THE FUSE

Picture it. Pelican Town, 2016. A lone farmer sits on the bridge, fishing pole in the water. Not a bite in hours. She reaches into her bag to try some bait, only to realize there’s no bait to be had. Frustrated, she digs deeper into her backpack, hoping for some bug meat with which she can craft some bait. Not a whisper of bug meat to be had, either. But she was just in the mines yesterday! Where is all her bug meat? She reels in her line and trudges, exhausted, back to her farm on the outskirts of town. A collection of chests and boxes sits in a corner near a fence, and she begins to root through the first one. Bug meat, bug meat…not there, not in the next box…where is her bug meat? How is she supposed to craft bait when she can’t remember which box she left the ingredients in?