Today, I got a letter in the mail from Gulliver. He told me he’s in Kenya, and he sent me this tribal mask. Unfortunately, letters in ACNL show up on the bottom screen, so you can’t take pictures of them with the in-game camera. But here is a look at the tribal mask:
And there was a message on the bulletin board saying that my cobblestone bridge was complete!
So of course, I had to go take a look at it. This bridge connects my house (in the northwest part of town) to the town hall (in the southwest part of town). So it’s much easier to get to my place of employment. This is my second bridge; I can actually add one more, which I would likely put at the eastern side of town. But that’s not a priority, so that can wait a bit.
I headed over to town hall, and Isabelle told me she arranged a little celebration to commemorate the new bridge. So, back to the bridge I went. But then she demanded a speech! speech! speech! from me. I was not prepared for this! Is it too soon for me to retire from public life? Or maybe I should demand on the recount of the election votes. They’ll see I didn’t have a single vote, so I shouldn’t be mayor and won’t have to give this speech!
But fortunately, the speech was actually just a multiple-choice, one sentence phrase. I can do this! After I finished my sentence speech, Isabelle told everyone to GO! She was actually telling them to fire off the party poppers she gave them ahead of time. Yay!
With that project completed, I was able to start another one. I chose to put a face-cutout standee near the train tracks. This will be a fun one that future Wi-Fi visitors will probably enjoy. It’s also cheaper than the bridge, so it shouldn’t take too long to fund.
A bit later, Rory offered to trade me a karaoke system for my blue-stripe tee. Even though I still liked my shirt, I decided a shirt for furniture was a good deal, so I agreed to the trade.
After that, Big Top had an unusual request for me. He asked me to bury a time capsule somewhere in town. I buried it in the northwest corner of town. I’m not sure what this is all about, but I suppose I’ll find out sooner or later.
And it was raining in Forest today, but nothing can dampen Aurora’s spirits.
She asked me to buy an A shirt for 444 bells. I wasn’t about to turn her down.
On Main Street, there is a new development…literally. Nook Homes is in the process of building something new! Could it be Club LOL? I hope so! I’m guessing I’ll find out tomorrow!
I didn’t make a trip to the island today, but I did shake a few trees. One of them had a bee! Oh no! My first instinct was to run, of course. But then I thought, I’ll need to catch a bee at some point, so I might as well at least give it a try. So I whipped out my net, waited for the bee to come at me, and swung….. I GOT IT! Awesome!
Later on, I went to meet my newest neighbor, Katt. Oh my, what have I done to deserve animals like this?
I was in the Re-Tail store later, as was Yuka. She wanted to buy a bed that was on sale and she asked my opinion. I told her she shouldn’t buy it. It was so cheap, that there must be something wrong with it. 😉 Or maybe I just wanted her to suffer and sleep on the floor. *heh heh horf*
My last stop of the evening was the museum. I donated my bee and three fossils I found today. Good news! The triceratops is complete!
That’s all for tonight, but check back tomorrow for all of the latest developments!
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I then went outside to check on my cherry trees that I planted yesterday. Good news! It looks like all three of them are going to survive! I’ll soon have some foreign fruit trees in Forest. That will help me earn more money.
At town hall, I displayed my JVGS pattern as my flag.
While walking around, I saw Gabi out fishing.
And down on the beach, I saw a familiar face…Gulliver!
He shared some puns with me.
And then he makes a reference to Earthbound, by mentioning fuzzy pickles. For those who don’t know, the cameraman in Earthbound would tell Ness and friends to say “fuzzy pickles” as he was taking a picture.
Although you don’t have to shoot down a UFO in New Leaf, you still have to work for Gulliver’s gift. He gave me some clues, mentioning animals such as giraffes, and then asked me which country he was talking about. He was talking about African animals, so Kenya was the correct choice.
But he didn’t give me the gift just yet. He said he’ll send it to me, although it might take a while.
In the Able Sisters, I bought the clown mask to look like a jester.
I also stopped by my town tree and saw that it’s growing quite nicely.
Yuka asked me to catch a roach for her. I told her no.
And then I was informed that a villager wanted to move out. Of course, it was Aurora, my favorite villager! Why her?
I told her not to leave, and fortunately, she agreed to stay.
I then went to the island to do some fishing so I could earn some money. Oh look, a new type of fish, a giant trevally!
I then caught a dab, or so I thought…
But the game was just psyching me out! It’s an olive flounder.
I already had trouble telling those two fish apart, so you’re really not helping me, Nintendo. 😛
When I had enough fish, I returned to Forest. I stopped at the museum to donate my new catches, and then sold the rest. I earned enough money to pay off the bridge!
My last task of the day was to return to town hall. I talked to my assistant Isabelle, and she confirmed that my bridge would be completed tomorrow! Great!
That’s all for now. But please come back tomorrow night for another update. Have a good weekend, everyone!
I then went into the Re-Tail store and saw that they had a metal guitar. I bought it.
Outside, Yuka was dropping hints that she wanted me to write her a letter. She then compared Pete, the letter carrier, to a matchmaker. Uh, no. No. No. No. Don’t get any ideas, Yuka. I don’t like you in that way. Or in any way.
I quickly ran away from Yucky Yuka. I’d rather go to work than talk to her! So I went to town hall and talked to my assistant Isabelle. I decided to change my town tune to The Final Countdown. Animal Crossing: New Leaf comes out one month from today (in America at least), and I know a lot of you are counting down to that. I’m also counting down to the 4th season of Arrested Development, which will be available on Netflix later this month. If anyone wants the notes to The Final Countdown, enter BAB-e–zCBCBA-zz.
I continued talking to Isabelle, listening to all her tips for living in Forest. She then asked me to get a seashell for her.
The way she was talking, it almost seemed like she had a crush on me. But when I came back with a shell for her, she thanked me by giving me three cherries from her hometown. I planted them near my house.
Her mother sent them to her, and told her to share…because that’s what good puppies do. That sentence left me rather speechless. So she’s a good puppy? Am I supposed to give her a treat now or something?
After finishing up listening to her tips, she gave me a watering can. That was nice.
However, I’m probably not going to be doing a lot of watering. In Animal Crossing games, flowers are not a priority–at least not at first. For now, I have projects to fund, a house to expand, ugly animals to evict, and so on. (Just kidding about the evictions). I’ll deal with flowers later on. For now, I want to be able to run around town and get stuff done.
The Master Sword, of course!
You know, in previous Animal Crossing games, the Nintendo items like this were relatively rare and didn’t come along very often. But in just a week, I’ve already got the Mario Kart kart, a green shell, the Master Sword, and two masks of characters from Zelda games.
While diving, I also pulled up some seaweed.
I then decided to try another one of the Tortimer tours. This time, I did the dragonfly one. You have five minutes to catch as many dragonflies as you can. I caught five, which earned me a Silver Tortimer award (whatever that means) and four medals.
The tours always seem to take place in the daylight, even though it was after 11 p.m. when I played. I’m not exactly sure how that works, but oh well.