Late Update So Quick Update
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Work – Pretty much the same as yesterday – duplicates, obituaries, coworker chatting in the background, etc. One credit card call, but it was to update an expiration date, so that was easy. I’ll take it. Also, started out still super-cold, but warmed up to the very low 40s by the afternoon, so that’s an improvement too! And should stick around for the next couple of days, which is good.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure “Ship Happens!” With Egbert’s salsa dancing with salsa concluded, the Lads were sent down to the crew quarters to get some rest, while the gang had a quick meeting in Corazon’s captain’s quarters to discuss things – mainly, how to divide up the activities on the list. It was decided that Egbert’s dinner-and-fireworks-show should be the big finale of the trip, and that whale-watching with Merilwen was probably a good follow-up to Prudence’s horrifying magic show, followed by karaoke night with Dob, followed by pirate training with Corazon. With that settled, the gang found places to bunk down (Corazon obviously in his quarters, Dob up in the crow’s nest, Prudence and Merilwen on the deck, Egbert in the room next to the magazines for the ship’s cannon and guns) and settled in for the night –
And then, during the night, the Lads summoned via spooky throat-singing ritual an eldritch eye which towed the ship along, imperceptibly hovering it above the water as it searched for something. Naturally, the others were not exactly on board with this happening (except for Egbert, who slept through a good chunk of it because low Wisdom score). Dob climbed out to the big eye (which he dubbed a “sea Sauron”) to ask what it was doing, and just got a spooky evil glare – Corazon then tried to confront the Lads, only to have the magic go “poof” and them just pretend to be reading in their hammocks. The group all decided to go back to bed and try not to think about it, though Merilwen decided to use her cat form to sneak into the Lads’ room for intel, and overheard that the “stag-do” involved them actually searching for something. . .
Cut to the next morning, and the skeletons having covered the deck in sea birds. XD Dob made a couple into puppets for later entertainment purposes, while Egbert flame-roasted some for breakfast. And then, as planned, it was time for whale-watching! Merilwen used her “Speak With Animals” spell and some truly awful whale puns to summon up a bunch of whales and dolphins for the Lads to observe – and Dob used his incredible Charisma skills to propose a drinking game where the Lads had to drink every time they saw a whale and spill some secrets. XD The Lads were all for this, and one even went barrel-deep into the grog on a natural 20. XD From all this drunken fun, they got out of the Lads that they were indeed looking for something, the something was religious in nature, and that the “bride” one of the number was supposedly marrying was “dressed in red and dread.” I left it on the gang clarifying the Lads weren’t going to kidnap and marry Prudence. XD Oh, this is fun times – I sincerely hope they do all five days and everybody’s thing! Trust me, my little quick write-ups here NEVER do these shows justice with the sheer amount of silly on display. XD
2. Continue editing Chapter 4 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – Alice and Mercurio made short work of Gimble, thanks to a knife stab, a bit of Dementation, and then massive amounts of head trauma with one of Gimble’s own hammers. Not a pleasant way to go, but then Gimble was hardly a pleasant man, was he? They’ve let Carson out (Mercurio doing the bad joke and Alice sympathizing) – now all that remains is to clean up the mess! And report back to Kilpatrick for the reward, of course. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – another “only one in the Subs” day, which at least allowed me to keep up on some of the stuff in the Watch Later –
A) Started with one of the latest OXBox lists (which is not about gross zombies, ew) – “10 Biggest New Games Coming in 2022 We Can't Wait To Play!” Just a quick list about the games due to be released this year that the gang are most excited about. From the release of that “vampire hunter co-op shooter” mentioned in the 2021 Quiz Of The Year, Redfall, to a rebooted Saints Row, to the original Bethesda title Starfield, to the coop shooter shenanigans of Rainbow Six Extraction, there appears to be a game for everyone coming out this year! I basically just want to see the last one on the channel, though – because Mike said it’s a co-op shooter requiring stealth and strategy, which means I want Jane to force Andy to play it with Mike and Mike to play it like he plays Hitman games. XD Hehehehe~
