A Quiet Inauguration Day -- I'm Relieved
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crossover_chickYup -- glad I took the day off, but also glad that nothing happened. We did watch the actual swearing in of President Biden and his speech at noon on YouTube -- though we didn't actually have lunch then. (That was at one, and we caught up on the first episode of the latest season of Would I Lie To You?, which remains very funny.) I'm hoping this is one of the glimmers of light at the end of the tunnel! I'd like 2021 to be a climb upward rather than a plummet downward.
As for my to-do list, I feel I was very successful -- though one of my items has a sad caveat, I'm afraid. . .
1. Continue working on the Valice Multiverse "information page" stuff: Check! Did this between watching Biden’s inauguration speech and lunch – cleaned up the “Cuddlepile” section of the verses, yay. :) Getting there slowly but surely!
2. Watch the two OXBox/OXtra lists that just got added to my Watch Later, along with YouTube Subscription videos: Check – and with BONUS videos too! :D Let me show you –
A) First up -- well, okay, I watched a couple of Fallout 4 videos last night before bed from "The Epic Nate," detailing some of the more interesting unique weapons in the wasteland -- stuff like "Aeternus," the never-ending Gatling Laser (which genuinely has infinite ammo thanks to a glitch in how the effect works on a Gatling Laser) and the 2076 World Series Bat (which has a small chance to send enemies flying away hilariously). Good stuff, pretty fun -- might go back to him for future videos if I have a chance!
B) Then, during the actual day, we started with OXBox and OXtra! We had:
1. OXBox and “7 Games You Can Complete Way Earlier Than You're Supposed To” – a list of games with secret endings you can get long before you’re supposed to complete your playthrough. No, this list doesn’t include the famous “crab ragoon” ending you can get in one of the Far Cry games – Andy wanted good endings. Like using your brother’s escape pod to get the heck out of Talos I in Prey! Or using a secret door to get the attic key early in Gone Home! Perhaps you would like very-beginning-of-the-game Link to attack Ganon in Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Totally cool! Though my favorite from the list was Zero Time Dilemma – whether or not you even play the game is decided by a coin flip from the main baddie at the beginning – and it’s not rigged. You guess the correct color, the cast is free to go! (Though, looking at the synopsis on Wikipedia for the game, it looks like this is deliberate, as the game involves a lot of time travel and shifting timelines, and getting a “good end” everyone can shift to is important. . .)
2. OXtra and “7 Embarrassing Ways You Failed the Tutorial” – sort of a sister list to the above, where you get a game over (or at least continual restarting) by failing the tutorial of the game. Examples included refusing to arrest a guy in Far Cry 5 and thus never kicking off the events of the game (which, uh, might be a good thing); killing your drill sergeant in Half Life: Opposing Forces after he teaches you about sniping (though the court martial does get you out of fighting aliens); and not running to Vault 111 in Fallout 4, which means you’re not on the verge of safety when the nuke hits (though I dunno if I’d call pre-War Sanctuary the “tutorial” of FO4 – though now I’m wondering if it’s possible to die in the Vault before starting the game proper. There are radroaches and sparking things to hurt you. . .). Good times, good times. . .
