Nice Thursday Off
May. 26th, 2022 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickVery relaxing, especially after the brain break night I gave myself yesterday. :) Here, consult my to-do list and see for yourself:
1. Continue working on "As Long As You Love Me" or do some personal AU stuff: A “sort of both” check! Because last night I got a particular hypnokinky scene in my head that featured Victor and Smiler and the idea of “unwinding” someone’s thoughts, and that’s what I ended up writing today after lunch because you gotta follow your muse sometimes. . .but it’s explicitly set in the “As Long As You Love Me” verse – hell, it’s potentially a scene from the sequel I hope to write later (currently titled “The Joker And The Queen,” after the Ed Sheeran/Taylor Swift collab, because Taylor Swift songs are a surprisingly large part of “As Long As You Love Me” and its Valice, and I decided to do Ed Sheeran stuff for the Victor/Smiler moments in the sequel). So yeah, it’s personal AU stuff right now, but it’s in the same verse as the project I normally would have done today. I’ll call that a win on both fronts! XD
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and get the Sims videos out of my Watch Later: Check! Took a little longer this evening than anticipated, but I got through everything I wanted to watch –
A) Started with the Plumbellas in the WL:
I. “Things I desperately want to come back in The Sims 5” – a video talking about some of the things she’d like to come back from previous games when it comes to the potential next installment! Things like the Room need (tweaked so that just one dirty plate doesn’t totally ruin a Sim’s day, of course), and the menu showing the Sims head looking around as you picked various options from The Sims; the aspiration rewards, and wants and fears, and the ability to create your own custom neighborhood from The Sims 2 (hard same bestie); and Create-A-Style for hair and eye color and skintones (tweak things to your pleasure, everyone), and places like graveyards to give things like a Legacy Challenge a bit of weight from The Sims 3. Plus more general stuff from more than one of the past installments – like small telescopes! Small jungle gyms for kids! More stuff for kids in general, in fact! And point build personalities and more available traits, which – yes, good, put those latter two together and I think Sims 5 will be great. :) Like I often say, I still get enjoyment out of The Sims 4, but there is DEFINITELY room for improvement, especially when compared to some of what we used to have.
II. “THE GOTH MAKEOVER IS HEREEE” – a quick video on the made-over Goth family in new Sims 4 saves! Done despite a raging ear infection, poor Plumbella. But she’s very happy with the changes – Bella and Cassandra have their proper skintones back (or at least something a lot closer to them from the original games), and everyone’s fashion sense has been updated. I’m not ENTIRELY sold on Alexander’s new look – I preferred his old hair, and apparently he ages up a bit poorly – but it’s a good effort, and I’m glad to see the team putting in the work to make the classic families look closer to how they should. Hopefully next up, we’ll see the Caliente sisters back to THEIR proper skintones!
B) Then it was over to Simmer Erin for “BEST OF EVERY SIMS 4 PACK IN UNDER 10 MINUTES- SPEED GAMEPLAY REVIEW 2022!” Yes, Erin decided to do about ten minutes of positivity on The Sims 4 and its expansions, game, and stuff packs (not the kits, since only ONE has added gameplay so far) and list off a few favorite gameplay features from each. A few were easy (Seasons adding weather and holidays; Vampires adding an excellent occult life state), others more difficult (poor Perfect Patio, being sniped by the 20th anniversary update with that hot tub – I made a point of saying at least the hot tubs in the pack are better!). But it was nice to see someone make an effort to try and say something nice about each and every pack. :)
C) Then we had ligayatrait and a quick look at 42 “Maxis Match” style male hairs she currently has in her mod folder! Just because someone else might want them. :) Nothing particularly grabbed me as a must-have in the showcase, but it was nice to see one that focuses on male/masculine Sims, simply because they don’t get as much love in CAS assets, either from EAxis or custom content creators.
