Welcome, Skye

When I started up the game today, Lyle met me outside my house. He told me that since my house is fully paid off, I’m now a VIP member of the Happy Homes Academy. I’m now eligible for home exterior evaluations.

Lyle: Mr. Jeff. VIP members? Eligible for home-exterior evalutations by the HHA as well.So exciting… He said there will now be theme challenges, and he gave me a choice of themes. I chose sci-fi, since I have the astro exterior to my house. But I don’t really care about this stuff.

Anyway, I headed over to Re-Tail. I never picked up my golden furniture from yesterday, so I made sure to do that today. It was another golden clock! Ugh! This is at least my fifth one, but I’ve lost count at this point.

Take home the golden clock?When I went back outside, Rolf told me he was going to move out of town. Sorry tiger, but you’re not allowed to move.

Rolf: Oh, you're gonna try and stop me?!I then went to meet my newest neighbor, Skye the wolf. I wonder if she thinks I’m a wolf too. Welcome to Forest, Skye.

Skye: Oh, do you live around here? I'm Skye, and I'm new to town. I used to live in Ruby.She moved in from Chris’s town Ruby. Chris visited me on Friday night. I have now updated my town page to reflect Skye’s presence and my current map.

When I spoke to Big Top, he invited himself over to my house. These visits are extremely boring to me. I’ll talk to the visitor a few times and maybe change rooms, but basically you’re just waiting for them to leave.

Big Top: Don't mind me! If you want to guzzle some grape soda, just pretend I'm not here.Once he eventually left, I went up to Main Street for my daily shopping run. I started off at the museum. After I got my fossils identified by Blathers, I decided to “rent” a third exhibit room upstairs. For now, I’m going to use it as a trophy room. I have my bug and fish trophies in there, as well as some Happy Home Academy awards as well. I may put villager pics in there eventually, but for now I’m keeping Tabby’s pics in my house to make it scary for Halloween.

My new trophy room at the museum.In the Dream Suite, Luna informed me that Alli from Paradise was the most recent dream visitor to Forest. Hello if you’re reading this, Alli!

Next, I went into Nook Homes. Tom Nook was saying nothing about any reward for fully paying off all my debt. This is quite disappointing that there’s no reward in New Leaf, especially when you have to pay more than ever to fully expand your house. He was only telling me that I could still change the exterior of my house. Bah. Nook is a crook!

Tom Nook: I'm very sorry, but I do not offer loans for exterior renovations, hm?Over in the Able Sisters, I purchased this mummy mask. I believe I have all six of the Halloween masks now.

Labelle: Oh wow! So flashy and so wonderful!When I was done on Main Street, I did a little diving. I caught my second scallop, and Pascal popped up and asked me for it. I gave it to him.

Pascal: Who decided oranges have to be named after the color, but bananas aren't just called "yellows"? Maaan...He thought it was “totally righteous.”

Pascal: Today is totally righteous.In return, he gave me a ship compass. This is my first item from the pirate ship theme in New Leaf, since my first scallop went into the museum and not to Pascal. But this is what the ship compass looks like:

The ship compass on display in my golden room.

House Fully Paid & Fishing Tournament

Today, I had a gem rock for the third day in a row. I was lucky enough to score three gold nuggets, so I took them to Cyrus at Re-Tail. Back outside, I thought I saw Phineas over by the town tree, but it was actually Chip.

Chip standing at the event plaza.The fishing tournament was today, and he told me that any kind of fish will be accepted. The bigger, the better. But I was going to finish making my rounds before I went fishing. Along the way, I spotted new home construction! I’m getting a 10th villager tomorrow, Skye!

Sign: This spot reserved for Skye's new home. -Nook's HomesI thought a tenth villager had to be a camper or from a StreetPass. But Skye wasn’t a camper, and I haven’t had a StreetPass in almost a month. I suppose it could still be from that StreetPass, but I should know for sure tomorrow.

Many of the animals around town were talking about the fishing tournament. That includes Tabby, who just let a big one slip through her hands.

Tabby: I had a big one slip through my hands just a little while ago!I got my motherly statue back in the mail from Crazy Redd. And to my surprise, it was real! This is why I always think it’s worth the risk unless you’re 100% sure.

[Motherly Statue] October 12th, 2013. Donation by Jeff.After identifying and selling my fossils, I had earned enough money to fully pay off my house! I was so excited that I took the picture a bit early!

I finished paying off my hoI then returned to Tom Nook. He said I deserved a reward for fully paying off my house. He said I deserve a song. That he sang. To me.

Tom Nook: GL-L-L-KSK! KEH-KEEEH! FST! FST! RrrrrrrrrrrrKLAGH! CH-CH-ch-ch-mmmMMMmmm!He said it was in the language of his ancestors, which was Raccoonish, naturally.

