New Leaf: Days 13 Through 14

So Nookling's finally upgraded to the T&T Mart. I seriously thought this was never going to happen, that I would spend about three million bells there and it would never change. Now I can finally go to a real store and not some silly hole in the wall. The great thing about T&T Mart is that it is open until like midnight, although I don't think the default store hours in this game are ever that much of a problem to me. Over at the Able Sisters, I finally got the QR Scanner!

I was so happy! Now I can finally take other people's designs and throw them all over my town! And I didn't have to think about where to start, as I knew what my town flag was going to be the moment I found out about the QR Scanner...

AND I SAID HEEEEYYYAAAAYYYAAAAYYAAAAA

Adding further to the hilarity was this lovely sight when I walked into the town hall for the day.

Makes me sad that I'll never see this happen again.

Also opening for me was the Dream Suite, where you can pay five hundred bells to travel to another person's town via a dream, so anything that happens there doesn't actually affect you or that person and his/her town. The Dream Suite is also the place to go to upload and update your town every now and then for five thousand bells (free money!). Once it opened, I immediately went over to check it out.

For those of you who can't see the photo, my Dream Address is 5200-2487-4912. I decided to test out this odd feature by going to the town of one of the people I StreetPassed with at a mall from where I live.

Strange logic, but I guess that's why this is a dream.

LOL

I also checked out this really crazy town, called Aika Village (I think?), and it is just so bizarre. The moment you wake up, you see this very intricate back and white checkerboard pattern pasted all across the floor. Looking at it while walking was actually driving me a little crazy.

I also think this town is somehow always at night, although I haven't attempted seeing it at another time of day for me. I did this during the afternoon. Anyway, there is all sorts of weirdness here. Everywhere you go, you see fountains with the statue of the semi-naked angel woman, I think, and it gets to the point where it is downright creepy. I decided to check out the "player" houses (I have some doubt about whether this town was made by real people), and that's where I found the weirdness in the outdoors was only the beginning.

All the player villagers look exactly the same. Also, notice those mannequins gathered around the cake.

I forgot to take more pictures of this house, but there were three other houses that were even creepier. As I tried to approach the town hall to see the flag, I found myself in a maze of hedges and holes in the ground. I knew I could easily kick the dirt back into them, but I wanted to play along with this place and see how it was meant to be experienced. As I progressed, the place seemed further and further crazy, with much garbage and random sweets, like chocolate cake, thrown all over the ground. There are also so many red and pink carnations planted all throughout the town, I guess to offset the creepiness? It's still weird though.

Wow that statue totally didn't fit the description I gave, but yeah it's still creepy

I also passed by the police station. Can you guess what was in the lost and found?

Excuse me officer, you wouldn't happen to have found a beehi- Oh, wait a minute.
Which one is mine?

Everything gets weirder inside the player homes

Here's Dolly!

Imagine a kid playing this game and seeing this.

So creepy. There was even a house there owned by somebody named Axel. Hey wait a minute, that's me! Well, actually, not quite. It turns out that there's some elephant with my name in this game, but the coincidence still added to the town's creepiness. I heard this town would be weird, but I severely underestimated that claim. Following this town, I went to Nintendo's official town. Not much was really noteworthy other than how I ran into Elvis somehow, and also there was a house that had some of the Nintendo items you get from the fortune cookies.

Hey Elvis- Wait a minute, get back to my town!

Surprisingly, there wasn't much to that Nintendo house with the Nintendo items.

Not much else really went down these days. Doctor Shrunk came by and asked me to get signatures. It's been a few days since these days happened and I'm still waiting on him to open Club LOL, although I read that it does take a while. Later on, I went to the island through Internet to try doing tours with other people, and this turned out to be one of my most awkward online experiences ever. First, I made the mistake of going International, so I wound up with a girl who only spoke Japanese. I tried saying hi to her, but she kept talking to me in Japanese. She probably did understand and speak English, and she probably just decided to find all the ways to insult me in Japanese. I tried to do a tour with her, and we both sat down in the chairs to do it, but somehow she disappeared. So I went back to the island, this time North America only, and I met up with somebody who seemed  pretty chill. I asked if he wanted to do a tour, and he said sure. So I set one up and sit down in the chair... but he wasn't in the chair yet. I wound up doing the tour by myself and I probably looked like an idiot to that guy, but oh well. So I try the island again, and this time I run into somebody who seems cool. He talks to me about the game and all these ways to make bells and stuff. Just as I was about to ask if he wanted to do a tour, he said he was tired and wanted to wake up the next day to go to church. He then said, "No offense," and I thought he meant as if in case his wanting to go to church tomorrow offended me. I thought for a while that this guy was actually pretty cool, so I said that it was cool. It turned out he was starting a conversation, "No offense, but do you believe in God" was pretty much what he was saying. So we talked about it and I said I have my own sort of weird belief. I couldn't believe I was having this conversation in Animal Crossing: New Leaf of all places, but then this guy tells me that he is eleven! I thought to myself that was treading on thin ice, so I tried not to get too into the details of my own beliefs. Still, by the end of this conversation, he was like, "Have fun burning naked on the brimstone." Hey, you started the conversation with "no offense," you can't say that! The funny thing was he left the island just as he said that.

Mind you, at this point, I still haven't done a single tour with anyone. I made one last trip to the island hoping that this would not turn out to be as awkward as it's been so far. Thankfully, I met a cool and sweet girl who laughed with me about my weird adventures across the Internet in Animal Crossing. I asked if we could do a tour, and she agreed to it, and thus I finally got into a tour with somebody. We did a bug-catching tour where the players together have to catch as much bells worth of bugs as possible. The score came out to be around a hundred thousand or so bells, and she did better since she had the better luck of constantly running into those palm tree beetles.

After this, I noted down her Dream Address to see what her town was like, and it seems like we both have made about the same amount of progress into this game.

"Gotta appease my foot fetish... aww yeah.... CRIKEY! THE MAYOR'S HERE!

The shoe store opened on Sunday. Not much to really gander at there though. I don't really understand the point of socks if you can't really see them, but maybe it's better off when wearing shorts or a skirt. Over at T&T's, Timmy and Tommy were selling fireworks instead of fortune cookies, much to my misfortune, as August is apparently the month for fireworks shows. I didn't actually play all that much on Sunday, as I went out and got a new laptop(!) (more on that in a later post), but I did check into the game in time to see the fireworks!

HEEEEYYYAAAAAAYYAAAAAAYYYEEEAAAAAHHHH

Sadly this pattern doesn't really work so well with these fireworks.