Harvest Moon Summer Group Play Options

[Harvest Moon Rac...]

Well here it is. The big winner is AWL, was very glad to see so many people interested in this :D
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Anyways, just get started on a file of AWL (SE or AnWL are great too) and post your stats or just anything interesting that happens in your game. Screen shots and even brief summaries are welcome, and I encourage it. I think a seasonal status or maybe half year status would probably be best to do.

Have fun guys, and keep everyone updated on your progress (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalagrin.gif)

[Kozunai]

Alright! I have officialy done day one!

Name: Kozunai
Farm: Kokoro Farm
Dog: Kody (long ears)
What I did on my first day: After Tak gave me the tour of the valley, I headed on over to the Digsite, and waited around for Carter to get done with his morning stretches before going to excavate the ruins. I found some statues, fossils, coins, and ores. All I really cared about were the statues and fossils (Nami's favorite). I then went and tracked down Nami to give her one of the fossils, before heading back to my farm to take care of my cow, her name is Bella. I also planted the tomato seeds that I got from Tak. Now I am currently stalking Nami to try to get to her room to see her diary.

[Charmy]

I played last night a bit. I didn't finish my first day though. -_-;

Name: Haku
Floppy dog: Raggy
Farm: UHM. I never remember my farm name. .__.
But I collected some forage and said hello to mostly everyone. I hope I get more done tonight. I was distracted by How I Met your Mother yesterday. *Guilty grin*
My future bride will also be Nami, seeing as I married Celia last. I think I'll have a son this time 'round.

[Kozunai]

Alright! I am currently on day three and stopping for the night. I found the first tablet in the digsite (on my second day too!). I have given Nami something everyday (yay for stalking!). I also ordered me a male cow, his name is Clef. I have also planted several watermelon plants. That's all for now. Can't wait to play more tomorrow! If only I didn't have to go to work...

[Celia]

Name: Donny
Dog: Muttski
Ranch: Asgard

I didn't do much yet. Named a cow Purple. That was interesting, I s'pose.

[Totoro Spirit]

Season 1-
Player Name- Ari
Farm Name- Roane
Long Eared Dog- Snorri
Starter Cow- Nepeta

Bought-
Female Brown Cow- Cream
Female Star Cow- Celino
Female Chicken- Mina
Male Chicken- Riki
Fishing Pole
Brush

Obtained-
Strange Hoe
Strange Sickle
Ruby Spice

Girls-
I decided to stalk, I mean, woo all three girls. Everyday I go to their residences, give them flowers or skulls I yanked out of the ground mere minutes before and read their diaries. ...Except for Nami’s. I am lucky to ever see Nami’s diary as she pretends to be asleep and climbs out the window to avoid me as I knock at her door for hours on end. Or so it seems. By the end of the season Celia and Muffy were up to four hearts each. Nami had three.

Villagers-
I’ve made friends with several villagers. Tim gave me the Strange Hoe, Gustafa gave me the Strange Sickle, and Ruby gave me Ruby Spice. All but a few now turn their heads as I walk past. They have commented on my being a hard worker for growing crops and that you can tell I work hard by looking at my hands.

Daily Life-
I planted 20 plots of seeds, some Strawberry, Potato, Tomato, and Watermelon. Once grown I gave a few as gifts and sold the rest to Van. Also cooked up and sold several Ruby Spices and a stack of Fodder to Van. Mined and fished quite a bit as well. Found the C Tablet the first day I went mining. Caught a Huge Sharshark. Also bought and planted one Apple Seed and one Grape Seed.

Random Observations-
My dog often sits behind a tree all day and doesn’t eat the Mugwort I put in his dish. Just because he and I ate nothing but Mugwort everyday, and probably smell strongly of it, is no reason to snub it. Dogs these days, sheesh.

Van comes on days he’s not supposed to. I guess losing that 20lbs on the Matkins diet made the trip to Forget seem a lot shorter.

Tak is apparently not as good at picking chickens as he is cows. I base this on the fact that the first chicken I got is defective. It’s head falls forward and it goes into a sleep coma every time I pick it up.


