Running Late Once More
Nov. 9th, 2021 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickDoing more RP stuff with one of my tumblr friends will do that -- let me just slap up the to-do list for this surprisingly warm November night (nearly hit 70 today!) and get going --
Work – Fortunately a pretty quiet day, though I had some reversals that needed to be done (adjusting installments, applying payments, stuff like that), and we have some stuff that needs to be hunted down, so that’s a little stressful. Also chatty coworker is back from her vacation weekend, so that’s a bit irritating too. But I’ve had much worse Tuesdays, and this one didn’t start with me waking up super-early needing to pee, sooo. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another day on the bike, and some more time with L.A. By Night, “Happy Families!” The fight scene has concluded in rather epic fashion – Annabelle, after failing to kick the Nosferatu directly, instead went over to the DJ booth and kicked part of it into him, while Isaiah unloaded some bullets into the guy. The Nosferatu tried to plead mercy and talk to them, but Isaiah provoked him with a few more shots, forcing Annabelle to use Daunt to terrify the furious Nossie into submission and make him slink off unseen. Victor and Nelli, meanwhile, took care of Long Fangs The Possible Gangrel – Nelli dropped down from the ceiling, and managed to avoid being noticed long enough to slam a knife into the back of her head – not deep enough to hit her brain, but definitely got her attention. And then Victor, after considering shooting the Nosferatu, went ahead and shot Long Fangs instead – and it turns out those guns were loaded with phosphorous rounds or something, as she ended up on fire. Nelli beat a hasty exit up a wall, while X – who had ducked into the shadows and had a Premonition about cold flame and Jasper – ran into the kitchen, used Blush of Life to eat a load of old grease, then came back out and spewed it onto Long Fangs. Meaning, obviously, she burned a lot faster and ended up so much bloody ash. Yeah. As you might imagine, the humans involved – one still trapped under part of the DJ booth, the other two having extricated themselves from the catwalk – were not particularly eager to start up anything again! They confirmed that they had been sent by Blaine – and then Isaiah made the mistake of identifying them AND calling Victor “Dad” so – they dead now. Not violating any chronicle or personal tenets (because obviously these people are far from innocent), but – okay, A) Isaiah is going to see this, and while Victor intends to use the old mindwipe, we’ll see how that works out, and B). . .isn’t this going to set THEM on fire? Hmm. . .
2. Write some more on “Learn To Love Again”: Check – got another page, in which I actually introduced Bonejangles and Lizzie in this universe a bit early! I’d intended for them to show up AFTER Elder Gutknecht had been pontificating on how magic works in this verse a bit, but then I realized it made more sense for them to come in FIRST because, well, why wait to reveal that Gutknecht actually already knows the Liddells? The conversation’s been a bit chaotic, as you might imagine, but Victor’s answered the most important question for Lizzie – namely, that her sister really is all right. :) So that’s good. NEXT time, we get into at least a partial magical infodump. :p
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – the usual two-in-two-out-one-bonus set –
A) No James still (I hope his computer is okay – he mentioned doing upgrades as well as moving last we heard of him), so instead I went to Plumbella for a Sims fix: “the blooming room kit is out and i pretend to be shocked!” Plumbella’s quick review of the new kit that dropped today, as you might expect. Her thoughts are basically “I like the stuff in this pack, think the plants are awesome, they’ll probably become standards in my builds – but I’m not over the fact that these have apparently replaced Stuff Packs.” Which, yeah, fair – the stuff in it DOES look genuinely good, but it’s not enough to tempt me to break my “no Kits ever” rule. Besides, I don’t really use plants when I decorate my houses anyway. *shrug* I’m way more excited about the fact that someone made a working loom mod that lets you make rugs and pillows and even clothes! Currently in Patreon Early Access, but on the first of December. . .
