Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Sadly, Otis has flown out of my life once again. I got his goodbye letter in the mail when I started up the game today.

It was storming in town, so my villagers had their umbrellas out. Some of them were in bad moods, too. Like Tom, for example.

When I spoke to Snake, he asked if I had been cutting down trees lately. I said yes (even though it wasn’t true), and Snake got upset with me. He called me a monster and threatened to tell my mom. 😛

I soon met up with Forest’s newest resident, Claude the rabbit. In Happy Home Designer, he was the DLC character that wanted his house to look like a Nintendo game shop.

Several of my villagers were talking about the fireworks festival, which is coming up next week. I’m not sure if I’ll participate or not. We’ll see.

As Ursala was chatting with Maple, I went up to Ursala to talk. But she got mad, apparently because of something Maple just did or said. But Ursala took it out on me, saying that I make her so mad. I didn’t even do anything!

So I thought this would be a good opportunity to use a pitfall I dug up last time. I buried in the ground, and just waited for the angry bear to walk right into it.

Tom asked me for an apple, and I had some planted near Nookington’s. So I grabbed one and took it back to him. But he seemed more interested in how I tracked down the apple, than in the apple itself. He did give me a mod wall for my trouble, though.

After that, I finished pulling weeds around town (I had a lot, after 7+ weeks). When I was done, I headed home.

I made a quick trip to Nookington’s today, so that I could finally sell all the junk I had in my pockets (and some items I had left on the ground, too). Then, I checked out the dump, where I found a paw shirt…and put it on.

I believe today is the last day of the windsocks that are on display around town each May, so I made sure to pose by one. Now the whole town smells like fish! 😛

I spoke to Otis, and he told me about Nook’s upcoming sale on clothing. Otis told me he wasn’t interested, so I didn’t have to worry about him buying up the clothes before I got the chance.

But when I spoke to him again, he told me his clothes were all getting small. And he said he hopes Nook has some good clothes at the sale! Wow, Otis needs to make up his mind, I s’pose.

Back outside, I approached Static…only for him to quickly go indoors. When I followed him inside, he got mad at me for coming in uninvited.

Belle wanted to sell me an item that was “amazing and rare.” She said stores will never carry it, and she had to special order it. And then, she wanted all my money for it. All 29,267 bells. No. Way.

When I bumped into Baabara, she informed me that I have an authentic alarm clock. Wow, an alarm clock. Amazing. 😛

She felt that the alarm clock was too sophisticated for me, so she offered to give me an arched window for it. I agreed to the trade. But an arched window seems a lot more sophisticated than an alarm clock to me. 😛

I was asked about the catalog in this game, so I figured I would also post this picture here. Each time you complete a section of the catalog, the item count is marked with a star.

It’s a very helpful feature that did not make it to the later games. In fact, the newer games don’t even give you the item count! (Wild World did, but not City Folk or New Leaf). So far, I’ve completed the sections for (handheld) items, stationery, gyroids, fossils, and music.

Iggy just moved in last month, but it didn’t take him long to pop on out of town. I got his goodbye letter in the mail tonight.

A message posted on the bulletin board mentioned the windsocks that appear around town in early May. In fact, they’ll start showing up tomorrow (May 1st)!

Since today is raffle day, I was unable to sell all the junk in my pockets once again. This is quite annoying. But here were Nook’s raffle prizes for this month:

Crazy Redd is coming to town soon, and several of my villagers were talking about him. Candi in particular was pretty mad about it, due to a previous experience with Redd.

I found a new house in town, and I was quite happy to see who moved in: It was Otis! He previously lived in Forest in the early years of the town’s existence. While he wasn’t one of my top favorites, I always liked him a lot. I even quoted his catchphrase (I s’pose) in this blog’s very first entry!

When I visited Puck, he told me Genji said his clothes were too tight. I agreed, and he called it a “scandle” (typo alert). 😛 And the water bird in front of him makes him look funny; it’s like he has two beaks. 😛

What other typos are in the game? I’m aware of Copper’s “campain” one, but are there others that you’ve noticed? Leave a comment if you recall any others!

Hank asked me for a new catchphrase, so I told him to say “on my wing.” I then spoke with him several times, trying to get him to use it in a funny way. But less than two minutes later, he already said it was going out of style! So he asked me for another catchphrase! This time I told him to say “on my beak.” But I stopped talking to him soon after that, before he tired of this one too. 😛

Fortunately, the lost and found at the police station had some stationery. I picked it up to mail away some fossils I found. That cleared up a few spots in my inventory. Shortly after mailing the fossils away, I returned home to wrap up my night in Forest. See you next time!