🌹Animal Crossing Journals: The 1 Year Challenge, 2017 Edition🌹

[Cai-crossing]

Hiya mayors! I finally managed to get my pictures up. I'm actually thoroughly regretting switching to the new 3ds :/ Glad I kept my old XL, the lack of access to the SD card for screen shots is really annoying-- I haven't found an easy way of bulk-uploading my images yet short of removing the back of the ds.

Here are my first day shots!

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My town fruit is peaches! ^0^/ Will hopefully be open to trading today, I'm sick today and the light from the ds is hurting my head :<

FC for my old XL: 2939-1047-2961


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[Hazel]

Latibule Day 2~

- Phil is moving in, he hasn't ruined my landscaping plans but he set his plot as close as he could to my house! I don't really mind though.
- Jambette gave me a lemon in the mail
- Saharah was in town, she gave me the western vista wall
- Made a perfect snowdad beside my perfect snowboy from yesterday
- Changed my town flag/tune and did Isabelle's advice
- Donated fossils, fish, bugs
- Moved flowers to the beach, arranged them for hybrids
- Designed some shirts for the villagers (they're basic but better than the default ones)
- Jambette got angry at Felicity and Goose in the space of 5 minutes
- Found Wisp's lantern
- Payed off home loan
- Got all the main fruits
- Completed all my initiatives
- Got my development permit to 74%

I might try catching some more fish tonight, my permit seems determined to stay at 74% though *sigh*

- - - Post Merge - - -

Oh I forgot to mention I added a little summary/backstory to my acnl blog about Hazel here if anyone would like to read it! I hope to make little drawings based around the story/gameplay at some stage!

 

[Locket]

Heres day two! (I've played for like 4 hours so of course more happened)

Spoiler: New villager!

I really like Chadder, I think his house is really cool, so I'm okay with him moving him

Spoiler: Wisp!

After getting Wisp ready, I used the BonBon card I had, so she's gonna move in soon!

Spoiler: Snowman Numbers of the Day

21 and 15! PM or VM me if you need any of them!

Spoiler: Gulliver???

I was looking for fish, as I was walking along the beach, I found Gulliver. After waking him up, he thought I was Lizzy...

Spoiler: Chief, that's actually kinda rude

I told Ava that she does have the "fishing touch" then this...

That's all the screenshots I have for now!

 

[Lippysue]

Today in Burray I put down the deposit on my house and did all the advice for living stuff with Isabel that we could not do yesterday. So we now have apples and oranges in town. I also planted my perfect Apple.

I took fossils and a load of fish to the museum and Diva is tomorrow's move in. I am now working towards my town development permit.

 

[mocha.]

January 1st (continued)

★ finished 'advice' section with Isabelle
★ collected 14 types of fish
★ caught a bee
★ made a christmas jumper design
★ changed flag/town tune
★ donated fossils, bugs and fish to the museum
★ paid off down-payment on the tent
★ planted peaches, cherries & oranges and one perfect apple
★ laid down paths to try and force-move villagers
★ 33% approval rating
★ sylvia is moving in tomorrow

here's a few screenshots i took today! it's pretty late here now so i think we can call this a day. will be back to update tomorrow!

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[Mayor-of-Bliss]

In Bliss today:
* finished the tutorial
*bought a table
*paid house deposit
*fished, found fossils
*made a snowboy
*found where I may want to put the cafe and put paths to stop movers there
*Iggy the penguin moved in
*watered and moved flowers by town hall
I'm trying to do a relaxed play style this year.
After designing and landscaping four towns it's really, really difficult not to path everything to death. I am actually fishing now though which I quit doing for a while because landscaping.

 

[Hazel]

@mocha. I meant to say it to you earlier when you came over but that shirt design is really cute!

 

[SensaiGallade]

Bumping it up! Sign-ups close on Saturday!

 

[misspiggy95]

January 2nd in Plaża

-Julian is moving in! (I won't be keeping him though)
-We obtained all of the fruits! Time to plant trees!
-I made a new town flag (Posting at bottom of post, want to add letters in red for my town name, but I am awful at pixel letters)
-We made plenty of friends with the villagers (Mitzi, Spork, Leonardo, Monty, and Willow) and have already gotten nicknamed!
-I caught a variety of bugs/fish (18 different types of fish, 6 different bugs)
-Donated tons to the museum!
-Set out plots for my dreamies (Marina moves in tomorrow!^_^)
-Put flowers together in multiple areas in hope to get hybrids!
-Used my amiibo card to bring Etoile to my campground, ordered a new outfit for myself!

