Period Brain Really Affecting Me
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crossover_chickAs you can see by the VERY late update -- let's just slap this in here so I can head to bed:
Work – Coworker made it through the entire day today, yay! Also apparently bonuses are coming this July, yay! I’ll take extra money, please and thank you. As for work itself, spent most of the day on a QC file for thank yous, finding more credit card bullshit to be corrected, and looking up stuff for people. Not a bad day, not a great day – just a day. Though the commute home was nasty, but not for the usual reason – guess whose period came during her drive home? *sigh* I KNEW to expect this week, but it so often comes either right as I wake up or right before I go to bed. . .no major damage done, thankfully, but I did have to change underwear upon arriving home. Meeh. At least I only have to suffer through one day of work while on this!
Beanbags – Nice enough out (high 60s, some clouds, touch of wind), so yeah, once I’d taken care of my underwear situation, we went out and played. I had a strong start in the first game, but fizzled halfway through. Pulled it back in time for the last one, though – final scores were me 2-3-W; Dad W-2-3; Mom 3-W-2. Nice and equitable!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another chunk of the Oxventure Stream “Tower Rangers!” Dob’s attempt to intimidate the bartender into giving them information only ended in confusion because the bartender really wasn’t sure what the hell he was going on about. Prudence, being the voice of reason (the tiefling warlock who has a pact with Cthulhu is the voice of reason today, people), just straight up told the guy their friend had been kidnapped and that they’d found one of their matchbooks in the wake of said kidnapping. Dob was like “but that’s the thing I thought he wanted in exchange for information!” only for the bartender, Jeremy, to point out a bowl of free matchbooks on the counter. XD Realizing these weirdos did actually need help, though, he had his partner Scott (in more than one sense of the word; pretty sure they’re husbands) open up the function room so they could talk more privately. After some shenanigans regarding finally getting it through Dob’s head that the matchbooks were free and not precious to the owners (leading to him filling his pockets with them), Corazon just straight up asked Jeremy if he’d seen any drow or dragon-men in the tavern recently. Jeremy said no on the drow, but confirmed that yes, there was a pack of dragon-men who liked to come in and drink – they were occasionally a nuisance to the other customers, but were generally nice enough – he later admitted they were the ones to come up with the “carry-oaky” idea and are the most eager players. XD The gang was like “yes, that sounds like Otherberts,” explained the kidnapping of their friend, Egbert (the “Ur-bert” as Prudence termed him, gaining inspiration for it), and asked if they could skulk around while the Otherberts came in and figure out what they could learn. Jeremy was okay with this so long as they didn’t cause any fights – for some reason, singling out Merilwen for this. He explained that he could hear her periodically hissing at him, and she opened up her cloak and explained about the cockroach –
Cue Jeremy being like “COCKROACH SERIOUSLY OUT” and Merilwen booking it for the door because yes, nice eating/drinking establishment, can’t have cockroaches. She decided it was time to evict Noah, who naturally did not take well to being removed from her cloak after being teleported to an entirely different landmass and insisted she feel bad about it for about a half-dozen nights over the next few years. XD Merilwen, already feeling bad, instead went a different route and SUMMONED BINBAG TO TELEPORT THE COCKROACH BACK TO THE CRYPT. Binbag was like “seriously” as the others (watching from the door) mercilessly mocked him, Merilwen, and the situation, but Merilwen won him over to doing it by saying she’d owe him a favor. And so he flicked Noah back to whence he came and disappeared, clearly annoyed at being used as a plot device. XD
This still left a few hours to kill before “carry-oaky” night, so Johnny allowed the others the option of doing some other business. Prudence went to the local apothecary and stocked up on supplies, though she got out of there before the owner started talking “recharging crystals.” Dob and Corazon decided to pick up new weapons – Dob got a sweet possibly-made-of-meteorite rapier with those deliberate hammer dents for character (like Johnny’s wedding ring, aw!), while Corazon got a pair of custom cutlasses engraved with him killing the hell out of an enemy that had one of those rotating clicky-wheel heads so he could customize it for whatever enemy he was killing. XD Dob also attempted to pay for all the purchases with matchbooks, but no go. So instead he of course overpaid on everything and the gang once again has no cash. XD Merilwen, meanwhile, just spent her time as the pub cat, getting tons of pets and belly rubs as Jeremy and Scott either hastily made or commissioned a woodcut of her for the wall. XD
But, finally, it was time for “carry-oaky!” Merilwen stayed a cat while Prudence and Corazon dressed up as sexy rangers (competing who could be the coolest and sexiest) and Dob complained bitterly about not being able to be a Beeple anymore. XD The Otherberts came tromping in in rather fancy attire, bought some booze, did their “carry-oaky” thing around the pub, and repeated for a few hours. XD Life is simple when you’re an Otherbert. Eventually, though, it was time for them to leave, with the others ready to follow (after some confusion – Merilwen trying to keep an Otherbert behind by sitting in his lap, and the others figuring out their stealth “plan of attack” – with Dob, of course, being insistent on going on the rooftops). Merilwen found a burlap sack one of them had brought and climbed inside to be carried along; Corazon and Prudence went the “social stealth” route and tagged along as fellow revelers at a safe distance; and Dob hopped on the roofs and just smashed being a cool tail. Along the way, Merilwen overheard some interesting information – namely, it doesn’t seem like these Otherberts are all that evil. They really like “carry-oaky” night and dressing up and whatnot, and while they acknowledge that they’re only fifteen days old and there’s lots of new experiences to be had – having them while rampaging over the land in service of Lady Liliana’s great work seems – rude, at best? They’re thinking of bringing it up to the Lady later. Interesting. . .