D) And finally, we moved to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and another terrible BitLife! This time as an awful Amish person, Noah Elektrik. XD Noah’s thing turned out to be constantly having the worst stats of any of Kevin’s BitLife characters, especially for smarts, as almost every boost he was offered was one that involved technology, and – being Amish. . . After graduating high school, he proceeded to spend fourteen years as an exorcist, having babies with a girlfriend who kind of hated him (especially when he broke off their engagement when she wouldn’t give him money) and suffering an assault from his boss when he refused to work excessive unpaid overtime. And then losing the lawsuit he brought against her. Before quietly murdering her with a stick. Never caught, and he ended up losing his job due to being depressed instead of the killing. XD He then transitioned into being an apprentice carpenter, only to lose THAT job after seven years because he decided to reduce his hours when he figured he and the girlfriend could just pump out kids together. Honestly, the only thing he was good at was crime – namely, burgling houses – so he decided to join a local mafia family by doing yard work for one of the captains. Most of his new Family didn’t like him much, though, and the money he was bringing in via burglaries wasn’t great, so when he got caught by a surprise SWAT team during one of his jobs, he agreed to turn informant. And then proceeded to keep doing crimes and basically get no evidence before finally getting stuffed in a suitcase and sunk to the bottom of the ocean by a member of a rival crime family. XD Kevin briefly transitioned to life as Noah’s second son, Notmybaby (since Kevin didn’t believe for a second the woman who hated Noah so much would keep having kids with him) to quickly ruin it – having him lose his job as a Junior Wedding Planner and try to kill his mother, only for her to whip him back and kill HIM instead. XD So yeah, pretty much the usual from a Kevin BitLife. XD
3. Play Sims 4 and do some building in the San MyShuno Park: Check, though thanks to the writing (above), I got a bit of a late start. . .and then when I actually got to the park – Myshuno Meadows, which is a “special” sort of lot called a “Central Park,” cool – in my building save (as my game just got patched and that means taking out the CC and the mods for a bit, meaning I CAN’T go into the Chill Save unless I want to mess up all the things), I struggled a bit with what I wanted to do with it. Because I liked the central wedding area and wanted to keep that, but I also wanted to add a “movies in the park” area and a place to do karaoke. Why? Well, not only do I just like giving Sims stuff to do in community lots (and there’s not even a chessboard in Myshuno Meadows – just a bar and some bookshelves in the main house), I’m specifically thinking of making a club for my Chill Save Victor, Alice, and Smiler, setting the hangout as Myshuno Meadows, and calling it the “Thruple Club” or similar so they can go on pseudo-dates there. XD Which means it has to have activities to appeal to all of them. I ended up doing a sort of “dry run,” just making a basic movie area and karaoke/DJ dance floor area on either side of the wedding arch, and updating the wedding area with some Romantic Garden stuff to make it look nicer. And adding the lot traits “Party Place,” “Romantic Aura,” and “Sunny Aspect,” as all those seemed appropriate. Nothing special, but it’s a decent “proof of concept,” I suppose. I’ll figure out more of what I want to do with the place later, once I’ve got all my stuff back in my game!
4. Work on tumblr drafts: Check in progress at the moment, but it is getting done –
Victor Luvs Alice – Added a VTMB gifset to the drafts, am currently working on tomorrow’s queued post, which is the first chapter of someone’s Valice fanfic which sees the pair thrown into an eldritch post-apocalyptic hellworld made up of the bits and pieces of a bunch of web series featuring analog and cosmic horror elements! Yes, I am into this, even if I'm not familiar with most of the series involved. XD
Valice Multiverse – Finally answered my other thread reply (for my Malkavian Alice and her Malkavian friend who is usually her daughter (the muse is someone’s take on a kid for a modern Victor and Alice living in America, but in this particular verse she’s only a fellow Kindred)) and stuck three ask replies in the queue, currently working on the fourth and figuring out how I want to answer it.
5. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike after beanbags, to finish off the Oxventure Stream “Tower Rangers!” And, once again, my prediction regarding how the next bit of the adventure would go – namely, that there would be a big fight – was incorrect. What actually happened is that everyone continued arguing about what they should do to distract Liliana and get inside – Merilwen’s super-sneaky spell was dismissed because Lilianna’s such an amazing magic-user they didn’t know if they’d get rumbled, but Dob was more than willing to create a Major Illuision of a Resident Evil-bert who would scare the other Otherberts and get Liliana to see what all the fuss was about. XD Merilwen also canonically told them about the Fancyberts having doubts about going out rampaging, especially if it mean the end of “carry-oaky” (after Prudence non-canonically mentioned it, then was reminded she didn’t know yet), meaning they could try to foment some revolution in them, perhaps. Merilwen also said that she knew the lever downstairs set off an alarm, and she was more than willing to make a spike trap and set it off to cause some trouble against the “abominations of nature” that were the various Otherberts. True Neutral, everyone! They might have gone about this for ages –
Had Johnny not realized they’d been talking for twenty minutes and gave them a forty-five second deadline to come up with a damn plan. XD They decided to go with a dual plan – Merilwen would go down and enact the Lever Spikes Of Doom trap (pulling the lever, growing the spikes, and then darting out the door, locking it, and looking through the keyhole), while Corazon would disguise himself as a scientist with Disguise Self and go rile up the Fancyberts. Dob and Prudence would stay at the top of the tower, watch how things were progressing with Liliana, and Dob would swoop in and rescue Egbert when the time was right. How did things go?
Excellently for the gang, terribly for the various Otherberts. For Merilwen, at the very bottom of the tower, the spike trap ended up working very well indeed against at least a couple of the Caveberts, wandering into the spike field to reset the lever. Too well, in fact – seeing them trapped, chewing themselves up every time they tried to move, and basically being really scared, made Merilwen have a MASSIVE change of heart, drop the spikes, and run off to hide in a bush and feel horribly guilty. XD Corazon, meanwhile, absolutely smashed it as the scientist looking to encourage the Fancyberts to rise up – he got inside and told them that “carry-oaky” was canceled, and that they had to spend more time working, and also they couldn’t sleep anymore, and that Liliana had insulted them loads. The Fancyberts promptly started plotting. XD Dob, via the Message spell, encouraged him to go down a level and try the Caveberts – he gave it a go, claiming Liliana was no longer letting them hit things with clubs, but the Caveberts were, of course, more interested in solving the mystery of why their friends weren’t back from resetting the lever. XD However, while that was happening, the Fancyberts went up a level to see if any other Otherberts had lost privileges – and what I thought were elderly Bingoberts were in fact Stock Brokerberts – or, as Prudence called them, “Wolf of Wall Berts.” XD The argument between the Fancyberts and the Stockberts was clearing distracting Liliana, so Dob Messaged Corazon again to get him to see if he could stoke some more revolution –
Corazon instead stoked JEALOUSY, calling the Stockberts Liliana’s favorite and telling the Fancyberts that if they wanted to get Liliana’s favor, they’d have to earn it. Cue a massive brawl breaking out between the Fancyberts and the Stockberts, and Corazon using his Grease spell to slide coolly over to the window and escape (gaining inspiration in the process XD). The dust-up eventually got Liliana’s attention, and she stormed downstairs to see what was going on (watched by Prudence on Clairvoyance vision) –
And, upon seeing the fight, summoned up a A CLOUD OF DAGGERS AND BASICALLY BLENDED EVERYONE WHO WAS FIGHTING. Because what does she care, she can make more at this point. Corazon and Merilwen (who by this time had chosen to climb back up the rope) were pretty well scarred for life by the scene, as you might imagine.
