Happy Birthday Alice Liddell!
May. 4th, 2022 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickGiven today was a Wednesday and I had work, I didn't really get to celebrate, but I did listen to the A:MR soundtrack on YouTube in the morning and the evening, had a special dessert (chocolate ice cream with a chocolate chocolate chip biscotti broken in two to look like bunny ears), and did the usual silly picture with my Victor Plush and Alice Dolly toys. :) Better than nothing!
I also had a very busy day in general:
Work – Semi-repeat of yesterday, with a busy morning on the phones thanks to people calling in (and having to do a work-around for one guy because I couldn’t access his pledge the NORMAL way), and then a somewhat-quieter afternoon with me trying to figure out what the hell else I needed to do. *heavy sigh* And I suspect Thursday and Friday will continue the trend. . . At least we’re heading toward the weekend?
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another half-hour on the bike, another half-hour with the Oxventure Stream “Elf Hazard!” As a reminder, Dob has convinced all the elves that a fire that he illusioned onto a nearby roof managed to burn their ancient and ornate tombola to ashes. To be fair, he was helped immensely in this by Egbert grabbing the ancient and ornate tombola and wanging it into a bush while everyone was distracted by fire. XD The pair then made a show of pretending they had a tombola handy thanks to Corazon’s massive gambling problem – fortunately, Corazon was happy to play along when he wandered over to see what was happening with his ill-gotten gains, and the replacement trick tombola was fetched, with the nearby elves scribbling down whatever nonsense names they could come up with on the fly. XD Prudence also rejoined the group, and they found Merilwen, having been decked out rather nicely by Adarel. :) Prudence said that she’d “sort of” met Merilwen’s parents, and that they seem “sort of” nice, and an excuse as to why they weren’t around was hastily made by Johnny (part of the ritual is that your parents don’t turn up until the actual ceremony at least, since you’re reintroducing yourself to them under the new name). Corazon showed off the ledger to everyone, and Egbert noted that all those Xs next to those who’d refused to take a new name and said it seemed to him like, uh, Erawen was killing people. Merilwen agreed it was sus –
But there wasn’t really time to discuss it much further, as the ceremony commenced! The gang gathered to show support for Merilwen, and to fluster the already-off-his-game Erawen as much as possible (Prudence heckling him as he tried to wing his speech, Dob telling him to imagine him naked, Corazon actually stripping and helicoptering his clothes, and Egbert just generally yelling “as nature intended” as often as he could). XD Merilwen mounted the stage and said she had not chosen a name, and refused to consider any of the ones her friends shouted out. The tombola was produced – Erawen being VERY displeased by the fact that it was a replacement made out of a cask of evil mimosas instead of their ornate darling – Merilwen’s parents actually made an appearance – with Merilwen’s mother being just her but shorter, and Merilwen’s father apparently being the local Hot Dad – and Merilwen spun the drum and got her “new” name!
And Erawen, upon seeing that the damn thing had just spat out “Merilwen” again, refused to accept it, and pulled out a REPLACEMENT iron brooch, which he slapped on her cloak. And declared that he knew Corazon had the other in his pocket, and advised them both to run. Dob turned Corazon invisible to stop Erawen doing anything to him –
But it turned out that the problem wasn’t Erawen so much as the BANSHEES the iron brooches summoned! Four of them, though fortunately two of them took their time arriving. Roll for initiative! *claps* Though the gang actually DID get a moment or two to plan, as their dungeon master had to get up to let their dog out – planning consisted of mainly “we want dead banshees and preferably a dead Erawen,” and Ellen voicing the opinion that she thought the circlet you get if you DO change your name might be bespelled to put you under mind control or keep you in the forest or something, but hey, an extra minute to talk is an extra minute to talk. Johnny soon returned, though, and the battle began! With a banshee barreling straight at Corazon (despite his invisibility) and raking him with his claws!
Cue the Uncanny Dodge to halve the damage. XD Johnny was annoyed. Corazon, now visible again, decided the best course of action was to run up to Erawen, forcibly pin the brooch in his pocket on that bastard, then hide. Dob, meanwhile, decided that the best defense against banshees was a good Thunderwave! Unfortunately, his targeted banshee JUST managed to roll above his “spell save DC,” meaning it only took half damage as it flew out of the major danger zone. Prudence stepped up to bestow a curse on the banshees instead – she WANTED to do necrotic damage, but Johnny informed her banshees are immune to that, so instead she went for kind of a confusion effect, forcing the banshees to do wisdom saves or waste their turn doing nothing. This was accomplished via a backhand that left one banshee reeling, essentially. XD Erawen, realizing he had one of the banshee attractors attached to him, attempted to flee, but Merilwen handily Entangled him with vines before he could get far, leaving him pleading for mercy, ha-ha. Egbert, for his part, decided to yank Merilwen’s brooch off her to throw at Erawen – but a poor Strength roll meant he couldn’t budge the damn thing. Oh dear.
