Goodbye Aurora

Tonight, I got a goodbye letter in the mail from Aurora.

Aurora's goodbye letter.Kody was right by my house, so I talked to him. He told me there was a reason the weather was so nice.

Kody: There's a reason why the weather's so nice.He said it was because there were no rain clouds in the sky. Wow, what a genius he is.

Kody: It's because there are no rain clouds in the sky! Mind-blowing discovery, huh?Gulliver was passed out on the beach, so I woke him up. He thanked me for saving his life and gave me a plate armor.

Gulliver: Thanks for the whole saving my life thing.I spoke with Mathilda and she pointed out that I’ll never be as popular as her. Rude.

Mathilda: You'll never be nearly as popular as I am, wee baby!I saw on my map that Coco was my newest neighbor! But when I went to go meet her, I found that she was sleeping.

Sign: Sleeping. Please come back another time.I’ll have to meet her next time.

Candy For Sale

When I started up the game this evening, I quickly went to the home of my newest neighbor: Mathilda the kangaroo. She and her baby live in acre B-1, next to Aurora.

Meeting Mathilda.I spoke with her again, and she asked if I had a use for my mammoth skull. Yeah, to protect my mammoth brain!

Mathilda: What use do you have for a mammoth skull?But she was talking about the fossil in my pocket, and I sold it to her for 2,400 bells. I then went up to Nook’s, where Tom Nook now has candy for sale. If you plan on participating in the Halloween festivities on the 31st, you’ll definitely want to start stocking up on candy now!

Tom Nook: That's candy. The price is 100 bells.When I talked to Genji, he showed me a letter and then said I should try to write a letter like that, on his bum. But I’m not going anywhere near it!

Genji: You should try to write a letter like this one, on my bum.And I don’t usually try for the money rock, but I did today. I got seven bags, good for a total of 13,300 bells.

Banging the money rock.In acre B-2, Kody was looking over the cliff like he was thinking about jumping off. I couldn’t bear to watch.

Kody looking over the edge.Kody didn’t jump though; he was just looking at a bug. In that same acre, I went to visit Emerald. She was just standing there, surrounded by three umbrellas. Was this some sort of ritual to make it rain?

Emerald's house.After that, I stopped at the post office, finished pulling weeds, and made sure my town was back to perfect town status before I ended my game for the night.

I’ve made a video showing off Genji’s catchphrase “on my bum” from last week. When I first taught it to him, he used it in several funny ways. You can see them here:

Catchphrase Fun, On My Bum

I got a letter in the mail that said Velma is gone! Quick, call Scooby-Doo!

Velma's goodbye letter.Interestingly enough, nobody moved in to take Velma’s place. So Forest only has 14 villagers at the moment.

I was a bit tired of wearing the BB shirt, so I bought this jade check print at Nookington’s.

Timmy: It's quite a bargain!It was raining in town tonight, and Puck was talking about how umbrellas aren’t entirely effective. Even with one, you can’t avoid every last rain drop.

Puck: either we get a little wet or we stay indoors all day.Genji asked me for a new catchphrase, and I told him to say “on my bum.” It worked out quite well.

Genji: Oh... Look at all the mud, on my bum.In fact, I kept talking to him to see how else he would use his catchphrase. He said some funny things.

Genji: Gracie smells like flowers, on my bum.Genji: I don't need any high-brow duds, on my bum.When I was done talking to him, I pulled a bunch of weeds around town, stopped in the post office, and returned home.


Seven years ago today, I joined Youtube and uploaded my first Animal Crossing video. It was this house tour: