AC Town Record

Forgive me

January 25, 2012 at 6:13 PM | Posted in Uncategorized | 61 Comments

for not posting since my birthday. I try to update at least once a week, but obviously I haven’t been able to do that lately. In fact, I’m going to be taking a bit of a break. Not because I’m tired of Animal Crossing — on the contrary, I wish I could play it — but I’m going through a difficult and stressful time right now and need to focus on other things. I hope my friends and followers will still be around when I come back! If you’ve subscribed via email or the RSS feed, you should be alerted when I make a new post, and if not, you can simply check back every now and then. Bye for now, though I’ll still be reading my AC friends’ blogs!

Update: I feel like an update needs to be made about this break since maybe some expected it to only be a few weeks. I’m really sorry about this, but I don’t know if I will be posting again anytime soon. During my break I’ve gotten used to the ways I spend time now, so the idea of going back to playing Animal Crossing and blogging about it is pretty daunting when I’m already so busy with classes. I hope you’ll understand these reasons; I’m trying to make something of my life, and at the same time, not spending so much of my free time on video games and the internet. Because blogging the way I used to — long picture posts almost every week and constantly working on patterns — was a huge commitment and time-sink. :/

A WiFi birthday party

January 15, 2012 at 11:12 PM | Posted in AC:WW journal | 29 Comments
Tags: Dafdilly

Today was my birthday, Twisk’s as well. Puddles came to deliver my present, which I was really happy about since she’s my last original neighbor and one of my dream neighbors I’ve locked in Dafdilly.

I didn’t, though, but okay

Another cake! I already have two on the table in my main room, would three cakes be overboard?

But it was just your birthday the other day!

I also made preparations to host a WiFi party in my town this morning. Teru’s character Rain was the first to arrive:

Yay, I’m glad you’re here! ^_^

The first words she said after entering from the gate:

Thank you!
I thought it would be cool to have a snowman right by the gate, but I totally messed it up after realizing you can’t prop up snowballs into snowmen on the pavement. >_<

Then we exchanged presents! I gave her a lovely phone, which I forgot to leave out for her to touch in our last WiFi meeting, and two of my favorite shirts, the silk bloom shirt and dreamy shirt. And I received a wonderful gift, the last painting I need for my museum’s exhibit! Thanks!!

While waiting for others to arrive, I showed her around.

I don’t know if these holding areas (in case anyone needed to temporarily drop items) were worth it; they took 8 pattern slots and there was a lot more I wanted to make, like cupcakes and gumdrops.

Lollipop island! xD Well, the lollipops could have been a lot better if there were more shades of each color (i.e. dark purple, medium purple, light purple). All I could really do was a white highlight. But they’re colorful and I had fun matching flowers with them!

I’m much happier with how these ice cream cones turned out; the cone contains browns that are used for winter dirt, so I couldn’t have a dirt background, and the colors I used for the ice cream are the same that are used for snow, but I think it turned out looking okay regardless.

In the board game CandyLand, the object of the game is to make it to the end at Candy Castle, so in this case, I guess the town hall serves as Candy Castle. xP It explains the royal-themed prizes for winning, too: either a royal crown, crown, throne, or lots of bells.

Sleeping Rain ^_^

I finished showing Rain around and was going to suggest that we go ahead and do a two-player race when Skye (also known as MonkeyDoodle) showed up, saving me from leaving my position as judge:

Welcome Skye, thanks for coming!

I gave her a pink rose and peachy shirt, and her present for me is that treasure box by the rock. Inside was a blue dot parasol to go with the rest of my blue apparel. Thank you!

Starting the King Tut/minefield race!

Rain was first by a longshot since Skye fell into a pitfall; cautiousness won over speediness, a thought that occurred to me as I was planting the pitfalls.

Next was a treasure hunt! I buried Gulliver items, snowman furniture, spotlight items, and an assortment of other things. I hope everyone found some good stuff!

Yay, Jemma’s here! Thank you so much for coming, it wouldn’t have been the same with just three people!
I gave her a snow shirt and Kiki’s picture since she was one of her favorites and moved away.

Jemma hunted for the remaining treasure and then we began CandyLand! I don’t have any pictures at all from this, I was very busy “drawing cards” using a random number generator. Numbers were assigned with color cards and double color cards, so with every result from the generator I had to check which color card matched up with it and type that in with AC:WW’s keyboard, while trying to keep track where everyone was. Maybe others can fill in with pictures!

