Equinox Island

[EquinoxIsland]

Island Name: Equinox
Native Fruit/Flower: Oranges/Windflowers
Starting Villagers: Flip, Reneigh
Current Inhabitants: Flip, Reneigh, Rex, Anabelle, Bertha, Bill, Goldie, Cube, Dobie, Octavian
Moved Out: Phil (voided), Roald (comm. fail void)

 

[EquinoxIsland]

This thread is a super neat idea! I just wanted to include basic information in the beginning post, I'll edit it later to look nicer. I wanted my first post to be clean and simple and the following to be blurbs of day to day or old things to talk about, such as eventually commemorating the accidental loss of Roald and the weird beginning interactions with Reneigh.

Today I finally had KK on my island. I don't know how I got 3 stars considering I only landscaped one teeny tiny part of my island (like a 6x6 area), but I guess I have a lot of flowers around my island from my future picnic area, my hybrid breeding area, and my hybrid cliff. With my new ability to make paths, I finished my 6x6 landscape for when people step out of the airport, as well as the area immediately in front of Mabel's and Sable's.

It took me forever to decide what to do with my island but I'm really happy with where it's going. I wanted to do something uniquely Equinox, and I decided that at least for my town area, I was going to stay true to only native flora. I'm only using windflowers (which have grown to become my favorite flower in the game) to decorate, orange trees, weeds (I like how they look in this game when they're not everywhere), and warm colors. It's going really well so far! My opening area right from the airport is playing K.K. Love Song, which I adore because it feels very much like the opening screen to a peaceful fantasy game. Customization has been soooo much fun to work with adding subtle details, as well as a stick or weed here and there. I'm really excited with the direction my town is taking!

I hope to have a picture of my entrance tomorrow, but for now here's the tailor shop and surrounding area!

 

[<Claire>]

Looking nice! I love cube

 

[EquinoxIsland]

I haven't had a whole lot of time to play today so there's only a few updates!

I requested K.K.'s song Farewell, so that's pretty neat! Have it in my inventory now.

I also had Redd today and I really don't know how to spot the difference between the real art and a forgery, but I plan on learning on my own (or looking it up if I can't figure it out) so no spoilers!

It was also Bertha's birthday (or should I say, Bertha-day hahaha) today! I completely forgot about the whole gift giving thing so I just made and customized a pitcher but it worked out. I also think I left prematurely, I feel like there was something else I should have done but again, idk what I'm doing here!

That's basically all for the updates. I missed out on things today I need to do tomorrow, like watering flowers or ordering more tape decks from my catalogue, etc. On the bright side, I only have 1 more week of classes (and then a dead week and a finals week) so hopefully things should free up!

 

[EquinoxIsland]

I didn't do anything with my island yesterday because I had lost my switch charger for the first half of the day, and did homework the second half so I didn't do a whole lot. I did look up how to tell forgeries with Redd though, and glad I did because it's not something you can really tell without looking stuff up.

Today I moved my museum and began planning my town a bit more. I'm going to put a fenced area attached to the museum and create a star gazing area. It's kind of slow progress since I don't 100% know where I'm going with it, but I'm experimenting! I just thought the moon and studying the sky was appropriate for a museum, so I could sneak a little area in there!

In other news, my island has been storming all day so I caught a couple of coelacanths. I also had soooo many villagers with thought bubbles above their head but none of them want to move out. I just want an open space so I can use my 60 NMTs and find moreeeee.

I have pics to upload but I'm a little too tired to go through the effort of uploading them right now, maybe tomorrow!

 

[EquinoxIsland]

It's been a couple days since I updated but it's my last week of classes so I've been a little bogged down.

I created a stargazing area next to my museum! It's closed by the wall of the museum and 22 birch log stakes. That took SO much wood but I just used some NMTs and got all the wood from there. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! I need more blue windflowers to go around the perimeter of the museum, so I have to wait to make more of those, and then the museum area will be mostly finished!

