A Speedy Tuesday Update
Apr. 5th, 2022 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickAs I had a busy evening that has led to a very late update -- here we go:
Work – Quiet day – not much in the way of phone calls, and not much in the way of action. Spent a lot of time scanning through write-offs and finding some new and exciting credit card company nonsense. *sigh* So that’ll be an e-mail tomorrow. Still, I’ll take this over being too stressed out to do anything. We’ll see if this state of affairs lasts until Easter!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure Stream “Sect Appeal!” As the Head Acolyte (now named Miss Ashraven) went off to fetch everyone a ton of rope (Dob claimed they’d need seventy feet instead of the standard adventurer fifty), Chet and Davey tried to back out of the trip to get the black sorrel, but the Oxventurers were having none of it. Corazon picked his nails with a dagger while Dob updated his will (two words – “In lake”) and encouraged Chet and Davey to do the same. They ended up interpreting this as make out with their friend Wills, so – good for them? XD Anyway, the rope was eventually procured, Chet and Davey were loaded up with it because their punishment for mouthing off and being frat bros was now to be the rope donkeys, Wills assumed leadership of The Boys while the rest of them started fighting for the position of second-in-command, and the gang headed into the next-door cave! Said cave was darker, danker, and much spookier, as even Chet and Davey admitted. They confessed that a lot of people had gone in to get the black sorrel, but nobody had come back –
And oh look, there was a big old carpet of bones on the floor, of all make and manner of creatures. Corazon was all for sending Chet and Davey first. XD The others said “look, tie a rope around yourselves and we’ll hold it, and if you tug twice, we’ll pull you back.” They naturally tried to give the rope to Dob first, as he kept trying to make friends with them, but Dob actually insisted on coming with them! And so they started across the carpet of bones, with Chet and Davey tiptoeing around all the skulls and femurs and whatnot. . .
And Dob, thanks to a bad roll, fell into the bones with a pretty loud clatter and got stuck in a ribcage. XD He definitely caught the attention of something deeper in the cave, but it didn’t immediately come to investigate, fortunately. His next roll was much better, and he and the bros were able to get fairly deep into the cave, where they encountered –
Okay, one of the problems with watching these adventures is that I don’t often know how these monster names are spelled, and apparently this one is tricky enough to need a pronunciation guide. What it IS is a goat demon with a long tail with spikes dripping a viscous SOMETHING, a stench of death, and a little garden under some glowing mushrooms of what was confirmed later to be the black sorrel. As Johnny’s description of said garden morphed into jokes on people growing weed in their closets under grow lamps, we will call this monster Weed Goat Demon. And no Dob, you cannot cast Calm Emotions on it, as Johnny revealed when Dob asked if he could try. XD Prudence Messaged Dob to see how he and the bros were getting on, and Dob described both the Weed Goat Demon to her, along with its little garden. Prudence knew enough about the Weed Goat Demon to warn Dob that getting close to it is a bad idea – apparently it can cause necrotic damage to people within a thirty foot radius (Dob was allowed to claim he and the bros were JUST out of range) – and after relaying the description to Merilwen, she was able to confirm that yes, it was growing black sorrel. Various arguments about how to get said black sorrel commenced. Corazon’s initial attempt at suggesting a plan got derailed by Prudence and Dob both claiming that Corazon was asking if Chet liked him (Chet – was actually kinda open to the idea, though he was worried because he didn’t want to hurt Wills, even if their thing was casual), but eventually he was able to suggest using his invisible Mage Hand to grab the sorrel, since it wouldn’t be affected by the field. The demon being on-guard (probably thanks to Dob’s earlier noise) was a complication – Egbert was intent on using a net to try and capture it somehow, and ended up using his maces to knit one while the others argued about how best to distract the demon and get out with the sorrel. Dob wanted to lead it on a merry chase, but the others talked him out of it, and eventually it was decided that Dob would launch a skull over Weed Goat Demon’s head to distract it, Corazon would grab a fistful of sorrel with his Mage Hand, Prudence would use Detect Magic to see if her eldritch items were anywhere nearby, and then they’d all just leg it. Corazon crept up like a shadow thanks to a good roll, while Prudence Spider-Climbed her way across the ceiling to stay out of the way. Dob launched a megacondor skull with shocking precision and grace, and Corazon was able to grab the sorrel while the demon tore up the back of its cave. And Prudence confirmed that Frisky, The Darkness, and The Puzzle Palantir weren’t anywhere nearby. Time to leg it – but not without a final Dex check! Which everyone passed –
Except Prudence. Who fell off the ceiling and into a pile of bones, completely ruining Dob’s attempts to distract the demon with the illusion of a bunny. XD Egbert ran up to be all paladiny and save her – using some ancient words of power to try and turn away the demon, who was now very aware of Prudence! Yeah, actual paladin spells and all! However, Weed Goat Demon was allowed a Wisdom saving throw –
And fucking got a twenty. I have left it with the Weed Goat Demon having said something very rude to Egbert in Abyssal in response to the attempted repelling. Hopefully Egbert’s knitted net works a lot better!
