Jeff's ACWW Blog

Gracie was in town yesterday, and I hadn’t seen her in a while, so I made sure to chat her up. As she was, uh, taking my measurements, all the girls in town came over to watch! Rosie and Margie pinged me, and Mint was just walking towards me.

Once Gracie was done measuring me and moved on to a pop quiz, the girls all lost interest and walked away.

She gave me a certificate saying I was a true fashionista. I didn’t get a prize or anything, but now I realize that I should have kept talking to her more, and I didn’t. Oops. Maybe next time.

When I mentioned “all the girls in town” above, that wasn’t entirely true. That didn’t include Goldie, who had been sick for a while. She was in her house, but she was finally feeling better today. She gave me a conga drum (and a kiss?) to thank me for the medicine.

Even though I’ve been playing more frequently over the past week, it’s not because of snow. In fact, it hasn’t snowed again since last Tuesday! I was thinking snow was more frequent once winter started, but that hasn’t been the case so far.

Today, I spoke with Teddy and he asked what happened to my face. And no, I had not been stung by a bee. He was just being rude.

Anyway, he asked me if I thought all he does is work out and get big, and I answered yes. That’s all he ever seems to talk about (when he’s not being rude), after all. So he got mad at me for my answer, gave me a “How DARE you,” and basically called me ignorant.

I am SO ready for him to leave town. As much as I like him in other games, I’m starting to strongly dislike him in Wild World.

At the other end of the spectrum, I just seem to be liking Margie more and more. She was talking about how much she loves Forest. How cute.

Goldie was in her house again today, and she was talking about designing. I didn’t quite understand why she told me she didn’t have a pencil in her house, though.

After having Blathers identify my fossils, I went to Benedict’s house. He has been asking me for a fossil, so I gave him an archaeopteryx. He gave me an exquisite rug in return. I wanted to see if he would display the fossil, so I left his house and then re-entered. He did indeed display it, and he joked that his house was like a new mini-museum.

When I spoke to him again though, he asked for another fossil. I gave him a plesio skull and he gave me 500 bells. At this point, I stopped talking to him before he wanted any more fossils. I’m losing out by giving them away for rugs and 500 bells. But he sure seemed happy with his little museum.

I found a striped cone in the recycle bin at town hall. It’s not particularly worth much, but it seems rare to find much of anything in there in Wild World. So I’ll take any freebies I can get.

There hasn’t been any change in my town status, despite the flowers and trees I’ve been planting. But I’m going to keep trying! See you next time!

I’ve been playing more frequently lately, so this blog entry will cover several days of playing.

Wednesday

Wednesday was December 11th, and there were two main things I noticed on the ground.

The first one is obvious: Snow now covers the grass. But the second thing I noticed is that I had wilted flowers…even though it snowed the day before! So I went back to compare my Tuesday footage with my Wednesday footage, and this is what I found.

First of all, any flowers that were wilted on Tuesday were indeed revived by the snow on Wednesday. That’s what I expected. However, some of the flowers that were not wilted on Tuesday during the snow were wilted on Wednesday! Not a lot, but a few.

So the precipitation seems to help wilted flowers, but doesn’t prevent non-wilted flowers from wilting the next day. This is not how it works in City Folk and New Leaf. In those later games, there won’t be any wilties on the day after rain or snow. Just a heads-up for those of you who still play Wild World (if you didn’t know this already).

Thursday

The good news is that Tom Nook had a spotlight product today. The bad news is that it was a hamster cage again! That makes three times already that the spotlight product has been a hamster cage! And I’ve only had a handful of spotlight items so far…how can the items be hamsters half the time?

Goldie was still sick with a cold, so I retrieved some medicine for her.

Mint showed me a letter she got, saying that even coconut thieves think they are good people.

Saturday

Teddy was out looking for a dung beetle tonight. Maybe he should find some dung first.

Rosie was all packed up and ready to leave me, but I got her to change her mind. I don’t want to let her go!

Goldie was still sick, so I gave her some medicine once again.

I planted more trees and flowers every day I played this week, but I’m still getting that “not passing, not failing” message at town hall.

Of course, I’m going to keep trying! Hopefully I’ll reach perfect town status soon, maybe even next week? We’ll see!

Last night, Benedict was talking about the footprints that are left when we walk on the beach. But the conversation took a surprising turn when he said it gave him ideas on how to fake alibis! Wow, what is Benedict up to?

That was a curious conversation, but the one I had with Rosie was just as puzzling. She said it was going to be a “pain in the tush” to get back home, so she wondered if she should just stay over at Teddy’s house!

Oh, and did I mention she was standing next to her own house?! Does she have a thing for Teddy now? Where did that come from?

Mint offered me a cafe shirt for 550 bells, and I told her it’s a deal. However, she reacted as if I had turned down the offer! She said she was going to sell it at Nook’s shop instead! What is going on??

I played again tonight, and it was snowing! Finally!

Big Top was as happy to see the snow as I was…if not more.

I made a delivery for Benedict, and took a package over to Rosie. There was a rose shirt inside. Hmm, a rose for Rosie.

I visited Margie, and she told me that clothes were the building blocks of fashion…like gum.

Forest’s other elephant said my face reminds him of frothy green tea! I don’t even know what is going on in this town any more.

A few other notes:

• At Nookington’s, I bought a large festive tree for my house.
• Goldie was sick, so I gave her some medicine.
• Crazy Redd had an “awesome painting” for sale, which is the fake version of the amazing painting. Most fakes don’t have different names, but this is the one exception.

Now that the snow is here, I’m going to be checking regularly for snow (and playing on days when I see snow at the title screen). I’ve also started to work on my town status. I’ve been planting extra flowers and trees lately, but I probably have a long way to go. Wish me luck and I’ll see you next time. Have a great day!