Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Jolly Redd’s ship was in town yesterday, so I checked out his works of art he had for sale. He had an academic painting (looked fake), a dynamic painting (looked real), a quaint painting (looked fake), and an ancient statue (looked fake). Since the only real one was something I already had in the museum, I decided to buy the ancient statue just to use as a Halloween decoration! 😀

I had an empty plot in town yesterday, so I bought five Nook Miles tickets so that I could check out some mystery islands for potential new villagers. But on the very first island I visited, I found Bones! He’s my buddy from City Folk, and he also lived in my New Leaf town for most of 2018.

As a bone-us, his name is appropriate for Halloween! Even if there’s nothing scary about him, I was more than happy to invite Bones to my island. 🙂

Today, I received the ancient statue in the mail from Jolly Redd. Blathers confirmed that it was fake, but that’s okay. I’m really happy with it as a Halloween decoration, because it actually levitates and moves around when you go up to it and press the A button!

At town hall, I decided to make a new town tune. It’s supposed to be the Addams Family theme song, although I’m not 100% satisfied with it. The town tune options need a *snap fingers* sound. 😉

I found a lost item (a bag) on the ground today. When I investigated, it had some gym clothes inside. I knew it belonged to a jock, so I asked Tybalt about it. Unfortunately, I picked the wrong jock. It was Louie’s bag, and the big ape gave me an athletic jacket for returning it.

Gullivarrr was in town, so I went diving for his communicator. It actually took me four dives to find it this time. Gullivarrr will be sending me a piratey item in the mail tomorrow.

Bones was moved in today, although he has some unpacking to do. Welcome to Forest, Bones! 🙂

I found fleas jumping on Rizzo two separate times tonight, including this time when he was just curiously standing in flowers.

Later on, I found Wisp in town. I collected and returned his spirits, and he rewarded me with a blue subway-tile wall.

As for my online plans: First, there’s no Friday Night Forest this week. But instead, I’ll be hosting my Halloween race at some point this weekend. Saturday night is a strong possibility, but I’m not 100% sure yet. Check my Twitter on Saturday for details. When I’m ready, I’ll be inviting four people to join in via Dodo codes on Twitter, but friends will get the first chance.

After the race ends, I’ll be posting the Dodo code publicly on Twitter, so anyone can visit. I’ll stay on at least half an hour after the race ends.

And then next Friday, FNF will return with a Halloween party! I’ll try to have several activities planned: We can race on the Halloween course, we can have a costumed sumo tournament, and maybe I’ll come up with something else as well.

See you all next time! 🙂

Able Sisters had a hockey mask for sale today, so you know I had to buy it. It’s my preferred mask for chasing people with axes.

Today was moving day for Lopez, so I went in his house to say goodbye. He was really nice about everything. Good luck to you, Lopez!

There was a heavy meteor shower tonight, so I wished on a bunch of shooting stars. But more importantly, I ran into Celeste over on Candy Apple Lane!

At first, she wasn’t giving me any new recipes…but I eventually figured out it’s because my pockets were full. Once I made room, she gave me a recipe for a starry garland.

While working on my Halloween race course, I saw Tia taking a photo of a spooky arch with her phone! I didn’t realize they would do that, but that’s cool.

I later ran into C.J. up on the cliff, although I wasn’t particularly excited to see him. He was just here for the fishing tournament the other day, after all. He wanted me to catch three small-fry fish in a row. I caught two crucian carp and a horse mackerel to complete the challenge, but I didn’t check my storage for additional fish to sell him. If I have any, it’s no more than a couple anyway.

I also went around shaking trees, but I’ve noticed that I’ve only been finding one furniture item per day lately. It used to be two. I thought maybe I was missing a tree somewhere, but I went around town multiple times and I don’t think that’s the issue.

See you all next time!

Today, I spoke with Lopez and he wondered what was beyond the shimmering sea. He said he needed to find out, which meant that he was asking to move out! I told him to go, and he uttered this gem of a sentence that utilized his catchphrase perfectly.

So he should be all packed up and ready to go tomorrow! He will be the first villager to move out since Shari left on July 14th! That’s basically three months!

Over on the beach, Tybalt asked me to play a treasure hunt game with him.

I agreed to play, and he gave me six minutes to find the treasure. It took me less than half of that time to find it; it was at the sumo ring.

For winning the game, Tybalt gave me a jockey’s helmet.

Label was in town, and she wanted to see me in an “everyday” outfit. She gave me a sweater-vest as an example. I put it on, along with a denim cap…and I also remembered to remove my bat wings. 😛 Label loved it so much that she said it was amazing, and perfectly coordinated!

She gave me some Labelle pumps, and she’ll also be sending me a tailors ticket (or two) in the mail.

I had a new crop of pumpkins again today, so I used them to make more items I needed for my Halloween race. I worked on the race for a good while tonight, and I think it’s probably about 70% complete. I have the basic layout done and ground rules established. I’m just waiting on some items I ordered, and I’ll still need more pumpkins to craft everything I need.

Once I get everything I need, I’ll also want to check the course for balance. The race is not symmetrical, so I’ll need to do some test runs to make sure there’s not a significant advantage to playing on the left side vs. the right side.

There are bottlenecks on each side (where the first player on each side can squeeze ahead of the other), but I think that will be offset by some side paths which may be necessary or may be dead ends. Being first may not be an advantage if you go the wrong way, after all.

Anyway, it’s looking like this race may not be done until Friday (or later). I’ll keep you updated as the week goes on.