Festivale 2015

When I started up the game today, Pete greeted me with a letter from Nintendo. It said that the blue ogre mask is now available at Nintendo Zone locations for the rest of this month. Of course, this begs the question: If they can send the letter via SpotPass, why not just include the item itself?

Pete: You have a letter from Nintendo!Of course, today is Festivale and villagers will be dressed up for the occasion.

Big Top: It's Festivale, and it's time to get rowdy! Lil top!Confetti rains down from the sky today, along with occasional feathers. Since I have a snowmam in town, I was also finding some snowflakes in the air.

Wow! A snowflake! I should be gentle with it so it doesn't melt!When I headed over to the event plaza, I found the gyrating peacock that is Pave.

Pave: How can you stand next to the glory that is Pave and not be gyrating?!Viva Festivale! Pave demanded some red feathers, so I began my search.

Pave: VIVA... FESTIVALE!But before I found any red feathers, I found an even-more-rare rainbow feather!

Yippeeeee! I got a rainbow feather! These are extremely rare!A rainbow feather can be exchanged instantly for a piece of Pave furniture. Pave loved it!

Pave: GLORIOUS!I continued looking for red feathers, but I made sure to talk to Molly when I saw her.

Molly: Today's the celebration of dance and music called Festivale! Don't be shy! Just dance and have fun!Octavian was also enjoying the party atmosphere.

Octavian: Hey, cool guy! Today's the annual celebration of Festivale! Let's jump into the spirit and get in the groove!After a while, I caught the three red feathers that I needed.

I got a red feather! It's got the passion of fire!Pave thanked me for the red feathers and gave me a Pave table as my reward.

Pave: You did good for Pave. Pave thanks you and gives you this Pave table!I didn’t try to complete the entire set, since I did that last year. But I continued playing for a while to earn several more pieces of the set as Pave wanted white, purple, and blue feathers.

If you’d like more information about Festivale, or if you’d like to see the full Pave’ furniture set, head over to my Festivale Guide. I hope you all had a fun and rewarding Festivale!

Dizzy: It's Festivale, and it's time to get rowdy! Woo-oo!When I updated my dream town today, Luna told me that Merl from TorgoBay was my most recent dream visitor.

I’ll see you all next time!

Petition for Finding Rolf’s Keys

I haven’t bought turnips the past two Sundays, but I made sure to buy some today. Joan was selling them for 94 bells each, and I purchased 3,100 of them. I just hope I remember to check turnip prices this week. It’s easy to forget once you’re out of the habit.

Joan: The asking price is 94 bells per turnip. What do you think, kiddo?Rolf told me he was collecting signatures for “Finding My Keys.” That sounded like a good cause, so I agreed to help him out.

Rolf: I'm collecting signatures for Finding My Keys, but I don't have enough people yet.Tom41 opened up his gate a bit later, so I headed over to Tomville. His friends Tricia and Chaceyj were also there. I began to look for animals, and Pippy was my first victim volunteer.

Pippy: Hey? This is a petition, isn't it? Hmmm, Finding My Keys. I bet you want my signature.As I made my way around town, I saw Tricia standing still. And for a split second, I thought she was an animal, so I started to walk towards her to ask her to sign my petition. Oops!

Mistaking Tricia for an animal.I kept running into animals whose names began with the letter “P.” Peanut provided the last signature I needed.

Peanut: There. I'm happy to put my name down for this. And hey, your list is totally full now!Four of the six signatures were from “P” names.

Petition signatures: Pippy, Patty, Dora, Marcie, Peggy, Peanut.Tom was having a bad luck day, so he was wearing the Tingle hood. He’s also been playing Majora’s Mask 3D on his New 3DS lately. So I joked that he could sell himself a map.

Jeff: You can sell yourself a map.When Tom’s battery turned red, he turned into Resetti and told us all to “Scram!” as he ended the session. Back in Forest, I gave Rolf the completed petition. He rewarded me with an aroma pot.

Rolf: Here. Have this for the help! It's an aroma pot!I went up to the Dream Suite to update my dream town, and Luna told me that Gabriel from Berryway was my most recent dream visitor.

And back in town, I acquired a previous DLC item in an unusual fashion: Drago offered me a Libra scale in exchange for a fossil I had in my pockets.

Drago: Let's make a deal! Wanna trade your plesio skull for my Libra scale?Tomorrow is Festivale, so I’ll be back with another blog entry then. If you’re new to Festivale or want a refresher on how it works, be sure to check out my Festivale Guide!

Valentine’s Day

Today, Isabelle sent me a letter for Valentine’s Day. She also enclosed some chocolate cake! How sweet of her!

To Mayor Jeff, Since it's Valentine's Day, I wanted to give you a little present to show my thanks. -From IsabelleI also got a letter from Molly (who sent me a chocolate heart) and Mom (who sent me a comfy sweater she knitted). While trying to put the chocolate heart in my house, I noticed that it always faced the front of the house, regardless of which direction I was facing when I dropped it.

A chocolate heart.I opened my gate for Tom to visit this afternoon. He just got a New 3DS.

Tom41: New 3DS is good.As he was exploring and shopping, I was giving some fish to Chip for today’s fishing tournament. I gave him a red snapper, and it took over top spot. Chip rewarded me with a marine pop floor. I then gave him a shark (from my dock box), and it shattered my own record, being a whopping 231.30 inches long.

Chip: Yeah, even I'm not gonna attempt to down this guy all at once! What do I look like, a whale?
You sir, are a mouthful.

Chip gave me a squid chair as my prize. Tom left to visit someone else’s town, and I put the game away for a while. Later on, I returned to see that my shark held on to the top spot and I won the tournament. Sprinkle won 2nd place and Dizzy finished 3rd.

Receiving my trophy for winning the fishing tournament.Shortly before 9:00 tonight, I noticed the northern lights up in the sky. They’re surprisingly common in winter.

The northern lights above my modern train station.Madisyn had her gate open, so I visited her town Johto for a while. Her friend X was also there, and we hung out in Madisyn’s arcade. I played pinball until my flippers got sore and I lost all my balls.

Playing pinball with Madisyn and X.A few minutes later, her friend Maxwell also showed up. I went over to Re-Tail to sell some perfect peaches, and I was surprised to find a library in there! Recycling paper is a good thing, but this is crazy!

The Re-Tail library.Madisyn’s town looks really nice, but I thought it needed some beanstalks. So I started throwing beans everywhere.

Spilling the beans.I stood at the Tails face-cutout standee, while X was using a shovel to hit a lost item on the ground. The recoil was pushing him into the standee.

A Tails faceboard.Around 10:00, I returned home to Forest. I made one last stop at the Roost for a sweet treat. On Valentine’s Day, Brewster serves hot chocolate instead of coffee.

This must be... hot chocolate!Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!

Brewster: Coo. Happy...Valentine's Day.