That weird Kjorteo-like thing (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kjorteo) wrote,@ 2008-04-29 06:02:00 |
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Quickly, hand over the Bells before the fuzz gets here
You know, I'm alarmed with just how high the organized crime presence seems to be in my Animal Crossing: Wild World village. I mean, everyone knows about Tom Nook's unavoidable predatory loaning, but no one warned me about the guy who sometimes comes by and offers you completely unrefusable (it's a "But thou must!" choice) "accident insurance," which I believe should fit most people's definitions of a shakedown. I also just bought a classic wardrobe on the black market, and the game doesn't really even try to sugar-coat that one. You have a very obviously shifty guy who visits town and throws up a tent once a week, requires a speakeasy-like password system to be allowed inside his tent, urged me to proceed with haste when I was signing the contract to become a member in case authorities arrived (hence the title of this post,) price-gouges like a maniac (we're talking double Tom Nook's price or more, not counting the membership fee,) and is widely known to sell paintings that later turn out to be forgeries when you try to resell them or donate them to the museum. This man could not be a more obvious fence if he wore clothing with a white picket pattern, which I could probably design at the Able Sisters' tailoring shop if I wanted to except that I spent pretty much every last Bell I have getting that wardrobe.
I guess that's what you get when the only authority figures in the entire village appear to be an elderly mayor who only so much as visits the town every great now and then, and two sentries whose jurisdiction seems to consist entirely of that one door they're guarding.
And yes, it was important enough that I acquire a wardrobe that day that I got the one that was about 6,000 more than it would have been at Nook's and is probably hot. The only wardrobe I've ever seen at Nook's before was an absolutely hideous-looking cabana-themed bamboo one and he certainly didn't have any wardrobes at all on that day, and the classic wardrobe was actually really pretty and fit my room design really nicely, and I didn't want to wait for however long it would take for that same one to happen to randomly appear again.
(This isdr_dos' cue to give me the address to that Billy vs. Camp AC:WW LP again because I lost it)
You know, I'm alarmed with just how high the organized crime presence seems to be in my Animal Crossing: Wild World village. I mean, everyone knows about Tom Nook's unavoidable predatory loaning, but no one warned me about the guy who sometimes comes by and offers you completely unrefusable (it's a "But thou must!" choice) "accident insurance," which I believe should fit most people's definitions of a shakedown. I also just bought a classic wardrobe on the black market, and the game doesn't really even try to sugar-coat that one. You have a very obviously shifty guy who visits town and throws up a tent once a week, requires a speakeasy-like password system to be allowed inside his tent, urged me to proceed with haste when I was signing the contract to become a member in case authorities arrived (hence the title of this post,) price-gouges like a maniac (we're talking double Tom Nook's price or more, not counting the membership fee,) and is widely known to sell paintings that later turn out to be forgeries when you try to resell them or donate them to the museum. This man could not be a more obvious fence if he wore clothing with a white picket pattern, which I could probably design at the Able Sisters' tailoring shop if I wanted to except that I spent pretty much every last Bell I have getting that wardrobe.
I guess that's what you get when the only authority figures in the entire village appear to be an elderly mayor who only so much as visits the town every great now and then, and two sentries whose jurisdiction seems to consist entirely of that one door they're guarding.
And yes, it was important enough that I acquire a wardrobe that day that I got the one that was about 6,000 more than it would have been at Nook's and is probably hot. The only wardrobe I've ever seen at Nook's before was an absolutely hideous-looking cabana-themed bamboo one and he certainly didn't have any wardrobes at all on that day, and the classic wardrobe was actually really pretty and fit my room design really nicely, and I didn't want to wait for however long it would take for that same one to happen to randomly appear again.
(This is
dr_dos' cue to give me the address to that Billy vs. Camp AC:WW LP again because I lost it)
