Movie Ticket
| Movie Ticket | |
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| Type | Collection |
| Location | Movie Theater ticket booth; Crane Game in Movie Theater |
| Sell Price | 500g |
The Movie Ticket is the stub that gets a farmer through the door of the Movie Theater, and handing a second one to a villager turns the trip into an outing. The booth beside the entrance sells them, and the price is steep enough to make a film an occasion rather than a habit. The friendship a well chosen film buys is the real reason to bother: a villager watching something they love warms up far faster than they would from a week of small gifts. Tickets also turn up in the Crane Game inside the lobby and occasionally in the bin outside the old JojaMart, which is the cheap way to fill a date night.
Overview
The theatre only exists if the valley earned it. On the Community Center route the Junimos take the abandoned JojaMart building and turn it into the cinema once the Missing Bundle inside has been filled. On the Joja route the same building becomes a theatre for an enormous payment to the company instead.
Buying is simple. The window to the right of the entrance sells one ticket at a time, and anyone planning to take a friend needs two: one to give away and one to get in. The gift has to be handed over the same day the film is seen, because a villager who is invited and then kept waiting forgets about it entirely and will not turn up later.
Choosing the film matters more than choosing the company. A single feature plays all week, with the posters outside showing what is on now and what is coming next, and the schedule rotates across two years so a save sees the whole set eventually. A villager taken to a film they love gains a large chunk of friendship, one they merely like gains a useful amount, and a film they dislike does nothing at all for the relationship.
The concession stand is the second half of the plan. A handful of snacks is offered at random each showing, and buying the one a companion loves adds another dab of friendship on top of the film. The most expensive sweet on the counter is adored by nearly everyone, which makes it the safe choice when a villager's taste in snacks is a mystery.
The Crane Game in the lobby is a small gamble that sometimes pays in tickets. A few attempts cost a modest sum, the prizes change with the season, and tickets hide among the decorative leaves in the cabinet, often only shifting into reach once another prize has been dropped. The machine is sometimes occupied by a villager, and it cannot be played once a film has finished.
Notes
An invited villager will not accept another invitation for about a week, so working through the town means keeping a rota rather than taking a favourite twice.
A spare ticket is worth half its purchase price at the shipping bin, so keeping one in a chest for the next time the right film comes around costs little.
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