Celebrating Wild World

Sorry for my absence! After Thanksgiving, I started playing a new Wii Ware game called Pokemon Rumble and it’s been taking up a chunk of my videogame time! (You can read about some of my Pokemon Rumble adventures in my personal blog, which is at the top of my Blogroll List in the left sidebar.)

Today there was new DLC released in the USA! Hooray! Here’s the note:

DS DLC

It doesn’t really seem like it’s been four years since Wild World was released…  but maybe that’s because I didn’t get that game in 2005.  I think I got my DS Lite and Wild World game during Christmas 2006 soooo…. yeah!  Anyway, in honor of this anniversary, Nintendo sent out a DS Lite Pink.  I’m not much of a fan of the color pink, so I don’t plan on displaying it in my Nintendo room.  But of course, I at least took a picture of it so you could all feast your eyes.

DS Lite Pink

There it is!  Please let me know if you would like one, and I’ll send it out to your town in a letter!  It might look good in a room with other pink furniture, if you’re into that sort of thing!  :P

As Squirt was doing the rounds, watering hybrids, he stopped over at Ruby’s house.  She had mentioned to him a few days ago that she was feeling bored of this town.  Squirt did his best to change her mind, and thought that she would stay after their chat.  He was wrong.

Ruby's Moving Out

Wahhhh!!!  I like Ruby, my albino bunny.  But her mind’s made up, she wouldn’t even discuss the idea of staying around.  She’ll probably be gone by morning.  :(

Oh well, we will all have to just move on.  So when Squirt found a note in a bottle down at the beach, he was very happy to have a distraction.  The note looked kind of old and weather-beaten, like it had been sent a while ago, and had endured a rough voyage before washing up on shore.  Carefully, he pulled out the long parchment and dug his feet into the sand as he read:

To my Mysterious Correspondent:

Peregrin Took here!  There have been some strange occurrences here in The Shire as of late.  And it all has to do with the resurrection of some of old Bilbo Baggins’ wealth of treasure.

It started a while ago, when I was visiting at my friend Yuki’s town.  She had discovered for me some glorious golden tools!  I inspected them closely, and I am certain that the Golden Axe she gave to me was made by Dwarves.  Therefore, I am fairly sure that all these beautifully crafted golden tools were from the treasures given to Bilbo by Gloin and his other Dwarf friends.  I thanked Yuki again and again, as these tools will be very useful to me from this point on.  As I left her town, part of me wondered how Bilbo’s treasure made it’s way to her.  No harm no foul, I suppose!

The only tool that I have not received in ‘golden form’ was a watering can.  However, I heard tales of a Golden Can that can be obtained when your town has achieved what is known as “Perfect Town Status.”  Thanks to Samwise’s diligent gardening, I was informed by Pelly in the Town Hall that The Shire is perfect!  I will continue to badger her until she gives me this confounded Golden Can!

Another one of Bilbo’s treasures somehow popped up in the Able Sister’s tailor shop.  I don’t know if it is Elvish or not, but it was a glorious golden King Tut mask.  The naive girls working in this shop refused to believe Frodo’s claims that this golden mask was rightly his, as he is the heir to Bilbo’s estate.  So I actually had to BUY this King Tut mask back from them.  Unbelievable – and it wasn’t cheap, either!

Treasures have been appearing in other forms too, though I’m not entirely sure if they all belonged to Bilbo.  I’ve managed to dig up several fossils throughout town, and have completed quite a few dinosaurs in The Shire Museum.  Not only that, but I have procured a few rare paintings for the Art section!  The blathering owl (rightly named Blathers) was very excited and now has it all proudly displayed.

So in short, we have been able to collect some of Bilbo’s old treasures.  But they aren’t always free!  We will continue working together until all of Frodo’s inheritance is returned!  Not that Frodo’s been much help.  All he does is write his account of our journeys in his book, Lord of the Rings!

Cordially,

Pippin/TheShire/3953-6655-4658

Harvest Festival and Black Friday

Here is a recap of the past two days, since I was too busy to blog!

Harvest Festival

King Squirt was greeted by the usual faceless voice (is it supposed to be Tortimer bellowing the announcements?  Is there a P.A. system set up in Shaolin?  I don’t know.) and some festive music in honor of the Harvest Festival.  The objective for this holiday, if you couldn’t figure it out, is to save Franklin, the Turkey.  Tortimer hangs out at the Town Hall giving out forks and knives.  If you bring the silverware to Franklin, he gives you a piece of the Harvest Series.  I guess AC:CF is trying to promote vegetarianism?