Meanwhile, Prudence told Dob he had his chance, so he booked it in the window, got his rapier under the scientist’s chin, introduced himself as Dob and said that he’s not USUALLY one for killing people, but if the guy didn’t unhook his friend from the tank in a hurry. . . The scientist, fortunately, was easily intimidated, and with some quick unhooking of wires and tubes and whatnot, and an assist from Dob when it came to hoisting him out of the tank itself, Egbert was free! Very unconscious and gooey, but free. Dob put him over his shoulder, asked the scientist if Liliana had told him about Dob (the guy nodded, which Dob seemed to take as “she liked my poetry that first time!” XD), and then booked it back out the window, tying Egbert to himself before leaping for the ground, Prudence right behind. Corazon and Merilwen joined them, and – with the help of Corazon’s Featherfall – they all made it back to the courtyard, where they cheesed it through the illusory wall, back in the direction of the Salty Heifer. Of course, they quickly realized they couldn’t stay THERE, and that they needed to find help for Egbert. Merilwen turned into a bear to make carrying him easier, and they started trying to figure out who they could turn to for help. Binbag? They’ve already had enough of him. Egbert’s old Paladin order? Nah, those guys are jerks. Bismuth? Necropolis-On-Sea would be a good place to hide, but it’s way too far away. . .Merilwen’s parents? A possibility, but who knows if they've seen anything like this, and again, distances. . .
And then Johnny said “uh, you all know a scientist.”
CUE DOB SUDDENLY RECALLING HE HAS A SISTER. XD To be fair, Suzette was not MY first thought when it came to the idea of a doctor for Egbert either. . .but she’s probably the closest, and she HAS been studying diseases and medicines, so off they went to end the adventure! Damn. . .it’s weird not to have an adventure with Mike/Egbert these days! Hopefully he gets cured quick in the next one so we can have him back. . .
Additionally:
-->Another nice day meant another round or five of beanbags – and I actually did quite good today, hitting my stride on the second and third games. Dad did well too, and even Mom won one, so that was nice. :) Final scores were me 2-W-W-3-2; Dad W-3-2-2-W; Mom 3-2-3-W-3. Hooray!
Not too bad, not too bad -- yeah, fine, I'm still working on one item at this late hour, but it could be worse. XD Gonna finish off the queueing, then either give Beneath A Broken Sky a review or hop on TV Tropes for a little while and work on the review in the morning. But first, Friday to-dos:
1. Continue writing on "Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland" or edit the personal AU bit
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and clear out some more Watch Later videos
3. Play Fallout 4 and kill a Mirelurk Queen, then update the Playthrough Progression
4. Work on tumblr drafts
5. Get in a workout
Again, all achievable goals, I feel. *waves* Night all!
1. Continue working on "As Long As You Love Me" or do some personal AU stuff: A “sort of both” check! Because last night I got a particular hypnokinky scene in my head that featured Victor and Smiler and the idea of “unwinding” someone’s thoughts, and that’s what I ended up writing today after lunch because you gotta follow your muse sometimes. . .but it’s explicitly set in the “As Long As You Love Me” verse – hell, it’s potentially a scene from the sequel I hope to write later (currently titled “The Joker And The Queen,” after the Ed Sheeran/Taylor Swift collab, because Taylor Swift songs are a surprisingly large part of “As Long As You Love Me” and its Valice, and I decided to do Ed Sheeran stuff for the Victor/Smiler moments in the sequel). So yeah, it’s personal AU stuff right now, but it’s in the same verse as the project I normally would have done today. I’ll call that a win on both fronts! XD
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and get the Sims videos out of my Watch Later: Check! Took a little longer this evening than anticipated, but I got through everything I wanted to watch –
A) Started with the Plumbellas in the WL:
I. “Things I desperately want to come back in The Sims 5” – a video talking about some of the things she’d like to come back from previous games when it comes to the potential next installment! Things like the Room need (tweaked so that just one dirty plate doesn’t totally ruin a Sim’s day, of course), and the menu showing the Sims head looking around as you picked various options from The Sims; the aspiration rewards, and wants and fears, and the ability to create your own custom neighborhood from The Sims 2 (hard same bestie); and Create-A-Style for hair and eye color and skintones (tweak things to your pleasure, everyone), and places like graveyards to give things like a Legacy Challenge a bit of weight from The Sims 3. Plus more general stuff from more than one of the past installments – like small telescopes! Small jungle gyms for kids! More stuff for kids in general, in fact! And point build personalities and more available traits, which – yes, good, put those latter two together and I think Sims 5 will be great. :) Like I often say, I still get enjoyment out of The Sims 4, but there is DEFINITELY room for improvement, especially when compared to some of what we used to have.
