Lighthouse Duty

When I played earlier this month (on February 9th), I received a goodbye letter from Blaire in the mail.

Her replacement was Cleo the snooty horse. She previously lived in Forest back in 2012.

On February 12th, I found Tortimer over by the wishing well. It turns out it was time for his winter vacation!

He wanted me to turn on the lighthouse each day from the 13th through the 19th, and I initially turned down the offer.

But he didn’t take “no” for an answer. And by the next day, I had changed my mind. I decided to load up the game and turn on the lighthouse.

On the 14th, I received a bunch of valentines in the mail from my female villagers. Each one had a gift attached, but Emerald sent me a scale. A scale! What kind of Valentine’s Day gift is that? Is she calling me fat?

Maple and Sydney both sent me this letter, saying I’m the one they like the most.

Sydney sent me a maple bonsai, which would have been funnier if it came from Maple. 😛

I continued turning on the lighthouse each evening. Last Thursday, I went into an igloo and found Sydney inside. She wanted to play a game where I picked a card to determine the price she would pay me for my mega buzzoid.

The card I picked showed 880 bells, so she paid me roughly what Nook would have paid me anyway.

I later found a buried item and dug up an Arwing! Nice! (It was a treasure hunt item that Puck buried.) I put the Arwing in my house for now.

On Saturday, Hank tried to convince me that his igloos are better than everyone else’s igloos. 😛

Yesterday, I received a goodbye letter from Cleo! She sure didn’t stick around long! Her replacement was Mathilda the kangaroo. She previously lived in Forest in 2013-14.

Today, Tortimer returned from his vacation! He was pleased that I turned on the lighthouse every night, as he asked.

He gave me some chocolates as my reward for completing the mission. 😉

Genji later offered me 1,530 bells for the chocolates, and I agreed to sell them.

Candi was in an igloo today, and she was talking about her chowder. She asked if the morsel of fish (in her chowder, presumably) had a lot in common with her.

After I shot her a confused glare, she said that she and the fish are both sweet and tender. Uhh, if you say so.

Emerald said that she was tired, and she asked me if she should go to sleep. I said yes, and she got furious! She thought I meant she should sleep out in the snow (which she does do sometimes anyway), and she took it as the biggest insult.

And Emerald is usually one of the nicer villagers, too. Sheesh.

Last week, I posted this video of all 218 villager houses in the game. I hope you’ll give it a watch if you haven’t seen it yet. 🙂

One other note: I tried charging my Game Boy Advance SP so that I could visit the island, but it simply will not hold a charge at all. After 18 years, the battery is now completely dead. And I can’t just keep the system plugged in, because the GameCube-GBA link cable covers the spot where the adapter plugs in. So probably no more island visits for a while. I may get a new battery eventually, but it’s not a priority right now.

See you all next time! 🙂