3. WHOOP WHOOP THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL – OXBOX HAVE UPLOADED THEIR FIRST “THREE WAYS TO PLAY” VIDEO FOR HITMAN 3! Now that was a pleasant surprise to come back to after lunch! :D The gang naturally started with the Dubai level that opens the game, and showed off their respective playstyles perfectly. Andy, consummate professional, had a plan and stuck to it – parachuting in, then dressing up first as a new guard to the building, then as another assassin attending the big party at the super-high tower, to sneak up on his targets, incapacitate them, then toss them off the building with clever quips before stealing the helicopter to make his escape. Five stars, silent assassin. Jane started out as a staff member who kinda stumbled her way into killing one of her targets via art installation electric shock (a glowing sun in front of a pool of water that has a nasty habit of overloading should you put in a fresh fuse), then disguised herself as the same assassin that Andy did and poisoned her next target’s drink. It was suspicious that the guy died right while they were talking business, but she got out without it getting any worse, parachuting off the building into four stars and a “Clean ICA Agent” rating. And Mike – Mike started out as a clown in the lobby; snuck out into the helipad area where he tested the explosive barrels for exploding-ness, killing some non-target guards in the process; knocked out a guard and stole his uniform without bothering to hide the body; pulled off a spectacular headshot on one of his targets from a balcony above the bar area; set up a loose railing trap for his other target – and proceeded to hang from the ledge just below to wait for his target to show up; then, upon realizing his target did not lean on the sabotaged railing, went ahead and yanked him over the side – then had to wait as the guy his target was meeting with went to the loosened railing and ended up tumbling over the edge; stole the non-target’s sword and managed to walk out to the parachute exit because apparently the bodyguards weren’t that fussed. XD No stars, and the moniker of “Trapmaster” which even Mike was confused by. XD Oh, I love these guys.
C) Then, this evening – MORE Hitman 3 from Kevin! With the special twist that he did the third mission in VR. It was – interesting, to say the least. Kevin wasn’t sure at all how to actually kill people (though he got quite adept at punching them out), and spent most of the level – set in a crowded club with lots of loud music and bright lights and whatnot, and people on “allergy” pills – pretending 47 was actually a socially awkward nervous wreck. XD Causing as much chaos as possible, of course – disguising himself as a local drug dealer, a guard, and a bartender in a baklava, offering people drugs and drinks while killing his targets in the weirdest ways possible (including a very nice explosion kill using leaking gas – Mike would be proud). He also tried to get everyone to mosh with him in the pit (causing himself a REAL-LIFE injury – somehow cutting his knuckle), and sabotaged the light show so it would go on fire. XD And then he ended the level sprinting out the door in the DJ’s distinctive white costume. Oh, just pure Kevin, that was. XD
D) And onto Gray for that lovely old saw: GTA V stunt race from hell! Actually, a PAIR of stunt races from hell tonight: numero uno, a “choices” race where you have to pick the right choice in going up tubes, jumping from one platform to another, and – crucially – figuring out where to go on a classic super-twisty wall ride. XD And number two, a boost-laden obstacle course full of sharp turns, no signs, and regret – no, seriously, the creator said they REGRETTED MAKING IT. XD And naturally, Gray regretted playing it. The noises he makes when he comes across some of the horrible things people stuff in these boards are getting more and more interesting! To the point where he basically yodeled once. It’s, uh, it’s a thing. XD
E) And finally, another bonus video because I had the time this evening – the latest Atop The Fourth Wall, featuring “Mighty Heroes #1!” . . .Okay, this is a comic based on an obscure 60s cartoon about a group of inept superheroes that was for some reason published in the late 1990s. Someone at Marvel must have been a fan. Anyway, it’s an anthology book, telling the origins of the heroes (basically, uh, hit by a sentient meteor which gave them super-powers – and was embarrassed after the fact since the gang isn’t exactly the most competent) and three stories involving them (dealing with a blue alien with a cold messing up his morphing abilities, on loan from another 60s cartoon; dealing with a villain who animates the heads of Mount Rushmore to attack them – and who is defeated by Jell-O; and being mind-controlled by a villain named Pandora and her evil-food-filled lunch cooler, forcing them to be saved by new character Laura, aka Water Woman – a fan of the gang who got powers of her own from an amulet showing them). It’s – not particularly funny, but not really bad either. As Linkara said, it’s just – there, for the most part. It’s fine, and sometimes, fine is the best you can hope for. *shrug*
3. Play Fallout 4 and see if I can make it into Concord and save Preston: Check in actually playing the game, no check in making it into Concord, sadly. I actually broke down and installed another mod – “Advanced Needs 2” – to go ahead and give me some more stuff to work with (like actual hunger and thirst – felt that was appropriate with all of the food mods I have), then fired up the game. I cleared out the mole rat den beneath the Red Rocket (got some good loot too – and a very funny note praising the Red Rocket staff for getting the 2076 “Trashbusters” award for cleanest station XD); cleared out the Red Rocket and made it into a little base for Victor and Dogmeat; had Victor cook some food, build a water pump to drink from, and get some sleep; struggled with getting my port-a-potty to stay up long enough for Victor to use it (you knock it over, and you can’t properly pick it up); then set out to Concord and killed the bloodbugs –
And ran into the exact same issue I did last time: I try to enter Concord, and the game, after a few steps in, quits to desktop. I tried it a couple of times – from different saves, from different angles, etc. Nope. The second I start getting anywhere closer to Concord than that house right outside the city limits that you can raid for supplies, the game just crashes. And I still have NO IDEA WHY. As evidenced by my previous tests, it doesn’t seem to be my mods, or at least it’s not in an obvious way – I can get to Preston if I skip everything BEFORE Preston, but that’s not something I want to do. I just – I am COMPLETELY BAFFLED. No idea where to start. At least I have some backups of my saves, I guess?
