Less Stressful Tuesday
Feb. 8th, 2022 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickBeing able to come home and just play a game on my iPad and get on my computer will do that. As will the following --
Work – Well, there were no fire “drills” that forced us to go out in freezing rain. . .honestly, a reasonably decent day, even with the return of the talky coworker from her long weekend. More credit card calls than I was expecting, and we’ve had to poke the company AGAIN to get some shit fixed, but the day went by with a minimum of bullshit, and I suppose that’s the best any of us can hope for when it comes to work! And the traffic getting home was WAY better, so, that’s a plus.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike tonight, and back with Oxventure for Rolling In The Deep! It’s been a week since the gang won the manor at Necropolis-On-Sea, and while they haven’t had any luck shifting the place, they have made friends with Bismuth and hang out at her pub, the Bloody Gills. After a brief drinking game of rhyming couplets, the festivities were interrupted by the sudden thump of an ancient severed head on their table, as per a mysterious stranger standing over them!
This being the Oxventure crew, everyone started asking Dob to cast “Speak with Dead” so they could talk to the head. XD He obliged, and the head proved to have something against Prudence, spitting at her with its dusty mouth. After confirming it knew Prudence with their five questions, they finally chose to talk to the stranger, who angrily declared that Prudence owed him a debt. Prudence reluctantly told the others the head was that of her adoptive father, Cyrus, the hermit warlock who raised her – and, of course, whom she killed later because he was in the way of more power (and also because he WAS genuinely kind of a dick to her – her backstory is pretty sad, really). The stranger was apparently a fellow hermit friend of his, from the Guild of Hermits. Yes, the Oxventurers found this as ridiculous as anyone else and began roundly mocking him and his guild, with their meetings by post. XD Anyway, Cyrus’s Friend (I don’t believe he has any other name yet?) demanded that Prudence break her pact with Cthulhu to join THEIR patron, Zargon the Returner (who wishes to flood the world in slime) and become a hermit in Cyrus’s old cave to make up for killing him, otherwise they’d slaughter her, the other Oxventurers, and their friends and families and other loved ones. No one was particularly down with that, but neither were they down with Prudence being forced into a life of hermitage, so after Corazon unsuccessfully tried to dupe the guy into killing Egbert instead, and Cyrus’s Friend had a VERY awkward meeting with a fellow hermit, it was agreed they could do a favor for the Guild of Hermits instead. Namely, a VERY nice cave has suddenly been occupied by non-hermit persons (who have killed the hermit there), and they want the place cleaned out. Doing so will clear Prudence’s debt, though until then, she has to wear Cyrus’s head on a necklace that will not come off. This being Prudence, she’s actually pretty down with that. XD The Oxventurers agreed to these terms, received a map to the cave, and set off – with Bismuth riding on Dob’s shoulders, because of course the random NPC gets to come. XD
They reached the cave Without Incident without incident (blame Corazon, not me!), and Prudence checked the place out magically – there was definitely leftover magic from the previous occupant lurking around, and possibly new magic too! Corazon deigned to look for traps at her suggestion with the help of Dancing Lights (being the only member of the party who can’t naturally see in the dark), and he discovered a giant chasm about twenty feet in. There was a drawbridge nearby, with a lever. . .
But again, this being the Oxventure crew, Corazon wondered if this was all some sort of “test of faith,” and it was decided to have Egbert – roped to the other Oxventurers, in particular Dob – try walking across the open air in case there was some sort of invisible bridge. There very much was NOT, and Egbert plummeted and smashed into the side of the chasm, while a few of the crew ended up flat on their faces with busted noses. Egbert was towed back up, Dob healed everybody, and Merilwen decided to try the lever.
Only to find it encased in glass, with a very small tube maze surrounding it. Egbert suggested Corazon use his “Mage Hand” spell to get inside, but Merilwen said “hold that thought” –
And TURNED INTO A GIANT OCTOPUS. XD Yes, this is her new wildshape that she’s been saving for the appropriate moment – she even has a little octopus hand puppet to represent it! She promptly had her octopode form squeeze into the tiny maze, while everyone else was like “that’s disgusting.” XD Johnny made her roll to get to the lever in the middle, but only to see her actually use her octopus hand to roll the dice. XD Left it there, but I think that drawbridge is going down sooner rather than later! Good thing, too, as this adventure is only an hour and forty-five minutes, and we’re already a half-hour in. . .
