{"id":4335,"date":"2020-08-12T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/acwwblog\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2020-08-13T01:11:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T05:11:15","slug":"panic-at-the-ufo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/acwwblog\/2020\/08\/12\/panic-at-the-ufo\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic at the UFO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
My haul from last week earned me 65,430 bells when I sold it today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Antonio asked to make a delivery to Benedict. He only gave me ten minutes to complete the task, so I rushed over to the red rooster. He seemed surprised when he opened the box and found a nurse’s uniform inside!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Benedict was not impressed. I think this may have been a gag gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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When I returned to Antonio, I told him the gift didn’t go over well. And he was mad! He even called Benedict an idiot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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But he still handed over 520 bells for making the delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seconds later, without warning, I heard a UFO! It caught me off-guard, and I panicked! My eyes frantically scanned my half-empty inventory for the slingshot I knew was there somewhere, but my brain wasn’t working! It took longer than it should have to spot the slingshot in the lower-left corner. Granted, it was only a couple seconds, but it felt like I wasted too much time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Weapon in hand, I ran west as fast as my little limbs would allow. I was gaining on the UFO! I approached the river with the UFO roughly in the center of the upper screen, and I thought Gulliver was mine tonight. I fired up a shot…but it narrowly missed. Ouch. Here’s a screenshot, lightened up because the shot was otherwise very hard to see against the dark night sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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That split-second of panic and hesitation almost certainly cost me the chance at shooting down my 2nd UFO. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve said this before, but the adrenaline rush of a UFO hunt in Wild World or City Folk is unlike anything <\/em>in New Leaf or New Horizons. Not only is the UFO likely to catch you unprepared, but you only have a couple of seconds to react, get ready, and get in position. And the stakes are high. If you miss it, you may not get another chance for months, or longer. So it’s very disappointing when you come so close and fail, like I did tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Goldie was all packed up and ready to move away, but I got her to change her mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I listened in on a conversation between Benedict and Big Top, and it was quite surprising. Big Top said that the two of them were standing in each other’s spots. I wasn’t sure what they meant, until Benedict revealed that they were practicing a dance routine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Margie asked me for some new clothes, so I bought her a dragon suit from Able Sisters. In return, she gave me a jester’s cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I then started hunting for bugs…except things weren’t going well. There were bugs out, alright. But they were mostly worthless things like mosquitos, cockroaches, and even a flea! I felt lucky just to manage a single mediocre catch of a stag beetle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also did some fishing, and that was going slightly better; I snared a hammerhead shark and a barred knifejaw, but that barely <\/em>offset the onslaught of sea bass that must’ve been enticed by the clownish cap on my head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I barely made 40,000 of new money tonight (and nearly one-third of that was from fossils and the money rock). But I put my money in the bank and went back out for one last run as the shop was about to close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that’s when I finally had a bit of a lucky streak. I caught two tarantulas, an atlas beetle, and a hammerhead shark…in a 2-minute, 40-second span! Nookington’s was closed by this point, so I couldn’t sell these catches just yet. But at least this made it feel like the night wasn’t a total waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I think I’m about due to post another Wild World video episode. So look for that in the next week or so. See you all next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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