It Fucken Wimdy
May. 17th, 2022 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickYeah, while the temperature remained nice, the wind was something else! I left my window by desk half-open, thinking that would be enough to deter attack curtains -- came home to find my moisturizer and a couple other things knocked over, and my necklace holder spun around 90 degrees (though fortunately nothing ended up broken, because that would have been yikes!). And now it's supposed to get kinda chilly tonight. . .which I'm honestly okay with, just because it's easier to sleep when it's cool. I mean, Saturday's supposed to be really hot and humid, so trying to get some rest THAT night is likely to be tricky. . .
But as it is, we're not even at the halfway point of the week yet. So how'd I do today?
Work – Actually rather quiet up until about the last hour or so – barely any calls, and I was able to get through the GL and posting pretty much all of the gifts I wanted to post without much issue. Just at the end of the day, I got something from a supervisor that required investigation (turned out to be credit card bullshit), a request for a write-off of a gift, and two calls coming in while I was washing my lunch container that I didn’t get a chance to answer, and when I listened to the voicemails, I had to listen to one twice before looking it up because the caller was so hard to understand, and by the time I realized what they were both talking about it was too late to call them back. So that and some other issues are on the docket for tomorrow! Fuuuun. . . But hey, it could have been a LOT more stressful, so I’m counting that as a win.
Beanbags – Despite it being fucken wimdy, we did go outside and play – I had a very tough first game, but pulled it out in the second thanks to Dad having two unlucky throws in a row. XD And strangely, we got the same scores as yesterday, just with different people – I got 3-W-2; Dad got 2-2-W; Mom got W-3-3. Basically all the scores got shifted to the next person over. XD Hey, still a case of “everybody won once,” so I’ll take it!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to the Oxventure Stream “Bone 2 Pick!” It turns out Egbert’s plan if the riders were within 30 feet of them was to grab onto the undersides of the horses and sneak a ride in that way. XD Dob was all for it, but the others managed to talk him out of it. Corazon wanted to make a grander entrance as their bee-people rock band, but the ladies managed to talk him out of that too, and they eventually went with the sensible plan of “sneaking over to the portcullis, waiting for the riders to come back, and then slipping in after them.” Though Egbert insisted that one day he was going to hang onto the underside of a horse to go somewhere. XD And also there were many many bee puns before this happened, because of course there were. XD
Anyway, once inside Bumble, they found that the busted-down little town had in fact grown quite a lot, and was plastered with more warnings and posters decrying the Oxventurers, telling people to be vigilant in memory of the orphans. Dob was – rather upset by this, as you might imagine. XD Merilwen’s stealth spell kept doing the job, though, and they were able to easily make it through the busy streets to Ethelfrit’s tomb – though there was a near moment where Dob, as they passed a guard, slipped a glossy into the guy’s hand, then looked back to see the guy comparing said glossy to a nearby wanted poster and somehow got it into his head that the guy had seen him personally and thought he’d been made. Prudence had to tackle him to stop him from sprinting out of the magical mist surrounding Merilwen in a panic and then explain to him how the spell worked while keeping him in a chokehold. And then she just sort of rode around on his shoulders, occasionally applying pressure to his windpipe, as they continued on, refusing to believe he had a custom glossy of himself as “John Honey-and-Lemon” on hand. (Personally, I wouldn’t be surprised if the “glossy” was a hastily-scribbled sketch of himself in costume. XD)
Anyway, they did make it to the tomb, where they were confronted with a conundrum – the way into the tomb, as they recalled from their previous adventure, involves destroying the door and then repairing it. However, doing that in their current state would not be the most stealthy thing. Fortunately, Corazon had a plan – knock a chip out of the door and then seal it back into place with some pitch (which he carries to help repair The Joyful Damnation when it needs it). A decent roll meant that he did it without attracting undue notice, and the plan indeed worked, the door opening just enough to let them all inside. They released the skeletons from the hammer at their knock (I guess they went back in before the gang headed down to Bumble), and after some talk about how the tomb had once felt bigger to them, the skeletons began detailing the ritual to summon Ethelfrit – put the hammer back on the pedestal where it once stood (the Oxventurers had figured that bit out already, insisting on calling it a “charging port” for the hammer XD); fill a bowl with libations for Ethelfrit (beer, wine, what have you – the gang got stuck on how they were going to do this for a bit, prompting the skeletons to go “okay, let’s detail the REST of the ritual, then come back to this,” but eventually they settled on Merilwen using her Create/Destroy Water spell to fill the bowl, and Dob flavoring it like honey); light the candles around the tomb for the right atmosphere (Merilwen did that with her new fire spell, making Egbert feel a bit like he’d been replaced for fire purposes); do the summoning chant and dance (the skeletons handled this, doing a Charleston while shouting “Hey!”) – oh, and an orphan had to touch the hammer pedestal and actually call Ethelfrit forth by name.
