Lazier But Still Nice Saturday
Feb. 15th, 2020 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickWell, lazier up until I started doing the RP thing -- it's a busy Saturday night tonight. So with that in mind, let me see if I can catch you up on my day fairly quickly:
-->Had another slow, sleepy start to the day, with some cereal and tunes from NERO to wake me up
-->Changed my sheets and rearranged my plushie collection to accommodate D.B., my new dragon -- he's sitting on the opposite side of Einstein now, and I sort of shoved everybody forward and in a little to fit him. Working out so far! We'll see how sleeping with that goes, though. (Suspect DB is going to end up on the floor a few times. . .)
-->Watched a bunch of YouTube throughout the day:
A) Four episodes of GrayStillPlays, including Private School Days (featuring a 40-year-old completely-ripped sixth-grade girl with a beehive hairdo, Harry Potter glasses, and the name John McClane, who spent most of her time beating up various people, stealing shit and selling it to others, and getting detention when dragged into the principal's office); two episodes of Bro World: A Douchebag's Quest (featuring "let me die's" quest to become a true Bro and score the chick of his dreams, Jennifer -- which involves dating a lot of OTHER chicks in a series of one-night stands, dressing in the most ridiculous fashion possible, and buying a hoverboard so you can scooter everywhere. Basically, it makes sure to live up to its name, and I respect that XD); and another Sims 4 torture mansion (this time, everyone was to be killed by Murphy Beds! . . .two Sims drowned themselves rather than sleep in those death traps. XD And then Gray started playing around with sizes, and -- well, we had a hilariously huge skyscraper bed for a little while. It was great. :D)
B) A parody video from onlyabidoang, where he "speed built" a small shed, making fun of typical speed building tropes while doing so (like getting frustrated and just building a lot of random walls for no reason -- his "shed" was only two by one tiles, btw. XD He had to move objects on a chair in there!)
C) Two videos from Outstar -- the first one one talked about the new Vampire: the Masquerade Chapters RPG in a box that's currently on Kickstarter. It's essentially a kind of "choose your own adventure"/board game RPG thing, where you can play with friends or completely alone! No GM required! It comes with premade characters for all the current core clans (including miniatures), cards to show the different kind of actions you can take, a board where you can put your minis and NPC standees, dice, trackers -- a whole bunch of stuff. And there's a bunch of branching scenarios you can play -- and one of them, as a Kickstarter fun exclusive, features a fan-favorite character from Bloodlines 2 and its promotional material -- Mr. Damp, Malkavian with a cleaver and apparently a dream look about him. He comes with a canonical character sheet (reviewed by Paradox) and his own chapter scenario, so that's cool. :)
The second one discussed her theories on stuff that might happen and secrets of characters in Bloodlines 2, ranging from the plausible "you're going to end up on the aforementioned Mr. Damp's list of people to kill eventually" to the perhaps less plausible "the Baron of the faction bearing his name is a Samedi, a bloodline where the vampires look like literal rotting corpses." My personal favorite was "to become a full-fledged vampire, your thin-blood is going to commit diablerie on one of the example characters for each of the release clans" because that seems plausible, but it'll still be cool if she's right. I also shared what I feel would be my favorite twist on the concept -- you commit diablerie on a representative of each clan, but the NPCs are clearly based on the premade looks of each clan from the original Bloodlines. They wouldn't actually be your fledgling, but I think it would be a cool nod to the original game, and help feel like you're passing the torch from your first character to your second.
-->Played Bloodlines myself: I've gotten the "Gargoyle Removal Service" quest done! Complete with talking the gargoyle down rather than fighting it (because it's as close as I can get to Alice having a polite conversation with it as she will in-story -- though it did take one reload after I accidentally chose the wrong dialogue option near the end), and getting the extra experience and goodies from Strauss for learning its origins and being discrete about said origins. I also got the Metalhead Industries Shrecknet Hub up -- which took rather more reloads because I kept getting seen as I moved into the control room to unlock the upstairs door. *grumbles* Thought Obfuscate would make the quest easier. . .managed it eventually, though! So that just leaves the Chinatown hub, which naturally leads into me doing all the Chinatown side quests. So that'll be fun. And then we move on to the end-game. . .
