed stays completed and shows as done on the form. Half-finished work is a different matter. Progress towards an unfinished bundle counts for nothing, and the matching project is charged at the full price whatever had already been handed in, so switching sides partway through a bundle wastes everything put into it.
The five projects are priced in plain gold. The minecarts are the cheapest, then clearing the glittering boulder by the mine entrance to allow panning, then the broken bridge in the mountains that opens the way to the Quarry, then the ruined greenhouse on the farm, and the bus to the Calico Desert last and dearest. The bus is the one case where Joja genuinely undercuts the other route, since the Vault bundles ask for a little more gold than the form does for the same repair.
The cutscenes change along with the method. Each completed project plays out with Joja workers doing the job, hard hats and clipboards in place of the little green creatures, and the same repairs arrive looking like contract work rather than magic.
Paying off the whole form earns a Soda Machine, which is not sold or crafted anywhere else and produces a Joja Cola every day, along with the Joja Co. Member Of The Year achievement. The machine is a thin reward for the gold involved, and it is the most honest thing about the route: a free cola a day in exchange for the valley's soul.
The theatre offer is the last step. Morris calls it an entertainment opportunity and asks for the investment in the oiliest possible terms, and five hundred thousand gold turns the warehouse into the Movie Theater, giving the Joja route the same cinema that the other route gets out of the abandoned JojaMart building. The cinema is identical either way, so a farmer who only wants the films can get them on either path.
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