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

Played for nearly three hours today! Got a decent amount done. :)

Yesterday's goals:
GOALS FOR TOMORROW
- Daily fossils
- Hybrid gardens
- Fake rock and money rock
- Buy out ALL shops - no exceptions
- Collect 50 medals at the island
- Beetle farm
- {IF THEY'RE AVALIABLE} Adopt a dreamie!

Goals I Completed:
- I adopted Fang yesterday - he plotted in the top-right of my town in the perfect spot ^^
- Got all the fossils
- Got some more hybrids and planted 2 new gardens
- Did a TERRIBLE job at the money rock, but I found it and the gem rock
- Bought out Nookling's and Able Sisters
- I beetle farmed and got around 400K which paid off my mortgage

Other things that happened:
- Did some jobs for some villagers (fruit request, furniture request, house visit)
- Built a Snowman (AND GOT A BINGO!!)
- Planned to build the basement for my house (I really want to create a Danisnotonfire-inspired existential crisis room XD)
- Nookling's is closing for refurbishment tomorrow
- Cyrus woke up!
- Got some more gyroids for my collection (I want to collect them ALLLL XD)
- Returned a lost bad to Whitney

Goals for tomorrow:
- {DEPENDENT ON TOURS AVAILABLE} Acquire some medals
- Usual chores (Hybrids, Rocks, Fossils)
- Beetle farm and make more moneyyy
- If there's an axe, clear some more trees out

~♥
 
Day 11

Not sure if i posted yesterday or not.

-did the usual stuff.
- built my first pwp a little street light by the retail oposite Marshal's house
-talked to villagers did some requests (but i aint catching that stringfish for you!)
-Nook's is closing tomorrow to upgrade! Finally!
-Isabelle was asleep so i can unlock the dream suit!

I know exactly how to have my house and im quite excited to start decorating!!

Im having the room as you walk in as the Great Hall/ Dining area.
The room to the back as the kitchen.
The top room as the Ravenclaw Tower. (blue/star theme)
The left room is going to be Gryffindor (red/yellow theme)
The Right room Hufflepuff (Yellow/black theme)
The Basement Slytherin (Silver/green theme)

just need to find all the items now!

going to look on pintrest and tumblr so see if they have any cute HP QR codes to scan in/cute paths.
Im pretty sure ill have the machine to scan in the qr's tomorrow!
 
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Day 11 in Bliss:
*Bridge is now built!!!
*Got suggested the Geyser! Pretty cool
*Stitches had me fetch Pecan. Pecan wanted me to give Stitches a delivery.
*Pretty sure Pecan and Stiches are buddies.
And I'm 100% sure Goldie and Merengue are bffs.
Let me head cannon my villagers.
*Had Deirdre over to my place
*No cookie because Nooks is closed
*Kicks being built (still I feel like yesterday it was being built too could be wrong)
*Worked on path laying, redesigned paths. Again. Right now it's of natural looking rocks.
*Island was meh played the official garden tour

Overall a good day!
-I've decided nobody moves till I get their picture.
(Mostly because I am lazy and high friendship makes getting pwps easier. )
-I've also decided I might build pwps by were they are suggested if I chose to build any. I saw it as a acnl nuzzlocke challenge and thought it was pretty neat. I'm not 100% on it but I might.
-Not building my house past second expansion (were it is now. I want my home to be the size of the villagers.)
-May build a second character. Not sure.
 


Ahh~ Guys~ I was feeling a bit down today, and my bf put on the animal crossing movie fan dub!! It's sorta my guilty pleasure but it makes me so happy! I just wanted to share! Having a lot more fun on the 2017 town than I had been having in my digital copy (I'm always debating restarting that one :/ )

1/11

- visited with Freya
- Jambette came to my house
- Received 4 badges from Phineas (currently have 8/72 badges! Skilled Diver, Insect Maniac, Fish Maniac, Seafood Maniac, Seafood encyclopedia, Avid bell saver, Amateur turnip trader, and village representative!)
- Delivered a package to curly from bluebear
- found the gem and money rock~ (BTW for anyone who doesn't already know gems can be listed in the flea market space at retail for 7000 gold and metals can be listed at 9000 gold. Villagers will be super happy with these prices and the ore won't be displayed in their homes c: )
- Marshal asked for random fruit so I gave him a perfect orange that I picked up in a friend's town! :D
- Punchy had me bring Marshal over because he missed him and it was super cute
- Curly bought my snow crab and it made him super happy
- Told Curly not to move >:O YOU STAY A BIT LONGER MISTER PIGGY!!
- Freya randomly gave me Whitney's shirt. I ship it :p
- Built another snow man. I'm now 1 number away from 3 separate bingos. Snow man told me that's more rare than getting a bingo, lol.
- Attended the 3rd bridge celebration
- Unlocked the dream suite and paid it off
- Unlocked the lighthouse from Bluebear
- Kick's is being built
- Found and donated fossils, 2 were dupes
- Let a forum member in my town for signatures c:
- My orchard has grown so I now have all of the fruit trees!