Guess which one of the Oxventurers is an orphan? Well, okay, which one is a KNOWN orphan – while Merilwen obviously knows where her parents are, Egbert and Corazon both admitted they weren’t sure of their birth parents’ status, given they hadn’t been home in a while (though I think we can reasonably assume Lord Milquetoast, Corazon’s dad, is at least still around), and of course Prudence has no idea what’s become of her birth parents, she never met them. But Dob canonically was raised by his sister after their parents’ deaths, and – wow, suddenly I’m kind of sad, because Dob probably SUPER-wanted to make a nice orphanage back in the day, and – yeah. :( But he was willing to do the ritual, complete with the appropriate Dob-like flair, and Ethelfrit was summoned!
Turns out Ethelfrit is a burly but chill guy, who greeted the gang cheerfully and enjoyed his “non-alcoholic mead” from the bowl. He asked if they needed anything built, and before Dob could explain their actual purpose, Corazon promptly grabbed him and started talking about getting Ethelfrit to build them a rocking stage with a drum platform that spins and all sorts of cool hidden gadgets. Dob was TOTALLY into this and asked, and Ethelfrit revealed that he had built stages before, but for more, er, classical music. Dob said they could work with that and, when I left it off, was explaining about the skeletons and the ritual. So we’ll see where that goes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – Alice has started explaining her backstory, and I’ve already made one major change to the original text – namely, I’m going with the “Alice just has the same name as the historical Alice and adopted the Wonderland books as her own as a result” sort-of backstory I gave my Malkavian!Alice in “Londerland Bloodlines.” I feel like this makes somewhat more sense than the books simply not existing at all in the world, leaving Victor in the dark as to what Wonderland is. But yeah, she’s gotten through the introduction of Bumby to their lives and what happened to her after the fire – and Victor’s had his usual “who the fuck commits a child” moment upon learning at what age she was sent to Rutledge. Alice is going to be a little surprised by that, given no one else seems to have considered it anything but a necessary evil. . .well, now you’ve got someone who’s actually going to care for you, girl. :)
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – easy one as there was only one video there today, plus a couple things from the Watch Later –
A) Started with Plumbella’s latest: “The Sims 4: Dine Out is still a hot mess!” Yes, her quest to play through each of the packs released for The Sims 4 in order continues, with her picking up a Plum Bitch from the gallery (complete with her pug/loaf of bread Bella this time), moving her into Magnolia Promenade, giving her tons of money through cheats, and then plopping a McDonald’s from the Gallery down next to her and having her buy it to experience owning a restaurant!
Turns out owning a restaurant in Sims 4 is a bit of a pain in the ass. Plumbella tried her best, but her staff was iffy at best about doing their jobs (her first chef, Michael Bell, in fact refused to show up for work and instead sent a random NPC in his place, forcing her to fire him), meaning customers who loved the food and ambiance ended up giving low ratings because of absolutely miserable wait times. Waiters would get distracted dancing (to be fair, so did Plum Bitch), the cook was constantly burning and electrocuting herself on the stove – and of course, Seasons and its thunderstorms didn’t help matters. She made it to two and a half stars, but couldn’t get it above that for longer than a couple of minutes – frustrated, she switched over to the Goths to send them to the McDonald’s and see what it was like from the customer end. The Goths ended up having their own issues – namely, Bella, Cassandra, and Alexander all trying to leave to go to work and school, and their first order never getting off the ground – but eventually they managed to have sodas, spooky cookies, and burgers (in that order). It took them pretty much the ENTIRE DAY, but. . . Yeah, good concept, kinda iffy execution. Makes me glad that my Sims dine out very infrequently!
