Exhausted Bleedy Monday
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Work – Ugggh. . .you know a day’s gonna be great when you get into work, have to use the toilet, and find that your period’s started early by your calculations (I thought it was coming at the END of this week). Couple that with chatty coworker being in fine form and more credit card bullshit that was supposed to be SOLVED by now and – yeah, I wasn’t in a great mood. Who could have guessed? *sigh* At least it also wasn’t too busy – just a couple of credit card calls and the like.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – talked myself into it just to finish out the Oxventure “Out Of Order!” Yesterday, in the middle of the boss fight against Jacques Darkfall, Egbert ordered the man to disrobe using a Command Word, and Darkfall did not make his saving throw. XD Prudence attempted to stop him before he could get naked with an Agonizing Blast, and instead just blew the shirt right off his back (with, admittedly, a good chunk of his back going with it). And then Dob used Heat Metal to melt his sword right out of his hand, which also did not do good things for Darkfall’s constitution – but also did not prevent him from disrobing. Corazon tried to talk him down, but no dice – Darkfall was not giving up for anything. So one stab of Corazon’s rapier later, and two swipes of Merilwen’s powerful bear paws, he was very, very dead. The gang promptly covered him up with the tarp previously over the real water supply (as Corazon promptly stole his clothes), and started wondering about why the hell he’d even BEEN so intent on poisoning the water –
And then Dob revealed “so I learned this spell hoping that it would let me apologize to the Bumble orphans – doesn’t work for that purpose, but it will for this!” AKA, his Speak To Dead spell, which would let them get five questions out of Darkfall’s semi-reanimated corpse. The trouble was, the corpse could lie or refuse to answer if it thought it was speaking to enemies, so Corazon offered to disguise himself as Death to prevent falsehoods. (Egbert also offered up his new Zone of Truth spell, but that doesn’t work on undead, and Darkfall would be close enough to, so nothing doing.) They managed to get out of the corpse that Darkfall had embarked on this campaign out of revenge – though the “answers will probably be cryptic” part of the spell meant that his reasoning, something about things being set on fire, having to flee, and being hungry, was a bit hard to follow. They figured they had enough to tell the paladins what they’d learned, at least, and went to seek out the order –
And how convenient, Captain Shattershield was right outside. He was sour about seeing Egbert again, but accepted that the warning about the poisoning had been legitimate, and when told the perpetrator was Darkfall, basically said “oh cripes, he tried to rob us ages ago and we’ve been after him ever since – you should have just said it was him, we would have taken this way more seriously.” He denied the order doing anything more dreadful to Darkfall than just running him off and probably leaving him without coin to buy food, though – and said that while helping save the order like this was good, it wasn’t quite enough atonement for Egbert. The others were actually quite sour about this – more than Egbert himself, really! Proof they are friends in the end. :) At any rate, they took Darkfall’s corpse out of the citadel to return for the bounty (Merilwen making sure to get her hands on the money as the official treasurer). . .
And then Johnny did a reveal that the villain of their last adventure, the drow sorcerer Lilliana, had been watching all this through a little scrying pool – STILL FREAKING HOLDING EGBERT’S KIDNEY. Sheesh, lady! This is how you know she’s a recurring villain, folks. XD
2. Continue editing Chapter 4 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – Alice has taken a snack from Gimble’s fridge (the more blood, the better, at least in this moment), and she and Mercurio have made their way into the sub-basement for the more obvious murdery stuff. Alice has brought up the idea of Vandal and Gimble working together along the way, which – doesn’t seem likely, as it is possible to send Gimble straight to Vandal instead of doing his boss fight if you have “Replanting a Lily” active as a quest, but it is an interesting question to ponder. Would they get along if Gimble wasn’t one of his “unwilling donors?” Hmmm. . .well, answering that is not the aim of this fic – right now, saving Carson is!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – three-in, three-out today as James DOES seem to be trying to get back onto a regular schedule! We’ll see how long it lasts –
A) Started with James Turner and the return of his “Every Lot Challenge” LP! Because that was a thing too, remember? A messy, chaotic thing that someone who just threw his back out probably should not be doing. XD (Seriously, Semaj, don’t hurt yourself on our account!) Despite the house being a constant mess, everyone being constantly hungry (and surviving on blackened bass since James got like 24 plates of it through the Zoomers app for free thanks to “Free Services”), and the water situation being downright dire (even with rain and some “water recycler” upgrades, having only one water collector means the water supply keeps running out), some good stuff happened. Both Chi and Donnell successfully aged up into children – Chi is a Dog Lover and is focusing on Mental pursuits as he had decent skills; Donnell is a little Kleptomaniac and is focusing on Motor for fast getaways. Jasmin is doing decently enough in school, working through her final exams. And Semaj completed TWO major goals – the “Nerd Brain” aspiration, allowing him to change his “Slob” trait for “Dog Lover,” and (despite a bad chance card), got promoted to “Hedge Fund Manager” at his job, which allowed James to spin for a lot challenge!
