"Oof" Day Back
Feb. 15th, 2022 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickI mean, just look at the "Work" section below and you'll see --
Work – Busy! Not just because I was out yesterday, but – as it turned out – one of my coworkers was ALSO out yesterday because of post-medical-stuff stomach issues. So we were both catching up, and I was juggling my usual tasks with keeping up with credit card calls (returning and receiving), a couple of quality control spreadsheets, some exceptions. . .yeah, it was a pretty balls-to-the-wall day. *whew* Makes me glad tomorrow’s a short day!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another half-hour on the bike, and with OXBox and “Hitman 3 Valentine’s Day Contracts! ROMANTIC AGENT 47 HELPS CUPID!” Caught back up with Mike, Andy, and Jane trying to lure the lounging staff out of the room where the only teacup that butler Mr. Fernsby might drink out of in the game (so he could be emetically poisoned and drowned to complete the first Cupid contract) was – this proved wildly unsuccessful no matter what they did, so it was decided to instead fling a sword into Fernsby’s head.
And then Mike missed the throw, falling prey to the old “the targeting reticule wasn’t EXACTLY lined up so instead I gently tossed the sword at them” curse. So he just shot Fernsby in the head when he turned around and legged it out of there. XD Managed to avoid dying on his way out and roared away on the motorcycle – not bad, but not perfect! With that finally over, they moved onto the next contract, which was a sniping mission in the Chongqing level – protecting a woman headed to a date with her love on a nearby bridge! Mike had three people to eliminate via sniper rifle, and one via a falling accident – and, for complications, he could not be recorded, nor could he change out of his starting suit. He thus chose to be a clown (Andy allowed it) and use the most elaborate sniper rifle in the game, the Majestic (unlocked on the Pride level of their Deadly Sins DLC) – though he did at least stick it in the homing briefcase. XD The actual mission itself went pretty well – two of the targets were right near the spawn point, hanging out in a corridor where some cages could be shot down to distract them and bring them into the open near a little high bridge platform. Mike lured out one with a cage, shot him from the platform, hid around the corner as his buddy came looking, then crept back and shot said buddy when he started to go back to his regular patrol route. The third guy proved to be atop a rooftop covered in drones – there was a little trouble when another NPC tried to take Mike’s briefcase while he was climbing up a ladder, but Mike choked him out in a shadowed spot and reclaimed it and the sniper rifle, before climbing up, carefully eliminating the drones, and distracting his target’s friend with a coin before darting in to shove him off the roof. XD And then, as luck should have it, who should come and clean up the body but his fourth target! Mike got into a good position, waited for the target to get into a good position, popped him in the head, and then headed for the subway, job done. :) Four stars too! That’s rare for Mike, at least on-camera. XD
And then it was time for the final contract – a sequel to the first at the Dartmoor garden party (and yes, it is DARTMOOR – I can never remember!), with the need to kill one of the gardeners, a photographer, and I believe one of the judges to let true love bloom. The complications this time include two of the kills needing to look like accidents, the inability to change one’s suit, the inability to be recorded – AND no bodies can be found. Hmmm. Difficult. Mike’s first attempt at trying to set up a “drop the cage hanging in the first target’s garden on his head” accident kill was scuttled by his inability to actually shoot down the cage and making everyone panic, so the mission’s already had to be restarted once. Currently the plan is for him to retrieve his favorite explosive ducky from the greenhouse and see if an explosion kill can a) take out two targets at once and b) count as an accident. We shall see tomorrow! :)
2. Edit the gift fic due next week: Check – cleaned up Marie’s gift fic for her birthday next Wednesday, using her prompt of her OC Madeline getting caught by Alice after sneaking out to a party. Just a bit of light family drama, as I believe I said earlier – hopefully she likes it! It was her idea, after all. :p