Anyway, Skye got to the finish first and chose a crown as her prize; then Rain, who chose the royal crown; and Jemma close behind, who chose the throne over bells. Then we celebrated with party poppers!

We got pretty good at setting them off close together using the timer.

Jemma had a few poppers left when we decided to stop, so she got close-up shots from all of us

We did another race since Jemma missed the first one, only this time there were no pitfalls since I dug them up during the treasure hunt, so it was just a King Tut race. It’s hard to tell in the picture, but you can see one of the King Tuts getting up from falling in the background. Rain didn’t fall, so naturally she won again. ^^ Everyone got equal prizes since it was just luck — no skill in avoiding pitfalls.

Finally we tried out the wrestling game, in which the three guests faced off in a 3×3 square surrounded by pitfalls (a game I first saw here, I think). I couldn’t see well because there was a tree in the way, but all of a sudden I saw both Skye and Jemma struggling in pitfalls with Rain in the middle of the square, the last one standing. While I worked to sort out the prizes with all the various money bags in my pockets, everyone fell into even more pitfalls over and over, whether accidentally or purposefully I’m not sure.

Jemma had to go after that, and it was getting very late for Teru, so I partied over after chatting with her and Skye for a while:

Thank you so much for coming, all of you, I hope you at least had a decent time!

A new neighbor moved in today to replace Bill, placing his house right next to the CandyLand track.

At first I thought he was Teru’s Antonio because of the Chic pattern he’s wearing, made by her character Breeze. But he’s a new Antonio, I just have that pattern displayed at my Ables’.

Now time to deliver Teru’s birthday present for me to Blathers…

I wish he’d talk about the paintings a little like he does with the other exhibits. Can the real names not be used because of copyrights or something??

Yay, my painting exhibit is now complete!

-_-

The painting that completed my exhibit, thanks again Teru!

New year + party planning

January 14, 2012 at 2:15 PM | Posted in AC:WW journal | 21 Comments
Tags: Dafdilly

There have been a few comings and goings since my last AC:WW photo post, like Filbert here, who moved in to replace Aurora from Anicotti.

Then Octavian moved out, and look who moved in…!

Static! One of my dream neighbors! I’ve already locked Puddles and Margie together, and When I get a fourth dream neighbor, I’ll lock him or her with Static. I wonder if it’s possible to lock in all 8 neighbors? Then no one would ever try to move out, which is pretty crazy.

Ooh, a royal crown at Ables’! Yes, I bought it

Long overdue, but better late than never: the beginning of Dafdilly’s first new year countdown!

Less than half an hour to go

Yay, I love party poppers so much!

Let’s see how everyone’s doing on this new year’s eve…

Puddles is feeling tired:

Margie is feeling irritable:

Maelle is feeling deep:

Monique is feeling self-centered:

Bill is feeling pumped:

Filbert is feeling musical:

Pippy is feeling sick:

And Tortimer is feeling… excited:

And Static is too busy unpacking to join in the celebrations.

Wishy must have been celebrating the new year, though; there were lots of shooting stars that night! One even appeared just as the countdown hit 4 seconds. I brought out all of my characters to make a wish. It was almost instantaneous with Harmony, just a few seconds after stepping outside! I’ve gotten a decent picture of a shooting star before, but none this time:

We’re so close!

Yay, happy new year!

Then the fireworks show began:

I also figured I should take videos of the countdown and fireworks since I did so for AC:GC. For the first video, you can start from 1:10 to skip most of the countdown.

I need to get a tripod or something, my hands are too shaky.

The next day the cedar trees were lit with holiday lights. Brr, my house looks cold with the snowy cliffs and cedars in the background.

The weeks passed by: I had my dead spot testing attempt, which failed (I’ll try again another time), and I also spent a lot of time working on patterns for the WiFi party I’m having on my birthday, but I’d like to keep those a surprise.

Of course I had to make it to Puddles’s birthday yesterday despite being busy, she’s my last remaining original neighbor.

Happy birthday, Puddles! It’s good to see Static already making new friends.

I gave her a night sky tee to match her wallpaper and she seemed pleased, though I don’t think neighbors ever do anything with their birthday presents.