II. “THE GOTH MAKEOVER IS HEREEE” – a quick video on the made-over Goth family in new Sims 4 saves! Done despite a raging ear infection, poor Plumbella. But she’s very happy with the changes – Bella and Cassandra have their proper skintones back (or at least something a lot closer to them from the original games), and everyone’s fashion sense has been updated. I’m not ENTIRELY sold on Alexander’s new look – I preferred his old hair, and apparently he ages up a bit poorly – but it’s a good effort, and I’m glad to see the team putting in the work to make the classic families look closer to how they should. Hopefully next up, we’ll see the Caliente sisters back to THEIR proper skintones!
B) Then it was over to Simmer Erin for “BEST OF EVERY SIMS 4 PACK IN UNDER 10 MINUTES- SPEED GAMEPLAY REVIEW 2022!” Yes, Erin decided to do about ten minutes of positivity on The Sims 4 and its expansions, game, and stuff packs (not the kits, since only ONE has added gameplay so far) and list off a few favorite gameplay features from each. A few were easy (Seasons adding weather and holidays; Vampires adding an excellent occult life state), others more difficult (poor Perfect Patio, being sniped by the 20th anniversary update with that hot tub – I made a point of saying at least the hot tubs in the pack are better!). But it was nice to see someone make an effort to try and say something nice about each and every pack. :)
C) Then we had ligayatrait and a quick look at 42 “Maxis Match” style male hairs she currently has in her mod folder! Just because someone else might want them. :) Nothing particularly grabbed me as a must-have in the showcase, but it was nice to see one that focuses on male/masculine Sims, simply because they don’t get as much love in CAS assets, either from EAxis or custom content creators.
D) And finally, we moved to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and another terrible BitLife! This time as an awful Amish person, Noah Elektrik. XD Noah’s thing turned out to be constantly having the worst stats of any of Kevin’s BitLife characters, especially for smarts, as almost every boost he was offered was one that involved technology, and – being Amish. . . After graduating high school, he proceeded to spend fourteen years as an exorcist, having babies with a girlfriend who kind of hated him (especially when he broke off their engagement when she wouldn’t give him money) and suffering an assault from his boss when he refused to work excessive unpaid overtime. And then losing the lawsuit he brought against her. Before quietly murdering her with a stick. Never caught, and he ended up losing his job due to being depressed instead of the killing. XD He then transitioned into being an apprentice carpenter, only to lose THAT job after seven years because he decided to reduce his hours when he figured he and the girlfriend could just pump out kids together. Honestly, the only thing he was good at was crime – namely, burgling houses – so he decided to join a local mafia family by doing yard work for one of the captains. Most of his new Family didn’t like him much, though, and the money he was bringing in via burglaries wasn’t great, so when he got caught by a surprise SWAT team during one of his jobs, he agreed to turn informant. And then proceeded to keep doing crimes and basically get no evidence before finally getting stuffed in a suitcase and sunk to the bottom of the ocean by a member of a rival crime family. XD Kevin briefly transitioned to life as Noah’s second son, Notmybaby (since Kevin didn’t believe for a second the woman who hated Noah so much would keep having kids with him) to quickly ruin it – having him lose his job as a Junior Wedding Planner and try to kill his mother, only for her to whip him back and kill HIM instead. XD So yeah, pretty much the usual from a Kevin BitLife. XD
3. Play Sims 4 and do some building in the San MyShuno Park: Check, though thanks to the writing (above), I got a bit of a late start. . .and then when I actually got to the park – Myshuno Meadows, which is a “special” sort of lot called a “Central Park,” cool – in my building save (as my game just got patched and that means taking out the CC and the mods for a bit, meaning I CAN’T go into the Chill Save unless I want to mess up all the things), I struggled a bit with what I wanted to do with it. Because I liked the central wedding area and wanted to keep that, but I also wanted to add a “movies in the park” area and a place to do karaoke. Why? Well, not only do I just like giving Sims stuff to do in community lots (and there’s not even a chessboard in Myshuno Meadows – just a bar and some bookshelves in the main house), I’m specifically thinking of making a club for my Chill Save Victor, Alice, and Smiler, setting the hangout as Myshuno Meadows, and calling it the “Thruple Club” or similar so they can go on pseudo-dates there. XD Which means it has to have activities to appeal to all of them. I ended up doing a sort of “dry run,” just making a basic movie area and karaoke/DJ dance floor area on either side of the wedding arch, and updating the wedding area with some Romantic Garden stuff to make it look nicer. And adding the lot traits “Party Place,” “Romantic Aura,” and “Sunny Aspect,” as all those seemed appropriate. Nothing special, but it’s a decent “proof of concept,” I suppose. I’ll figure out more of what I want to do with the place later, once I’ve got all my stuff back in my game!
