Jeff's ACCF Blog

In Animal Crossing: City Folk (and New Leaf as well), fireworks festivals are held on Sunday nights in August. Tonight was my first time this year attending the City Folk fireworks. Mayor Tortimer can be found at town hall, talking about how great the fireworks are. He also hands out roman candles and sparklers so that you can have your own fireworks in addition to the bigger ones up in the sky.

The music that plays during the event is festive and cheery, if a bit repetitive. And yet, it gave me an overwhelming feeling of sadness. This year is the first without online play for Wii games, so the happy music rings hollow. I’m reminded of the fun I had in fireworks festivals of the past. Sliding on the beach, waxing Tortimer’s shell with Megan, Egbert pecking at my Napoleonfish, and even Ben trying to burn my house down. I imagine it might be like walking around inside an amusement park that was closed down. All that remains are memories and ghosts.

For blog entries of happier fireworks festivals from 2012, see this, this, and/or this.

I continued my walk around town. Ribbot was determined to find out where they’re shooting off the fireworks from. He figured they must be nearby because of how loud the fireworks are.

In what was one of my primary flower breeding grounds, I found a new black rose. But what once might have been a happy discovery now means very little. I no longer need additional flowers for my town, which is a good thing…and yet a bit sad at the same time.

When I spoke with Melba, she wondered aloud what was so fascinating about fireworks. They’re beautiful for a moment, and then they’re gone.

After completing my walk around town, I stopped on my southern bridge to enjoy the fireworks.

If you missed the fireworks tonight, there’s still one more show next Sunday (August 31st). See you next time.

I went to the Roost tonight to catch a performance from K.K. I asked him to play me a random song, and he sang K.K. Ragtime.

Further south from the museum, I saw Lily across the river and I stopped to wave at her.

A bit later on, I ran into Friga. She saw something in my pockets that she wanted: a retro fridge! I can’t say I’m surprised; she’s cool like that.

She offered to trade her bubble shirt for it, and I agreed to the trade. I didn’t need the shirt of course, but I try to be nice every once in a while.

Not much else happened on this quiet Saturday night, but the fireworks festival is tomorrow. I plan on attending the event, so I should be back with another update tomorrow. See you then!

I noticed a new house while making my rounds tonight, and I checked out the sign out front. It belongs to Carmen.

I had a Carmen in my GameCube town before, but that wasn’t the same character…that was a mouse! This Carmen is a bunny.

I guess she’s okay, but I don’t see her becoming one of my favorites.

Outside, I walked a bit too close to a scorpion, and he was on alert. I tried backing up and getting my net out, but since he was already on alert, he charged at me. I took a swing, and I missed. He got me. R.I.P. Jeff.

When I ran into Ribbot, he asked me to make a quick delivery to Angus.

Angus was in his house nearby, so it was an easy delivery. The package contained a robo-sofa. Typical gift from Ribbot. When I returned to the robotic frog, he thanked me for making the delivery and gave me a retro fridge as a reward.

When I went to visit Kiki, she was reminiscing about her time in Yann’s town Tropical. She seemed to be missing Yann’s other character, Matteo.