Also interesting – the Otherberts going through some sort of portal in a brick wall to get back to their home base! Merilwen of course went with them – Dob, having seen this, hopped off the roofs, made himself invisible (to prevent anyone seeing him try this), then ran at the wall. He fortunately made his Constitution saving throw, but yeah, the wall did not give. XD So now the remaining trio has to figure out a way through – ooooh. And Corazon has an Otherbert scale on him, doesn’t he? I think I see where this is going. . .
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – Alice has finished summing up her history to Victor, explaining about Houndsditch, Bumby’s other activities with innocent children, and how he ended up her first murder. Victor is like “yeah, that fucker totally deserved to die, good job.” XD But now we get into the question of why she keeps killing, of course, because Victor still hasn’t quite gotten the whole “holistic assassin” part yet. You will, buddy, you will.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Two-thirds check – once again, in the interest of having time for other things after a late start, I ended up skipping Call Me Kevin because it’s almost certain he won’t upload tomorrow and I can catch up then. As for what I did watch –
A) Started with the latest from James Turner: “I built a secret underground vault for my stolen objects (Sims 4)!” This is the side video about designing the secret basement museum full of Hazel’s stolen objects that he said he might do before, and it turned out – pretty epic. He totally redesigned the hallway in past the wine cellar with gold-veined marble walls, did a double-vault-door into the actual display room, made little viewing rooms for the dinosaur skull nicked from Plumbob Pictures, the computer from the Houck household, and the two organs taken from Vlad and Column respectively, then made a separate room for the actual money vault, putting it in a “lava lake” (a big old pool of red-tinted water). Add in a ton of columns, some fancy velvet ropes, a super-expensive painting, fancy chandeliers, and some red carpet, and we had ourselves a museum! And no money left over. XD Well, at least he was able to confirm it all works in-game. (Also he got himself a fresh Hagrid off the Gallery to replace the one taken from the family last episode, and Nina’s back to actually being a part of the family, yay.) Looking forward to seeing how this series wraps up!
B) And then it was on to GrayStillPlays for “I found this impossible mystery waterslide in GTA 5!” Or, rather, it was e-mailed to him by Alex. Who now has the “Satan” tag in Gray’s G-Mail inbox. XD (As well as his apprentice Danny, of course.) And it wasn’t just one waterslide – it was MULTIPLE. Basically Danny made a multiple-choice board from HELL where Gray had to pick from four water slide options to find the one that actually teleported him to the win and not to the start of the board. We had the “Superman on a jetski followed by the planes from hell” slide, where Gray had to avoid being clobbered by the above in three stages (Superman, then planes wave one, then planes wave two featuring Giant Anime Girl Plane) – only to find the teleport lead back to the start. There was the “waterfall of Grays” slide, where he had to dodge water spouts, a bunch of his clones jumping to their deaths, and hit the target perfectly to reach the teleport – which took him back to the start. There was the “long slide into car magnets” part, which involved going down the longest waterslides Alex could make, before having to dodge cars and tankers being flung violently up, down, and to either side (which arguably took him the longest out of any of the slides to do) to reach the teleport –
Which took him to a platform OVER the start. Which directed him to look to the right. And what was there, waiting for him, as the final slide?
AN INVISIBLE WATER SLIDE INTO A TELEPORT CHECKPOINT. COMPLETELY INVISIBLE. GRAY GOT THIS THROUGH SHEER LUCK. And then it dumped him on top of a random boat before making him dive into the water for his win. XD Alex has a talent for sadism and we all love him for it.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Enough of a check, I’m gonna say – managed to slap the three Wednesday Chill Save update posts into the queue for Victor Luvs Alice, and get ONE of my two owed thread replies done for Valice Multiverse. Just – brain was NOT fuckin’ cooperating and I hate it.
