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Sunnier than yesterday, which was nice. :) And I spent most of it just hanging around, catching up on tumblr stuff and otherwise just relaxing. Yay for having some time to myself to just chill. :D And even with that, I got my to-do list all sorted:

1. Either draft out another gift fic or have a Free Writing Day: Again, check to the first – trying to keep up my momentum here! This is the one featuring the prompt one of my tumblr friends gave me yesterday, for two of her characters in their Secundus forms – I’ve done a short fic post our current thread that I hope she will find to her liking! AND I’ve got another prompt now from my last tumblr friend (the other one that I RP with the most), so that’s great! :) Now I just have to get my final prompt from my friend that I talk to on FF.net. . .though judging by when she’s been answering PMs, might not get that until later in the week. *shrug* Still, off to a good start this holiday season! Just hope edits go as well. . .

2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and Jon's final FO4 YOLO episode (the epi-yolo-gue, if you will): Check! Very simple today, with two in the Subs and the YOLO in the WL when it popped up. (Yes, I was reading TV Tropes again for most of the day; how could you tell?) But that doesn’t mean the videos weren’t good –

A) Started post-gaming with the return of Call Me Kevin and Chulip, a Japanese game that – is a bit weird. As in your character, the “Poor Boy” is on a quest to kiss one of the local girls in the new town he just moved into, but to do that, he has to kiss a bunch of OTHER people first. Most of which who, naturally, will react violently to being kissed without permission. The boy (named “Oooohhhh…” in Kevin’s save) receives kissing lessons from a strange little orb-man who lives in a sewer, and his father tracks his progress and is disappointed if he doesn’t kiss anyone. There’s also, at least to start, a problem with a giant rock being stuck on the train tracks, which is resolved when a telephone pole man who is also a teacher, leaving the town because the orb-man refuses to pay his salary at the school (a legitimate grievance, as Kevin said) kicks it out of the way after stealing the love letter set Oooohhhh… needs to write the perfect love letter for his new crush (named a bunch of PS2 symbols XD). And also, a good way to kiss people without getting smacked is to kiss them when they’re a) asleep or b) stuck in another animation. Yeaaah, it’s – something. XD The comments say it’s a surprisingly good if very weird game (apparently the translation from Japanese to English means it kind of loses something), so we’ll see if he plays any more of it in the future! :)

B) And then, after supper, we had GrayStillPlays and the return of Solar Smash! Mostly because he and a friend made “SolarHax,” a widget that allows Gray to play around with pretty much every variable in the game to do ridiculous things. XD Today’s ridiculous thing was figuring out how to properly “Thanos Snap” the earth via the power of small meteor crashing into it (as he put it, “threading the needle”). Much was made of adjusting amplitude and speed – ESPECIALLY speed, as it turns out going too fast will just vaporize the Earth before you even have a chance to blink. XD After some extra testing on Saturn (figuring out how fast to go to leave just a few tiny chunks left. . .chunks that still have the ability to completely fuck up any spare Earths you throw at them), he found a good baseline number for the slow, gradual vaporization he wanted. . .though it still needed a little fine-tuning, as of course Earth is a rocky planet as opposed to Saturn’s gas giant, and a bit more speed was needed to get the proper “snap.” But he managed it in the end, with a speed of 160 and an amplitude of about a gajillion. XD No rookie numbers shall stay while GRAY is around!

C) And then, finally, with dessert, we had the EpiYOLOgue of Jon’s Fallout 4 YOLO series! As he said last week, technically he won the challenge by completing the main quest of FO4 with the Minutemen – but as you can do one final quest to take out the Brotherhood with said Minutemen after the end credits roll, Jon decided he wasn’t TRULY done until Finalley blew the Prydwen out of the sky, and defended the Castle from the remaining Brotherhood soldiers! This, of course, required shoring up the defenses of the Castle even further – aka, time to build more missile turrets! This is how that went:

I. Acquiring oil: This was simple – a quick trip over to Goodneighbor to talk with KLE0 and get a shipment of oil from her, because she’s a great shipment merchant.

