Another Friday In The Books
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crossover_chickAnd I can't really complain about how it went:
Work – Fairly quiet day – just a few credit card calls, relatively simple GL, going through more exceptions, things like that. No major fires to put out, no credit card nonsense to deal with. I’ll take that for a Friday!
Beanbags – A rainy morning became a very nice afternoon, so we were able to get out and play! And it was another one of those nice, fairly equitable days where we each got a win. Mine came in the last game, where I finally managed to pull an eight and then a ten out of my hat on my final throws – was doing twos and threes constantly before! But I got it. :) Final scores were me 3-2-W; Dad W-3-3; Mom 2-W-2. Not bad!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another round on the bike tonight, to finish off the Oxventure Stream “Watch Out!” We left off with baby Prudence having successfully unwound the bigger of the two mummies like a freaking cartoon – even the smaller one was impressed by this nonsense. XD This brought us to Merilwen’s turn – how the hell was she going to top that?
Well – after making sure the ceiling didn’t contain any acid or any other deadly traps that might be triggered by a forty-foot cylinder of light punching through it, she cast Moonbeam. Directly on Shoelacey’s panic room. The light ended up all inside of said panic room, with only a little, extremely bright bit escaping through the peephole – which perfectly illuminated the screaming face of Shoelacey. XD Johnny immediately nicknamed this particular maneuver “Merilwen’s Microwave.” XD Merilwen ended up deciding she didn’t want to kill the guy though, if only because they needed him to help restore Prudence, and so she moved the Moonbeam to the corner of the room, intending to use it on the mummies on her next turn. She didn’t get the chance, though, as Hengist, seeing how things were going, used his anvil holy symbol and the spell Turn Undead to chase Merrit and her minion back out into the hall to get them away from baby Prudence –
Right into Corazon. Who was allowed to use his new super-strength to just absolutely WRECK the pair (I mean, he rolled well, but Luke said that no matter what he rolled, it would work, so that was just a bonus). Merrit’s head came clean off, as planned, while Corazon accidentally smashed out Nine Foot’s ribcage and spine, leaving his head resting on his pelvis. Not for long, though, as the sheer power of the attack left both mummies dust shortly thereafter. Corazon promptly ran in to help deal with Shoelacey –
And found the man whimpering and crying in his panic room, clawing at the glass with his burned hands and leaving bits of flesh on the glass. Yikes. Corazon ripped open the panic room with the help of his bracers and held him aloft, demanding an answer on how to make Prudence an adult again as Shoelacey just whimpered in pain. Hengist, horrified by the guy’s state, ended up using some sacred healing power on him through his holy anvil symbol just to give him a bit of a boost, and Shoelacey (still very much aware of Merilwen’s Moonbeam in the corner) managed to tell them what button to press and how to unwind the watch to restore their friend. Corazon followed instructions, and Prudence once again became an adult, yay! :D Corazon was still a little peeved though and gave Shoelacey a kick for good measure –
HE FUCKING DIED. SERIOUSLY, HE ROLLED POORLY AND CORAZON HAS KICKED ANOTHER MAN TO DEATH. Everyone promptly blamed it on the bracers. XD At least Prudence was restored before Corazon did any kicking. . .however, it quickly dawned on everyone that now they probably had no hope of finding where he’d stashed the money for the reward. At least Corazon got those four rubies early! And his ten gold for the watch melted earlier. XD And Merilwen, for her part, was able to do a sweep of the room and find 100 gold hidden around the place, plus a nice emerald worth about 300 gold, so they came out ahead. So long as Dob never finds any of it. XD The group made a hasty exit from the museum, and Hengist promptly told the others “Goodbye forever, I’m off to the pub to drink myself insensate after a very bad day.” Merilwen JUST managed to convince him to take Silky and give him to the landlady so he could be a pub cat and get his belly scritches, though. XD And so the others left Ransom, content in a job well done. XD Everyone applauded Luke for an excellent first adventure too, awww. I think he’s gonna be happy to be back on the other side of the DM screen for the next one, though!