And so we begin round two of combat! The banshees don’t really have much of a chance to act (with the newcomers rolling low for initiative), allowing Corazon to unleash a painful rapier Sneak Attack on the one nearest him. Unfortunately, non-magical piercing damage is halved, but it’s still about twelve points of damage. Better than nothing! We’ll see where things go from there. . .
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check! Alice has gotten some good advice from her Wonderland friends – along with a reminder that she needs to see Regent Strauss as well as Prince LaCroix when she arrives in L.A. proper – finished her cab ride and paid the cabbie. . .and gotten pulled into a dark alley and knocked out by unknown assailants. Uh-oh. Welp – next time, we start watching LPs again as Alice wakes up in a bad situation. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – two subs, one bonus –
A) Started with the latest from Plumbella: “The Sims 4: Werewolves (Initial Expectations)!” Plumbella has seen the road map and its teasers, and she, like everyone else, is thinking the game pack is gonna be werewolves. And so she did a video on what she’d like to see (proper werewolfy forms, but not like, uh, furries; also a world that is perhaps a little more fleshed out than Forgotten Hollow and Glimmerbrook) and what she fears (half-assed werewolves that don’t have a proper powers/weaknesses system like vampires and spellcasters got). It’s all very speculative, of course, but it’s fun to watch and see what people think werewolves should be in this game. Personally, I just hope they end up like vampires and spellcasters, and not mermaids and aliens, but we’ll see! Gotta confirm they ARE coming first and foremost. . .
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and “Minecraft but I can't leave this boat!” Yes, Kevin set another Minecraft challenge for himself, and it was to spend the entire episode in a boat! This was not an easy life – not in the least because once he went down a slope, he couldn’t get back up again, no matter what tricks he tried. Meaning, once he got down to the water, his only hope was to find useful shit by the coast. Fortunately he did luck out with some sugar cane, some seeds, and a tree growing by the sea, and by finding a nice little cave he could dig out to make a house! Of course, he still had challenges to overcome – like killing Drowned with a stone sword! Trying desperately to back away from swimming Creepers! Nearly getting killed when his boat tried to drag him into low-hanging blocks in his cave! Trying to find a way to get his boat to go UP again and discovering that his only chance was to get soul-sand in the Nether! Finding a half-done Nether portal surrounded by fire and lava, and scavenging what he could to make his own! Going to the Nether and ending up with a Piglin passenger! Navigating over a sea of self-placed blocks to a fortress, only to be taken out by the local blazes! And finally retiring back to his house and making a proper little living room for himself, ending on killing an invading spider for its string so he could make a fishing pole. XD He has the weirdest little challenges, I swear. . .
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! After the usual bottle flip (now with more misspellings and an epic shoutout – also the only way to win was to explode yourself), Gray moved onto a painfully difficult stair fall (the worst part was keeping his head attached long enough to hit the win); a rope swing that moved into a jet fall, followed by a ball fall, followed by being shot from a cannon into spikes to win (as Gray said, a win is a win); a black-and-white death parkour death course with Segway Nixon (featuring timed bombs, butterfly blades, angry Doritos, and Karate Karen); a TV run troll board with a fake secret win at the beginning (Gray WOULD have got it if there wasn’t an invisible wall – fortunately he was able to do the TV run itself for a win); a slow-mo blade dodge (Gray ended up in pieces, but he survived long enough to rain down on the win); a “wu-tang”-themed freeze wall board that also featured angry jet bees in a box to torment you, along with a sort of ball fall (and also the ability to win while crushed to pieces, so long as your heart reached the end); and Bike Mom having adventures that included nearly being crushed by a log and nearly being stabbed by the rest of the Happy Wheels cast (you know, typical Mom things). A strange but amusing set of boards, as is typical.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – posted my Victor Plush and Alice Dolly picture in honor of Alice’s birthday, as stated, then reset the queue speed on Victor Luvs Alice to one per day for the remaining items in my queue. So at least that’s done!