(Actually, wait, thinking about it, there might be one thing. . .while installing "Advanced Needs 2" and updating "CWSS: while I was at it, I noticed ONE mod in my set had never been re-enabled from some of my previous testing -- the mod that adjusts how cryo and plasma grenades work. Note to self -- disable that, go back to an earlier save, try to go to Concord. If that doesn't work, ask for help somewhere and hope you're not mocked because parts of this fandom can be mean.)
4. Get in a workout: Check! Spent some time on the treadmill with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! (More than intended, in fact – I knocked out the security key ten minutes in and had to restart.) Started with Grills finishing up Vault 75 – there genuinely was nothing more to find, but Jon was very happy with the story he did get, saying that he felt FO4 does vaults very well in general! So that was nice. With the area cleared, he made his way over to a local sinkhole, as he’d heard from his commenters it was a good way to get into a house he’d been unable to access while in his “No Guns” run – but before he could do anything along those lines, he suddenly heard gunfire. Turns out some Rust Devils and their robots had come along and stirred up the local Gunners, and Jon decided to take care of the bastards before they could ruin his good time. And man, did they try to ruin it – two legendaries in the group, and one of them had a Freezing Radium Rifle, meaning Jon was getting BLASTED with rads! He managed to take out all of them in the end, but decided it would be smarter to teleport back home, get a rad scrub, and take a look at the guns he’d picked up before going out any further. Gun of choice to upgrade was an Enraging Lever Action – he made that as light as possible and basically designated it as “boss arena with lots of flunkies” gun (as its special ability is to make enemies go into a rage and attack whoever’s closest, friend OR foe). That went up on the wall for now, though, as Jon didn’t think Grills would need it right away.
That ended episode 42 – episode 43 resumed Grills’s tour of Malden as he took a vertibird back to the sinkhole and proceeded to investigate. There was a brief moment of terror courtesy of a deathclaw – then Grills accidentally fell down another hole and into the cave beneath the sinkhole, sooo that problem kinda solved itself. XD As he worked his way up and out, he found Grandpa Salvodi, grandfather of Joe Salvodi of Bunker Hill, and took his hat to show to Joe later, then killed a bunch of ghouls (including a Legendary Glowing One, yikes) and finally found his way into the house he originally wanted to explore. Nothing too special except some raider corpses and a note saying one of them sleepwalks and ought to move her bed downstairs – but then Jon heard some noises from outside. Some noises that were of a sentry bot, apparently called Gus. Jon was naturally concerned about this. He was also concerned about a Mirelurk Hunter going up against some woman named Kelly – he took that out for her, then went to see what was going on. Gus had apparently been destroyed, and there was a little girl nearby, Kat, whom wouldn’t respond when Grills tried to speak to her. Jon was very confused and suspicious of this being a trap – what I think actually happened is that he stumbled across a random encounter with a girl and her protector sentry bot, but the bot got mangled by something, so the encounter broke. The encounter with Kelly was still good, though, and Grills got a brahmin out of it (as Kelly was selling hers – though that “hers” should probably have quotes around it, given she was kinda cagey when Grills asked if it was really hers).
