Nawa Tsumugu Phones Stogura City Staff to Ask for Cassette Tapes So Musicians Can Earn

YUMENOS — Nawa Tsumugu of YUMENOS (Gen 1) phoned city staff on the Grand Theft Auto roleplay server Stogura (ストグラ) on Wednesday to ask for cassette tapes to be added to the city, an item that could record long stretches of audio and play it back. The call came early in his Day 31 stream of Season 2.

He told the staff member that voice and music work tends to end up outside the city’s own systems, which he disliked. The staff member said the city was already looking for ways to let people do more with music, including a soundproof studio building it had been trying out, and that it could not promise cassette tapes but would take the idea back.

“Right now there’s nothing in this city that lets you get rich off music.” — Nawa Tsumugu, on why he wants cassette tapes on the server

Later in the stream he laid out how it could work: musicians would record to tapes and sell them by hand, as fan items and as a way to earn money inside the city, and shops could carry them for a percentage. Friends who joined the conversation noted that voice performers could use tapes too, and that a tape playing would leave its player unable to do anything else. Tsumugu said nothing had been promised. He said his own dream was to make good music, have many people hear it and show off with the earnings. A friend added that the more people who ask the city for it, the better.

Elsewhere in the evening he spent about half an hour on delivery jobs and said he came away with roughly 500,000 in game money. He mused that if helicopters are ever added to the server, he would like to buy one and run a personal taxi and courier service. He then joined the manager of the restaurant Sunny Kebab as they went around the city collecting residents’ MBTI personality types, photos and names for a booklet to be handed out at cost for the restaurant’s first anniversary. Responses are due by Dec. 1, and the number of people expected to take part was put at roughly 35 to 40.

Near the end he spent a long stretch on a thought experiment about the server’s economy, arguing that money created by jobs and crimes drives inflation and that a tax could pull it back out, while saying residents would likely object. “This kind of thought experiment is the most fun,” he said. He planned to sing at the city’s autumn harvest festival the next day and said he intended to stream it, and signed off unsure whether Stogura would be running then.