2. Continue editing Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – Therese and Jeannette’s argument continues apace, with Alice caught in the middle, and learning more about the sisters’ early life than she cared to know. She’s pretty horrified, though Therese is insisting that her father coming into her room at night did not traumatize her, thank you very much. Anyway, Caterpillar’s counseling her to try and get them to work together, but that’s gonna take some doing, as Alice is finding out. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Only two-thirds check – a late start this evening, plus a longer-than-expected video in my Subs meant I only got two out of three watched. Good thing Kevin takes Wednesdays off now so I can catch up on Gray tomorrow. . .but in the meantime. . .
A) Started very early with the latest Sims 4 trailer release – My Wedding Stories! Which is more dramatic than I originally thought it would be, as it actually details, in part, an engagement gone wrong – one of the leads first gets engaged to a guy, but after it turns out they really don’t actually have that much in common, she dumps him for who I assume is her best friend. She does this AT THE ALTAR, which is a BIT of a dick move, but the photos show that they all make up afterward, the two women get married, and the dumped dude not only walks his former fiancee up the aisle, he finds a new love interest during the reception, so it all works out happily. I don’t know how much of this is actual gameplay and how much is them just being cute for the trailer, but I guess we’ll find out soon enough!
B) Then, this evening, over in the Subs, we actually had more James Turner, with more of the Cottage Living LP! As usual, everything is chaos, with the constant struggle to keep track of all the Sims and make sure they’re happy and fed, but two important events happened this time around:
I. Chaz had his birthday! James sent everybody over to the pub for celebrations, hiring an entertainer and a caterer (who proved to be one of Agatha Crumplebottom’s clones) before having Trenton make a strawberry cake so Chaz could blow out the candles, take over the piano, and bag up some of the food for later. XD So Chaz is officially an adult now, and everyone’s ages are just getting weirder and weirder. XD
II. Hazel had a renovation gig! Yeah, remember when her thing was Dream Home Decorator? That’s come back around, with James taking a Fabulous Living Room Renovation gig for none other than Vladislaus Straud in Forgotten Hollow! Turns out he was looking for a lot more color in his unlife, as his color preferences were pink and gray, and his preferred furniture style Boho. James immediately replaced all his furniture with fun Movie Hangout Stuff items and brightened up the room with loads of plants. Vlad loved it, and Hazel had a very successful payday! Maybe not as successful as Chaz selling almost all the produce to Kim in town, and then the mushrooms to the new Creature Keeper for an even greater profit (once he managed to get over there – turns out the National Park is broken, unfortunately, because it’s missing necessary items), but it’s something, right? Professional pride.
That and Trenton making friends with Llamanade and Kim getting the key to the house is the big news around Henford-on-Bagley in the LP currently! Wondering now how James is gonna handle My Wedding Stories when he gets it. A big wedding for Hazel and Trenton seems obvious, but where to go from there. . .
C) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin and Weed Shop III, because the terrible games about being the owner of a weed shop needed ANOTHER sequel, am I right? But it was all worth it, because this one allows you to just walk straight into the ocean for over a kilometer before drowning. XD Anyway, Kevin ended up buying a shop from “The Dude Jr” for the price of a kidney, then set about setting up a business selling weed! After accidentally dumping one plant in the ocean, because it needed water, you know. :p He had a decent customer base for a while – Diaper Dan, Shamquille O’Deal, other various burnouts with terrifying eyes – but then he had to stop blocking the doors with his counter to let in new customers and they all escaped. Then he started forgetting to replant his stock on the regular and started upsetting his regulars. Then he took a mission from the stoner selling HIS old weed shop to get “Excalibur” (what looked like an old stick) out of the inner city while avoiding “masturbating Louie” (THE GAME’S WORDS), then beat up The Dude Jr with said stick after unsuccessfully luring him into the ocean. And then the other stoner fucked off to Japan, leaving Kevin with a failing business and no way to resupply. And so it was back out into the ocean, where no one would judge him. You wouldn’t think these broken, glitchy indie games would be so much fun, but Kevin always finds a way. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got Victor Luvs Alice done early, with my three-part Chill Save update (wrapping up Victor and Alice’s honeymoon and introducing Smiler), my ship meme for Thursday (and it turns out another tumblr I check out sometimes ALSO did the meme and had a source for it, hooray!), and a Corpse Bride poly fic reblog for Friday, w00. :) And over on Valice Multiverse – three ask replies, and a post of CB-themed starter sentences a friend tagged me in. (Also asked same friend if she has any requests for birthday fic, as I owe her one on the 23rd, so. . .)
Not bad, not bad -- wish I'd managed to clear out my Subs, but James's video was 40 minutes, and I started it slightly after 9 PM, soo -- yeah, not gonna happen, sadly. Like I said, I should have the chance to catch back up tomorrow! In the meantime, I gotta hit the sheets -- night all!
