Oh Look, A Bloody Wednesday
Dec. 15th, 2021 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickAKA, I got my period JUST before going to bed last night. *sigh* I mean, I'm glad it showed up BEFORE I went to bed so I didn't soil my pajamas or my sheets or anything, but -- ugh. At least this means PMS twitchiness is over with! Now I just have to get through period tiredness and moodiness. . .
Well, on the plus side, the day itself was decently okay:
Work – All right – it looks like some of the credit card stuff IS getting fixed, for a change, and most of the day was just obits and whatnot. Though my lunch break got interrupted by some stuff, which annoyed me. On the flip side, though, we were allowed to leave early – building closed early to allow whoever was going to the holiday party enough time to get there, and my boss okayed me and my coworker going too. Yay for that then.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another day on the bike, another chunk of the Oxventure “Brawl of the Wild!” Though I ended up watching the last ten minutes before doing writing things, because I wanted to wrap it up today but ran out of time during my workout. . .anyway, Egbert avoided getting thrown overboard by Corazon and Prudence by using his flame breath like a jet engine to send the Coraswan pedalo FLYING ahead of the crocodiles pursuing them. XD Who then attempted to turn on Dob and company, only to get Thunderwaved. XD Dob rolled high enough to basically EXPLODE two of the crocodiles, and the sole remaining one decided to go for the easy meal (as did a bunch of squirrels). XD
Free of crocodilian fear, the gang managed to pedal their way up the river to a large pool, fed by a tiny stream – which seemed to be coming from a cave. After finding and disarming a super-obvious trap, Corazon (who had made the unwise decision, when hungry, to eat a few more berries) “stealthed” into the cave to find a bunch of kobolds inside, making moonshine with a still – which happened to be leaking the toxic green stuff into the water. So the real enemy was POLLUTION! *shakes fist* Corazon, sobering up quickly as he realized he’d attracted a lot of attention to himself with his “stealthing,” promptly claimed to be a “still inspector” – and thanks to blasting his Charisma roll out of the park, coupled with kobolds being traditionally a bit dim, he was able to convince them of that and stall for time as his friends crept up behind them. Merilwen decided that kobolds didn’t count as animal friends and promptly used her Create/Destroy Water spell to evaporate all the water out of their still, leaving SEVERELY-concentrated moonshine. As Johnny put it, this would make your grandparents go blind. Merilwen’s intention was to make the still extra-flammable for an Eldritch Blast, but Egbert jumped in by saying he wanted to DUNK A BOMB INTO THE STILL NBA JAM STYLE. And then ROLLED A 19, WHICH RESULTED IN A 23 ONCE HE ADDED HIS MODIFIER. Corazon smashed another Charisma check to get the kobolds to all stand around the still while he fucking SPRINTED out of there, and Egbert did some VERY impressive flips before smashing the backboard and slamming the bomb in there. He had just enough time to fistbump the impressed kobolds before the damn thing exploded. XD And then we got an accidental sweet friendship moment as Prudence – who, as a tiefling, is fireproof – actually threw herself in front of Merilwen and Dob to protect them from the blast. And then quickly had to justify it (with help from the audience, no less) as “they have nice stuff I don’t want burning!” XD Admit you have friends, Prudence! And then Corazon was nice enough to Minor Illusion some eyebrows back onto Dob when they were burned off by the explosion. XD Oh, this gang. . . Anyway, still blown up, kobolds VERY dead, and without either, Johnny promised us the water would eventually clear up and the animals would be okay again! Though, ah, first they have to get through the brief but significant period where everything gets worse because of the extra crap in the water. And also all the animals are now blind because of that super-concentrated moonshine. XD Merilwen left a secret message to warn her fellow druids (though she DEFINITELY made it sound like they found out about the explosion AFTER the fact), and the gang started heading out of the woods, with Dob sharing a sweet song with his sister. Two, in fact – he started with “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” but obviously, since it’s THEIR song, he transitioned into “Vengabus.” XD Oh man, I really love this lot. XD
2. Keep editing gift fics: Check – took care of Marie’s today, who asked for some Alice fluff with her Valice-daughter OC Madeline after the latter was just born, aww. I came up with Alice having a “conversation” with her baby, telling her about all the good things in the world, and – I think it’ll do the job. Even if I couldn’t resist ending on a funny “babies have a surprisingly strong grip” note. XD
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions and the OXBox Xmas Challenge: Check – Kevin once again didn’t upload today due to not feeling well, and was discussing on his Twitter about maybe taking Wednesdays off – I say good for him, everyone deserves a day off. That combined with getting home a bit early meant keeping up on the rest was no problem –
A) Started early with Day 3 of the OXBox Xmas Challenge – and look at that, Jane’s got the annual FIFA Giant-Killer Challenge! As she pretty much always does (for four years in a row, in fact!). The challenge is “beat a premiere league team with a league 2 team in FIFA 22” – basically, Jane had to beat one of the best-of-the-best soccer teams with a not-so-good soccer team. Jane chose to go with the Bradford City Banthams (with a chicken mascot) versus the Brentford Football Club (with a bee mascot) as the most even match-up, and play commenced!