B) Then it was over to the latest AT4W offering – “Ultimate Power #9,” the last in that terrible, terrible little series! The plot recap is that a variation on the Squadron Supreme (the Marvel’s answer to the DC heroes) had their universe nearly destroyed by some extra-universal probes sent out by the Ultimate Reed Richards, with Reed going back to their universe with them to pay for his crimes. Only for it to be revealed later Nick Fury had Dr. Doom tamper with the probes, and the Lex Luthor equivalent on the other side made the actual weird biomass thing that was destroying the alternate Squadron Supereme universe. Also Scarlet Witch accidentally summoned the REGULAR Squadron Supreme universe in an attempt to help, and everyone was fighting, so Fury unleashed Ultimate Hulk on them all, with Spidey to stop him from eating everyone (as that’s a thing he does now). Basically, the heroes had a big long fight scene with Ultimate Hulk, with The Thing (with some help from Spider-Man and The Invisible Woman) landing the decisive blow; Spidey sold out Fury as the guy who caused the mess, and Kitty Pryde and a stretchy Squadron member took him out for punishment; Ultimate Reed came back to unmask the Lex Luthor equivalent, Emil; the second set of Squadron Supremes were sent back to their own universe by Scarlet Witch; the first set agreed to cease hostilities, and Power Princess went back to the Ultimate Marvel universe to keep an eye on it; and The Thing told Ultimate Reed not to worry about him while crying over one of his old human photographs. A stupid ending for a stupid story with stupid, traced artwork. Did we expect anything more? No, we did not. *sigh*
C) And then into the Subs for the GrayStillPlays video of the day, featuring more Happy Wheels! Started with a neon bottle flip of doom, with Gray defying a partially-closed-off platform claiming he’d land the bottle sideways (and then getting bottles on BOTH sides of the “funnel”) and sending a bottle down the plinko machine to “Triple Sus” – then we moved onto a watermelon run (with bonus decapitation spike and jets at the end – Gray won in two pieces, but he DID win); a toilet paper toss through a lavatorial thumbnail hole (which was much harder than it looked – especially since the other character had to “catch” it for him to win); a truly crushing death run (with boosters going down vertically to crush bike dad and son before flinging them into a spike fall – and a win with a WHOOLE lot of spikes sticking out of it); a pogo gap jump challenge where the hardest of them all was “Possible” (Gray spent a LOT of time on this one off-recording, methinks, given how many fails we actually SAW); a “normal” death run with bottles and spikes (turns out the death was of Gray’s FPS – though, hilariously, the slowed game speed from the bottle explosion underneath the run was crucial to Gray floating his way to victory); and a trip to a giant bathroom where winning involved avoiding the killer washing machine and then getting flushed down the toilet (past a very HD poop). You really gotta love just how WEIRD this shit is getting these days. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset my queue speed to one on Victor Luvs Alice, and got in a new Song Saturday – “Inkpot Gods” by The Amazing Devil off their latest album, “Ruin.” My friend Newt recommended it to me, and it has good sad Valice vibes, especially suited for “Forgetting You.” You’ll understand if you listen to it. *nods* So THAT’S all set, at least.
*nods* Very productive, just took a while, as these things do. And now time for bed! Night all!
Work – Pretty much the same as yesterday – duplicates, obituaries, coworker chatting in the background, etc. One credit card call, but it was to update an expiration date, so that was easy. I’ll take it. Also, started out still super-cold, but warmed up to the very low 40s by the afternoon, so that’s an improvement too! And should stick around for the next couple of days, which is good.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure “Ship Happens!” With Egbert’s salsa dancing with salsa concluded, the Lads were sent down to the crew quarters to get some rest, while the gang had a quick meeting in Corazon’s captain’s quarters to discuss things – mainly, how to divide up the activities on the list. It was decided that Egbert’s dinner-and-fireworks-show should be the big finale of the trip, and that whale-watching with Merilwen was probably a good follow-up to Prudence’s horrifying magic show, followed by karaoke night with Dob, followed by pirate training with Corazon. With that settled, the gang found places to bunk down (Corazon obviously in his quarters, Dob up in the crow’s nest, Prudence and Merilwen on the deck, Egbert in the room next to the magazines for the ship’s cannon and guns) and settled in for the night –
And then, during the night, the Lads summoned via spooky throat-singing ritual an eldritch eye which towed the ship along, imperceptibly hovering it above the water as it searched for something. Naturally, the others were not exactly on board with this happening (except for Egbert, who slept through a good chunk of it because low Wisdom score). Dob climbed out to the big eye (which he dubbed a “sea Sauron”) to ask what it was doing, and just got a spooky evil glare – Corazon then tried to confront the Lads, only to have the magic go “poof” and them just pretend to be reading in their hammocks. The group all decided to go back to bed and try not to think about it, though Merilwen decided to use her cat form to sneak into the Lads’ room for intel, and overheard that the “stag-do” involved them actually searching for something. . .