Poor Franklin

Franklin deals with a lot of anxiety during this holiday.  Can’t say I blame him, since he was invited as the ‘guest of honor’ but Tortimer only intends to roast him!

Neighbors are getting hungry.

Meanwhile, as King Squirt hustled around town searching for Franklin, the townies started getting antsy.  They crowded around the buffet style tables, wondering why there was a big empty plate on one table instead of a succulent roast turkey.  I felt kind of guilty to be ruining their dinner, but at the same time… Franklin needed me.  He was starting to really lose it, even trying to impersonate a chicken so that he wouldn’t be eaten on this night:

Franklin wants to be a Rooster today.

Thanks to my help, Franklin was able to escape.  Mostly because I didn’t realize that the Harvest Festival only lasts until 9PM.  After that, Franklin found his way straight out of the gate and was gone.  And the poor townies had to go to bed hungry.

Oh well!

The thought of a tortoise eating a turkey is somewhat weird and disturbing to me.  Anyway…  I didn’t sell my Harvest Series spares yet, so if you’re looking for any particular piece, let me know and I’ll see if I have it.  I know for sure that I have the wallpaper and carpet, and some clocks and lamps.  I forget what else.  So if you didn’t complete your set yet, please leave a comment!  XD

Everyone in the USA knows that the day AFTER Thanksgiving is called Black Friday.  We don’t really know WHY it’s called that (if you do, please post a comment and tell me!  lol) but it is ‘celebrated’ by retail stores having huge Christmas sales.  Stores usually open at 3AM for shopping frenzies.  It’s a bit ridiculous if you ask me… I don’t take part in any of it.  (My mom, however, opted to go to Kohl’s at 4AM!  LOL)  However, AC:CF wasn’t about to let me forget about Black Friday.  A new, unannounced US DLC was released in honor of this silly ‘holiday.’

Black Friday DLC

Nintendo didn’t call it Black Friday DLC but it’s quite obvious that it was the intention.  Especially when you take a look at the item that was attached to this letter:

US DLC: Shopping Cart!

It’s a silly shopping cart, just like the ones you’d find in Nookway.  Deb set it up in her yummy Cafe room.  :P

Please let me know if you’d like me to send you the new US DLC!

It’s Harvest Time!

Harvest Festival

Just when you thought exciting holidays were done, it’s time for the Harvest Festival!  I already have all my Harvest Series, thanks to being diligent last year and collecting everything.  So it won’t be as stressful this year, but I will definitely participate.

Agent S is excited for the Harvest Festival!

Agent S is pretty pumped about the upcoming event.

Jay is secretly jealous.

Jay came up to King Squirt the other day and commented on his Kingly attire.  At first he was complimentary, but then he made this snide remark.  Or maybe he was just saying that he couldn’t never pull off this look like King Squirt can?  I dunno.  I’ll hope for the latter.

And now, for a last bit of news:  Shaolin has a new resident!

Meet Friga

Yet another penguin!  That makes the Shaolin Bird Count up to 4 now!  :-P  She’s pretty cute tho, so I can’t complain.  I’m just not really sure how to pronounce her name.  Is it Free-ga?  Frih-ga?  Fridge-a?  Anyone in the know, please leave a comment and tell me!  LOL thanks!!

King Squirt’s Birthday Party!

Yesterday was King Squirt’s Birthday Party. Thank you to everyone who came and made this day special! I took over 50 photos this weekend, so I don’t think it would be sensible to show them all. But I will post here a photo-log of all my favorite moments of the day!

Twinx set up the Gate area for the party! Thanks, Twinx.

12 PM: Sorami and Bella arrive for the first party!

Bella asked, "Should I... eat the cake?"

5:30 PM: Hery comes to visit. Sorry, I was delayed in opening my gate for this time slot.

9PM: Kate and Orenji come to Shaolin and get a grand tour!

Kate, Orenji and the King on the Lighthouse

King Squirt plays a prank on his visitors! MUAHAHAHA! *evil laugh*

11PM: Chokomaru and Orenji eat cake, while Miao and the King watch! lol

12AM: Vella stops by to have the last piece of cake!

The After-Party: Vella blows bubbles, Hery reveres his silver fishing rod, and King Squirt falls on his face to release the balloons!

Of course, these are just a small sample of all the photos I took yesterday during the Party!  You’ll have to go to my Flickr Photostream to see the rest!

