New Year’s Eve

It’s New Year’s Eve, and Tortimer can be found outside of town hall, next to a giant countdown timer. If you speak to him, he will give you a party popper.

Tortimer: If you're going to have a countdown, you need a party popper, right? Heh heh heh.In previous years, I would repeatedly drop my party popper on the ground to get another one…and another, and another. They were fun to use on Wi-Fi with other friends, especially when your friends weren’t expecting an explosion in their face. Of course online play is no longer an option, so I didn’t feel the need to stockpile dozens of them. I did get a handful of them anyway, though. Of course, I had to test one out myself.

Me firing off a party popper outside of town hall.I won’t be around to watch the countdown timer reach zero at midnight tonight, but Fang seems to be expecting me there anyway.

Fang: You'll be there. I don't want to hear any excuses about you needing so-called sleep.Up by the museum, Friga told me she was trying to escape from reality. She must’ve had a bad year or something.

Friga: But I guess I'm kind of trying to escape from reality right now, too, so chill.When I circled back to town hall, I spoke with Broccolo. He said this is the day we put 2014 in pajamas and put it to bed. Sleep well, 2014.

Broccolo: Today's the day we put 2014 in pajamas, give it a teddy bear to cuddle, and put it to bed!I took a bus trip to the city, and got my fortune told by Katrina. She told me I would garner support from those who share my gender. Huh?

Katrina: During this shining time, you will garner support, especially from those who share your gender.So I rode the bus back to Forest and started looking for male villagers to see what they’d say. When Ed saw me, he pinged me. “Here we go,” I thought. But he was just telling me he wanted to move out of town!

Ed: I've talked it over with myself, and I decided to bail and move out of town.So supporting me means they want to get away from me? Go figure. At any rate, I didn’t try to stop him. If he wants to gallop away, go right ahead.

I looked for another male villager, and I soon found Broccolo once again. But there was absolutely nothing unusual about my conversation with him. I think Katrina is full of beans.

I want to wish you all a very Happy New Year! Be safe and have a great 2015! I’ll be back with another blog entry tomorrow, so I hope you’ll stop by again.

Father Ed?

A notice posted on the bulletin board serves as a reminder of the countdown on New Year’s Eve.

~Notice~ The countdown starts on the morning of December 31st in front of the town hall! Ring in the new year with your beloved mayor!Angus wanted me to catch a dung beetle for him, but I refused. I wasn’t interested in being a hamburger helper tonight.

Angus: Normally I'm not interested in catching squishy little bugs... But I'll make an exception for a lucky bug!I went down to the Roost to catch K.K.’s weekly performance, and he sang K.K. Safari for me. But snow probably isn’t the best weather for a safari, doggy dude.

K.K.: All right, get ready to dig the riffs on this ditty: K.K. Safari.I saw a huge shadow in the ocean, and my first thought was COCO! That’s what some former ACCF friends and I used to jokingly call a coelacanth. But when I fished it out, it wasn’t a coelacanth but a tuna. Still a nice catch!

I caught a tuna! I only wish I'd caught it soona!Bunnie asked me to make a delivery to Ed, and I agreed to help out. It seemed like a regular, boring delivery until Ed opened the package. It contained a stroller! I think Bunnie is telling Ed he’s going to be a father!

Ed: Whoa, a stroller! Is this for real, toasty?!I’m sure Ed will provide Bunnie with a stable relationship. And if a bunch of baby horse bunnies start showing up, I know why! I returned to Bunnie to tell her the delivery was complete, and she rewarded me with a water bird. What am I supposed to do with this?

Bunnie: Here's a water bird just for you. Take it! You totally earned it and stuff!

Christmas Eve 2014

I started out my Christmas Eve by (finally) changing my path tiles from orange bricks to the blue bricks I use in winter.

My ice brick paths on a snowy night in Forest.The snow flurries made it look especially pretty on this holiday night. But Genji just thought it looked like protein powder! Somebody’s not in the Christmas spirit!

Genji: Did you see how hard it's snowing? Forest looks like it got dumped with protein powder!By my northern bridge, Lily told me she was going to move out of town! I asked her to stick around though, and she agreed to stay. At least that’s what she’s telling me at the moment.

Lily: If you really feel that strongly, in a pond, I'll have to think a little bit more about my plans.I got a letter in the mail from Mom and Dad, wishing me happy holidays. They sent me a deer shirt.

Dear Jeff, Your father and I picked out the perfect present for you, just in case that certain someone leaves you another lump of coal in your stocking. -M and DI visited Fang, and despite the holidays, he rudely told me I wasn’t getting any of his dinner! I didn’t even want your dinner, you grinch!

Fang: Yeah, yeah, the season for sharing and whatnot. You're not getting any of my dinner, toasty.After 8:00 tonight, Jingle appeared!

Jingle: Happy holidays! I'm Jingle, the black-noses reindeer!He’ll give you a piece of the Jingle furniture set when you speak to him. Ask for “things you lean on” for wallpaper, “things you step on” for carpet, or “huge things” for a random piece of Jingle furniture.

Jingle: So, you're really into huge things.But after the first time, you have to change your appearance to get another gift. That’s right, you have to repeatedly deceive Jingle to get more stuff. To trick him, you have to change your hat or accessory.

Jingle: I know you're going to love what you find inside!

If you don’t have lots of hats, it’s pretty easy to just wear a different type of flower or use a different pattern as a hat each time. Plus, he eventually forgets older disguises, so it’s not too hard to keep fooling him.

Be aware that he can, and will, be found inside villagers’ houses–at least the houses of villagers who aren’t home. He claims to be delivering presents to them, but yet we never see any presents left behind…hmmm…

Jingle: Hey, back again... Huh? You look just like someone I know, but it's probably just a weird coincidence.On my search, I took short breaks to speak with other villagers in town. Broccolo was looking forward to getting his gift, saying he’s been good all year.

Broccolo: Happy, happy holidays! I've been good ALL YEAR LONG in preparation for this day.I tracked down Jingle five times and then I called it a night. Those pieces of furniture sell for 12,240 bells each–a nice chunk of change! So I sold mine for a cool 61,200 bells.

Tom Nook: Ah, for all of that, I'll give you 61,200 bells!Thank you for visiting. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas! 🙂