Bit Late, But Got There
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crossover_chickMy confession regarding my Smiler thing on tumblr got some attention from a follower (apparently I'm the third person they know on tumblr who's developed an obsession with the coaster, weirdly enough) that I had to spend some time responding to, and there was my webcomics and all that -- but here now are my updates:
Work – Another “meh” day – one of the credit card things FINALLY got fixed, but only one, and I’ve discovered Fun With Tax Letters while trying to update people’s addresses and finding mistakes in giving. *sigh* But again, not too stressful a day, so I can’t complain.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike tonight, and back with the Oxventure Rolling In The Deep! Octopus Merilwen (or Octowen) successfully found the lever with her tentacles, and lowered the drawbridge down for everyone, before deciding – since the drawbridge looked rather rickety – that she was gonna squirm across the wall instead. And then Prudence followed her with her “Spider Climb” spell. XD Dob, Egbert, Bismuth, and Corazon chanced the drawbridge, and while it creaked ominously in spots, they made it across without incident. ;)
Past the drawbridge they found what was essentially the former hermit’s living quarters – bed, little campfire, very dead hermit skeleton with a massive gash in its skull. . . “Speak With Dead” was once again employed, and after some banter (and the promise of seeing a giant octopus do a trick), the gang managed to get out of the skeleton that the hermit’s death had been the result of a troll slamming an ax into their head, and that the rest of the cave was very dangerous. Also that they weren’t very musical in life but they did like the band The Hermits. XD They returned to death before seeing Octowen do her trick though, awww. She tried to gently caress the skeleton but ended up just desecrating it instead with her tentacles. XD Prudence was on board, at least!
With information in hand, the gang proceeded into the more dangerous portion of the cave! Room one – big cave, treasure chest on a plinth – with an inscription in Infernal, as Corazon discovered. He yielded to Prudence, who read to herself that it was full of spiders and should not be opened.
Prudence told Corazon to open it as it was full of treasure, and he got covered in spiders. XD Andy’s acting as Corazon dealt with a blanket of spiders covering him was a treasure in and of itself, and Prudence/Jane got inspiration for making funny sound effects to go along with it. XD Anyway, they went onto room two, following Corazon’s spider trail, and discovered – a treasure chest on a plinth, with an inscription in Infernal. This one made Prudence’s little grimoire “puppies” (Frisky and The Darkness) go wild, and it turned out that one was filled with salted meat. It said “do not open,” but Dob kicked it open anyway (wanting some salted meat himself), and the grimoires went to town on it. XD The gang left them to it and found a third room –
With a treasure chest on a plinth, with an inscription in Infernal. This one claimed to have treasure, but still said not to open it. Corazon, distrusting but, as usual, wanting shinies, decided to use his “Mage Hand” spell to open it with his thieves’ tools from a distance. He rolled well, lock went click –
ENTIRE CAVE FLOOR DROPPED OUT FROM UNDER THEM. Corazon, fortunately, had Featherfall ready – and while he was tempted to leave Prudence out, he did eventually cast it on her and the others. This unfortunately meant Bismuth missed out on the spell (you can choose up to a maximum of five targets), and she ended up in an amusing cartoon-style collapsed accordion heap on the bottom of the pit. Dob settled her on his shoulders again as the others noticed strange tentacley shapes nearby, and Octowen went to check it out –
Turns out it was half-a-dozen Grells, brain jellyfish creatures with paralytic venom. A terrified Merilwen retreated and reported to the others, who started wondering how they were going to deal with them. Egbert brought up asking “Dad Cthulhu,” but Prudence wasn’t sure it was her place to ask him for a favor; Corazon was all for sneaking around them, as they were hired to get rid of whatever killed the hermit, which was a troll, not these guys – then Prudence brought up that Grells can actually be reasoned with, a bit, and persuaded to help others fight bigger threats while waiting for their own perfect moment to strike.
Dob immediately decided that he and Egbert should pose as tentacles for Octowen and try to convince the Grells to help them kill the trolls. And not only did he smash the disguise kit roll for the tentacle disguises (they ooze without Dob even meaning for them to ooze!), when he actually entered the room and started talking to the Grells (using Corazon’s “Comprehend Languages” spell to do so), he ALSO smashed the Charisma roll to convince them that the “king of the Grells” was sending them on a troll hunt for a bit of fun, being pleased with their performance in the cave. This despite the fact that the Grells are, apparently a republic when it comes to governing themselves. (Andy was like “how does this keep happening” and Johnny was like “I don’t know.” XD) It was also revealed that they’re blind (so there wasn’t actually much NEED for the disguise) – and they speak Common.
