Somewhat Calmer Tuesday
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crossover_chickAs evidenced by my to-do list:
Work – Better than yesterday, by virtue of being quieter – I spent a good portion of the day doing obituaries and duplicates. Though I did manage to stumble upon some more credit card nonsense, which was – fun. *sigh* Never ends, I swear. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another day on the bike, another chunk of the Oxventure “Brawl of the Wild!” Prudence went full Agonizing Blast on the boar attacking them, and basically bisected the damn thing. Merilwen wasn’t happy, but the gang managed to somewhat placate her by saying they’d at least use it as bait for new animals. Dob took a moment to heal Egbert practically back up to full as well – and just in time too, as the smell of a boar murdered by Agonizing Blast got the attention of, as Johnny called it, “a tornado of squirrels,” who descended up on the corpse to rip it to shreds. Corazon, still somewhat high, cast Grease underneath them to make the squirrelnado fall apart, sending squirrels flying – Corazon stuffed a few in his bedroll, while Egbert tried to coolly grab one out of the air and instead got smacked in the face for two damage. XD Still, this gave them living specimens to bring back to the Professor, so back they trotted with the squirrels – the Professor started examining them, though they ended up throwing one at Corazon once he got too annoying. XD Dob healed him up with a quick song, causing the Professor to remark (translated by Yetta, shortly before she left the campaign because her “jet lag” joke was over with) that he reminded them of somebody –
Or, rather, that he reminded her of somebody. And then off came the hat, and – in a twist I already knew about because I happen to have seen this particular moment on a best-of list of the Oxventures – it was Dob’s missing sister, Suzette. :D She and Dob had a very heartfelt reunion and she explained that she’d gone around for AGES looking for help after he contracted rabies, but nobody wanted to lend any aid, so she went home to try and be with him at the end. . .only to find the place empty. She’d assumed he’d gone off and died somewhere, and decided to try and find a cure for rabies so no one would have to go through what she went through.
. . .she was absolutely baffled to discover her little brother was FINE. Dob, ever the helpful sort, gave her a bunch of his blood to study (via the medium of a dice roll XD), which she ended up turning into possibly-cure-possibly-disease syringes to use against the animals. XD Anyway, she’d determined the green foaming thing was the result of something contaminating the main water source in the forest, and so the gang, plus Suzette, trooped off into the forest to find the source. They came across the river after a few hours’ wandering, and Corazon basically invented the pedalo boat to sail up it. And insisted one looked like a swan with his face. Merilwen promptly named the boats “Coraswans” and got Inspiration forever. XD Anyway, the gang split up between the two Coraswans Corazon made – Dob, Suzette, and Merilwen in one, Corazon, Prudence, and Egbert in another. They started up the river, tracing a disturbing green sheen in the water (and no, it was NOT St. Patrick’s Day) –
And then Johnny set CROCODILES on them! Dob and his companions rolled high enough to keep ahead of the teeth, but Corazon, Prudence, and Egbert are being menaced – and Corazon is already talking about throwing Egbert over. XD Oh, I can’t wait to see where this one is going. . .
2. Keep editing gift fics: Check – got through my friend SmallLady’s today, featuring a couple of her characters, Hartley and Jerrie (I believe at least the former is from The Flash TV series – an adaptation of one of the villains). I know them best in their Secundus forms (where Jerrie is an ocean-based mad scientist and Hartley an engineer, and they tool around in a recreation of the Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea), so I basically wrote a follow-up to one of our current threads, with them talking about Hartley’s crush on Victor. I’m hopeful she’ll like it! :) Just two more to go!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions and the OXBox Xmas Challenge: Check – two in the Subs, and a relatively short OXBox video made this pretty easy –
A) First up, Day Two of the OXBox Xmas Challenge – Andy’s turn today, with the “Unpacking Tidy Your Room Challenge!” Basically, in the game Unpacking, Andy had to unpack and tidy the child’s room (aka do the first level without the game telling him “this is in the wrong place”) in under 90 seconds! But he did get three attempts!
Three attempts did not help him. He did get FASTER every time, as he learned which things were desk things, which were side table things, which were bookshelf things, etc. But the time pressure combined with the fact that he was using an XBox controller (because they’re being sponsored by Duracell this year and all games must be played with the same controller so they can keep checking the battery life and show off how long it’s lasting) on a game that really should be played with a mouse meant that he kept panic-throwing things in the wrong spot, and could never actually keep a groove long enough to fully unpack all three boxes and get the room looking like it should. So no point for Andy. Man, tough start to the Challenges this year! Hopefully Jane can do better tomorrow. . .
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and more Project Zomboid, where he decided to try and make himself in the game and see how long he lasted! He made himself “unemployed” as “YouTuber” wasn’t an option, gave himself an interesting mix of traits (e.g., “High Thirst” and “Restless Sleeper” on the negative side, “Fast Reader” and “Lucky” on the positive – he IS Irish!), and started on his journey!
Which saw him spawn into a small house with the damn TV blaring and the only weapon a butter knife. XD Yeah, the, uh, “Lucky” trait didn’t exactly pull its weight during this episode – poor Kevin was reduced to beating up zombies with cookware as he traveled from house to house, trying desperately to find supplies and a nice safe place to rest. He did find some nice jewelry on the way, though, plus a good dust mask – gotta be safe! Plus food, tools, and enough orange soda to even quench his mighty thirst. Honestly, his undoing in the end was insisting on leaving his pretty safe house while utterly exhausted to find curtains for the windows, after basically luring all the local zombies into one or two giant hordes to try to make getting around them easier. He survived for just under a day (23 hours), and killed eleven zombies – the majority of which were female, to his own horror. XD He tried again with Kevin But With Just A Mustache, who picked up a sweet balaclava and managed to sneak up and kill Zombie Jim Pickens and grab his backpack. . .but his desire to be the one to kill his previous zombified self got the better of him, and he ended up going down to the hoard before he could murder Past!Kevin. The third attempt was basically him just running over one of his previous selves with a van because he could, then dying to the ginormous hoard summoned by the horn. XD Well, at least now we know where Kevin will be once the zombie apocalypse starts! (The answer is under a van.)
C) And then we had GrayStillPlays and more GTA V – back to the parkour boards today, with a road that just goes STRAIGHT THROUGH THE DAMN PLANET. The story was that Gray was returning to Florida after vacationing in Australia, and taking the most DIRECT route. XD This involved a long drive down from the sky with a jump-boost right in the middle; a series of carefully-timed jumps atop of knockoff Pringles cans in the middle of the ocean, with shrinking platforms and a thumbnail hole to end; a super-long boost jump where he had to somehow launch himself through TWENTY BOOSTS in a ROW (the last ten spaced out farther) in order to reach the core; a painful wall ride with all sorts of rocks to dodge to launch himself INTO and across the core (and as he found out, you couldn’t just go INSIDE the core and then drive to the next target, you HAD to fly); and then a trip up the “totally not a dick” Cheez-Doodle tube to launch himself back out of the earth into Florida (aka Painful Boost Jump #2). Gray SUFFERED on this one, let me tell you – every jump was a teeth-clencher as they all basically required precision the poor bastard did NOT have. XD But he made it to the end, and back home to Florida! Where he promptly crashed into a billboard. XD Ah, home sweet home. . .
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got my Chill Save posts and the posts I have planned for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday into the queue on Victor Luvs Alice (though I do have to remind myself to turn the queue speed back from two to one tomorrow)! And on Valice Multiverse, three ask replies, so not bad.
At least my evenings are going well! I can only hope that trend continues. . .fingers crossed! As it stands, though, I do need to get my ass to bed. Three more days in this week! Night all!
Work – Better than yesterday, by virtue of being quieter – I spent a good portion of the day doing obituaries and duplicates. Though I did manage to stumble upon some more credit card nonsense, which was – fun. *sigh* Never ends, I swear. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another day on the bike, another chunk of the Oxventure “Brawl of the Wild!” Prudence went full Agonizing Blast on the boar attacking them, and basically bisected the damn thing. Merilwen wasn’t happy, but the gang managed to somewhat placate her by saying they’d at least use it as bait for new animals. Dob took a moment to heal Egbert practically back up to full as well – and just in time too, as the smell of a boar murdered by Agonizing Blast got the attention of, as Johnny called it, “a tornado of squirrels,” who descended up on the corpse to rip it to shreds. Corazon, still somewhat high, cast Grease underneath them to make the squirrelnado fall apart, sending squirrels flying – Corazon stuffed a few in his bedroll, while Egbert tried to coolly grab one out of the air and instead got smacked in the face for two damage. XD Still, this gave them living specimens to bring back to the Professor, so back they trotted with the squirrels – the Professor started examining them, though they ended up throwing one at Corazon once he got too annoying. XD Dob healed him up with a quick song, causing the Professor to remark (translated by Yetta, shortly before she left the campaign because her “jet lag” joke was over with) that he reminded them of somebody –
Or, rather, that he reminded her of somebody. And then off came the hat, and – in a twist I already knew about because I happen to have seen this particular moment on a best-of list of the Oxventures – it was Dob’s missing sister, Suzette. :D She and Dob had a very heartfelt reunion and she explained that she’d gone around for AGES looking for help after he contracted rabies, but nobody wanted to lend any aid, so she went home to try and be with him at the end. . .only to find the place empty. She’d assumed he’d gone off and died somewhere, and decided to try and find a cure for rabies so no one would have to go through what she went through.
. . .she was absolutely baffled to discover her little brother was FINE. Dob, ever the helpful sort, gave her a bunch of his blood to study (via the medium of a dice roll XD), which she ended up turning into possibly-cure-possibly-disease syringes to use against the animals. XD Anyway, she’d determined the green foaming thing was the result of something contaminating the main water source in the forest, and so the gang, plus Suzette, trooped off into the forest to find the source. They came across the river after a few hours’ wandering, and Corazon basically invented the pedalo boat to sail up it. And insisted one looked like a swan with his face. Merilwen promptly named the boats “Coraswans” and got Inspiration forever. XD Anyway, the gang split up between the two Coraswans Corazon made – Dob, Suzette, and Merilwen in one, Corazon, Prudence, and Egbert in another. They started up the river, tracing a disturbing green sheen in the water (and no, it was NOT St. Patrick’s Day) –
And then Johnny set CROCODILES on them! Dob and his companions rolled high enough to keep ahead of the teeth, but Corazon, Prudence, and Egbert are being menaced – and Corazon is already talking about throwing Egbert over. XD Oh, I can’t wait to see where this one is going. . .