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – simple two-in, two-out today, which is good as I was busy with tumblr queues below –
A) First, Call Me Kevin playing Vegas Crime Simulator – a terrible mobile “clone” of GTA V! “Clone” is used in the loosest sense here – the game features a protagonist that looks vaguely like CJ, is set in a city, and features crime things and wanted stars. And ads. An absolute fuck-ton of ads. XD Poor Kevin probably spent more time watching ads than playing the game – not that there was a lot of game to play. The first mission was literally just running from your own yard to someone else’s yard, then jumping on top of gangsters to gun them down. And then gunning down the quest giver as the game claimed he’d only defeated three out of four gangsters. XD Not that that stopped him from giving quests. . . Kevin also tried out a super-electric gun for some mysterious “Dr. K” (which the game then tried to get him to buy with real money), visited the casino (and won a free gun with his one free spin, yay), participated in a bike race (in which he was briefly turned to jelly by a crash), tried to steal an Army jeep but instead just got beaten to death by the police, eventually successfully stole a van, found a way to earn himself some pants (as they were too expensive to buy normally), and bought himself a wall-climb power to climb the local Eiffel Tower. XD Basically this game was the pinnacle of awful knock-offs and it was a blast to watch. XD
B) And second, GrayStillPlays playing – oh, look, a GTA V story parkour board! Gray got a job collecting people for a bunch of organ harvesters, with his targets including the spleen of "Hairy Tony" in the woods -- getting it involved chasing down the Bigfoot on a bike, “pacifying” him, then loading him onto a speedboat and riding the rapids while Tony’s friends tried to blast him off course; Vin Diesel’s stunt guy's ambidextrous left foot -- Gray got him by intimidating him into walking into a car (after blasting security, the director, and Vin himself off a building, then leaping over a helicopter on his bike), then making his way around a loop-de-loop wall ride into the teleporter; and finally the giant cycolpean eye of an alien hiding in a hedge maze -- Gray using his deer Meaty Bits’s special deer senses to make it easier to track him down (at least until Meaty got distracted by a fridge full of beer) and a baseball bat to make it easier to take him down. XD His reward for all this? His employers attempting to trap him and run him over, leading to Gray blowing up their boat. Because you don’t mess with Florida Man. XD Good stupid fun, and nice to see the simple horror of a wall ride again. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got an early start so I didn’t feel quite so rushed after watching my YouTubes! On VictorLuvsAlice, I got the text for tomorrow’s Chill Save update with Smiler finished and in the queue, and a good start on the text for the next “Dynamic Summary” ship meme – still need to finish that, but I’ll have some extra time tomorrow! And on Valice Multiverse, I kept busy – two asks and three thread replies! Nothing too overwhelming but still more active than my average night.
*looks at all that* Been a busy day all around, honestly! Just glad I made it through the workday without completely losing my mind. . .and got all that queuing stuff sorted. Hopefully I can get the latter half of the week done tomorrow during my extra time off! Along with a trip back to Unpacking. :) For now, though, I really have to hit the sheets -- night all!
Work – Busy! Not just because I was out yesterday, but – as it turned out – one of my coworkers was ALSO out yesterday because of post-medical-stuff stomach issues. So we were both catching up, and I was juggling my usual tasks with keeping up with credit card calls (returning and receiving), a couple of quality control spreadsheets, some exceptions. . .yeah, it was a pretty balls-to-the-wall day. *whew* Makes me glad tomorrow’s a short day!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another half-hour on the bike, and with OXBox and “Hitman 3 Valentine’s Day Contracts! ROMANTIC AGENT 47 HELPS CUPID!” Caught back up with Mike, Andy, and Jane trying to lure the lounging staff out of the room where the only teacup that butler Mr. Fernsby might drink out of in the game (so he could be emetically poisoned and drowned to complete the first Cupid contract) was – this proved wildly unsuccessful no matter what they did, so it was decided to instead fling a sword into Fernsby’s head.
