Meh Monday
Nov. 29th, 2021 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickWork wasn't great, but the afternoon has been all right -- allow me to show you via the usual form:
Work – Meh – not too busy, and yet. . .had to catch up on the GL (three days’ worth), try to figure out some credit card stuff, pass some things onto my supervisors and then wonder if they’d actually done anything with them. . .I’ve had better Mondays, I’ve had worse Mondays. *shrug*
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another thirty on the bike, and with Oxventure, “Plunder Siege!” Rejoined the gang as Egbert prepared to surf over the wall on his shield via bomb blast – he beat the saving throw Johnny had him make and thus soared majestically over the wall. Yaaay Egbert! XD After that, the adventurers headed in through the busted-down front door, past thieves who grabbed a few things in the front room and decided to just leg it, and started their own looting! Corazon grabbed a few nice oil paintings from their frames and a candelabra, while Dob accidentally created a distraction by kicking in a door loudly, attracting attention from the guards, prompting everyone to sneak their way over to the door on the OTHER side of the room. That led to a library, with lots of fancy bookcases, a mezzanine level, and three guards – two on the ground floor, one on the mezzanine. Merilwen (still in cat form) and Dob went upstairs to take care of that guard – Merilwen by tempting him to distraction with a nice soft tummy to rub, while Dob did a majestic stag leap onto the balcony before sending him to sleep with a spell. Corazon Metal Gear Solid-ed one of the other guards at ground level, choking him out, while Prudence scoured the card catalog for grimoires and found one of interest – and Egbert just stood around thinking about how cool his shield surf was. XD At least until Dob mimed to him that he should push down the bookcases to knock out the other guard – only to roll too high, put a little too much force into it, and bonk Corazon for two points of damage with a bookcase. XD On the plus side, the guard is a) not dead and b) buried under bookcases, so yay, more free looting!
2. Edit more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – Alice and Mercurio have popped open Carson’s apartment to check it out, and Mercurio has taken the opportunity to fill Alice in a tiny bit on the current political situation – namely, about the truce between the Kuei-jin, the Anarchs, and the Camarilla following a short shadow war between the former two. (Which has tipped Alice off to the fact that this ‘Chinese not-vampire’ Knox is worried about is probably threatening said truce.) She’s also discussed Vandal’s previous situation with Mercurio, who admitted that neither LaCroix nor Therese would care particularly that he was tormenting a thin-blood – but potentially threatening the Masquerade. . .he’s due a “talking-to,” anyway. That should make Alice feel a tiny bit better about not ripping his throat out when she had the chance.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – though I had to skip one in the Subs, because the hour-long podcast has made its reappearance. Gotta save that for later! But other than that –
A) First up, Call Me Kevin with another round in Project Zomboid, the zombie survival game! With a challenge run this time – giving survivor “Hope Less” EVERY negative trait in the game. This included things like “Short-Sighted” (can barely see the zombies before they’re on you), “Asthmatic” (can’t run very far or for very long), and “Unlucky” (random bad shit happens to you). As you might imagine, Hope did not last very long – he actually managed to loot a few houses, and just BARELY outrun some zombies – but while looking for medical supplies in the medical center, he ended up swarmed and brought down in a corner office, having survived for a total of five hours. Kevin promptly made “Will Dyer” to take up the metaphorical sword – Will lasted a LITTLE bit longer, mostly because, despite his terrible luck and his inability to outrun zombies, he was able to grab a car key and, thus, get his hands on a car! Granted, the lock on the driver’s side was broken, but he was able to get in through the passenger side! Granted, he got clawed and bitten, but he was able to get to the medical center and actually get some supplies to treat his wounds! And granted, he drove the car super-slowly into a wall and ended up killing himself, but – he lasted six hours? XD Kevin decided his problem was not naming his survivors after himself and ended up with young “Kev In Payne” as his final survivor, who started out with some good supplies and a car – but no car key. Figures. She went around looting, just BARELY keeping ahead of the zombies, and finally made it to the nice house where Kevin wanted to stay – only to set off an alarm and have to flee the gathering horde. And then she found a nice warehouse, but a) she couldn’t bar the door against the zombies trying to claw their way in and b) there were zombies inside anyway. She ended up making heroic last stand in the warehouse, fling a molotov and burning the horde as it took her down. Eight hours, and one dead zombie (while she herself was still alive) – now that’s what I call a win! XD
