Another Late-ish Update
Jun. 2nd, 2022 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickBut at least it's not too hot to sleep tonight, and I'm good with my to-do list --
Work – Work itself wasn’t too bad – most of the day passed in me cleaning up various things I had to do, including exceptions and whatnot – but I have a grievance against my coworkers, and that grievance is them setting the Britta water thing in the fridge in such a way that the plastic can holder that’s in the door hits the flip tap to open the faucet and makes it leak all over the fridge. The container holding my pizza was literally FLOATING in a little lake in the bottom of one of the storage bins. (Fortunately the pizza itself didn’t get wet, but still.) This keeps happening and I’m well and truly SICK of it. *grumbles* Really gotta remember to put my lunch out of the way of the “splash zone,” so to speak.
Beanbags – Quite a dark and cloudy afternoon, but we didn’t actually get any rain and the temperature was decent, so off we went! I had a terrible first two games, but managed to find my stride just enough for the third, while Mom tried to reverse psychology herself into winning, which – did not work out. XD Final scores were me 3-3-W; Dad W-W-2; Mom 2-2-3. *shrugs* What can you do!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another half-hour of the Oxventure Stream “Watch Out!” In response to Shoelacey’s inquires about whether or not they’d given him the wrong watch, Corazon admitted they had – and then cast Minor Illusion on another gift shop watch. Right in front of him. A put out Shoelacey said that he could recognize magic done in front of him and asked why they couldn’t just give him the watch, since they obviously wanted the gold. Corazon admitted that he didn’t really trust him, simply because they met so many untrustworthy people in their travels, and he and Hengist admitted some sort of show of good faith would be nice. Like getting to see the promised money. Annoyed, Shoelacey handed over four quite big rubies, and that – along with some prompting of “I’m pretty sure the dude’s just a big nerd and wants to do an awesome paper” from Merilwen – convinced Corazon and Hengist to hand over the watch. WITH the caveat that he find a way to unbaby Prudence. Shoelacey, gleeful, said that he was going to attempt to open the watch, and urged everyone to stand way back, which they did –
Guess who was right about Shoelacey’s motives? It sure wasn’t Merilwen! With the push of a hidden button, a panic room box dropped from the ceiling, surrounding Shoelacey, and he gleefully ranted through a speaking grill about how they were fools to hand the watch over and how he was going to use it to live forever, starting with stealing Prudence’s adult years (because apparently that’s how the watch works – it stores people’s time). The gang were obviously not about that – Prudence in particular began demanding Hengist smash through the panic room with his hammer-hammer. Hengist gave it a try, but a bad roll mean that the hammer just bounced off – though it did give Shoelacey, in the middle of some sort of ritual, enough of a fright to start speeding said ritual up. Corazon, with Prudence still swaddled against him, dashed out into the hall to grab those bracers of tremendous magical strength they saw early on, while Merilwen and Hengist stayed in the professor’s office –
And Merilwen JUST managed to avoid being completely terrified as the lid of a nearby sarcophagus basically vaporized, releasing a tiny mummy – Hengist was able to read the plaque identifying her as “Merrit, Queen For A Thousand Years.” Merrit then did her OWN quick incantation –
And out in the hall, Corazon, having just cut open the glass to get the bracers, found himself punched away by the NINE FOOT MUMMY she summoned with her own mystical powers. (Andy argued HARD for getting to use Evasion to avoid taking any damage, but Luke was like “the Nine Foot Mummy rolled a crit 20!” He did allow him to use Uncanny Dodge to halve the damage, though.) Everyone roll for initiative! Hilariously, the mummies Merrit and Nine Foot respectively did best and worst. :P Merrit used her turn to try to go for Merilwen (having either not seen the “sacred cat” Silky resting across her shoulders, or not been able to identify Silky as a CAT), but a biffed roll meant she ran past her and stacked it into the wall instead. Hengist promptly tried to bathe Merrit in Sacred Flame, but another bad roll meant that the mummy queen was able to avoid the terrible radiant damage. Merilwen, for her part, went after Shoelacey, trying to use Poison Spray through the speaking grill of the panic room (turning it into the world’s deadliest Dutch Oven, as Johnny noted XD) – unfortunately, another bad roll meant that he noticed and put down another screen to block the noxious gas. Merilwen instead gave him the finger, and caused him three points of manners damage. XD
