Jeff's ACCF Blog

June is here now, and it didn’t take me long to catch my first summer bug yesterday: A rainbow stag!

That was a quick 10,000 bells, and I actually caught another one later on. 😎

Gwen asked me to catch a black bass for her, and I decided to be nice and help out. It took me a little while, but I eventually caught one. When I took it back to her, she gave me a birdhouse. Just what I…never needed. 😛

Tonight, I spotted something I don’t see very often any more: A new black rose!

I moved it to a safer location near my house.

Saharah was in town, and she was looking for old wallpaper. So I started asking around. But as I did, I accidentally ran through a gold rose and killed it. So even if my new black rose lives long enough to be turned into a gold rose, I won’t do any better than breaking even. Oops.

After asking all of my villagers about wallpaper, only two Gs (Gwen and Goldie) helped me out.

I also grabbed one out of storage, so I had three to give Saharah. In return, she gave me a backgammon wall. Even though I don’t particularly care for it, it was one that I still needed for my catalog.

Saharah’s rare pieces are way too hard to get in this game! There are others I still need, too (namely the lunar surface).

June is the only month in which fireflies appear (well…mostly). And I saw quite a few of them by the river tonight. I always seem to appreciate them more at the start of June, and then later on, I ignore them and don’t even notice they’re gone until August or so. 😂

Big Top has been sick with a cold, so I gave him medicine yesterday, and then again today. Get well soon, big guy!

On Tuesday, Mom sent me this letter about taking a walk with Dad on a gorgeous spring day. It was so cute!

I found a new house in town, so I went inside to meet Maelle’s replacement. It was a villager I already have in New Horizons: Apollo!

I like Apollo a lot, so I’m eagle eager to see more of him around town. 🙂

Yesterday, Pascal was in town, standing on my southern bridge. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any scallops on the beach, and I didn’t have any in storage either. But I still spoke with him to hear his words of wisdom. He was wondering why boats don’t have fins. 😛

Today, Stitches told me that he had to move out of town! 😮

I told him to stay, but he still insisted on leaving. So I kept trying and trying. It took about eight tries, but he eventually relented.

Apollo was home today, so I got to see the inside of his house now that he has unpacked. He has some modern furniture, a couple of chess pieces, and a couple of fossils. I normally like modern furniture, but they don’t look good with this wallpaper and flooring.

I prefer his house in New Horizons.

It’s been a whopping four years since I’ve last seen a UFO in this game. A big reason for that is because I mostly play on Fridays and/or Saturdays, and the UFO can only come Mondays through Thursdays. But I’d really like to remedy that. No UFO today though, because Pete was in town instead.

I gathered up all the seashells on the shore, and I found a scallop. I put it in a letter, so I’ll be ready the next time Pascal shows up.

See you again next week!

I received Maelle’s goodbye letter in the mail today. I can’t say that I’ll miss her, but she did send a nice letter.

As I spoke with my villagers, a couple of them mentioned that Pascal was in town (standing on a bridge, of course).

I didn’t have any scallops on me, so I had to go looking on the beach for one. Once I tracked one down, I took it back to Pascal. He was talking about birthday parties and free cake. Not exactly the most serious topic for a philosopher, but who doesn’t like free cake? 🎂

He gave me some sea view wallpaper in exchange for the scallop, and then he took a dive into the river.

After making my rounds, I went on a fruit-gathering run. It took me about eight trips with full pockets, but I managed to meet the milestone that I was talking about last week: I have now saved up 50 million bells!

Aside from being a nice, big, round number, it has some slight significance. After 13.5 years of playing this game, I am now halfway to earning the first feather (the green feather). They made these things wayyyyyy too hard to earn, but at least it provides some (very) long-term goals to keep working towards.

If you’re used to New Horizons or New Leaf, let me assure that bells are much harder to come by in the older games. There’s no island filled with tropical bugs year-round, there are no characters that pay bonus for fish or bugs, there’s no “Bell Boom” ordinance, and there aren’t even hot items that earn more money at the shop. Earning money is a slow grind in the older games.

It’s nice to reach this milestone, and someday, that green feather will be mine! 😂 I don’t know if I’ll ever earn the other feathers, but I’ll take life one feather at a time. 😁 See you all next time!