Month: October 2020

Last night, Celeste was in town for a meteor shower. She gave me a D.I.Y. recipe for a star pochette.

Today, I had a camper at the campsite. And just in time for Halloween, it was Elise the frightening monkey. She looks uglier than ever in New Horizons.

Hornsby asked me to play a treasure hunt game, but he only gave me three minutes (instead of the usual six). It took me about a minute and 20 seconds to find the item near Midge’s house; it was an anorak jacket.

Shortly after 10:00 tonight, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Alex from A-Nation, Timo, Ros, Crazy Redd Alex from Pawnee, and Logan came over.

After everyone browsed through the free recipes, we headed over to the graveyard. I set up some stools so that we could all be buried alive. Falling into holes like this is something we hadn’t done in a while, and I figured Halloween was a good time to bring it back. 🙂

We then headed over to the Halloween race course for a tournament. Even though I didn’t properly explain my plan at the start, the first two people to finish from each round would advance to the finals.

Alex, Alex, Logan, and Ros competed in the first race. Crazy Redd (Alex from Pawnee) was the winner, and right as he won, Xavier came over. Alex from A-Nation finished second, so both Alexes qualified for the finals.

In the second round, it was me, Timo, Xavier…and we had room for one more, so Alex from A-Nation took the other spot. Looking back, it should have been Logan or Ros taking that extra spot, since Alex had already qualified for the finals. I wasn’t paying enough attention. Sorry, Logan and Ros!

This was my first time competing in the race, but I still had home-field advantage. 😛 I utilized a technique that nobody had used in previous races: I filled in my first hole with my feet. Even though it slows you a bit down at the start, it saves more time at the end, because you don’t have to fall into it on the way back.

Even though Timo got back to the start first, I was first to drop my skeleton. But both of us advanced to the finals. 😛

In the finals, I actually finished first. Even though I enjoyed racing on the course, I know it doesn’t seem fair for me to win on my own course that I designed. 😛 So I gave the “champion” title to Crazy Redd, who was hot on my tail. Afterwards, we took some photos on the course.

After everyone went to meet Elise, we also went to say hi to Bones. A couple people got locked out because Bones “went to sleep” at 11:00 (even though some of us were inside talking to him).

We went to the graveyard to fall into holes again (since Xavier didn’t get to do it the first time), and then we played a sumo tournament. In the finals, Xavier beat me for the win.

Alex from A-Nation left, but the rest of us played a six-player round of sumo. Timo was the winner of that one.

After some wand-waving, net-sprinkling, swimming, and Jeff-killing, Logan left for the night. I wondered if any of my villagers were crafting, and Xavier told me that Tia was crafting. I went to Tia’s house, but her lights were off and she was sleeping. Very funny, Xavier. Or at least, that’s what I thought…until I saw Alex and Timo go inside!

This isn’t the same as what happened at Bones’s house earlier. There, some of us just happened to get inside right before he locked his door at 11:00. But here, it wasn’t the top of the hour, and her house was open for everyone but me.

Around 12:30, I ended the session for the night. Thanks to all who came, it was fun! 🙂 Have a great weekend and I’ll see you next time!

This morning, I caught my first Venus’ flower basket. It’s quite a unique looking creature!

Of course, I donated it to the museum.

Saharah was in town, so I bought most of her items this evening. That included a strawberry-chocolate wall, natural wooden-deck rug, yellow kilim-style carpet, and a train-station flooring.

Able Sisters had all three colors of the cavalier shirts, so I bought the blue one I needed. I’m still wearing my referee outfit for now, though. It may or may not be my Halloween costume.

Rizzo told me a good story. He said that when he first started out with D.I.Y. crafting, he once hit his finger with the hammer! And then he dropped the hammer on his toe! 😀 I wish I had been around to see that!

Speaking of crafting, I did a little of that myself today. I made Bones the perfect gift: a bone doorplate! Actually, it would be perfect for any dog. But that fact that his name is Bones makes it doubly perfect. 😛

In return, he gave me a tuna-sushi costume…which was not quite as perfect. 😛

October is winding down, so I need to be thinking about my Halloween island tour video! I still want to add a couple more small attractions first, though. I have a couple ideas in mind, but I’ll have to figure out if I have enough free pattern design slots for everything I want to do.

Reminder for people on my Switch friend roster: I am planning on having Friday Night Forest this week. Wear a costume if you’d like.

Gulliver sent me my reward in the mail today; it was a veil.

A lot of my villagers were asking me for favors. In fact, I completed five favors today, which may be a personal record for me. This is what I did:

• Took medicine to a sick Bones.
• Delivered a present from Tia to Hornsby.
• Returned a lost item to Rizzo.
• Caught a yellow perch for Agent S.
• Caught a wharf roach for Tia.

My totals displayed on the “Smile Isle” achievement card (whatever it’s called) climbed from 73 to 78 on the day. My rewards were a dance-team jacket from Bones, a cafe uniform from Hornsby, a student cap from Rizzo, a jumper work suit from Agent S, and a bicycle helmet from Tia: all clothing items. Not a single piece of furniture, let alone a villager photo!

When I put some money into the bank, my account balance reached 10 million bells for the first time. I’m not sure if the game has any long-term saving goals, but it would be hard to imagine it not having any…since all the previous games did. I should find out tomorrow if there’s a reward for 10 million.

Label was at the plaza today, and she wanted to see me wearing some “vacation” clothes. She gave me a “fischerhemd” as an example, but that didn’t help me much.

I had no idea what to wear with it, so I didn’t even go back to my house to check for clothes in storage. I just put on the top she gave me and spoke with her again. It wasn’t good enough for her, but that’s what I figured. Oh well. Maybe I’ll do better next time.

Have a great day, and I’ll see you all next time!