II. Acquiring screws: This was – more complex on accident. Mostly because Jon forgot that, the next time you visit Diamond City after defeating the Institute, it turns out the mayor’s flipped out, shot Danny, and has taken his secretary hostage. Jon considered walking away, but the game giving him a quest to complete made him go “oh, all right.” Finalley had one of her “good person” moments by giving Danny a stimpack (as Jon said, it’s only FINALLEY who’s going by the YOLO rules), then went up and killed Mayor McDonough with her Gauss rifle because sometimes he bugs out and is just super-hostile without warning. This time, he wasn’t even standing behind Geneva to threaten her, so – that was nice? AND he had .308 ammo on him, bonus! :D Anyway, with that sorted, Finalley grabbed her screws from Arturo, trading him a load of junk in the process.

III. Getting to the Castle: After gathering up all her supplies for missile turrets and generators, Finalley set out for the Castle. A trip that saw her encounter a Nuka-World raider (a named one too, which Jon wasn’t expecting), and two glowing Yao-Guais attacking a Minutemen checkpoint. All of whom Finalley helped defeat WHILE STILL IN HER CHARISMA GEAR. Jon was furious with himself. XD He really never learns.

IV. Prepping the Castle: After slapping her armor back on, Finalley made it to the Castle without further incident, and began setting up missile turrets in strategic locations to take out the vertibirds that would inevitably descend on the Castle upon the start of hostilities. This involved, in two cases, putting a bunch on some weird platforms floating at the top of some unsupported stairs. XD Gotta love building in this game! She also made herself a nicer platform with railings that she could shoot from should the mood take her.

V. Starting the quest: . . .and then Jon discovered that, no, you could not just suggest to Preston that the Minutemen destroy the Brotherhood, as not only was he not yet hostile to the Brotherhood, Preston was still stuck in his final dialogue after the fall of the Institute (asking about the evacuation order Finalley didn’t issue). Problem. Fortunately, it had a relatively easy solution – have Finalley swim across the bay to the airport, and try to find a named character to murder. Ingram (whom Jon kept calling Teagan) wasn’t around, so Finalley settled for Knight Lucia, one of the stars of the quest about why the food keeps disappearing. She shot her with the Gauss rifle, then fled out the back door and into the water to swim back to the Castle. With THAT done, Preston was willing to open up hostilities with the BOS, and Finalley was able to order the artillery fire on the Prydwen to bring it down in flames.

VI. Finishing the quest: Of course, with the Prydwen down, that meant in came the vertibirds of the survivors! And, as you might expect, Finalley spent quite a lot of her time “defending the castle” hiding out in her “coward hole,” as vertibirds tend to crash toward the player and Jon wasn’t taking any chances. She DID get out and take down a few birds with a couple of well-placed shots, but she also took one final hit in the process. A fair trade, perhaps. At any rate, the battle was won after a few heart-stopping moments and the launching of one final Brotherhood Knight into the sky via Gauss rifle shot. XD Finalley reported to Preston, and with that –

It was over. FO4 YOLO is completely done, in 92 in-game days (it was 1/23/2288 according to her Pip-Boy) with Finalley at roughly 40% health (and with quite a few new scars) by the end. Jon treated us to a montage of all the times Finalley took damage and rads (including, of course, the Greatest Hit by that one Painted Ghoul) as Finalley returned to Hangman’s Alley, then happily mocked himself by pointing out the noodle cups and Nuka-Frees he’d neglected all throughout the run despite their amazing abilities to feed and hydrate Finalley very efficiently. XD But yeah, Finalley now gets to retire, and Jon gets the pleasure of knowing he successfully finished YOLO, and all four main faction endings in the game (for reference – his very first character, Miss Jon, went Institute; his No Guns/Very Hard Difficulty character, Bacon, went Railroad; his Survival character, Grills Bears, went Brotherhood of Steel; and now Finalley has gone Minutemen). But this is apparently not the end of FO4 on the channel, as he apparently has essays and mods and more fun stuff to show off. So while YOLO Sundays are no longer a thing, looks like FO4 Sundays still are. :) I’m game.

D) Oh, and one silly clip that has keep popping up in my Recommendeds – someone giving a Mama Murphy who’s been put at the very top of a tall platform enough chems to kill herself, and watching as she topples out of her chair and falls dramatically to the earth below. XD Look, since I’m not gonna do it, I gotta get my “evil player” jollies online, okay? XD