B) Then, as we had no Call Me Kevin today, I instead dropped in on his girlfriend, Anna Rudolf, as she had an interesting video – “I accidentally stole CallMeKevin's account!” On Minecraft, that is – seems she “somehow” ended up playing in Kevin’s world as Jim Pickens during a recent stream. She decided to make the most of it and turned Jim into a vegetarian pacifist who only attacked in self defense. The early game looked like it was going well – she was feeding chickens, going exploring, learning about the wonders of “waterfall elevators” in caves (you can dump some water, make a waterfall, and use it to go down AND up to traverse long falls), and successfully blocking arrows from skeletons as she looked for good loot – but then she made the mistake of trying to fight a creeper and got exploded. She promptly set off to try and get all the stuff she’d been carrying at the time back, but – well, let’s just say it didn’t go well. XD Poor Anna. . .and then a creeper got into the chicken pen, and her attempt to lure it away resulted in a lot of exploded chickens. That Jim couldn’t even eat because he was a vegetarian. She forced herself to continue on, though, and decided – since she was doing Minecraft Bingo – that she would find herself some diamonds! Though first she had to find herself some iron to make the tools necessary to mine it. . .so, after making a TON of stone axes by accident, she headed out into the world and found iron in a flooded cave! Iron – and, as her stream audience pointed out, diamond! Once she had her iron pick, she went back to grab it, and – through a complicated process of placing doors down to make air pockets in the water to keep herself from drowning – managed to mine three diamonds and get them back home into the ax box. XD A very silly highlights video to be sure – and, like another commenter, I’d like to see Kevin’s reaction to the aftermath. XD
C) And finally, it was over to the Subs for GrayStillPlays and “Whatever I YouTube comes to life in GTA 5!” AKA, Alex asked him to suggest a different kind of board than usual for him to create for Gray’s torture in GTA V, and Gray decided to leave it up to the fates and went to what was trending on YouTube in gaming. This proved to be an episode of Poppy’s Playtime 2 by Markiplier, showing off one of the new enemies – a pink noodle-doll thing – so Gray took a screenshot of the thumbnail and sent it to Alex. Alex processed it, and produced a truly horrific parkour board. XD I mean, it didn’t even start with weird noodle demon toy (though she was VERY much present in the background) – it started with Gray having to do a water slide transfer through a tangled mess of slides to make it to the bottom of the board and the pool party everyone was having, while also getting through the “anti-Gray” defenses – a multi-limbed wind turbine and a tank firing Up-&-Atomizer blasts. XD I honestly think just getting the jump between the slides right took most of Gray’s time on the board. Then he had to drive through the pool party (up various stairs and killing various civilians talking trash about his relationship with Natas, Satan’s daughter (see previous story-based GTA V nonsense)), across a length of road with a single wind turbine (just for flavor), and jump onto the noodle girl’s hand. From there he transferred to a roller coaster car and had to do a pretty damn difficult loop-de-loop wall ride across her arms, before being teleported around the back of her skirt, to do a cylinder ride up to the next checkpoint, then a straight quarter-ramp up her spinal column to finally reach the teleport win and be reunited with his beloved Meaty Bits. XD That was probably an unofficial $2,000 board, honestly. Poor Gray – his agony is our amusement.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – set up the queue for the rest of this week on Victor Luvs Alice (three-part Smiler Always update for Wednesday; not-exactly-incorrect Valicer quotes on Thursday; a bonus Smiler quote from an Alton Towers Incorrect Quotes blog on Friday; and the “Oh, Dracula” song on Saturday), and did my one ask reply over on Valice Multiverse. All good for the immediate future, yay~
So that's all good at least. And now I must get through the next three days, which means I should probably go to bed instead of getting distracted by stuff. XD Night all!
