Yesterday, Midge asked me to catch a black bass for her. That’s different… a request? I wonder if this is something that was added with the recent update. I caught the fish and gave it to her; she rewarded me with a rainbow sweater.
Here are a few other notes about yesterday (since I didn’t post an entry) before I get into what happened today.
- Shari noticed a dace in my pockets and wanted to buy it. This is something I don’t recall happening before.
- I checked the sign on the empty house plot, and I saw that Apple is moving in.
- I decided to put in a new bridge leading to the Sudden Valley area, although I didn’t have the money to pay it off yet.
- I finished my obstacle course and made preparations for Friday Night Forest. I set up some places to play musical chairs, and I moved my benches to Sudden Valley.
I also put up my new lighthouse, on a small cliff so that it reaches higher. Do you like it?
Today is May 1st, and Tom Nook has a special May Day Tour, which can be accessed now through May 7th. I decided to check it out today, but not before meeting my new villager, Apple the hamster.
I know a lot of people like Apple a lot, but my opinion of her is fairly neutral right now. But I do like how her name matches my town fruit. 😛 🍎 And for the first time, my island now has the maximum of ten animal villagers.
After that, I used my May Day ticket to visit the special island. It turns out that the entire island is a maze! You start out with no tools here, but you can obtain (or craft) tools as you progress through the maze.
The maze isn’t very long, but it is fun. I hope to see more like this in the future. I thought the cat in the above picture was Tom, but it was actually Rover.
I completed the maze, collected my prizes, and returned home.
This evening, I caught my first pondskater. However, my pockets were full and I was standing on a bridge. While it gave me the option to swap it out, it wouldn’t let me drop anything on the bridge…and I didn’t have any fish or bugs to release, so I had to let the pondskater go. Hopefully I’ll remember to donate the next one I catch!
Rizzo taught me the “worry” emotion. Now I can worry when I see him approaching me. 😛
I finished paying off my new bridge today, so it should be done tomorrow.
About 10:05 tonight, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Ben, Ryan, Ros, Alex, Benji, Marlie, and Jesse came to visit. Ben caught an oarfish almost instantly. 😛
We then played some musical chairs.
I had three separate areas set up, one with three seats, one with two, and one with just one. We eliminated one person at a time until Marlie was the only one left standing. Well, sitting, actually. 😛 Congrats, Marlie!
We did have an issue with the music stopping at different times for different players… but I think it’s because the music at that particular location was already turned on when we got there. So the timing wasn’t right for everyone. I just need to remember to leave the music off and only turn it on when we start.
Next up, we headed to the obstacle course. We had a number of problems with my newly-redesigned course, so I noticed several things I’ll have to fix.
One player went the wrong way and tried going down the center lane. While this was probably just a matter of being unfamiliar with the course, I did realize that I had an extra space that may have contributed to the confusion. I added an arrow to the spot in question, but I’ll have to make a more permanent change there. But as a general tip, if you’re not totally sure how a game works, don’t volunteer to go first. 😀 Watch the others play it first.
We also had a problem with people climbing on the course while others were racing. If you’re not racing (or the referee, which is normally me), please stay off the course. You can watch from the outside of the course without interfering.
And there was another problem where a gap in the fencing on the right side caused some players to auto-jump the wrong way. It will be fixed very soon. I especially want to apologize to Marlie, because she had particularly bad luck tonight.
But we played though the problems, and Ryan was the obstacle course winner tonight. Congrats, Ryan!
Ben left, and Alex joined in. Then Ros left and Timo joined. Alex and I raced on the course just for fun, and Timo released a coelacanth into the obstacle course pond! That sure caught me off-guard! As for the race, I beat Alex, but it was close.
Once we were done there, we headed to Sudden Valley for some falling into holes. 😛
Benji left and then Kelly came over. We went to my house for a bit, and then took some group photos by the waterfalls. I started using my watering can on those below, and that evolved into a fight between those of us on the cliff, and those down below. The watering cans turned to nets, and those below started using slingshots to fire back. 😂
We went back to Sudden Valley and fell into holes one more time, but I ended the session around 12:30.
Trivia: There were no disconnections tonight, and no pitfall seeds used. I’m not sure which one is more surprising.
Even though Patrick didn’t show up tonight, he told us last week that today is his birthday. So happy birthday, Patrick! I hope you had a great day!
I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow. See you then! 🙂
Thank you for the birthday wishes! I wasn’t having a good day that day or yesterday, but I’ll try visiting at some point whenever you host again. : )
Sorry, I hope things turn around for you soon (if they haven’t already)!
Bit of warning about campers from here on: if it’s someone you want to move in (and you do win their little card game), after reminding you of the obvious, they will give you the option to kick someone out (not worded that way, of course). If it’s someone you invited via Amiibo, you can choose exactly who leaves. However, if it’s someone who showed up randomly, THEY pick who they’d replace, though you do get a chance to say “no” if it’s someone you actually don’t want to leave. Sadly, it will always be that particular villager if you ask again. Also, either way there has to be a completely empty plot. If someone’s already “boxed” but hasn’t yet left, the camper won’t just replace that villager. Speaking from painful experience here.
Thanks for the tips! I’ll have to be careful about adopting any campers if my town is full!
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It’s really strange that we can’t drop items on bridges…In New Leaf it was possible! Sometimes, I really don’t understand Nintendo…