Dreary But Okay Thursday
May. 19th, 2022 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickShitty weather, but not as stressful a day as it could have been. . .though I am definitely starting to feel spacier as the PMS starts setting in. Ugh. But anyway, onto my day:
Work – I – feel like I didn’t actually get that much done, weirdly, despite KNOWING I got stuff done. Maybe because I didn’t end up putting on any checks or anything like that. . .today it was all about the GL, looking things up, updating a few pledges, and organizing a bunch of our returns so I know what goes where. Oh, and getting my boss to help with the credit card bullshit – I mean, we’ll see if that goes anywhere. It generally does not, I’ve found. *sigh* At least tomorrow’s Friday! Hopefully I can finally get caught up on a few of the other things I’ve been meaning to do. . .
Beanbags – Not today – it was just constantly rainy, miserable, and raw, with a high of MAYBE 60F (though I have trouble believing it ever got that high). And yet this weekend, we’re getting a full-on blast of summer, with temps expected to hit NINETY. New England weather makes absolutely no sense, everyone.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another evening on the bike, finishing off the Oxventure Stream “Bone 2 Pick!” Dob managed to successfully lob two bombs into a Maw Demon’s, er, maw, shoving it back into its fellows so they’d all explode! Unfortunately, while Dob rolled a decent damage score of 24, demons are resistant to fire damage, so they all took half – EXCEPT one, because Johnny rolled a nat one and decided “okay, that means it forgets it’s resistant to fire damage for this round.” XD Also, the attack broke the spell that Egbert’s Turn The Faithless had weaved around them, and they were back in the fight, if – not in great shape. (Dob was very apologetic to Egbert, who just shrugged it off.)
And so we came back around to Corazon, who decided to use a Sneak Attack to absolutely SKEWER one of the Maw Demons – literally, he leaped out of cover, turned it into a kebab, then leapt behind the plinth and relaxed as the damn thing dropped dead from his massive damage. Prudence then stepped up with a retry of her Eldritch Blast, and this time rolled a nat 20 on one of the beams! Talk about making up for before! She full-on punched a hole through that unfortunate demon, and got the equivalent of a hug from Cthulhu for it, while she just sliced the entire bottom off the other, leaving it flailing helplessly. Merilwen happily stepped in to move the Moonbeam over to those who were still alive, and killed two of them even with one of them saving against the damage. That just left the one now lacking legs – and Egbert decided to use his turn to punt that thing through Merilwen’s Moonbeam and send it back into the portal like a flaming meteor, straight into the maws of its fellows that were still trying to climb through.
And with that – PING! Hammer fully recharged! Ethelfrit closed the portal and thanked them all for protecting him, an incorporeal being, during that mess. XD And then asked what was with the hole in the roof of his crypt. XD Merilwen, feeling guilty, got the skeletons to form a cheerleader pyramid up to the hole so she could use Stoneshape to mend it – the skeletons promptly tossed her off the top once she was done. XD Corazon did Featherfall her, but when the skeletons complained, he undid the spell once she wouldn’t die from impact and let her drop the last three feet to get winded. :p However, with the hammer fully charged once again, the skeletons admitted that they were still happy enough to work for the Oxventurers, though they wanted to keep the conversation open about getting to do more bad things. The gang agreed, then decided to just ask Ethelfrit if that was his intent or what – no, as it turns out, it’s just a case of “a great architect does not a great magician make.” *shrug* The group was content with that, and Ethelfrit was just happy that nothing had gone horribly wrong –
Right on cue, he got yeeted out by some powerful magical force as another portal opened, revealing a bunch of Cloneberts – and Liliana herself! Who used the Cloneberts to kidnap Egbert and stop the others from interfering before disappearing back through the portal, leaving no trace behind. Ethelfrit returned from his forced trip and asked what had happened, and they told him Egbert had been eggnapped and that they needed to find him! Corazon promptly suggested putting on a tribute act to raise money for the endeavor. XD Poor Dob’s heart just wasn’t in it, though, not without their drummer. And with no clues or anything as to where Liliana had gone, or how they could stop her, he was willing to suggest a truly painful proposition to the others –
Namely, consult the wizard Binbag for help.
Ethelfrit immediately yeeted himself back to the afterlife, being like “YOU LOT DEAL WITH HIM.” XD But yeah, we end on the cliffhanger of Egbert having been kidnapped! O.O I was not expecting that! I guess next week, we see the gang work on a big old rescue in “Tower Rangers!”