And that's pretty much my day in a nutshell. And now it is time to head to bed and do it all over again tomorrow, with less Alice birthday. *sigh* Slowly but surely making our way toward the weekend. . .night all!
I also had a very busy day in general:
Work – Semi-repeat of yesterday, with a busy morning on the phones thanks to people calling in (and having to do a work-around for one guy because I couldn’t access his pledge the NORMAL way), and then a somewhat-quieter afternoon with me trying to figure out what the hell else I needed to do. *heavy sigh* And I suspect Thursday and Friday will continue the trend. . . At least we’re heading toward the weekend?
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another half-hour on the bike, another half-hour with the Oxventure Stream “Elf Hazard!” As a reminder, Dob has convinced all the elves that a fire that he illusioned onto a nearby roof managed to burn their ancient and ornate tombola to ashes. To be fair, he was helped immensely in this by Egbert grabbing the ancient and ornate tombola and wanging it into a bush while everyone was distracted by fire. XD The pair then made a show of pretending they had a tombola handy thanks to Corazon’s massive gambling problem – fortunately, Corazon was happy to play along when he wandered over to see what was happening with his ill-gotten gains, and the replacement trick tombola was fetched, with the nearby elves scribbling down whatever nonsense names they could come up with on the fly. XD Prudence also rejoined the group, and they found Merilwen, having been decked out rather nicely by Adarel. :) Prudence said that she’d “sort of” met Merilwen’s parents, and that they seem “sort of” nice, and an excuse as to why they weren’t around was hastily made by Johnny (part of the ritual is that your parents don’t turn up until the actual ceremony at least, since you’re reintroducing yourself to them under the new name). Corazon showed off the ledger to everyone, and Egbert noted that all those Xs next to those who’d refused to take a new name and said it seemed to him like, uh, Erawen was killing people. Merilwen agreed it was sus –
But there wasn’t really time to discuss it much further, as the ceremony commenced! The gang gathered to show support for Merilwen, and to fluster the already-off-his-game Erawen as much as possible (Prudence heckling him as he tried to wing his speech, Dob telling him to imagine him naked, Corazon actually stripping and helicoptering his clothes, and Egbert just generally yelling “as nature intended” as often as he could). XD Merilwen mounted the stage and said she had not chosen a name, and refused to consider any of the ones her friends shouted out. The tombola was produced – Erawen being VERY displeased by the fact that it was a replacement made out of a cask of evil mimosas instead of their ornate darling – Merilwen’s parents actually made an appearance – with Merilwen’s mother being just her but shorter, and Merilwen’s father apparently being the local Hot Dad – and Merilwen spun the drum and got her “new” name!
And Erawen, upon seeing that the damn thing had just spat out “Merilwen” again, refused to accept it, and pulled out a REPLACEMENT iron brooch, which he slapped on her cloak. And declared that he knew Corazon had the other in his pocket, and advised them both to run. Dob turned Corazon invisible to stop Erawen doing anything to him –
But it turned out that the problem wasn’t Erawen so much as the BANSHEES the iron brooches summoned! Four of them, though fortunately two of them took their time arriving. Roll for initiative! *claps* Though the gang actually DID get a moment or two to plan, as their dungeon master had to get up to let their dog out – planning consisted of mainly “we want dead banshees and preferably a dead Erawen,” and Ellen voicing the opinion that she thought the circlet you get if you DO change your name might be bespelled to put you under mind control or keep you in the forest or something, but hey, an extra minute to talk is an extra minute to talk. Johnny soon returned, though, and the battle began! With a banshee barreling straight at Corazon (despite his invisibility) and raking him with his claws!
Cue the Uncanny Dodge to halve the damage. XD Johnny was annoyed. Corazon, now visible again, decided the best course of action was to run up to Erawen, forcibly pin the brooch in his pocket on that bastard, then hide. Dob, meanwhile, decided that the best defense against banshees was a good Thunderwave! Unfortunately, his targeted banshee JUST managed to roll above his “spell save DC,” meaning it only took half damage as it flew out of the major danger zone. Prudence stepped up to bestow a curse on the banshees instead – she WANTED to do necrotic damage, but Johnny informed her banshees are immune to that, so instead she went for kind of a confusion effect, forcing the banshees to do wisdom saves or waste their turn doing nothing. This was accomplished via a backhand that left one banshee reeling, essentially. XD Erawen, realizing he had one of the banshee attractors attached to him, attempted to flee, but Merilwen handily Entangled him with vines before he could get far, leaving him pleading for mercy, ha-ha. Egbert, for his part, decided to yank Merilwen’s brooch off her to throw at Erawen – but a poor Strength roll meant he couldn’t budge the damn thing. Oh dear.
