Rhonda’s Misplaced Anger

Big Top was still sick tonight, so I gave him some medicine once again. Get well soon, big guy.

Big Top: Ah-ah-ah... KERSCHNOFF-a-blatts!

A new “Talking to Myself” message on the bulletin board was rather interesting. The author said her sister has been going to hotels lately, so she followed her. Apparently the sister was going for the free buffet!

-Talking to Myself- My sister's been going to hotels lately, so one day I followed her. She was eating the free buffet!Baabara and Rhonda had a big argument nearby, and the conversation left Rhonda steaming mad. Baabara tends to have that effect on people. But when I spoke to Rhonda, she said she was mad at me! I didn’t even do anything this time!

Rhonda: Grrrrrr! Man! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Oh, I'm just so mad at you!But she then admitted it wasn’t about me. As if I didn’t know already.

Rhonda: ...Oh, sorry. No, this isn't about you. Don't let it bug you, all right?
You’re not forgiven.

It’s Saturday night, so I headed down to The Roost to get a new song from K.K. Slider. I let the singing dog pick the song, and he performed Only Me for…only me. Brewster doesn’t count. 😛

K.K.: All right, get ready to dig the riffs on this ditty: Only Me!After selling a couple of fossils I dug up, I went over to town hall. I made a 20,000 mortgage payment. I then returned home, put my new song in my stereo, and ended my game for the night. See you next time!

Time Capsule

Big Top is the latest villager to come down with a cold. He proved to be surprisingly athletic when I gave him some medicine.

Big Top flips as he takes some medicine.Crazy Redd was in town, as he is each Tuesday in Forest, and I went in to see what he had for sale. I bought a warm painting from him for 3,920 bells. It turned out to be an authentic piece of art, so I donated it to the museum.

The warm painting in the museum of Animal Crossing: Wild World.

Blathers had some new things to say about his fieldwork. He’s not sure he’s up to it any more, despite still being in his 20s. Wait, what? I certainly wasn’t expecting to hear that!

Blathers: I should be able to take it. It may shock you, but I'm still in my twenties...

But he continued, telling me that his shovel recently hit something very hard in the ground. He got excited, thinking it was a fossil, but it was actually a time capsule!

Blathers: Ah-hoo! The thing I had pulled from the earth was a sort of time capsule.

Inside, he found two letters. The first one said “I want to own a shop so big that I can stock anything I want!” He implied that it was written by a child…a young Tom Nook perhaps?

Blathers: The penmanship was squiggly and childlike, like worms on the paper. Ugh.The other letter said “Even if it’s small, I want to own a pretty shop.” It also seemed to be written by a child. Mable or Sable maybe? Anyway, Blathers then put the letters back in the time capsule and re-buried it.

A new “Message of the Week” was posted to the bulletin board, and it warned people to flee from strangers and their candy. That kind of defeats the purpose of Halloween, doesn’t it?

*Message of the Week* Strangers are scary! Flee from their candy!Rhonda was all packed up and ready to move out of town, but I decided to ask her to stay. I might not do the same next time, but for now, I didn’t want her moving away just yet.

Rhonda: Jeff, if you want me here so badly, I'll think about it. But no promises!

Acorn Festival Reward: Mush Set

On Tuesday, Blathers had some new dialogue for me. He told me that he tried doing some fieldwork to find fossils, but he soon discovered how heavy shovels can be.

Blathers: I remembered how heavy a shovel is! Hoo, yes! Digging is quite exhausting...So he concluded that manual labor is not for him.

Blathers: 'Twas a sad reminder that I am simply not made for manual labor...Puddles was finally over her cold. She thanked me for all the medicine by giving me a regal carpet.

Puddles: Oh, J-rock! Thanks to your medicine, I feel, like, totally AMAZING now!On Thursday, Big Top asked me if my best friend was a banana bread.

Big Top: Darling, is your best friend a big banana bread?I thought that was an unusual question. Besides, how did he know?! 😛 I answered “absolutely” and he said the banana bread would never let me down like a person would.

Big Top: R-really? Well, I guess it would never let you down like a person would.
Amen to that.

Hopper again asked me if I was from the countryside. To see what he’d say, I picked the “Wooo-haaa!” option (meaning yes). He responded that I’m probably getting money from a farm. Yeah, in Stardew Valley. So because of that, he said I probably didn’t need a Nile shirt. So he didn’t give it to me.

Hopper: Well, you're probably still getting money from a farm or something.Rhonda showed me a letter she received from someone calling themselves “All Paws.” It was about taking over the world. 😮

Hope you know, If I had opposable thumbs, I could take over the world! Muahahahahaha!Hopper told me to go wild during the Acorn Festival. He even said to unleash my mad acorn lust. 😮

Hopper: Unleash your mad acorn lust, you wild beast, you!
Never thought I’d see the word lust in an Animal Crossing game.

Yesterday, Blathers complained about another aspect of doing fieldwork: Finding worms in the ground!

Blathers: And then you spot it! There in the wet dirt! A vile worm! I can't stand those...The only option to continue his story was for me to call him a wimp. And when I did, he got fired up! I can’t recall seeing Blathers mad like this before!

Blathers: Hoo? I...beg your pardon? Why, just think about it! The horror! The repugnance!Today, Rhonda thought she was a comedian.

Rhonda: When acorn season hits, Forest transforms into acorn-ucopia! Get it?And I found an odd “Talking to Myself” message posted to the bulletin board. What exactly is going on in the kids’ section of the library??

-Talking to Myself- I'm very popular in the kids' section of the library... Sigh... Oh, Pete...

Throughout the week, I’ve been collecting acorns every day and taking them to Cornimer. In addition to the rewards he gave me on the first day, he has since given me a mush dresser, mush closet, mush stand, mush table, mush TV, mush bed, forest wall, and forest floor. Here’s a look at the full set.

The full mush furniture set you earn from Cornimer during the Acorn Festival in Animal Crossing: Wild World.

I wrapped up my day by making a 68,000 bell mortgage payment at town hall.

As of yesterday, I’ve been playing Wild World for a full year now. (Want to see my first entry?) It’s safe to say that the Acorn Festival is my favorite festival in the game…although I wish it didn’t take me six days to complete the mush set. Still, it’s the only festival in the game that really feels like a traditional Animal Crossing festival to me.

Don’t get me wrong, I like Bright Nights too. But it’s really just something cool to look at, and there’s not much you can actually do. So I’m glad I was finally able to participate in the Acorn Festival after all these years.

If you haven’t collected all 230 acorns you need for the full set, you still have tomorrow (Sunday) to pick another batch. Good luck to those who are still collecting acorns! 🙂

Here is a video showing the Acorn Festival.