Which was revealed AFTER Dob called out to Corazon and Prudence to join them as “prisoners” and play along. XD Fortunately, it seems time constraints plus Dob’s hilariously high Charisma will stop this from being an issue, as the Grells are still down for the troll hunt. We’ll see how that goes tomorrow! :D
2. Continue editing Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check! The big reveal of “Therese probably murdered her and Jeannette’s abusive father” has come out, and – well, the two sisters were startled into not trying to kill each other by Alice yelling that Therese did the right thing and that their father was a gigantic asshole who is hopefully burning in Hell. Because you knew Alice was going to have strong feelings about that. XD She’s trying to keep up the “not trying to kill each other” energy, but the two aren’t making it easy. Fortunately, Therese is just about to present Alice with an opening, curiously in the form of doing a bit of name-calling. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – I have caught up from yesterday thanks to Kevin taking a day off, allowing me a bit more time to watch Gray –
A) Started with another video from James Turner – his reaction to the trailer and blog post about My Wedding Stories! He is – lukewarm. Mostly because weddings are not a thing he does in his game, typically, and he’s not seeing much in the Build/Buy section that looks like it would be good outside of a wedding. He is all in favor of more gameplay and says that the detail that’s now going into planning a wedding is probably going to appeal to a lot of people (especially with the variety in parties and cultural traditions and all that), but it’s not exactly a pack for him. That being said, the comment section is all about “well at LEAST do it for Trenton and Hazel” – though someone else is saying they already got married in the “elope immediately” sense? I could have sworn they were still only engaged. . .I guess we’ll find out!
B) Then it was time for the Double Dose of GrayStillPlays! We had:
I. Yesterday’s offering, Hiring Job 3D – a terrible mobile game about office life! You had to hire employees (Gray, of course, only hiring the known lazy criminals), print ID cards (Gray inputting random letters and taking pictures of chests instead of faces), enforce the dress code (the opposite of what it says on the sign, of course), control the office temperature (from freezing to boiling, because Florida, baby!), mediate grievances (like firing the guy complaining that his underling keeps using emojis in reports – the game approved of that one, actually), give paychecks (or just firing everyone) and bonuses (make that money rain!), and have meetings (where Gray decided to give the employees no work but lock them in the office for perfect attendance). And no matter what you did, the game paid you quite well anyway and promoted you up the ladder to HR Supervisor. Based on my own job experience, being fucking incompetent and yet still having a good high-paying job is unfortunately very realistic. *grumbles* At least Gray makes it look funny.
II. And today’s offering – more Happy Wheels! Starting with the traditional bottle flip (with non-traditional clickable flips – like releasing an Among Us astrobean when clicking “sus,” or a cleaver when clicking “STEROIDS”) where Gray managed to get a bottle basically levitating on the hump labeled “Gray Will Find A Way,” then proceeding onto such boards as an escape from Hell (featuring a ball-and-spike fall with Pogo Guy, followed by a Pogo fight, then finally a win with so many harpoons Gray had to avoid for JUST LONG ENOUGH); a homemade jet platform fly through a maze of dangerous shapes (Gray got stuck beneath one of the triangles once); Bike Dad and Son taking on The Stabbinator (flying sai butterflies – and then Gray JUST managed to avoid getting stabbed on the “ramp” of rotating blades leading to the win); a hell board with a lower level covered in mines (speed, floating, and not needing legs won the day there); a “harder than Gray expected” jet wall run (mostly because the jets were more violent than he thought – took quite a lot of sacrifice and bloody-mindedness to make it past them all); a helicopter ride through a landscape of blades – and just brushing ONE would start a chain reaction with the ROCKETS scattered throughout the board (Gray got minced twice before he managed to get the patience to slowly guide Florida Man through the gaps); a no-move heart run board (where the heart wasted four years in college before discovering a true passion for hardware); two supposedly-hard bottle runs that Gray completed with shocking ease (through speed, agility, and – well, basically just slamming hard into every winning area on the second one XD); and Dylan Synder taking Segway Nixon on a trip to the gym, where he killed multiple patrons before being locked up in a locker for his crimes. XD The usual delightful nonsense, you might say. :)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got the queue speed reset to one a day over on Victor Luvs Alice, and got my Song Saturday post sorted – yes, it’s “Meet Me At Our Spot” by THE ANXIETY, which I’ve been listening to a lot lately. What can I say, it’s got the Valice vibes. :p So that takes me through Saturday, which means I’m set there until Valicetine’s Day itself. :) Plus I got my prompt for my upcoming gift fic, yay~
Whew -- well, productive evening at least! And now to go to bed and do it all again tomorrow. With possible trying to set up the damn phone AGAIN extra fun if the promised sim card arrives. *sigh* We'll see what happens. For now, g'night!
