One Scorpion, 3 Trades

Late on Sunday night, I started up the game hoping to catch some of the fireworks festival. However, it was just after midnight, and the event had already ended. So I completely missed out on fireworks in City Folk this year. Oops. But at least Tortimer was still hanging out in front of town hall…

Tortimer: Well. I guess this is it for fireworks this year. No more fireworks until next year. How sad...

Many of my villagers still had fireworks-related dialogue, so I almost felt like I had been part of it, at least indirectly. 😛

Poncho: That empty, boomless feeling you get when the Fireworks Show is over really bums me out, li'l bear.
Harry: Phew... How long have I been on my feet? But I couldn't let the fireworks outlast me, I'm evil!

I found three items in the recycle bin: A gold econo-chair, a glass-top table, and a turntable. It’s pretty rare to find three items in there all at once…but it got even better. Later on, I also found a pine bonsai in there as well! Four items in one session is very rare.

Marcel was still sick with a cold, so I gave him more medicine on Sunday. When I played again tonight, he had sent me a letter telling me he was all better now. He sent me a lovely chair as a thank-you gift.

Nana was fully unpacked, so I got a good look at her house tonight. She has a fruit theme, and that makes perfect sense, considering she’s named after a banana herself.

Nana's fruit-themed house in Animal Crossing: City Folk (ACCF) for Nintendo Wii.

I spent the last hour of August catching some bugs (and fish) to enjoy the last bit of summer. But the fun ended at the crack of midnight, when September began and tons of crickets suddenly started appearing.

I caught a cricket! That's the ticket!

In an instant, many of the rare bugs were gone. But I did still catch a few, including a scorpion that Tom (the cat) offered me 12,698 bells for. (Naturally, I sold it to him.) After I grabbed a vertigo shirt from the lost and found, Tom pinged me again. He wanted the shirt, and he offered me the scorpion that he just bought! I was shocked! 😲

Tom: I'll give you a good deal! My new scorpion for it! Whaddays say?

Of course I made the trade. That’s two amazing trades from Tom. In effect, Tom paid me nearly 13k for a shirt that I got for free! Amazing! It got even better when Grizzly later bought the scorpion from me for 10,752 bells. 😆

If you look at the series of trades another way, I got over 23k for a scorpion and a shirt. 😲

Since I had trouble finding more rare bugs though, so I sold several rounds of foreign fruit. I ended up being able to boost my bank account balance up to 58 million bells! So I beat my summer goal by a cool half million bells. 😎

Your current balance is 58,000,000 bells.

10 thoughts on “One Scorpion, 3 Trades”

  1. Keaton gave me a throne in New Leaf, as a gift, when coming round to my house unannounced a few weeks ago. That was a nice 200,000 Bells out of nowhere.

    The trading here though is so much more satisfying, makes up for all those previous, terrible, offers they make, usually involving a t-shirt at their end.

  2. Theories for why Tom wanted to get rid of the scorpion so quickly:

    1. He found out that it is illegal in Forest for cats to possess scorpions.

    2. He invested in scorpions and the market crashed.

    3. The vertigo shirt you found was Tom’s and he had stuffed items inside the pockets that would have resulted in trouble with Copper and Booker and he wanted it back before he got caught.

  3. I have been playing City Folk every day for the past week and a half trying to catch a shark aka great white shark. I’ve literally caught a million hammerheads and ocean sunfishes but no sharks. Every time where I think there is a shark, I always screw up and it gets away. I have no idea what I’m doing wrong or if I’m not quick enough. I am going to need some help or ask someone to catch it for more because this is getting very stupid and it’s driving me crazy! Please help if you can and hopefully I can have someone nearby where I live catch it for me in the future.

    1. Sounds like you’ve just been very unlucky. 🙁 Keep at it, and you should catch one soon. One thing you can try is to make sure your TV is on “game mode,” if it has one. That can reduce some of the lag that HDTVs sometimes have in displaying the signal. So it might give you an extra fraction of a second. Good luck!

      1. I caught a shark this past Thursday, now it’s Monday. I time traveled to Friday the 9th at 9 pm. It was raining so I was looking for a coelacanth for the past few days from last Friday till today and no luck. I will have to look up if my TV has a “game mode” like you said and will work on it later this week. I need the coelacanth and the tuna to complete my fish collection but I’m not worried about the tuna at the moment.

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