FOSSILS UP FOR TRADE:
- Iguanodon tail
- T-Rex skull
- Peking Man
- Spino Torso
- Mammoth Torso
- Apato Torso
- Diplo Hip
- Dimetrodon Torso
- Ichthyo Torso

need: Stego parts, Archelon parts-- eh~ Just whatever you want to trade, working towards the 100 visitor thing so that's payment enough if you need a fossil <3


 
Day 11 in Plaża!

- Today we celebrated the opening of our new Police Station!
- Unlocked the Dream Suite, planning on paying it off tomorrow
- Paid off my loan, getting another expansion tomorrow
- The Nooklings store closes tomorrow for expansion!
- Kicks started to build
- Grinded at the island for a bit
- Did daily chores (Fossils, Money Rock, Watered my hybrid garden)
- Found a striped wet suit at an international island! (Almost raged at someone for purposely stealing my fish, but just decided to leave instead)

Pretty much it!
Tomorrow I plan to pay of the dream suite, pay of my loan, and do some more grinding at the island!
 
Sorry I haven't updated in a few days, haven't had the chance!

Day 9 in Latibule ~

- Grizzly moving in
- Goose suggested the Modern Bridge, another pwp I don't want to build
- Started/payed off the Fountain

Day 10 ~

- Goose is moving out

Day 11 ~

- Peck is moving in!
- Moved my second character, Willow in!
- Unlocked the QR machine!
- Phil suggested the Parabolic Antenna which I am definitely not building
- Nooklings remodelling tomorrow!
- Payed off the Secret Storage
- Lottie's tutorial
- Kicks is being built!
- Started funding/payed off the Dream Suite
- Saharah was in town
- Maelle moving out

Day 12 ~

- Kitty moving in!
- Brought Katie to Neon's town
- Paid off the basement
- Jambette is moving out
 
ok... i did everything i could to reach to normal day so this its gonna be a resume of everything

day1-day 12

i moved in 5 of my dreamies : alfonso,tank,octavian,julia and annalisa
garden shop open
i did the develop permit and got 100%
my five villager that i start with were agent s, eunice,soleil, rudy and big top
i got the island
i got a second floor in my house
im building a bridge
and put tiny design as my path while waiting on the rq machine

that all that has happened in rainbow :)
 
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ok... i did everything i could to reach to normal day so this its gonna be a resume of everything

day1-day 12

i moved in 5 of my dreamies : alfonso,tank,octavian,julia and bella
garden shop open
i did the develop permit and got 100%
my five villager that i start with were agent s, eunice,soleil, rudy and big top
i got the island
i got a second floor in my house
im building a bridge
and put tiny design as my path while waiting on the rq machine

that all that has happened in rainbow :)

Thank you Zebra for the 50TBT donation! So far we have 300TBT saved for the jackpot!
 
Bliss day 12:
*daily chores
*opening of convenience Mart
*kicks still being built
*Peggy suggested the police station!!!!!
*sent letters to people in town
*cookies were block, and hero's pants
*bought red hibiscus from island
*planted fruit
*worked on path laying
*had Iggy over to my house
*went diving
*placed and paid off campsite

Tommorow-
-hopefully have kicks open
-plot police station

Today was a good chill day in my town
 
Day 12

- Played Hide and seek with Francine!
-Got the QR machine, so my mayor is now wearing a cute Hufflepuff robes!
-scanned in a new flag. (hogwarts cress)
-two animals turned up to celebrate the street light.
-Nooks is still closed for upgrading.
-my next pwp is the fence
-expanded my house once more
 


Weh~ I'm getting nervous about the villager picture challenge! We're almost half way through the month and none of my villagers have asked for signatures or anything big-- Most difficult request I've gotten was to bring Curly an Oarfish. :< Here's to hoping! All my villagers are giving me random shirts and stuff though.

General question (will post this in the appropriate forum if I have the energy xD): when you talk to villagers too much (like when they start getting passive-aggressive and eventually tell you to go away because they need to think) does it actually lower friendship, or is it just a mechanic to get the player to stop talking to a specific villager / to limit the friend points you can get through talking?

1/12 so far:

- Dream suite is built
- T & T Mart under construction
- Unlocked illuminated arch pwp through Freya
- Placed and begun paying for police station (I went for the new one this time for some reason... I always go for the old one. Maybe I'll make this one a suburb or cafe' town eventually? I'm still not sure what I'm doing with this town!)
- Worked on re-laying paths. I created alternate color stones this week. Right now my paths are a light blue stone with little cinnamoroll-themed welcome mats in-front of houses. Not sure if I like them or not. I'm SERIOUSLY rusty with pixel art! xD At least the stones look nice ^^;
- Watered flowers
- dug up and donated fossils
- Summoned Etoile (little twin star sheep) to the RV camp, ordered 3 items c: (PM or VM me if you'd like to visit the camp site! C: )
- Had a very lovely visit with Alyssa of Dewdrop!
- Unlocked QR machine!!! :D

QR codes so far:





Let me know if you want the clothing QR codes ^0^/

Also I think I might make my final villager line-up: Merengue, Tia, Etoile, Chai, Francine, Ursala, Wolfgang, Bam, Moe, and Julian. But I'm honestly not sure! ; A ; I love everyone rn, so I'll just keep working on laying everything out and see how it goes!

