I love chance encounters with friends, and the hotdog bushes seem to be a very lucky place for such encounters. Remember my Do GMs die? video :P

Well another person that I bumped into here was iheartbadtz! I wasn’t standing around that time. I was on my way to the Harbour to get the Hunger Strike quest from Pochi, and iheartbadtz was walking the opposite way… and we walked past each other!… and then we did a double-take *gasp :O* It’s you!!!!!!!!

It was always exciting to see a blog buddy or long-lost CB buddy in the game for the first time :) (that’s not to mean that it stopped being exciting after that :P)

Anyway, here is my Pochi Hunger Strike quest story :).

London was…

…where ripplecloud may see our recent Frightspinners event winner Chickling playing mini games with her guild-mates.

London is so pink, BBE.

…it was also the place where sometimes ripplecloud saw her own dead body lying alone on the street.

BlondeBlueEyes posted a screenie of her dead in front of the Mini-Game 
Manager and I just can’t resist finding an excuse to post my own XD

London was also a place where you started farming in earnest, after you get the Hunger Strike quest from Pochi, who had a big appetite.

deadrose, one of our pivotal farmers in the FFFevent,
is always to helpful with farming quests! <333

That is, after you get the necessary seeds. Before that, ripplecloud only had her first and only coffee plant in her farm. It looked a little dull and boring in a corner by itself.

Can I plant and decorate Christmas trees in my snowy farm
during the Founders’ Beta reunion? I would so love that :)

While browsing cooking guides along the main shopping street of London, ripplecloud met Tom! Talk about serendipity!

Tom is the leader of the (o’:'o) guild, which was on friendly
terms with the Sailoria and the Sailor Scouts in CB.

Tom was awfully nice and offered to donate to the guild, in case we were in debt and needed to return any borrowed money. But we were fine, thanks to BBE :)

But there was something he could help with! I had been working on London quests but I still did not have enough friendship points to buy some of the seeds that I needed. Tom replied that of course he would help. So we went to the seed guy.

Somehow, this made me feel like one of those under-aged teenagers who had to ask an adult friend to help them buy cigarettes. :P [Note: People under eighteen are not allowed to purchase cigarettes in my country.]

In any case, I do thank my lucky stars for having such helpful and rich friends like Tom and BBE :D heehee

I went with Tom for a visit to check out his farm! And like he said it was a jungle! Many of the plants were new to me at that time, so I happily asked Tom to name each one. Hahaha :D

There were cauliflowers, tea, lemon trees, sweet potato,
corn, coffee. Only the strawberry plants were present in CB.

Originally when Tom started growing the plants, he did not know what they would look like. Hence, he was planning to uproot everything and re-design his farm so that harvesting would become easier.

 
When farm visiting, some farm of hide-and-seek etiquette
should be observed on HKO. :P

Those lemon trees reminded me of a song!

• ripplecloud: I wonder how, I wonder why

  Tom: yesterday you told me ’bout the blue blue sky

Haha! Tom knew the Fool’s Garden song too. But more amazingly he had an MP3 cover of the song by my favourite, favourite singer Faye Wong (she is retired now)! I have a Tarcy Su cover but not a Faye Wong version, so Tom uploaded his copy for me :D Haha! What a really nice guy!

You can’t see me!~ I still can’t figure out that bowling ball/Miyazaki ghostie-
looking icon of the (o’:'o) guild. Which character is that supposed to represent?

It was lovely chatting with Tom about the inadequacies of the Megaupload page design among other things (heehee), but I had better start work on my farm too, or Pochi may just starve to death before I have food to feed him >.< And then I would lose my Empire ticket!

So I left Tom to his farm designing. Although I did invite myself to his farm again, after his redesigning is done :P Unfortunately, that was the one and only time I saw Tom online (I heard from Sailoria he had PC problems later on), so I never did visit his farm again.

Thank you Tom for that day :)

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