My Development permit so far is at 64%, and I still have a tent, hopefully I will get to 100% tomorrow!

This is my flag, this is also the first thing I have ever created without a QR code in New Leaf!
I want to put my town name on it, but I am awful at letters. If any of you have suggestions, I would love to see xD

Can't wait for tomorrow!

 

[A spooky ghost!]

January 2nd in Plaża

-Julian is moving in! (I won't be keeping him though)
-We obtained all of the fruits! Time to plant trees!
-I made a new town flag (Posting at bottom of post, want to add letters in red for my town name, but I am awful at pixel letters)
-We made plenty of friends with the villagers (Mitzi, Spork, Leonardo, Monty, and Willow) and have already gotten nicknamed!
-I caught a variety of bugs/fish (18 different types of fish, 6 different bugs)
-Donated tons to the museum!
-Set out plots for my dreamies (Marina moves in tomorrow!^_^)
-Put flowers together in multiple areas in hope to get hybrids!
-Used my amiibo card to bring Etoile to my campground, ordered a new outfit for myself!

My Development permit so far is at 64%, and I still have a tent, hopefully I will get to 100% tomorrow!

This is my flag, this is also the first thing I have ever created without a QR code in New Leaf!
I want to put my town name on it, but I am awful at letters. If any of you have suggestions, I would love to see xD

Can't wait for tomorrow!

Your flag looks amazing!
Well done☺

 

[A spooky ghost!]

Just paid off my home loan but I sold all my MEOW coupons to do it.
It was worth it ☺

 

[Hazel]

Since my link to my backstory didn't work yesterday I'm gonna post it here for anyone who wants to read it. It's just the first draft

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Have you ever wished you could start again? To run away and start a new life? For Hazel there was no other choice.

After breaking the most sacred of all witch’s law - stealing another witch’s grimoire - Hazel was afflicted with a deadly curse, a curse which is contagious to everyone around her. With approximately a year to live, Hazel grabs a ticket for a one way train to life of solitude with nothing but the clothes on her back.

She finds herself in the forest of Latibule where she hopes she can stay hidden for the remainder of her days. However she is greeted by a group of animals who seem to think she is their new mayor. She tries to reason with the secretary, Isabelle, but Isabelle is adamant that Hazel is their mayor leaving Hazel with no choice but to assume the role.

The villagers are at risk of being contaminated by the curse but Hazel isn’t the only one keeping secrets.

 

[ItsMilkypink]

Just about to pick up my game (just got home from school), and I need to collect peaches, cherries and apples. I can offer oranges and I have one pear that I could trade for. Please PM me if you have any of those fruits going spare! Thanks!

 

[Cai-crossing]

Loving this challenge so far! Going to try to get more used to detailing a game journal and using discord for trades c:

1/1 - 1/2 Diary:

- Planted town tree and talked to neighbors
- Laid down some patterns
- Created a mossy rock path place-holder... (I like it and might keep it :/ )
- Created temporary new year flag, but I got lazy so it's very plain
- Took part in the new year celebration
- completed basic meow coupon quests
- Pro designes: made a light blue winter coat pattern based on my rl coat, made a light blue polkadot lace cami for villagers to wear.
- bought glasses and halo
- took town pass picture
- planted perfect peach
- found money rock
- paid off first home loan
- sold shells and fruit
- visited boyfriend's town to visit Chelsea's RV to get the My melody bed, table, and chair.
- Got Apples from bf's town perg
- caught fish (bitterling, dace, barbel steed, carp, yellow perch, pond smelt, sea butterfly, blowfish, horse mackerel, sea bass, dab, olive flounder, and football fish.)
- caught bugs (bee, mole cricket, bagworm, dung beetle, wharf roach, pill bug, and centipede)
- Boyfriend visited with oranges, lychees, and durians.
- received lantern and wallpaper from Isabelle
- completed Isabelle's tutorial and got the watering can and some cherries!
- changed town tune to memory from Undertale.
- got a bunch of cool stuff from doing chores for neighbors
- found wisp
- set up my melody items
- summoned Ursula with wisp, asked her to move in <3
- got stung by many bees :< (I blame the headache!)