2. Continue writing “Learn To Love Again”: Check – everyone has headed to the music room so Victor can try out his Musicshaping on the piano. Turns out his take on it is kind of the opposite of Bonejangles’s – while he can warp and twist shadows into the shapes he wants with his singing, Victor instead creates shapes and scenes out of light with his piano. As demonstrated by him playing some Beethoven and conjuring up a scene of Emily’s grave. Everyone is duly impressed. :) Next up will be the reveal of his Quickstep, then Alice’s minor abilities, yay!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – easy tonight as there was only one video. Which is good, because between watching the new “Big Fat Quiz of Everything,” making muffins so I have breakfast for the next few days, and then doing this and my writing, I only had TIME for one video. *sigh*
And said video? GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Started with a Satan-themed bottle flip where you could be sent to Hell, sent down the colon win, or win via rainbow rectum (or get an ax shoved in your chest by landing the bottle in the cleavers), then moved onto robbery via rope swing (where Nixon had to rope swing his way through laser-guided harpoons, then roll himself and what would normally be a self-moving cart to the win – I guess the robbery was of the cart); navigating the Death Maze (which included such deaths as a “new piercing” (harpoons) and “you reached Australia Man’s home" (yeeted into spikes) – took Gray quite a while to find the path to the win!); racing for beer with Bike Dad (which involved avoiding quite a lot of low spiked ceilings and a bunch of wrecking balls); escaping the Orange (which had a frightening face but didn’t actually do anything – the real danger was the wrecking ball at the win); watching both a heart get bounced around a maze before being rejected for a transplant and a Rube Goldbergian sequence with jets and soccer balls that ended with Tom Hardy getting a machete in the face; and finally rising up to the win box in an antigravity board (where one had to dodge the spikes and not get their heads stuck on really thin platforms just below the win – and also not lose their feet, because the invisible stuck rising object that allowed Pogo Man to fly escaped then). A very interesting collection of boards, to be sure. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – did well on both queues too:
Victor Luvs Alice – TECHNICALLY got my entire queue done, thanks to having a one-post Wednesday for once. However, my Song Saturday post isn’t done yet – I’ve got the video for the song and a couple sentences of caption, but I gotta finish the rest of the write-up. As as time keeps on slipping tonight, I’ll have to do that tomorrow. Still, at least all four posts are ready to go in the queue!
Valice Multiverse – three ask replies today, nice. Nothing too complicated, but it fills up the queue a bit.
Whew -- and now it's time to hit the sheets. Not even sure I'm gonna try my CD player tonight, given it's consistently letting me down a couple of songs in. . .might be better to go straight to radio and try to find a decent station. We'll see. . .night all!
Work – Quiet day – not much in the way of phone calls, and not much in the way of action. Spent a lot of time scanning through write-offs and finding some new and exciting credit card company nonsense. *sigh* So that’ll be an e-mail tomorrow. Still, I’ll take this over being too stressed out to do anything. We’ll see if this state of affairs lasts until Easter!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure Stream “Sect Appeal!” As the Head Acolyte (now named Miss Ashraven) went off to fetch everyone a ton of rope (Dob claimed they’d need seventy feet instead of the standard adventurer fifty), Chet and Davey tried to back out of the trip to get the black sorrel, but the Oxventurers were having none of it. Corazon picked his nails with a dagger while Dob updated his will (two words – “In lake”) and encouraged Chet and Davey to do the same. They ended up interpreting this as make out with their friend Wills, so – good for them? XD Anyway, the rope was eventually procured, Chet and Davey were loaded up with it because their punishment for mouthing off and being frat bros was now to be the rope donkeys, Wills assumed leadership of The Boys while the rest of them started fighting for the position of second-in-command, and the gang headed into the next-door cave! Said cave was darker, danker, and much spookier, as even Chet and Davey admitted. They confessed that a lot of people had gone in to get the black sorrel, but nobody had come back –
And oh look, there was a big old carpet of bones on the floor, of all make and manner of creatures. Corazon was all for sending Chet and Davey first. XD The others said “look, tie a rope around yourselves and we’ll hold it, and if you tug twice, we’ll pull you back.” They naturally tried to give the rope to Dob first, as he kept trying to make friends with them, but Dob actually insisted on coming with them! And so they started across the carpet of bones, with Chet and Davey tiptoeing around all the skulls and femurs and whatnot. . .
