Astra's AC:NL Adventures!... Chapter 1 - 'Deantown' - My AC:NL Town!: Town Map, Villagers, Public Work Projects & Main Street! ^_^

Welcome to Astra's 6-Part Adventures in Animal Crossing: New Leaf... today we begin with Chapter 1 - 'Deantown' - My AC:NL Town!: Town Map, Villagers, Public Work Projects & Main Street!

So let's get right to it! ^_^


DEANTOWN'S TOWN MAP AND MY PUBLIC WORK PROJECTS!

Here is the map of Deantown, the town I like to call my virtual home ^_^ As you can see, all but one of my villagers live near the beach (sorry Charlise!), and the yellow home icon that's up to the northwest - next to the river - is my house, since in real life, I love the beach... too bad it costs so much in real life to own a beach house hehe!

My Police Station (the grey blocky icon), is next to the train tracks to Main Street, with the Train Station (the pink house icon) and Notice Board facing opposite the Station... also a little down and to the right of the Police Station is my Town Hall (the dark purple icon) - which I recently upgraded a few days ago! YAY!!!! ^_^ Took so long to get the Bells for that though!

The 2-arrowed icon is Re-Tail, where I can sell all the stuff in-game I don't have any use for, which is great because I can use the Bells I get from sold items and use them for other stuff, like Public Works Projects, or my many House upgrades, which is taking me forever to pay off.

The Green Tree icon is my Town Tree, which is centred around my Town Plaza, where many of the game's many different World Events happen, and now that my Tree has grown a lot, I can actually sit under it and relieve all the different Town Milestones - like when a certain Main Street building has been upgraded, or when a resident has moved into my town :) Personally, I love this little addition so much, and the gentle music that comes with the scrolling text really relaxes me :D Even the in-game character you control closes their eyes and is really happy ^_^

The Cup Icon is The Roost Cafe - in which I can grab a soothing, yummy cup of coffee from Brewster, the awesome pigeon who runs the shop, and even work there and serve different residents and special characters their own cup of coffee! (You have to get their order just right though, or else they won't be happy with you hahaha!)

The 3 Blue House icons are the 3 other characters I can control - Dreemer (who lives in the Blue House down the very bottom right), Max (diagonally-right from the Cafe) and Illy (directly south from the Cafe) - in which they are basically residents like the other NPC townsfolk, where as my main character (the one that lives in the Orange House icon), is the Mayor of Deantown :)

The Tent Icon next to the beach, next to one of the 2 pathways down to the Beach proper, is my town's Campsite, in which every so often an out-of-town resident will set up camp in Deantown... you'll be able to interact, play games with, and supposedly (I haven't yet tried this), invite them to move into your town! :)

DEANTOWN'S TOWNSFOLK!

You can have a maximum of up to 10 citizens living in your town (that number doesn't include your own player-controlled characters), and I've had the 10 villagers currently living in Deantown pretty much since I first started playing AC:NL, which is great because I've gotten to know them a lot better!

Not to mention now they know me so well, they keep visiting me at my house as a surprise, send me letters in my in-game mailbox for no reason (sometimes with a gift attached! ^_^), and just love talking to me... and it goes both ways, since they're all so cute hehe...

Though I will admit, it took roughly 2 and a half months for me to appreciate Charlise, because she was VERY hard to get along with... I've gotten used to her own personality so she's all cool with me now! :D

Here are the ten residents that currently live in my town right now! ^_^

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I know I said that this Chapter would also focus on my town's Main Street (where all the shops can be found, and various goodies to be bought!), but since Chapter 5 is all about Main Street, I'm going to leave all my Adventures in Main St. until then! :D

Anyway, that's all for now for Chapter 1 of Astra's Adventures in AC:NL! Stay tuned 'till next week for Chapter 2 - 'The History Of Deantown': My Town's Museum!'


Thanks heaps for reading! ^_^

Astra's Animal Crossing: New Leaf Adventures - Chapter 1 up in a few days time! ^_^

I love Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I also love coming up with random stories ^_^ So I've decided, that every week, I'll release a new chapter in my adventures in AC:NL!

Since my town has been relatively the same over the past couple of weeks with few changes, I thought it would be a great time to talk about what's going on in my town, otherwise known as 'Deantown' :)

So... here are the Chapters I have lined up over the next few weeks!

Chapter 1 - 'Deantown' - My AC:NL Town!: Town Map, Villagers, Public Work Projects & Main Street!

Chapter 2 - 'The History Of Deantown': My Town's Museum - what Fossils, Bugs, Fish and other Sea creatures I have collected / not yet collected, plus my own Gallery Rooms! ^_^

Chapter 3 - 'Can You Help Me Out?': The 10 Village Residents that live in my town, and my relationship with them all :)

Chapter 4 - 'The Place I Call Home': A look inside my AC:NL house!... (It's NOWHERE near finished though :P)

Chapter 5 - 'Deantown: Main Street!': The shops I have so far in the shopping district of Main Street!

Chapter 6 - 'What's Next For Deantown?' - Basically what I have planned next for the town, such as what I'm working towards, etc.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chapter 1 - 'Deantown' - My AC:NL Town!' should be up in a few days, and from then on, I'll post a new chapter each week WOOHOO! :D

Thanks for reading guys, and looking forward to sharing my adventures! ^_^

It's Festivale time in my town! ^_^

A new Event happened in my town today - FESTIVALE! ^_^

Festivale falls on the same day as the real-life Event of Mardi Gras, which is celebrated around the world :) I must admit I don't know much about Mardi Gras, though I do know people love to sing and dance, and Festivale in Animal Crossing: New Leaf is no different! :)

Upon logging into the game today, (with my villagers wearing their awesome Samba outfits on the Main Menu hehe), I was told by Isabelle that the Festivale Event was on - both logging in and via the Town Hall - and exited my house to reveal confetti raining down from the sky!