But first, Sims 4 videos! XD Yeah, the episode actually ended with five minutes left in my workout, which was just enough time to watch Simmer Erin’s latest, about the recent reveal of the two latest Kits (it was a leak at the time she made the video, but the Gurus have since officially announced them) – Moonlight Chic, a CAS kit made with the help of a Parisian designer designed to invoke the feeling of the City of Love, and Little Campers, a Build/Buy kit designed for backyard camping adventures for kids – new DIY-feel toys (like cardboard box trucks and suchlike), blanket tents, and an outdoor movie screen made from a sheet and fairy lights. Erin was much more interested in the latter, if only because it looked like it had some damn gameplay associated with it, but admitted that the kit gave her Outdoor Retreat and Movie Hangout Stuff vibes. *shrug* I don’t really care, as I refuse to ever buy a Kit, though I do admit some of the stuff in Little Campers does look cute. Not enough to tempt me, though.
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – after a digression about why Alice was thrown into an asylum as a small child (short answer – she had no relatives or friends who could take her in – the only one who wanted her was Nanny, who couldn’t afford to adopt her before becoming a madam and taking herself out of the running that way), Alice is back to relating her life history, having hit the point where American McGee’s Alice starts. Time to explain how HER Wonderland works next time! Things are coming along slowly but surely! :)
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – though it figures on the day I was expecting nothing, Kevin actually uploaded a surprise out-of-schedule video because he had a sponsorship. XD But after I was done looking at Sims 4 mods again, I caught up easily –
A) Started with the surprise sponsored video from Call Me Kevin: “This game makes you troll other players to win,” starring The Evil Dead game! It’s a co-op game based on the Evil Dead franchise, natch, and one of the modes is PvP with one player acting as a demon to torment the others and stop them completing their tasks. Kevin, naturally, was the demon. XD Though he did take a brief jaunt midway through the video to try out the single-player campaign as Ash. . .only to get downed by some particularly tough Deadites twice while running around trying to collect his love interest’s necklace. And, uh, head. XD He did much better as the demonic entities tormenting the other players, taking control of a strange demon with no eyes and a nice leather jacket, Henrietta the grandma who refuses to wear any freaking clothes beyond half a shirt, and a nicely armored skeleton knight guy. All of these horrible beings had the ability to set traps to spawn zombies, destroy the players with their own special attacks (Henrietta has a particularly horrible “Granny Hug” that – puts a lot on display that Kevin had to blur out), and notably possess things – like cars, trees, and, under the right circumstances, the other players. Kevin had an absolute blast taking the survivors’ cars and driving them off cliffs or using them to run them over, smacking them around as a tree, and then taking over whoever was feeling the worst to get them to attack their friends. The first two times, the survivors were able to band back together and forcibly exorcise Kevin – but Skeleton Knight Guy managed to pull off the win with loads of traps and a last-minute possessing of the single surviving character to force her to walk into a trap. :D You go, Kevin! We all fear you and your sponsored out-of-schedule videos. XD
B) And, of course, then it was time to go back a day and catch up on the other master of torment and pain around here – GrayStillPlays with more Happy Wheels! We had a Minecraft-themed bottle flip (complete with a lava pit!); a “sad square” board where if you touched the square hovering above the platform you brought square death raining down upon you (Gray relied on speed and agility to make it to the win before being crushed); an “impossible” try-to-stop board with Nixon and his Segway being yeeted into spikes (Gray ended up letting go of the Segway and crawling forward with his legs along the length of the final platform to fall onto the win); a “grab onto the jet and survive” board (Gray – kind of survived. . .he hit the win while still alive, I think); a “trash spike fall” by Yeetolism full of literal garbage and multiple layers of spike fall (like, the first fall involved having to go through a thumbnail hole into the SECOND spike fall while avoiding a falling wall of spikes, then you had to pick right or left at the fake win – Gray picked right, went down that spike fall into a garbage ball pit, and then wiggled his way to the bottom and the win); a hard rope swing through a thumbnail hole of pain (two spike walls angled outwards so Gray almost always caught his head or his bum on a spike – took a lot of tries to win that one); and finally another board by Dylan Snider, where Chad The Bike Dad, desperate to stream after picking up his son from daycare, ended up in an accident and had a coma-dream where he had to travel through Minecraft (avoiding getting hit by slime or crushed by a creeper’s TNT), Crash Bandicoot (avoiding the spinning spike masks, a bandicoot guard, and a jumping mask guy), and Animal Crossing (avoiding the fish hooks looking for a Gray to catch) before he could wake up (usual amazing production values from Dylan, of course). XD Definitely a good one!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – three ask replies over on Valice Multiverse, nothing too major.
*shrug* Yeah, reasonably chill all things considered. And my mom made my muffins for breakfast for me (after realizing that there was like no raisin toast left -- I hadn't realized we'd eaten so much of it!), AND someone on the Nexus made a mod that lets you officially "recruit" the Wounded Dog! :D So my Sole Survivor Victor can have his other doggy, yay! :D So that's a nice note to end things on. Now I just gotta make it through Friday. . .night all!
