As expected, I received Midge’s goodbye letter in the mail today.
Of course, today is Christmas Eve (aka Toy Day). I grabbed a bunch of hats out of storage, and then I began my search for Jingle as I made my rounds.
When I visited Roscoe, he assumed I was out looking for whoever was out delivering presents. But he assured me it wasn’t him. 😆
A few of my villagers mentioned writing letters to the dude in red. So I mentally replied, “Mario?” 😆
Robin stated it quite differently, referring to a “red-bellied” guest!
Santa (and Jingle) wear red, but they’re not red-bellied! You know who is red-bellied, though? Robins! Not you, Robin, but real robins. 😛
I eventually found Jingle outdoors and he gave me a Jingle bed. Moments later, I found him again…on the moon!
Well, okay, I guess it was Ruby’s house. But it looked like the moon! 🌑
The northeast part of my town has four villager houses, and it turned out that all four of them were away from home tonight. That was helpful, because I could quickly knock out four of Jingle’s potential hiding spots in rapid succession. Of course he’s not always indoors, so I still had to do some searching when he was outside somewhere. But there were times I found him in this area up to three times in a row!
I kept changing my hats to fool Jingle, and I was wearing a dressing (the mummy bandages) when I went into the Roost. Phyllis was in there, and she mentioned seeing me there before.
Back outside, Punchy compared the falling snow to powdered sugar on a chocolate cake. Mmm, that sounds good.
Big Top asked me for a new catchphrase, and I thought I’d tell him to say something along the lines of “in a stocking,” since it’s Christmas Eve. Of course, that’s too long for a catchphrase, so I shortened it to “in a sock.” 🧦
Back on the moon, I ran into Jingle again while wearing my hot dog hat. I couldn’t help but wonder if he was talking about my hat when he said this. 😛
Anyway, I experimented a bit with mixing accessories. On three consecutive attempts, this is what I wore (on my head):
- hot dog hat
- hot dog hat with a red rose
- hot dog hat with a gold rose
And they all worked just fine to fool Jingle. But there was something else I also tried on my next two attempts. First, I wore nothing on my head and got my gift from Jingle. Then, I purposely got stung by bees. I wanted to see if a bee sting counted as a disguise! 😆 However, it did not fool him (even though it changes your appearance more than putting a rose in your mouth). 😆
The next time I wore Majora’s Mask, I stood so that the camera could see my face as I spoke with Jingle. I just thought it would make a good screenshot.
I played for nearly an hour and a half in total, and I scored 15 furniture items from Jingle. I sold them for a total of 183,600 bells before wrapping up my game for the night.
I hope you all have a happy Toy Day and a Merry Christmas! 🎄 I’ll see you next time!