Month: June 2011

It was raining in the city tonight, so I didn’t have to water my flowers tonight. (Yay!) Also, that means all the flowers will look nice and non-wilted for having visitors over tomorrow for Friday Night Forest.

While making my rounds, Chief asked me to play hide and seek. I almost declined, but then decided to do it anyway. Nana and Ruby were the other two players.

Chief only gave me 10 minutes to find them, and it wasn’t enough. I found Nana and Ruby fairly quickly (both hiding behind trees), but I never found Chief. Oh well.

I ran into Bob, and he asked for a new catchphrase. I gladly obliged by teaching him “daddy.” It reminds me of The Simpsons when Ralph Wiggum calls his teacher “Mommy.” Funny stuff, so I talked to him again to see what else he would say. Turns out he wanted me to deliver an item (a green bed, I believe) to Ruby. I agreed.

Even though hide-and-seek had ended several minutes before, I found Ruby still hiding behind the same tree. Speaking to her triggered the “you lose” scenario with Chief, Ruby, Nana, and I all back at town hall. I talked to Ruby again to give her the item. For whatever reason, she loved it and told me to thank Bob for it. I went back to my long-lost son Bob to tell him, but my pockets were full. He told me he’d send my thanks in the mail.

I finished up placing my path patterns down, so my town is looking nice. =) I tried out the fire hydrant that Mint gave me the other day. It doesn’t do anything (no fair, I wanted gushing water)! But it does seem to fit in nicely with the two gyroids I have on my first floor. I wonder if they’re related…

As I watered my flowers in Forest, I continued to place down my path patterns. I’d estimate I’m about 70% done now.

I have a new neighbor in town, Rosie. I stopped by her house to say hello.

Also, when talking to Mint, she gave me a free fire hydrant.

Anyway, I was almost done watering my flowers when I saw a shadow moving very fast across the ground. WHAT?! The UFO?! Kaitlin was in town, so I was sure I wouldn’t be seeing the UFO this week. And because of that, I had my slingshot put away, attached to a letter. I tried to run ahead of the UFO and then go into my letter screen to pull out my slingshot, but it was too late. I went back to the center of town in case it did a second fly-by, but no luck.

The UFO guide on Animal Crossing Community (ACC) was wrong. And I missed out. Ugh. Well, if nothing else, now I know that the UFO can still come when one of the mother/daughter cat pair is in town. And next time, I will be ready. I will get that Metroid one day. Mark my words.

As I walked around town tonight, I saw Kaitlin. For those who don’t know, Kaitlin is a mother cat who is looking for her daughter. Her daughter will be in one of your Wi-Fi friends’ towns.

She told me her daughter is in Hyrule, which is ToonZelda’s town. So ToonZelda will need to bring her daughter to my town and then a little story scene will play out, where they reunite and the mother thanks the person who brought her daughter back to her.

This episode might be mildly entertaining the first time it happens, but it keeps happening. Again and again. Every few weeks, you’ll find either the mother cat or the kitten in your town (if you play on Wi-Fi) and it gets very annoying. They’ll disappear on their own, but only after a full week.

The worst part for me is that I’m trying to shoot the UFO down because I still need (and want) most of Gulliver’s items. And the UFO will not show up when one of the cats is in town. I really hate the missing cat sequence and wish it was optional.

Anyway… I talked to Del tonight and he wanted to change my nickname from “boss” to “shorty.” No way! He got mad and sarcastic when I declined, and made me enter a new nickname. I wasn’t feeling very creative at the time, so I just told him to call me “dude.” Frankly, I could do without the greetings and nicknames you have to come up with. Just let me pick the catchphrases and I’ll be fine.