Snout and About

When I visited Antonio today, I was disappointed to see that he is moving out of town. 🙁

Antonio: I was getting pumped about how shocked everyone would be when they found my empty house.
Maybe he found a town with more ants? So long, Antonio.
I hope your new town is crawling with opportunity.

He has lived here for 3.5 years, moving in on Festivale Day in 2023. That’s (easily) the longest of any of my current villagers. One interesting bit of trivia is that my longest-tenured Wild World villager also moved out today.

Anyway, Felicity was talking about how pop stars (like her, apparently) always have to deal with crazed fans and paparazzi.

Felicity: All the top pop stars have to deal with crazed fans and relentless paparazzi and stuff...

She was actually asking me to play a game of hide-and-seek with her (and two friends). I agreed, and she gave me ten minute to find her, Big Top, and Willow. I found Big Top almost immediately, hiding behind the bulletin board right near the starting point. 😛

Big Top tries to hide behind the bulletin board.

I later found Felicity and Willow both hiding behind sign posts! So none of the three hiders hid behind a building or a tree! That probably doesn’t happen very often. Anyway, Felicity rewarded me with a little fart. A mini tootoid, that is. 😛

Felicity: Oh, well! A gracious loser accepts such things with tact. And PRESENTS! Take my mini tootoid!

I played again later tonight, and I checked out K.K. Slider’s Saturday night show. He performed “To the Edge” for me.

K.K.: All right, get ready to dig the riffs on this ditty: To the Edge.

I started hunting bugs (and fish) for a while. I saw a shark near the mouth of the river that almost looked like he was swimming upstream, up the river! Is it a salmon shark? 😛

A shark appears to swim up the river.
Actually, it was a hammerhead.

In a 35-minute bug hunt, I only made about 95k. I haven’t been doing much bug-hunting so far this summer, so I’m behind schedule as it pertains to my summer goal. It’s like the opposite of last year. I’ll have to pick up the pace in August if I’m going to reach my goal!

I’ll be back with another entry next week. Hope to see you then!

Fusilli Sydney

When I started up the game tonight, I read on the bulletin board that the Bug-Off was held today. I walked over to Nat just a few feet away, and he informed me that Cube was the big winner. He caught a 49-point jewel beetle to take home the trophy. Congrats, Cube! 🏆

Nat: The 49-point jewel beetle caught my Cube from right here in Forest.

If you’re wondering about Scoot’s expression in that screenshot, it’s because he asked me to get him some vintage clothes and I declined. Sorry, bud. Maybe another time.

As for the Bug-Off winner, Cube, I ran into him over by the museum. The poor guy couldn’t stand the heat lately, and he wished there was some snow. Yeah, it must not be easy being a penguin in summer!

Cube: It gets hotter and hotter every single day. On days like this, some snow sure would feel nice.
Yeah, it might keep you from melting.

I went inside the museum and down to the Roost for K.K. Slider’s Saturday night show. I asked for a random song, and he performed “K.K. Mambo” for me. It’s not bad.

K.K.: All right, get ready to dig the riffs on this ditty: K.K. Mambo.

Back outside, Sydney was talking about hobbies. She said she was going to spend today (I guess she meant tonight) making macaroni art on her feet.

Sydney: Speaking of hobbies, I think I'll spend today making macaroni art, on my feet.
Maybe I’ll call you Fusilli Sydney.
…or FuSydney?

I’m starting to regret her catchphrase, along with Antonio’s “up my nose.” But I’m too lazy to change them by reporting them at town hall. 😛

I finished up my night with a little bug hunt…but it was not going well. While I was finding plenty of emperor butterflies, I wasn’t seeing any rare bugs at all in the first half of my session. And once they did start showing up, I was messing up and missing some of them (including a tarantula and a scorpion that both stung me)! I only made about 130k in my hour-long session. It just wasn’t my night. I hope yours was better.

Third Stint

On Monday, Pecan told me that it was her day to moisturize. She said if she doesn’t moisturize, she’ll look like a pile of dead leaves by Sunday.

Pecan: It's Monday, so that means it's time to moisturize! If I don't, I'll look like a pile of dead leaves by Sunday.

At 11 p.m., I went on my first proper bug hunt of the season. I recorded a gameplay video of the session, and you can watch that here if you’d like:

I played again tonight, and I was chatting with Scoot in his house. He told me that he asked Cube what his favorite food was.

Scoot: I asked Cube what his favorite food was the other day. Know what he said?

And Cube replied that frozen yogurt was his favorite! That sounds about right for the chilly penguin.

Scoot: ...Frozen yogurt! Kinda figures, huh, so scoot?

Sydney was feeling (down) under the weather tonight, so I gave her a dose of medicine. Get well soon, Sydney!

Rosie’s replacement has moved in, and it’s Peaches the horse.

Peaches: I just moved into town, and I really haven't had time to get settled yet. My name is Peaches.

Peaches is alright, but it is interesting to have her back again. That’s because this is her third stint in Forest! This 2011 blog entry talks about her return, and I mentioned that she was my first returning villager at the time.

Could she now also be my first three-time City Folk resident? I’m not sure about that, because it seems like I may have had other three-timers. But I can’t be certain, because I didn’t start this blog until 2011. Sure, I made sporadic videos, but I wasn’t documenting every villager that came and went back then.

Anyway, I went over to the Roost for K.K. Slider’s Saturday night show. I asked for a random song, and he performed “Senor K.K.” for me.

K.K.: All right, get ready to dig the riffs on this ditty: Senor K.K..

After that, I went on another mini bug hunt. I made around 120,000 bells before wrapping up my game for the night.