 
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Day 12 in Plaża!

- Marina came over to hang out
- Went to June's house
- Did some chores for the villagers
- Tended to my Hybrid garden (I got a purple rose today! Woo :D )
- Donated fossils
- Redd was here, got the only real painting there.
- Paid off Dream Suite!
- Grinded for a bit on the island, got some more bush starts for my town
 
Today was a super busy day in Valo! (OYC: Day 12)

-The new T&T Mart opened up and I finally got a slingshot!
-The dream suite opened up and I uploaded my first dream of Valo (I'll post my DA later), I hope to update it daily!
-Kick's shoe store opened so no more bare feet in the snow!
-Two of my villagers, both Fuschia and Harry took up wearing the shirts I have in the Able Sister's shop which made me so happy!
-I got a second story to my house, now we're working on a basement!
-Cyrus finally woke up in Re-Tail which I have been waiting for because I have a polka-dot couch and a some kiddie furniture I've been dying to re-do!

Also Koda my side character met Mr.Tortimer so he'll be able to visit the island starting tomorrow and start paying off his own house!
 
Rowan is moving on the 20th.
Del is in boxes right now if anyway wants either!


Day 13

-T&T was open! Able to buy a slingshot and a few things from them
-donated the fossils of today
-Went Round Bunnies house
-Paid off home loan and expanded it again/added the upstairs
-Moving in Roscoe and kicking Del out.
-Cryus woke up so i can now start to customise everything!

Good day in all :)

GUUUUUUUYS

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just caught this fishy!
don't have to worry about this one any more!!!!
 
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After reviewing the applications for secretary of the challenge, Please welcome misspiggy95 and Kaydeekrunk as the Secretaries of the challenge and the Discord Channel.

Secretaries are moderators essentually, please feel free to approach them and I'm sure they shall respond.

Thank you everyone!

We also received a donation of 100TBT from a non-participant, Libra! That makes the Jackpot now 500TBT!
 
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Been busy with work and grad school applications (fingers crossed!) but I'm still playing a little bit every day. I'm impressed when people manage to consistently go beetle-catching on the island. I get so bored but I really wanna expand my house soon lol.
JANUARY 6, 2017
★ Garden Shop is under construction
★ Visited Katrina and was told to wear a hat for luck
★ I think it worked because Goose asked me for a stringfish (of *course*) and I managed to find one 5 min later

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JANUARY 7, 2017
★ The Garden Shop is officially open
★ Redd came into town and I bought the Moody Painting
★ Colton has moved in

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JANUARY 8, 2017
★ Got some hybrid flowers
★ Not much else... daily chores

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JANUARY 9, 2017
★ Cyprus finally woke up
★ Saharah again

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JANUARY 10, 2017
★ Found a lost mitten
★ Lyle gave me some gossip

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JANUARY 11, 2017
★ Found Isabelle asleep at the job... Dream Suite is unlocked
★ Kicks is now under construction
★ Found Gulliver, he's heading to Kenya
★ QR machine unlocked

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JANUARY 12, 2017
★ Got some more fruit and bought a swimsuit from the island
★ Nook store closed for renovations
★ Kicks is still under construction
★ Got a mannequin from Sable
★ Found Gyroids because it snowed yesterday
★ Redd's back, got a Jolly Painting

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JANUARY 13, 2017
★ Finished paying for the campground
★ Signed the Keep Koriko Beautiful Ordinance
★ Renovated T&T Mart opened!
★ Gayle moved in
★ Kicks is STILL under construction

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Bliss day 13:
*Peggy suggested light house!
*Placed police station
*re arranged flowers
*laid more path
*cookies were random furniture (Alpine table large) and question block
*had pecan and merengue over
*went to Iggy's
*diving
*normal chores
*kicks opened finally
*bought Zen door, wire fence
*decided to thin out trees after hide and seek
*harvested apples
 


Ugh... It's been a long day :/ I got to play for a few hours earlier and hope to play more in a bit. I'm dealing with a mite infestation in my room so that's eating a ton of time and putting me in one heck of a foul mood :<

1/13

- Police station is built
- Archway sculpture requested by bluebear
- placed and paid off custom design sign
- watered hybrids
- found and donated fossils
- found bell and gem rocks
- talked to villagers
- summoned etoile again and opened for RV visits
- did a lot of path and pwp planning stuff.



 
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