2. Keep editing gift fics: Check – got through my friend SmallLady’s today, featuring a couple of her characters, Hartley and Jerrie (I believe at least the former is from The Flash TV series – an adaptation of one of the villains). I know them best in their Secundus forms (where Jerrie is an ocean-based mad scientist and Hartley an engineer, and they tool around in a recreation of the Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea), so I basically wrote a follow-up to one of our current threads, with them talking about Hartley’s crush on Victor. I’m hopeful she’ll like it! :) Just two more to go!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions and the OXBox Xmas Challenge: Check – two in the Subs, and a relatively short OXBox video made this pretty easy –
A) First up, Day Two of the OXBox Xmas Challenge – Andy’s turn today, with the “Unpacking Tidy Your Room Challenge!” Basically, in the game Unpacking, Andy had to unpack and tidy the child’s room (aka do the first level without the game telling him “this is in the wrong place”) in under 90 seconds! But he did get three attempts!
Three attempts did not help him. He did get FASTER every time, as he learned which things were desk things, which were side table things, which were bookshelf things, etc. But the time pressure combined with the fact that he was using an XBox controller (because they’re being sponsored by Duracell this year and all games must be played with the same controller so they can keep checking the battery life and show off how long it’s lasting) on a game that really should be played with a mouse meant that he kept panic-throwing things in the wrong spot, and could never actually keep a groove long enough to fully unpack all three boxes and get the room looking like it should. So no point for Andy. Man, tough start to the Challenges this year! Hopefully Jane can do better tomorrow. . .
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and more Project Zomboid, where he decided to try and make himself in the game and see how long he lasted! He made himself “unemployed” as “YouTuber” wasn’t an option, gave himself an interesting mix of traits (e.g., “High Thirst” and “Restless Sleeper” on the negative side, “Fast Reader” and “Lucky” on the positive – he IS Irish!), and started on his journey!
Which saw him spawn into a small house with the damn TV blaring and the only weapon a butter knife. XD Yeah, the, uh, “Lucky” trait didn’t exactly pull its weight during this episode – poor Kevin was reduced to beating up zombies with cookware as he traveled from house to house, trying desperately to find supplies and a nice safe place to rest. He did find some nice jewelry on the way, though, plus a good dust mask – gotta be safe! Plus food, tools, and enough orange soda to even quench his mighty thirst. Honestly, his undoing in the end was insisting on leaving his pretty safe house while utterly exhausted to find curtains for the windows, after basically luring all the local zombies into one or two giant hordes to try to make getting around them easier. He survived for just under a day (23 hours), and killed eleven zombies – the majority of which were female, to his own horror. XD He tried again with Kevin But With Just A Mustache, who picked up a sweet balaclava and managed to sneak up and kill Zombie Jim Pickens and grab his backpack. . .but his desire to be the one to kill his previous zombified self got the better of him, and he ended up going down to the hoard before he could murder Past!Kevin. The third attempt was basically him just running over one of his previous selves with a van because he could, then dying to the ginormous hoard summoned by the horn. XD Well, at least now we know where Kevin will be once the zombie apocalypse starts! (The answer is under a van.)
C) And then we had GrayStillPlays and more GTA V – back to the parkour boards today, with a road that just goes STRAIGHT THROUGH THE DAMN PLANET. The story was that Gray was returning to Florida after vacationing in Australia, and taking the most DIRECT route. XD This involved a long drive down from the sky with a jump-boost right in the middle; a series of carefully-timed jumps atop of knockoff Pringles cans in the middle of the ocean, with shrinking platforms and a thumbnail hole to end; a super-long boost jump where he had to somehow launch himself through TWENTY BOOSTS in a ROW (the last ten spaced out farther) in order to reach the core; a painful wall ride with all sorts of rocks to dodge to launch himself INTO and across the core (and as he found out, you couldn’t just go INSIDE the core and then drive to the next target, you HAD to fly); and then a trip up the “totally not a dick” Cheez-Doodle tube to launch himself back out of the earth into Florida (aka Painful Boost Jump #2). Gray SUFFERED on this one, let me tell you – every jump was a teeth-clencher as they all basically required precision the poor bastard did NOT have. XD But he made it to the end, and back home to Florida! Where he promptly crashed into a billboard. XD Ah, home sweet home. . .
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got my Chill Save posts and the posts I have planned for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday into the queue on Victor Luvs Alice (though I do have to remind myself to turn the queue speed back from two to one tomorrow)! And on Valice Multiverse, three ask replies, so not bad.
At least my evenings are going well! I can only hope that trend continues. . .fingers crossed! As it stands, though, I do need to get my ass to bed. Three more days in this week! Night all!