Out in the hall, Prudence, pissed off and aware her spells would still work despite her baby form, decided to try an Agonizing Blast, one from each hand. Luke had her roll her attacks, but told her to subtract ten because, well, she baby. Prudence rolled –
And rolled so badly she got minus four on each attack. Luke immediately ruled that Prudence’s beams came out at normal size despite her baby form, and sent her flying into the air like a baby riding a fire hose. And that she would stay that way for the rest of her turn. Everyone was cracking up too hard to actually DO anything for a bit after that one. XD Corazon, for his part, decided the best thing he could do was get the bracers, and managed to avoid the mummy’s next swing (running up its arm, no less!), get to the case, and just punch his way into them, Iron Man style. He promptly became swole as hell, complete with a shredded shirt and tons of chest hair. XD Being Corazon, he then immediately hid behind a giant vase with a strong man painted on it. XD Nine Foot Mummy, unable to find Corazon and not thinking Prudence a threat, instead rammed its way into Shoelacey’s office and tried to attack Hengist –
But Hengist just no-selled the bastard, raising his shield just in time for the guy’s fist to telescope into it. XD Merrit, furious, went after Hengist as well, jumping ATOP his shield – but another strong Wisdom save meant she could only just barely scratch at his beard with her short arms, while Hengist just laughed about how great dwarves are. XD This brought things back around to Prudence (yeah, the actual initiative order was Merrit, Prudence, Merilwen, Hengist, Corazon, Nine Foot – I just figured it would be easier to catch you guys up per LOCATION instead), who was still flying around but well aware her Agonizing Blasts were about to sputter out. After wondering if it was worth it to blast Nine Foot in the back to try and arrest her own momentum, she suddenly came up with the brilliant idea of going full speed into the guy and grabbing a bandage to try and unravel him. Luke, well aware of how grabby babies are, had her make a couple of rolls – a bad strength roll but a good dex roll meant that she actually missed hitting Nine Foot, but she DID succeed in grabbing a bandage –
And cue Prudence spinning round and round this guy like a kid around a maypole, or a ball on a swingball pole. XD She successfully unraveled him, leaving just a nine-foot-very-embarrassed skeleton standing there. XD Last chunk of the adventure tomorrow – let’s see what happens!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – I have started Chapter Three, aka “So What’s Your Deal?” which is Victor and Alice having breakfast in a diner while Victor lays HIS life story on Alice! Which – well, I need to figure out what exactly his life story IS in this universe anyway, so that’s just convenient. XD So far I’ve gotten he was still born and grew up mostly in Burtonsville, but he and the family moved to Hill Valley when he was twelve because Nell wanted a nicer place to live and William wanted to take his business international. And I already know he met Emily in this world by stumbling on her by accident in the hospital while looking to visit someone else. . . I’ll figure it out!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check, though that was easy as there was only the one in there tonight. Actually, I had a very specific focus tonight, and it was all themed around the latest release by the Sims team. . .
A) Meaning I started with, of course, the trailer to the upcoming Sims 4 Werewolves pack! So far, it LOOKS cool – there’s some nice new hairs and clothes, from what I can see, and some nice build/buy stuff (including, shockingly, a NORMAL-SIZED TELESCOPE), and of course the song used was a banger! (And I think in Simlish, which always feels like a good sign. AND they actually included the name of it, which was nice – “Praying Mantis” by Jazz Alonzo.) But after My Wedding Stories, the proof will be in the release of the pudding – namely, is this thing gonna work out of the box? I do hope so. . . Fingers crossed!