Work – Well, there were no fire “drills” that forced us to go out in freezing rain. . .honestly, a reasonably decent day, even with the return of the talky coworker from her long weekend. More credit card calls than I was expecting, and we’ve had to poke the company AGAIN to get some shit fixed, but the day went by with a minimum of bullshit, and I suppose that’s the best any of us can hope for when it comes to work! And the traffic getting home was WAY better, so, that’s a plus.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike tonight, and back with Oxventure for Rolling In The Deep! It’s been a week since the gang won the manor at Necropolis-On-Sea, and while they haven’t had any luck shifting the place, they have made friends with Bismuth and hang out at her pub, the Bloody Gills. After a brief drinking game of rhyming couplets, the festivities were interrupted by the sudden thump of an ancient severed head on their table, as per a mysterious stranger standing over them!
This being the Oxventure crew, everyone started asking Dob to cast “Speak with Dead” so they could talk to the head. XD He obliged, and the head proved to have something against Prudence, spitting at her with its dusty mouth. After confirming it knew Prudence with their five questions, they finally chose to talk to the stranger, who angrily declared that Prudence owed him a debt. Prudence reluctantly told the others the head was that of her adoptive father, Cyrus, the hermit warlock who raised her – and, of course, whom she killed later because he was in the way of more power (and also because he WAS genuinely kind of a dick to her – her backstory is pretty sad, really). The stranger was apparently a fellow hermit friend of his, from the Guild of Hermits. Yes, the Oxventurers found this as ridiculous as anyone else and began roundly mocking him and his guild, with their meetings by post. XD Anyway, Cyrus’s Friend (I don’t believe he has any other name yet?) demanded that Prudence break her pact with Cthulhu to join THEIR patron, Zargon the Returner (who wishes to flood the world in slime) and become a hermit in Cyrus’s old cave to make up for killing him, otherwise they’d slaughter her, the other Oxventurers, and their friends and families and other loved ones. No one was particularly down with that, but neither were they down with Prudence being forced into a life of hermitage, so after Corazon unsuccessfully tried to dupe the guy into killing Egbert instead, and Cyrus’s Friend had a VERY awkward meeting with a fellow hermit, it was agreed they could do a favor for the Guild of Hermits instead. Namely, a VERY nice cave has suddenly been occupied by non-hermit persons (who have killed the hermit there), and they want the place cleaned out. Doing so will clear Prudence’s debt, though until then, she has to wear Cyrus’s head on a necklace that will not come off. This being Prudence, she’s actually pretty down with that. XD The Oxventurers agreed to these terms, received a map to the cave, and set off – with Bismuth riding on Dob’s shoulders, because of course the random NPC gets to come. XD
They reached the cave Without Incident without incident (blame Corazon, not me!), and Prudence checked the place out magically – there was definitely leftover magic from the previous occupant lurking around, and possibly new magic too! Corazon deigned to look for traps at her suggestion with the help of Dancing Lights (being the only member of the party who can’t naturally see in the dark), and he discovered a giant chasm about twenty feet in. There was a drawbridge nearby, with a lever. . .
But again, this being the Oxventure crew, Corazon wondered if this was all some sort of “test of faith,” and it was decided to have Egbert – roped to the other Oxventurers, in particular Dob – try walking across the open air in case there was some sort of invisible bridge. There very much was NOT, and Egbert plummeted and smashed into the side of the chasm, while a few of the crew ended up flat on their faces with busted noses. Egbert was towed back up, Dob healed everybody, and Merilwen decided to try the lever.
Only to find it encased in glass, with a very small tube maze surrounding it. Egbert suggested Corazon use his “Mage Hand” spell to get inside, but Merilwen said “hold that thought” –
And TURNED INTO A GIANT OCTOPUS. XD Yes, this is her new wildshape that she’s been saving for the appropriate moment – she even has a little octopus hand puppet to represent it! She promptly had her octopode form squeeze into the tiny maze, while everyone else was like “that’s disgusting.” XD Johnny made her roll to get to the lever in the middle, but only to see her actually use her octopus hand to roll the dice. XD Left it there, but I think that drawbridge is going down sooner rather than later! Good thing, too, as this adventure is only an hour and forty-five minutes, and we’re already a half-hour in. . .