Cut to the next morning, and the skeletons having covered the deck in sea birds. XD Dob made a couple into puppets for later entertainment purposes, while Egbert flame-roasted some for breakfast. And then, as planned, it was time for whale-watching! Merilwen used her “Speak With Animals” spell and some truly awful whale puns to summon up a bunch of whales and dolphins for the Lads to observe – and Dob used his incredible Charisma skills to propose a drinking game where the Lads had to drink every time they saw a whale and spill some secrets. XD The Lads were all for this, and one even went barrel-deep into the grog on a natural 20. XD From all this drunken fun, they got out of the Lads that they were indeed looking for something, the something was religious in nature, and that the “bride” one of the number was supposedly marrying was “dressed in red and dread.” I left it on the gang clarifying the Lads weren’t going to kidnap and marry Prudence. XD Oh, this is fun times – I sincerely hope they do all five days and everybody’s thing! Trust me, my little quick write-ups here NEVER do these shows justice with the sheer amount of silly on display. XD
2. Continue editing Chapter 4 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – Alice and Mercurio made short work of Gimble, thanks to a knife stab, a bit of Dementation, and then massive amounts of head trauma with one of Gimble’s own hammers. Not a pleasant way to go, but then Gimble was hardly a pleasant man, was he? They’ve let Carson out (Mercurio doing the bad joke and Alice sympathizing) – now all that remains is to clean up the mess! And report back to Kilpatrick for the reward, of course. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – another “only one in the Subs” day, which at least allowed me to keep up on some of the stuff in the Watch Later –
A) Started with one of the latest OXBox lists (which is not about gross zombies, ew) – “10 Biggest New Games Coming in 2022 We Can't Wait To Play!” Just a quick list about the games due to be released this year that the gang are most excited about. From the release of that “vampire hunter co-op shooter” mentioned in the 2021 Quiz Of The Year, Redfall, to a rebooted Saints Row, to the original Bethesda title Starfield, to the coop shooter shenanigans of Rainbow Six Extraction, there appears to be a game for everyone coming out this year! I basically just want to see the last one on the channel, though – because Mike said it’s a co-op shooter requiring stealth and strategy, which means I want Jane to force Andy to play it with Mike and Mike to play it like he plays Hitman games. XD Hehehehe~
B) Then it was over to the latest AT4W offering – “Ultimate Power #9,” the last in that terrible, terrible little series! The plot recap is that a variation on the Squadron Supreme (the Marvel’s answer to the DC heroes) had their universe nearly destroyed by some extra-universal probes sent out by the Ultimate Reed Richards, with Reed going back to their universe with them to pay for his crimes. Only for it to be revealed later Nick Fury had Dr. Doom tamper with the probes, and the Lex Luthor equivalent on the other side made the actual weird biomass thing that was destroying the alternate Squadron Supereme universe. Also Scarlet Witch accidentally summoned the REGULAR Squadron Supreme universe in an attempt to help, and everyone was fighting, so Fury unleashed Ultimate Hulk on them all, with Spidey to stop him from eating everyone (as that’s a thing he does now). Basically, the heroes had a big long fight scene with Ultimate Hulk, with The Thing (with some help from Spider-Man and The Invisible Woman) landing the decisive blow; Spidey sold out Fury as the guy who caused the mess, and Kitty Pryde and a stretchy Squadron member took him out for punishment; Ultimate Reed came back to unmask the Lex Luthor equivalent, Emil; the second set of Squadron Supremes were sent back to their own universe by Scarlet Witch; the first set agreed to cease hostilities, and Power Princess went back to the Ultimate Marvel universe to keep an eye on it; and The Thing told Ultimate Reed not to worry about him while crying over one of his old human photographs. A stupid ending for a stupid story with stupid, traced artwork. Did we expect anything more? No, we did not. *sigh*
C) And then into the Subs for the GrayStillPlays video of the day, featuring more Happy Wheels! Started with a neon bottle flip of doom, with Gray defying a partially-closed-off platform claiming he’d land the bottle sideways (and then getting bottles on BOTH sides of the “funnel”) and sending a bottle down the plinko machine to “Triple Sus” – then we moved onto a watermelon run (with bonus decapitation spike and jets at the end – Gray won in two pieces, but he DID win); a toilet paper toss through a lavatorial thumbnail hole (which was much harder than it looked – especially since the other character had to “catch” it for him to win); a truly crushing death run (with boosters going down vertically to crush bike dad and son before flinging them into a spike fall – and a win with a WHOOLE lot of spikes sticking out of it); a pogo gap jump challenge where the hardest of them all was “Possible” (Gray spent a LOT of time on this one off-recording, methinks, given how many fails we actually SAW); a “normal” death run with bottles and spikes (turns out the death was of Gray’s FPS – though, hilariously, the slowed game speed from the bottle explosion underneath the run was crucial to Gray floating his way to victory); and a trip to a giant bathroom where winning involved avoiding the killer washing machine and then getting flushed down the toilet (past a very HD poop). You really gotta love just how WEIRD this shit is getting these days. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset my queue speed to one on Victor Luvs Alice, and got in a new Song Saturday – “Inkpot Gods” by The Amazing Devil off their latest album, “Ruin.” My friend Newt recommended it to me, and it has good sad Valice vibes, especially suited for “Forgetting You.” You’ll understand if you listen to it. *nods* So THAT’S all set, at least.
*nods* Very productive, just took a while, as these things do. And now time for bed! Night all!
