Jeff's ACCF Blog

It’s a new month, and Pete was at my door to hand-deliver a letter from Nintendo.

Attached to the letter was this month’s new DLC, the mush hanger. Even though Europe got this item last year, it’s new to America.

Here’s a picture of the new mush hanger:

I also got a letter from the Bank of Nintendo. I earned 79,300 bells in interest this month.

As I made my way around town to water flowers, I noticed some mushrooms. They will be found on the ground throughout the month of November.

One of them each day will actually be a piece of mush furniture.

And if you have a perfect town, you may find a rare mushroom buried in town. It will be worth a whopping 16,000 bells. Nice!

I then went to meet my new neighbor, Amelia.

Interesting that she won’t tell me where she came from. I’m not sure if she’s from a friend’s town or not. As I found out with Avery, they don’t always tell you when they’ve moved from a friend’s town. You may not find out until much later on.

Speaking of Avery, maybe Amelia and him can get together. But the two eagles are certainly not my only fine-feathered friends in Forest. In fact, a full HALF (5 out of 10) of my villagers are birds! Avery and Amelia are the eagles, but there’s also Robin the robin, Egbert the chicken, and Iggly the penguin.

But moving along, signs indicated today was also a UFO day. At 6:07, it flew by and I shot it down near Nook ‘n’ Go. This is my 24th UFO (and 14th of 2012).

I then recovered the spaceship part.

I’m hoping for the tribal mask from Gulliver tomorrow, since that’s the only item from him I still need. We shall see…

Today I went to Crazy Redd’s shop to check this week’s new items. He had a basketball hoop, an amazing painting, and a cabin dresser. I didn’t need any of them.

I returned to Forest and started trapping my animals in holes. When you do that, they can’t chase after you once the Halloween festival starts at 6:00. It makes the process a thousand times easier. I started with Robin, who warned me about Megan.

Next, I trapped Sydney.

I made sure to pick up the candy Guest had laid out for me.

The last villager I locked up was Anabelle. I got her against the wall by the gate. Nice and out of the way.

Thanks to a tip from Tom, I was watching at 6:00 when the trapped animals backflipped into their costumes. Here, you can see Bob’s transformation.

The festival was now underway. I trick-or-treated at Del’s just to make sure my costume was acceptable. As expected, it worked fine and Del gave me candy.

I did a little Jack hunting and got a few spooky items. Then, at 7:00, I opened my gate. Megan Midna came over to visit.

We were searching and searching for Jack. Eventually, I found him on the dead end. Megan actually saw him first, but I didn’t know it until it was too late. I told her to call dibs next time. 😀

We would coincidentally even things out later on. I found Jack but stopped to check to see if I had candy in my inventory. I didn’t, so I had to get it out from a letter. But by the time I had, Megan was already there talking to Jack. I didn’t even know she was in the area, but it worked out fine and we were back to even.

We tried trick-or-treating at Jeff’s house, but he didn’t come out and give us any candy. What a jerk.

Megan posted a message on the bulletin board for all the trapped animals.

Trick-or-treat….

Megan has previously said the empty house by the river is her vacation home. So we trick-or-treated there, but nobody came out to give us candy. So I (jokingly) called that Megan a witch.

At some point, I found Jack but accidentally hit the Z button (to decline) when Jack asked me if I had candy for him. So he turned something (I don’t know if it was candy or a piece of spooky furniture) into a jack-in-the-box. Oops.

Later, I found Jack by Jambette’s grave. That is, the empty space where her house was. Flowers were planted there, not to honor Jambette of course, but to regrow the grass.

I helped Megan complete her spooky set–I traded items she needed for duplicates that she got. When she was done, shortly before 10:00, she left for the night. I played a bit longer. I ran out of candy (although I still had some in my house, I forgot about it) so I did some trick-or-treating.

By the time I was done, I had earned 309,300 bells on the night.

After that, I put my clothes and candy in a safe place and freed Anabelle. I got a few extra pumpkin heads and jack-in-the-boxes.

After that, I ended my game for the night. I’ll have a bit of a clean-up to do tomorrow. The patterns I placed down to warn visitors of the animals will be there, as will the candy on the ground and in my house, and all of my normal pocket/letter contents are on the floor of my house as well. It was worth it all though, I had a good time. I hope you all had a happy Halloween as well! 🙂

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Update: Here is a video showing many of tonight’s highlights.

Jambette is officially gone! She moved out today.

Forget you? I only wish I could forget you, Jambette.

Right outside my house, Avery asked me for a new greeting.

Booker told me there were no visitors in town, but clearly he didn’t check the bridges. Pascal was standing on one of them.

I didn’t have any scallops for him, and there were none on the beach, but I talked to him anyway.

I watered my flowers and then returned home.