Thanks to Nook's stupid pigeon brain, he chose Adamsvil's first Open Gate Night to renovate his store. I really hate how fast Nook goes through his store upgrades. At the least, the progression of Nook's Cranny to Nook-n-Go to Nookway to Nookington's should run over a couple months... not two weeks. His upgrades are triggered by how much you spend, which must not be much because I haven't been buying him out every day. I would have added a time frame requirement as well, like you have to have each Nook variant around for a full month before it accepts the money trigger. Everything else in Animal Crossing takes an eternity to happen, so it's weird that Nook barrels through his subplot in record time.
Therefore, I had the unfortunate task of telling all of my guests tonight that Nook was closed. Jerkstore.
The guestlist tonight included Eli, Cutter, Grant, Gregory, Marci and Mr. Snap. That's Cutter, me, Grant and Gregory in the picture. Cutter was building a fort in Adamsvil's little south-central island, hence all the holes you can see in the screenshot.
Marci brought me a Big Bro's Cap... better known as a Mario hat. She also unknowingly gave me one of her constellations! That must be another WiFi feature that just happens.
We did a lot of drop-picking, where somebody lets you temporarily borrow their gear. The way Animal Crossing works is that once you touch an item, it is unlocked in your Nook catalog so you can order additional copies of that item at any time. When somebody lets you touch their cap or shirt or whatever, they're essentially unlocking the item for you, free of charge. Through a twisted little exchange where everybody stripped down and dropped items everywhere for some quick drop-picking, I scored a Li'l Bro's Cap, which is obviously Luigi's hat. Then everybody gathered their own belongings and proceeded to goofing around.
EVERYONE has the shyness emote... how can that be?
Had a couple lag-outs, where somebody's WiFi breaks connection and grenades everyone's game. It forces a restart and your character reverts to the last save when it happens, so I was doing a lot of saving while I had a posse of folks running around. Around 9:30pm, Adamsvil crapped out so I went to see the towns of Grant (Anima) and Gregory (Tuck Bay) after the restart. Then a little later I opened my gate again to see if any West Coasters were about, which is when Mr. Snap showed up... only to find that stinking Nook was closed.
