Nine Rainbow Stags

It was raining as I started up the game tonight. But that wasn’t keeping Purrl from being in a good mood. She just wanted to splash around in the puddles. 😛

Purrl: Normally, I think rain is a real downer. But today all I want to do is splash around, woof woof!
She’s a cute cat…she just needs to stop barking. 😛

I checked my bank account at town hall, and my balance was 45,520,000 bells. So yes, I officially met my goal for the summer. 🙂

Violet was all packed up and ready to move out of town. Go, gorilla, go!

Violet: Oh, Chill J... Didn't I tell you? I'm moving away, woof woof.

While I’m on the topic of my least favorite villagers, Kitty was sick with a cold. But I was nice, and I gave her some medicine. Of course, it’s only because I happened to have some in my pockets already, but still it was nice of me. 😛

Kitty: P-p-please. Never felt so... unpretty. Qu-qu-quickly...
You may not have felt it, but you’ve looked it. 😉

Now that it’s September, many of the valuable bugs are out of season. But even though there wasn’t much variety, I was still finding a good number of valuable insects. In particular, I spotted nine rainbow stags (catching eight of them).

I caught a rainbow stag! Someone tell me, already! Where's the rainbow?!

The only other valuable bug I spotted was the goliath beetle, and I caught three of those. I didn’t do much fishing since I didn’t see any shark fins, but I did catch one coelacanth.

A coelacanth?

Even though I only played about 50 minutes, and only 30 of that was spent bug/fish hunting, I still made 130,000 bells on the night.

A Helpful Push

The fireworks festival was held today, and I try to participate at least once each year. Tortimer was standing outside of town hall, and he encouraged me to kick back and watch stuff explode. Sounds like a blast!

Tortimer: The Fireworks Show is today, sprout! Time to kick back and watch some stuff explode!

He gave me a sparkler, and then I manipulated him into giving me five roman candles. 😛 That’s one thing I like about the fireworks festival in City Folk: It’s easy to get as many fireworks as you want, and they’re free! The bad thing is that sparklers and roman candles are the only things you can get (no fountain fireworks like in later games). But roman candles are pretty awesome!

Over by the museum, Bones asked me if I had itchy feet(???). He said we should watch the fireworks together. Aww, how cute. Of course a real dog would probably be terrified of the fireworks, though. 😛

Bones: Hey, Chill J, you got itchy feet or what? Stop wandering around and let's watch the show together!

I was busy making my rounds, but I did stop to enjoy the fireworks later on.

Jeff enjoys the fireworks festival in ACCF.

And of course, I returned to town hall for my annual tradition: Lighting Tortimer’s shell on fire for his turtle wax treatment. 😛 The funny part is that I initially fired the roman candle a bit too far away…but Gala helped me out by pushing Tortimer into the flame! Now that’s how to get on my good side! Lucy never did things like this for me!

Jeff lights a roman candle and aims it at Tortimer's shell.

I went bug-hunting, and there were two scorpions among my catches tonight. In total, I made 140,000 bells in just over an hour of play. It wasn’t my most efficient bug-catching night, but then again, I was watching fireworks and stuff too. 😛

But that 140k was enough: It ensured that I will have enough to reach my summertime goal for the year, at least once I get my September bank statement.

There is one fireworks festival remaining next weekend, just so you know. We get five of them this year, instead of the usual four. Make sure you enjoy them while you can!

Ending the Violet

Goldie sent me a nice letter thanking me for the medicine I took her recently. She’s feeling much better now, and she sent me a present. But when I opened the gift, I saw that it was…

Goldie sent me a cow skull to thank me for medicine.

A cow skull?! Is this like a horse’s head? Is she threatening me?? 😮

Gala was home, so I was finally able to see the inside of her house. And it’s…unique.

The inside of Gala's house.

I ran into Wolfgang outside, so I made sure to pitfall him. That’s what he gets for sending me on a wild goose chase last week. But the interesting thing is that he glitched when I spoke with him while he was in the pitfall; he was standing up on the pitfall! Only after the conversation was over did he “flip” out of the pitfall.

Wolfgang, standing on a pitfall: Blast it! Gravity has outwitted me again!

I have encountered this glitch before: It happened to Chow in my 2016 video, Pitfalling my Villagers.

Tom asked me for some new clothes, so I was able to buy him a racer 6 shirt just before the tailors’ shop closed for the night. To my surprise, he actually liked it!

Tom: Oho! Is that my racer 6 shirt you've got there?

He gave me a lovely dresser in return. Anytime you get furniture in exchange for a shirt, I consider that a good trade!

When I ran into Violet, she told me she was thinking about moving out of town! Yes!

Violet: Yes, I'm thinking it might be time to leave this town, woof woof.
I told you from the start, just how this would end.

After speaking with everyone, I began my usual summer night routine: Bug-hunting (with a little fishing sprinkled in). I hunted for about an hour, and I earned a cool quarter of a million (250k) bells on the night. I should have no problem meeting my September 1st goal. 😎

It’s just kinda sad that the summer is almost over. But it’s not over just yet. I may be back with another entry on Sunday night. I still need to see the fireworks in City Folk this year! 🎆