And now I really have to go and catch up on all my RP stuff again, because it's been piling up. >.< Plus get up my final Scene from Secundus. . .I really gotta start doing these entries earlier. I just didn't expect it to take so long. . .story of my life. Night all!
-->Had another slow, sleepy start to the day, with some cereal and tunes from NERO to wake me up
-->Changed my sheets and rearranged my plushie collection to accommodate D.B., my new dragon -- he's sitting on the opposite side of Einstein now, and I sort of shoved everybody forward and in a little to fit him. Working out so far! We'll see how sleeping with that goes, though. (Suspect DB is going to end up on the floor a few times. . .)
-->Watched a bunch of YouTube throughout the day:
A) Four episodes of GrayStillPlays, including Private School Days (featuring a 40-year-old completely-ripped sixth-grade girl with a beehive hairdo, Harry Potter glasses, and the name John McClane, who spent most of her time beating up various people, stealing shit and selling it to others, and getting detention when dragged into the principal's office); two episodes of Bro World: A Douchebag's Quest (featuring "let me die's" quest to become a true Bro and score the chick of his dreams, Jennifer -- which involves dating a lot of OTHER chicks in a series of one-night stands, dressing in the most ridiculous fashion possible, and buying a hoverboard so you can scooter everywhere. Basically, it makes sure to live up to its name, and I respect that XD); and another Sims 4 torture mansion (this time, everyone was to be killed by Murphy Beds! . . .two Sims drowned themselves rather than sleep in those death traps. XD And then Gray started playing around with sizes, and -- well, we had a hilariously huge skyscraper bed for a little while. It was great. :D)
B) A parody video from onlyabidoang, where he "speed built" a small shed, making fun of typical speed building tropes while doing so (like getting frustrated and just building a lot of random walls for no reason -- his "shed" was only two by one tiles, btw. XD He had to move objects on a chair in there!)
C) Two videos from Outstar -- the first one one talked about the new Vampire: the Masquerade Chapters RPG in a box that's currently on Kickstarter. It's essentially a kind of "choose your own adventure"/board game RPG thing, where you can play with friends or completely alone! No GM required! It comes with premade characters for all the current core clans (including miniatures), cards to show the different kind of actions you can take, a board where you can put your minis and NPC standees, dice, trackers -- a whole bunch of stuff. And there's a bunch of branching scenarios you can play -- and one of them, as a Kickstarter fun exclusive, features a fan-favorite character from Bloodlines 2 and its promotional material -- Mr. Damp, Malkavian with a cleaver and apparently a dream look about him. He comes with a canonical character sheet (reviewed by Paradox) and his own chapter scenario, so that's cool. :)
The second one discussed her theories on stuff that might happen and secrets of characters in Bloodlines 2, ranging from the plausible "you're going to end up on the aforementioned Mr. Damp's list of people to kill eventually" to the perhaps less plausible "the Baron of the faction bearing his name is a Samedi, a bloodline where the vampires look like literal rotting corpses." My personal favorite was "to become a full-fledged vampire, your thin-blood is going to commit diablerie on one of the example characters for each of the release clans" because that seems plausible, but it'll still be cool if she's right. I also shared what I feel would be my favorite twist on the concept -- you commit diablerie on a representative of each clan, but the NPCs are clearly based on the premade looks of each clan from the original Bloodlines. They wouldn't actually be your fledgling, but I think it would be a cool nod to the original game, and help feel like you're passing the torch from your first character to your second.
-->Played Bloodlines myself: I've gotten the "Gargoyle Removal Service" quest done! Complete with talking the gargoyle down rather than fighting it (because it's as close as I can get to Alice having a polite conversation with it as she will in-story -- though it did take one reload after I accidentally chose the wrong dialogue option near the end), and getting the extra experience and goodies from Strauss for learning its origins and being discrete about said origins. I also got the Metalhead Industries Shrecknet Hub up -- which took rather more reloads because I kept getting seen as I moved into the control room to unlock the upstairs door. *grumbles* Thought Obfuscate would make the quest easier. . .managed it eventually, though! So that just leaves the Chinatown hub, which naturally leads into me doing all the Chinatown side quests. So that'll be fun. And then we move on to the end-game. . .
And now I really have to go and catch up on all my RP stuff again, because it's been piling up. >.< Plus get up my final Scene from Secundus. . .I really gotta start doing these entries earlier. I just didn't expect it to take so long. . .story of my life. Night all!
