Sunday. I woke up feeling better from yesterday. I figured it was time to take the Town Planning permit seriously and that I should try and get this down payment paid on my house. I had to make some money. I started to walk through the town and all of a sudden found myself stuck in another one of those traps in the ground.

I was pissed. Home security is one thing but to maliciously set a trap in the middle of an open field… In front of my office no less! I think someone is against my Mayorship. I decided it was time to post a memo on the town bulletin board.

It was time to make some cash. I had done well with shells before at the Re-Tail store so I headed down to the beach to find some more. There were quite a few around and I pocketed as many as I could. I spotted a butterfly fluttering about my head. It would be cool to have it as a pet. I watched it a while and headed over to Re-Tail.

I have no idea what the animal that runs the Re-Tail store is… Maybe some kind of Llama? I don’t know. Anyway she only offered me just over $1000 for my haul. I was still a fair way off. I had seen some apple trees about the place and figured I would try to sell the fruit. On my way to the trees I tried to cross the bridge. Princess Leia was standing there and wouldn’t let me pass. She demanded that I act out a scene from Star wars with her. I was to be Han Solo and strangely she was going to be Chewbacca the Wookie.

I pretended to draw my blaster and went PEW PEW PEW! Leia made a Wookie scream – one of the loudest I had ever heard. We dived into the river below and pretended the walls were closing in on us. We had fun. I’m glad she moved here.

I continued on looking for apples. I shook some trees trying to make them fall down. I was doing good. I collected about 30 or so apples. I had quite a haul. I wanted to try and get a few more.

I shook down one more tree hoping to get a few more apples. Apples did not fall from the tree. It was a beehive. I legged it. I have never run so fast in my life but even then I was too slow. One of those bastard bees got me in the eye!

Thank goodness I’m not allergic. I decided I needed to cheer myself up so I went to Nooklings Junction. There was nothing that really interested me so I just bought another fortune cookie. Damn I love those things. I scoffed down the hard, possibly stale cookie and almost choked on the message within. It read:

I ran back to the little Nookling to find out what my prize today was. He looked me dead in they and expressed that I was going to love it. He produced a mask from behind his back. Not just any mask but the fable Majora’s Mask!

I went back to my tent to put the mask away in a safe place. When I got there I noticed a new plot of land reserved right next to mine. Well that’s just great. My house hasn’t even started to be built and I’ve lost my seclusion. In my disappointment I forgot to put my mask away and left it on. I Went Back to Re-Tail to sell my apples.

Damn it! how come everywhere I go someone wants something from me? While trying to get back across the bridge the elephant stopped me in my path. It demanded me have a shovel fight. Fine. So this is how it’s gonna go down is it. As I drew my weapon the elephant took a swing for my head and made contact. I lost my balance and fell backwards. I jumped up and began laying into the elephant. It was a good battle and we both got in some pretty decent shots. We bowed respectfully to each other and parted ways.

I made it to Re-Tail and sold my apples. I got a lot of cash but was still about $80 short. I didn’t know what to do. There were no apples. There were no more shells. I leaned on a tree and began to feel sorry for myself. As I leaned back something fell to the ground. It was $100. Holy mother of monkey! What were the chances of that? Why was there $100 up a tree? I didn’t care. I ran to Nooks.

As I walked in that bastard Raccoon knew exactly why I was there. I looked him in the eye and handed over the bag full of cash. He thanked me in a condescending tone and began to blabber on about this being a great opportunity for me. My house should be ready tomorrow. He gave me a choice of roof colour. I told him make it red. Blood red…

I spent the next half an hour treasure hunting. I found four new fossils so I went to the museum to see Blathers the owl. I took along my recently purchased painting from last night to donate as well. I handed over the fossils and Blathers was very grateful. I could tell it mad the old bird happy. I asked him if he would accept the painting as a donation as well. Joyfully he looked it over. After a few minutes he got a bad look on his face. He told me the painting was a fake. A forgery. That son of a bitch fox! He ripped me off! That was over $3000! I went back to see if his tent was still set up but he was long gone. I was angry.

I couldn’t stand to look at this painting anymore. I took it to the beach and buried it in the sand. I left it there for some other poor sucker to find. At least they wont be losing money from it. No longer would it plague me.

Make sure you read Animal Crossing Diary – Day 5