Boondopolis

As I started up the game tonight, I made a decision. If anyone other than Goldie, Big Top, or Margie were packed up to move away, I would let them go.

Pascal was in town today, and he told me that when you live in the ocean, the surf’s always up.

Pascal: When you live in the ocean, maaannn, the surf's always up.

He gave me a ship cannon before he jumped into the ocean. For a moment, I thought it would be cool to put it outside of a villager’s house. And then I remembered I can’t do that. 😛 I guess I’ve been playing too much New Horizons. 😉

Outside of town hall, I cleaned up all the rotten acorns I left there last week from the Acorn Festival.

As I completed my initial walk around town, I spoke with Goldie and she told me she wasn’t having any luck finding fossils today. I thought that was odd, because I didn’t find a single fossil either!

Goldie: I'm not having any luck finding fossils today!

But I did find two fossils a few minutes later, right next to each other, in fact. 😛

I gathered and sold some fruit, and when I was done, I had enough (along with money in my account) to make another million bell donation to Boondox! Pelly told me that Boondox has now changed its name to Boondopolis!

Pelly: I heard that Boondox has changed its name to Boondopolis.

If I’m not mistaken, I just need to donate one million more bells and I’ll be done with Boondox/Boondopolis forever. Of course, that will still take me a few months, but it’s good to know I’m on the home stretch.

No one was packed up to move out tonight. But I’ll likely use the same criteria next week (anyone but Goldie, Big Top, or Margie can go).

Acorn Festival 2020

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

Jeff picks up acorns in Animal Crossing: Wild World.

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.

Cornimer: But the Great Cornimer hungers for more! MORE, I SAY!
You don’t have to yell.

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:

Your secret fortune: Medium Acorn. Life: Yes... I think. Hopes: It should work. Karma: You're on track. Look behind you!

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. 😛

Benedict: Huh huh huh! Maybe I'll stick around a little bit longer, red roost!

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.

Falling for Katrina

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.

Katrina: A faceless cat searches for something inside a cave...

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! 😛

Jeff falls on his face near Margie.

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.

Antonio: I'll race you to catch one. How about it? It'll be a hot workout, up my 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.

Mathilda: Well, it just proves to me how, er, peaceful our town is, roo'd.

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!