First Rainbow

It was raining in town when I first started up the game. But fortunately, the rain went away, and the sun came out. And with it, a rainbow also appeared! It’s the first rainbow I’ve seen in New Leaf (I still have yet to see one in City Folk).

A rainbow appears over the fountain in my New Leaf town.Here’s a look at the rainbow from up on Main Street:

The rainbow as seen from the bench on Main Street.Up at Re-Tail, I had Cyrus modify my LED display again. I wanted to see how it looks with a pattern instead of the leaves. I used my JVGS logo; it looks alright.

My LED display, showing my JVGS logo pattern.Tabby approached me with a petition. She wanted six out-of-town signatures to outlaw “icky stuff.” In hopes that the petition includes Tabby herself, I agreed to help.

Tabby: I need signatures from folks in other towns for my petition... No More, Like, Icky Stuff!Katt came up to me and wanted me to get some furniture for her. So I gave her the crappiest thing I had in my pockets, a darner dragonfly.

Katt: A darner dragonfly?! As a decoration? Well...I guess so...I worked a shift at the cafe, and I did pretty good today. I got three customers’ orders perfect (including Queenie from out-of-town), and had the other customer’s order partially correct. So I ended up getting some superb coffee beans for my work.

Queenie: Thanks, Jeff! I'll definitely be back for more of this.Benedict asked me to come over to his house, and he made me schedule a time. I chose 4:30. By the time I remembered about him, it was 4:42. But fortunately, he was still in his house waiting.

Benedict: Yay, you're here! I've been waiting ever so patiently, J-bot!I made myself comfortable.

Lying on Benedict's lawn chair in his house.Eventually I got tired of Benedict not doing anything and I left. He asked how I liked his house, and I told him I liked it a lot. It is really nice, especially for summer. Nice backyard theme, with a crack shaved-ice machine, a barbecue, a pool, and so on.

When I went back outside, I heard balloon present and saw a big shadow on the ground! Attached to three gold balloons was a golden slingshot!

A golden slingshots floats overhead on three gold balloons!I shot it, but only popped two of the three balloons. Because a house was in the way, it continued to fly, but vertically. I easily shot it again to finish it off and grab my new fancy slingshot.

I got a golden slingshot! I can shoot three pellets at once!Tex wanted me to deliver something to Benedict, so once again, I headed back to find the red rooster. The package contained a grape shirt, which Benedict tried on.

Benedict, wearing a grape shirt: What do you think? Do I look good or what?I told him it looked “okay.” He got offended and said that I should have it instead, so he gave it to me.

Molly found me and asked if I wanted to buy a classic clock or something. I declined, so she gave it to me for free since I’ve been “good to her.” How nice.

Molly: Great! I'm happy if you're happy, Jeff!When I took a couple peaches to Shrunk at Club LOL, he taught me the sunniness emotion.

Using the sunniness emotion inside Club LOL.Later on tonight, I opened my gate to let Dash buy a fortune cookie. Wendy and Ben also stopped over. But I was having serious connection problems and we kept getting disconnected. Constantly. I managed to save one picture from the extremely short gathering.

Me and two visitors using emotions.Eventually, I gave up and decided to try to fix my connection problems. I followed the instructions on Nintendo’s site and started over from scratch. The only real change was that it un-did the “fix” (manually assigning an IP address to my 3DS) that worked for me a few weeks ago. To test it out, Wendy opened her gate. Surprisingly, we didn’t get disconnected. So I started asking her villagers for signatures for Tabby’s petition.

Miranda: Well, there's my signature. I just can't believe how far you traveled for No More, Like, Icky Stuff.And she showed me her newest project, the illuminated heart. It looks better than I thought it would, especially with the way it flashes.

Animated GIF of the illuminated heart PWP in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.I also liked her bridge right at the top of the waterfall. That’s where I want to put my third bridge when I eventually get one. You can also see her heart from here.

Wendy's bridge atop the waterfall, with her illuminated heart in the distance.I finished getting the signatures I needed, and then (after saving), we hung out a little longer before she ended the session.

Petition signatures for No More, Like, Icky Stuff: Miranda, Angus, Kabuki, Colton, Pango, Mira.But I wasn’t done just yet. Later on, I opened my gate again. Wendy, Annissa, and Aaron came over to visit.

Wendy, Annissa, Aaron, and me hanging out on my bridge.We found Tabby and smacked her around some.

Smacking Tabby with toy hammers.I also “accidentally” whacked Wendy in the face a few dozen times.

Smacking Wendy in the face with a toy hammer. She deserved it.We went to the cafe for some coffee, some laughs, and some sneezes.

