I started up the game tonight to find my newly-expanded home. The Happy Home Academy sent me a gift for the occasion: a vacuum cleaner. Louie also sent me a gift in the mail, a piano bench. Tom Nook informed me my next loan will be 198,000 bells.
When I visited Louie, he was crafting in his house. He gave me a DIY recipe for a plain wooden shop sign. Nice!
After that, I went to meet my new neighbor, Marcel the clown dog. I reallllllly don’t like the clown face, but I do like the way his green fur looks for some reason.
At Nook’s Cranny, I saw they had party poppers for sale in the cabinet. I bought five of them.
I went over to Plot #3, and it said that it’s reserved for Midge’s new home. So I guess Midge will be the next villager to move in. Midge is alright. Not one of my favorites, but I don’t dislike her. So I’m okay with that.
But seeing the plot reminded me that I needed to craft an iron garden table for Plot #2. After I made it and put it in place, Tom Nook thanked me for completing all the plots. He gave me some fencing: 50 pieces of simple wooden fencing to mark off a yard or park. Pretty cool, although I’m not sure how I’m going to use it just yet.
At 10:00, I opened my gate for the first New Horizons version of Friday Night Forest. Bran, Marlie, Alex, Ros, Timo, T Zelda (TZ), and Benji came to visit. The process is slow, and people come one at a time, so it took about ten minutes for everyone to arrive.
I had four benches lined up on the beach, so I asked everyone to join me. We all took a seat, and then I dug holes in front of everyone. When the time was right, we all fell in. 🙂
Alex pointed out that I had a message bottle on the beach. It was from Ellie, and it contained a DIY recipe for a wooden-block chest.
We all went around so that everyone could meet my villagers. We went to Shari’s house first, and I was surprised when I saw Benji teleport through Shari’s table! That’s right, there’s lag! And I say that as a good thing, because lag in City Folk made for some funny and entertaining moments. No joke!
Next, we headed over to Louie’s house. He was still crafting, and (almost) everyone learned a new recipe from him. But the lag, combined with his hammering, made for some funny scenes. When someone spoke with him, he would turn to speak to them, and yet he kept hammering for a bit!
On the way to Marcel’s house, Alex said “Agent S? Not bad.” At first, I didn’t know what that meant…but then it hit me (like a hammer). I realized I never checked the sign on Plot #2 after completing it, so I rushed over there. Sure enough, it said Agent S was coming! YES! I know Midge will probably arrive first, but that’s okay. Agent S is the superhero that can save Forest! 😀
Anyway, we briefly said hello to Marcel, and then we went cliff climbing.
We headed over to my private beach (after a brief stop at my, uh, private rock that I thought was my beach?). A couple people were tooting ocarinas.
We then had a vaulting spree near my waterfall and clifftop pond. It was surprisingly fun! 😀
After that, we made our way over the museum for some museum tag, which is basically hide-and-seek. I found TZ first, but she didn’t seem to want to become the seeker, so she sat on a bench. I continued on, finding Ros (and a few others) near the portholes in the aquarium.
TZ and Ros left, and David and Megan arrived. Alex was the next seeker, and it didn’t take long for Megan to be found. 😛 The game kinda dissolved into just hanging out in the museum. But Marlie said she hadn’t been found yet, so I suggested we all look for Marlie. David eventually found her.
I returned to the lobby to find almost everyone applauding for no apparent reason. It was kind of cool, and yet, kind of frightening. 😛
I needed some fresh air after that, so we went outside and felt the breeze of a nice, relaxing, violent net fight.
David gave me a DIY recipe for a shell bed. Thanks, David! We eventually went over to my house, which is so messy and cluttered that I don’t even want to post a screenshot. 😀 I have crafting materials all over my floor, and a poster of Vladimir (not wearing pants) on the wall. 😮
After we went outside, a message said that someone quietly left, and we all returned to the airport. I’m guessing that means someone (apparently Marlie) disconnected?
Jesse arrived, and we had a full town again. Over at the benches, Shari did her best Porter impersonation and made sure everyone was all aboard the train. 😛
We did the bench thing a couple more times (for those who didn’t participate earlier), and I ended the party about ten minutes after midnight. Thank you all for coming! I had a really fun time! 🙂
My old ACCF buddy Jorge wasn’t able to join in tonight, but I made a quick visit to his town Nova. I fell into a hole in his town, and I struck oil!
It was raining in his town, so mud was splashing up all around me as I struggled in the pitfall! It didn’t seem like there should be that much mud!
Before long, I got disconnected. So I just returned to Forest and collected Wisp’s spirits. I asked him for something expensive, and he gave me a cardboard box. Seriously. 📦
When I ran into Shari again, she had an idea to give Forest some more personality. Apparently, this is the New Horizons equivalent of a PWP suggestion. She gave me a manhole cover to put in town…so I put it next to her house. 😛
Ros sent me an ocarina in the mail. Thanks!
My first New Horizons Wi-Fi Moments video will be posted tomorrow, and it will contain many scenes from tonight’s events. Have a great night, and Never Stop Crossing!
This was great fun, Jeff, thanks for having us! And congrats on getting Agent S!
Thanks! I’m glad you had a good time! 🙂
Awe, Agent S! she’s appeared as one of the first villagers in pretty much all my towns, she’s one of my favorites!
I’m trying to save up for a switch, it’s kinda hard to earn money with this whole Covid-19 thing going on
I missed it! I literally tried entering at like 10:02 pm but I couldn’t because the full message kept going on :/ Oh well, next time I’ll be there! 🙂
next time if you want to invite me please do it using my twitter.
only if you want.
Yeah so I was waiting for you to open your gate but your island was already full! Oh well I might try next week. Glad you had fun though Jeff!
I really enjoyed fnf! It was pretty cool to experience hanging out with everybody in your town.
I’m glad to hear it! 🙂
Haha it was 2am you were opening in my time zone but i fell asleep 😂 my alarm didnt go off. Oops! – Maybe i can come next time lol
In the first few minutes, I’d get an image of Mr. Resetti stating “You can’t join at this time because the destination locale is full.” The attempt to join would end abruptly. After about 10 minutes or so I stopped getting the Resetti message. Instead I’d just be told by a sad-eyed Orville, “OK, I found a place called Forest…but it’s at full capacity and not taking visitors.”
It’s my fault. I caught a blue marlin at the pier two minutes prior and I was so excited I rushed to the museum to donate it, and that made me late.
I’m so frustrated. I tried for two hours trying to get into your town. Got so close towards the end but Jesse beat me to it. Please promise you’ll leave a spot for me next time… I’m very stressed and exhausted because I was looking forward to this all week after also failing to make it to the Sunday event.
I’m surprised your town filled up that quickly, the loading screen must of been a nightmare. Literally, a split second after you opened it was full. I tried for a few minutes after but wow, your town filled up quick aha
I find vaulting over a river to be oddly satisfying too, but I find it more fun if you vault into a hole personally. Me and my friend wasted 20 minutes just pole vaulting!
I think the message is wrong. It was telling people my town was full even when only a couple of people had arrived. I think the message is probably meant to say something like “someone is already in the process of entering town.” Because it took a good 10, 11 minutes before the town was full.
Yeah, I’m sure that’s fun too! 🙂