Making Tabby Angry

Samson asked me to play a game of hide-and-seek tonight. I had 15 minutes to find him, Opal, and Midge. It only took me 35 seconds to find Midge; she was hiding behind Tabby’s house. Less than a minute later, I found Samson hiding behind a sign post!

Samson the mouse hides behind a sign post during a game of hide-and-seek in ACCF.

And not long after that, I found Opal hiding behind Nook ‘n’ Go! It only took me about two minutes to find all three of them! Samson congratulated me and slipped me his mini dinkoid.

Samson: OK, to commemorate your awesome victory, here's a mini dinkoid for ya!

I dug up a pitfall seed, and I decided to use it on my good fiend Tabby. 😛 But I was a little too aggressive, and she got mad at me for pushing her. When I tried to push her again…well…I was the one to fall into the pitfall. Oops. But at least I took a good picture of me flipping out.

Jeff is upside down in mid-air as he flips out of a pitfall, right next to an angry Tabby.
This may be my best screenshot I’ve taken in 9.5 years of ACCF.

That’s not just a frame from a video either, that’s a 100% legit, perfectly timed in-game screenshot. But I’ll admit I was lucky it turned out so good.

After that, I grabbed some dandelion puffs and blew them into Tabby’s face. They didn’t show up very well in this pic, you can tell that she’s still angry. And that’s the important thing. 😉

Blowing dandelion puffs at Tabby.

I made my rounds, but I noticed I didn’t see Drift anywhere. So unless I just missed him two or three times, I figured he must be in the Roost. And sure enough, he was. Mmm, coffee…

Drift: With weather like this, there's no limit to how much coffee I can chug.

April Fishing Tourney

The April fishing tournament was held today, and I caught a dace for Chip. He scrutinized it closely before wolfing it down.

Chip, examining a fish: Ah, a dace! Now, let's just measure this tasty fellow, shall we?

The dace was 11.3 inches long, but that was much smaller than the current record: Static’s 41 inch sea bass. So I returned to the ocean from whence I came in search of a sea bass for myself. A few minutes later, I caught one. When I took it over to Chip, he told me it was 44 inches long!

Chip: Ah, it's...a 44.0-incher!

That put me in first place, and Chip gave me a robo-table as a prize.

I visited Opal, and she told me that Static and Tabby have been fighting lately. But Opal wasn’t concerned about helping them out…she just enjoys seeing them throw shaved ice at each other! 😛 Actually, it would be pretty cool to see someone throw ice at Tabby.

Opal: It's fun to see them throw shaved ice at each other, so I hope they never get it sorted out!

I ran into Static on the ramp, and he said he wasn’t going to let anyone else win the fishing tournament. He planned to keep fishing for as long as it takes.

Static: I'm not gonna let anyone else take the award. I'll keep fishing as long as it takes to win, tweedledee!
Not if I keep talking to you here until 6:00…

I was looking through the fish and bug descriptions in the game, and I learned something new: I learned that fireflies are not turn signals. Who knew?

Firefly: The posteriors of both females and males light up. They are not turn signals.

At Able Sisters, I changed the path pattern back to the usual green bricks. Also, I suddenly got the urge to play the numbers 7-6-0 in the Animal Crossing lottery. 😛

The seven-ball shirt, six-ball shirt, and the future shirt, which displays a circle on the front.

After 6:00, I returned to Chip to check the results of the fishing tournament. He confirmed that my 44-inch sea bass was the final winner, and he said he’ll send my prize in the mail.

Catch My Drift

It’s a pretty time of year in Animal Crossing, because cherry blossom petals are now gently falling from the sky. On a less pleasant note, Tabby was talking about what makes her puke.

Tabby: But you know what DOES make me hurl? New-car smell. I totally chunder every time, tweedledee.

Perhaps Static overhead what Tabby said, because something made him sick. I gave him some medicine, so hopefully he’ll start feeling better soon.

Static: No...I-I won't go toward the light. You hear...me, tweedledee?

As I was watering flowers, I fell into a pitfall right outside of Clyde’s house. The pitfall was hidden behind a tree, so I didn’t see it. Actually, this is where Merry used to live, and I often pitfall’d my Wi-Fi visitors here. 😛

Jeff struggles in a pitfall.

Not far from there, I found a new house! Drift the frog was inside; he just moved in. He said it was good to meet me, but his face seemed to say otherwise.

Drift: SWEEEEEET! Good to meet you. My name's Drift!

Midge was talking about visitors from other towns, and then she started singing Cotton Eye Joe! 😛

Midge: Where do they come from? And where do they go

Tabby asked to visit my house (no way!) to get decorating ideas. She said she needed some suggestions because “her honey” is going to visit her at some point. Who is her honey?! A blind beaver or something?

Tabby: My honey's gonna visit at some point, and I wanna get some good decorating tips!

Tabby asked me for a new catchphrase, and I told her to say “crabby.” As in Crabby Tabby. She used her new catchphrase when she had a chat with Midge. Midge said that she wanted a big, bright house with lots of skylights. So Tabby called her a “trip and a half.”

Tabby: Midge, you are a total TRIP AND A HALF, crabby!

After completing a trip around town, I realized that I hadn’t found any fossils today. So I made several more circles around town, this time making a more thorough search. And even though I found some weeds and gyroids I missed the first time around, I only found one fossil! The others must be hidden really well. I just don’t know where they could be, because I thought I looked everywhere. Oh well.