Hanging out in the Roost.After that, we went to the island to do a few tours. The balloon hunting tour was littered with pitfall seeds. Very annoying.

Jeff struggling to get out of a pitfall on a balloon-popping island tour.But I actually won that tour! I rarely win any of these things. 😛

Tortimer: Jeff gets 6 medals, Annissa gets 4 medals.We also did a scavenger hunt tour and a fishing tour. I finished 2nd to Annissa in the scavenger hunt, and I came in dead last at the fishing tour.

After that, we returned to Forest and I ended the multiplayer session for the night. It was a lot of fun today, so thanks to everyone who visited Forest (and everyone who tried to, but couldn’t get in or got disconnected). Hopefully my connection will be more reliable for a while now.

Banded Dragonfly

I worked a shift at the Roost again today, and one of the customers was Lucky, from out of town. He’s a mummified dog, and he’s actually pretty cool.

Lucky: Coffee, please! With 2 sugars!I still haven’t had a perfect day at the cafe just yet, but I did fairly good today. Brewster gave me some good coffee beans and a coffee grinder.

Back outside, Tabby and Aurora were whistling The Final Countdown (my town tune) as I spotted a big dragonfly. I went over to it and caught it without any trouble at all; it was a banded dragonfly!

I caught a banded dragonfly! Now to find the rest of its band!I headed over to Club LOL and I gave Shrunk a peach. He taught me the heartbreak emotion.

Shrunk: My Heartbreak Joke is just the thing to CURE what ails you!Shrunk, using the heartbreak emotion: It was the one time I ever DIDN'T want toI only need five more emotions now. And then I’ll never have to feed Shrunk again! 😛

I found my daily fossils, but they were all duplicates once again. I haven’t found a new one in a while. Then I did my shopping, sold some stuff, and returned home. But later on, I returned back to Club LOL for traditional KK. I ended up getting K.K. Synth from him.

K.K. Slider performs for me at Club LOL.

Hide and Seek

Today, Big Top approached me and told me he had a talk with Oakville from Wendy…

Big Top: Did you know I had a chat with Oakville from Wendy?He then corrected himself to say Wendy from Oakville instead. But he said she was one heck of a civic leader. If you say so. 😛

Big Top: Now, she's one heck of a civic leader, don't you think, agent #1?In Club LOL, Shrunk taught me the sheepishness emotion.

Shrunk, using the sheepishness emotion: He told my son, "Your dad's a little hoarse today."And of course, it was raining cats and dogs…as always. I know it’s the rainy season, but it shouldn’t be this rainy. Give me at least one day without the rain, please! I’m dying to catch some July bugs already! Benedict had a good idea; he said it should rain fruit punch instead of water.

Benedict: Wouldn't it be great if the sky rained fruit punch instead of water, uh-hoo?I then stopped in Rolf’s house and found a surprise: Tabby! 😮 What in the world did I walk in on?! I lost a lot of respect for Rolf today.

Tabby hanging out at Rolf's house.Running back outside into the rain provided no relief from ugly cats. Katt was out there, talking about how wet we both were.

Katt: Ha ha! Hey, Jeff! Looks like we're both gonna be all wet today! What am I?!But she asked me to play hide and seek. Any game that involves Katt staying out of sight sounds like a good game to me! Rory and Benedict also joined in the game.

Katt: OK! Here's what's gonna happen... We are all going to go hide!I had 15 minutes to find them all. Rory was the first one I found, hiding behind the modern clock. That’s a really stupid thing to hide behind, considering you can see right through the huge opening.

Rory tries to hide behind the modern clock during a game of hide-and-seek.Next, I found Katt hiding behind town hall.

Katt hides behind town hall during a game of hide-and-seek.I still had nearly 12 minutes left, so I took my time and stopped at Re-Tail to sell some stuff. Not far from there, I saw Benedict hiding behind a house. I talked to him and won the game.

Katt: You win this time, Jeff! Here! Take this prize!Katt gave me a modern wood table. As soon as I took the item from her, all three of their umbrellas popped up at once. It was actually kind of funny.

Three villagers holding umbrellas, which all popped up at the same moment!After a shopping run, I was basically done for the day. But Wendy asked to come over to shop, so I opened my gate briefly. With her hair style and color, she actually looked like Yann!

Wendy, looking like Yann!After she finished, I ended the session.

By the way, I have now added a New Leaf eye color guide to JVGS that lets you know how to get the eye color you want. It includes nice, clear pictures of each color too (not the super tiny pictures you’ll find on other guides). I hope you find it useful! And I hope to see you all tomorrow!