But as it is, we're not even at the halfway point of the week yet. So how'd I do today?
Work – Actually rather quiet up until about the last hour or so – barely any calls, and I was able to get through the GL and posting pretty much all of the gifts I wanted to post without much issue. Just at the end of the day, I got something from a supervisor that required investigation (turned out to be credit card bullshit), a request for a write-off of a gift, and two calls coming in while I was washing my lunch container that I didn’t get a chance to answer, and when I listened to the voicemails, I had to listen to one twice before looking it up because the caller was so hard to understand, and by the time I realized what they were both talking about it was too late to call them back. So that and some other issues are on the docket for tomorrow! Fuuuun. . . But hey, it could have been a LOT more stressful, so I’m counting that as a win.
Beanbags – Despite it being fucken wimdy, we did go outside and play – I had a very tough first game, but pulled it out in the second thanks to Dad having two unlucky throws in a row. XD And strangely, we got the same scores as yesterday, just with different people – I got 3-W-2; Dad got 2-2-W; Mom got W-3-3. Basically all the scores got shifted to the next person over. XD Hey, still a case of “everybody won once,” so I’ll take it!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to the Oxventure Stream “Bone 2 Pick!” It turns out Egbert’s plan if the riders were within 30 feet of them was to grab onto the undersides of the horses and sneak a ride in that way. XD Dob was all for it, but the others managed to talk him out of it. Corazon wanted to make a grander entrance as their bee-people rock band, but the ladies managed to talk him out of that too, and they eventually went with the sensible plan of “sneaking over to the portcullis, waiting for the riders to come back, and then slipping in after them.” Though Egbert insisted that one day he was going to hang onto the underside of a horse to go somewhere. XD And also there were many many bee puns before this happened, because of course there were. XD
Anyway, once inside Bumble, they found that the busted-down little town had in fact grown quite a lot, and was plastered with more warnings and posters decrying the Oxventurers, telling people to be vigilant in memory of the orphans. Dob was – rather upset by this, as you might imagine. XD Merilwen’s stealth spell kept doing the job, though, and they were able to easily make it through the busy streets to Ethelfrit’s tomb – though there was a near moment where Dob, as they passed a guard, slipped a glossy into the guy’s hand, then looked back to see the guy comparing said glossy to a nearby wanted poster and somehow got it into his head that the guy had seen him personally and thought he’d been made. Prudence had to tackle him to stop him from sprinting out of the magical mist surrounding Merilwen in a panic and then explain to him how the spell worked while keeping him in a chokehold. And then she just sort of rode around on his shoulders, occasionally applying pressure to his windpipe, as they continued on, refusing to believe he had a custom glossy of himself as “John Honey-and-Lemon” on hand. (Personally, I wouldn’t be surprised if the “glossy” was a hastily-scribbled sketch of himself in costume. XD)
Anyway, they did make it to the tomb, where they were confronted with a conundrum – the way into the tomb, as they recalled from their previous adventure, involves destroying the door and then repairing it. However, doing that in their current state would not be the most stealthy thing. Fortunately, Corazon had a plan – knock a chip out of the door and then seal it back into place with some pitch (which he carries to help repair The Joyful Damnation when it needs it). A decent roll meant that he did it without attracting undue notice, and the plan indeed worked, the door opening just enough to let them all inside. They released the skeletons from the hammer at their knock (I guess they went back in before the gang headed down to Bumble), and after some talk about how the tomb had once felt bigger to them, the skeletons began detailing the ritual to summon Ethelfrit – put the hammer back on the pedestal where it once stood (the Oxventurers had figured that bit out already, insisting on calling it a “charging port” for the hammer XD); fill a bowl with libations for Ethelfrit (beer, wine, what have you – the gang got stuck on how they were going to do this for a bit, prompting the skeletons to go “okay, let’s detail the REST of the ritual, then come back to this,” but eventually they settled on Merilwen using her Create/Destroy Water spell to fill the bowl, and Dob flavoring it like honey); light the candles around the tomb for the right atmosphere (Merilwen did that with her new fire spell, making Egbert feel a bit like he’d been replaced for fire purposes); do the summoning chant and dance (the skeletons handled this, doing a Charleston while shouting “Hey!”) – oh, and an orphan had to touch the hammer pedestal and actually call Ethelfrit forth by name.