3. Play Fallout 4 and brave Concord at last: Check – and halle-fricking-lujah, IT DIDN’T CRASH. I was SO nervous passing that damn sign, but I did it, and the game didn’t fucking crash! :D Very solid play session too – not only did I do better against those damn Bloodbug Hatchlings feeding on the brahmin corpse than I usually do (got lucky on some VATS shots), but I did pretty good against all the raiders in and around the Museum of Freedom too! Upgrading the 10mm to Advanced Powerful seems to have been a very good call. :D I did die once to the Deathclaw in the fight post-clearing out the museum, but I attribute that to not watching my health and descending from the museum’s roof too early the first time. I was a little smarter the second time and used the laser musket to snipe a lot of the raiders from above, before descending and killing the Deathclaw. (Attempted to lure it into a trap by blowing up a nearby car, but that didn’t work – fortunately, getting into Preston’s line of fire and weaving like crazy did). Nearly had an embarrassing moment when Victor needed to use the toilet but needed to kick his port-o-potty into the right configuration to use it, but he persevered and didn’t end up pooping on the pavement. XD Have saved it after doing some looting, right before going in to meet up with Preston and his gang again and escort them to Sanctuary – poor Victor’s basically running off old Nuka-Cola for the caffeine right now. XD I’m not TOTALLY convinced this thing isn’t gonna boot me back to desktop the next time I play, but getting to Concord without issue is a pretty good sign, as far as I’m concerned. :)

4. Work on tumblr queues: Check – two ask replies slotted into Valice Multiverse’s queue for tomorrow, and I just managed to complete getting my pictures sorted and a draft of this week’s Chill Save post for Victor Luvs Alice now! :D Hooray for that.

5. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike today, and back to Oxventure “A Fishmas Carol!” After Dob remembered he couldn’t actually understand what the Chul crab-man was saying to Prudence and backed off with the pissy comments, the Chul told her just what had been stolen – a massive pearl, about eight nights ago. They’d had a party, security was a bit lax, you know the deal. Corazon immediately shook awake poor Alfred to demand he tell them all he know about the pearl – a baffled Alfred said he hadn’t heard of any giant pearls appearing in town, but suggested they go check out the local disreputable taverns, pawn shops, and – most notably – a thieves’ market in the sewers. Everyone agreed the market was probably their best bet to start (especially since Corazon was insistent he could find his way there, being a pirate and all), and Prudence asked the Chul to give them twenty-four hours to track it down, which it agreed to (along with Corazon insisting on no more kidnappings during that time period). He even offered them a fish-person who could tag along and help – Dob was all for this, and so Iron, the baffled fish-man, joined the party. Alfred was a little snippy about sharing his papoose with Iron until Dob basically said “fine, go back to the tavern, we don’t need you.” XD And so the gang descended into the sewers, where – Corazon rolled poorly and couldn’t find any thieves’ signs telling them where to go. XD Fortunately, Iron was able to (via Luke’s pleading (referencing sharks) and Johnny’s coin flip) “pick up the scent” of human and lead them to the market, where they started inquiring about pearls. After some commotion where everyone was trying to get them to buy their massive “genuine” pearls, Corazon managed to crit a Charisma roll and embarrass a merchnt into giving them the name of someone with a GENUINE giant pearl – Katie Delacour! Who used to be a regular, but apparently hasn’t been seen recently – she does drink at the Twisted Harpoon, though. Corazon thanked him and agreed to buy a watch for his trouble. And then Egbert suggested buying a FAKE pearl in case they wanted to do a switcheroo double-cross – which got the merchants flinging pearls at them again. Literally this time. XD Dob got Iron to pick out the one that looked the most like the actual artifact, massively overpaid for it with two gold bars, and got a thief who very much hoped to retire chased by his fellow merchants with cudgels, so the group made a hasty exit to the surface to visit the Twisted Harpoon (Dob cleaning them all of sewer smell and replacing it with a festive gingerbready scent). Corazon managed to find Katie (a woman getting very drunk with a wineskin) and lied that he was “Ron Pearlman,” looking for fresh pearl wares. I left it off with the others having joined the negotiation, and Katie saying she isn’t parting with her giant pearl for less than 18 gold bars – and Dob producing one and getting her to gnaw on it because tropes. XD They’re currently trying to claim the rest are in the “wagon” outside, and I’m curious to see where this is going. . .

Additionally:

-->Answered my friend’s FF.net PM, now that FF.net is sending me e-mails about those again. And yes, asked her what prompts she had in mind for gift fic. :p Now we play the waiting game! And hope I am e-mailed again when she replies.

So yay for chill AND productivity! Though less ya for getting this done kinda late. ^^; Time to hit the sheets! At least I only have two days before another day off. . .and possibly more, depending on how a winter storm may be coming in. . .
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