In the mail today, I found a pirate-treasure crown from Gullivarrr and a (fake) basic painting from Hornsby.
When I visited Marina, I was shocked to find her dusting her cupcakes! 😮 And no, that’s not a euphemism for something, she was literally dusting her cupcakes. 😛
When I spoke with her, she gave me some outdoor shorts to wear…in a snowstorm. Yeah, I think I’ll pass on your dusty cupcakes and snowy-weather shorts.
Before long, I headed over to Apple’s house to say goodbye to her. I’ll miss you, Apple! Best of luck to you!
Over at the plaza, I joined Eloise, Hornsby, Apollo, and Sasha for a K.K. Slider concert. He performed a song called Chillwave for us all.
Later, I went out to Lottie’s island to work. My buddy Tybalt was there, and he was talking about a place for his bat collection. 🦇
I was imagining a remote bat-cave for him, and then the next screen showed the title of his request: A Slugger’s Dugout. He was talking about baseball bats. âš¾ 😛
For the first time, I actually put some effort into the yard. I added some stadium lights, fences, a cooler box, and some bottled beverages.
But there actually aren’t many baseball specific items, at least in terms of furniture. There is a baseball set (bat, ball, and glove together in one item)…and not much else. So I had to use cushions for the bases and home plate. It may not be a home run, but I am pleased with how it turned out.
Indoors, I used the stadium wall and backyard lawn to replicate the feel of a stadium. However, I wasn’t going to make another baseball diamond indoors. He can go outside to play. Indoors, I gave him a 50-inch LCD TV, a couple of throwback mitt chairs, a couple of plastic benches, a treadmill, and a few other baseball-related touches.
Niko showed up to tell me how to polish furniture, and then I wrapped up my time in Happy Home Paradise. Lottie paid me 6,000 Poki for my work. She then disappeared, and I found her by a building outside. She mentioned using some other buildings as facilities…starting with this building as a possible school.
She said we’re going to need more clients to build these facilities, so that means I have more work to do here on Lottie’s island!
I made that same assumption when I saw Tybalt’s request. Though once I saw what he actually meant and decorated his house accordingly, it got me thinking how there really haven’t been bats in Animal Crossing. Not as “creatures” you can catch, not as neighbors, not as NPCs like Isabelle, Blathers, Nook, etc.
I always feel uninspired and frustrated trying to decorate the outsides of the houses and I don’t even know why. I guess in my mind, outside is just the place for trees and flowers and what-not. Outside the DLC I’ve managed to get to 4 stars by just basically putting interesting furniture where it at least doesn’t look too silly. But then, decorating indoor spaces I’m like “listen here, game, if you could give me maybe twelve more rooms, I have all this great wallpaper and nowhere to put it”.
Maybe Marina needed to put a topping on her cupcakes and all she had was a duster?…no she was clearly putting dust from the floor, lawnmower, and sofa onto the cupcakes. Dust is not a good ingredient.