I went to the city and saw two familiar faces: Pippy, who lived in my town for a while (originally from Ash’s town Onett), and Static, who has lived in my GameCube town for 7+ years.
Back in town, the Bug-Off was going on today, hosted by Nat (my friend Abbey’s boyfriend 😛 ), so I decided to look for bugs as I watered my flowers. Believe it or not, I don’t think I’ve participated in the Bug-Off before.
Ruby was in the lead with a 55-point jewel beetle. I tried donating a miyama stag I still had from last night, and it scored 49 points. Then, I caught a dynastid beetle (strong, tough, AND awesome), but it only scored 54 points…one shy of Ruby’s top score.
But after a while, I found a Hercules beetle, which netted me 116 points. It put me well into the lead with only about 20 minutes to go in the competition. My reward was a black bishop.
Later in the day, I started up the game again. Jorge wanted to play, so I opened my gate. He hadn’t been in my town for a long time, so he caught up with all my animals. We visited with a lot of them, and made fun of them in the process.
I got a letter confirming I won the Bug-Off, and I received my bug trophy. Just after 1:00 a.m. (when Nook ‘n’ Go closed), I started noticing some rare bugs. So we started bug hunting. I was hitting the jackpot. I caught three cyclommatuses, three scarab beetles, a golden stag, an elephant beetle, tons of goliath beetles, an oak silk moth, and more. And I even caught some good fish, including a blue marlin and a hammerhead shark.
I couldn’t sell my catches, but I think it was the best bug/fish hunt I ever had. Here are a couple of other pictures I took tonight, including one of Ruby contemplating something stupid. 😛
