Messages of the Week

I had a chat with Kiki tonight, and she told me about something that Puddles did recently. Apparently, Puddles threw a temper tantrum on the beach.

Kiki: I've never seen anyone stomp around a beach so furiously, kitty cat!

A message posted on the bulletin board warned of the coming snowstorms. Winter weather is just hours away!

- Heavy Snow Warning - A big snowstorm will arrive here tomorrow. Please make sure to dress warmly when you go out.While I was at the bulletin board, I decided to glance at the some of the other posts on there. And I’m glad I did. Many of these posts are entertaining, and even funny. Here’s a poem about eating:

- Poetry - Just one bite won't hurt. Yum bite gobble gobble. Yum. I ate twelve cupcakes.And this message seems to have been written by whoever buries all these pitfall seeds around town. Phyllis, is that you?

*Message of the Week* Ha ha ha. Hee hee hee. Oh, pitfalls. I love thee.These “messages of the week” and other posts are one thing that Wild World does better than any other Animal Crossing games. There may not be a bird that tells you when a new message has been posted like in City Folk and New Leaf, and there may not be clues to buried NES games and other gifts like on GameCube. But for sheer entertainment value, you can’t beat random messages like this.

*Message of the Week* It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt.I’ll have to remember to check the bulletin board more often.

Yuka told me she wanted to have a competition to see who could catch a dung beetle first. She’s probably going to win, because the beetles will probably flock to all her dung.

Yuka: Tee hee! I'll never lose to a loser like you!
Behold the queen of dung.

Since it’s Saturday night, I headed over to the Roost for some free music. The song this time was K.K. Marathon. It doesn’t have a lot of vocals, and the song was slow and repetitive. It may as well have been a lullaby, because it was literally putting me to sleep!

K.K.: All right, get ready to dig the riffs on this ditty: K.K. Marathon!When I visited Chevre, I saw that she was all packed up in boxes! She said there was a family crisis of some sort.

Chevre: I don't want to say much, but there's a bit of a family crisis, it'sa me.I kept talking to her repeatedly, telling her not to leave. And eventually, she agreed to stay. Kind of. I guess we’ll see.

Chevre: Jeff, if you want me here so badly, I'll think about it. But no promises!I found two more fossils tonight, and I donated both of them to the museum. The store was already closed, so I couldn’t sell anything. I’ll have to do that (and make a mortgage payment) next time. See you then!

Pudge Moves In

I found a new house in Forest tonight, and it belongs to Pudge the bear cub. I guess he’s okay, but I don’t think he’s going to be one of my favorites.

Pudge: Hi, nice to meet you. I'm Pudge, pudgy.
Not the most creative catchphrase.

Down on the beach, I discovered another note in a bottle. This is the third one I’ve found so far. It was from a company called Beautychem Labs, offering to pay 3,000 bells for hour to try on cosmetics.

SIT THERE AND GET PAID! All you need to do is test some fine cosmetics. Over 3,000 bells per hour. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!! -Beautychem LabsI had a chat with Bill, and he asked if bigger is better when it comes to houses. I said yes, and that pleased him. He said if I called the shots around here, Forest would be big-time. Hmm, good idea. Maybe I’ll even be the mayor some day! 😉

Bill: Dr. J, if you called the shots, Forest'd be big-time in no time!
Careful what you wish for. I may enact the “Duck Season” ordinance.

I happened to notice that when you hit a tree with your shovel, it’s not just the tree you hit that shakes. Other nearby trees also jiggle.

Nearby trees jiggle when one tree is hit with a shovel.I found two fossils in town tonight, but the museum already had both of them. It was a pretty uneventful night overall, but I’ll back again on Saturday with more. Hope to see you then.

Flea Market

As I started up the game, I was notified that the flea market was going on today. It’s a day when you can visit your neighbors and buy their possessions, or they can offer to buy things from your house. I visited Kiki first, but she didn’t really have anything I wanted.

Kiki on flea market day: Just tell me if something catches your fancy. Sound good to you, kitty cat?Next I went into Bill’s house. He had two birdcages, and I wondered if they were his kids. I asked about the one on the left, and he offered to give it to me for 770 bells. I bought it, just to cause drama in his family. (You did WHAT?!)

Bill on flea market day: Tell you what! I'll sell it to you for 770 bells!But then I wondered if he would sell his other kid too. I asked, but he refused! I guess we know who his favorite child is!

Bill: That's pretty sweet, huh? I'll never let that go. I train with it every day!Static had a different way of asking me which items I was interested in: He said he wanted to know which of his items smelled the worst! But I wasn’t interested in his stuff, regardless of the dollars and scents.

Static: Now, I know my stuff all has a weird kinda odor to it. I'm aware of that!Static: But I need to know which piece is the MOST stinky! Will ya tell me?I dug up three fossils today, and I donated all of them to the museum.

Blathers: Ah! Terribly sorry, wot? Ancient plants turn me into a veritable hootbox!Since it’s Saturday night, I made sure to go downstairs and catch K.K.’s live music show. I let him pick a random song, and he performed K.K. Ragtime for me.

After that, I made a 25,000 bell payment on my mortgage. When I stepped out of town hall, I had a chat with Puddles. She asked me to pick a name for her pet fish. I chose “Gill Boy,” and she really liked the name. To thank me, she gave me a Nintendo bench!

Puddles: And TAKE CARE OF IT, OK?! It wasn't easy finding a Nintendo bench!I went home to look at it. But before I could put it down, Baabara barged into my house, looking for something to buy for the flea market! Ugh! I wasn’t interested in selling anything, so I quickly left my house, just to get rid of her.

Baabara: OK then, I'm leaving now. Try not to cry. See ya, daahling.Immediately, I went back in and ran to the back wall. I put the bench down and took a seat. Pretty cool!

Sitting on the Nintendo bench in Animal Crossing: Wild World.But the instant I got up off of the bench, Puddles barged in. Ugh!

Puddles: Are you here, Jeff? It's me! Puddles! Your bestest friend ever?
No. No, no, no, no!

Flea market day is definitely not the time to hang out in your house, especially if you’re hoping to redecorate. I was done playing for the night, so I just went upstairs and went to bed (even as Puddles was still in my house). See you all next time!