Month: April 2011

Today is a busy day in the land of City Folk. It’s Easter, so Zipper the bunny is in town, and there are many eggs buried all around town. It’s also flea market day, which Chief took way too literally.

I went to the city to check out the new emotions at the theater: Surprise, laughter, disappointment, and sorrow. I’m starting to wonder if I’ll ever see Frillard again.

Once I got back to town, I started digging up Easter eggs.

If you don’t know, some will contain candy and some will contain bunny foils. The bunny foils can then be taken to Zipper and exchanged for pieces of egg furniture.

The candy has no real use at Easter; you can eat it or save it for Halloween (or Festivale). I laid the candy aside for Guest (my 2nd character) to keep in storage. After exchanging all 12 bunny foils for the egg furniture set, I promptly sold it all.

Soon as I started up my game, I saw that I had mail. It was the biwa lute Bushido asked me to order him last night. (Bushido saw one in one of my animals’ houses last night and wanted it, so I offered to order him one). So I wrote a letter and went into town hall to mail it to him.

I finally logged in as my other characters, Guest and Scott. I killed some roaches in Guests’s house. Then I had Scott put some more hybrids in storage. I also had him collect and sell enough fruit to order another golden chair (the one I took for my basement. I believe I mentioned it in an earlier blog entry).

As for not having patterns as a path, I actually made a couple wrong turns while navigating Forest. I’m so used to the paths being there that I twice briefly thought I was somewhere other than where I really was. Two new black roses appeared today, both of which popped up where the path normally would have been. I wonder if that means they wouldn’t have shown up at all if the patterns were there. Or perhaps they still would have appeared, but in a different spot? I really don’t know the answer to that one.

Anyway, I decided to count my black and gold roses. I have 41 home-grown gold roses, and 64 black roses (which can be turned into gold roses when I’m ready). I’ll still need many, many more. I’m not sure how many I’ll need to ultimately line all my paths will gold roses, but it will surely be in the hundreds. It might even top 1,000, but I don’t know. So I’ll be working on my town for a long time to come.

Upon starting the game, I noticed Tortimer was out by town hall. I got a cool globe from him for Nature Day. So apparently Nature Day was today? But according to the bulletin board, it was yesterday. Looks like a little mix-up on Nintendo’s part.

Tonight was Friday Night Forest. Bushido was the only one who came. I haven’t been having many visitors the past several weeks. Maybe I need to replace some people on my friend roster. Either that or stop going on Wi-Fi every week.

Anyway, I finished removing the path patterns (with Bushido’s help). Some parts of my town look weird without the patterns. I’ve had path patterns for about two years, so it’s quite a change. It’s also strange seeing flowers and weeds pop up where my path normally is. Speaking of flowers, no new black roses today.

Chief tried to change my nickname to “bucko.” Even though I really dislike my current nickname “pop star” (ugh), Bucko isn’t much better. Hopefully they’ll propose a decent nickname soon. I wish I was J-Bot again like I was in late ’08. That brings back some memories…