And then Mike missed the throw, falling prey to the old “the targeting reticule wasn’t EXACTLY lined up so instead I gently tossed the sword at them” curse. So he just shot Fernsby in the head when he turned around and legged it out of there. XD Managed to avoid dying on his way out and roared away on the motorcycle – not bad, but not perfect! With that finally over, they moved onto the next contract, which was a sniping mission in the Chongqing level – protecting a woman headed to a date with her love on a nearby bridge! Mike had three people to eliminate via sniper rifle, and one via a falling accident – and, for complications, he could not be recorded, nor could he change out of his starting suit. He thus chose to be a clown (Andy allowed it) and use the most elaborate sniper rifle in the game, the Majestic (unlocked on the Pride level of their Deadly Sins DLC) – though he did at least stick it in the homing briefcase. XD The actual mission itself went pretty well – two of the targets were right near the spawn point, hanging out in a corridor where some cages could be shot down to distract them and bring them into the open near a little high bridge platform. Mike lured out one with a cage, shot him from the platform, hid around the corner as his buddy came looking, then crept back and shot said buddy when he started to go back to his regular patrol route. The third guy proved to be atop a rooftop covered in drones – there was a little trouble when another NPC tried to take Mike’s briefcase while he was climbing up a ladder, but Mike choked him out in a shadowed spot and reclaimed it and the sniper rifle, before climbing up, carefully eliminating the drones, and distracting his target’s friend with a coin before darting in to shove him off the roof. XD And then, as luck should have it, who should come and clean up the body but his fourth target! Mike got into a good position, waited for the target to get into a good position, popped him in the head, and then headed for the subway, job done. :) Four stars too! That’s rare for Mike, at least on-camera. XD
And then it was time for the final contract – a sequel to the first at the Dartmoor garden party (and yes, it is DARTMOOR – I can never remember!), with the need to kill one of the gardeners, a photographer, and I believe one of the judges to let true love bloom. The complications this time include two of the kills needing to look like accidents, the inability to change one’s suit, the inability to be recorded – AND no bodies can be found. Hmmm. Difficult. Mike’s first attempt at trying to set up a “drop the cage hanging in the first target’s garden on his head” accident kill was scuttled by his inability to actually shoot down the cage and making everyone panic, so the mission’s already had to be restarted once. Currently the plan is for him to retrieve his favorite explosive ducky from the greenhouse and see if an explosion kill can a) take out two targets at once and b) count as an accident. We shall see tomorrow! :)
2. Edit the gift fic due next week: Check – cleaned up Marie’s gift fic for her birthday next Wednesday, using her prompt of her OC Madeline getting caught by Alice after sneaking out to a party. Just a bit of light family drama, as I believe I said earlier – hopefully she likes it! It was her idea, after all. :p
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – simple two-in, two-out today, which is good as I was busy with tumblr queues below –
A) First, Call Me Kevin playing Vegas Crime Simulator – a terrible mobile “clone” of GTA V! “Clone” is used in the loosest sense here – the game features a protagonist that looks vaguely like CJ, is set in a city, and features crime things and wanted stars. And ads. An absolute fuck-ton of ads. XD Poor Kevin probably spent more time watching ads than playing the game – not that there was a lot of game to play. The first mission was literally just running from your own yard to someone else’s yard, then jumping on top of gangsters to gun them down. And then gunning down the quest giver as the game claimed he’d only defeated three out of four gangsters. XD Not that that stopped him from giving quests. . . Kevin also tried out a super-electric gun for some mysterious “Dr. K” (which the game then tried to get him to buy with real money), visited the casino (and won a free gun with his one free spin, yay), participated in a bike race (in which he was briefly turned to jelly by a crash), tried to steal an Army jeep but instead just got beaten to death by the police, eventually successfully stole a van, found a way to earn himself some pants (as they were too expensive to buy normally), and bought himself a wall-climb power to climb the local Eiffel Tower. XD Basically this game was the pinnacle of awful knock-offs and it was a blast to watch. XD
B) And second, GrayStillPlays playing – oh, look, a GTA V story parkour board! Gray got a job collecting people for a bunch of organ harvesters, with his targets including the spleen of "Hairy Tony" in the woods -- getting it involved chasing down the Bigfoot on a bike, “pacifying” him, then loading him onto a speedboat and riding the rapids while Tony’s friends tried to blast him off course; Vin Diesel’s stunt guy's ambidextrous left foot -- Gray got him by intimidating him into walking into a car (after blasting security, the director, and Vin himself off a building, then leaping over a helicopter on his bike), then making his way around a loop-de-loop wall ride into the teleporter; and finally the giant cycolpean eye of an alien hiding in a hedge maze -- Gray using his deer Meaty Bits’s special deer senses to make it easier to track him down (at least until Meaty got distracted by a fridge full of beer) and a baseball bat to make it easier to take him down. XD His reward for all this? His employers attempting to trap him and run him over, leading to Gray blowing up their boat. Because you don’t mess with Florida Man. XD Good stupid fun, and nice to see the simple horror of a wall ride again. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got an early start so I didn’t feel quite so rushed after watching my YouTubes! On VictorLuvsAlice, I got the text for tomorrow’s Chill Save update with Smiler finished and in the queue, and a good start on the text for the next “Dynamic Summary” ship meme – still need to finish that, but I’ll have some extra time tomorrow! And on Valice Multiverse, I kept busy – two asks and three thread replies! Nothing too overwhelming but still more active than my average night.
*looks at all that* Been a busy day all around, honestly! Just glad I made it through the workday without completely losing my mind. . .and got all that queuing stuff sorted. Hopefully I can get the latter half of the week done tomorrow during my extra time off! Along with a trip back to Unpacking. :) For now, though, I really have to hit the sheets -- night all!