Guess which one of the Oxventurers is an orphan? Well, okay, which one is a KNOWN orphan – while Merilwen obviously knows where her parents are, Egbert and Corazon both admitted they weren’t sure of their birth parents’ status, given they hadn’t been home in a while (though I think we can reasonably assume Lord Milquetoast, Corazon’s dad, is at least still around), and of course Prudence has no idea what’s become of her birth parents, she never met them. But Dob canonically was raised by his sister after their parents’ deaths, and – wow, suddenly I’m kind of sad, because Dob probably SUPER-wanted to make a nice orphanage back in the day, and – yeah. :( But he was willing to do the ritual, complete with the appropriate Dob-like flair, and Ethelfrit was summoned!
Turns out Ethelfrit is a burly but chill guy, who greeted the gang cheerfully and enjoyed his “non-alcoholic mead” from the bowl. He asked if they needed anything built, and before Dob could explain their actual purpose, Corazon promptly grabbed him and started talking about getting Ethelfrit to build them a rocking stage with a drum platform that spins and all sorts of cool hidden gadgets. Dob was TOTALLY into this and asked, and Ethelfrit revealed that he had built stages before, but for more, er, classical music. Dob said they could work with that and, when I left it off, was explaining about the skeletons and the ritual. So we’ll see where that goes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – Alice has started explaining her backstory, and I’ve already made one major change to the original text – namely, I’m going with the “Alice just has the same name as the historical Alice and adopted the Wonderland books as her own as a result” sort-of backstory I gave my Malkavian!Alice in “Londerland Bloodlines.” I feel like this makes somewhat more sense than the books simply not existing at all in the world, leaving Victor in the dark as to what Wonderland is. But yeah, she’s gotten through the introduction of Bumby to their lives and what happened to her after the fire – and Victor’s had his usual “who the fuck commits a child” moment upon learning at what age she was sent to Rutledge. Alice is going to be a little surprised by that, given no one else seems to have considered it anything but a necessary evil. . .well, now you’ve got someone who’s actually going to care for you, girl. :)
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – easy one as there was only one video there today, plus a couple things from the Watch Later –
A) Started with Plumbella’s latest: “The Sims 4: Dine Out is still a hot mess!” Yes, her quest to play through each of the packs released for The Sims 4 in order continues, with her picking up a Plum Bitch from the gallery (complete with her pug/loaf of bread Bella this time), moving her into Magnolia Promenade, giving her tons of money through cheats, and then plopping a McDonald’s from the Gallery down next to her and having her buy it to experience owning a restaurant!
Turns out owning a restaurant in Sims 4 is a bit of a pain in the ass. Plumbella tried her best, but her staff was iffy at best about doing their jobs (her first chef, Michael Bell, in fact refused to show up for work and instead sent a random NPC in his place, forcing her to fire him), meaning customers who loved the food and ambiance ended up giving low ratings because of absolutely miserable wait times. Waiters would get distracted dancing (to be fair, so did Plum Bitch), the cook was constantly burning and electrocuting herself on the stove – and of course, Seasons and its thunderstorms didn’t help matters. She made it to two and a half stars, but couldn’t get it above that for longer than a couple of minutes – frustrated, she switched over to the Goths to send them to the McDonald’s and see what it was like from the customer end. The Goths ended up having their own issues – namely, Bella, Cassandra, and Alexander all trying to leave to go to work and school, and their first order never getting off the ground – but eventually they managed to have sodas, spooky cookies, and burgers (in that order). It took them pretty much the ENTIRE DAY, but. . . Yeah, good concept, kinda iffy execution. Makes me glad that my Sims dine out very infrequently!