B) Then it was time to hit the Subs for James Turner reacting to said trailer! At one o’clock in the morning for him after a days-long drive, yikes. . . But he was optimistically impressed by the trailer and the information that came with it. He likes that the werewolves run on all fours, and while he allows that the forms are kinda goofy-looking, he thinks they fit in with the aesthetic of The Sims 4 overall. (Also, they’re better than Sims 3 werewolves, which are just – barely wolfy?) He’s hopeful for good gameplay, like running around with your own pack or trying to go it as a lone wolf. And he quite liked all the new build/buy content, like floor scratches and whatnot. Nothing but praise for the new bunker on display!
Which only makes sense because HE FUCKIN’ BUILT IT. XD Yeah, apparently shortly after this released, the Sims team put up a blog post explaining that the local bar was built with his help, and he was trying to be very careful with his wording while praising the build on display in the trailer. XD Though apparently that was genuinely his first look at the gameplay, so. . . Hey, lot by James Turner, so the pack can’t be all bad!
C) And where there is a James Turner reaction, there must also be a Plumbella reaction! She too is hopeful that this pack will give her the chance to live out her “Remus Lupin” dreams, but she’s being a bit more cautious in her praise. In this case, because Journey to Batuu actually looked decent in the trailer too. She’s also of the opinion that the werewolf BODIES look good, but there’s just something OFF about the faces. . . (Someone in the comments suggested it has to do with them having shorter muzzles, and I think that may very well be it – they’re a touch too flat! Personally, what I’m annoyed about is a lack of tails.) She likes the look of a lot of the clothes, though, and is eager to play in the world since it looks like a post-industrial mill town and that vibes with her being a Middleborough girl. :p I think the general vibe around the Simmers I watch right now is “cautiously optimistic,” and it’s a vibe I can agree with. I WANT this to be good, it looks like it has some neat stuff, but after the last game pack. . . We can but hope!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – two ask replies over on Valice Multiverse, which was easy. And I got a new idea for some Valicer stuff into my Victor Luvs Alice drafts! Just some more “not-incorrect” quotes for the trio. . . You know, I probably should link more of the stuff I’ve posted over there here. Let’s start with my Valicer tag, for anyone curious. Covers most of the threesome stuff, including the basic info on my more human Smilers!
And that about covers it -- time for me to head to bed and try and get some sleep! Just one more day of work, then the dentist appointment on Saturday. . .hopefully both go well! Night all!
Work – Work itself wasn’t too bad – most of the day passed in me cleaning up various things I had to do, including exceptions and whatnot – but I have a grievance against my coworkers, and that grievance is them setting the Britta water thing in the fridge in such a way that the plastic can holder that’s in the door hits the flip tap to open the faucet and makes it leak all over the fridge. The container holding my pizza was literally FLOATING in a little lake in the bottom of one of the storage bins. (Fortunately the pizza itself didn’t get wet, but still.) This keeps happening and I’m well and truly SICK of it. *grumbles* Really gotta remember to put my lunch out of the way of the “splash zone,” so to speak.
Beanbags – Quite a dark and cloudy afternoon, but we didn’t actually get any rain and the temperature was decent, so off we went! I had a terrible first two games, but managed to find my stride just enough for the third, while Mom tried to reverse psychology herself into winning, which – did not work out. XD Final scores were me 3-3-W; Dad W-W-2; Mom 2-2-3. *shrugs* What can you do!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another half-hour of the Oxventure Stream “Watch Out!” In response to Shoelacey’s inquires about whether or not they’d given him the wrong watch, Corazon admitted they had – and then cast Minor Illusion on another gift shop watch. Right in front of him. A put out Shoelacey said that he could recognize magic done in front of him and asked why they couldn’t just give him the watch, since they obviously wanted the gold. Corazon admitted that he didn’t really trust him, simply because they met so many untrustworthy people in their travels, and he and Hengist admitted some sort of show of good faith would be nice. Like getting to see the promised money. Annoyed, Shoelacey handed over four quite big rubies, and that – along with some prompting of “I’m pretty sure the dude’s just a big nerd and wants to do an awesome paper” from Merilwen – convinced Corazon and Hengist to hand over the watch. WITH the caveat that he find a way to unbaby Prudence. Shoelacey, gleeful, said that he was going to attempt to open the watch, and urged everyone to stand way back, which they did –