B) And then second, GrayStillPlays with Rob Master 3D – it’s shitty mobile game time again, and today’s offering was all about being a terrible, terrible thief. A thief with no respect for physics or logic. Completely break off your arm to steal jewels from a display? No problem, the arm will even do a little break dance. Test a guy’s shiny grill and necklace to see if they’re real diamonds? He won’t even react when you put the fakes in the crusher. Outrun a dog by knocking over everything in a variety of yards? Nobody cares, or at least nobody cares where you can see! Bending your body into impossible shapes to avoid the laser grids protecting the vaults? Better than being electrocuted by them! Escape from prison by walking the shape of a – certain body part – to get the key and avoid the guards? . . .Gray himself admits he’s kind of childish. XD Good silly fun, made even better by Gray being Gray.
C) And finally, just because it popped up in my Recommendeds, a video from FakeGamerGirl, a SimsTuber, that pretended for five seconds to be a serious open letter to the Sims Team – and then promptly devolved into her demanding werewolves. XD I mean, fair, we have vampires, we should also have werewolves. I’m all for more occults! (Just do them right, Vampires style – we do not need another lackluster mermaid-style occult. . .)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A today, given I already have my posts for this week more or less sorted. . .but I did send out a couple more asks about gift fics to some tumblr friends, so that’s good too! Got one that’s just “have it relate to our current thing,” other is awaiting an answer, but things are coming along with that. :)
So yeah -- not impressed with work, but got some good stuff done this afternoon, so. . .could have been worse! Of course, now we have to see how the rest of the week is going to go. . . Fingers crossed we don't plunge into clusterfuck territory. *sigh* Night all!
Work – Meh – not too busy, and yet. . .had to catch up on the GL (three days’ worth), try to figure out some credit card stuff, pass some things onto my supervisors and then wonder if they’d actually done anything with them. . .I’ve had better Mondays, I’ve had worse Mondays. *shrug*
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another thirty on the bike, and with Oxventure, “Plunder Siege!” Rejoined the gang as Egbert prepared to surf over the wall on his shield via bomb blast – he beat the saving throw Johnny had him make and thus soared majestically over the wall. Yaaay Egbert! XD After that, the adventurers headed in through the busted-down front door, past thieves who grabbed a few things in the front room and decided to just leg it, and started their own looting! Corazon grabbed a few nice oil paintings from their frames and a candelabra, while Dob accidentally created a distraction by kicking in a door loudly, attracting attention from the guards, prompting everyone to sneak their way over to the door on the OTHER side of the room. That led to a library, with lots of fancy bookcases, a mezzanine level, and three guards – two on the ground floor, one on the mezzanine. Merilwen (still in cat form) and Dob went upstairs to take care of that guard – Merilwen by tempting him to distraction with a nice soft tummy to rub, while Dob did a majestic stag leap onto the balcony before sending him to sleep with a spell. Corazon Metal Gear Solid-ed one of the other guards at ground level, choking him out, while Prudence scoured the card catalog for grimoires and found one of interest – and Egbert just stood around thinking about how cool his shield surf was. XD At least until Dob mimed to him that he should push down the bookcases to knock out the other guard – only to roll too high, put a little too much force into it, and bonk Corazon for two points of damage with a bookcase. XD On the plus side, the guard is a) not dead and b) buried under bookcases, so yay, more free looting!