I ended the season with 1,659G

And that was my Spring. Yep.

[Kozunai]

Season 1-
Player Name- Ari
Farm Name- Roane
Long Eared Dog- Snorri
Starter Cow- Nepeta

Bought-
Female Brown Cow- Cream
Female Star Cow- Celino
Female Chicken- Mina
Male Chicken- Riki
Fishing Pole
Brush

Obtained-
Strange Hoe
Strange Sickle
Ruby Spice

Girls-
I decided to stalk, I mean, woo all three girls. Everyday I go to their residences, give them flowers or skulls I yanked out of the ground mere minutes before and read their diaries. ...Except for Nami’s. I am lucky to ever see Nami’s diary as she pretends to be asleep and climbs out the window to avoid me as I knock at her door for hours on end. Or so it seems. By the end of the season Celia and Muffy were up to four hearts each. Nami had three.

Villagers-
I’ve made friends with several villagers. Tim gave me the Strange Hoe, Gustafa gave me the Strange Sickle, and Ruby gave me Ruby Spice. All but a few now turn their heads as I walk past. They have commented on my being a hard worker for growing crops and that you can tell I work hard by looking at my hands.

Daily Life-
I planted 20 plots of seeds, some Strawberry, Potato, Tomato, and Watermelon. Once grown I gave a few as gifts and sold the rest to Van. Also cooked up and sold several Ruby Spices and a stack of Fodder to Van. Mined and fished quite a bit as well. Found the C Tablet the first day I went mining. Caught a Huge Sharshark. Also bought and planted one Apple Seed and one Grape Seed.

Random Observations-
My dog often sits behind a tree all day and doesn’t eat the Mugwort I put in his dish. Just because he and I ate nothing but Mugwort everyday, and probably smell strongly of it, is no reason to snub it. Dogs these days, sheesh.

Van comes on days he’s not supposed to. I guess losing that 20lbs on the Matkins diet made the trip to Forget seem a lot shorter.

Tak is apparently not as good at picking chickens as he is cows. I base this on the fact that the first chicken I got is defective. It’s head falls forward and it goes into a sleep coma every time I pick it up.


I ended the season with 1,659G

And that was my Spring. Yep.

Good grief! And I thought I was doing well... BTW, what do Tim and Gustafa like so they can give me the Hoe and Sickle?

[Totoro Spirit]

I got Gustafa to like me by day 4 just by giving him flowers. Tim I got to like me by day 5, but I'm not too sure how. I just kept offering him stuff until he liked something. Might have been mined items? I know I gave him fish after I got the fishing pole. I don't think I've ever gotten them to like me that fast before...

[Harvest Moon Rac...]

I know for sure Tim is a fan of any cooked meal.

I decided to go after Nami in my file since I've never married her before in all my years of playing. Will post my stats later though, or well, exact stats. I've seen Nami's first heart event though.

[Kozunai]

I finally got Nami's second heart event after stalking her for well over half a season...

[Celia]

Vesta makes a meal out of everything, doesn't she...?

And speaking of gift giving, Patrick told me to get rid of a skull I showed him and then suggested 'throwing it at the sun or something'. I completely forgot he said that, aha.

[Kozunai]

I'm on Summer 3rd (about to be 4th) and I've seen the first three heart events for Nami, she has four hearts, but I'm not going to propose to her. I'm going to let her last heart event be her proposal, as I have actually never seen that one.

I am currently saving up for a star cow, her name will be Echo (for some reason I am obsessing over musical names for my animals [except my sheep, I wasn't really thinking about my sheep, and I always name my horse Epona] my starting cows name is Bella [after the song Bella Note from "Lady and the Tramp] and my male cows name is Clef [like a treble clef or a base clef]).

I am now friends with Gustafa, and am working on befriending Cody and Chris. Then I will start working on other people
(like Daryl and Lumina). I don't like trying to befriend everyone at once, because the I don't have as much to do later in the game, so I befriend people little by little.

I found out that Daryl likes fossils, it's really strange. You'd think that he would like the statues, but he actually hates them...

