Jeff's ACCF Blog

As expected, I got Elmer’s goodbye letter in the mail recently. 🙁

It was storming pretty hard in Forest tonight. Melba thought the rain sounded like music.

She also wondered why Ribbot and Kiki didn’t start dating. That seems like an odd couple…

Wendy asked me to make a delivery to Mallary. I had trouble tracking down the duck, but I eventually found her and gave her the gift–cloud flooring.

When I returned to Wendy and told her I completed the delivery, she rewarded me with 552 bells.

Elmer’s replacement has not moved in yet. I hope I get an animal I like, but we’ll see…

Tonight, Wendy told me she loves digging in the dirt. Not even for fossils or gyroids, but just for the fun of digging! She should work for Resetti.

With it being Saturday night, I headed over to the Roost to catch a performance from K.K. I asked him to play a random song and he played a sad tune for me: K.K. Sonata.

I went from K.K. to Kiki. The black cat in town seems to be enjoying the lazy days of summer.

And when I went in to visit Elmer, I got a surprise. He’s packed up in boxes, ready to move out. 🙁

Even though he mentioned the possibility of leaving last Saturday, he hadn’t said anything about it since. So I thought maybe he had changed his mind but just hadn’t confirmed it; they do that sometimes. It really stinks to lose my favorite villager again. If anyone is going to stick around, it should be Elmer.

I wish Animal Crossing games let you lock in your favorite villager (or three) to keep them around. Because if they expect you to play for hours every day for the rest of your life just to keep your favorite animals in town, that’s not too cool. Especially since losing your favorites gives you even less motivation to keep playing at all. You don’t see Yoshi and Toad abandoning Mario if he doesn’t meet a certain quota of levels played per day. A game shouldn’t punish you for not playing constantly.

Kiki now becomes my new favorite in town, although I also like several other of my current villagers including Lily, Ribbot, and Octavian. I’ll see you all next time.

Friga was sick with a cold. However, I couldn’t buy her any medicine because Tom Nook had already closed up shop for the night.

And since July is here, I did some bug-catching! Lots of rare bugs are available in July and August, especially at night. Here, I was in the process of catching a Hercules beetle.

Elmer asked me to make a delivery to Mallary, so I hunted down the duck. It turns out he gave her a dragon suit! Ha! She didn’t care for it, but I don’t care for her, so I got a laugh out of it.

I returned to Elmer and told him the delivery was complete. He rewarded me with a red tile.

I then went back outside to look for more bugs. I didn’t catch too many though, because my pockets didn’t have much space and I couldn’t sell them since the store was closed. And there was something I forgot about: Scorpions! But they didn’t forget about me!