 

[EquinoxIsland]

Holy cow didn't realize it's been so long since I posted but I guess not much happened until today:

- I sold my turnips for 1.3 mil bells so that's pretty good!
- Saharah was visiting and sold a well paired mystery wallpaper and flooring for once (white-chocolate wallpaper, berry-chocolates flooring)
- I added streetlamps yesterday but moved them all and ordered more to fill in the blanks where I moved them.
- I paved a path from my entrance to the plaza, have fencing all around it, and right before the plaza I have a fountain with paths around it that instead of being kept in by stone fences, are lined with streetlamps as close together as possible (3 on each side, will post a pic when the flowers grow!)
- I also added a cute little area in a grass patch between two paths. There's a mountain bike that's next to a tree, a customized cushion and a picnic basket. I really like the little touches I'm able to add so much more than the actual building up the town and fences itself. They really add to an island. (Pic below)
- Goldie asked to move out but she's one of my core 4 so I said no and then exited without saving. She has had the thought bubble all day, but I hope that by not addressing it it will move to someone else tomorrow. I really want an open plot to use my 60 NMTs I've saved and look for villagers!!

 

[EquinoxIsland]

It's been a hot minute since I posted. I have moved my cranny now, and my house and a villager's house, but that's basically it as far as town updates go. I've been busy with finals week so I haven't done much!

Finally got a villager I didn't care all too much about to move out (sorry Bertha!) so I'm going to start using my 101 NMTs! Wish I could have started a little earlier in the day but I was taking my last final until 10 minutes ago. If I run into rare islands tonight, we'll see if I actually take advantage of them (I got scorpion money rock island last night and it took forever to get my inventory full. At least scorpions are less scary than tarantulas!)

My island hopping adventure will begin in 0.5-1 hours, I'll make a new post and update every 5-10 islands with island type and villager found on it, as well as time frame.

 

[EquinoxIsland]

Island Hopping

Louie - Cliff island - 6:15 PM

Angus - Basic island - 6:20 PM
Friga - Basic island - 6:24 PM
Cherry <3 - Basic island - 6:28 PM
Puck - Basic island - 6:32 PM
Friga - Basic island - 6:36 PM
Patty - Basic island - 6:39 PM
Renée - Basic island - 6:43 PM
T-Bone - Spiral island - 6:46 PM
Flo - Basic island - 6:52 PM
Boots - Falls island - 6:57 PM

Rory - Money rock island - 9:01 PM
Del - Spiral island - 9:12 PM
Mac - Basic island - 9:16 PM
Frita - Money rock island - 9:20 PM
Sly - Bamboo island - 9:28 PM
Peewee - Spiral island - 9:30 PM
Cobb - Money rock island - 9:33 PM
Frank - Spiral island - 9:40 PM
Marina <3 - Basic island - 9:43 PM
Gruff - Money rock island - 9:45 PM

??? - ??? - ???
Fauna <3 - Spiral island - ???
Tank - Basic island - 11:15 PM
Antonio <3 - Falls island - 11:19 PM
Keaton - Money rock / Scorpion island - 11:25 PM
Rolf - Foreign fruit island - 11:35 PM
Vivian - Bamboo island - 11:40 PM
Ozzie - Spiral island - 11:50 PM
Norma - Basic island - 11:55 PM
Rowan - Basic island - 12:01 AM

Pudge - Money rock island - 12:06 AM
Blaire - Spiral island - 12:30 AM
Mac - Foreign fruit island - 12:31 AM
Bud - Bamboo island - 12:34 AM
Gladys - Falls island - 12:46 AM
Pashmina - Bamboo island - 12:50 AM
Hippeux - Cliffs island - 12:54 AM
Renée - Falls island - 12:57 AM
Fang - Basic island - 1:01 AM
??? - ??? - 1:04 AM

Fang - Falls island - 1:09 AM
Big Top - Bamboo island - 1:12 AM
Twiggy - Basic island - 1:16 AM
Carrie - Basic island - 1:18 AM
Bianca - Spiral island - 1:21 AM
Celia - Basic island - 1:23 AM
Deena - Basic island - 1:25 AM
Snake - Basic island - 1:27 AM
Sylvia - Basic island - 1:29 AM
Snooty - Basic island - 1:31 AM

Lyman - Basic island - 1:35 AM
Boone - Bamboo island - 1:37 AM
Mott - Money rock island - 1:38 AM (at this point I need to go to bed so I stopped taking advantage of rare islands)
Alli - Basic island - 1:41 AM
Rodeo - Spiral island - 1:44 AM
Gigi - Falls island - 1:46 AM
Lucha - Basic island - 1:48 AM
Candi - Money rock island - 1:50 AM
Cyrano - Falls island - 1:52 AM
Leopold - Foreign fruit island - 1:54 AM

Kyle - Spiral island - 1:56 AM

I decided to end on Kyle. I like his design and I'm not usually one for smug villagers but I need one on my island and he feels like he'd be the most chill of them. He's also got a pretty cool style and house. I'm glad I got him.