Work – I – feel like I didn’t actually get that much done, weirdly, despite KNOWING I got stuff done. Maybe because I didn’t end up putting on any checks or anything like that. . .today it was all about the GL, looking things up, updating a few pledges, and organizing a bunch of our returns so I know what goes where. Oh, and getting my boss to help with the credit card bullshit – I mean, we’ll see if that goes anywhere. It generally does not, I’ve found. *sigh* At least tomorrow’s Friday! Hopefully I can finally get caught up on a few of the other things I’ve been meaning to do. . .
Beanbags – Not today – it was just constantly rainy, miserable, and raw, with a high of MAYBE 60F (though I have trouble believing it ever got that high). And yet this weekend, we’re getting a full-on blast of summer, with temps expected to hit NINETY. New England weather makes absolutely no sense, everyone.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another evening on the bike, finishing off the Oxventure Stream “Bone 2 Pick!” Dob managed to successfully lob two bombs into a Maw Demon’s, er, maw, shoving it back into its fellows so they’d all explode! Unfortunately, while Dob rolled a decent damage score of 24, demons are resistant to fire damage, so they all took half – EXCEPT one, because Johnny rolled a nat one and decided “okay, that means it forgets it’s resistant to fire damage for this round.” XD Also, the attack broke the spell that Egbert’s Turn The Faithless had weaved around them, and they were back in the fight, if – not in great shape. (Dob was very apologetic to Egbert, who just shrugged it off.)
And so we came back around to Corazon, who decided to use a Sneak Attack to absolutely SKEWER one of the Maw Demons – literally, he leaped out of cover, turned it into a kebab, then leapt behind the plinth and relaxed as the damn thing dropped dead from his massive damage. Prudence then stepped up with a retry of her Eldritch Blast, and this time rolled a nat 20 on one of the beams! Talk about making up for before! She full-on punched a hole through that unfortunate demon, and got the equivalent of a hug from Cthulhu for it, while she just sliced the entire bottom off the other, leaving it flailing helplessly. Merilwen happily stepped in to move the Moonbeam over to those who were still alive, and killed two of them even with one of them saving against the damage. That just left the one now lacking legs – and Egbert decided to use his turn to punt that thing through Merilwen’s Moonbeam and send it back into the portal like a flaming meteor, straight into the maws of its fellows that were still trying to climb through.
And with that – PING! Hammer fully recharged! Ethelfrit closed the portal and thanked them all for protecting him, an incorporeal being, during that mess. XD And then asked what was with the hole in the roof of his crypt. XD Merilwen, feeling guilty, got the skeletons to form a cheerleader pyramid up to the hole so she could use Stoneshape to mend it – the skeletons promptly tossed her off the top once she was done. XD Corazon did Featherfall her, but when the skeletons complained, he undid the spell once she wouldn’t die from impact and let her drop the last three feet to get winded. :p However, with the hammer fully charged once again, the skeletons admitted that they were still happy enough to work for the Oxventurers, though they wanted to keep the conversation open about getting to do more bad things. The gang agreed, then decided to just ask Ethelfrit if that was his intent or what – no, as it turns out, it’s just a case of “a great architect does not a great magician make.” *shrug* The group was content with that, and Ethelfrit was just happy that nothing had gone horribly wrong –
Right on cue, he got yeeted out by some powerful magical force as another portal opened, revealing a bunch of Cloneberts – and Liliana herself! Who used the Cloneberts to kidnap Egbert and stop the others from interfering before disappearing back through the portal, leaving no trace behind. Ethelfrit returned from his forced trip and asked what had happened, and they told him Egbert had been eggnapped and that they needed to find him! Corazon promptly suggested putting on a tribute act to raise money for the endeavor. XD Poor Dob’s heart just wasn’t in it, though, not without their drummer. And with no clues or anything as to where Liliana had gone, or how they could stop her, he was willing to suggest a truly painful proposition to the others –
Namely, consult the wizard Binbag for help.
Ethelfrit immediately yeeted himself back to the afterlife, being like “YOU LOT DEAL WITH HIM.” XD But yeah, we end on the cliffhanger of Egbert having been kidnapped! O.O I was not expecting that! I guess next week, we see the gang work on a big old rescue in “Tower Rangers!”