Tom Nook: Oh, well, it is very old and in the language of my ancestors, which happens to be Raccoonish, yes, yes.Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s nice and all. But where’s my real reward? He didn’t mention anything else, which is a bit unnerving. But perhaps he will tell me tomorrow. On GameCube, he would build you a statue near the train station when you fully repaid your loans. And in City Folk, he would add a flagpole to your house. I believe both of them only appeared the day after making your final payment, so hopefully he will have something for me tomorrow.

When I updated my dream town, I saw that Clayton from Lebanon was my most recent dream visitor. Hello, Clayton!

With all my Main Street errands completed, it was time to do some fishing. I caught several sea bass, with my best one measuring in at 36.65 inches. Chip rewarded me with a scoreboard for taking over the top spot.

Chip: Ho, the best entry so far is that sea bass you caught, coming in at 36.65 inches! Nyuk!
What did you call me?

That score held up, and I won the tournament! Rolf won second place, and Aurora got third place. Tabby was nowhere to be found.

Standing atop the podium after a fishing tournament win.After 8:00, I went up to Club LOL to hear K.K. perform. I asked for a random song, and he played “To the Edge.”

K.K.: Enough tuning--let's groove. This next one is for you, Jeff. It's called To the Edge.That song almost took me to the edge. I don’t care for it. I then returned home, and saw that I had mail. That’s odd to get mail on a Saturday night. But it was from K.K.! He sent me his picture!

KK's pic on display in my house.That’s all for tonight, but I’ll be back tomorrow. I’ll see what reward (if any) I got from Tom Nook, I’ll meet my new neighbor Skye, and who knows what else tomorrow will bring. Hope to see you then!

October Party

When I went up to Main Street today, I saw that Adam from Mobius was my latest dream visitor. Hi, Adam! Over in T.I.Y., the Nooklings had a spooky bookcase for sale, so I bought that. The Able Sisters also had a Halloween item I needed, the werewolf mask.

Labelle: Oh wow! So flashy and so wonderful!When I returned to my town, Benedict told me that he was going to move out on October 15th. Twice before, I’ve told him to go ahead and move out, only to change his mind later on. But once again, I told him to go ahead and leave. But he said we’re best buds and he knew I didn’t really want him to leave. So he’s staying.

Benedict: And I know you don't really want me to go! It's written all over your face. So I'm canceling my move!He even said I’m a terrible liar.

Benedict: A huh huh huh! You're a really terrible liar, J-bot!Crazy Redd had a tent set up over by the town tree, so I went in to take a look. He had one painting and three statues. I’m fairly sure the painting was the real item. However, it was one that I didn’t need. So I took a chance on this motherly statue. It may be fake, but that’s okay. I don’t mind taking the risk.

Redd: I see! Ya seem to be really close to that motherly statue, yeah?At 10:00 tonight, I opened up my gate for Friday Night Forest. Daisy came over, dressed as Luigi. I caught a dace, in her face. So she ate it as sushi.

Daisy trying to eat the dace I caught.I also burned Canberra with a leftover sparkler while Daisy was talking to her. After a few minutes, Chris also came over to visit, dressed as a mummy.

Daisy dressed as Luigi, Chris dressed as a mummy, and Jeff dressed as a werewolf.Before long, Wendy also came over to visit, so I had a full house. We hung out in my house for a while, and Daisy informed me that the hologram machine can be modified to display a hologram of a man instead of a woman. I have no plans to change it, but that is interesting to know.

Hanging out by my hologram machine.When we went back outside, Chris asked if there were any glitches in New Leaf. So we showed him the digging glitch to get onto the train tracks. Unfortunately, he was unable to get back on the tracks. The rest of us all did, though. It made for a sad mummy.

Chris the sad mummy can't join me and Daisy on the tracks.After a while, we headed off to the island. The hide-and-seek tour was available, so we did that three times. As one of the games ended, Daisy cut down the tree Stitches was hiding behind.

Stitches is revealed when a tree is cut down.After that, we caught some bugs and fish. Well, just bugs for me. And the mummy went swimming. After a little while, we did another hide-and-seek tour to save the game. This time, we failed to find everyone…which is very unusual. Tortimer scolded us.

Tortimer: You ran out of time! That'll teach ya to dillydally.We then returned to Forest. After selling our catches, I found out that Daisy was doing another glitch. She was in the river!

Daisy standing in the river and fishing.I asked Daisy if she was able to get out of the water, and she said no. Then she promptly walked up on land and said just kidding. She psyched me out, haha. She did the glitch and returned to the river, though. Once she was done blindly wading in the water, she turned into a bug and we gathered over my zen bell. We looked up at the moon…and made moon puns. We got a little loony.

The four of us observing the moon.Around 12:30, I ended the party for the night. I had a good time tonight. 🙂