And Dob, thanks to a bad roll, fell into the bones with a pretty loud clatter and got stuck in a ribcage. XD He definitely caught the attention of something deeper in the cave, but it didn’t immediately come to investigate, fortunately. His next roll was much better, and he and the bros were able to get fairly deep into the cave, where they encountered –
Okay, one of the problems with watching these adventures is that I don’t often know how these monster names are spelled, and apparently this one is tricky enough to need a pronunciation guide. What it IS is a goat demon with a long tail with spikes dripping a viscous SOMETHING, a stench of death, and a little garden under some glowing mushrooms of what was confirmed later to be the black sorrel. As Johnny’s description of said garden morphed into jokes on people growing weed in their closets under grow lamps, we will call this monster Weed Goat Demon. And no Dob, you cannot cast Calm Emotions on it, as Johnny revealed when Dob asked if he could try. XD Prudence Messaged Dob to see how he and the bros were getting on, and Dob described both the Weed Goat Demon to her, along with its little garden. Prudence knew enough about the Weed Goat Demon to warn Dob that getting close to it is a bad idea – apparently it can cause necrotic damage to people within a thirty foot radius (Dob was allowed to claim he and the bros were JUST out of range) – and after relaying the description to Merilwen, she was able to confirm that yes, it was growing black sorrel. Various arguments about how to get said black sorrel commenced. Corazon’s initial attempt at suggesting a plan got derailed by Prudence and Dob both claiming that Corazon was asking if Chet liked him (Chet – was actually kinda open to the idea, though he was worried because he didn’t want to hurt Wills, even if their thing was casual), but eventually he was able to suggest using his invisible Mage Hand to grab the sorrel, since it wouldn’t be affected by the field. The demon being on-guard (probably thanks to Dob’s earlier noise) was a complication – Egbert was intent on using a net to try and capture it somehow, and ended up using his maces to knit one while the others argued about how best to distract the demon and get out with the sorrel. Dob wanted to lead it on a merry chase, but the others talked him out of it, and eventually it was decided that Dob would launch a skull over Weed Goat Demon’s head to distract it, Corazon would grab a fistful of sorrel with his Mage Hand, Prudence would use Detect Magic to see if her eldritch items were anywhere nearby, and then they’d all just leg it. Corazon crept up like a shadow thanks to a good roll, while Prudence Spider-Climbed her way across the ceiling to stay out of the way. Dob launched a megacondor skull with shocking precision and grace, and Corazon was able to grab the sorrel while the demon tore up the back of its cave. And Prudence confirmed that Frisky, The Darkness, and The Puzzle Palantir weren’t anywhere nearby. Time to leg it – but not without a final Dex check! Which everyone passed –
Except Prudence. Who fell off the ceiling and into a pile of bones, completely ruining Dob’s attempts to distract the demon with the illusion of a bunny. XD Egbert ran up to be all paladiny and save her – using some ancient words of power to try and turn away the demon, who was now very aware of Prudence! Yeah, actual paladin spells and all! However, Weed Goat Demon was allowed a Wisdom saving throw –
And fucking got a twenty. I have left it with the Weed Goat Demon having said something very rude to Egbert in Abyssal in response to the attempted repelling. Hopefully Egbert’s knitted net works a lot better!
2. Continue writing “Learn To Love Again”: Check – everyone has headed to the music room so Victor can try out his Musicshaping on the piano. Turns out his take on it is kind of the opposite of Bonejangles’s – while he can warp and twist shadows into the shapes he wants with his singing, Victor instead creates shapes and scenes out of light with his piano. As demonstrated by him playing some Beethoven and conjuring up a scene of Emily’s grave. Everyone is duly impressed. :) Next up will be the reveal of his Quickstep, then Alice’s minor abilities, yay!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – easy tonight as there was only one video. Which is good, because between watching the new “Big Fat Quiz of Everything,” making muffins so I have breakfast for the next few days, and then doing this and my writing, I only had TIME for one video. *sigh*
And said video? GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Started with a Satan-themed bottle flip where you could be sent to Hell, sent down the colon win, or win via rainbow rectum (or get an ax shoved in your chest by landing the bottle in the cleavers), then moved onto robbery via rope swing (where Nixon had to rope swing his way through laser-guided harpoons, then roll himself and what would normally be a self-moving cart to the win – I guess the robbery was of the cart); navigating the Death Maze (which included such deaths as a “new piercing” (harpoons) and “you reached Australia Man’s home" (yeeted into spikes) – took Gray quite a while to find the path to the win!); racing for beer with Bike Dad (which involved avoiding quite a lot of low spiked ceilings and a bunch of wrecking balls); escaping the Orange (which had a frightening face but didn’t actually do anything – the real danger was the wrecking ball at the win); watching both a heart get bounced around a maze before being rejected for a transplant and a Rube Goldbergian sequence with jets and soccer balls that ended with Tom Hardy getting a machete in the face; and finally rising up to the win box in an antigravity board (where one had to dodge the spikes and not get their heads stuck on really thin platforms just below the win – and also not lose their feet, because the invisible stuck rising object that allowed Pogo Man to fly escaped then). A very interesting collection of boards, to be sure. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – did well on both queues too:
Victor Luvs Alice – TECHNICALLY got my entire queue done, thanks to having a one-post Wednesday for once. However, my Song Saturday post isn’t done yet – I’ve got the video for the song and a couple sentences of caption, but I gotta finish the rest of the write-up. As as time keeps on slipping tonight, I’ll have to do that tomorrow. Still, at least all four posts are ready to go in the queue!
Valice Multiverse – three ask replies today, nice. Nothing too complicated, but it fills up the queue a bit.
Whew -- and now it's time to hit the sheets. Not even sure I'm gonna try my CD player tonight, given it's consistently letting me down a couple of songs in. . .might be better to go straight to radio and try to find a decent station. We'll see. . .night all!