Thank you to all my friends for all the fabulous gifts!  King Squirt received so many wonderful items, you might notice that my “Countdown to Retirement” list has gotten a lot shorter over the weekend!  Now I only need some Gyroids, a couple of Nook Point Items, and the rest of the Gulliver series.  If you have some of these items, please feel free to send them over to Squirt!  :-D

I’d just like to issue an apology regarding the 5PM Party Time Slot.  I went out grocery shopping in the afternoon and was late getting back home.  I wasn’t able to open my gate until 5:25ish.  So if anyone missed that party because the gate was not open at the correct time, I’m very sorry!  Don’t worry, you’ll still have a chance to visit Shaolin when it’s time for Squirt’s Retirement Party.  Don’t worry, it’s not happening yet.  I’ll give everyone advance notice about that.  But I do have to say, I won’t be having an all-day party for his Retirement.  It’s too much work.  :-P

Squirt isn’t retiring yet, so don’t get all upset!  LOL and my next character, (the one with my name) Deb will be ready to take over all blogging and daily town chores after that, so the Shaolin Town Blog will continue!  XD

Birthday & Party Info!!

Squirt's Birthday

As expected, King Squirt’s birthday was on the 18th!  Don’t worry, you didn’t miss the party – King Squirt’s Birthday Party is on 11/22!  I created a Facebook event for the party, but if you’re not on Facebook that’s ok!  I’ll post party info at the bottom of this blog.

Chester delivers the Cake!

I was somewhat surprised that Chester was the one delivering the cake to King Squirt.  I had assumed it would be Rowan, since he’s been around for quite a while and Squirt is always nice to him.  But I suppose being next-door neighbors with Chester helped them to become fast friends!

Everyone in town sent King Squirt a birthday card!  Woo hoo!  I took pictures of my favorite cards and all the townies’ birthday greetings for Squirt.  I didn’t feel like posting them all here, so please check out my Flickr page!  There’s a mini-photostream that you can click on to go to my Flickr page here on the right sidebar!  –>

King Squirt’s Birthday Party Info

When:  Sunday – November 22nd, 2009

Gates Will Be Open at the Following Times -

• 12 PM EST: Open for UK/EU visitors!  Expected visitors *might* include Emma and Chorna!  If they remember to send me their FC’s!  lol  (5PM UK time)
• 5 PM EST: Open for an hour before dinner time.  Expected visitors *might* include a new friend, Marissa from Arcadia!
• 9 PM EST: Open for people who can’t stay up too late, such as my friend Kate from Towntown, and my friends in JAPAN!  (11AM JP time)
• 11PM EST: Open for my late-night regulars!  Expected visitors *might* include Miao, Vella and Hery!

INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS PLEASE NOTE:  Recently the USA began “Daylight Savings Time.”  This means our clocks went back one hour.  Here are the time conversions for the Eastern Time Zone:  UK is +5 hours, NL is +6 hours and JP is +14 hours ahead!

Of course, feel free to bring presents!  Tee hee!  And don’t forget, King Squirt has prepared party favors and gifts for everyone who comes to Shaolin for his Birthday Party!  XD

King Squirt’s Anniversary

Squirt's Anniversary

Today King Squirt received this letter in the mail.  It was the confirmation I’d been waiting for – it has been exactly one year since I started playing AC:CF!  Hooray!  (Or is that a bad thing…?  hehehe)  While you won’t find blog entries from last November, you can check the archives… I’m pretty sure I started writing this blog in December of 2008.  But my blog has evolved a lot since then!  :D  Thanks to everyone who’s been reading all this time!!

Attached to this letter from the Mayor was the final piece that I needed for the Model Town room:  The Town Hall Model!

Town Hall Model

To celebrate his awesomeness, everyone in town has decided that Squirt would be the official King of Shaolin.  Tortimer has no comment on the matter.  But I have evidence that the townies have accepted King Squirt as their Royal Highness.  Just look:

Apollo Respects the Beard

Puck bows to the King

Jay is overjoyed by the King's visit!

See?  They all love King Squirt!!  XD

Of course, you probably know what all of this means.  King Squirt’s royal BIRTHDAY is tomorrow!  (It just HAS to be!  LOL I don’t remember exactly what day I set to be Squirt’s birthday.  But I remember setting it as the day following whatever day I started playing CF.  So if today was the one year anniversary of playing, then tomorrow must finally be his birthday!)

I am hoping that Squirt will get a cake.  He IS the King after all.  I will be sure to post and let you know who the mystery best bud will be!  My money’s on Rowan, but who knows?

What kind of birthday would it be if Squirt didn’t have a BIRTHDAY PARTY?  I think I will organize a party for this Sunday, 11/22.  I don’t have to work that day, so I can open the gates whenever.  Please leave a comment/message/email stating what time you’d be available to stop by!  I have party favors for all guests, so don’t miss out!  :)

I’ll also commit to opening my gates at 11PM EST on Sunday, if that makes things easier.  (But please, if that time’s not good and you still want to visit, just let me know what time works for you and I’ll do my best to accommodate all requests!)  Don’t forget to bring PRESENTS!!

<<<  Preferably items from the list over on the left side bar! Hehehehehehe!

Anniversary DLC

This is just a quick announcement…  the new US DLC has been released!  It’s for the 1 year anniversary of playing ACCF.  (This also means that King Squirt’s birthday is going to be any day now!  I wish I could remember what date I had set…  I’m guessing either the 17th or the 18th.  We shall see!)

Anniversary

I really like that pretty stationery.  Anyway, the new DLC was attached, it’s called the Anniversary Cake!

Anniversary Cake!

Isn’t it cute?  It’s an edible cake too.  And you can buy it over and over again from Tom Nook!  But it’s pretty expensive, I think it costs over 3,000 bells!  But Squirt was still tempted to shove it in his mouth…  Maybe he’ll steal a cake from Dan or Twinx, since they won’t be needing it.  Deb will probably add the cake to her Cafe.

HOORAY FOR CAKE!!!  lol

The Ghost and the King

Weather Report

Brrr!  Can’t you feel that chill in the air?  I can… but I think that’s cuz my heater’s not working.  :-P  I don’t really remember seeing snow at the end of last November in AC… but maybe I’m mistaken.  Anyway, Squirt’s birthday is fast approaching.  So of course he sent out jack-in-the-box’s to everyone in town.  (I had like 12 of them in front of Town Hall.)  I wonder who will bring Squirt his birthday cake?

In other news, the day I’ve awaited for a long time has finally come.

LEAVE NOW!!!

Elise is finally talking about leaving Shaolin!  It only took weeks of ignoring her and burying pitfall seeds in front of her house.  Sheesh!

Yesterday, as [King] Squirt was wandering around town looking for a piece of Mushroom furniture, he noticed something shiny and yellow on the ground.  An empty lamp!  It’s been quite a while since I’d seen one of these around.  So of course, later that night I logged in to find Wisp!

Jay aint scared of no ghosts!

Jay did a pretty good job of finding Wisp for me!  (Kings usually let their royal subjects do all the work, after all…)  Squirt had a nice chat with Wisp about living in lamps and then Wisp instructed him to rub the lamp from the attic in his house.  Such is the protocol.  Squirt rushed home, wondering what a guy who has everything should wish for…

I want a Ghost Butler!

Up in the ROYAL attic (as you can see, King Squirt only sleeps in a GORGEOUS canopy bed), Wisp came out and wanted to know what Squirt’s wish would be.  First I chose “Weed!” because I thought perhaps there were weeds around town that I hadn’t yet picked.  But Wisp was very polite and said, “Umm, there really aren’t many weeds in your town.  Would you like to pick something else?”  I was pretty shocked at being given a second chance at the wish!  Since there’s not much of a cockroach problem in Shaolin (nothing that a few stomping feet can’t handle, anyway…) I opted for “Give me stuff!”

But I already have all the ’stuff.’  My catalog is basically complete.  I didn’t think it was likely that Wisp was going to give me a Nook Point item or anything special like that.  I ended up choosing “Accessory,” with a small hope that Wisp might give me one of the very special colored Feathers that I still needed.  But what did he give me?

A DimentioMsk HDLC!!

I didn’t know if I should be laughing or disgusted.  :-P

Jack’s Back – and a RAINBOW!

This morning was unlike most mornings. My friend Vella recently returned home from her WEDDING (おめでと！パチーパチ!) and she’s been playing catch-up in her AC game. Today she was up to October 31st – which means, a Halloween Reprise! Although I slept late (today’s my day off and I was TIRED lol!) I was able to join in and help her complete her Spooky Set.

Attack Jack!

It was pretty annoying when he kept giving us Spooky Chairs, but in the end we were able to find all the assorted pieces to complete the set.  Whoo!!  I also managed to remember to take a photo of one of Jack’s rhymes.  He only does the rhyming thing if you DON’T give him candy:

He sounds like Dr. Seuss!

During the Halloween festivities, I ended up with my pockets full.  I decided to rush back to my own town to drop some stuff off.  When I returned to Shaolin, it was raining!  But it wasn’t really dark or cloudy… kinda like a sun shower.  I thought, “Maybe I’ll see a rainbow today.”  I’d just seen one last week while playing my Wild World game.  But I’ve never seen one in CF before.  Anyway, we continued playing, getting all the Jack prank-shirts and whatnot.  When it was time to stop playing (and go have lunch) I returned to Shaolin and it wasn’t raining anymore!  So of course I looked up at the sky to see…

RAINBOW!!

Isn’t it cute?  I don’t know if it was already fading by the time I got home, but you can see it pretty clearly.  It’s cuter in CF than in WW, if you ask me.  :-)

Thanks, I see it.

But then Peaches kinda ruined it by calling me a biatch.  :-P  Hehehehehehehe!!

Don’t forget, there’s new US DLC coming out soon!  The date hasn’t been announced yet, but I’m sure it will be soon.  I’ll post as soon as I know anything!

JP DLC & UFO News

Orenji is popular!

Me too, Chester!  I just recently discovered that there was new JP DLC announced:  
アニパーサリーケーキ.  When sounded out, this katakana spells “anniversary cake”!  Which means that this is probably the same DLC we’ll be receiving in the USA around the same time (mid-November, maybe the 17th?).  It’s pretty cute, so even if you can’t understand Japanese, go to that link and look at the pic at least!

Annoying...

For the past few days I’ve been bothered by the little lost kitten, Katie.  Yesterday I finally remembered to ask my friend Bella to open her gate!  I haven’t received my special item yet, but I hope it’s something cool!

Basic Painting!

A few days ago, Nook was selling a Basic Painting as the Spotlight Item!  Cool!  I picked it up, and I’ll try to take it over to the city today and display it at the Auction House (if this is a display week, that is…  I haven’t really been visiting the Auction House lately.  Sorry about that folks!).  If it’s not a display week, then it will wait by the gate for someone to pick up!  :)

Other than those few things, it’s been pretty boring around here in Shaolin.  Just looking for the missing pieces from my Mushroom Series.  I keep getting a lot of repeats of stuff I already have.  :(  I hope I can get the furniture I need by the end of the month!!!  EEP!

Oh, there was another exciting thing to share – but it wasn’t in Shaolin.  I found another ‘note in a bottle’ and it had both a message and a picture stuffed inside!

Oy!  Pip here, writing to you from the Shire.  There’s been quite a bit of excitement happening here.  First of all, I’ve met a new friend!  Her name is Yuki and I visited her town earlier this week.  She was very nice and let me catalog a lot of items!  And she also gave me some hybrid flowers to take home.  Thank you Yuki!  (Later I told Sam that the hybrids had magically spawned on their own.  But I don’t think he believed me, as he’s a very diligent gardner.)

In Yuki’s town Mitsukyo, there was a grand department store.  I was finally able to get my hair to look more like normal.  Huzzah!

Remember when I had caught a glimpse of a UFO not long ago?  I had told my fellow hobbits about it and they didn’t believe me – insisting that it was just some conjuring of Gandalf’s, or some other mischief.  But two days ago, Samwise was out watering flowers (as he does every day) and he saw something flying across the sky!  Of course, Sam doesn’t have a slingshot.  So he ran to me and told me about what he saw.

“I knew it!” I scoffed at him.  ”The UFO is REAL!”

So I went outside to look for the flying saucer.  I stood out in the garden behind our house at Bag End and waited for about ten minutes.  To my dismay, I saw the UFO flying overhead… but it was going too fast and I could not hit it with my slingshot.  I felt defeated and came back inside to tell Merry what had happened.

Merry still didn’t quite believe me.  So I told her to go out that evening and look for the UFO herself.  She was smarter than me (sadly, that’s often the case) and waited in front of the main gate to see if a flying saucer would appear.  After waiting for a few minutes, the UFO whirred overhead.  She took a shot – MISS!  Then she ran ahead of the UFO’s path, and took a shot a little quicker than before…  and with a loud CRASH the UFO smashed into the ground near the Old Forest.  Merry ran to the crash site and found a large bird knocked unconscious.

Merry with the UFO.

This bird identified himself as Gulliver.  For half a moment Merry feared that he was a spy from Mordor, but after speaking with him at length she was decided that this animal was friendly.  She even searched the town for the missing spaceship parts that Gulliver needed, and he rewarded her with a special item – a Compass.  Merry put the Compass in our house, and I promptly snatched it and put it in my cupboard.  There’s a Flea Market today, and I don’t want these greedy animals around town (nor the Sackville-Bagginses) to try and get their hands on it!

I was both proud and jealous of Merry.  Sometimes it seems like she always has all the luck!

Until next time,
Pippin/TheShire/3953-6655-4658