With all that out of the way, Grills decided it was time to swing by Bunker Hill to turn in Salvodi’s hat (as it was a mini-quest he picked up a while back). He stopped at Listening Post Bravo along the way, but was unable to re-recruit Danse as a companion for some reason; then dropped by the Slog to turn in that “Greenskins” quest and claim the settlement. He also swung back around that radio tower he raised before, as he had been informed the signals he thought were dead actually could be found – one could be traced to a settlement that had been taken over by Super Mutants, the other proved to be an amusing recording praising someone for purchasing a special radio. (And the distress signal turned out to be Jon having forgotten to turn off the pulser emitting it while doing “The Lost Patrol” ages ago.) Finally, he got back on the road to Bunker Hill and BADTFL, skirting around a fight involving a Sentry Bot Ripper until he could take it down with a Gauss shot, and then heading over to Bunker Hill to turn in the hat to Salvodi and get a bed for the night. Next morning, he took a quick detour to clear out the super mutants from some buildings he’d skirted around before, just to see if there was anything interesting (just a few trunks, and a shortcut onto one of the collapsed highways), then proceeded to the BADTFL to take out the raiders there for another quest. Left him in the process of doing that – should close out episode 43 and move onto 44 soon!
And in the category of Other:
-->Read and reviewed a very nice fic on AO3 by someone exploring little!Victoria from Corpse Bride and how her parents are emotionally neglectful dicks – poor girl kept trying to convince herself they loved her because they got her one doll she wanted for Christmas, despite all evidence to the contrary. . .
-->And I just finished queuing up Friday AND Saturday posts for my Victor Luvs Alice queue, after doing Thursday last night! So I'm good on that for a while and don't have to worry about it, yaaay~
And now I just have to answer my DW comment, and head to bed! Because yeah, back to work again tomorrow. . .hopefully it won't be too painful. And if it is, I only have two days, followed by a non-cleaning Saturday. Admittedly, it's also a Saturday post a Sims 4 Patch, so I probably won't get to play that game. . .on the other hand, more time to diagnose what the hell is going on with FO4? Or to be a horrible goose. XD Either way, weekend, good thing. Night all!
As for my to-do list, I feel I was very successful -- though one of my items has a sad caveat, I'm afraid. . .
1. Continue working on the Valice Multiverse "information page" stuff: Check! Did this between watching Biden’s inauguration speech and lunch – cleaned up the “Cuddlepile” section of the verses, yay. :) Getting there slowly but surely!
2. Watch the two OXBox/OXtra lists that just got added to my Watch Later, along with YouTube Subscription videos: Check – and with BONUS videos too! :D Let me show you –
A) First up -- well, okay, I watched a couple of Fallout 4 videos last night before bed from "The Epic Nate," detailing some of the more interesting unique weapons in the wasteland -- stuff like "Aeternus," the never-ending Gatling Laser (which genuinely has infinite ammo thanks to a glitch in how the effect works on a Gatling Laser) and the 2076 World Series Bat (which has a small chance to send enemies flying away hilariously). Good stuff, pretty fun -- might go back to him for future videos if I have a chance!
B) Then, during the actual day, we started with OXBox and OXtra! We had:
1. OXBox and “7 Games You Can Complete Way Earlier Than You're Supposed To” – a list of games with secret endings you can get long before you’re supposed to complete your playthrough. No, this list doesn’t include the famous “crab ragoon” ending you can get in one of the Far Cry games – Andy wanted good endings. Like using your brother’s escape pod to get the heck out of Talos I in Prey! Or using a secret door to get the attic key early in Gone Home! Perhaps you would like very-beginning-of-the-game Link to attack Ganon in Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Totally cool! Though my favorite from the list was Zero Time Dilemma – whether or not you even play the game is decided by a coin flip from the main baddie at the beginning – and it’s not rigged. You guess the correct color, the cast is free to go! (Though, looking at the synopsis on Wikipedia for the game, it looks like this is deliberate, as the game involves a lot of time travel and shifting timelines, and getting a “good end” everyone can shift to is important. . .)