I have also decided what mine and Nami's son will be named. His name shall be, Chord (again with the musically themed names. Hooray! :))

I currently do not own any chickens, it's really sad. Takakura is always going into the chicken coop, but to no avail, there are no chickens in there yet...

I do already have the pond built though. It's really nice, none of my animals ever go around it though. In fact, my sheep likes to hide in the tall grass, when he lays down, I can't see him! By the way, my sheeps name is Wren (totally not a musical name... fail...)

That is my status so far, I am going to play later tonight and hopefulle get Nami's fourth heart event. Then after that I will only have to see her proposal event, which you can only see in the winter time anyway.

[Noviwan]

I wish I had this game no one seems to be playing magical melody...

[Harvest Moon Rac...]

Sorry it took me so long to post guys, wanted to get done with Spring for the most part where I had some solid progress before I posted. Anyways I'm on Spring 9th, my farm is named Blue Farm, character's name is Jon, and I've got some decent progress I think.

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This is Bo, my side kick on the farm. He enjoys chilling and barking at goofy chinned scientists.

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Tom and Betty, though this is before I gave Betty a bath, so don't judge too much (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif)

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My main field. I've got my small field being my soon to be awesome orchard, which already has 3 banana trees, 1 apple tree, and 1 orange tree planted. Yeah, I hit the paint hard.

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My first catch that night. I was pretty excited to say the least, since it was the first time I remember catching one of these bad boys.

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I don't have a problem!

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Makin' bank.

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Me offering Nami some marinade I made at home, she was pretty happy that I asked her to criticize my food.

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And she apparently liked it, and said that bout it. Maybe I could compete with Ruby some day?

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But you sold that to me.

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I always give Nina flowers when I see her. Such a nice old lady.

Excuse me if these image sizes are wacky, and the quality. Was all taken and uploaded by my 3DS. Will have more next season.

Also, I'm sorry Novi :/ I don't have enough time to play both right now :/

[Noviwan]

I thought there were more people who just had Magical melody though... :c

[Kozunai]

Hey, I have a question... How do you fish in this game? That is the one thing I have never figured out (not that I've tried that hard...).

[Harvest Moon Rac...]

You get the pole from Van (or Galen if you befriend him in chapter 2 or after) and go to any spot with water (northern stream, southern stream, goddess pond, or turtle pond) cast your line and wait. When you hear that nibbling noise, you've got a fish, just wait for the splash noise and when you're bobber goes under you generally have to wait a moment, then click A. If you press to fast or too slow then you miss the fish. What I normally do is click R first then A, pressing R does nothing, but I use it for a sort of timer. Oh and make sure you've eaten plenty before you fish because those annoying stomach growls can interupt you at the worst times.

Hope this sort of helped.

[Kozunai]

Thanks! I'll have to try that, but first gotta buy the pole from Van next time he's in town...

I bought my star cow, as well as my first chicken, her name is Melody. Unfortunatly I forgot that chickens have to eat too, and completely forgot to order bird seed... I placed her outside but don't know if she ever ate or not, so she may have gone her first day at the farm without any food...

[Celia]

HMR: My dog hides... When he sees Daryl coming on by, he ducks behind the wood next to the barn and stays there 'til he leaves. He's a coward.


I have a chicken now named Rolly. Most recently I bought the fertilizing-master, Pitt. Or at least I hope he'll be.

Got the sickle from Gustafa. Actually got it on the third day. I also found the first tablet. I forgot to check which one it was. Not that it matters. I was just curious.

I still haven't moved on to Summer. I wanted to before posting, but I'm done for the night as I can't access the Gamecube now and I wanted to be sure to post. I was so close to making it, too. Oh well, tomorrow, I guess.

[Harvest Moon Rac...]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif) My dog is pretty social for some reason, can hear him bark when I'm at the bar. Also, odd thing happend to me today. I saw someone unfamiliar walking on my land, and to my suprise, Ruby came to the farm to look around. Took a few pictures of that, and some other things. Mainly this season I plan to focus on building up some money for a cow, maybe another sheep, and some hens.