He got “Volcanic Activity.” Which, thanks to the general overstuffed nature of the lot, hasn’t even fired in quite a while. James is sour because he REALLY wanted “Off The Grid” gone. . .maybe next time, James!
B) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin and more of the “Terraria” Minecraft mod! Today was all about expanding the house (which now has THREE freeloaders hanging around staring at the wall – and the new shiny silver roof, thanks to some potion abuse on Kevin’s part) and fighting a boss – the Eye of Cthulhu! Only summonable after fighting smaller Demon Eyes for their lenses, a prospect that was a bit tricky for Kevin. Mostly because his video game fighting style, like mine, is often “flail randomly.” XD But he managed to collect all the materials he needed, build himself a large fighting platform in the sky, and summon the Eye! Where he fought valiantly. . .until the Eye turned into a Mouth and ate him. *pats* You did your best, Kevin! And he bounced back, made himself a better bow and lots of fire arrows, and managed to take the bastard down eventually for the fat loot. :D Good work! I’m hopeful to see more of this now – it’s a very pretty mod, and it combines the best parts of Terraria and Minecraft quite nicely!
C) And then finally we had GrayStillPlays and another GTA V parkour story board – in this one, Gray has to parkour through a black hole! A SENTIENT black hole that likes to toy with him, no less. Mostly by making him do speed-platforming on a bike through wind turbines. And then more platforming through time-bent turbines (aka, the impact is delayed, so you have to drive THROUGH the blades or get smacked into the abyss). Then MORE platforming around its children spitting cosmic rays and a few time-bent blenders. Then some very tricky parkour across all the other random junk it’s accumulated – which included, of all things, SATAN! Yeah, Gray had to save Satan from the black hole. I guess his not-marriage to Natas is canon to his “Gray VS Space” boards! XD And then he and Satan yeeted themselves back into reality – right in front of a windmill farm. Gray promptly tried to throw himself to his death. XD Ah, I like this combination of proper parkour nonsense with storylines – it’s fun.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – the period tired was setting in, but after doing my writing stuff, I did manage to complete the text and tags for the Wednesday Chill Save update on Victor Luvs Alice. So that's good.
Well, at least I got a check on everything, despite the period brain and general grumpiness. And I treated myself to hot chocolate tonight, along with a chocolate-chip biscotti and a chocolate-dipped peanut butter ball. I'm on my period, I'm allowed all the chocolate! But now it's time to head to bed, because I also have all the work for the next four days. . .bleh. Night all!
Work – Ugggh. . .you know a day’s gonna be great when you get into work, have to use the toilet, and find that your period’s started early by your calculations (I thought it was coming at the END of this week). Couple that with chatty coworker being in fine form and more credit card bullshit that was supposed to be SOLVED by now and – yeah, I wasn’t in a great mood. Who could have guessed? *sigh* At least it also wasn’t too busy – just a couple of credit card calls and the like.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – talked myself into it just to finish out the Oxventure “Out Of Order!” Yesterday, in the middle of the boss fight against Jacques Darkfall, Egbert ordered the man to disrobe using a Command Word, and Darkfall did not make his saving throw. XD Prudence attempted to stop him before he could get naked with an Agonizing Blast, and instead just blew the shirt right off his back (with, admittedly, a good chunk of his back going with it). And then Dob used Heat Metal to melt his sword right out of his hand, which also did not do good things for Darkfall’s constitution – but also did not prevent him from disrobing. Corazon tried to talk him down, but no dice – Darkfall was not giving up for anything. So one stab of Corazon’s rapier later, and two swipes of Merilwen’s powerful bear paws, he was very, very dead. The gang promptly covered him up with the tarp previously over the real water supply (as Corazon promptly stole his clothes), and started wondering about why the hell he’d even BEEN so intent on poisoning the water –
And then Dob revealed “so I learned this spell hoping that it would let me apologize to the Bumble orphans – doesn’t work for that purpose, but it will for this!” AKA, his Speak To Dead spell, which would let them get five questions out of Darkfall’s semi-reanimated corpse. The trouble was, the corpse could lie or refuse to answer if it thought it was speaking to enemies, so Corazon offered to disguise himself as Death to prevent falsehoods. (Egbert also offered up his new Zone of Truth spell, but that doesn’t work on undead, and Darkfall would be close enough to, so nothing doing.) They managed to get out of the corpse that Darkfall had embarked on this campaign out of revenge – though the “answers will probably be cryptic” part of the spell meant that his reasoning, something about things being set on fire, having to flee, and being hungry, was a bit hard to follow. They figured they had enough to tell the paladins what they’d learned, at least, and went to seek out the order –
And how convenient, Captain Shattershield was right outside. He was sour about seeing Egbert again, but accepted that the warning about the poisoning had been legitimate, and when told the perpetrator was Darkfall, basically said “oh cripes, he tried to rob us ages ago and we’ve been after him ever since – you should have just said it was him, we would have taken this way more seriously.” He denied the order doing anything more dreadful to Darkfall than just running him off and probably leaving him without coin to buy food, though – and said that while helping save the order like this was good, it wasn’t quite enough atonement for Egbert. The others were actually quite sour about this – more than Egbert himself, really! Proof they are friends in the end. :) At any rate, they took Darkfall’s corpse out of the citadel to return for the bounty (Merilwen making sure to get her hands on the money as the official treasurer). . .
