Jeff's ACWW Blog

It was raining in town yesterday, and Chief was being a bit poetic about the wet stuff.

Of course he got mad at me for “not letting him express any emotion,” which I didn’t do at all. But that’s Chief for you. (And Wild World crankies in general.)

Meanwhile, Derwin was reminiscing about the town he grew up in. He said it had a train stop, and there was a monkey who worked at the train station. He’s clearly referring to Porter, in a nice throwback to the GameCube game. 🐒

A new “Talking to Myself” message posted to the bulletin board gave a recipe for homemade water! 😆

I played again tonight, and it was still raining! ⛈️

It was Flea Market day, but I wasn’t planning on buying anything. But when I saw Pippy’s Nintendo bench, I was curious to see how much it would cost. It’s already a very cheap item to begin with, and it’s one that I’ll often buy to give as a gift. As it turns out, Pippy was selling it for just 30 bells!

So of course I bought it, and I’ll probably regift it once again at some point.

Maple has been sick with a cold this week, so I gave her some medicine yesterday and today. Get well soon, Maple!

Down at the Roost, Mr. K.K. Slider performed “Mr. K.K.” for me. Is it an autobiographical song? If only I could understand the lyrics…

Mom sent me a letter today, talking about a fruit-only diet. She encouraged me to try it (she sent a cherry attached to the letter). In the spirit of her letter, I decided to eat the cherry instead of selling it. I don’t need the 500 bells that badly, after all.

But moments later, I realized something. Forest doesn’t have any cherry trees! That may have been my first cherry, and I usually try to plant my first one of each foreign fruit so that I’ll have at least one tree of each type. Forest doesn’t have any cherry trees or peach trees. Oops! Well, maybe I’ll get another one someday. 😆

I visited Derwin, and he asked if I could make my house a little more cool. That’s kind of rude…but I suppose I could ask the same of him!

Next, I visited Chief. He asked me to guess how he was feeling, and I guessed that was he was doing fine. That was correct, apparently because he just ate a bunch of garlic? 😆

For answering correctly, he rewarded me with a pep squad shirt.

The last fireworks festival of the year was held tonight, and Tortimer gave me a sparkler.

Frobert wasn’t taking the news very well about tonight being the last fireworks show of the summer.

He even said his life is meaningless without colorful explosions! Wow.

Fortunately, fireworks don’t force K.K. Slider to cancel his show in this game. (I’m looking at you, New Horizons.) So I went down to the Roost, and the singing dog performed “K.K. Ska” for me.

Over at town hall, I found a red bar shirt in the recycle bin. After that, I wrapped up my game for the night.

Tonight, Derwin told me that Mayor Tortimer’s favorite food is Peking duck! The fact that Derwin is a duck himself is what makes this so shocking.

And at first, I thought it was just a coincidence that a duck mentions the mayor’s favorite food being duck. It probably just lists any random food, right? There are plenty of lines throughout the series that do exactly that. So I thought that the same thing was happening here…until Derwin continued. He made it clear that it really creeped him out, and he even cried!

Why would that be so creepy otherwise? Is a duck going to cry if Tortimer ate a fish or a steak? I don’t think so. So I believe this must have been an intentional choice. Regardless, it’s another great bit of dialogue in a game full of interesting writing. 👍

Anyway, Chief was hoping to find a moth for his niece, who is really into collecting bug specimens. So he asked if I’d like to compete to see who could catch one first. Since moths are usually pretty easy to find at night, I agreed to the contest.

And sure enough, it only took me about 25 seconds to find one hanging out near Pippy’s house. I caught it, and took it back to Chief. He wasn’t happy about losing to me, but he rewarded me with a checkered tile.

I found a note in a bottle, and it was written from a big brother to a little brother. He said he was going home next month, and he encourages the younger brother to come home too.

Saharah was in town, and she asked me to deliver a rug to Pelly. It was too late for Pelly to be at work, but Phyllis accepted the package instead. She just didn’t seem happy about it…not that she’s ever happy about anything.

Saharah also asked me to deliver a carpet to Blathers. Once I was done, Saharah rewarded me with an ancient wall.

Pippy was packed up to move out of town, but I talked her out of moving (after three attempts). I don’t want her to leave anytime soon.

It looks like I forgot to embed my latest Wild World video episode into last week’s entry, but here is episode 88 if you haven’t seen it yet: