Jeff's ACCF Blog

The other night, I spoke with Melba and I was able to keep her from moving out.

And I went to the gate to confirm what we knew was coming: Wi-Fi service has been discontinued. I guess it’s starting to sink in. It’s strange to think that nobody will ever visit my town again.

Over by my waterfall, Ribbot offered to sell me his space suit!

And tonight, Moe told me he wanted to move out of town. I told him not to move, just because I didn’t want another big dirt patch when I’m planning on making a town tour video soon. But he said it’s out of his control; I’ll probably have to ask him again.

Lily informed me that someone was standing on the bridge. Apparently, he made her uncomfortable.

Of course that “someone” on the bridge was Pascal. But I didn’t have any scallops to give him this time. However, I still spoke with him to hear his words of wisdom…which weren’t exactly words of wisdom this time.

As for my gold roses, I now have all that I need! However, the plots of some former villager houses still have a lot of dirt and I want to regrow the grass there before making my tour video. This might be my final town tour video, so I want it to look nice.

As you likely know, online play for Wii (and DS) games is ending. At 9:00 tonight, I opened my Forest gate for the last time ever. Mike quickly came over to hang out. We talked for a while, walked around, and then we decided to play some sumo. He beat me the first two games, and then I pulled out my secret weapon: A dandelion puff! I won the next match, and as he was getting out of the hole, I blew the dandelion seeds on him.

I got another dandelion puff out, but it didn’t help me in our fourth match. Mike beat me once again. Defeated, I declared him the champion.

Just after 10:00, Megan came over too. Her dress was colorful and made her look like an Easter egg. (No offense).

I mentioned how Chris left a work uniform on the ground last time, and I told Mike he could have it. And right then, Chris himself came over to visit. We had a full house!

We played a round of four-player sumo. Michael and Megan both got pushed out, but only Michael fell into a pitfall seed! Megan must’ve been wearing her hover boots because she flew right over the pit. I put up a fight, but Chris ultimately beat me. Congrats to Chris!

We then started taking a tour of sorts, visiting different parts of town. We went in Able Sisters, but I decided against doing the glitch (since getting out of it can be a pain sometimes). Then we visited Pac-Man Pond and Guest’s house. As we came out of the house, Chris had holes all around so we did the door glitch. It seems to work better at villagers’ houses rather than player houses, though. After that, Chris went down to the dead end. He removed my “Dead End” patterns for the last time.

As we went down to the ramp towards my house, I carefully watched my step. I buried a pitfall seed on the path, and Chris was the one who found it.

I still had some party poppers leftover, so I told everyone to take one. We went over to the bridge and popped them off. Our timing wasn’t exactly perfect, but that’s how it goes with lag in ACCF sometimes.

We hung out in my house and remembered some previous Wi-Fi moments, such as “I am the Koopa!” and “Equals pee.” After that, we went up to the museum to play museum tag. I was “it” first, and it took me a while to find someone. I wasn’t doing very good at hiding tonight, either. But one time, Chris was “it” and he found Megan. When she went outside to go count, she said “waow.” Apparently that means “Chris buried a pitfall and I fell into it” in Meganese. 😀

While Megan was away for a bit, the rest of us finished up playing museum tag and then we went to visit Bob’s grave.

Megan eventually returned, and we hung out in Elmer’s house. Elmer was standing there, moving his head from side to side. Apparently, no one else saw it, but I thought it was pretty funny.

Chris was reading everything we typed, so we were intentionally making him say funny things. Eventually, we went back outside and did the door glitch again, where we all bounced around. After that, we went to Scott’s house and did some merging.

We went through the obstacle course in the basement one last time. Upstairs in the Gulliver room, we made Chris sing an odd version of the national anthem. But after a while, it started getting quiet as (we think) Chris was starting to drift off to sleep. We went to Octavian’s house and discussed the TV shows in Animal Crossing, including the “m-m-m-mustard” in the game show. Chris was getting tired, so he left shortly before 1:00.

The rest of us went to Nook’s to do the Nook door glitch, where Megan and Mike were temporarily stuck in Nook’s door after closing. We then headed over to the empty house, which we’ve previously joked was Megan’s house.

After we went back outside, I told Mike to pick three random letters. We then made some acronyms as to what those letters could stand for.

Up at the free flower area, I told them to take any flowers they wanted. I didn’t have a need for these flowers any more…so after Mike took a few flowers, we ran through and killed the rest.

I realized we didn’t need the sumo arena any more either. So I removed the tiles and we went pitdiving.

We then returned to the empty house to do something Megan, Yann, and I used to do. When someone turned the lights on, we would use the shock emotion. And we applauded when someone turned off the light. Unfortunately, Mike didn’t have the applauding (delight) emotion, so it wasn’t quite the same. But it was a nice touch all the same.

After that, it was 2:15. We were debating whether to end the party yet or not. But then, surprisingly, Yann came over to visit!

I’m glad Yann was able to make it, even if she was a bit late. 😀 We tried the clap/shock light thing again, so Yann could join in. And we just hung out and talked for a while. But around 2:45, I decided it was about time to wrap things up and say goodbye. I thought the fountain would be a good spot for it, so we stood there and posed for one last picture.

We said our goodbyes, and a video clip of those last few moments will be in my final Wi-Fi Moments video. If you’d like to browse through the previous Wi-Fi Moments videos, you can find the whole playlist here.

A special thanks to Chris, Megan, Yann, and Michael for coming to the finale tonight. I had a great time, and we were able to do pretty much all of the things I was hoping to do one last time (sumo, museum tag, etc.). And thanks to all who I’ve played ACCF with since 2008. There have been lots of good times and lots of memories. It’s very sad to know that we’ll never be able to have a night like this again.

But even though online play has ended for City Folk, this blog will live on. I’ll still be playing ACCF on a regular basis, so there’s still more to come. I hope you’ll continue to visit JVGS for coverage of Animal Crossing and other games. Thank you all for reading and have a great night!

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Update: Here is the video showing the highlights from finale night, ACCF Wi-Fi Moments #62.

Last night, Melba told me she was thinking about moving out of town. I told her not to move, mainly because I didn’t want another bare spot where her house was when I make a new town tour video sometime soon. But I’m not sure I convinced her; she’s still considering a move.

I spoke with Octavian, and he was telling me how fun it is to judge people. Well, at least he’s honest.

And Bunnie was really sick with a cold.

I don’t particularly care for Bunnie that much, but she looked so pathetic, that I had to buy medicine for her.

Without even thinking about it, I found myself shaking some trees. But when a bee came flying out of one, it caught me off-guard. I tried to quickly cycle through my items to get my net out in time, but I only got up to my dandelion puffs. Fail.

Even though the fishing tournament was yesterday, I played too late to participate. But a message posted on the bulletin board today informed me that Elmer the horse won with his 33-incher.

Tomorrow night is the grand finale of online play in Forest. I’ll be opening my gate for the last time ever at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. I’m not sure how long I’ll stay on, but it depends on the turnout. If nobody shows up, I won’t stay on long. But if the old group all shows up, I can see myself staying on for hours and hours. I’m sure it’ll be a sad goodbye, but I hope we have one last great time to remember.

If my visitors are up to it, I’d like to do a little of everything. Hang out in every room of my houses, play some sumo, museum tag, musical chairs, maybe have a memorial for Bob, do some glitching, who knows. Tomorrow’s blog entry will likely be very late.