And then Johnny did a reveal that the villain of their last adventure, the drow sorcerer Lilliana, had been watching all this through a little scrying pool – STILL FREAKING HOLDING EGBERT’S KIDNEY. Sheesh, lady! This is how you know she’s a recurring villain, folks. XD
2. Continue editing Chapter 4 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – Alice has taken a snack from Gimble’s fridge (the more blood, the better, at least in this moment), and she and Mercurio have made their way into the sub-basement for the more obvious murdery stuff. Alice has brought up the idea of Vandal and Gimble working together along the way, which – doesn’t seem likely, as it is possible to send Gimble straight to Vandal instead of doing his boss fight if you have “Replanting a Lily” active as a quest, but it is an interesting question to ponder. Would they get along if Gimble wasn’t one of his “unwilling donors?” Hmmm. . .well, answering that is not the aim of this fic – right now, saving Carson is!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – three-in, three-out today as James DOES seem to be trying to get back onto a regular schedule! We’ll see how long it lasts –
A) Started with James Turner and the return of his “Every Lot Challenge” LP! Because that was a thing too, remember? A messy, chaotic thing that someone who just threw his back out probably should not be doing. XD (Seriously, Semaj, don’t hurt yourself on our account!) Despite the house being a constant mess, everyone being constantly hungry (and surviving on blackened bass since James got like 24 plates of it through the Zoomers app for free thanks to “Free Services”), and the water situation being downright dire (even with rain and some “water recycler” upgrades, having only one water collector means the water supply keeps running out), some good stuff happened. Both Chi and Donnell successfully aged up into children – Chi is a Dog Lover and is focusing on Mental pursuits as he had decent skills; Donnell is a little Kleptomaniac and is focusing on Motor for fast getaways. Jasmin is doing decently enough in school, working through her final exams. And Semaj completed TWO major goals – the “Nerd Brain” aspiration, allowing him to change his “Slob” trait for “Dog Lover,” and (despite a bad chance card), got promoted to “Hedge Fund Manager” at his job, which allowed James to spin for a lot challenge!
He got “Volcanic Activity.” Which, thanks to the general overstuffed nature of the lot, hasn’t even fired in quite a while. James is sour because he REALLY wanted “Off The Grid” gone. . .maybe next time, James!
B) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin and more of the “Terraria” Minecraft mod! Today was all about expanding the house (which now has THREE freeloaders hanging around staring at the wall – and the new shiny silver roof, thanks to some potion abuse on Kevin’s part) and fighting a boss – the Eye of Cthulhu! Only summonable after fighting smaller Demon Eyes for their lenses, a prospect that was a bit tricky for Kevin. Mostly because his video game fighting style, like mine, is often “flail randomly.” XD But he managed to collect all the materials he needed, build himself a large fighting platform in the sky, and summon the Eye! Where he fought valiantly. . .until the Eye turned into a Mouth and ate him. *pats* You did your best, Kevin! And he bounced back, made himself a better bow and lots of fire arrows, and managed to take the bastard down eventually for the fat loot. :D Good work! I’m hopeful to see more of this now – it’s a very pretty mod, and it combines the best parts of Terraria and Minecraft quite nicely!
C) And then finally we had GrayStillPlays and another GTA V parkour story board – in this one, Gray has to parkour through a black hole! A SENTIENT black hole that likes to toy with him, no less. Mostly by making him do speed-platforming on a bike through wind turbines. And then more platforming through time-bent turbines (aka, the impact is delayed, so you have to drive THROUGH the blades or get smacked into the abyss). Then MORE platforming around its children spitting cosmic rays and a few time-bent blenders. Then some very tricky parkour across all the other random junk it’s accumulated – which included, of all things, SATAN! Yeah, Gray had to save Satan from the black hole. I guess his not-marriage to Natas is canon to his “Gray VS Space” boards! XD And then he and Satan yeeted themselves back into reality – right in front of a windmill farm. Gray promptly tried to throw himself to his death. XD Ah, I like this combination of proper parkour nonsense with storylines – it’s fun.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – the period tired was setting in, but after doing my writing stuff, I did manage to complete the text and tags for the Wednesday Chill Save update on Victor Luvs Alice. So that's good.
Well, at least I got a check on everything, despite the period brain and general grumpiness. And I treated myself to hot chocolate tonight, along with a chocolate-chip biscotti and a chocolate-dipped peanut butter ball. I'm on my period, I'm allowed all the chocolate! But now it's time to head to bed, because I also have all the work for the next four days. . .bleh. Night all!