Of course, every Event in NL starts off at the Plaza, so I ran over there with excitement, to find a really colourful banner and a strange, dancing peacock character called Pave.

After berating me for not getting in the spirit of Festivale and dancing my heart out - I headed back to my house and put on my own Samba outfit (SO happy I got all the pieces!), and while you don't have to wear the Samba outfit to participate in Festivale - like the Santa Suit for Toy Day - it's awesome fun to just get into the lore and dance-off with all the other villagers in your town, who coincidentally wear their own cute little Samba outfits <3

Talking to Pave, he sets me off on a mission to get 3 Green feathers for him (I honestly thought Pave was a female XD). Collecting the feathers for Pave (upon which you get a special item), works pretty much like the snowflakes you get for Snowmam (one of the 4 varieties of Snowmen you can build between December to February), and like the snowflakes, you need a Net to collect the different coloured feathers - Red, Pink, Blue, White, Purple and Green - I might of missed a colour or two, but that's all the feathers I saw while I was hunting for them :)

I've also heard from guides online you can find a Rainbow Feather, which guarantees you a special item right off the bat, regardless of what colour or number of feathers that you currently have in your inventory, which is totally awesome! EDIT: I found a few Rainbow Feathers! And I've kept one to put in my house ^_^

Of course, collecting 3 of the same colour feather is easier said than done. For one, finding a feather can be tricky because you have the awesomely beautiful confetti raining down from the sky, and it's all different colours like the feathers that you need to collect.

Another thing is because there are so many different feather colours, you might not find the one you're actually after. Cue your trusty townsfolk, who seem to of secretly stashed a bunch of feathers who knows where to trade for your own feathers you've collected, and you'll need their help if you're to get 3 feathers to give to Pave :D

While some of my villagers I talked to for feathers were happy with just a simple trade, others would play games with me. The first villager I talked to - Charlise - wanted to play Charades with me, and actually relied more on their 'emotes', so that was a lot of fun to try and guess what she was thinking :)

After talking to Greta, another one of my town citizens who played a game of Charades with me (I won that one too), I spoke with Charlise again and she played Rock-Paper-Scissors with me, giving me the option of which one - Rock, Paper or Scissors - I could choose to defeat her :D

Of course, I always go with Rock, and she ended up going with Scissors. Rock beats Scissors... I win, so I got her feather ^_^ Of course, if Charlise had won, she would of gotten my feather... obviously hehe.

I had conveniently gotten my 1st Green Feather from one that was floating around my village thanks to my Net, and the last 2 Feathers from the 2 games that I had won from Charlise and Greta, so now that I had 3 Green Feathers, I headed back to Pave!

Well, all I can say is... Pave LOVES his feathers! <3 He even did a little dance for me haha! After his dance, he gave me a special item from the 'Pave Series', in which there are 13 different items that you can collect.

Talking to Pave again, he sent me on another quest to get 3 Pink Feathers... I love collecting items in this game, so I'm not going to stop until I've got the entire 'Pave Series' set WOOHOO! (EDIT: I'm short one of the Pave Series items, since it's taken me ages to 'farm' these as it's not guaranteed that Pave will give you a new item the 2nd time round :S)

Here's some other random Festival screenshots - and I gotta say... man, I LOVE that confetti, it's so pretty! <3

Move over WoW... Animal Crossing: New Leaf is here! ^_^

I'm really bored of playing WoW at the moment. I've been playing a lot of other games like Diablo 3 - first Diablo game I've ever played - and got through the main campaign of that which was a LOT of fun - I could of upped the difficulty a bit though cause hacking and slashing with the Barbarian was a bit too easy :P

Anyway, other than D3, and a lot of Steam games I've playing (still can't master Don't Starve), I bought myself a Nintendo 3DS XL last year in November WOOT! :D This is the first ever handheld gaming console I've ever owned in my whole life... never had a PS / Xbox, etc, since I've been a hardcore PC gamer for the last 25+ years. Sure, I've played console / handheld games (my first game being Pokemon Blue, CAN'T WAIT FOR THE 3DS REMAKE VERSION IN FEB!), but never bought any console to call my own :)

So what game did I get with my new 3DS I hear you ask? Well, the main reason I bought a 3DS in the first place was a lot of my friends recommended the game Animal Crossing: New Leaf. And long story short, I've been addicted to this game from Day 1, and been playing more and more as the weeks go by, as the Town you build in this game gets bigger and bigger.

For those of you that don't know what Animal Crossing: New Leaf is (I haven't played the previous AC games in the series), basically you arrive at this town (you can name it too!), and become the new mayor (that is if you choose the first Save File on your 3DS).

You then choose a spot in the town to put down your tent (which is where you live, and upgrades to a house later on, with multiple rooms as more upgrades), and as mayor, you're encouraged to make Public Work Projects (PWP), plant flowers and trees, and get to know the different villagers that move into your town (you can have a maximum of 10).

Each of the villagers have their own distinct personalities, and it's been great getting to know them all! I never let them leave my town (and they can), since I adore them so much - though there's one, Charlise, who looks like a green teddy bear, who I can't wait for to leave. Her personality clashes with my own real life one :S

Anyway, I'll post more of what's happening in my own town in AC:NL in later posts... thanks for reading everyone! ^_^