Play was – very violent. Jane was a big fan of doing horrible things to the other players, to the point where Andy and Mike were joking that she was caving in rib cages and the like. It was only through the grace of beginner mode that she wasn’t being constantly red carded! XD She also spent most of the game not actually knowing what the “shoot” button was – Mike was certain it was X, as he played it, but it turned out it was B. *shrug* Got me! But Jane did good despite this handicap, managing to score two goals before halftime, and preventing Brentford from ever scoring at all. So the game ended 2-0, and Jane ended the challenge with the first of the Christmas points! :D Yay, somebody’s on the board at last! Now Mike just has to start catching up with his second challenge tomorrow. . .
B) Then, after supper, it was over to the Subs for a bit of James Turner! Building a concrete house to show how concrete could look good, at least in Sims 4. XD Well, okay, that wasn’t ORIGINALLY his aim – he just wanted to do a contemporary build with platforms and split-leveling and all that, and ended up throwing in the concrete siding when he realized his original wooden siding was making it look too similar to another house he’d done for Snowy Escape. But it turned out pretty nice in the end – it’s a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house, with a raised kitchen and most of the color coming from the floorboards and his beloved plants. XD And he put a nice carport out the front too. He had to take away a wall from under the stairs when it turned out his tester Sim couldn’t get through the archway beneath it to get to the bathroom, but eh, what can you do. It looks really nice, if a touch colorless, but hey – we already knew he loved black and white, soooo. . . XD
C) Then it was time for GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Started off with the usual bonkers bottle flip (Gray partially penetrated the fire lord, went both in and on top of the rainbow slide, and actually had to STOP RECORDING and instead rely on a save-replay to show off him finally finding a way onto the “Gray Will Find A Way” platform), then progressed to the sled ride of ultimate doom (if you didn’t distribute your weight JUST RIGHT, you were going to fly off and get murdered before landing on the North Pole with Santa and a million watermelons); a shockingly speedy bottle run (where Tom got yeeted to the end platform while Gray just flew over the rest of the obstacles past the initial run); an extremely deadly rope swing – just one very stiff rope, but TEN MILLION HOMING MINES (plus harpoons and land mines – Gray SOMEHOW won, though, which I attribute to maybe one toe brushing the winning area before he got exploded XD); a ride through a Final Destination level (dodging falling vans, exploding rebar, and flying over collapsing lamp posts before hitting the win – and being leveled by spikes fired from a cannon); a Tarzan swing (two vines over water with depressed piranha – harder than it looks with the way HW characters move); a “Spleens” run (full of exploding cat faces – but they were kind enough to let Gray win when he passed the winning flag in pieces); and an assault on the red stick figure fortress to rescue Gray’s significant other (with a surprisingly effective jump scare of a red stick figure leaping at you from a high platform, surprise harpoons that go STRAIGHT into a spike run, and then more sticks with sharp things – Gray ended up with a LOT of swords up the groin). Always good to see a few boards that really test his stamina. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue back to one, as I reminded myself yesterday, AND got some quick notes for another potential “Fallout of Darkness” post covering pet ideas for that Victor and Alice in the drafts. So that’s good!
Yeah, not too shabby. And now I must go and get some sleep, for the red curse demands it. Ugh, two more days at work with it too. . .well, I've survived this before, I can do so again. Night all!
Well, on the plus side, the day itself was decently okay:
Work – All right – it looks like some of the credit card stuff IS getting fixed, for a change, and most of the day was just obits and whatnot. Though my lunch break got interrupted by some stuff, which annoyed me. On the flip side, though, we were allowed to leave early – building closed early to allow whoever was going to the holiday party enough time to get there, and my boss okayed me and my coworker going too. Yay for that then.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another day on the bike, another chunk of the Oxventure “Brawl of the Wild!” Though I ended up watching the last ten minutes before doing writing things, because I wanted to wrap it up today but ran out of time during my workout. . .anyway, Egbert avoided getting thrown overboard by Corazon and Prudence by using his flame breath like a jet engine to send the Coraswan pedalo FLYING ahead of the crocodiles pursuing them. XD Who then attempted to turn on Dob and company, only to get Thunderwaved. XD Dob rolled high enough to basically EXPLODE two of the crocodiles, and the sole remaining one decided to go for the easy meal (as did a bunch of squirrels). XD
Free of crocodilian fear, the gang managed to pedal their way up the river to a large pool, fed by a tiny stream – which seemed to be coming from a cave. After finding and disarming a super-obvious trap, Corazon (who had made the unwise decision, when hungry, to eat a few more berries) “stealthed” into the cave to find a bunch of kobolds inside, making moonshine with a still – which happened to be leaking the toxic green stuff into the water. So the real enemy was POLLUTION! *shakes fist* Corazon, sobering up quickly as he realized he’d attracted a lot of attention to himself with his “stealthing,” promptly claimed to be a “still inspector” – and thanks to blasting his Charisma roll out of the park, coupled with kobolds being traditionally a bit dim, he was able to convince them of that and stall for time as his friends crept up behind them. Merilwen decided that kobolds didn’t count as animal friends and promptly used her Create/Destroy Water spell to evaporate all the water out of their still, leaving SEVERELY-concentrated moonshine. As Johnny put it, this would make your grandparents go blind. Merilwen’s intention was to make the still extra-flammable for an Eldritch Blast, but Egbert jumped in by saying he wanted to DUNK A BOMB INTO THE STILL NBA JAM STYLE. And then ROLLED A 19, WHICH RESULTED IN A 23 ONCE HE ADDED HIS MODIFIER. Corazon smashed another Charisma check to get the kobolds to all stand around the still while he fucking SPRINTED out of there, and Egbert did some VERY impressive flips before smashing the backboard and slamming the bomb in there. He had just enough time to fistbump the impressed kobolds before the damn thing exploded. XD And then we got an accidental sweet friendship moment as Prudence – who, as a tiefling, is fireproof – actually threw herself in front of Merilwen and Dob to protect them from the blast. And then quickly had to justify it (with help from the audience, no less) as “they have nice stuff I don’t want burning!” XD Admit you have friends, Prudence! And then Corazon was nice enough to Minor Illusion some eyebrows back onto Dob when they were burned off by the explosion. XD Oh, this gang. . . Anyway, still blown up, kobolds VERY dead, and without either, Johnny promised us the water would eventually clear up and the animals would be okay again! Though, ah, first they have to get through the brief but significant period where everything gets worse because of the extra crap in the water. And also all the animals are now blind because of that super-concentrated moonshine. XD Merilwen left a secret message to warn her fellow druids (though she DEFINITELY made it sound like they found out about the explosion AFTER the fact), and the gang started heading out of the woods, with Dob sharing a sweet song with his sister. Two, in fact – he started with “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” but obviously, since it’s THEIR song, he transitioned into “Vengabus.” XD Oh man, I really love this lot. XD
2. Keep editing gift fics: Check – took care of Marie’s today, who asked for some Alice fluff with her Valice-daughter OC Madeline after the latter was just born, aww. I came up with Alice having a “conversation” with her baby, telling her about all the good things in the world, and – I think it’ll do the job. Even if I couldn’t resist ending on a funny “babies have a surprisingly strong grip” note. XD
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions and the OXBox Xmas Challenge: Check – Kevin once again didn’t upload today due to not feeling well, and was discussing on his Twitter about maybe taking Wednesdays off – I say good for him, everyone deserves a day off. That combined with getting home a bit early meant keeping up on the rest was no problem –
A) Started early with Day 3 of the OXBox Xmas Challenge – and look at that, Jane’s got the annual FIFA Giant-Killer Challenge! As she pretty much always does (for four years in a row, in fact!). The challenge is “beat a premiere league team with a league 2 team in FIFA 22” – basically, Jane had to beat one of the best-of-the-best soccer teams with a not-so-good soccer team. Jane chose to go with the Bradford City Banthams (with a chicken mascot) versus the Brentford Football Club (with a bee mascot) as the most even match-up, and play commenced!
