Fashionable in Mabure

I was going to skip a Mabure update today, but a lot more than I expected wound up happening.

First off, I've been doing the villager reset trick to get a villager in my campsite so Mabure can finally have a tenth villager. While I've been tempted a few times (among others, I've had Jacques, Whitney, Pekoe, Pietro, and Molly), my heart is essentially set on one of four villagers.

One of the four is Marina, who I've been wanting for a while as I mentioned in my first Mabure update. However, after thinking about it, I've become convinced she'd fit better among the weirdness in Camazotz than Mabure. I'll still happily take her if she appears before the other three, but I'm not dead set on her like I used to be. Who are the other three? If one of them shows up before Marina does, then you'll see. Otherwise I guess I'll mention them once Marina is safely in Mabure.

But enough of that; onto today's update.

First off, Avril had all the letters she could carry, yet had a new letter in her mailbox. On her way to the post office to store the excess letters, she caught sight of someone she was not happy to see.

No, it wasn't Bluebear. If I disliked her I wouldn't have invited her into Mabure in the first place; she first appeared in my campsite after all.

Anyway, she pinged Avril with a hankering for cherries, and Avril dutifully went and fetched her one.

The reward was a blue vase. I guess Bluebear always has blue on her mind (although I think I've given her some green furniture before).

 The blue vase actually looks pretty nice. Sadly, Avril doesn't have any free room in her house to put it, which means it's going to wind up in her closet. I really need to empty it out and organize it again; it's almost full.

Now, that someone I'm not thrilled to see? It's none other than....

 ...Gracie. If there's anyone in this game I legitimately hate (not just dislike, hate), it's Gracie. Those fashion checks are so annoying, especially if you're someone like me who almost never keeps track of what style their clothing is.

The bright side is that Avril's completed one of these checks before and after this will be halfway to the first prerequisite of T&T Emporium. On the other hand...why is this mandatory at all for T&T Emporium? Couldn't Gracie just set up her own shop completely independent of the Nooklings?

*Sigh* Enough ranting. Due to the above mentioned reasons, Avril put off talking to Gracie until there was literally almost nothing else to do.

On her way back to Main Street, she noticed and pulled a flea off Bluebear, who naturally wasn't pleased to have one on her. She does clean every day, y'know (although maybe using ginger ale as soap wasn't such a good idea).

T.I.Y. had Wandering for the daily K.K. song, which Avril bought as she liked the sound of it yet didn't already own it. I think that's the only new song I've seen this week.

Also present was a fortune cookie, which have gotten rare due to the firworks stuff taking their place most of the time. I usually try to buy these every day they're available.

But sadly they usually turn out to either be duds or stuff I already have, and today was no different.

To to be fair, it's been a while since I got a Yoshi's Egg out of them. It's not as annoying as getting the exact same thing two or more days in a row (which I've had happen before).

Also present in the shop was Eloise, though I didn't take a picture of their conversation.

Most of the villagers just commented on random things, but Bob actually had a favor to ask of Avril - he wanted to record a cicada's chirping, and needed a cicada for that purpose. At the time Bob asked this, however, it was too late to catch one of the super-common cicadas. There was only one bug in the family that was still available at the time.

Since that bug would take a while to find due to being rare, however, Avril decided to take care of it later. Sadly, that also meant there was nothing else to do before she had to handle...

Gracie's fashion check. Yay.

Thankfully, Gracie wanted to see a basic style this visit. That Avril could handle; a surprising amount of her usual clothing is that style. If nothing else, it's much more manageable than official or especially modern.

The outfit Avril went for consisted of the HHA Tee, a black formal skirt, white socks, and brown pumps. She took the flower out of her hair before going to see Gracie as I'm not sure what flowers count as style-wise and there's a few things the basic style will clash with.

She initially didn't bother with accessories as she had none of the basic series, but to her dismay Gracie told her she needed one before she would do the fashion check.

*Grumble* Why is this mandatory.

Avril settled on a "cute" accessory and hat. This better make you happy, Gracie.

 Thankfully it did the trick. Gracie even approved of mixing cute and basic styles.

For accomplishing it so expertly, Avril was awarded one of Gracie's special furniture series. Mission accomplished. Two checks down...two more to go. Why.

The Gracie bench looks like this. It's not bad looking I suppose, though again Avril didn't have much room for it. So she put it in her closet, and started looking for something different than her usual outfit to wear. I do have an idea for a new outfit for her, but I didn't have any black shirts that would accomplish my plan. So I went to go put her usual outfit back on....

Suddenly, random surprise visit! Bad timing Graham; Avril's changing right now.

Avril decided that just taking the silly mustache off was enough to look presentable and the unexpected visit went well enough.