But first, Sims 4 videos! XD Yeah, the episode actually ended with five minutes left in my workout, which was just enough time to watch Simmer Erin’s latest, about the recent reveal of the two latest Kits (it was a leak at the time she made the video, but the Gurus have since officially announced them) – Moonlight Chic, a CAS kit made with the help of a Parisian designer designed to invoke the feeling of the City of Love, and Little Campers, a Build/Buy kit designed for backyard camping adventures for kids – new DIY-feel toys (like cardboard box trucks and suchlike), blanket tents, and an outdoor movie screen made from a sheet and fairy lights. Erin was much more interested in the latter, if only because it looked like it had some damn gameplay associated with it, but admitted that the kit gave her Outdoor Retreat and Movie Hangout Stuff vibes. *shrug* I don’t really care, as I refuse to ever buy a Kit, though I do admit some of the stuff in Little Campers does look cute. Not enough to tempt me, though.
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – after a digression about why Alice was thrown into an asylum as a small child (short answer – she had no relatives or friends who could take her in – the only one who wanted her was Nanny, who couldn’t afford to adopt her before becoming a madam and taking herself out of the running that way), Alice is back to relating her life history, having hit the point where American McGee’s Alice starts. Time to explain how HER Wonderland works next time! Things are coming along slowly but surely! :)
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – though it figures on the day I was expecting nothing, Kevin actually uploaded a surprise out-of-schedule video because he had a sponsorship. XD But after I was done looking at Sims 4 mods again, I caught up easily –
A) Started with the surprise sponsored video from Call Me Kevin: “This game makes you troll other players to win,” starring The Evil Dead game! It’s a co-op game based on the Evil Dead franchise, natch, and one of the modes is PvP with one player acting as a demon to torment the others and stop them completing their tasks. Kevin, naturally, was the demon. XD Though he did take a brief jaunt midway through the video to try out the single-player campaign as Ash. . .only to get downed by some particularly tough Deadites twice while running around trying to collect his love interest’s necklace. And, uh, head. XD He did much better as the demonic entities tormenting the other players, taking control of a strange demon with no eyes and a nice leather jacket, Henrietta the grandma who refuses to wear any freaking clothes beyond half a shirt, and a nicely armored skeleton knight guy. All of these horrible beings had the ability to set traps to spawn zombies, destroy the players with their own special attacks (Henrietta has a particularly horrible “Granny Hug” that – puts a lot on display that Kevin had to blur out), and notably possess things – like cars, trees, and, under the right circumstances, the other players. Kevin had an absolute blast taking the survivors’ cars and driving them off cliffs or using them to run them over, smacking them around as a tree, and then taking over whoever was feeling the worst to get them to attack their friends. The first two times, the survivors were able to band back together and forcibly exorcise Kevin – but Skeleton Knight Guy managed to pull off the win with loads of traps and a last-minute possessing of the single surviving character to force her to walk into a trap. :D You go, Kevin! We all fear you and your sponsored out-of-schedule videos. XD
B) And, of course, then it was time to go back a day and catch up on the other master of torment and pain around here – GrayStillPlays with more Happy Wheels! We had a Minecraft-themed bottle flip (complete with a lava pit!); a “sad square” board where if you touched the square hovering above the platform you brought square death raining down upon you (Gray relied on speed and agility to make it to the win before being crushed); an “impossible” try-to-stop board with Nixon and his Segway being yeeted into spikes (Gray ended up letting go of the Segway and crawling forward with his legs along the length of the final platform to fall onto the win); a “grab onto the jet and survive” board (Gray – kind of survived. . .he hit the win while still alive, I think); a “trash spike fall” by Yeetolism full of literal garbage and multiple layers of spike fall (like, the first fall involved having to go through a thumbnail hole into the SECOND spike fall while avoiding a falling wall of spikes, then you had to pick right or left at the fake win – Gray picked right, went down that spike fall into a garbage ball pit, and then wiggled his way to the bottom and the win); a hard rope swing through a thumbnail hole of pain (two spike walls angled outwards so Gray almost always caught his head or his bum on a spike – took a lot of tries to win that one); and finally another board by Dylan Snider, where Chad The Bike Dad, desperate to stream after picking up his son from daycare, ended up in an accident and had a coma-dream where he had to travel through Minecraft (avoiding getting hit by slime or crushed by a creeper’s TNT), Crash Bandicoot (avoiding the spinning spike masks, a bandicoot guard, and a jumping mask guy), and Animal Crossing (avoiding the fish hooks looking for a Gray to catch) before he could wake up (usual amazing production values from Dylan, of course). XD Definitely a good one!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – three ask replies over on Valice Multiverse, nothing too major.
*shrug* Yeah, reasonably chill all things considered. And my mom made my muffins for breakfast for me (after realizing that there was like no raisin toast left -- I hadn't realized we'd eaten so much of it!), AND someone on the Nexus made a mod that lets you officially "recruit" the Wounded Dog! :D So my Sole Survivor Victor can have his other doggy, yay! :D So that's a nice note to end things on. Now I just gotta make it through Friday. . .night all!
