Bouncer
| Bouncer | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Villager |
| Lives In | The Desert |
| Address | Oasis |
The Bouncer is a burly guard who blocks the back door of the Oasis in the Calico Desert. Behind him lies the Casino, the secret gambling den tied to the mysterious Mr. Qi. He lets no one through until the farmer completes The Mysterious Qi quest and earns the Club Card. Once that card is in hand, the Bouncer steps aside for good and is never seen again. Sandy, who runs the Oasis, refuses to talk about the shady figure in her back room, which only adds to the mystery around the door he guards.
Lore
The Bouncer is a man of very few words, and his whole role is to keep the door shut. Pushing against him only makes him wobble on the spot and tell the farmer, "Nice try."
Sandy's one evasive line is the closest anybody in the valley comes to explaining him. The shop in front of him sells seeds, cooking and desert oddments like any other counter, while the room behind him is a gambling hall operating under Mr. Qi's name. The Bouncer is the seam between those two worlds, and he gives nothing away about either.
Notes
The Club Card comes at the end of The Mysterious Qi, a chain of cryptic tasks left by Mr. Qi. The tasks include placing a Battery Pack in the lock-box in the tunnel by the Bus Stop and leaving a Rainbow Shell in the box at the Railroad. Ten Beets go into Mayor Lewis's fridge. A Solar Essence then goes into the mouth of the giant skeleton in the Desert. The last clue points to the woodpile beside the Farmhouse, where the Club Card is hidden. The Desert itself opens only after the bus to Calico Desert is repaired.
Two separate pieces of work therefore stand between a new farm and this doorway. The bus has to run first, which means finishing the Vault bundles at the Community Center or handing Morris a large sum at JojaMart. Only then does the trail start, at the power box in the tunnel a short walk from the Bus Stop.
The Club Card is kept in the wallet rather than carried in a pocket, and Mr. Qi awards it himself at the end of the chain. Showing it is a formality, since the Bouncer simply steps out of the doorway and stays out of it.
What the door hides explains why it needs guarding. Inside is the Casino, where gold is exchanged for Qi coins at a rate of ten gold to the coin, and those coins feed the slot machines and two tables of CalicoJack, one for small stakes and one for large. A counter at the back trades coins for furniture, a Rarecrow, a Top Hat and a handful of other oddities, and the Statue of Endless Fortune waits there at a price only a very wealthy farm could ever meet.
The Bouncer cannot be tricked. Players who try to slip past him with a movement glitch are thrown back to the door. He then drops a lit Mega Bomb and snaps "Now I'm angry!" or "You little punk!" So the only real way into the Casino is through Mr. Qi's quest.
All Villagers
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Birthday | Lives In |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abigail | 
|
13 Fall | Pelican Town |
| Alex | 
|
Summer 13 | Pelican Town |
| Birdie | 
|
- | Ginger Island |
| Bouncer | 
|
- | The Desert |
| Caroline | 
|
Winter 7 | Pelican Town |
| Children | - | - | - |
| Clara Mullner | - | - | - |
| Clint | 
|
Winter 26 | Pelican Town |
| Demetrius | 
|
Summer 19 | The Mountain |
| Dwarf | 
|
Summer 22 | The Mines |
| Elliott | 
|
Fall 5 | The Beach |
| Emily | 
|
Spring 27 | Pelican Town |
| Evelyn | 
|
Winter 20 | Pelican Town |
| Fizz | 
|
- | Ginger Island |
| George | 
|
Fall 24 | Pelican Town |
| Gil | 
|
- | The Mountain |
| Governor | 
|
- | - |
| Grandpa | 
|
- | - |
| Gunther | 
|
- | Pelican Town |
| Gus | 
|
Summer 8 | Pelican Town |
| Haley | 
|
Spring 14 | Pelican Town |
| Harvey | 
|
Winter 14 | Pelican Town |
| Henchman | 
|
- | Witch's Swamp |
| Jas | 
|
Summer 4 | Cindersap Forest |
| Jodi | 
|
Fall 11 | Pelican Town |
| Junimos | 
|
- | Community Center |
| Kent | 
|
Spring 4 | Pelican Town |
| Krobus | 
|
Winter 1 | The Sewers |
| Leah | 
|
Winter 23 | Cindersap Forest |
| Leo | 
|
Summer 26 | Ginger Island |
| Lewis | 
|
Spring 7 | Pelican Town |
| Linus | 
|
Winter 3 | The Mountain |
| Marlon | 
|
- | The Mountain |
| Marnie | 
|
Fall 18 | Cindersap Forest |
| Maru | 
|
Summer 10 | The Mountain |
| Morris | 
|
- | Pelican Town |
| Mr. Qi | 
|
- | The Calico Desert |
| Old Mariner | 
|
- | The Beach |
| Pam | 
|
Spring 18 | Pelican Town |
| Penny | 
|
Fall 2 | Pelican Town |
| Pierre | 
|
Spring 26 | Pelican Town |
| Professor Snail | 
|
- | Ginger Island |
| Robin | 
|
Fall 21 | The Mountain |
| Sam | 
|
Summer 17 | Pelican Town |
| Sandy | 
|
Fall 15 | The Desert |
| Sebastian | 
|
Winter 10 | The Mountain |
| Shane | 
|
Spring 20 | Cindersap Forest |
| The Merpeople | - | - | - |
| Vincent | 
|
Spring 10 | Pelican Town |
| Willy | 
|
Summer 24 | The Beach |
| Wizard | 
|
Winter 17 | Cindersap Forest |
| Yoba | - | - | - |