And now I very much have to go to bed if I want to function tomorrow. *facepalm* Just gotta get through the workday. . . Night all.
Work – Coworker made it through the entire day today, yay! Also apparently bonuses are coming this July, yay! I’ll take extra money, please and thank you. As for work itself, spent most of the day on a QC file for thank yous, finding more credit card bullshit to be corrected, and looking up stuff for people. Not a bad day, not a great day – just a day. Though the commute home was nasty, but not for the usual reason – guess whose period came during her drive home? *sigh* I KNEW to expect this week, but it so often comes either right as I wake up or right before I go to bed. . .no major damage done, thankfully, but I did have to change underwear upon arriving home. Meeh. At least I only have to suffer through one day of work while on this!
Beanbags – Nice enough out (high 60s, some clouds, touch of wind), so yeah, once I’d taken care of my underwear situation, we went out and played. I had a strong start in the first game, but fizzled halfway through. Pulled it back in time for the last one, though – final scores were me 2-3-W; Dad W-2-3; Mom 3-W-2. Nice and equitable!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another chunk of the Oxventure Stream “Tower Rangers!” Dob’s attempt to intimidate the bartender into giving them information only ended in confusion because the bartender really wasn’t sure what the hell he was going on about. Prudence, being the voice of reason (the tiefling warlock who has a pact with Cthulhu is the voice of reason today, people), just straight up told the guy their friend had been kidnapped and that they’d found one of their matchbooks in the wake of said kidnapping. Dob was like “but that’s the thing I thought he wanted in exchange for information!” only for the bartender, Jeremy, to point out a bowl of free matchbooks on the counter. XD Realizing these weirdos did actually need help, though, he had his partner Scott (in more than one sense of the word; pretty sure they’re husbands) open up the function room so they could talk more privately. After some shenanigans regarding finally getting it through Dob’s head that the matchbooks were free and not precious to the owners (leading to him filling his pockets with them), Corazon just straight up asked Jeremy if he’d seen any drow or dragon-men in the tavern recently. Jeremy said no on the drow, but confirmed that yes, there was a pack of dragon-men who liked to come in and drink – they were occasionally a nuisance to the other customers, but were generally nice enough – he later admitted they were the ones to come up with the “carry-oaky” idea and are the most eager players. XD The gang was like “yes, that sounds like Otherberts,” explained the kidnapping of their friend, Egbert (the “Ur-bert” as Prudence termed him, gaining inspiration for it), and asked if they could skulk around while the Otherberts came in and figure out what they could learn. Jeremy was okay with this so long as they didn’t cause any fights – for some reason, singling out Merilwen for this. He explained that he could hear her periodically hissing at him, and she opened up her cloak and explained about the cockroach –
Cue Jeremy being like “COCKROACH SERIOUSLY OUT” and Merilwen booking it for the door because yes, nice eating/drinking establishment, can’t have cockroaches. She decided it was time to evict Noah, who naturally did not take well to being removed from her cloak after being teleported to an entirely different landmass and insisted she feel bad about it for about a half-dozen nights over the next few years. XD Merilwen, already feeling bad, instead went a different route and SUMMONED BINBAG TO TELEPORT THE COCKROACH BACK TO THE CRYPT. Binbag was like “seriously” as the others (watching from the door) mercilessly mocked him, Merilwen, and the situation, but Merilwen won him over to doing it by saying she’d owe him a favor. And so he flicked Noah back to whence he came and disappeared, clearly annoyed at being used as a plot device. XD
This still left a few hours to kill before “carry-oaky” night, so Johnny allowed the others the option of doing some other business. Prudence went to the local apothecary and stocked up on supplies, though she got out of there before the owner started talking “recharging crystals.” Dob and Corazon decided to pick up new weapons – Dob got a sweet possibly-made-of-meteorite rapier with those deliberate hammer dents for character (like Johnny’s wedding ring, aw!), while Corazon got a pair of custom cutlasses engraved with him killing the hell out of an enemy that had one of those rotating clicky-wheel heads so he could customize it for whatever enemy he was killing. XD Dob also attempted to pay for all the purchases with matchbooks, but no go. So instead he of course overpaid on everything and the gang once again has no cash. XD Merilwen, meanwhile, just spent her time as the pub cat, getting tons of pets and belly rubs as Jeremy and Scott either hastily made or commissioned a woodcut of her for the wall. XD
But, finally, it was time for “carry-oaky!” Merilwen stayed a cat while Prudence and Corazon dressed up as sexy rangers (competing who could be the coolest and sexiest) and Dob complained bitterly about not being able to be a Beeple anymore. XD The Otherberts came tromping in in rather fancy attire, bought some booze, did their “carry-oaky” thing around the pub, and repeated for a few hours. XD Life is simple when you’re an Otherbert. Eventually, though, it was time for them to leave, with the others ready to follow (after some confusion – Merilwen trying to keep an Otherbert behind by sitting in his lap, and the others figuring out their stealth “plan of attack” – with Dob, of course, being insistent on going on the rooftops). Merilwen found a burlap sack one of them had brought and climbed inside to be carried along; Corazon and Prudence went the “social stealth” route and tagged along as fellow revelers at a safe distance; and Dob hopped on the roofs and just smashed being a cool tail. Along the way, Merilwen overheard some interesting information – namely, it doesn’t seem like these Otherberts are all that evil. They really like “carry-oaky” night and dressing up and whatnot, and while they acknowledge that they’re only fifteen days old and there’s lots of new experiences to be had – having them while rampaging over the land in service of Lady Liliana’s great work seems – rude, at best? They’re thinking of bringing it up to the Lady later. Interesting. . .