 Graham didn't stay for too awful long; just long enough to have a few brief discussions with Avril. I do like these visits; they add quite a bit more flavor to the game. It's also nice that they don't take as long as scheduled visits do; it's a bit inconvenient having to show visitors every room of your house before they'll leave, especially when it's a room you'd rather not show them (the basement, in Avril's case).

While finishing up the last remaining business of the night (catching Bob a cicada), Savannah came up to Avril and asked if she thought her catchphrase was worth changing. Avril thought "y'all" (her default catchphrase) was good enough and Savannah decided to stop worrying about it.

She did steal Eloise's catchphrase once, but besides that it's been "y'all" since I started the town.

The only member of the cicada family available at this hour was the lantern fly. Technically it's only related to cicadas and not a cicada itself, at least as far as I know, but for the game's purposes it'd do. Although lantern flies also aren't anywhere near as loud as cicadas are; I don't even know if they make any noise at all. Hopefully Bob won't be too disappointed.

He accepted the lantern fly anyway and rewarded Avril with a night-sky tee. I believe I have this shirt already, but it's a nice-looking shirt and might work for that new outfit I'm planning. Afterwards, she headed on home and went to bed, finished for the day.

Mabure updates are going to get more and more sparse as the blog goes on. Like I keep saying, the town's fairly well-established. I'm not quite done landscaping it yet, but I'm still not quite sure where to put everything. At any rate, it's not moving at the same pace Camazotz is. Not that I'm actually going to stop writing about it altogether, oh no. We'll see what the future holds for it.

Until the next one, folks.

Keaton Wanna Cracker

Business in Camazotz has been chugging along at its usual pace. 

Keaton moved in properly and Danielle went to see what he looked like. I'm happy to have an eagle in Camazotz as I think they look cool and quite a change of pace from all the mammals. Of course, instead of getting someone like Apollo, Sterling, or Amelia, I get Mr. Parakeet here.

That being said, I think he's a good kind of strange. At the very least, he's a lot more tolerable than T-Bone or Tiffany. Plus he's a smug villager, so he'll have an interesting personality if my experiences with Graham in Mabure are anything to go by. Here's hoping he and Danielle will get along.

In a strange coincidence, Graham is Avril's closest neighbor in Mabure just as Keaton is Danielle's. In both of my towns I've got a smug villager living right next to my mayor. Not that I'm complaining.

In doing the daily routine, Danielle managed to find and catch a centipede. Like I mentioned, I have major trouble finding these rock bugs, so that's one thing out of the way. Also, centipedes are one of the few arthropods in real life that creep me out. And this is coming from someone who has no problem with spiders.

A special visitor appeared in Camazotz for the third day in a row, and today it was Katrina. Danielle didn't go to see her, and I'm not certain if I will before the day ends or not. Since Danielle has the lovely phone, the only reason to go see Katrina is to get her shop on Main Street. Plus, Danielle still doesn't have enough clothing to have a good chance of having whatever her lucky item is.

 Goose pinged Danielle and asked her for a new greeting. I decided to be decidedly unoriginal and went with the pictured catchphrase. Originally I was going to go with the even more unoriginal "cock-a-doodle-doo," but besides the fact that I couldn't fit that last "O" in the game didn't like that for what I hope are obvious reasons.

As Danielle went around tending to her business, she stumbled upon this funny scene. I guess some days you get the pitfall, and other days the pitfall gets you.

Speaking of T-Bone, I've decided to stop talking to him and Tiffany. Since Camazotz will soon be full in terms of random move-ins, I want those two to leave, and I've found ignoring villagers is the best way to go about doing that without relying on time-travel shenanigans. So this is the last you'll see of the two unless one of the other villagers wants Danielle to give something to one of them.

Speaking of which, Keaton wasn't even properly settled before the ninth villager decided to stake out a plot. This is probably the fastest I've ever seen anyone move in.

Camazotz's last villager is named Becky, and that's about all I know about her. I vaguely remember seeing a cow by that name while looking around for potential choices for Mabure's tenth villager last night, but I'm not positive on that all. I'm doing my best not to spoil myself this time, and I'd prefer it stay that way until she moves in tomorrow.

Nookling Junction had a turntable on display, and Danielle decided she liked it better than her current phonograph.

The final big event of the day was the grand opening of Camazotz's gardening shop.

 Sadly, it was a little too small to get a good picture of the proprietor Leif. I wonder if his last name is Erikson? Totally not stealing that joke from someone, nope.

At any rate, Danielle cleared out the whole shop as there's a reward for buying fifty flowers and fifty saplings, both of which make tending to the town quite a bit easier.

While nothing in either of the Able Sisters' shops was interesting enough to buy, Sable's really starting to warm up to Danielle if this long exchange is anything to go by.

