Jeff's ACCF Blog

I think it’s time for an update on my secondary town, Bananas. Tom Nook finally had a shovel for sale today. I was tired of seeing all the X marks all around town, so I can dig them up at last.

After selling some items (including two pieces of Jingle furniture I got on Christmas Eve), Nook had earned enough money to upgrade his shop. It will be Nook ‘n’ Go by Friday.

Also I wanted to point out two more things I like about Bananas. One of them is this style of ramp. I’ve always liked ramps like this, but I’ve never had one. I wouldn’t want to have to push a snowball up it, though! The other thing? Star grass snow! Oh yeah!

Pascal was in town. I didn’t have a scallop for him, but I still talked to him so I could hear his words of wisdom.

And then I went to meet Iggly, a new neighbor. But shock of shocks, he said he just moved in from Forest!  This is the same Iggly that moved out of Forest over a month ago!

You may be thinking “but Forest and Bananas aren’t connected, so how is this possible?” Well I’ll tell you! 😛 They’re not directly connected, but they do have something in common: Yann. My friend Yann is on the friend rosters of both towns, so Iggly must have been “in limbo” on Yann’s system, and passed on to Bananas when the friendship was confirmed.

So now Iggly resides on my Wii again, just like where he started out. (For those who don’t know, my Forest town was moved from my Wii to my Wii U during the transfer process and Bananas is a new town made on my Wii).

With my newly purchased shovel, I could now dig up gyroids and fossils. Much to Blathers’ disappointment, I did not donate the fossils to the museum. For now, I’m in it for the money.

And using that money, I was able to pay off my remaining house debt. My house will be upgraded tomorrow.

After that, I ended my day in Bananas and started up my Forest town. I checked Crazy Redd’s for his new items; he had a hospital bed that I needed for my catalog, so I bought it. I then went around watering my flowers. I saw my snowman from two days ago; he doesn’t look so menacing now.

When I was done, I went to town hall to deposit my money in the bank. Because of my Jingle furniture haul on Christmas Eve, I had nearly 300,000 bells to deposit. That pushed my bank balance over 17 million for the first time. By the way, this balance is now higher than my balance in my GameCube town.

Today I got a letter from Mom and Dad:

They sent me an orange check tee. I think I’d rather have the lump of coal.

Anyway, I decided to make a snowman. As I was making it, a balloon present flew by overhead.

I made it right on the edge of the cliff. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a perfect snowman, but I still thought he looked pretty menacing from the lower level with his large presence looming overhead.

I also decided to finally redecorate my house, at least the main floor. The gorgeous set went back into storage, and the snowman set came out. The farting gyroids remain.

…jvgsjif?

Later on, around 9:15, I opened up my gate. Yann came over to visit, and Jingle was in town for the Christmas Eve festival.

If you don’t know how the festival works, it goes like this: You have to find Jingle somewhere in town. He can be outdoors or in an animal’s empty house. (He won’t be in a house if the animal is home). Talk to him and he will give you a piece of Jingle furniture. Once you leave him, he respawns somewhere else and you can do it over and over.

Each piece of Jingle furniture sells for a whopping 12,240 bells, making Christmas the best holiday to earn lots of money. The only catch is that you have to change your hat (or accessory) each time, to trick Jingle into thinking you’re not the same person. But even if you don’t have tons of hats, you can use each pattern as a hat as well. And his memory doesn’t cover the entire night, so you can eventually re-use old hats.

Yann and I were finding him pretty quickly, too. But after hunting Jingle for a while, I noticed that he hadn’t been in Bob’s house at all. I figured it was because Bob had been naughty.

Jingle did eventually end up hiding in Bob’s house a few times though.

At one point, I saw three of my animals clustered in one nook. I decided to trap them there. I also saw Sally nearby, so I added her to the prison zoo.

Robin had a totem pole in her house, so while Yann was talking to Jingle, my inner Totem Rocker came out and I played that thing’s sound effect over and over and over and over. I’m sure Yann appreciated that. 😀

I helped Yann complete her Jingle set by trading her duplicates for other items she needed. I didn’t collect the set this time, I was just using it to make money. Apparently I collected 23 pieces in the two hours I played, since my total earnings for the night came out to 281,520 bells.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

The northern lights were visible in Forest again tonight.

I took a bus ride to the city to check this week’s new emotions. Still no outrage or agreement.

I then returned to town and watered my flowers. There weren’t any new black roses today.

I ran into Bob, who said Del insulted his catchphrase. But it’s not Christmas yet, so I had him keep his current catchphrase of “you elf.”