4. Work on tumblr drafts: Check in progress at the moment, but it is getting done –
Victor Luvs Alice – Added a VTMB gifset to the drafts, am currently working on tomorrow’s queued post, which is the first chapter of someone’s Valice fanfic which sees the pair thrown into an eldritch post-apocalyptic hellworld made up of the bits and pieces of a bunch of web series featuring analog and cosmic horror elements! Yes, I am into this, even if I'm not familiar with most of the series involved. XD
Valice Multiverse – Finally answered my other thread reply (for my Malkavian Alice and her Malkavian friend who is usually her daughter (the muse is someone’s take on a kid for a modern Victor and Alice living in America, but in this particular verse she’s only a fellow Kindred)) and stuck three ask replies in the queue, currently working on the fourth and figuring out how I want to answer it.
5. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike after beanbags, to finish off the Oxventure Stream “Tower Rangers!” And, once again, my prediction regarding how the next bit of the adventure would go – namely, that there would be a big fight – was incorrect. What actually happened is that everyone continued arguing about what they should do to distract Liliana and get inside – Merilwen’s super-sneaky spell was dismissed because Lilianna’s such an amazing magic-user they didn’t know if they’d get rumbled, but Dob was more than willing to create a Major Illuision of a Resident Evil-bert who would scare the other Otherberts and get Liliana to see what all the fuss was about. XD Merilwen also canonically told them about the Fancyberts having doubts about going out rampaging, especially if it mean the end of “carry-oaky” (after Prudence non-canonically mentioned it, then was reminded she didn’t know yet), meaning they could try to foment some revolution in them, perhaps. Merilwen also said that she knew the lever downstairs set off an alarm, and she was more than willing to make a spike trap and set it off to cause some trouble against the “abominations of nature” that were the various Otherberts. True Neutral, everyone! They might have gone about this for ages –
Had Johnny not realized they’d been talking for twenty minutes and gave them a forty-five second deadline to come up with a damn plan. XD They decided to go with a dual plan – Merilwen would go down and enact the Lever Spikes Of Doom trap (pulling the lever, growing the spikes, and then darting out the door, locking it, and looking through the keyhole), while Corazon would disguise himself as a scientist with Disguise Self and go rile up the Fancyberts. Dob and Prudence would stay at the top of the tower, watch how things were progressing with Liliana, and Dob would swoop in and rescue Egbert when the time was right. How did things go?
