Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Sadly, Savannah has scampered off into the sunset. I got her goodbye letter in the mail yesterday. Why did my zebra have to leave me? She really crossed the line with that move.🦓

When I spoke with Candi, she noticed a trilobite in my pockets (it was one of the fossils I got back in the mail). She wanted to buy it for 200 bells! No way! It may not be the most valuable fossil, but it’s still worth a lot more than that!

Right next door to Candi (in the spot where Yuka once lived), I found a new house. The new kid on the block is Chevre the goat. 🐐

I like Chevre, but not nearly as much as I liked Savannah.

Genji built an igloo in town, and he told me why it’s warm inside: Because it traps his body heat inside, with onion.

I played again tonight, around 10 p.m., and several of my villagers were sleeping outdoors. Of course, I woke them up so they could go into their houses and sleep properly.

When I visited Puck, he said Tom told him his clothes were too small for him. But he insists that it’s Tom’s clothes, not his, that are too small. 😛

That may be a bit of a stretch. But these arguments seam like a waist of time. 😉

I found Gulliver washed up on the beach, and he gave me a Chinese lion.

Hank later noticed it and offered to trade his fan palm for it. I agreed to the exchange, because Hank is my buddy. 🙂

Ursala was telling me about an upcoming wallpaper sale that Tom Nook is going to have tomorrow. Until she realized I might beat her to the shop and buy everything before she gets a chance, that is. So she told me to ignore what she just told me.

And to think, she was just lecturing me about honesty not that long ago!

Just a few feet away from Ursala’s house, I found one of today’s fossils practically underwater! At least momentarily, when the tide rolled in.

Unfortunately, Hazel has moved out of Forest. I received her goodbye letter in the mail today.

I also received a gift from Jingle in the mail, which contained the Balloon Fight NES game. He sends the same thing every year, and I decided to play it a bit before selling it this time. So I went inside my messy house and started it up. 😆

I ended up scoring 49,000 points, which beat my previous high-score.

Puck told me about the last time Katrina told his fortune. He said that everyone started being mean to him all of a sudden, and he’s convinced Katrina put a hex on him. He’s probably right. 😛

My jaw dropped when I saw Hazel’s replacement: It’s Savannah the zebra!

Savannah is one of my favorites, but she’s always been elusive. I rarely ever seem to get her in any of my towns! She did move into this town ten years ago (almost to the day), but I didn’t even get to meet her before she moved out! I’m glad she’s here now, though. I just hope she sticks around a while!

Static told me I was looking as awful as ever (thanks a lot, Static), and he gave me a free danger shirt. I guess I was feeling dangerous, so I decided to put it on.

I saw a large fish in the river, so I decided to fish it out. To my surprise, it was a stringfish! I wasn’t even expecting it to be something rare since the shadow wasn’t huge like an arapaima. But I’ll gladly take the 15,000-bell fish! 😁

A mere 20 seconds later, I found the day’s glowing spot and dug up 10,000 bells instead of the usual 1,000. Maybe Static was really onto something by giving me this danger shirt! 😉

Over by the wishing well, Ursala wanted to play a grab bag game with me. I had a chance to win a mint gingham, a pear, or a pitfall. I normally decline the offer (when given a choice), but she only charged 250 bells to play! Usually the price is in the thousands, but it’s definitely worth a risk at this price.

I chose the left bag, and I won a pitfall! Pitfalls aren’t super common on GameCube, so I like having some around for times that I need them. 😛 Good deal! It seems there have been quite a few good, unexpected things that happened today. It must be my lucky day!

I finished making my rounds, sold my stringfish, mailed some fossils away, and then returned home.

Earlier this month, I posted my latest GameCube Moments video. It includes some clips from early December that I didn’t include in the blog. Check it out!

I’ll be back with another entry in January. Happy New Year!

It was snowing lightly when I started up the game today; that was a nice surprise. And thanks to the time of day, I was treated to the snowy version of the 5 p.m. theme. 😍

When I checked my mail, I found a goodbye letter from Wolfgang. The weird part is that I just got a goodbye letter from a different wolf yesterday in City Folk! Fang left me in ACCF, and Wolfgang left me here.

But the pleasant vibes didn’t last long. Moments later, Candi informed me that she was going to take my amber (one of my fossils I just got back in the mail) and there was nothing I could do about it. 😡

She offered me a cowhide rug or a playroom wall for it, but that’s not the point. I hate how villagers can just decide to take something from you. So I had to exact my revenge, by pushing her into the river. It’s a good thing that she lives next to this bridge!

Today is Sale Day (Black Friday, aka the day after Thanksgiving), so Tom Nook has some special grab bags up for sale.

The cost for each grab bag is equal to the current year, so they cost 2,025 bells apiece this year. That means the grab bags may be the only example of inflation in the Animal Crossing series (at least within one single game), where the price goes up every year. (Not that one bell a year is much.)

But I bought three grab bags (6,075 bells in total), and each one contains three items. Here’s what I got:

• Grab bag 1: puzzling shirt, parlor wall, red tile
• Grab bag 2: green lamp, classic clock, watermelon table
• Grab bag 3: kitschy wall, flame shirt, red tile

Unfortunately, there was nothing I really wanted…so I sold the stuff all back to Tom Nook. He paid me a total of 3,045 bells, which was almost exactly half of what I paid.

Back outside, Genji was talking about the snow. He even told me I should make a snowman! But there needs to be snow on the ground before I can do that!

Belle the cow showed me a letter she got from a tree enthusiast, and I enjoyed it for a few reasons…

First, there’s the nice accidental rhyme (Live well, Belle). And the descriptive language about life’s “creamy middle” almost sounds like a piece of chocolate…perhaps milk chocolate. And the clouds on the stationery matched the clouds on my misty shirt.

Baabara asked me for a new catchphrase to replace “daahling.” After some thought, I told her to say “I’m fluffy.” She didn’t seem to trust me (I wonder why), but she had no choice. 😛

Another feature of Sale Day is the guaranteed appearance of Crazy Redd’s tent. While I briefly considered buying out all his stock to activate the disappearing Crazy Redd glitch, I quickly changed my mind when I saw his prices today.

Over in Acre B-1, I met up with Wolfgang’s replacement: Oxford the bull. He said it’s best to stay indoors on nights like this…even though he was standing out in the snow anyway.

He has lived in Forest before, back in 2013.

I met up with Tom over by the dump. He said the best thing about the fishing tournament is Chip, who he called a “raving lunatic beaver.” Wow!

Unfortunately, he didn’t elaborate on why he thinks Chip is such a raving lunatic. I would’ve loved to have heard some stories!

See you all in December! Happy Holidays, everyone!