Guess who was right about Shoelacey’s motives? It sure wasn’t Merilwen! With the push of a hidden button, a panic room box dropped from the ceiling, surrounding Shoelacey, and he gleefully ranted through a speaking grill about how they were fools to hand the watch over and how he was going to use it to live forever, starting with stealing Prudence’s adult years (because apparently that’s how the watch works – it stores people’s time). The gang were obviously not about that – Prudence in particular began demanding Hengist smash through the panic room with his hammer-hammer. Hengist gave it a try, but a bad roll mean that the hammer just bounced off – though it did give Shoelacey, in the middle of some sort of ritual, enough of a fright to start speeding said ritual up. Corazon, with Prudence still swaddled against him, dashed out into the hall to grab those bracers of tremendous magical strength they saw early on, while Merilwen and Hengist stayed in the professor’s office –
And Merilwen JUST managed to avoid being completely terrified as the lid of a nearby sarcophagus basically vaporized, releasing a tiny mummy – Hengist was able to read the plaque identifying her as “Merrit, Queen For A Thousand Years.” Merrit then did her OWN quick incantation –
And out in the hall, Corazon, having just cut open the glass to get the bracers, found himself punched away by the NINE FOOT MUMMY she summoned with her own mystical powers. (Andy argued HARD for getting to use Evasion to avoid taking any damage, but Luke was like “the Nine Foot Mummy rolled a crit 20!” He did allow him to use Uncanny Dodge to halve the damage, though.) Everyone roll for initiative! Hilariously, the mummies Merrit and Nine Foot respectively did best and worst. :P Merrit used her turn to try to go for Merilwen (having either not seen the “sacred cat” Silky resting across her shoulders, or not been able to identify Silky as a CAT), but a biffed roll meant she ran past her and stacked it into the wall instead. Hengist promptly tried to bathe Merrit in Sacred Flame, but another bad roll meant that the mummy queen was able to avoid the terrible radiant damage. Merilwen, for her part, went after Shoelacey, trying to use Poison Spray through the speaking grill of the panic room (turning it into the world’s deadliest Dutch Oven, as Johnny noted XD) – unfortunately, another bad roll meant that he noticed and put down another screen to block the noxious gas. Merilwen instead gave him the finger, and caused him three points of manners damage. XD
Out in the hall, Prudence, pissed off and aware her spells would still work despite her baby form, decided to try an Agonizing Blast, one from each hand. Luke had her roll her attacks, but told her to subtract ten because, well, she baby. Prudence rolled –
And rolled so badly she got minus four on each attack. Luke immediately ruled that Prudence’s beams came out at normal size despite her baby form, and sent her flying into the air like a baby riding a fire hose. And that she would stay that way for the rest of her turn. Everyone was cracking up too hard to actually DO anything for a bit after that one. XD Corazon, for his part, decided the best thing he could do was get the bracers, and managed to avoid the mummy’s next swing (running up its arm, no less!), get to the case, and just punch his way into them, Iron Man style. He promptly became swole as hell, complete with a shredded shirt and tons of chest hair. XD Being Corazon, he then immediately hid behind a giant vase with a strong man painted on it. XD Nine Foot Mummy, unable to find Corazon and not thinking Prudence a threat, instead rammed its way into Shoelacey’s office and tried to attack Hengist –
But Hengist just no-selled the bastard, raising his shield just in time for the guy’s fist to telescope into it. XD Merrit, furious, went after Hengist as well, jumping ATOP his shield – but another strong Wisdom save meant she could only just barely scratch at his beard with her short arms, while Hengist just laughed about how great dwarves are. XD This brought things back around to Prudence (yeah, the actual initiative order was Merrit, Prudence, Merilwen, Hengist, Corazon, Nine Foot – I just figured it would be easier to catch you guys up per LOCATION instead), who was still flying around but well aware her Agonizing Blasts were about to sputter out. After wondering if it was worth it to blast Nine Foot in the back to try and arrest her own momentum, she suddenly came up with the brilliant idea of going full speed into the guy and grabbing a bandage to try and unravel him. Luke, well aware of how grabby babies are, had her make a couple of rolls – a bad strength roll but a good dex roll meant that she actually missed hitting Nine Foot, but she DID succeed in grabbing a bandage –
And cue Prudence spinning round and round this guy like a kid around a maypole, or a ball on a swingball pole. XD She successfully unraveled him, leaving just a nine-foot-very-embarrassed skeleton standing there. XD Last chunk of the adventure tomorrow – let’s see what happens!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – I have started Chapter Three, aka “So What’s Your Deal?” which is Victor and Alice having breakfast in a diner while Victor lays HIS life story on Alice! Which – well, I need to figure out what exactly his life story IS in this universe anyway, so that’s just convenient. XD So far I’ve gotten he was still born and grew up mostly in Burtonsville, but he and the family moved to Hill Valley when he was twelve because Nell wanted a nicer place to live and William wanted to take his business international. And I already know he met Emily in this world by stumbling on her by accident in the hospital while looking to visit someone else. . . I’ll figure it out!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check, though that was easy as there was only the one in there tonight. Actually, I had a very specific focus tonight, and it was all themed around the latest release by the Sims team. . .