Also interesting – the Otherberts going through some sort of portal in a brick wall to get back to their home base! Merilwen of course went with them – Dob, having seen this, hopped off the roofs, made himself invisible (to prevent anyone seeing him try this), then ran at the wall. He fortunately made his Constitution saving throw, but yeah, the wall did not give. XD So now the remaining trio has to figure out a way through – ooooh. And Corazon has an Otherbert scale on him, doesn’t he? I think I see where this is going. . .
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – Alice has finished summing up her history to Victor, explaining about Houndsditch, Bumby’s other activities with innocent children, and how he ended up her first murder. Victor is like “yeah, that fucker totally deserved to die, good job.” XD But now we get into the question of why she keeps killing, of course, because Victor still hasn’t quite gotten the whole “holistic assassin” part yet. You will, buddy, you will.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Two-thirds check – once again, in the interest of having time for other things after a late start, I ended up skipping Call Me Kevin because it’s almost certain he won’t upload tomorrow and I can catch up then. As for what I did watch –
A) Started with the latest from James Turner: “I built a secret underground vault for my stolen objects (Sims 4)!” This is the side video about designing the secret basement museum full of Hazel’s stolen objects that he said he might do before, and it turned out – pretty epic. He totally redesigned the hallway in past the wine cellar with gold-veined marble walls, did a double-vault-door into the actual display room, made little viewing rooms for the dinosaur skull nicked from Plumbob Pictures, the computer from the Houck household, and the two organs taken from Vlad and Column respectively, then made a separate room for the actual money vault, putting it in a “lava lake” (a big old pool of red-tinted water). Add in a ton of columns, some fancy velvet ropes, a super-expensive painting, fancy chandeliers, and some red carpet, and we had ourselves a museum! And no money left over. XD Well, at least he was able to confirm it all works in-game. (Also he got himself a fresh Hagrid off the Gallery to replace the one taken from the family last episode, and Nina’s back to actually being a part of the family, yay.) Looking forward to seeing how this series wraps up!
B) And then it was on to GrayStillPlays for “I found this impossible mystery waterslide in GTA 5!” Or, rather, it was e-mailed to him by Alex. Who now has the “Satan” tag in Gray’s G-Mail inbox. XD (As well as his apprentice Danny, of course.) And it wasn’t just one waterslide – it was MULTIPLE. Basically Danny made a multiple-choice board from HELL where Gray had to pick from four water slide options to find the one that actually teleported him to the win and not to the start of the board. We had the “Superman on a jetski followed by the planes from hell” slide, where Gray had to avoid being clobbered by the above in three stages (Superman, then planes wave one, then planes wave two featuring Giant Anime Girl Plane) – only to find the teleport lead back to the start. There was the “waterfall of Grays” slide, where he had to dodge water spouts, a bunch of his clones jumping to their deaths, and hit the target perfectly to reach the teleport – which took him back to the start. There was the “long slide into car magnets” part, which involved going down the longest waterslides Alex could make, before having to dodge cars and tankers being flung violently up, down, and to either side (which arguably took him the longest out of any of the slides to do) to reach the teleport –
Which took him to a platform OVER the start. Which directed him to look to the right. And what was there, waiting for him, as the final slide?
AN INVISIBLE WATER SLIDE INTO A TELEPORT CHECKPOINT. COMPLETELY INVISIBLE. GRAY GOT THIS THROUGH SHEER LUCK. And then it dumped him on top of a random boat before making him dive into the water for his win. XD Alex has a talent for sadism and we all love him for it.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Enough of a check, I’m gonna say – managed to slap the three Wednesday Chill Save update posts into the queue for Victor Luvs Alice, and get ONE of my two owed thread replies done for Valice Multiverse. Just – brain was NOT fuckin’ cooperating and I hate it.
And now I very much have to go to bed if I want to function tomorrow. *facepalm* Just gotta get through the workday. . . Night all.
