Friday Night Forest

Tonight was my Wi-Fi night, and I opened my gate about 10:03. Bradley, T.Zelda (TZ), and Patty quickly entered. We barely got done saying our hellos and Bradley already had to leave.

After I watered my flowers (finding two new black roses along the way), the three of us went bug and fish hunting. As much as I hate to say it, summer is starting to wind down and these profitable tree beetles won’t be around forever. There were a lot of good ones out tonight, so it was a lot of fun.

Three of us holding up our valuable bug catches.TZ left at 11:00, so it was just Patty and I for the remainder of the night. Nobody else showed up.

Patty and Jeff setting off roman candles.I ended up making nearly 200,000 bells on the night. I reached a milestone in my bank account: 7 million bells.

Your current balance is 7,000,000 bells.Patty left around 11:45 and I ended up closing my gate shortly after 11:50. I used to have a bunch of late-night players who came in after 11 p.m. (or later) after the early batch cleared out (I called them the late-night crew), but they don’t seem to play much anymore.

The Truth Hurts

I shot down Gulliver’s UFO yesterday, so that meant he would be on the beach today. I found him and gave him his missing spaceship part.

Gulliver: Ur... Gonna barf... Rocket ships...make me... wanna hork...Which item would he give me in return? I was hoping for a metroid or a moai statue. But he gave me…a Mouth of Truth. I like the Mouth of Truth, but I already have one, from the first time I shot him down. So after only four Gulliver items, I already have one duplicate. Considering how rare the UFO is, and how hard it is to shoot it down, this is a big disappointment.

Jeff looks disinterested at his new Mouth of Truth.

Gulliver Goes Down!

Francine has officially moved out of town; I got her goodbye letter today. As usual when an animal moves out, I take regular flowers out of my “free flower” area and place them where the departing beast’s house was. That’s so the grass there regrows quicker.

I played between 5:00 and 5:30 p.m. and saw that Pete was nowhere to be found. That, combined with the fact that no other visitors were in town, let me know that the UFO should be flying overhead later.

And true enough, it happened, and I shot it down and recovered the spaceship gear part for the 4th time. Will this be the time I get lucky and get the metroid? I wouldn’t mind the moai statue either. I’ll find out tomorrow.

Shooting Gulliver's UFO with my slingshot. Smoke starts to pour out of the spaceship.