2. OXtra and “7 Embarrassing Ways You Failed the Tutorial” – sort of a sister list to the above, where you get a game over (or at least continual restarting) by failing the tutorial of the game. Examples included refusing to arrest a guy in Far Cry 5 and thus never kicking off the events of the game (which, uh, might be a good thing); killing your drill sergeant in Half Life: Opposing Forces after he teaches you about sniping (though the court martial does get you out of fighting aliens); and not running to Vault 111 in Fallout 4, which means you’re not on the verge of safety when the nuke hits (though I dunno if I’d call pre-War Sanctuary the “tutorial” of FO4 – though now I’m wondering if it’s possible to die in the Vault before starting the game proper. There are radroaches and sparking things to hurt you. . .). Good times, good times. . .
3. WHOOP WHOOP THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL – OXBOX HAVE UPLOADED THEIR FIRST “THREE WAYS TO PLAY” VIDEO FOR HITMAN 3! Now that was a pleasant surprise to come back to after lunch! :D The gang naturally started with the Dubai level that opens the game, and showed off their respective playstyles perfectly. Andy, consummate professional, had a plan and stuck to it – parachuting in, then dressing up first as a new guard to the building, then as another assassin attending the big party at the super-high tower, to sneak up on his targets, incapacitate them, then toss them off the building with clever quips before stealing the helicopter to make his escape. Five stars, silent assassin. Jane started out as a staff member who kinda stumbled her way into killing one of her targets via art installation electric shock (a glowing sun in front of a pool of water that has a nasty habit of overloading should you put in a fresh fuse), then disguised herself as the same assassin that Andy did and poisoned her next target’s drink. It was suspicious that the guy died right while they were talking business, but she got out without it getting any worse, parachuting off the building into four stars and a “Clean ICA Agent” rating. And Mike – Mike started out as a clown in the lobby; snuck out into the helipad area where he tested the explosive barrels for exploding-ness, killing some non-target guards in the process; knocked out a guard and stole his uniform without bothering to hide the body; pulled off a spectacular headshot on one of his targets from a balcony above the bar area; set up a loose railing trap for his other target – and proceeded to hang from the ledge just below to wait for his target to show up; then, upon realizing his target did not lean on the sabotaged railing, went ahead and yanked him over the side – then had to wait as the guy his target was meeting with went to the loosened railing and ended up tumbling over the edge; stole the non-target’s sword and managed to walk out to the parachute exit because apparently the bodyguards weren’t that fussed. XD No stars, and the moniker of “Trapmaster” which even Mike was confused by. XD Oh, I love these guys.
C) Then, this evening – MORE Hitman 3 from Kevin! With the special twist that he did the third mission in VR. It was – interesting, to say the least. Kevin wasn’t sure at all how to actually kill people (though he got quite adept at punching them out), and spent most of the level – set in a crowded club with lots of loud music and bright lights and whatnot, and people on “allergy” pills – pretending 47 was actually a socially awkward nervous wreck. XD Causing as much chaos as possible, of course – disguising himself as a local drug dealer, a guard, and a bartender in a baklava, offering people drugs and drinks while killing his targets in the weirdest ways possible (including a very nice explosion kill using leaking gas – Mike would be proud). He also tried to get everyone to mosh with him in the pit (causing himself a REAL-LIFE injury – somehow cutting his knuckle), and sabotaged the light show so it would go on fire. XD And then he ended the level sprinting out the door in the DJ’s distinctive white costume. Oh, just pure Kevin, that was. XD
D) And onto Gray for that lovely old saw: GTA V stunt race from hell! Actually, a PAIR of stunt races from hell tonight: numero uno, a “choices” race where you have to pick the right choice in going up tubes, jumping from one platform to another, and – crucially – figuring out where to go on a classic super-twisty wall ride. XD And number two, a boost-laden obstacle course full of sharp turns, no signs, and regret – no, seriously, the creator said they REGRETTED MAKING IT. XD And naturally, Gray regretted playing it. The noises he makes when he comes across some of the horrible things people stuff in these boards are getting more and more interesting! To the point where he basically yodeled once. It’s, uh, it’s a thing. XD