2. Continue editing Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – Therese and Jeannette’s argument continues apace, with Alice caught in the middle, and learning more about the sisters’ early life than she cared to know. She’s pretty horrified, though Therese is insisting that her father coming into her room at night did not traumatize her, thank you very much. Anyway, Caterpillar’s counseling her to try and get them to work together, but that’s gonna take some doing, as Alice is finding out. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Only two-thirds check – a late start this evening, plus a longer-than-expected video in my Subs meant I only got two out of three watched. Good thing Kevin takes Wednesdays off now so I can catch up on Gray tomorrow. . .but in the meantime. . .
A) Started very early with the latest Sims 4 trailer release – My Wedding Stories! Which is more dramatic than I originally thought it would be, as it actually details, in part, an engagement gone wrong – one of the leads first gets engaged to a guy, but after it turns out they really don’t actually have that much in common, she dumps him for who I assume is her best friend. She does this AT THE ALTAR, which is a BIT of a dick move, but the photos show that they all make up afterward, the two women get married, and the dumped dude not only walks his former fiancee up the aisle, he finds a new love interest during the reception, so it all works out happily. I don’t know how much of this is actual gameplay and how much is them just being cute for the trailer, but I guess we’ll find out soon enough!
B) Then, this evening, over in the Subs, we actually had more James Turner, with more of the Cottage Living LP! As usual, everything is chaos, with the constant struggle to keep track of all the Sims and make sure they’re happy and fed, but two important events happened this time around:
I. Chaz had his birthday! James sent everybody over to the pub for celebrations, hiring an entertainer and a caterer (who proved to be one of Agatha Crumplebottom’s clones) before having Trenton make a strawberry cake so Chaz could blow out the candles, take over the piano, and bag up some of the food for later. XD So Chaz is officially an adult now, and everyone’s ages are just getting weirder and weirder. XD
II. Hazel had a renovation gig! Yeah, remember when her thing was Dream Home Decorator? That’s come back around, with James taking a Fabulous Living Room Renovation gig for none other than Vladislaus Straud in Forgotten Hollow! Turns out he was looking for a lot more color in his unlife, as his color preferences were pink and gray, and his preferred furniture style Boho. James immediately replaced all his furniture with fun Movie Hangout Stuff items and brightened up the room with loads of plants. Vlad loved it, and Hazel had a very successful payday! Maybe not as successful as Chaz selling almost all the produce to Kim in town, and then the mushrooms to the new Creature Keeper for an even greater profit (once he managed to get over there – turns out the National Park is broken, unfortunately, because it’s missing necessary items), but it’s something, right? Professional pride.
That and Trenton making friends with Llamanade and Kim getting the key to the house is the big news around Henford-on-Bagley in the LP currently! Wondering now how James is gonna handle My Wedding Stories when he gets it. A big wedding for Hazel and Trenton seems obvious, but where to go from there. . .
C) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin and Weed Shop III, because the terrible games about being the owner of a weed shop needed ANOTHER sequel, am I right? But it was all worth it, because this one allows you to just walk straight into the ocean for over a kilometer before drowning. XD Anyway, Kevin ended up buying a shop from “The Dude Jr” for the price of a kidney, then set about setting up a business selling weed! After accidentally dumping one plant in the ocean, because it needed water, you know. :p He had a decent customer base for a while – Diaper Dan, Shamquille O’Deal, other various burnouts with terrifying eyes – but then he had to stop blocking the doors with his counter to let in new customers and they all escaped. Then he started forgetting to replant his stock on the regular and started upsetting his regulars. Then he took a mission from the stoner selling HIS old weed shop to get “Excalibur” (what looked like an old stick) out of the inner city while avoiding “masturbating Louie” (THE GAME’S WORDS), then beat up The Dude Jr with said stick after unsuccessfully luring him into the ocean. And then the other stoner fucked off to Japan, leaving Kevin with a failing business and no way to resupply. And so it was back out into the ocean, where no one would judge him. You wouldn’t think these broken, glitchy indie games would be so much fun, but Kevin always finds a way. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got Victor Luvs Alice done early, with my three-part Chill Save update (wrapping up Victor and Alice’s honeymoon and introducing Smiler), my ship meme for Thursday (and it turns out another tumblr I check out sometimes ALSO did the meme and had a source for it, hooray!), and a Corpse Bride poly fic reblog for Friday, w00. :) And over on Valice Multiverse – three ask replies, and a post of CB-themed starter sentences a friend tagged me in. (Also asked same friend if she has any requests for birthday fic, as I owe her one on the 23rd, so. . .)
Not bad, not bad -- wish I'd managed to clear out my Subs, but James's video was 40 minutes, and I started it slightly after 9 PM, soo -- yeah, not gonna happen, sadly. Like I said, I should have the chance to catch back up tomorrow! In the meantime, I gotta hit the sheets -- night all!
