Trading With a Spaceman

Today, I got a letter from Teddy, challenging me to a thumb war. You’re on, teddy bear!

Jeff, I'm declaring today to be National Friendly Rival Day! To celebrate, we'll hold hands and then wage a thumb war. -Teddy

Phineas was out walking around, and he gave me the Wealthy Bell Saver badge for saving ten million bells in the bank.

I got the Wealthy Bell Saver badge! This is my reward for being a good saver!Over by my eastern ramp, I found three dig spots all clumped together in one area!

Three buried items all in one location.They were all different items, too: One fossil, one gyroid, and one pitfall seed. Crazy Redd had a tent set up at the event plaza, but he didn’t have anything I needed this time. When I went up to the Dream Suite, Luna told me that Zach from Welstein recently enjoyed my dream.

I also went out to the island, and the gift shop there had a tropical vista. I was surprised that wasn’t a Saharah item. The price was a whopping 100 medals! But I bought it anyway.

Grams: Aye, a tropical vista? Ye be seein' a nice item tharrrrrr. I'll give it to ye fer 100 medals.I took a look at it before I put it into storage.

The tropical vista from the island.And then tonight, I went up to Club LOL to watch K.K.’s weekly performance. His random song was K.K. Song, which is my least favorite of them all.

K.K.: Enough tuning--let's groove. This next one is for you, Jeff. It's called K.K. Song.Mark told me he had a cabana wall for me! That’s the last piece of the cabana set I needed, so I should be having my giveaway sometime soon. I ordered a rococo chair for him, so I headed off to his town to make the exchange.

Visiting Mark, who was dressed as an astronaut.The spaceman also let me take a look at his awesome sci-fi room. He has all three of the hologram machine customizations, including the alien one!

Mark's sci-fi room.After he ended the session, I was walking around Forest when Molly noticed the Statue of Liberty in my pockets.

Molly: So...I couldn't help but notice you have a Statue of Liberty right there in your pockets!I went ahead and sold it to her, even though she didn’t pay me much for it. And before Re-Tail closed, I sold my turnips before they expired. I lost a lot of money this time, but everyone seemed to have bad prices. Oh well. Maybe I need a break from turnips.

Postal Poster & Wi-Fi Wackiness

At the Happy Homes Showcase today, I got a bubble wand for the first time. Well, Daisy gave me one back in September, but I mean this is the first one I’ve got from repeatedly StreetPassing someone.

Using my new bubble wand.Kidd was telling me how we need to make up our own events. As long as it’s not a wake-up prank on him, of course.

Kidd: Oh, but, uh... Please don't plan anything like "Wake-up prank on Kidd"! I hate that event!Aurora had asked me for some furniture that could be placed on a table. I didn’t have anything to give her at the time, but a bit later, she offered to sell me a harvest lamp.

Aurora: Hopefully I wasn't too pushy as a salesperson. But I think you'll enjoy the harvest lamp!I bought it from her, even though I probably paid more than I should have. But then I realized…this could be placed on a table. So I spoke with her again and offered it right back to her. She said it was just what she needed!

Aurora: Oh! A harvest lamp is exactly what I needed!She then rewarded me with Aurora’s pic! I already had two of them, but this will go into my giveaway stash. After making my rounds, I headed up to Main Street. Luna told me that Sharon from Newquay was my most recent dream visitor. And in the post office, I deposited some money and my balance reached 10 million bells for the first time.

Your current balance is 10,000,000 bells.I made a quick visit to Tom’s town, and he had the worst camper possible.

Jambette: Camping really lets you enjoy the sights and sounds of nature.When I returned home, I found there was some mail in my mailbox. It was a letter from the post office; my reward for saving ten million bells was this post-office poster.

A post-office poster.It’s really a disappointing reward. The piggy bank, which you get for depositing just one million bells, is way cooler than a poster of postal pelicans.

At 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Georgie and Rae came over to visit. Georgie was one angry bunny.

Georgie, in the bunny suit, looks angry.Unfortunately, Rae could only stay about ten minutes. But T. Zelda and Jessica soon came over. As Jessica was talking to Rolf, Georgie the bunny easily squeezed in between them.

Jessica and Rolf chat through a bunny.We soon boarded a boat to the island.

Getting ready to take a boat to the island.Once there, we played a Kill Jeff tour? No, that’s not right.

Georgie: Kill Jeff tour.We went on a bug-catching tour, a labyrinth tour (which was won in literally the final second–I actually thought we lost until Tortimer gave us medals), and then an elite balloon popping tour. As the timer ran out of the balloon tour, I still heard people running around and popping balloons.

Game over!The score kept going up, and then it went silent. Still, the “Game over!” banner continued scrolling across the screen.

Game over!After two or three minutes of this, we finally disconnected. That was definitely one of the more unusual disconnections I’ve seen. I reopened my gate, and Skye came over to visit, along with the returning Georgie and Jessica. Jessica made the fatal mistake of talking to an animal while I had my hammer out.

Smacking Jessica with a toy hammer.Later, Jessica went hiding somewhere. As I was looking for her, I stopped in the aquarium to see some of the sea creatures.

Skye: She's under the sea.Jeff: Go turtle!At some point, we got disconnected again. I reopened and Georgie returned. However, Miss Easter Bunny felt incomplete when she saw that *I* had a bunny balloon and she didn’t!

Jeff: Who's the bunny now?She wanted it so bad, that she offered her soul for it!