With the daily shopping done, Danielle decided to make this mostly a money-making day as not only was there a loan that needed paid off public works projects would soon be a thing. I'll get to more about the theme for Camazotz later on down the road.

Of course, she didn't neglect donating things to the museum and caught quite a few new bugs. The orchid mantis in particular is something I wanted to point out. It's tricky finding these things; while I'm not sure how rare or common they are, they're very hard to see and I find I scare them off before I realize they're there.

Shortly after catching the mantis (or maybe a while afterwards; I don't quite remember), Merengue pinged Danielle with the request of delivering something to Clay.

 Clay was overjoyed to have the delivery. He seemed even more exciting to see that it was a new shirt.

In fact, he was so happy he changed into it on the spot. I think I liked his default outfit better, but whatever. Danielle's reward was a second one-ball tee.

Merengue was just as happy to hear that Clay enjoyed the gift.

 Once the daily routine was completely finished and no one else was pinging her, Danielle went to speak with Freckles, mostly to apologize for forgetting about her yesterday. Freckles, for her part, made up for that by asking if Danielle wanted to come over to her house right that second. Danielle figured, "Hey, why not?"

It actually took me a minute or two to remember which one of these houses was Freckles's, which makes her comment in this picture kind of...um...is "ironic" the right word? I don't know.

 Either way, the visit went thankfully well. I don't know if her music player was there before or not, but either way it was there now and was playing K.K. Song. Not certain if I really like that song or not, really (though it's worth noting it was a secret song in previous Animal Crossings if I remember correctly).

Also present was the boxed figurine Danielle had given her some days ago. It actually fit fairly well with the rest of her furniture.

I don't know, Freckles. I imagine most folks would take pity on someone who lives in a bathroom, though that also implies the person living in the bathroom is there because s/he doesn't have any other choice. Who knows what's going through the mind of someone who's intentionally living in one.

And Freckles apparently thinks herself a pop star. First off, being a star implies people know about you, and considering Danielle completely forgot about her yesterday I don't think being that egoistical is a good idea. Then again, is it ever a good idea?

Danielle still had one more villager to talk to, though, and so she had to bid Freckles farewell. She told her that her house was great (which it is; it's difficult to say a house looks bad when everything in it goes so well together, even if it is a bathroom) and went on her merry way.

Shari was home again. It seems like I've only seen her outside of her house once since she moved in. Maybe she's just shy?

Either way, she didn't have anything interesting to say. Just some more tutorial mode stuff. I guess she didn't get the memo that Danielle already knows about this stuff.

The rest of the day was just Danielle fishing and catching bugs for the sake of making bells (she did catch a boot, although I didn't think to take a picture of it. I guess it had to happen eventually considering the beautiful town ordinance isn't enacted).

A few more villagers pinged her while she was out and about, however.

Freckles, this time, wanted to try out her "psychic powers" on her after testing them out on Goose earlier. I don't think she or any other peppy villagers really have such powers; Animal Crossing just isn't one of those games. But Danielle played along anyway.

Freckles asked her what she first thought of when she thought of the town. For the lols, I chose the last option: "You, Freckles!" I don't remember what the first two options were, other than that they weren't things that came to mind when I thought of Camazotz.

Freckles reacted by spazzing the heck out. I love choosing that option whenever it shows up. The villagers' reactions to it are always so funny.

 The last notable conversation was with Goose, who wanted to know who the strongest in Camazotz was. I believe T-Bone or Merengue would be the actual strongest by virtue of being a bull and a rhino, respectively (both animals are certainly stronger than a rooster at any rate), but they weren't options. The options were Freckles, Tiffany, Goose himself, and Danielle.

Again for the lols, Danielle went with the least likely option: Freckles. Goose seemed a little shocked that she'd say that. Also adding to the amusement factor was that the duck herself just so happened to be standing right there while this conversation was going on.

Then it just got silly when Goose actually agreed to some extent. Of course, since Jocks are just as egoistical as the peppy villagers he assumed he was the actual strongest. Meanwhile, Freckles just shook her head and kept on walking.

You're a chicken, Goose (boy that sounds strange out of context). Are you certain you could do that? Actually, Danielle's pretty lightweight I imagine. Now, if you can lift Merengue or T-Bone over your head you can call me impressed.

At any rate, it appears Danielle's sarcasm flew (no pun intended) right over Goose's head. With that, the conversation was over. 

While I'll probably play with Camazotz more later on (I did enact the Night Owl ordinance; might as well make use of it) I probably won't be making a separate update for it unless something really notable happens. Otherwise, tomorrow we'll get to meet Becky, and maybe see if anything else interesting is happening around Camazotz. 

Until the next one, folks.