And so we begin round two of combat! The banshees don’t really have much of a chance to act (with the newcomers rolling low for initiative), allowing Corazon to unleash a painful rapier Sneak Attack on the one nearest him. Unfortunately, non-magical piercing damage is halved, but it’s still about twelve points of damage. Better than nothing! We’ll see where things go from there. . .
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check! Alice has gotten some good advice from her Wonderland friends – along with a reminder that she needs to see Regent Strauss as well as Prince LaCroix when she arrives in L.A. proper – finished her cab ride and paid the cabbie. . .and gotten pulled into a dark alley and knocked out by unknown assailants. Uh-oh. Welp – next time, we start watching LPs again as Alice wakes up in a bad situation. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – two subs, one bonus –
A) Started with the latest from Plumbella: “The Sims 4: Werewolves (Initial Expectations)!” Plumbella has seen the road map and its teasers, and she, like everyone else, is thinking the game pack is gonna be werewolves. And so she did a video on what she’d like to see (proper werewolfy forms, but not like, uh, furries; also a world that is perhaps a little more fleshed out than Forgotten Hollow and Glimmerbrook) and what she fears (half-assed werewolves that don’t have a proper powers/weaknesses system like vampires and spellcasters got). It’s all very speculative, of course, but it’s fun to watch and see what people think werewolves should be in this game. Personally, I just hope they end up like vampires and spellcasters, and not mermaids and aliens, but we’ll see! Gotta confirm they ARE coming first and foremost. . .
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and “Minecraft but I can't leave this boat!” Yes, Kevin set another Minecraft challenge for himself, and it was to spend the entire episode in a boat! This was not an easy life – not in the least because once he went down a slope, he couldn’t get back up again, no matter what tricks he tried. Meaning, once he got down to the water, his only hope was to find useful shit by the coast. Fortunately he did luck out with some sugar cane, some seeds, and a tree growing by the sea, and by finding a nice little cave he could dig out to make a house! Of course, he still had challenges to overcome – like killing Drowned with a stone sword! Trying desperately to back away from swimming Creepers! Nearly getting killed when his boat tried to drag him into low-hanging blocks in his cave! Trying to find a way to get his boat to go UP again and discovering that his only chance was to get soul-sand in the Nether! Finding a half-done Nether portal surrounded by fire and lava, and scavenging what he could to make his own! Going to the Nether and ending up with a Piglin passenger! Navigating over a sea of self-placed blocks to a fortress, only to be taken out by the local blazes! And finally retiring back to his house and making a proper little living room for himself, ending on killing an invading spider for its string so he could make a fishing pole. XD He has the weirdest little challenges, I swear. . .
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! After the usual bottle flip (now with more misspellings and an epic shoutout – also the only way to win was to explode yourself), Gray moved onto a painfully difficult stair fall (the worst part was keeping his head attached long enough to hit the win); a rope swing that moved into a jet fall, followed by a ball fall, followed by being shot from a cannon into spikes to win (as Gray said, a win is a win); a black-and-white death parkour death course with Segway Nixon (featuring timed bombs, butterfly blades, angry Doritos, and Karate Karen); a TV run troll board with a fake secret win at the beginning (Gray WOULD have got it if there wasn’t an invisible wall – fortunately he was able to do the TV run itself for a win); a slow-mo blade dodge (Gray ended up in pieces, but he survived long enough to rain down on the win); a “wu-tang”-themed freeze wall board that also featured angry jet bees in a box to torment you, along with a sort of ball fall (and also the ability to win while crushed to pieces, so long as your heart reached the end); and Bike Mom having adventures that included nearly being crushed by a log and nearly being stabbed by the rest of the Happy Wheels cast (you know, typical Mom things). A strange but amusing set of boards, as is typical.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – posted my Victor Plush and Alice Dolly picture in honor of Alice’s birthday, as stated, then reset the queue speed on Victor Luvs Alice to one per day for the remaining items in my queue. So at least that’s done!
And that's pretty much my day in a nutshell. And now it is time to head to bed and do it all over again tomorrow, with less Alice birthday. *sigh* Slowly but surely making our way toward the weekend. . .night all!