Georgie: I will give you my soul.But that wasn’t enough, so I told her to make it two souls. So she owes me the soul of the next person she kills in addition to her own. Kim came over to visit and Skye returned. Forest is like a revolving door tonight, lots of visitors coming and going (even if most of the going ones are disconnections). Anyway, I informed them of the deal I just made.

Jeff: Rabid soulless bunny!We then did some stump glitching. We discovered that if two or more people are in that spot, and someone uses a tweeter, they will blow themselves out. No pushing required!

Georgie blows herself over a hole.If they happen to blow themselves over a hole, they’ll fall into it like a pitfall. At one point, Kim and Georgie both tweeter’d out at the same spot (to the upper-right). Kim fell into the hole, while Georgie seemed to bounce off of Kim and ricocheted to the left and up, behind (or in?) the stump. It was pretty funny to see.

A whole lot of glitching going on.I pointed out that Georgie and Skye were both Australians. So they began discussing vegemite and marmite and whatever other -mites.

Georgie: I only eat vegemite on toast.I was kind of lost, so I just tried to fit in somehow. My dad’s a computer!

Jeff: mmm termite.Skye left shortly after that. The rest of us went to my house to hang out. Georgie asked about “the other Org.” For those who don’t know (which is probably most of you), Georgie and Jorge were two of my frequent visitors in ACCF several years ago. They both have “org” in their name, so I would call them “Org” and “Other Org.” Whoever came in my town first on any given day was Org, which made the other one “Other Org.” Anyway, I told Org that Other Org doesn’t have a 3DS so that’s why she hasn’t seen him in New Leaf.

When Org went into my creepy room, she asked who the skeleton was in the creepy coffin. My answer? Other Org.

Georgie: R.I.P. other org.Kim and Georgie noticed that my laugh emotion lasted unusually long one time.

Me laughing.I told them it’s because I took a picture. Taking a picture can extend an emotion or animation as seen by other players. I’ve noticed this before, when pouring water from my watering can one time. I was told the water kept pouring longer than usual; it’s because I was saving a pic at the time.

As you know, text bubbles are only displayed for five seconds in New Leaf. So it’s rare to have everyone say something at the same time, let alone have them all saying the same thing. But it happened tonight, although I can’t remember the exact context (help me out Kim or Georgie, haha). All I know is somehow we went from Georgie twerking to saying she has no soul. 😀

Kim: Soullless. Jeff: Well u have no soul. Georgie: Jeff took my soul.Before I knew what was happening, Georgie was trying to arrest me. And then, Kim put on a top hat. I briefly thought “Abraham Lincoln!” And then I realized she was a magician. She told Georgie bunny to get back in the hat.

Kim: In the hat you go, bunny.We went from room to room, just goofing around. In my modern wood room, Kim put on her gyroid pattern shirt while the bunny angrily enjoyed a massage.

Georgie sits in the massage chair.Upstairs, my dandruff machine made Kim speechless. If I like my ski lift covered in dandruff, it’s snow bunny’s business but mine!

My snowy ski-themed room.After I undressed my Pavelicious mannequin, Org had to go. I let her catalog my aurora screen and then she left. I was going to sell my Festivale clothes, but Re-Tail was closed. It actually had closed two hours before that, but I was still disappointed.

I soon ended the party for the night. Thanks to everyone who came, it was a fun and crazy night. One of the best Wi-Fi nights I’ve had on New Leaf, actually. Have a great weekend, everyone!

A Gigi Sighting

Last night, Wendy invited me over to her town Oakville. We glitched onto her lighthouse, and at one point, Gigi began staring up at me. I started feeling sick to my stomach. She must be Jambette’s sister. I was afraid to come down!

Standing on a lighthouse to avoid Gigi.Wendy eventually saved the game, which killed me and her (Wendy, not Gigi). We were attacking Gigi with our nets, when I accidentally talked to her! She said she wanted to visit Forest! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!

Gigi: And you're from Forest? How cool! I've always wanted to visit there. Ribbette!I stayed in Oakville until Wendy ended the party. Then today, Kidd was in the process of asking me for some fruit when he asked if his skin was looking off-color. I don’t know, you do look a little blue…

Kidd: Is my skin looking a little, I don't know, off color? I know I'm feeling more tired than usual.And Rolf tried to tell me he was going to move out of town on March 24th. I politely corrected him.

Rolf: I guess I'll stay in Forest for a little while longer and continue bothering people a bit more!Tia asked me to schedule a visit to her house. So I did, and I actually remembered to go!

Tia: Welcome! Please come in.I bought her minimalist bed for a decent price and then I tried out a new hairstyle. Do you like it?

Standing behind a plant in Tia's house.Luna told me that Amber from Lakeland was my most recent dream visitor. And poor Molly was fishing, but not catching anything. She said a book told her to just sit there until something bites. That might work in Harvest Moon, but this is Animal Crossing.

Molly: I read in a new book that if you just wait patiently like this, you're sure to catch something.Agent S asked me to find a carp for her, so I did. When I gave it to her, she rewarded me by giving me a genie vest. Uh, thanks.

Agent S: I kinda figured you would really like a genie vest! You are, like, my hero.That wrapped up my day in town.

On a different subject, I encourage you to check out my new Disney Magical World preview section. Disney Magical World is an upcoming 3DS game that features 60+ Disney characters and it has some Animal Crossing style elements. It runs on a real-time clock, you can buy and wear clothes and accessories, you can go fishing, you can even run your own cafe. It comes out April 11th, but Nintendo has provided me with an advance copy of the game and I’ll be writing blog-style entries as I progress through the game. So check it out if that sounds like something you might enjoy.

Thank you all for reading. I’ll be back with more tomorrow! 🙂