This came today, so it was rude not to have a go. First of all, you have to do a few preliminary tests to give an initial estimate of you “brain age”. It suggested mine had an age of 78. When 20 is good, and higher is bad. Oops. Went ahead and played the training properly, then. There were quick-fire arithmatic questions, a Stroop Test (say the colour of a word, when the word is a colour), and some reading …
Received a letter from Tangy today. She’s moved out. After I was so nice to her every day for a couple of weeks. Well, sod her. I hope she gets hit by a bus. With just today and tomorrow left to flog my turnips for a profit, I was a little concerned that I was (once again) running out of time. Even more so when Nook’s best price for the day was 54 bells each, second lowest ever, I think. …
Finished another two Hard puzzles this evening. By my reckoning, I’ve completed about 70% of the actual puzzles, but only around 15% of the game (due to the increasing size of Hard and Super Hard puzzles). That’s somewhat daunting, yes?
Worked through Adventure mode a bit more, reaching level 5-5 before losing my last life. At least all of level 4 is done now, I suppose. Played Gauntlet mode then, scoring really poorly. So poorly, in fact, I’m at the bottom of my friend’s list leaderboard for it. Rubbish.
Once again, despite Tim Miller’s insistance that the best turnip prices of the week are on Thursday and Friday, I get a lousy 64 bells each offered to me today by Nook. Obviously, I didn’t bother. I did, however, make just over 100,000 more bells selling fruit. Also found four gyroids, and put them in my house. They’re great for boosting HRA points, apparently. I also caught a fly, which wasn’t buzzing round near the rubbish I left out, but …
Sold up almost everything I could find of worth in the Mage’s Guild. They’re clearly not as rich as the one in Chorral though – no silver plates and stuff. They’re even less rich now… I decided to meet up with Glarthir, the guy who asked me to meet him behind the chapel at midnight. He said he was being watched, and asked me to follow some woman and find out what she was up to, and why she was …
The best turnip price Nook would give me today was 87 bells, and in my wife’s town, 137. No turnip sellage for me then. I did, however, finally bump into Wendell. I’ve been saving up (grown) red turnips to give to him, and when I did, he gave me a turban. I was hoping I could give him another one, but no. Sold around 35,000 bells worth of fruit too, and talked to a few animals. Forgot to buy everything …
I thought I’d reached Kvatch for a minute, until I realised I’d actually reached Skingrad. Tch. Spent a while exploring it, and meeting a resident who was keep for me to “meet with him” behind the chapel. One of the guards immediately warned me off him. Found both Mage’s and Fighter’s guilds, and set about taking stuff of any value ready to sell at a shop, as soon as I find one. I also took a room and a bed …
I’m now almost 12 hours in, and, yes, I’ve don’t nothing. Technically, that isn’t actually completely true. There’s a lot of stuff I have done, just most of it isn’t relevant to the main quest. Take today, for instance. I set off from the inn just west of Imperial City, and headed across the water towards the city, and dumped my horse off at the stables there. I want to walk most places to bump up my stats, you see. …
Just one more puzzle this afternoon. It’s a bit of a slow-going thing now all the Easy and Normal levels are finished. Completed a Hard (3×3) puzzle, which turned out to be a pteradactyl. Of course.
Sold another 80,000 bells worth of fruit today, which is pretty good going considering the amount I sold yesterday. There’s none left on the trees now (aside from oranges (which are native so only net me 100 bells each) and a few coconuts. Caroline has (finally) decided to stay in Cheese. Hurrah! She was badgering me for pink furniture today too, so I gave her a Lovely Bed that I’d bought from Nook when doing my daily “buy everything” run. …
Just one more puzzle completed today – a Super Hard one (which turned out to be a bunch of flowers). It was actually pretty difficult too – lots of patterns like “3-1-1-1” and “2-1-1” which, when both horizontal and vertical, make it hard to figure out. That’s another 16 “squares” off the total, though.
Back on the lookout for decent turnip prices today, but was disappointed to find that 84 bells was the best Nook was going to offer me. Made up for it a little by selling 150,000 bells-worth of fruit (and there’s still quite a lot left on the trees). Planted a couple of sacks of 10,000 bells too, and they’ve sprouted. Caroline the Squirrel is still in Cheese, but she threatened to leave again today. I think I may have convinced …
After a couple more hours play today, I’m now about ten and a half hours in. And still, I have don’t almost nothing (so far as the main quest is concerned, anyway). I’m still Level 1, and I still haven’t progressed past the talk-to-Jauffre main quest waypoint. What I did do, however, is trudge up the mountain north of Chorral, and find a book about fingers and mountains or something. I had a choice of either giving it to the …
Worked my way through even more puzzles this evening. I’ve now completed all of Normal, as well as 4 on Hard and one on Super Hard. Not that the difficulty has anything to do with the actual difficulty, of course – it’s just how long it takes to finish it, that’s all. Still about 700 “squares” to go, though.