2. Edit more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – Alice and Mercurio have popped open Carson’s apartment to check it out, and Mercurio has taken the opportunity to fill Alice in a tiny bit on the current political situation – namely, about the truce between the Kuei-jin, the Anarchs, and the Camarilla following a short shadow war between the former two. (Which has tipped Alice off to the fact that this ‘Chinese not-vampire’ Knox is worried about is probably threatening said truce.) She’s also discussed Vandal’s previous situation with Mercurio, who admitted that neither LaCroix nor Therese would care particularly that he was tormenting a thin-blood – but potentially threatening the Masquerade. . .he’s due a “talking-to,” anyway. That should make Alice feel a tiny bit better about not ripping his throat out when she had the chance.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – though I had to skip one in the Subs, because the hour-long podcast has made its reappearance. Gotta save that for later! But other than that –
A) First up, Call Me Kevin with another round in Project Zomboid, the zombie survival game! With a challenge run this time – giving survivor “Hope Less” EVERY negative trait in the game. This included things like “Short-Sighted” (can barely see the zombies before they’re on you), “Asthmatic” (can’t run very far or for very long), and “Unlucky” (random bad shit happens to you). As you might imagine, Hope did not last very long – he actually managed to loot a few houses, and just BARELY outrun some zombies – but while looking for medical supplies in the medical center, he ended up swarmed and brought down in a corner office, having survived for a total of five hours. Kevin promptly made “Will Dyer” to take up the metaphorical sword – Will lasted a LITTLE bit longer, mostly because, despite his terrible luck and his inability to outrun zombies, he was able to grab a car key and, thus, get his hands on a car! Granted, the lock on the driver’s side was broken, but he was able to get in through the passenger side! Granted, he got clawed and bitten, but he was able to get to the medical center and actually get some supplies to treat his wounds! And granted, he drove the car super-slowly into a wall and ended up killing himself, but – he lasted six hours? XD Kevin decided his problem was not naming his survivors after himself and ended up with young “Kev In Payne” as his final survivor, who started out with some good supplies and a car – but no car key. Figures. She went around looting, just BARELY keeping ahead of the zombies, and finally made it to the nice house where Kevin wanted to stay – only to set off an alarm and have to flee the gathering horde. And then she found a nice warehouse, but a) she couldn’t bar the door against the zombies trying to claw their way in and b) there were zombies inside anyway. She ended up making heroic last stand in the warehouse, fling a molotov and burning the horde as it took her down. Eight hours, and one dead zombie (while she herself was still alive) – now that’s what I call a win! XD
B) And then second, GrayStillPlays with Rob Master 3D – it’s shitty mobile game time again, and today’s offering was all about being a terrible, terrible thief. A thief with no respect for physics or logic. Completely break off your arm to steal jewels from a display? No problem, the arm will even do a little break dance. Test a guy’s shiny grill and necklace to see if they’re real diamonds? He won’t even react when you put the fakes in the crusher. Outrun a dog by knocking over everything in a variety of yards? Nobody cares, or at least nobody cares where you can see! Bending your body into impossible shapes to avoid the laser grids protecting the vaults? Better than being electrocuted by them! Escape from prison by walking the shape of a – certain body part – to get the key and avoid the guards? . . .Gray himself admits he’s kind of childish. XD Good silly fun, made even better by Gray being Gray.
C) And finally, just because it popped up in my Recommendeds, a video from FakeGamerGirl, a SimsTuber, that pretended for five seconds to be a serious open letter to the Sims Team – and then promptly devolved into her demanding werewolves. XD I mean, fair, we have vampires, we should also have werewolves. I’m all for more occults! (Just do them right, Vampires style – we do not need another lackluster mermaid-style occult. . .)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A today, given I already have my posts for this week more or less sorted. . .but I did send out a couple more asks about gift fics to some tumblr friends, so that’s good too! Got one that’s just “have it relate to our current thing,” other is awaiting an answer, but things are coming along with that. :)
So yeah -- not impressed with work, but got some good stuff done this afternoon, so. . .could have been worse! Of course, now we have to see how the rest of the week is going to go. . . Fingers crossed we don't plunge into clusterfuck territory. *sigh* Night all!