Birthday fun ^_^

My own birthday is tomorrow, and like I’ve said, I plan to have some of my closest past WiFi friends over for a party. I wish more than three could come.
I’ll go over information and plans for the party to hopefully make it go more smoothly. Writing instructions with AC:WW’s chat system can be a pain. >_<

Time: 6 AM (click for my time). Yes, it’s very early so that those whose time zones are way ahead of mine can hopefully still come. Then I can spend the rest of the day doing more normal birthday activities. xP
Host: Twisk of Dafdilly (2967-0580-6954)
Bring: as little as possible. This is so that you will have enough room for gifts and items obtained from games. You don’t even need to bring tools because I’ll have three sets in the upper righthand corner of town (see map), but you can if you want. Leave out the axe, watering can, slingshot, and timer, though. You can also use empty letters as storage.

On this map, important locations are bordered with colored lines and labelled with numbers. Below the map, I’ll use these same colors and numbers to address each location and its corresponding activity, if that makes sense. >_>

1) Holding areas
These are 6×3 areas on the left side of the river and near the lake (see map). Each guest may choose one and use it to store items throughout the party. If you have too much in your inventory before beginning the treasure hunt, for example, you can temporarily store those items here.

2) Race course
Location: The race course is on the far left side of town, beginning near the north wall and ending at the beach (see map).
Instructions: I will show where the beginning of the track is and then walk to the beach. Starting a timer will be the signal for beginning the race. To make things interesting, each player will wear a King Tut mask and there will be pitfalls.
Prizes: First place: 30,000 bells; second place: 20,000 bells, third place: 10,000 bells

3) Treasure hunt
Location: On the left side of the river, not on the island or on the right side of the river (see map).
Instructions: I think this is simple enough. Just search for buried items and dig them up! You’ll need a shovel, so let me know if you don’t have one and I can provide one for you.
Prizes: You can keep what you dig up, of course! All of the items have value of some sort, whether they’re Gulliver items or cool spotlight items or un-orderable items. But if you already have a few of them and/or don’t want them, feel free to trade when it’s over.

4) Party poppers
Location: To the left of the town hall (see map).
Instructions: This isn’t a game, but we can set off some party poppers at some point. It would be awesome if one of us got a great picture of setting off the party poppers in unison. Since timing party poppers by saying saying “Now!” or counting using AC:WW’s chat system rarely works, I thought setting a timer could be helpful. I could say a time, and as soon as the timer shows that time we can all set off the party poppers together.

5) CandyLand
This is what I’ve done the most preparation for, so I really hope we can complete the game. But there are the other games, too… should the treasure hunt, race, and party poppers be done first to get them out of the way, or should we do CandyLand first to make sure we have time to play it before anyone has to leave? Feedback is appreciated!
Location: The first candy square is red and is located below the gate pond. The path goes downward, crosses the island, and ends at the door of the town hall with a purple square (see map).
Instructions: You guys have played CandyLand before, right? >_> If not, you may want to read about it a bit on Wikipedia. But it’s a very simple game, so I’ll try to explain it too. I probably won’t play, I will be “drawing cards” and keeping track of where everyone is in case WiFi crashes (hopefully it doesn’t). There are red squares, purple squares, yellow squares, blue squares, orange squares, and green squares — in that order — forming a path. For each player’s turn, I will draw a card that is one of those colors, and you will go to the next (closest) square of that color. There are also double color cards, i.e. double red, in which case you go to the second red square you come across. The first player to make it to the end wins. Even though the track ends on a purple square, you don’t need to draw a purple card to win — just a card that will take you beyond the purple square.
Prizes: The prizes are either a royal crown, crown, or throne. Each player will pick a prize when finished. There will also be the option of 495,000 bells if you don’t want any of those items; it’s more than you will get for selling any one of them.

6) Wrestling
I doubt we’ll get to this activity, to be honest, but just in case I greatly overestimate how long everything else takes…
Location: On the right side of the river, near the waterfall (see map).
Instructions: Surrounded on all sides by pitfalls, there will be a 3×3 square to “wrestle”: trying to push your opponent out of the square. This game is for two people. How it would work would be first a face-off between two guests, then the third guest would take on the winner of that match to determine the overall winner.
Prizes: First place: 30,000 bells; second place: 20,000 bells; third place: 10,000 bells

I hope everything’s pretty clear and that this will help to avoid confusion and make the party as fun as possible (with less reliance on using AC:WW’s keyboard to give instructions). Let me know if you have any questions!