E) And finally, another bonus video because I had the time this evening – the latest Atop The Fourth Wall, featuring “Mighty Heroes #1!” . . .Okay, this is a comic based on an obscure 60s cartoon about a group of inept superheroes that was for some reason published in the late 1990s. Someone at Marvel must have been a fan. Anyway, it’s an anthology book, telling the origins of the heroes (basically, uh, hit by a sentient meteor which gave them super-powers – and was embarrassed after the fact since the gang isn’t exactly the most competent) and three stories involving them (dealing with a blue alien with a cold messing up his morphing abilities, on loan from another 60s cartoon; dealing with a villain who animates the heads of Mount Rushmore to attack them – and who is defeated by Jell-O; and being mind-controlled by a villain named Pandora and her evil-food-filled lunch cooler, forcing them to be saved by new character Laura, aka Water Woman – a fan of the gang who got powers of her own from an amulet showing them). It’s – not particularly funny, but not really bad either. As Linkara said, it’s just – there, for the most part. It’s fine, and sometimes, fine is the best you can hope for. *shrug*
3. Play Fallout 4 and see if I can make it into Concord and save Preston: Check in actually playing the game, no check in making it into Concord, sadly. I actually broke down and installed another mod – “Advanced Needs 2” – to go ahead and give me some more stuff to work with (like actual hunger and thirst – felt that was appropriate with all of the food mods I have), then fired up the game. I cleared out the mole rat den beneath the Red Rocket (got some good loot too – and a very funny note praising the Red Rocket staff for getting the 2076 “Trashbusters” award for cleanest station XD); cleared out the Red Rocket and made it into a little base for Victor and Dogmeat; had Victor cook some food, build a water pump to drink from, and get some sleep; struggled with getting my port-a-potty to stay up long enough for Victor to use it (you knock it over, and you can’t properly pick it up); then set out to Concord and killed the bloodbugs –
And ran into the exact same issue I did last time: I try to enter Concord, and the game, after a few steps in, quits to desktop. I tried it a couple of times – from different saves, from different angles, etc. Nope. The second I start getting anywhere closer to Concord than that house right outside the city limits that you can raid for supplies, the game just crashes. And I still have NO IDEA WHY. As evidenced by my previous tests, it doesn’t seem to be my mods, or at least it’s not in an obvious way – I can get to Preston if I skip everything BEFORE Preston, but that’s not something I want to do. I just – I am COMPLETELY BAFFLED. No idea where to start. At least I have some backups of my saves, I guess?
(Actually, wait, thinking about it, there might be one thing. . .while installing "Advanced Needs 2" and updating "CWSS: while I was at it, I noticed ONE mod in my set had never been re-enabled from some of my previous testing -- the mod that adjusts how cryo and plasma grenades work. Note to self -- disable that, go back to an earlier save, try to go to Concord. If that doesn't work, ask for help somewhere and hope you're not mocked because parts of this fandom can be mean.)
4. Get in a workout: Check! Spent some time on the treadmill with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! (More than intended, in fact – I knocked out the security key ten minutes in and had to restart.) Started with Grills finishing up Vault 75 – there genuinely was nothing more to find, but Jon was very happy with the story he did get, saying that he felt FO4 does vaults very well in general! So that was nice. With the area cleared, he made his way over to a local sinkhole, as he’d heard from his commenters it was a good way to get into a house he’d been unable to access while in his “No Guns” run – but before he could do anything along those lines, he suddenly heard gunfire. Turns out some Rust Devils and their robots had come along and stirred up the local Gunners, and Jon decided to take care of the bastards before they could ruin his good time. And man, did they try to ruin it – two legendaries in the group, and one of them had a Freezing Radium Rifle, meaning Jon was getting BLASTED with rads! He managed to take out all of them in the end, but decided it would be smarter to teleport back home, get a rad scrub, and take a look at the guns he’d picked up before going out any further. Gun of choice to upgrade was an Enraging Lever Action – he made that as light as possible and basically designated it as “boss arena with lots of flunkies” gun (as its special ability is to make enemies go into a rage and attack whoever’s closest, friend OR foe). That went up on the wall for now, though, as Jon didn’t think Grills would need it right away.