Work – Another “meh” day – one of the credit card things FINALLY got fixed, but only one, and I’ve discovered Fun With Tax Letters while trying to update people’s addresses and finding mistakes in giving. *sigh* But again, not too stressful a day, so I can’t complain.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike tonight, and back with the Oxventure Rolling In The Deep! Octopus Merilwen (or Octowen) successfully found the lever with her tentacles, and lowered the drawbridge down for everyone, before deciding – since the drawbridge looked rather rickety – that she was gonna squirm across the wall instead. And then Prudence followed her with her “Spider Climb” spell. XD Dob, Egbert, Bismuth, and Corazon chanced the drawbridge, and while it creaked ominously in spots, they made it across without incident. ;)
Past the drawbridge they found what was essentially the former hermit’s living quarters – bed, little campfire, very dead hermit skeleton with a massive gash in its skull. . . “Speak With Dead” was once again employed, and after some banter (and the promise of seeing a giant octopus do a trick), the gang managed to get out of the skeleton that the hermit’s death had been the result of a troll slamming an ax into their head, and that the rest of the cave was very dangerous. Also that they weren’t very musical in life but they did like the band The Hermits. XD They returned to death before seeing Octowen do her trick though, awww. She tried to gently caress the skeleton but ended up just desecrating it instead with her tentacles. XD Prudence was on board, at least!
With information in hand, the gang proceeded into the more dangerous portion of the cave! Room one – big cave, treasure chest on a plinth – with an inscription in Infernal, as Corazon discovered. He yielded to Prudence, who read to herself that it was full of spiders and should not be opened.
Prudence told Corazon to open it as it was full of treasure, and he got covered in spiders. XD Andy’s acting as Corazon dealt with a blanket of spiders covering him was a treasure in and of itself, and Prudence/Jane got inspiration for making funny sound effects to go along with it. XD Anyway, they went onto room two, following Corazon’s spider trail, and discovered – a treasure chest on a plinth, with an inscription in Infernal. This one made Prudence’s little grimoire “puppies” (Frisky and The Darkness) go wild, and it turned out that one was filled with salted meat. It said “do not open,” but Dob kicked it open anyway (wanting some salted meat himself), and the grimoires went to town on it. XD The gang left them to it and found a third room –
With a treasure chest on a plinth, with an inscription in Infernal. This one claimed to have treasure, but still said not to open it. Corazon, distrusting but, as usual, wanting shinies, decided to use his “Mage Hand” spell to open it with his thieves’ tools from a distance. He rolled well, lock went click –
ENTIRE CAVE FLOOR DROPPED OUT FROM UNDER THEM. Corazon, fortunately, had Featherfall ready – and while he was tempted to leave Prudence out, he did eventually cast it on her and the others. This unfortunately meant Bismuth missed out on the spell (you can choose up to a maximum of five targets), and she ended up in an amusing cartoon-style collapsed accordion heap on the bottom of the pit. Dob settled her on his shoulders again as the others noticed strange tentacley shapes nearby, and Octowen went to check it out –
Turns out it was half-a-dozen Grells, brain jellyfish creatures with paralytic venom. A terrified Merilwen retreated and reported to the others, who started wondering how they were going to deal with them. Egbert brought up asking “Dad Cthulhu,” but Prudence wasn’t sure it was her place to ask him for a favor; Corazon was all for sneaking around them, as they were hired to get rid of whatever killed the hermit, which was a troll, not these guys – then Prudence brought up that Grells can actually be reasoned with, a bit, and persuaded to help others fight bigger threats while waiting for their own perfect moment to strike.
Dob immediately decided that he and Egbert should pose as tentacles for Octowen and try to convince the Grells to help them kill the trolls. And not only did he smash the disguise kit roll for the tentacle disguises (they ooze without Dob even meaning for them to ooze!), when he actually entered the room and started talking to the Grells (using Corazon’s “Comprehend Languages” spell to do so), he ALSO smashed the Charisma roll to convince them that the “king of the Grells” was sending them on a troll hunt for a bit of fun, being pleased with their performance in the cave. This despite the fact that the Grells are, apparently a republic when it comes to governing themselves. (Andy was like “how does this keep happening” and Johnny was like “I don’t know.” XD) It was also revealed that they’re blind (so there wasn’t actually much NEED for the disguise) – and they speak Common.