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and Cities Skylines! Where he created the city of “Cars Bad,” a tiny hamlet where all traffic was banned FOREVER! . . .or at least until Mayor Kevin realized the place was hemorrhaging money and let trucks in for the industrial sector. XD But yeah, it was very tough going for the average citizen of “Cars Bad” – not only did you have to walk everywhere, but power was often in short supply because the mayor kept putting wind turbines in bad places; water was in short supply because the mayor never had enough money to link everyone up to the system; people were more or less literally piled in on top of each other because they kept asking for more residential and the mayor kept giving it to them (who cares if some people have to live near the landfill?); the mayor opened one school for like half a year, then promptly closed it again when it proved to not make him money; then the mayor finally built a hospital, but only allowed the emergency vehicles to patrol a very small portion of the city. There were a LOT of pseudo-tweets of people wondering why they lived in such a depressing place. . .not that the population ever really got above 400. . . And then Kevin did an experiment, let in cars (inching through a designated slow zone), and zipped STRAIGHT up to Tiny Town. With all the crime, fire, and general disaster that implied. XD And so down came the meteor, erasing Mayor Kevin’s attempt at green greatness. (Well. Except for the coal plant.) Good times!
C) And then we had GrayStillPlays and more GTA V! Today’s story board – Gray going onto the “Yeet Dating App,” swiping a few girls left into a wind turbine for crimes such as eating dogs (Karen), looking to pull a hit on him for impregnating her in a previous board (Natasha), and drinking decaf coffee (Beth), before finally swiping right on Natas Flesmih – NOT “Satan Himself,” as you might think from that name, but his daughter. Satan was not happy to see her bringing home a Florida Man and insisted that Gray prove himself worthy. Step one – fight in him a cage match (where Gray delightedly demonstrated that he’s fireproof and can also bend in some unexpectedly fun ways)! Fortunately, Gray still had his “swipe gun,” allowing him to send Satan rocketing to heaven and dunk him into his own torches. Even more fortunately, Satan approved of the cheating. XD Step two – judge some criminals and see who deserves to be in Hell and who doesn’t, with Natas’s help as she’s apparently great at multiple choice. Fortunately, she and Gray generally agreed both people each time should be killed. And so Gray won the right to date Satan’s daughter. . .only to discover that somehow they’d already had six kids before the first real date. Gray promptly jumped into Hell. XD It’s those Florida Man genes, I tell you!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – Got Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday all sorted on Victor Luvs Alice (Sims Challenge, gift fic, and a Corpse Bride gif set reblog), and the nightly update on Valice Multiverse (four ask replies and a thread reply).
At least I got everything all done! Now time to head to bed. One last day of work to get through for this week. . .fingers crossed it isn't horrible. Night all!
Work – Fortunately a pretty quiet day, though I had some reversals that needed to be done (adjusting installments, applying payments, stuff like that), and we have some stuff that needs to be hunted down, so that’s a little stressful. Also chatty coworker is back from her vacation weekend, so that’s a bit irritating too. But I’ve had much worse Tuesdays, and this one didn’t start with me waking up super-early needing to pee, sooo. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another day on the bike, and some more time with L.A. By Night, “Happy Families!” The fight scene has concluded in rather epic fashion – Annabelle, after failing to kick the Nosferatu directly, instead went over to the DJ booth and kicked part of it into him, while Isaiah unloaded some bullets into the guy. The Nosferatu tried to plead mercy and talk to them, but Isaiah provoked him with a few more shots, forcing Annabelle to use Daunt to terrify the furious Nossie into submission and make him slink off unseen. Victor and Nelli, meanwhile, took care of Long Fangs The Possible Gangrel – Nelli dropped down from the ceiling, and managed to avoid being noticed long enough to slam a knife into the back of her head – not deep enough to hit her brain, but definitely got her attention. And then Victor, after considering shooting the Nosferatu, went ahead and shot Long Fangs instead – and it turns out those guns were loaded with phosphorous rounds or something, as she ended up on fire. Nelli beat a hasty exit up a wall, while X – who had ducked into the shadows and had a Premonition about cold flame and Jasper – ran into the kitchen, used Blush of Life to eat a load of old grease, then came back out and spewed it onto Long Fangs. Meaning, obviously, she burned a lot faster and ended up so much bloody ash. Yeah. As you might imagine, the humans involved – one still trapped under part of the DJ booth, the other two having extricated themselves from the catwalk – were not particularly eager to start up anything again! They confirmed that they had been sent by Blaine – and then Isaiah made the mistake of identifying them AND calling Victor “Dad” so – they dead now. Not violating any chronicle or personal tenets (because obviously these people are far from innocent), but – okay, A) Isaiah is going to see this, and while Victor intends to use the old mindwipe, we’ll see how that works out, and B). . .isn’t this going to set THEM on fire? Hmm. . .