1/3 Diary:

- Met Tortimer
- Static moved in (placed house 1/2)
- Ursula placed house :,D SHE'S RIGHT NEXT TO MEEE! Yay for pink bear big sister <3
- Greeted neighbors & talked to sable
- CAUGHT STRINGFISHHHH >
- Summoned wisp to move in bluebear (decided to focus on blue villagers ^0^/ Might also do a few pink... not sure! )
- Completed all 4 meow coupon quests
- GOT DISTRACTED AND MISSED MY DATE WITH FREYA D,:
- Achieved 100% villager approval ^0^/
(will update as things change~)
- Visited ItsMilkyPink's town, traded 2 cherries for their pear ^^

Looking for:

- banana, coconut, lemon, & mango~ Will trade peaches! FC in side bar, let me know if you'd like to trade, hoping to play a lot today!!


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[mocha.]

hello again! hope everyone is having a good day in & out of game. i'm enjoying reading everyone's journals! today has been a very productive day for me c: i realised i dated my last entry as jan 1st. clearly i can't read because it was january 2nd yesterday lol apologies.


January 3rd

★ found wisp
★ planted paths all around my town to force-move new villagers
★ hit down 3 balloons with my net
★ visited katrina and had my fortune told
★ played snowmen bingo
★ made a new flag (which i'm super proud of, so enjoying designing things!)
★ bonded more with my neighbours, my favourites are gayle and willow however i won't be keeping any of them
★ caught a stringfish and a few more new fish and bugs
★ met sylvia, she looks so cute with her baby in her pouch! i don't plan on keeping her around either though
★ paid off first house loan
★ got approval rating to 100%
★ planted some more trees (pear, orange)
★ bought out tom nook and able sisters stores


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as always, here are a few screenshots for you to look at c:

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bonus: doodle of my mayor

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[ItsMilkypink]

Got some more little things completed today!

Day 3:
- Found and donated the daily fossil spawns.
- Found the money rock and gem rock spawns.
- Built a Snowmam to go with my Snowman; she came out perfect.
- Caught 5 snowflakes and got an Ice Wall off the Snowmam
- Talked to all of my villagers, completing a few tasks for some - including buying Penelope (a mouse villager) a hamster cage.
- Monty has moved into his plot!
- I now have all of the basic fruits (Apple, Orange, Pear, Peach, Cherry) thanks to trading with a couple other players.
- Visited Dizzy Bone's main town and bought a snow-patterned shirt.
- Bought out the Nookling Store to hopefully speed up the upgrading time.
- I now have a house instead of a tent!
- Paid off another home loan - the house will be even bigger tomorrow
- Through just casual play, I earned the Development Permit in two days.

Goals for tomorrow:
- Usual chores ~ fossils, rocks, weeks, water flowers, talk to all my villagers, and possibly buy out the Nookling store and Able Sisters
- Get some sort of randomly-placed patterns down to "hone in" villager house placement without plot resetting
- Catch some more of the fish for this month
- Meet Tortimer
- Make some good progress towards, if not pay off, my new mortgage

 

[Colour Bandit]

Day 1 (1/1)
Made my character, Emma, and the town, Ilvia (named after a city on Bajor from Star Trek) Map in picture album below!
Chose my house location.
After planting the town tree I went and sold some of my town's fruit.
With a handful of bells I went and bought the shovel from the shop and dug up all the fossils, planted my perfect fruit and found the money and gem rocks.
Went and donated the fossils and paid the down payment on my home.
Bought a fishing rod, a pair of pants and a blue ribbon for my character.

Town profile-
Name: Ilvia
Mayor: Emma
Fruit: Orange, Pear
Villagers:
Peewee
Gabi
Moose
Peaches
Queenie
Agnes
Picture album

I will be skipping to 2/1 now and will post an update after that, this will be the only tting I will do just to get the date in sync.

EDIT
Day 2 2/1
My teeny tiny house has been built!
I completed all of Isabelle's tasks, planted up the pears she has given me and caught a few fish.
I updated my tpc picture.
Agnes is moving in!
I found Whisp but will wait to use him until I get caught up on the date.
I went and watered all my flowers and got the four fossils donated.

My picture album has been updated!

I have skipped forward for the last time to 3/1!

 

[tacocat]

Hi! Can I still sign up?

I actually restarted my game on January 1st as well. I always neglected ACNL due to schoolwork, but I finished school and now I have a nice, long commute to play lol.

 

[Roxer9000]

Sign me up!!

 

[ItsMilkypink]

Aw **** I came late

No, you didn't! SensaiGallade is accepting sign-ups until the 7th. Just TT back to Jan 1st, reset your game, then play through the next two days by TT-ing or just skip to the current day. c: