Snow Melt Sunday
Jan. 9th, 2022 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickLess rain than was expected, but temperatures in the 40s and at least some wet periods means that the snow from Friday is pretty much all gone. Now I just have to hope it doesn't freeze overnight and make my Monday commute more dangerous than it has to be. . . *sigh* We'll see how things go! As it is, I have a to-do list to share --
1. Continue updating Sole!Victor's playthrough progress and see about updating my Sims document with my CC and mods some more: Check – obviously, I had to do this after I played today (see below), but it feels good to keep it current. I have named the settler at Tenpines who gives the Corvega quest in this playthrough “Tony” because it was the first thing that popped into my head. XD Also updated my list of mods and CC in my Sims master list of such things with the file I picked up from Crypt O’Club’s tumblr, since I want to keep a current list of all of that stuff. Especially now that I’m getting a little more into modding. Gotta know where to go when it comes to patches!
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, watch Plumbella's latest video and Jon's F:NV "Utter Chaos" video: Check! Got through them all despite a bit of a late start (two types of gaming to blame, see below) –
A) Started just before my workout with the latest from Plumbella in my Watch Later: “each room is a different budget is a CRUEL JOKE!” Yes, the “randomize a different budget for each room in your build” challenge was back – Plumbella built a nice two-bedroom one-bath single story house in Mt. Komorebi and did a random budget for each room and the exterior. However, the joke was not that she got ridiculously SMALL amounts for any of her rooms –
It’s that she got ridiculously LARGE ones for a bunch of them. The kid’s bedroom was $16,811; the living room $17,493; the little hallway in the middle was $18,351, the bathroom was $19,109, and the exterior was $19,429. Plumbella just – really wasn’t sure what to do with all that cash, especially in the passage (where she ended up putting some expensive sized-down sculptures on shelves) and bathroom (not only did she get the full gold opulence set from Get Famous, she ended up sticking TWO TVS AND A GAMING CONSOLE IN THERE). At least outside she could build a nice little exterior pathway and a pond! Expensive windows also covered the living room and the kid’s room, along with a custom light-up headboard and gold-veined wallpaper (kid’s room) and the most expensive TV in the game (living room). By contrast, the master bedroom only got a budget of $7,116 (Plumbella gave it “fairy forest” vibes by filling it with plants and natural-looking wooden furniture), and the kitchen a mere $2,919 (she had to cheap out on the sink, but was able to get a nice bold floor to liven up the place). I joked that obviously the house was done by a Tory couple who spoil their child but ran out of money near the end of the build. XD
B) Then, after supper, we went to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and more BitLife – as the world’s worst cop! [insert your own joke about law enforcement, particularly American law enforcement, here] He started with the life of “Bad Boys 2,” who proved to be a workaholic from a young age, driving a Kia Sorrento from his original job of barnyard sperm extractor at Cocksure Farms (yes, really – actually a LOT of things in this particular life had “cock” somewhere in the name) to his patrolman route! He rose up the ladder quickly, ignoring his girlfriend’s pleas to marry her and amusing himself by playing with his umbrella (not a euphemism) and throwing the occasional party on his houseboat – but the massive amount of stress he was under killed him via heart attack at age 31. Kevin rewound time by three years to save his life, adopting Jasmin Fingerman along the way. He quit the sperm extractor job, hired a hitman to kill his girlfriend with a shotgun, then sold his houseboat to buy a gorilla. And then abandoned his daughter when he realized he was in debt to focus on the gorilla. XD Who died not long after of starvation. XD Fortunately his return to his workaholic ways (and donating some sperm) got him some more promotions, and soon he was Chief of Police! With – a supervisor, for some reason. A baffled Kevin decided said supervisor had to go and started hiring hitmen – the first ran off with the money, the second turned out to be an undercover cop, and suddenly, like almost all of Kevin’s Bitlives, Bad Boys 2 was in jail. XD He actually waited out the sentence and got released in sixteen years – after inheriting two million dollars from his dad! So he went to work as an armpit sniffer and got a squirrel monkey he called “Bananas” because it was, mentally. XD Which immediately died after getting bit by a snake. So instead he turned back to murder and tried to kill one of his old hook-ups, Tasty, who called the police on him and got him life in jail. So he started causing riots and assaulting other prisoners, and ended up dying this time at age 68. As Kevin put it, him suffering a heart attack at 31 was the GOOD ending, funnily enough. XD
C) Then it was over to GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Started with a Santa-themed bottle flip (featuring Tom Hardy home alone with a shit-ton of bottles and a drunken uncle bouncing around the board); then we had an impossible rope swing (the usual nonsense, only now we have harpoons along with spikes – and yet, Gray reached the end!); a trip through space to an alien spaceship (bouncing along the space-fans); a ride through a giant house with a bunch of different fun games consoles and peripherals to platform on (you can kill both pixel-art Mario and a wind-up tin toy on the way too); a simple “don’t move” board; a staircase to hell that was really more of a ramp (with Gray not only getting the win first try, but also surviving SIX homing bombs! Er, thanks to Young Tom Hardy taking the blast); a candy ball throw with Karen who is NOT good at throwing things (though she is good at deflecting killer gingerbread men – getting the “empty the bag” win was harder!); the short sequel to the “Flesh” board (glass breaks in a mutant’s brain? trying not to piss off the teeth? random eyes all over the place? You know it’s good-old fashioned nightmare fuel!); and finally Segway Donkey Kong (climb the ladders, avoid the obstacles, outrun the platforms, and for god’s sake DON’T TOUCH THE YELLOW DOTS). All delightful – and a lot of them made by the same guy! Dylan Snider, I salute you. :)
D) And finally, we had Jon’s Fallout: New Vegas series, “Utter Chaos!” Having verified that one door into the Tops Casino that he found in the sewers last week is a) locked and b) requires a key that ONLY BENNY HAS, Jon decided that the best thing to do was to leave that be for a while and instead go on the hunt for scrap metal to get himself Idolized by the Boomers faction. This involved accidentally walking straight into Boone (everyone’s favorite bald sniper companion from this game, now in a fancy hat while on shift in the dinosaur’s mouth) by climbing a ladder; wandering around the Helios One base to scavenge satellite dish parts while setting bears on fire; and just robbing all the things from all the people before handing it over to Jack and immediately becoming awesome with the Boomers. Which led to him trying to find a decent route back to their leader, Pearl, to hand in a quest and get XP. Which led to him, briefly, going to Cottonwood Cove, a Legion hangout.
Which led him to finding a door into The Tops. Unlocked.
The joy in his voice – very quickly turned to anger and sarcasm when he went back to the Hoover Dam and found ANOTHER one up there that he’d missed. And then a third one in ANOTHER location because now the game was trolling him. XD Annoyed, he finished up helping the Boomers (via swimming to a downed B-52 plane in a large body of water, raising it with explosives, and then find a quick trip back to one of the camps via one of the caves in the lake), reported to the NCR, and then – THEN – finally went to the Tops, where he turned his guns over to the greeter upon finding him and then talked to Swank (I believe Benny’s second-in-command), passing the speech checks the game made fortunately easy and handing over the evidence he found to get Swank to get Benny up to his room to isolate him for an easy kill. And while he was there, he started playing “where do all these doors lead,” which led him to one door that put him out in a courtyard.
With Benny.
Benny in a baseball cap, admittedly, but Benny indeed. Jon was baffled, but figured Benny was having trouble actually getting to his room because, well, the weird doors apply to the NPCs too. Sadly, there were just too many witnesses to the crime, so Jon decided he had to let Benny go again and instead kept exploring. Coming out from another door into what I believe is the Honest Hearts wasteland.
With Benny.
Yeah, apparently Benny FOLLOWED him – which Jon was absolutely confused by, but extremely grateful for when a Venomous Tunneler attacked and Benny whipped out a flare gun, a gun guaranteed to make the thing flee. That brought in a lot of other monsters too, though, like a giant rad scorpion and a random securitron, so the Courier got out their Fat Man to take them all out, then took some Rad-X and looted the Presidential Suite key and the Platinum Chip off Benny’s corpse. w00! Jon then went to unlock the sewer door, talked to Yes Man up in Benny’s suite, found his way to the main strip, got his Mark of Caesar, and then talked to the now-Giant-Nightkin Mr. House, who demonstrated his improved security with a Bloatfly and a Robobrain. XD Lots of XP for Jon, and apparently Act 1 of the Main Quest is done! Of course, now he has to find a way to actually visit Caesar and start putting into motion everything he has to do for Act 2, which. . .well. It ain’t called “Utter Chaos” for nothing, you know. XD
3. Play Fallout 4 and actually get to Corvega: Check! Started out with Victor at the Abernathy Farm – took a moment to set up a guard post, then fix some of the fencing around the place before assigning Blake Abernathy to the post and heading out. Found some wild tato blossoms and a chest with a gun and some leather armor in it, the latter of which I broke down at the Red Rocket while grabbing Victor’s Port-o-Potty, then headed out again, looking for Tenpines Bluff! And some other locations of interest along the way. Found the Robotics Disposal Yard near Station Olivia –
Got wrecked by the above-my-level Mr. Gutsy who was there for some reason. -.- (It’s only supposed to be mole rats!) RESTARTED at the Abernathy farm, this time just set up the guard post and assigned the closer Connie to it, then headed off a slightly DIFFERENT way, where the worst that menaced Codsworth and Victor were squirrels and a few bloatflies. And the rain, as the skies opened around 2:30 PM in-game – nevertheless, THIS time Victor actually made it to Tenpines, and got the mission to clear out the Corvega Raiders from them. Victor took care of the nearby radroaches for them first, then started out in the general direction of Corvega, killing some Bloodbug Hatchlings along the way. First stop was Wildwood Cemetery – Victor picked up the “Total Hack” magazine for turrets here (that’ll be useful), then found a weird little altar in one of the crypts before being attacked by a raider, who was quickly dispatched. Getting out there and crossing the road, Victor and Codsworth encountered the Rotten Landfill, and two settlers being menaced by a rather large pack of mole rats, a good portion of whom were rabid. Victor and Codsworth helped the settlers fight them off, and got 50 bottlecaps for their trouble – and killing the last three in the tunnel nearby got Victor a nice chest with some molotovs and other fun stuff. :D Gathered up all the molerat meat, got some more junk from the landfill itself, and then set up camp for the night, having Victor cook a bunch of his meat and brew up some teas with all the blossoms he’s been picking up, before heading to bed in his tent. Woke up early on 11/3/2287 and got back on the road – and found Lexington! Which included the Mystic Pines retirement home (haven’t yet gone inside), the local Red Rocket (with more adhesive, yay), and – finally – the Corvega Assembly Plant!
Victor is currently hiding in a bush nearby now that he’s gotten the XP from finding the place. What? I only said I had to get to Corvega – never said anything about doing it. (Seriously, it was starting to get a bit late, and if I wanted my workout, I had to quit there. At least I’m there for next weekend!)
4. Work on tumblr queues: Check, though I had a lot of false starts – being interrupted by lunch, being interrupted by the BTTF game (see below). . . I HAVE, at least, finished the text and tags for the first post of the Wednesday Chill Save update on Victor Luvs Alice, and I have the pictures and some starter text for the second one. And Valice Multiverse had no threads or asks, so I just reblogged some Piper fanart from FO4. So that’s that. Good for a Sunday!
5. Get in a workout: Check! Back on the bike today, and back to Oxventures and “Out Of Order!” When we last saw our heroes, Corazon was posing as the world’s shittiest paladin, Chauncey, guarding the well to be poisoned; Prudence was hiding behind some barrels with her horns poking out; Egbert had fallen IN the wall in an attempt to be cool and hide down there; Merilwen was in bear form being pursued by some other guards; and Dob was pursuing the guards. We picked up with Dob and Merilwen – Merilwen was JUST keeping ahead of the guards after a roll, while Dob had managed to run straight up next to them with no trouble. Dob instantly pulled his “Ye Olde Interpol” routine again, claiming to be the extra security Shattershield had brought in and getting “Rachel the bear” to do a few simple tricks to prove she worked with him. The other guards were rather too baffled by this turn of events and the commotion at the gate to contradict him, and so Dob and “Rachel” waltzed off without issue, leaving Johnny snickering behind his screen. XD They joined up with their compatriots at the well, where a number of different plans were bantered about (Merilwen casting Water Breathing on everyone should they ALL want to hide in the well, for example – also, Dob did cast Prestidigitation on Egbert and the water to clean it back up, because sewage issues) before it was eventually decided to have Corazon Minor Illusion up a FAKE, smaller well to guard; cover up the real well with a tarp and put a sign saying that this is the OLD water supply, and the fake well is the new, better stuff; and everyone would hide appropriately (Merilwen once again pretending to be taxidermy) and wait for the poisoner. This was done, and then –
JACQUES DARKFALL ARRIVED! Yes, “Jacques” – apparently he has a vaguely French/German accent, at least the way Johnny plays him. He is an ultra-cool rogue with bespoke boots that Corazon is very jealous of. XD Anyway, he and “Chauncey” argued about the “taxidermy” (Merilwen and Prudence’s horns) being in the water supply room, with “Chauncey” claiming that the new well was the result of them dropping some taxidermy down the old one – and then Darkfall said “I’ve got more than enough poison here to get both” and started combat, which moved us on to Part III! And the bastard managed to get TWO natural 20s from Johnny, meaning he did hit Corazon – fortunately, Corazon has a rogue ability to halve damage he sees coming, so he used that and dropped his disguise to start fencing with the guy. Merilwen tried to Entangle him with vines, but he nimbly leapt out of the way –
Straight into the arms of a furious Egbert, exploding out of the well to grapple him (as it turns out Darkfall is not immune to natural 1s as well). Egbert managed to hold onto him for a while, and Prudence – after a quick-ish “do you want me to kill him” “it’s consecrated ground so I’d rather not but admittedly you’re not looking for atonement” conversation XD – rifled through his pockets and got the wineskin of Pale Tincture off him and into her own effects. Dob gave Egbert some Bardic Inspiration to keep a hold of Darkfall, then tried to cast Sleep on him, but the guy shrugged it off, sadly. And the Inspiration wasn’t enough to let Egbert keep a hold on the guy – he managed to pop himself free and hide in the rafters of the ceiling. Fortunately, Corazon was JUST ABLE to spot him clinging to a pipe before hiding himself, and Merilwen took some decent chunks out of his back with her claws. And then Egbert stepped up, still trying to do the “pacifist” thing –
And told him to “Disrobe” with his Command Word spell. XD Because apparently this guy has amazing pecs and Egbert figured Corazon would want to see them. There was some discussion about this – wouldn’t getting him to surrender be a better option, does “disrobe” mean “disrobe someone ELSE” – but in the end, that was what Egbert did. . .and Darkfall failed his saving throw, so by the end of this boss fight, dude shall be nekkid. XD I love these guys.
Additionally:
-->Mom and I made another attempt at playing “Back In Time,” the BTTF cooperative board game – this time taking on TWO characters each to start the game at the 4 player starting mark to see if that helped. Which, it did, but we still lost because you have to spend a LOT of time babysitting George, Lorraine, and Biff to keep Biff from wrecking the love meter and forcing you to flip over extra portions of the family photograph when you’re forced to do the check. And you’ve only got a limited number of power tiles, and the movement cards can wreck carefully-crafted attempts to put George and Lorraine together, and – basically this game is HARD and takes a lot of time and winning is a crapshoot. Even tried watching a couple of videos looking for tips. . .one was just a review praising the art style and how good they felt the game played (while admitting that Biff was a real pain in the ass), and one featured some gameplay, but the two people playing it weren’t following the rules correctly, so. . . *sigh* I suspect this game is going to become one of my “display pieces” sooner rather than later.
-->Answered a FF.net PM from a Forgotten Vows fan, who drew a Wonderland persona for an OC from one of their Corpse Bride AUs (OC is Victor’s younger best friend), and wanted to see if they could share it. We’ll see what comes of it!
So yeah, lot done today! At least I was productive during this surprise long weekend. :) And I've got ANOTHER long weekend coming up, thanks to an actual holiday. So that's good. Just gotta get through this week first. . .we'll see how that goes! Night all!
1. Continue updating Sole!Victor's playthrough progress and see about updating my Sims document with my CC and mods some more: Check – obviously, I had to do this after I played today (see below), but it feels good to keep it current. I have named the settler at Tenpines who gives the Corvega quest in this playthrough “Tony” because it was the first thing that popped into my head. XD Also updated my list of mods and CC in my Sims master list of such things with the file I picked up from Crypt O’Club’s tumblr, since I want to keep a current list of all of that stuff. Especially now that I’m getting a little more into modding. Gotta know where to go when it comes to patches!
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, watch Plumbella's latest video and Jon's F:NV "Utter Chaos" video: Check! Got through them all despite a bit of a late start (two types of gaming to blame, see below) –
A) Started just before my workout with the latest from Plumbella in my Watch Later: “each room is a different budget is a CRUEL JOKE!” Yes, the “randomize a different budget for each room in your build” challenge was back – Plumbella built a nice two-bedroom one-bath single story house in Mt. Komorebi and did a random budget for each room and the exterior. However, the joke was not that she got ridiculously SMALL amounts for any of her rooms –
It’s that she got ridiculously LARGE ones for a bunch of them. The kid’s bedroom was $16,811; the living room $17,493; the little hallway in the middle was $18,351, the bathroom was $19,109, and the exterior was $19,429. Plumbella just – really wasn’t sure what to do with all that cash, especially in the passage (where she ended up putting some expensive sized-down sculptures on shelves) and bathroom (not only did she get the full gold opulence set from Get Famous, she ended up sticking TWO TVS AND A GAMING CONSOLE IN THERE). At least outside she could build a nice little exterior pathway and a pond! Expensive windows also covered the living room and the kid’s room, along with a custom light-up headboard and gold-veined wallpaper (kid’s room) and the most expensive TV in the game (living room). By contrast, the master bedroom only got a budget of $7,116 (Plumbella gave it “fairy forest” vibes by filling it with plants and natural-looking wooden furniture), and the kitchen a mere $2,919 (she had to cheap out on the sink, but was able to get a nice bold floor to liven up the place). I joked that obviously the house was done by a Tory couple who spoil their child but ran out of money near the end of the build. XD
B) Then, after supper, we went to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and more BitLife – as the world’s worst cop! [insert your own joke about law enforcement, particularly American law enforcement, here] He started with the life of “Bad Boys 2,” who proved to be a workaholic from a young age, driving a Kia Sorrento from his original job of barnyard sperm extractor at Cocksure Farms (yes, really – actually a LOT of things in this particular life had “cock” somewhere in the name) to his patrolman route! He rose up the ladder quickly, ignoring his girlfriend’s pleas to marry her and amusing himself by playing with his umbrella (not a euphemism) and throwing the occasional party on his houseboat – but the massive amount of stress he was under killed him via heart attack at age 31. Kevin rewound time by three years to save his life, adopting Jasmin Fingerman along the way. He quit the sperm extractor job, hired a hitman to kill his girlfriend with a shotgun, then sold his houseboat to buy a gorilla. And then abandoned his daughter when he realized he was in debt to focus on the gorilla. XD Who died not long after of starvation. XD Fortunately his return to his workaholic ways (and donating some sperm) got him some more promotions, and soon he was Chief of Police! With – a supervisor, for some reason. A baffled Kevin decided said supervisor had to go and started hiring hitmen – the first ran off with the money, the second turned out to be an undercover cop, and suddenly, like almost all of Kevin’s Bitlives, Bad Boys 2 was in jail. XD He actually waited out the sentence and got released in sixteen years – after inheriting two million dollars from his dad! So he went to work as an armpit sniffer and got a squirrel monkey he called “Bananas” because it was, mentally. XD Which immediately died after getting bit by a snake. So instead he turned back to murder and tried to kill one of his old hook-ups, Tasty, who called the police on him and got him life in jail. So he started causing riots and assaulting other prisoners, and ended up dying this time at age 68. As Kevin put it, him suffering a heart attack at 31 was the GOOD ending, funnily enough. XD
C) Then it was over to GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Started with a Santa-themed bottle flip (featuring Tom Hardy home alone with a shit-ton of bottles and a drunken uncle bouncing around the board); then we had an impossible rope swing (the usual nonsense, only now we have harpoons along with spikes – and yet, Gray reached the end!); a trip through space to an alien spaceship (bouncing along the space-fans); a ride through a giant house with a bunch of different fun games consoles and peripherals to platform on (you can kill both pixel-art Mario and a wind-up tin toy on the way too); a simple “don’t move” board; a staircase to hell that was really more of a ramp (with Gray not only getting the win first try, but also surviving SIX homing bombs! Er, thanks to Young Tom Hardy taking the blast); a candy ball throw with Karen who is NOT good at throwing things (though she is good at deflecting killer gingerbread men – getting the “empty the bag” win was harder!); the short sequel to the “Flesh” board (glass breaks in a mutant’s brain? trying not to piss off the teeth? random eyes all over the place? You know it’s good-old fashioned nightmare fuel!); and finally Segway Donkey Kong (climb the ladders, avoid the obstacles, outrun the platforms, and for god’s sake DON’T TOUCH THE YELLOW DOTS). All delightful – and a lot of them made by the same guy! Dylan Snider, I salute you. :)
D) And finally, we had Jon’s Fallout: New Vegas series, “Utter Chaos!” Having verified that one door into the Tops Casino that he found in the sewers last week is a) locked and b) requires a key that ONLY BENNY HAS, Jon decided that the best thing to do was to leave that be for a while and instead go on the hunt for scrap metal to get himself Idolized by the Boomers faction. This involved accidentally walking straight into Boone (everyone’s favorite bald sniper companion from this game, now in a fancy hat while on shift in the dinosaur’s mouth) by climbing a ladder; wandering around the Helios One base to scavenge satellite dish parts while setting bears on fire; and just robbing all the things from all the people before handing it over to Jack and immediately becoming awesome with the Boomers. Which led to him trying to find a decent route back to their leader, Pearl, to hand in a quest and get XP. Which led to him, briefly, going to Cottonwood Cove, a Legion hangout.
Which led him to finding a door into The Tops. Unlocked.
The joy in his voice – very quickly turned to anger and sarcasm when he went back to the Hoover Dam and found ANOTHER one up there that he’d missed. And then a third one in ANOTHER location because now the game was trolling him. XD Annoyed, he finished up helping the Boomers (via swimming to a downed B-52 plane in a large body of water, raising it with explosives, and then find a quick trip back to one of the camps via one of the caves in the lake), reported to the NCR, and then – THEN – finally went to the Tops, where he turned his guns over to the greeter upon finding him and then talked to Swank (I believe Benny’s second-in-command), passing the speech checks the game made fortunately easy and handing over the evidence he found to get Swank to get Benny up to his room to isolate him for an easy kill. And while he was there, he started playing “where do all these doors lead,” which led him to one door that put him out in a courtyard.
With Benny.
Benny in a baseball cap, admittedly, but Benny indeed. Jon was baffled, but figured Benny was having trouble actually getting to his room because, well, the weird doors apply to the NPCs too. Sadly, there were just too many witnesses to the crime, so Jon decided he had to let Benny go again and instead kept exploring. Coming out from another door into what I believe is the Honest Hearts wasteland.
With Benny.
Yeah, apparently Benny FOLLOWED him – which Jon was absolutely confused by, but extremely grateful for when a Venomous Tunneler attacked and Benny whipped out a flare gun, a gun guaranteed to make the thing flee. That brought in a lot of other monsters too, though, like a giant rad scorpion and a random securitron, so the Courier got out their Fat Man to take them all out, then took some Rad-X and looted the Presidential Suite key and the Platinum Chip off Benny’s corpse. w00! Jon then went to unlock the sewer door, talked to Yes Man up in Benny’s suite, found his way to the main strip, got his Mark of Caesar, and then talked to the now-Giant-Nightkin Mr. House, who demonstrated his improved security with a Bloatfly and a Robobrain. XD Lots of XP for Jon, and apparently Act 1 of the Main Quest is done! Of course, now he has to find a way to actually visit Caesar and start putting into motion everything he has to do for Act 2, which. . .well. It ain’t called “Utter Chaos” for nothing, you know. XD
3. Play Fallout 4 and actually get to Corvega: Check! Started out with Victor at the Abernathy Farm – took a moment to set up a guard post, then fix some of the fencing around the place before assigning Blake Abernathy to the post and heading out. Found some wild tato blossoms and a chest with a gun and some leather armor in it, the latter of which I broke down at the Red Rocket while grabbing Victor’s Port-o-Potty, then headed out again, looking for Tenpines Bluff! And some other locations of interest along the way. Found the Robotics Disposal Yard near Station Olivia –
Got wrecked by the above-my-level Mr. Gutsy who was there for some reason. -.- (It’s only supposed to be mole rats!) RESTARTED at the Abernathy farm, this time just set up the guard post and assigned the closer Connie to it, then headed off a slightly DIFFERENT way, where the worst that menaced Codsworth and Victor were squirrels and a few bloatflies. And the rain, as the skies opened around 2:30 PM in-game – nevertheless, THIS time Victor actually made it to Tenpines, and got the mission to clear out the Corvega Raiders from them. Victor took care of the nearby radroaches for them first, then started out in the general direction of Corvega, killing some Bloodbug Hatchlings along the way. First stop was Wildwood Cemetery – Victor picked up the “Total Hack” magazine for turrets here (that’ll be useful), then found a weird little altar in one of the crypts before being attacked by a raider, who was quickly dispatched. Getting out there and crossing the road, Victor and Codsworth encountered the Rotten Landfill, and two settlers being menaced by a rather large pack of mole rats, a good portion of whom were rabid. Victor and Codsworth helped the settlers fight them off, and got 50 bottlecaps for their trouble – and killing the last three in the tunnel nearby got Victor a nice chest with some molotovs and other fun stuff. :D Gathered up all the molerat meat, got some more junk from the landfill itself, and then set up camp for the night, having Victor cook a bunch of his meat and brew up some teas with all the blossoms he’s been picking up, before heading to bed in his tent. Woke up early on 11/3/2287 and got back on the road – and found Lexington! Which included the Mystic Pines retirement home (haven’t yet gone inside), the local Red Rocket (with more adhesive, yay), and – finally – the Corvega Assembly Plant!
Victor is currently hiding in a bush nearby now that he’s gotten the XP from finding the place. What? I only said I had to get to Corvega – never said anything about doing it. (Seriously, it was starting to get a bit late, and if I wanted my workout, I had to quit there. At least I’m there for next weekend!)
4. Work on tumblr queues: Check, though I had a lot of false starts – being interrupted by lunch, being interrupted by the BTTF game (see below). . . I HAVE, at least, finished the text and tags for the first post of the Wednesday Chill Save update on Victor Luvs Alice, and I have the pictures and some starter text for the second one. And Valice Multiverse had no threads or asks, so I just reblogged some Piper fanart from FO4. So that’s that. Good for a Sunday!
5. Get in a workout: Check! Back on the bike today, and back to Oxventures and “Out Of Order!” When we last saw our heroes, Corazon was posing as the world’s shittiest paladin, Chauncey, guarding the well to be poisoned; Prudence was hiding behind some barrels with her horns poking out; Egbert had fallen IN the wall in an attempt to be cool and hide down there; Merilwen was in bear form being pursued by some other guards; and Dob was pursuing the guards. We picked up with Dob and Merilwen – Merilwen was JUST keeping ahead of the guards after a roll, while Dob had managed to run straight up next to them with no trouble. Dob instantly pulled his “Ye Olde Interpol” routine again, claiming to be the extra security Shattershield had brought in and getting “Rachel the bear” to do a few simple tricks to prove she worked with him. The other guards were rather too baffled by this turn of events and the commotion at the gate to contradict him, and so Dob and “Rachel” waltzed off without issue, leaving Johnny snickering behind his screen. XD They joined up with their compatriots at the well, where a number of different plans were bantered about (Merilwen casting Water Breathing on everyone should they ALL want to hide in the well, for example – also, Dob did cast Prestidigitation on Egbert and the water to clean it back up, because sewage issues) before it was eventually decided to have Corazon Minor Illusion up a FAKE, smaller well to guard; cover up the real well with a tarp and put a sign saying that this is the OLD water supply, and the fake well is the new, better stuff; and everyone would hide appropriately (Merilwen once again pretending to be taxidermy) and wait for the poisoner. This was done, and then –
JACQUES DARKFALL ARRIVED! Yes, “Jacques” – apparently he has a vaguely French/German accent, at least the way Johnny plays him. He is an ultra-cool rogue with bespoke boots that Corazon is very jealous of. XD Anyway, he and “Chauncey” argued about the “taxidermy” (Merilwen and Prudence’s horns) being in the water supply room, with “Chauncey” claiming that the new well was the result of them dropping some taxidermy down the old one – and then Darkfall said “I’ve got more than enough poison here to get both” and started combat, which moved us on to Part III! And the bastard managed to get TWO natural 20s from Johnny, meaning he did hit Corazon – fortunately, Corazon has a rogue ability to halve damage he sees coming, so he used that and dropped his disguise to start fencing with the guy. Merilwen tried to Entangle him with vines, but he nimbly leapt out of the way –
Straight into the arms of a furious Egbert, exploding out of the well to grapple him (as it turns out Darkfall is not immune to natural 1s as well). Egbert managed to hold onto him for a while, and Prudence – after a quick-ish “do you want me to kill him” “it’s consecrated ground so I’d rather not but admittedly you’re not looking for atonement” conversation XD – rifled through his pockets and got the wineskin of Pale Tincture off him and into her own effects. Dob gave Egbert some Bardic Inspiration to keep a hold of Darkfall, then tried to cast Sleep on him, but the guy shrugged it off, sadly. And the Inspiration wasn’t enough to let Egbert keep a hold on the guy – he managed to pop himself free and hide in the rafters of the ceiling. Fortunately, Corazon was JUST ABLE to spot him clinging to a pipe before hiding himself, and Merilwen took some decent chunks out of his back with her claws. And then Egbert stepped up, still trying to do the “pacifist” thing –
And told him to “Disrobe” with his Command Word spell. XD Because apparently this guy has amazing pecs and Egbert figured Corazon would want to see them. There was some discussion about this – wouldn’t getting him to surrender be a better option, does “disrobe” mean “disrobe someone ELSE” – but in the end, that was what Egbert did. . .and Darkfall failed his saving throw, so by the end of this boss fight, dude shall be nekkid. XD I love these guys.
Additionally:
-->Mom and I made another attempt at playing “Back In Time,” the BTTF cooperative board game – this time taking on TWO characters each to start the game at the 4 player starting mark to see if that helped. Which, it did, but we still lost because you have to spend a LOT of time babysitting George, Lorraine, and Biff to keep Biff from wrecking the love meter and forcing you to flip over extra portions of the family photograph when you’re forced to do the check. And you’ve only got a limited number of power tiles, and the movement cards can wreck carefully-crafted attempts to put George and Lorraine together, and – basically this game is HARD and takes a lot of time and winning is a crapshoot. Even tried watching a couple of videos looking for tips. . .one was just a review praising the art style and how good they felt the game played (while admitting that Biff was a real pain in the ass), and one featured some gameplay, but the two people playing it weren’t following the rules correctly, so. . . *sigh* I suspect this game is going to become one of my “display pieces” sooner rather than later.
-->Answered a FF.net PM from a Forgotten Vows fan, who drew a Wonderland persona for an OC from one of their Corpse Bride AUs (OC is Victor’s younger best friend), and wanted to see if they could share it. We’ll see what comes of it!
So yeah, lot done today! At least I was productive during this surprise long weekend. :) And I've got ANOTHER long weekend coming up, thanks to an actual holiday. So that's good. Just gotta get through this week first. . .we'll see how that goes! Night all!
