Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

I opened my mailbox and unfortunately found a goodbye letter…from Octavian. I liked Octavian, and it’s too bad that he couldn’t stick around longer. Besides, he is the only octopus character in the game.

I went around town pulling weeds. As usual, Maple was outside sleeping. So I tried to catch some Z’s.

She didn’t appreciate it. But I continued on. Once I pulled enough weeds to restore perfect town status, I went fishing. In early September, there are no sea bass (or jellyfish) in the ocean. That means if you fish in the ocean, every fish you catch will be worth at least 3,000 bells! You do have to avoid the acre with the mouth of the river though, because you will still catch some river fish there. But fish in the other four ocean acres, and you will make a LOT of money. The sea bass gradually start to return around the 11th or 12th, but the fishing is still great until mid-month.

Unfortunately, Nook’s was already closed when I played tonight, so I didn’t fish as long as I wanted. But I did catch nine red snappers and two barred knifejaws, for a total of 37,000 bells.

After that, I went to visit K.K. before I ended my night. I asked him for a random song, and he performed K.K. Safari for me. My pockets were full of stinky fish, so he couldn’t give me the aircheck. But that’s okay, I didn’t need it anyway.

Despite owning this game for nearly ten years, there is one event on the calendar that I had never attended. Until today. It’s Founder’s Day. So I headed over to the wishing well and found Tortimer there.

He gave me a weed model.

The reasoning behind the weed model is that if not for the founders (or the forecritters, as Tortimer says), the town would just be an undeveloped valley overrun with weeds. Tortimer has a couple things to say about the holiday, but that’s it. It’s a bare-bones holiday that doesn’t have any festivities. Oh well.

On the way back to my house, I saw a dig spot and dug up a mega bowtoid. But the interesting part about that was the bug on the tree appeared to hover in place when the view changed and made the tree invisible.

As I went up the ramp, Puck and Robin were having an argument. They took their frustrations out on me.

I then went in my house to lay down the weed model. As expected, it’s not very exciting.

I then went back outside and walked around town. Octavian was staring at a fish in the river, so I fished it out as he watched. It was an eel, and Octavian stood there applauding my catch.

So I talked to him and he complimented my eel, asking if I caught it myself.  HUH?

Anyway, he asked if he could just have the eel, and I agreed to give it to him. But he ended up giving me something in return anyway, an apple.

After digging up some fossils and stopping at the post office, I then headed for home.

It was storming in Forest today. I checked my mail and got a goodbye letter from Chuck.

I stopped at Nook’s to order a couple items for my house. Nearby, I found the glowing spot and I was lucky enough to get 10,000 bells from it today!

After talking to Static, I got bit by a mosquito.

I then saw the house of my new neighbor. It’s Octavian the octopus!

I continued making my way around town, pulling weeds and talking to animals. I stopped to catch a drone beetle, and Baabara stood there applauding me.

I made my way around to Emerald’s house, and she offered to buy my drone beetle for 1,120 bells. It’s a deal!

When I was done, I stopped by the post office to deposit some bells into my account and to mail some fossils away to the Farway Museum to be identified. I then returned home to take a look at my house. I still have some items that need to be put into storage. So I’ll need to make a trip to the island sometime soon to stash them in there.