Last night, I went to Mark’s town to let him catalog a sleek side table. He thanked me by giving me a famous mushroom.
We actually disconnected though, so he reopened his gate and I returned to let him catalog the item again. He gave me the mushroom again, but this time I held onto it.
Today, I got a letter from Gulliver in the mail. He sent me the Mouth of Truth! Molly wasted no time in asking me for it.
She offered me a dharma in exchange. Ha!
I spoke with my snowman and he rolled a number 30 for me. Bingo!
He gave me a ski-slope floor.
I built another snowman to get a new bingo card and then headed to Tom’s town. His friends Noah and Joanne were there. Tom’s instrument shelter said the weather was going to stay nice, but it was clearly raining beans.
But what good are beans without a giant to climb the beanstalk? Err…or something like that.
A bit later, Kim had some bingo numbers I needed, so I headed to her town. She pointed out that I had a tan! I hadn’t even realized it, but all this island-hopping lately has changed my skin color. Kim and I waited for a bus that never came.
Not many people install a bus stop, so I think this was my first time seeing one in person. I explored her town and I also took a look at her museum exhibits. This gyroid room was quite impressive.
She’s also working on a balloon collection.
When I returned to Forest, I saw there was a meteor shower. So I wished on a shooting star.
I went up to Main Street, and Luna told me that Ethan from Canada was my most recent dream visitor. And I put my Mouth of Truth in my World Wonders exhibit at the museum.
I also used a QR code for my trophy room that LemonBunch sent me. You can get the trophy code on the QR Codes page.
I also did some island hopping. I went on a couple of tours with Izzy, and later I found an island with two other people (besides myself). It’s pretty rare to have three people on a Club Tortimer island, but we did a couple of tours.
Unfortunately, while on a scavenger hunt tour, Isabella was away for a couple of minutes. But the worst part was that she was standing in the doorway of a house. Courtz’ last item and my last item were both in that house, so we failed that tour quite miserably.
On another island, I met my first Club Tortimer beggar. It was Linzy, and she asked me for bells! I asked how many she needed, but she said she didn’t know. She would leave it up to me.
I gave her 5,000 bells to be nice; she didn’t even thank me. Then she started asking me for my friend code. Uh, no. I quickly left that island and continued on to the next. Eventually, I found the mermaid vanity that I needed! So I now have the full mermaid set!
Barring any problems, my contest for the mermaid set will start tomorrow. So check tomorrow’s blog entry (and/or follow me on Tumblr) for the full rules on how to enter. You’ll be able to enter here on JVGS and also on Tumblr.
Just a reminder that I won’t be opening my gate tomorrow night for Friday Night Forest. I usually skip the first Friday of each month.
When I spoke with Molly, she said she’s into swapping stuff with her neighbors. Like swapping saliva with Teddy? Hmm?
As I started rolling up today’s snowballs, I tried to use the big one to run over Tammy.
But then I felt bad, because I didn’t want to break anything. No, I don’t mean Tammy’s bones, I meant I didn’t want to break the snowball.
I saw a silver slingshot floating by on balloons, and I smiled because I knew I could ignore it now that I have the gold balloon badge.
Copper indirectly informed me that Gulliver was on the beach, so I headed down there. His clues made it obvious that he was talking about Italy.
He even made a Mario reference. He’ll be sending me a gift from Italy in the mail tomorrow.
I knew that I still needed two diving catches, and I knew that one of them was still out of season. But I had no idea what the other one was, or whether it was in-season or not. But I decided to do a little diving anyway, just in case. And that decision paid off, because I caught my first horsehair crab!
I headed over to Tom’s town to collect a couple of bingo numbers, and I now have a quintuple ding. Even though the snowmen won’t acknowledge anything more than a triple ding, it means I’m one number away from a bingo in five different ways. So hopefully I’ll bingo again sometime soon.
Tom’s penguin Roald looked like he was all dressed up!
Tom’s friends Gabi and Ronald also came to Tomville, and we danced up at Club LOL. It was quite crowded in there!
Hazel scares me.
We got disconnected, and Tom was finished after that. Back in Forest, Luna and Teddy both mentioned my most recent dream visitor, Rydelle from Arendele.
I found a lost item on the ground, and began asking my villagers if they recognized it. Eventually, I was able to reunite the item with its owner, Rolf. He rewarded me with an apple.
I ran into Teddy again, and he was acting a bit strange…
But I did ask him not to kiss me again.
The town is quite nice, and the dream address is 6900-2923-1084 if you want to visit it.
Big Top tried to tell me he was moving out of town on February 9th, but I quickly convinced him that he was mistaken. I went to Tom’s town to get a bingo number, and he glitched onto/into his bench. He threw at beans at me as I sat there.
I was tempted to collect the beans and get a stew going, but I didn’t. Tom saved the game, and then he died.
A couple of his friends came over to visit, but Tom purposely disconnected when he discovered one of them took some perfect oranges without asking. Back in Forest, I saw an igloo at the campsite and I found Flo the penguin inside. Thankfully, she didn’t try to sell me car insurance.
As I was watering flowers, I spotted Phineas! I had no idea what to expect, but he gave me the Balloon Master badge! That’s the gold one, which means I no longer have to waste my time shooting down any more useless balloons! Woohoo!
To my surprise, he actually had a second badge for me too! This time, he gave me the Catalog Maniac Silver badge for collecting over 50% of the items in the game.
This seems like a good time to post my updated badge screen, so here it is:
I rolled up today’s snowballs to make a snowboy, but he wasn’t perfect today. Just to remind you all, the snow on the ground will be gone on February 25th. So you have three weeks left to collect items from the snowman, snowmam, snowboy, and snowtyke. I have a shot at finishing them all up, but it’s not a sure thing.
I was able to find one new piece of each set (mermaid and cabana). Now I have 12/13 mermaid items and 9/13 cabana items. However, I have used up almost all of my medals. So I’ll need to do some more tours tomorrow to earn more before I go island hopping for the remaining items.