That ended episode 42 – episode 43 resumed Grills’s tour of Malden as he took a vertibird back to the sinkhole and proceeded to investigate. There was a brief moment of terror courtesy of a deathclaw – then Grills accidentally fell down another hole and into the cave beneath the sinkhole, sooo that problem kinda solved itself. XD As he worked his way up and out, he found Grandpa Salvodi, grandfather of Joe Salvodi of Bunker Hill, and took his hat to show to Joe later, then killed a bunch of ghouls (including a Legendary Glowing One, yikes) and finally found his way into the house he originally wanted to explore. Nothing too special except some raider corpses and a note saying one of them sleepwalks and ought to move her bed downstairs – but then Jon heard some noises from outside. Some noises that were of a sentry bot, apparently called Gus. Jon was naturally concerned about this. He was also concerned about a Mirelurk Hunter going up against some woman named Kelly – he took that out for her, then went to see what was going on. Gus had apparently been destroyed, and there was a little girl nearby, Kat, whom wouldn’t respond when Grills tried to speak to her. Jon was very confused and suspicious of this being a trap – what I think actually happened is that he stumbled across a random encounter with a girl and her protector sentry bot, but the bot got mangled by something, so the encounter broke. The encounter with Kelly was still good, though, and Grills got a brahmin out of it (as Kelly was selling hers – though that “hers” should probably have quotes around it, given she was kinda cagey when Grills asked if it was really hers).
With all that out of the way, Grills decided it was time to swing by Bunker Hill to turn in Salvodi’s hat (as it was a mini-quest he picked up a while back). He stopped at Listening Post Bravo along the way, but was unable to re-recruit Danse as a companion for some reason; then dropped by the Slog to turn in that “Greenskins” quest and claim the settlement. He also swung back around that radio tower he raised before, as he had been informed the signals he thought were dead actually could be found – one could be traced to a settlement that had been taken over by Super Mutants, the other proved to be an amusing recording praising someone for purchasing a special radio. (And the distress signal turned out to be Jon having forgotten to turn off the pulser emitting it while doing “The Lost Patrol” ages ago.) Finally, he got back on the road to Bunker Hill and BADTFL, skirting around a fight involving a Sentry Bot Ripper until he could take it down with a Gauss shot, and then heading over to Bunker Hill to turn in the hat to Salvodi and get a bed for the night. Next morning, he took a quick detour to clear out the super mutants from some buildings he’d skirted around before, just to see if there was anything interesting (just a few trunks, and a shortcut onto one of the collapsed highways), then proceeded to the BADTFL to take out the raiders there for another quest. Left him in the process of doing that – should close out episode 43 and move onto 44 soon!
And in the category of Other:
-->Read and reviewed a very nice fic on AO3 by someone exploring little!Victoria from Corpse Bride and how her parents are emotionally neglectful dicks – poor girl kept trying to convince herself they loved her because they got her one doll she wanted for Christmas, despite all evidence to the contrary. . .
-->And I just finished queuing up Friday AND Saturday posts for my Victor Luvs Alice queue, after doing Thursday last night! So I'm good on that for a while and don't have to worry about it, yaaay~
And now I just have to answer my DW comment, and head to bed! Because yeah, back to work again tomorrow. . .hopefully it won't be too painful. And if it is, I only have two days, followed by a non-cleaning Saturday. Admittedly, it's also a Saturday post a Sims 4 Patch, so I probably won't get to play that game. . .on the other hand, more time to diagnose what the hell is going on with FO4? Or to be a horrible goose. XD Either way, weekend, good thing. Night all!