2. Write some more on “Learn To Love Again”: Check – got another page, in which I actually introduced Bonejangles and Lizzie in this universe a bit early! I’d intended for them to show up AFTER Elder Gutknecht had been pontificating on how magic works in this verse a bit, but then I realized it made more sense for them to come in FIRST because, well, why wait to reveal that Gutknecht actually already knows the Liddells? The conversation’s been a bit chaotic, as you might imagine, but Victor’s answered the most important question for Lizzie – namely, that her sister really is all right. :) So that’s good. NEXT time, we get into at least a partial magical infodump. :p
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – the usual two-in-two-out-one-bonus set –
A) No James still (I hope his computer is okay – he mentioned doing upgrades as well as moving last we heard of him), so instead I went to Plumbella for a Sims fix: “the blooming room kit is out and i pretend to be shocked!” Plumbella’s quick review of the new kit that dropped today, as you might expect. Her thoughts are basically “I like the stuff in this pack, think the plants are awesome, they’ll probably become standards in my builds – but I’m not over the fact that these have apparently replaced Stuff Packs.” Which, yeah, fair – the stuff in it DOES look genuinely good, but it’s not enough to tempt me to break my “no Kits ever” rule. Besides, I don’t really use plants when I decorate my houses anyway. *shrug* I’m way more excited about the fact that someone made a working loom mod that lets you make rugs and pillows and even clothes! Currently in Patreon Early Access, but on the first of December. . .
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and Cities Skylines! Where he created the city of “Cars Bad,” a tiny hamlet where all traffic was banned FOREVER! . . .or at least until Mayor Kevin realized the place was hemorrhaging money and let trucks in for the industrial sector. XD But yeah, it was very tough going for the average citizen of “Cars Bad” – not only did you have to walk everywhere, but power was often in short supply because the mayor kept putting wind turbines in bad places; water was in short supply because the mayor never had enough money to link everyone up to the system; people were more or less literally piled in on top of each other because they kept asking for more residential and the mayor kept giving it to them (who cares if some people have to live near the landfill?); the mayor opened one school for like half a year, then promptly closed it again when it proved to not make him money; then the mayor finally built a hospital, but only allowed the emergency vehicles to patrol a very small portion of the city. There were a LOT of pseudo-tweets of people wondering why they lived in such a depressing place. . .not that the population ever really got above 400. . . And then Kevin did an experiment, let in cars (inching through a designated slow zone), and zipped STRAIGHT up to Tiny Town. With all the crime, fire, and general disaster that implied. XD And so down came the meteor, erasing Mayor Kevin’s attempt at green greatness. (Well. Except for the coal plant.) Good times!
C) And then we had GrayStillPlays and more GTA V! Today’s story board – Gray going onto the “Yeet Dating App,” swiping a few girls left into a wind turbine for crimes such as eating dogs (Karen), looking to pull a hit on him for impregnating her in a previous board (Natasha), and drinking decaf coffee (Beth), before finally swiping right on Natas Flesmih – NOT “Satan Himself,” as you might think from that name, but his daughter. Satan was not happy to see her bringing home a Florida Man and insisted that Gray prove himself worthy. Step one – fight in him a cage match (where Gray delightedly demonstrated that he’s fireproof and can also bend in some unexpectedly fun ways)! Fortunately, Gray still had his “swipe gun,” allowing him to send Satan rocketing to heaven and dunk him into his own torches. Even more fortunately, Satan approved of the cheating. XD Step two – judge some criminals and see who deserves to be in Hell and who doesn’t, with Natas’s help as she’s apparently great at multiple choice. Fortunately, she and Gray generally agreed both people each time should be killed. And so Gray won the right to date Satan’s daughter. . .only to discover that somehow they’d already had six kids before the first real date. Gray promptly jumped into Hell. XD It’s those Florida Man genes, I tell you!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – Got Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday all sorted on Victor Luvs Alice (Sims Challenge, gift fic, and a Corpse Bride gif set reblog), and the nightly update on Valice Multiverse (four ask replies and a thread reply).
At least I got everything all done! Now time to head to bed. One last day of work to get through for this week. . .fingers crossed it isn't horrible. Night all!
