Another Week Of The Grind
Oct. 4th, 2021 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickStarting out extremely rainy -- though I have to admit, traffic was not nearly as bad as I feared it would be today. Yeah, plenty of slowness both getting in and out, but -- I got in on time, I got out on time, it wasn't too shitty a ride either way. I will take it.
And since I've lost a lot of time talking to tumblr friends, here's the to-do list so I can try to get to bed at a slightly more decent time:
Work – Reasonably quiet day, though a phone call just at noon combined with other stuff meant that I got a later lunch than I wanted, which was annoying. Still, I’ve come back to much worse Mondays after a day off, so. . .can’t complain TOO much.
Beanbags – Rained pretty much the entire day, so definitely not. Midweek, maybe!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and finished up the third episode of The First Oxventure today! Caught up with the gang as Corazon successfully snuck down to the second basement level of M. Channail’s potion lab, where all the magic happened – two guys with swords, and one gnome standing over a cauldron. Corazon reported to the others, and a plan was hatched – Dob would use his magic music to send the two guys to sleep (Corazon blocking his ears with parchment), while Corazon snuck up behind the gnome and grabbed him, with the ladies staying behind as back-up. The plan went off flawlessly, happily, and all the bad guys were tied up without incident. The group interrogated M, who admitted he genuinely DIDN’T know his potion was turning people into animals – turns out he was a very bad druid, who had decided that, since people were idiots, he wasn’t going to let that get in the way of making some coin so he could buy a “sports chariot.” A combination of threatening him with Prudence’s Eldritch Blast and stealing his gold got him to agree to try and make an antidote – it took a couple of tries, with his guard friends being transformed into a pygmy goat and a lemur respectively before they got something that worked. The gang, after bottling up some antidote, decided then that the best course of action was to blow the place sky-high so M couldn’t continue his reign of terror here, and let him go temporarily while they tested the flammability of the potion (very high) and started making preparations to explode the place. They headed outside as Prudence readied her Eldritch Blast –
And then Luke/Dob remembered they’d left the cart up there. Unsecured.
Yes, cue M. Channail stealing their ride back and galloping away like the wind. XD Just out of range of Eldritch Blast too! Annoyed, the group blew up the crypt (with some discussion about whether or not the guards down there were blown up as well – it was eventually ruled that, as they’d been untied during their transformations into animals, they probably had a chance to escape while the whole “blow the place up” plan was being discussed), then hiked back to town, took the rat back to his father, and changed him back into a very naked teenage boy. The father was – a bit annoyed by all this (why did these idiot adventurers have to be right), but ended up paying them 92 gold pieces each to, in equal parts, reward them and get them to go away. Dob praised their teamwork skills, and the group agreed to stick together for the foreseeable future to see if more adventure was afoot! :D Tomorrow, we start the second of their adventures – “A Spot of Bother!” AKA, there’s a fifth party member to introduce here. . .
2. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check – after accepting a bribe from Doris the counter lady at the Surfside Diner to keep mum about the rats (at the Queen’s insistence), Alice has gotten some information from her about Lily – namely, that our lost lamb was there about a month ago, looking twitchy for some reason and muttering to herself about the local clinic. And she gave Alice her purse, since Alice knows her boyfriend, so Alice is popping it open to see if there’s any further clues to Lily’s whereabouts inside. Fortunately, there is, and even more fortunately, it points to a place Alice was already going. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – a solid three-in, three-out day!
A) Started with James Turner, who chose today to return to his “I let the game tell me what to do” save file! This is the file with Dayton Lloyd, his randomly-generated spellcaster elder, who is controlled as much as possible by the game itself. If a pop-up comes up from a friend, James has to accept; if a whim occurs, James has to try and fulfill it. He’ll do things to help with Dayton’s moodlets (like feed him if he’s hungry), but otherwise, he’s trying to let his Sim and his world dictate what happens. And it was a pretty interesting ride today – Dayton became friends with Katrina, then got invited to hang out with her at Hare Square in Windenburg after sending her a happy text. And then, right after THAT ended, before he could get home and shower, he was invited to the Bluffs for a dance party by Knox, so he headed out despite his discomfort. Chatted with Knox, got in a fight with another Sim (which accidentally fulfilled part of his “Public Enemy” aspiration), joined the Criminal career (as that was another part of his aspiration), then skinny-dipped with Knox and refused to put his clothes back on until he got home and dragged himself to bed.
Then, the next day, he celebrated Harvestfest – he WAS going to throw a party, but James didn’t realize he’d clicked “Dance Party” while setting it up, got confused as to why he couldn’t choose his own house as a location, and abandoned that idea in favor of just inviting everyone over, hiring a mixologist for his new bar (bought literally on a whim), getting a bigger table, and cooking everyone a turkey dinner. It was poor, but everyone ate it anyway, and then played on his computer while he tried to appease the gnomes and got shocked for his troubles. XD He also randomly got invited to the Magic Realm by Emilia to duel her – and despite never having done magic before, he won, yay! :D Though he peed himself right afterward due to shitty needs, sooo. . .still, win’s a win!
