Month: February 2017

Tom Nook was sighing once again when I visited Nookington’s tonight. I again asked if he was feeling okay, and he started to reveal more of his backstory. He told me he made his share of terrible mistakes when he was younger. Not only did he lose some money, he lost a friend…

He warned me that “easy” money-making schemes are never easy. Hmm, maybe he got ripped off…by someone like himself, yes yes? 😛

He advised me to retreat from any such deals. Even if it comes in an e-mail from a Nigerian prince?

After that, I went over to the museum. Blathers identified three fossils for me, and none of them were ones the museum needed. I then went downstairs to check out some live music. I was “treated” to an awful performance of an awful song: K.K. Song.

I chatted with Puddles outside, and she told me she spent her day eating ice cream and gardening.

When I passed by her house, I saw that she wasn’t kidding. She actually had been gardening! These flowers in her yard weren’t all there the last time I played on Tuesday. More and more of my villagers are fixing up their gardens as spring approaches.

Another sign of spring coming is that the trees are getting greener! In just one more week, the snow will be gone! Bring on the spring!

After that, I made a 20,000 bell mortgage payment at town hall, and then returned home for the night.

Last night, I noticed that Tom Nook was sighing and acting strange went I went into Nookington’s. I asked him what happened, and he basically admitted that all he thinks about is money, and how to make more of it. But he said he’s okay with that, because he feels that it’s his job to show young people how hard life is! Wow.

He’s trying to justify his greed, and yet the sighing indicates he feels a bit bad about it perhaps? Maybe this is the start of Tom Nook’s backstory, much like the Sable and Blathers backstories I’ve already seen? We’ll see. I’ll keep you updated.

Anyway, I donated an ankylo skull to the museum, and it completed the fossil of the ankylosaur!

The new message of the week on the bulletin board warned not to believe stereotypes. Some wrestlers hate tights! 😛

Today, I dug up three more fossils. Two of them were returned to me, but the third one was new…dino droppings! Blathers was more than happy to hold onto the droppings, and he asked permission to keep them. Sure thing! I’m glad to dump off my finds here. That wing of the museum might need some air fresheners though, eh wot?

While I was at the museum, I went downstairs to the Roost for a hot beverage. As I drank my coffee, I discovered that Brewster does not celebrate Valentine’s Day in Animal Crossing: Wild World. In City Folk and New Leaf, Brewster would give you hot chocolate for the holiday instead of coffee. But as far as I can tell, Wild World doesn’t celebrate Valentine’s Day in any way. I didn’t even get any Valentine’s letters in the mail.

When I visited Puddles, she told me she was working on a crossword puzzle.

She asked me to help her out with a word she was stuck on, and from the list of options, I chose the word “crumble.” Apparently that was right, because she started acting very happy.

After shaking some trees (and getting stung by a bee), I was very surprised to see Dr. Shrunk walking around town! Not only because I hadn’t seen him in Wild World yet, but also because he doesn’t just walk around town like this in the other games.

The traveling therapist and part-time comedian started lecturing me on mental health and telling me I had some issues to work out. Rude.

He told me how important it is to express my feelings…before telling me to tap him.

Once I tapped that axolotl, he taught me the shyness emotion. I can use it by tapping the appropriate icon on the keyboard window.

Emotions aren’t super useful when there’s no online play, but I suppose it was nice to see Dr. Shrunk again.

At town hall, I made a 45,000 bell mortgage payment. I then continued shaking trees as I made my way back home. I got stung a couple more times, but I also found several bags of bells and a couple of furniture items: a beige box and a basic blue bed. That’s a lot of Bs. And bees.

The Bright Nights are still underway, with villagers’ houses (and some cedar trees) still decorated with lights. Static told me that his lights look totally professional.

As far as I could tell, the lights on the houses were the same as last time. So I went ahead and told Tortimer that I preferred Rod’s house lights. He said he would let Rod know.

I found three fossils buried around town, and the museum needed two of them. In fact, they both completed a dinosaur on exhibit! The stego tail completed the stegosaurus, and the ptera left wing completed the pteradon. Here’s a look at the pteradon.

I visited Puddles the frog, and she was all packed up and ready to move out of town. I tried to change her mind, and I think I did, but I’m not 100% sure. She was worrying about a cancel penalty. Oh, is there such a thing? If only I was the mayor, I could cancel the cancel penalty. 😛

When I visited Chevre, she offered me a spare mummy shirt she had. Do I have to unwrap it? I accepted, and put it on.

I went to the Roost to check out some live music. But I accidentally said that I wanted to request a song, and I couldn’t back out of it. I requested “Two Days Ago,” and K.K. gave me the aircheck when he was finished. Unfortunately, that’s a song I had already received. Oops.

Back over by town hall, Tortimer was shivering in the cold night air. He said that one shell isn’t enough to keep his body warm. He would prefer to also have one in front, and two on his feet.

I wrapped up my night by shaking some trees and doing some fishing. I didn’t catch anything new, though. See you next time!