A) Meaning I started with, of course, the trailer to the upcoming Sims 4 Werewolves pack! So far, it LOOKS cool – there’s some nice new hairs and clothes, from what I can see, and some nice build/buy stuff (including, shockingly, a NORMAL-SIZED TELESCOPE), and of course the song used was a banger! (And I think in Simlish, which always feels like a good sign. AND they actually included the name of it, which was nice – “Praying Mantis” by Jazz Alonzo.) But after My Wedding Stories, the proof will be in the release of the pudding – namely, is this thing gonna work out of the box? I do hope so. . . Fingers crossed!
B) Then it was time to hit the Subs for James Turner reacting to said trailer! At one o’clock in the morning for him after a days-long drive, yikes. . . But he was optimistically impressed by the trailer and the information that came with it. He likes that the werewolves run on all fours, and while he allows that the forms are kinda goofy-looking, he thinks they fit in with the aesthetic of The Sims 4 overall. (Also, they’re better than Sims 3 werewolves, which are just – barely wolfy?) He’s hopeful for good gameplay, like running around with your own pack or trying to go it as a lone wolf. And he quite liked all the new build/buy content, like floor scratches and whatnot. Nothing but praise for the new bunker on display!
Which only makes sense because HE FUCKIN’ BUILT IT. XD Yeah, apparently shortly after this released, the Sims team put up a blog post explaining that the local bar was built with his help, and he was trying to be very careful with his wording while praising the build on display in the trailer. XD Though apparently that was genuinely his first look at the gameplay, so. . . Hey, lot by James Turner, so the pack can’t be all bad!
C) And where there is a James Turner reaction, there must also be a Plumbella reaction! She too is hopeful that this pack will give her the chance to live out her “Remus Lupin” dreams, but she’s being a bit more cautious in her praise. In this case, because Journey to Batuu actually looked decent in the trailer too. She’s also of the opinion that the werewolf BODIES look good, but there’s just something OFF about the faces. . . (Someone in the comments suggested it has to do with them having shorter muzzles, and I think that may very well be it – they’re a touch too flat! Personally, what I’m annoyed about is a lack of tails.) She likes the look of a lot of the clothes, though, and is eager to play in the world since it looks like a post-industrial mill town and that vibes with her being a Middleborough girl. :p I think the general vibe around the Simmers I watch right now is “cautiously optimistic,” and it’s a vibe I can agree with. I WANT this to be good, it looks like it has some neat stuff, but after the last game pack. . . We can but hope!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – two ask replies over on Valice Multiverse, which was easy. And I got a new idea for some Valicer stuff into my Victor Luvs Alice drafts! Just some more “not-incorrect” quotes for the trio. . . You know, I probably should link more of the stuff I’ve posted over there here. Let’s start with my Valicer tag, for anyone curious. Covers most of the threesome stuff, including the basic info on my more human Smilers!
And that about covers it -- time for me to head to bed and try and get some sleep! Just one more day of work, then the dentist appointment on Saturday. . .hopefully both go well! Night all!