And after that, the next day was all about dealing with the rain (buying an umbrella, playing in the rain, talking to people in the rain, etc), and heading over to the Landgraab house to take all the baths (including a mud bath) and showers before getting invited to duel again by Emilia, only to ditch her in favor of going to work. XD So yeah, it’s been a bit of a ride! I’m kind of hoping he continues with this particular save file – it’s kind of interesting to see just what happens when you actually follow what the game is suggesting!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and his horrible monster “humans” in Spore! He actually redid them for a “tribal stage” playthrough – better hands and feet, even WORSE faces this time around. Complete with mohawks and earrings for the tribal costume (later upgraded to a semi-balding look with a little skirt). XD And, naturally, because they were humans, Kevin’s little tribe spent most of their time clearing their little forest of as much food as was humanly possible and killing off every other tribe within walking distance. They ALMOST made friends with one tribe (who came and waved pleasantly at them) thanks to the power of maracas and wooden flutes, but an early dismissal of their musical talents made Kevin eventually seek bloody, bloody revenge. XD You know a tribe is doing well when one of the others might have a freaking FIGHTER JET of some description and your tribe still wins the day. XD Kevin left it before the humans could build a proper city and REALLY start destroying the planet – maybe a future video!
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Started out with another one of those horrible bottle flips where Gray was struggling for ages trying to get just one particular spot (the holy pocket just past the backwards flipper), then progressed through such levels as a drag race (with extra crossbows); a box escape in front of Nixon’s family (many spears were taken to the chest before Gray found the way out); an “easy” rope swing (which thanks to weird timing on the ropes, was anything but); a loop-de-loop through a spike fall into ANOTHER loop-de-loop (Gray eventually figured out being told to ditch your bike for the spike fall was a trap and completed it still on two wheels); a trip to the thumbnail hole on the pink rocket of doom (Gray was flying blind through most of this one, which made success even more sweet); a death course with many painful deaths all around (including Gray popping a wheelie JUST IN TIME to avoid a land mine); and a trip through time with Nixon where, after finding his way to the time of dinosaurs, he brought back a triceratops to WREAK HAVOC. XD Truly delightful stuff. :)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – all the text is done for the Victor Luvs Alice Newcrest Adventures update for the week, yay. :) And I’ve already got Thursday posts sorted for a while – just need to figure out Friday and Saturday!
*nods* Not bad, not bad -- at least I'm productive to start the week! We'll see how long it lasts. . .night all!
And since I've lost a lot of time talking to tumblr friends, here's the to-do list so I can try to get to bed at a slightly more decent time:
Work – Reasonably quiet day, though a phone call just at noon combined with other stuff meant that I got a later lunch than I wanted, which was annoying. Still, I’ve come back to much worse Mondays after a day off, so. . .can’t complain TOO much.
Beanbags – Rained pretty much the entire day, so definitely not. Midweek, maybe!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and finished up the third episode of The First Oxventure today! Caught up with the gang as Corazon successfully snuck down to the second basement level of M. Channail’s potion lab, where all the magic happened – two guys with swords, and one gnome standing over a cauldron. Corazon reported to the others, and a plan was hatched – Dob would use his magic music to send the two guys to sleep (Corazon blocking his ears with parchment), while Corazon snuck up behind the gnome and grabbed him, with the ladies staying behind as back-up. The plan went off flawlessly, happily, and all the bad guys were tied up without incident. The group interrogated M, who admitted he genuinely DIDN’T know his potion was turning people into animals – turns out he was a very bad druid, who had decided that, since people were idiots, he wasn’t going to let that get in the way of making some coin so he could buy a “sports chariot.” A combination of threatening him with Prudence’s Eldritch Blast and stealing his gold got him to agree to try and make an antidote – it took a couple of tries, with his guard friends being transformed into a pygmy goat and a lemur respectively before they got something that worked. The gang, after bottling up some antidote, decided then that the best course of action was to blow the place sky-high so M couldn’t continue his reign of terror here, and let him go temporarily while they tested the flammability of the potion (very high) and started making preparations to explode the place. They headed outside as Prudence readied her Eldritch Blast –
And then Luke/Dob remembered they’d left the cart up there. Unsecured.
Yes, cue M. Channail stealing their ride back and galloping away like the wind. XD Just out of range of Eldritch Blast too! Annoyed, the group blew up the crypt (with some discussion about whether or not the guards down there were blown up as well – it was eventually ruled that, as they’d been untied during their transformations into animals, they probably had a chance to escape while the whole “blow the place up” plan was being discussed), then hiked back to town, took the rat back to his father, and changed him back into a very naked teenage boy. The father was – a bit annoyed by all this (why did these idiot adventurers have to be right), but ended up paying them 92 gold pieces each to, in equal parts, reward them and get them to go away. Dob praised their teamwork skills, and the group agreed to stick together for the foreseeable future to see if more adventure was afoot! :D Tomorrow, we start the second of their adventures – “A Spot of Bother!” AKA, there’s a fifth party member to introduce here. . .
2. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check – after accepting a bribe from Doris the counter lady at the Surfside Diner to keep mum about the rats (at the Queen’s insistence), Alice has gotten some information from her about Lily – namely, that our lost lamb was there about a month ago, looking twitchy for some reason and muttering to herself about the local clinic. And she gave Alice her purse, since Alice knows her boyfriend, so Alice is popping it open to see if there’s any further clues to Lily’s whereabouts inside. Fortunately, there is, and even more fortunately, it points to a place Alice was already going. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – a solid three-in, three-out day!
A) Started with James Turner, who chose today to return to his “I let the game tell me what to do” save file! This is the file with Dayton Lloyd, his randomly-generated spellcaster elder, who is controlled as much as possible by the game itself. If a pop-up comes up from a friend, James has to accept; if a whim occurs, James has to try and fulfill it. He’ll do things to help with Dayton’s moodlets (like feed him if he’s hungry), but otherwise, he’s trying to let his Sim and his world dictate what happens. And it was a pretty interesting ride today – Dayton became friends with Katrina, then got invited to hang out with her at Hare Square in Windenburg after sending her a happy text. And then, right after THAT ended, before he could get home and shower, he was invited to the Bluffs for a dance party by Knox, so he headed out despite his discomfort. Chatted with Knox, got in a fight with another Sim (which accidentally fulfilled part of his “Public Enemy” aspiration), joined the Criminal career (as that was another part of his aspiration), then skinny-dipped with Knox and refused to put his clothes back on until he got home and dragged himself to bed.
Then, the next day, he celebrated Harvestfest – he WAS going to throw a party, but James didn’t realize he’d clicked “Dance Party” while setting it up, got confused as to why he couldn’t choose his own house as a location, and abandoned that idea in favor of just inviting everyone over, hiring a mixologist for his new bar (bought literally on a whim), getting a bigger table, and cooking everyone a turkey dinner. It was poor, but everyone ate it anyway, and then played on his computer while he tried to appease the gnomes and got shocked for his troubles. XD He also randomly got invited to the Magic Realm by Emilia to duel her – and despite never having done magic before, he won, yay! :D Though he peed himself right afterward due to shitty needs, sooo. . .still, win’s a win!
And after that, the next day was all about dealing with the rain (buying an umbrella, playing in the rain, talking to people in the rain, etc), and heading over to the Landgraab house to take all the baths (including a mud bath) and showers before getting invited to duel again by Emilia, only to ditch her in favor of going to work. XD So yeah, it’s been a bit of a ride! I’m kind of hoping he continues with this particular save file – it’s kind of interesting to see just what happens when you actually follow what the game is suggesting!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and his horrible monster “humans” in Spore! He actually redid them for a “tribal stage” playthrough – better hands and feet, even WORSE faces this time around. Complete with mohawks and earrings for the tribal costume (later upgraded to a semi-balding look with a little skirt). XD And, naturally, because they were humans, Kevin’s little tribe spent most of their time clearing their little forest of as much food as was humanly possible and killing off every other tribe within walking distance. They ALMOST made friends with one tribe (who came and waved pleasantly at them) thanks to the power of maracas and wooden flutes, but an early dismissal of their musical talents made Kevin eventually seek bloody, bloody revenge. XD You know a tribe is doing well when one of the others might have a freaking FIGHTER JET of some description and your tribe still wins the day. XD Kevin left it before the humans could build a proper city and REALLY start destroying the planet – maybe a future video!
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Started out with another one of those horrible bottle flips where Gray was struggling for ages trying to get just one particular spot (the holy pocket just past the backwards flipper), then progressed through such levels as a drag race (with extra crossbows); a box escape in front of Nixon’s family (many spears were taken to the chest before Gray found the way out); an “easy” rope swing (which thanks to weird timing on the ropes, was anything but); a loop-de-loop through a spike fall into ANOTHER loop-de-loop (Gray eventually figured out being told to ditch your bike for the spike fall was a trap and completed it still on two wheels); a trip to the thumbnail hole on the pink rocket of doom (Gray was flying blind through most of this one, which made success even more sweet); a death course with many painful deaths all around (including Gray popping a wheelie JUST IN TIME to avoid a land mine); and a trip through time with Nixon where, after finding his way to the time of dinosaurs, he brought back a triceratops to WREAK HAVOC. XD Truly delightful stuff. :)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – all the text is done for the Victor Luvs Alice Newcrest Adventures update for the week, yay. :) And I’ve already got Thursday posts sorted for a while – just need to figure out Friday and Saturday!
*nods* Not bad, not bad -- at least I'm productive to start the week! We'll see how long it lasts. . .night all!
