Flea Market

As I started up the game, I was notified that the flea market was going on today. It’s a day when you can visit your neighbors and buy their possessions, or they can offer to buy things from your house. I visited Kiki first, but she didn’t really have anything I wanted.

Kiki on flea market day: Just tell me if something catches your fancy. Sound good to you, kitty cat?Next I went into Bill’s house. He had two birdcages, and I wondered if they were his kids. I asked about the one on the left, and he offered to give it to me for 770 bells. I bought it, just to cause drama in his family. (You did WHAT?!)

Bill on flea market day: Tell you what! I'll sell it to you for 770 bells!But then I wondered if he would sell his other kid too. I asked, but he refused! I guess we know who his favorite child is!

Bill: That's pretty sweet, huh? I'll never let that go. I train with it every day!Static had a different way of asking me which items I was interested in: He said he wanted to know which of his items smelled the worst! But I wasn’t interested in his stuff, regardless of the dollars and scents.

Static: Now, I know my stuff all has a weird kinda odor to it. I'm aware of that!Static: But I need to know which piece is the MOST stinky! Will ya tell me?I dug up three fossils today, and I donated all of them to the museum.

Blathers: Ah! Terribly sorry, wot? Ancient plants turn me into a veritable hootbox!Since it’s Saturday night, I made sure to go downstairs and catch K.K.’s live music show. I let him pick a random song, and he performed K.K. Ragtime for me.

After that, I made a 25,000 bell payment on my mortgage. When I stepped out of town hall, I had a chat with Puddles. She asked me to pick a name for her pet fish. I chose “Gill Boy,” and she really liked the name. To thank me, she gave me a Nintendo bench!

Puddles: And TAKE CARE OF IT, OK?! It wasn't easy finding a Nintendo bench!I went home to look at it. But before I could put it down, Baabara barged into my house, looking for something to buy for the flea market! Ugh! I wasn’t interested in selling anything, so I quickly left my house, just to get rid of her.

Baabara: OK then, I'm leaving now. Try not to cry. See ya, daahling.Immediately, I went back in and ran to the back wall. I put the bench down and took a seat. Pretty cool!

Sitting on the Nintendo bench in Animal Crossing: Wild World.But the instant I got up off of the bench, Puddles barged in. Ugh!

Puddles: Are you here, Jeff? It's me! Puddles! Your bestest friend ever?
No. No, no, no, no!

Flea market day is definitely not the time to hang out in your house, especially if you’re hoping to redecorate. I was done playing for the night, so I just went upstairs and went to bed (even as Puddles was still in my house). See you all next time!

Foggy Day

I started up the game a bit earlier today, so I got to play in the daylight for a change. But I was surprised to find lots of fog around town!

A foggy day in Forest.I went back to check my mail, and I was very disappointed. I got a goodbye letter from Biskit. 🙁 Even though I asked him to stay, he didn’t.

Biskit's goodbye letter in Animal Crossing: Wild World.Anyway, the earlier hour allowed to catch my very first monarch butterfly.

I caught a monarch butterfly! This butterfly can travel!On the beach, I found another note in a bottle!

A note in a bottle washed up on the beach.The note announced the recent wedding of Sean and Shawn. I wonder if one or both of them were Nintendo employees at the time of Wild World’s release in 2005.

Guess who got hitched?! We finally did it! We look forward to our future together and all that it holds! Sean & Shawn 4-ever!I had a chat with Static by the bridge, and he said this place reminds him of a tumbler he had.

Static: Hey! This place always brings up memories of this tumbler I had...He got emotional over it, and then said he wished he could forget it.

Static: Hey... Can I have a second? To be honest, I'd like to forget it all, tsk tsk...
Are you sure it wasn’t a tumblr, not a tumbler?

I went up to the museum to donate my monarch butterfly, and I also had Blathers identify a couple of fossils for me. One of them was a sabertooth torso. When I donated it, Blathers informed me that the sabertooth tiger was now complete!

Blathers: ...Why, this means that the sabertooth tiger is now 100 percent complete!I went into the fossil room to take a look at it. Interestingly, it’s spelled sabretooth in here (unlike what Blathers said above).

The Sabretooth Tiger fossil at the museum in Animal Crossing: Wild World.Back outside, Kiki asked me to take a quiz to see which local celebrity I’m most like. Turns out, I’m a Pelly.

Kiki: Wow! You're Pelly, the lovely lass who works the front desk at the town hall!Over by Nookway, I met up with Static again. He decided to give me a new nickname, J-rock. I actually kind of like that one!

Static: J-rock! How do ya like it? Awesome, right!?Once I was done making my rounds, I went fishing for a while and then started shaking some trees. A bee caught me at one point, but shortly after, I found a spider!

I caught a spider! You're in MY web now!!I donated it to the museum before returning home and wrapping up my day in Forest.

Yay Day

As I started up the game tonight, a message confirmed that today is Yay Day. This is one of the few events exclusive to Animal Crossing: Wild World, and this was my first time participating.

Kiki, who lives near me, was the first villager I met up with. She asked for a compliment and I said “you’re purrfect.” She repeated it back, so I realized I should have written it in first person, not second person.

Kiki: You're purrfect? Is that honestly what you think about me, kitty cat?She didn’t understand what I meant by it, but she appreciated it all the same.

Next, I ran into Bill. What could I say that’s nice about Bill? Hmm… Ultimately, I told him to say “I’m a duck.” That’s the closest thing to a compliment I could tell him without lying. 😉

Bill: I'm a duck... That's your compliment?He said it was a weak compliment, but he accepted it anyway. Not that he had much choice.

I went into Biskit’s house and saw that his belongings are still packed up in boxes. So he hasn’t left yet, but he hasn’t unpacked either. So once again, I told him to stick around. He didn’t appreciate me telling him what to do, and he said he can make his own decisions because he’s a man. Really?

Biskit: No! I can't have this! I'm a man, for goodness' sake!
I thought you were just man’s best friend.

After selling some stuff at Nookway, I bumped into Static. He didn’t seem to be in a “yay” mood, because he called me a freakoid and a raging fathead. For no reason!

Static: Now you're supposed to use a nice word to describe me, you raging fathead!
EXCUSE ME?

Just for that, he gets no Yay Day compliment from me. I called him a nut-hungry freak. I normally like the guy, but he’s being a jerk today.

Static: Nut-hungry freak...? Seriously, are you even trying?When Yuka asked for a compliment, I told her she’s a monster. She actually enjoyed hearing that! Apparently she’s so evil that just being called a monster sounds nicer than what she’s used to hearing. 😉

Yuka: I'm a monster, huh... Hm, I think I like it!Outside, I gave Baabara a compliment too. I called her a fluffy demon. It was so nice that it made her blush.

Baabara: Fluffy demon, huh... When you say it to my face, it's kind of embarrassing...When I visited my newest neighbor Puddles, I wasn’t sure what to tell her. But I tried to find something nice to say about her, so I told her at least she’s not Jambette.

Puddles: Whenever I'm down, I'll just keep repeating that... I'm not Jambette!!Chevre was next, and I considered complimenting her for having a nice table. But that’s not personal enough. So I reminded her that at least she doesn’t chew cans.

Chevre: I don't chew cans? Is that honestly what you think about me, it'sa me?After that, I went to town hall to make another 25,000 bell mortgage payment. Then, I returned home for the night.

As for my impressions of my first Yay Day, well, it’s a bit underwhelming. You give compliments to all of your villagers, but that’s all there is to it. It’s really not a big deal. But at least it’s something different I haven’t experienced in the other games, I guess. And that’s the best compliment I can give it.