Jeff's ACWW Blog

The annual week-long Acorn Festival is now underway. Many trees around town will have acorns underneath them.

Our job is to gather them up, separate the rotten ones, and give the rest to the “mysterious” Cornimer…who is totally not Tortimer in disguise. 😉 Because that would just be corny.

In return, he gives out mush furniture when the number of acorns you’ve given him reaches certain thresholds. He also can use acorns to predict your future. Here’s a look at the fortune he gave me:

In other news, Benedict was packed up and ready to move out of town. I considered letting him go. I really did! But I checked and saw it’s only been two weeks since he gave me his photo, and that seemed too soon. But I’m going to let someone go one of these weeks, seriously. 😛

In all, I gave Cornimer 102 acorns and he gave me seven pieces of furniture: The mush stool, mush end table, mush lamp, mush chair, mush dresser, mush closet, and mush stand.

I sold all seven pieces, but Tom Nook only paid 15,600 bells for them all. That was a lot of work for just 15k! Not to mention, I have a mess of rotten acorns on the ground near town hall that I have to clean up.

Both of the elephants in town (Big Top and Margie) asked me for new catchphrases tonight. Big Top even asked twice! But I told them both to keep using the phrases they already had.

Katrina’s tent was set up outside of town hall today, so I ventured inside to get my fortune told. She started telling me a story about a faceless cat looking inside of a cave. That sounds like Blanca.

But as usual, her story quickly dissolved into a nonsensical jumble of words that don’t really say anything. The cat could give up, but she cannot. Happiness may come my way, or it may not. And then she took my money.

But the “fortune” was apparently more of a curse than a prediction. Because I fell flat on my face, right next to Margie. How embarrassing! 😛

Benedict asked for a new catchphrase, and I told him to say “buhk buhk.” That’s what Hank says in the GameCube game.

Antonio (again) wanted to compete to see who could catch a monarch butterfly first. He said it would be a hot workout, up his nose.

Monarchs aren’t out this time of night, so I declined the offer (as tempting as that was, haha). He’ll have to sniff out his own butterflies and quit trying to bait me into joining an unwinnable contest.

A message on the bulletin board informed me that the acorn festival starts on Monday. I’ll be sure to check it out next week, on whichever day I end up playing.

Mathilda was looking forward to the festival, and she said the fact that we pick up acorns for fun, just proves to her how peaceful this town really is.

But the way she threw that “er” in there made me wonder if she was going to use a different word instead of peaceful. Like boring, perhaps? Hmm…

Good luck with the acorn festival, everyone! See you next week!

Tom Nook had a spotlight product for sale today, but it was one I’ve already bought in the past: a black queen.

Surprisingly, Benedict was talking about death and reincarnation tonight. He said if he died, he would want to come back as the ocean.

Victoria was all packed up and ready to move out of town, and I seriously considered letting her go. It’s not that I don’t like her, because I do. But it’s been a while since the villager lineup has changed, and I think the town needs some fresh blood. However, I couldn’t pull the trigger on the move. 😛 I ultimately asked her to stay anyway. But I do need to let someone move soon.

When I ran into Kabuki outside, he offered to sell me a mystery item for just 320 bells.

That’s pretty cheap for just about anything, so I agreed to buy it. It turned out to be a No. 2 shirt; I decided to put it on.

It must have been a lucky shirt, because the next time I spoke with someone, it was Benedict giving me his picture!

I was actually a bit surprised he hadn’t given me his photo already. Other villagers have given theirs sooner. So I checked to see exactly when Benedict moved into town, and I was even more surprised to see it was exactly one year ago today!

I put his photo in my upstairs room, but I had to change the layout of the room. I previously left an empty row between rows of villager pics, but I was running out of room! So I pushed them all together, just leaving just a path up the right side of the room.

Benedict’s favorite quote is “Bok bok bok?! Just kidding. A huh huh huh!” That’s really some insightful stuff. 😛

Antonio is now the only current villager whose photo I don’t have yet. That is another sign that my current crop of villagers is getting a bit stale.