Excellently for the gang, terribly for the various Otherberts. For Merilwen, at the very bottom of the tower, the spike trap ended up working very well indeed against at least a couple of the Caveberts, wandering into the spike field to reset the lever. Too well, in fact – seeing them trapped, chewing themselves up every time they tried to move, and basically being really scared, made Merilwen have a MASSIVE change of heart, drop the spikes, and run off to hide in a bush and feel horribly guilty. XD Corazon, meanwhile, absolutely smashed it as the scientist looking to encourage the Fancyberts to rise up – he got inside and told them that “carry-oaky” was canceled, and that they had to spend more time working, and also they couldn’t sleep anymore, and that Liliana had insulted them loads. The Fancyberts promptly started plotting. XD Dob, via the Message spell, encouraged him to go down a level and try the Caveberts – he gave it a go, claiming Liliana was no longer letting them hit things with clubs, but the Caveberts were, of course, more interested in solving the mystery of why their friends weren’t back from resetting the lever. XD However, while that was happening, the Fancyberts went up a level to see if any other Otherberts had lost privileges – and what I thought were elderly Bingoberts were in fact Stock Brokerberts – or, as Prudence called them, “Wolf of Wall Berts.” XD The argument between the Fancyberts and the Stockberts was clearing distracting Liliana, so Dob Messaged Corazon again to get him to see if he could stoke some more revolution –
Corazon instead stoked JEALOUSY, calling the Stockberts Liliana’s favorite and telling the Fancyberts that if they wanted to get Liliana’s favor, they’d have to earn it. Cue a massive brawl breaking out between the Fancyberts and the Stockberts, and Corazon using his Grease spell to slide coolly over to the window and escape (gaining inspiration in the process XD). The dust-up eventually got Liliana’s attention, and she stormed downstairs to see what was going on (watched by Prudence on Clairvoyance vision) –
And, upon seeing the fight, summoned up a A CLOUD OF DAGGERS AND BASICALLY BLENDED EVERYONE WHO WAS FIGHTING. Because what does she care, she can make more at this point. Corazon and Merilwen (who by this time had chosen to climb back up the rope) were pretty well scarred for life by the scene, as you might imagine.
Meanwhile, Prudence told Dob he had his chance, so he booked it in the window, got his rapier under the scientist’s chin, introduced himself as Dob and said that he’s not USUALLY one for killing people, but if the guy didn’t unhook his friend from the tank in a hurry. . . The scientist, fortunately, was easily intimidated, and with some quick unhooking of wires and tubes and whatnot, and an assist from Dob when it came to hoisting him out of the tank itself, Egbert was free! Very unconscious and gooey, but free. Dob put him over his shoulder, asked the scientist if Liliana had told him about Dob (the guy nodded, which Dob seemed to take as “she liked my poetry that first time!” XD), and then booked it back out the window, tying Egbert to himself before leaping for the ground, Prudence right behind. Corazon and Merilwen joined them, and – with the help of Corazon’s Featherfall – they all made it back to the courtyard, where they cheesed it through the illusory wall, back in the direction of the Salty Heifer. Of course, they quickly realized they couldn’t stay THERE, and that they needed to find help for Egbert. Merilwen turned into a bear to make carrying him easier, and they started trying to figure out who they could turn to for help. Binbag? They’ve already had enough of him. Egbert’s old Paladin order? Nah, those guys are jerks. Bismuth? Necropolis-On-Sea would be a good place to hide, but it’s way too far away. . .Merilwen’s parents? A possibility, but who knows if they've seen anything like this, and again, distances. . .
And then Johnny said “uh, you all know a scientist.”
CUE DOB SUDDENLY RECALLING HE HAS A SISTER. XD To be fair, Suzette was not MY first thought when it came to the idea of a doctor for Egbert either. . .but she’s probably the closest, and she HAS been studying diseases and medicines, so off they went to end the adventure! Damn. . .it’s weird not to have an adventure with Mike/Egbert these days! Hopefully he gets cured quick in the next one so we can have him back. . .
Additionally:
-->Another nice day meant another round or five of beanbags – and I actually did quite good today, hitting my stride on the second and third games. Dad did well too, and even Mom won one, so that was nice. :) Final scores were me 2-W-W-3-2; Dad W-3-2-2-W; Mom 3-2-3-W-3. Hooray!
Not too bad, not too bad -- yeah, fine, I'm still working on one item at this late hour, but it could be worse. XD Gonna finish off the queueing, then either give Beneath A Broken Sky a review or hop on TV Tropes for a little while and work on the review in the morning. But first, Friday to-dos:
1. Continue writing on "Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland" or edit the personal AU bit
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and clear out some more Watch Later videos
3. Play Fallout 4 and kill a Mirelurk Queen, then update the Playthrough Progression
4. Work on tumblr drafts
5. Get in a workout
Again, all achievable goals, I feel. *waves* Night all!