B) Then, as we had no Call Me Kevin today, I instead dropped in on his girlfriend, Anna Rudolf, as she had an interesting video – “I accidentally stole CallMeKevin's account!” On Minecraft, that is – seems she “somehow” ended up playing in Kevin’s world as Jim Pickens during a recent stream. She decided to make the most of it and turned Jim into a vegetarian pacifist who only attacked in self defense. The early game looked like it was going well – she was feeding chickens, going exploring, learning about the wonders of “waterfall elevators” in caves (you can dump some water, make a waterfall, and use it to go down AND up to traverse long falls), and successfully blocking arrows from skeletons as she looked for good loot – but then she made the mistake of trying to fight a creeper and got exploded. She promptly set off to try and get all the stuff she’d been carrying at the time back, but – well, let’s just say it didn’t go well. XD Poor Anna. . .and then a creeper got into the chicken pen, and her attempt to lure it away resulted in a lot of exploded chickens. That Jim couldn’t even eat because he was a vegetarian. She forced herself to continue on, though, and decided – since she was doing Minecraft Bingo – that she would find herself some diamonds! Though first she had to find herself some iron to make the tools necessary to mine it. . .so, after making a TON of stone axes by accident, she headed out into the world and found iron in a flooded cave! Iron – and, as her stream audience pointed out, diamond! Once she had her iron pick, she went back to grab it, and – through a complicated process of placing doors down to make air pockets in the water to keep herself from drowning – managed to mine three diamonds and get them back home into the ax box. XD A very silly highlights video to be sure – and, like another commenter, I’d like to see Kevin’s reaction to the aftermath. XD
C) And finally, it was over to the Subs for GrayStillPlays and “Whatever I YouTube comes to life in GTA 5!” AKA, Alex asked him to suggest a different kind of board than usual for him to create for Gray’s torture in GTA V, and Gray decided to leave it up to the fates and went to what was trending on YouTube in gaming. This proved to be an episode of Poppy’s Playtime 2 by Markiplier, showing off one of the new enemies – a pink noodle-doll thing – so Gray took a screenshot of the thumbnail and sent it to Alex. Alex processed it, and produced a truly horrific parkour board. XD I mean, it didn’t even start with weird noodle demon toy (though she was VERY much present in the background) – it started with Gray having to do a water slide transfer through a tangled mess of slides to make it to the bottom of the board and the pool party everyone was having, while also getting through the “anti-Gray” defenses – a multi-limbed wind turbine and a tank firing Up-&-Atomizer blasts. XD I honestly think just getting the jump between the slides right took most of Gray’s time on the board. Then he had to drive through the pool party (up various stairs and killing various civilians talking trash about his relationship with Natas, Satan’s daughter (see previous story-based GTA V nonsense)), across a length of road with a single wind turbine (just for flavor), and jump onto the noodle girl’s hand. From there he transferred to a roller coaster car and had to do a pretty damn difficult loop-de-loop wall ride across her arms, before being teleported around the back of her skirt, to do a cylinder ride up to the next checkpoint, then a straight quarter-ramp up her spinal column to finally reach the teleport win and be reunited with his beloved Meaty Bits. XD That was probably an unofficial $2,000 board, honestly. Poor Gray – his agony is our amusement.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – set up the queue for the rest of this week on Victor Luvs Alice (three-part Smiler Always update for Wednesday; not-exactly-incorrect Valicer quotes on Thursday; a bonus Smiler quote from an Alton Towers Incorrect Quotes blog on Friday; and the “Oh, Dracula” song on Saturday), and did my one ask reply over on Valice Multiverse. All good for the immediate future, yay~
So that's all good at least. And now I must get through the next three days, which means I should probably go to bed instead of getting distracted by stuff. XD Night all!