Which was revealed AFTER Dob called out to Corazon and Prudence to join them as “prisoners” and play along. XD Fortunately, it seems time constraints plus Dob’s hilariously high Charisma will stop this from being an issue, as the Grells are still down for the troll hunt. We’ll see how that goes tomorrow! :D
2. Continue editing Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check! The big reveal of “Therese probably murdered her and Jeannette’s abusive father” has come out, and – well, the two sisters were startled into not trying to kill each other by Alice yelling that Therese did the right thing and that their father was a gigantic asshole who is hopefully burning in Hell. Because you knew Alice was going to have strong feelings about that. XD She’s trying to keep up the “not trying to kill each other” energy, but the two aren’t making it easy. Fortunately, Therese is just about to present Alice with an opening, curiously in the form of doing a bit of name-calling. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – I have caught up from yesterday thanks to Kevin taking a day off, allowing me a bit more time to watch Gray –
A) Started with another video from James Turner – his reaction to the trailer and blog post about My Wedding Stories! He is – lukewarm. Mostly because weddings are not a thing he does in his game, typically, and he’s not seeing much in the Build/Buy section that looks like it would be good outside of a wedding. He is all in favor of more gameplay and says that the detail that’s now going into planning a wedding is probably going to appeal to a lot of people (especially with the variety in parties and cultural traditions and all that), but it’s not exactly a pack for him. That being said, the comment section is all about “well at LEAST do it for Trenton and Hazel” – though someone else is saying they already got married in the “elope immediately” sense? I could have sworn they were still only engaged. . .I guess we’ll find out!
B) Then it was time for the Double Dose of GrayStillPlays! We had:
I. Yesterday’s offering, Hiring Job 3D – a terrible mobile game about office life! You had to hire employees (Gray, of course, only hiring the known lazy criminals), print ID cards (Gray inputting random letters and taking pictures of chests instead of faces), enforce the dress code (the opposite of what it says on the sign, of course), control the office temperature (from freezing to boiling, because Florida, baby!), mediate grievances (like firing the guy complaining that his underling keeps using emojis in reports – the game approved of that one, actually), give paychecks (or just firing everyone) and bonuses (make that money rain!), and have meetings (where Gray decided to give the employees no work but lock them in the office for perfect attendance). And no matter what you did, the game paid you quite well anyway and promoted you up the ladder to HR Supervisor. Based on my own job experience, being fucking incompetent and yet still having a good high-paying job is unfortunately very realistic. *grumbles* At least Gray makes it look funny.
II. And today’s offering – more Happy Wheels! Starting with the traditional bottle flip (with non-traditional clickable flips – like releasing an Among Us astrobean when clicking “sus,” or a cleaver when clicking “STEROIDS”) where Gray managed to get a bottle basically levitating on the hump labeled “Gray Will Find A Way,” then proceeding onto such boards as an escape from Hell (featuring a ball-and-spike fall with Pogo Guy, followed by a Pogo fight, then finally a win with so many harpoons Gray had to avoid for JUST LONG ENOUGH); a homemade jet platform fly through a maze of dangerous shapes (Gray got stuck beneath one of the triangles once); Bike Dad and Son taking on The Stabbinator (flying sai butterflies – and then Gray JUST managed to avoid getting stabbed on the “ramp” of rotating blades leading to the win); a hell board with a lower level covered in mines (speed, floating, and not needing legs won the day there); a “harder than Gray expected” jet wall run (mostly because the jets were more violent than he thought – took quite a lot of sacrifice and bloody-mindedness to make it past them all); a helicopter ride through a landscape of blades – and just brushing ONE would start a chain reaction with the ROCKETS scattered throughout the board (Gray got minced twice before he managed to get the patience to slowly guide Florida Man through the gaps); a no-move heart run board (where the heart wasted four years in college before discovering a true passion for hardware); two supposedly-hard bottle runs that Gray completed with shocking ease (through speed, agility, and – well, basically just slamming hard into every winning area on the second one XD); and Dylan Synder taking Segway Nixon on a trip to the gym, where he killed multiple patrons before being locked up in a locker for his crimes. XD The usual delightful nonsense, you might say. :)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got the queue speed reset to one a day over on Victor Luvs Alice, and got my Song Saturday post sorted – yes, it’s “Meet Me At Our Spot” by THE ANXIETY, which I’ve been listening to a lot lately. What can I say, it’s got the Valice vibes. :p So that takes me through Saturday, which means I’m set there until Valicetine’s Day itself. :) Plus I got my prompt for my upcoming gift fic, yay~
Whew -- well, productive evening at least! And now to go to bed and do it all again tomorrow. With possible trying to set up the damn phone AGAIN extra fun if the promised sim card arrives. *sigh* We'll see what happens. For now, g'night!