Play was – very violent. Jane was a big fan of doing horrible things to the other players, to the point where Andy and Mike were joking that she was caving in rib cages and the like. It was only through the grace of beginner mode that she wasn’t being constantly red carded! XD She also spent most of the game not actually knowing what the “shoot” button was – Mike was certain it was X, as he played it, but it turned out it was B. *shrug* Got me! But Jane did good despite this handicap, managing to score two goals before halftime, and preventing Brentford from ever scoring at all. So the game ended 2-0, and Jane ended the challenge with the first of the Christmas points! :D Yay, somebody’s on the board at last! Now Mike just has to start catching up with his second challenge tomorrow. . .
B) Then, after supper, it was over to the Subs for a bit of James Turner! Building a concrete house to show how concrete could look good, at least in Sims 4. XD Well, okay, that wasn’t ORIGINALLY his aim – he just wanted to do a contemporary build with platforms and split-leveling and all that, and ended up throwing in the concrete siding when he realized his original wooden siding was making it look too similar to another house he’d done for Snowy Escape. But it turned out pretty nice in the end – it’s a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house, with a raised kitchen and most of the color coming from the floorboards and his beloved plants. XD And he put a nice carport out the front too. He had to take away a wall from under the stairs when it turned out his tester Sim couldn’t get through the archway beneath it to get to the bathroom, but eh, what can you do. It looks really nice, if a touch colorless, but hey – we already knew he loved black and white, soooo. . . XD
C) Then it was time for GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Started off with the usual bonkers bottle flip (Gray partially penetrated the fire lord, went both in and on top of the rainbow slide, and actually had to STOP RECORDING and instead rely on a save-replay to show off him finally finding a way onto the “Gray Will Find A Way” platform), then progressed to the sled ride of ultimate doom (if you didn’t distribute your weight JUST RIGHT, you were going to fly off and get murdered before landing on the North Pole with Santa and a million watermelons); a shockingly speedy bottle run (where Tom got yeeted to the end platform while Gray just flew over the rest of the obstacles past the initial run); an extremely deadly rope swing – just one very stiff rope, but TEN MILLION HOMING MINES (plus harpoons and land mines – Gray SOMEHOW won, though, which I attribute to maybe one toe brushing the winning area before he got exploded XD); a ride through a Final Destination level (dodging falling vans, exploding rebar, and flying over collapsing lamp posts before hitting the win – and being leveled by spikes fired from a cannon); a Tarzan swing (two vines over water with depressed piranha – harder than it looks with the way HW characters move); a “Spleens” run (full of exploding cat faces – but they were kind enough to let Gray win when he passed the winning flag in pieces); and an assault on the red stick figure fortress to rescue Gray’s significant other (with a surprisingly effective jump scare of a red stick figure leaping at you from a high platform, surprise harpoons that go STRAIGHT into a spike run, and then more sticks with sharp things – Gray ended up with a LOT of swords up the groin). Always good to see a few boards that really test his stamina. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue back to one, as I reminded myself yesterday, AND got some quick notes for another potential “Fallout of Darkness” post covering pet ideas for that Victor and Alice in the drafts. So that’s good!
Yeah, not too shabby. And now I must go and get some sleep, for the red curse demands it. Ugh, two more days at work with it too. . .well, I've survived this before, I can do so again. Night all!