Also, interestingly enough, that didn’t take up my entire bike ride – I’d forgotten for a second that they tend to do long padded outros (just the logo floating to some music). So once I was done Oxventuring, I watched a compilation of B. Dylan Thomas recipes (including the good of apple cider cookies, the bad of Spaghetti-Os Jello rings, and the ugly of straight-up hardtack), then the first half of a video about tips to keep in mind when visiting Alton Towers (like take advantage of the lockers around the park if you must bring a bag, and don’t actually beeline straight to The Smiler – everyone else will have that same idea, and you’ll be in a long queue regardless. Better to maybe go around midday! And to check out the single riders queue if you can.) Good stuff all around! :)
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – though the scene with Nines and Alice is actually going a bit differently than I anticipated. My initial thought was that Alice was going to use one of the lines about being “prince of a shitty bar” or similar as a joke, only for Nines to take it wrong. . .but it hasn’t come up at all. Instead, she’s getting annoyed with Nines for acting like she has no idea how to fight when she’s successfully fought and killed a number of people at this point – including no small number of Sabbat on her first night as a vampire. Interesting. . .and now Damsel is coming in when she’s asking why she didn’t even get directions from him post-saving to say he doesn’t need to justify himself to her, and – I’m starting to think it’s gonna be less “upsetting Nines” and more “being pissed with the company he keeps” that turns Alice off the Anarchs. Hmmm. . . (I mean, that was always gonna be a factor, but I expected her accidentally pissing him off being one of the major early breaks. . .) We’ll see how things develop!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – three in, three out, bang bang bang –
A) First up, the latest Fun With Shorts: “Alone at Home,” Part 1! The first bit of a short from the 70s, teaching kids and parents how to handle leaving kids on their own at home. Stuff like “knowing how to use your key, and how to keep it hidden,” “knowing all the emergency phone numbers,” “learning basic first aid,” things like that. Informational, but very 70s. And Josh had his share of good riffs as per usual. XD
B) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin and the question “Can you play Minecraft without ever leaving a desert chunk?” Yes, Minecraft One Chunk Challenge is back, and this time, it’s in the desert! :D The horrible, horrible desert with basically no resources. Except sand, and a handful of sticks that Kevin was able to tease away from some nearby bushes. Poor Kevin spent most of his time either fending off the mobs, or trying to lure certain ones in (Endermen to see if they had any useful blocks, and Creepers to get them to explode-mine for him – got him a handful of iron ore!) He managed to get down pretty deep with this method, even if he did keep dying and having to pick up his stuff, and even found water – but a distinct lack of ANY wood meant that, to actually progress, he had to cheat and get himself a crafting bench from “Creative” mode. And then he chose to make a fishing rod instead of a pickaxe because he was hoping he could fish things in from outside his chunk. And then, after making a furnace, he accidentally burned his fishing rod while trying to store both it and some iron in there. XD He cheated it back and told everyone not to report him to Kotaku. XD EVENTUALLY he was able to get the Creepers to explode-mine enough iron ore for him to make a bucket, smelted it by burning the bow he picked up off a skeleton and wool he made from spider silk, made his bucket, gathered water from the underground river he tapped, and made himself a lake up-top, where he could fish to his heart’s content! Not that I think his heart was very content with this challenge. XD He’s looking for new biomes to One Chunk in for future videos – I’m intrigued to see where he ends up next!
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays with “I promoted people for all the wrong reasons” in the terrible mobile game Boss Life! Firing people who steal office supplies but not those who poop in his office? Sure! Promoting only the people with the lowest intelligence scores? Definitely. Signing on new employees who won’t work for wages or take any benefits? Let him draw you a nice picture of the devil, or a car running over someone. Abusing the copy machine to take pictures of his face? Why not – he’ll even throw in a promo from a newsreading puppet for his coffee company while he’s at it! Spin the wheel of rewards? He’ll take a bonus – and a super-speed CEO chair if you’ve got it! Basically it was the same goofy mobile shit as always. Good times. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – no Wyrd Sisters Podcast episode on tumblr, so I instead pulled the other Skillet song out of my archives to reblog. And nothing much happening on Valice Multiverse either, so I just slapped up a reblog from wasteland-photography of Piper and called it a night. *shrugs* I gotta get off earlier tonight for my dentist appointment, I’m allowed to be lazy.
And that's about it for today! At least I've kept up on all the important stuff. . .and now, as bedtime nears, it's time to handle the Saturday to-do list, at least for after said dentist appointment:
1. Write the first draft of the birthday fic for tumblr friend Nebby
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and get what I can out of the Watch Later
3. Play Sims 4 and get Smiler through Winter Sunday
4. Work on tumblr drafts
Yeah, no cleaning -- dentist appointment overrides that! I don't think my room will suffer too much. Though there has been a LOT of pollen in the air as of late. . .I'll dust extra-hard next weekend. :p As it stands, though, I gotta make sure I wrap things up early enough so I can get to bed at a decent hour, get up at a decent hour, and have breakfast and get my sheets changed before the appointment. Night all!
Work – Fairly quiet day – just a few credit card calls, relatively simple GL, going through more exceptions, things like that. No major fires to put out, no credit card nonsense to deal with. I’ll take that for a Friday!
Beanbags – A rainy morning became a very nice afternoon, so we were able to get out and play! And it was another one of those nice, fairly equitable days where we each got a win. Mine came in the last game, where I finally managed to pull an eight and then a ten out of my hat on my final throws – was doing twos and threes constantly before! But I got it. :) Final scores were me 3-2-W; Dad W-3-3; Mom 2-W-2. Not bad!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another round on the bike tonight, to finish off the Oxventure Stream “Watch Out!” We left off with baby Prudence having successfully unwound the bigger of the two mummies like a freaking cartoon – even the smaller one was impressed by this nonsense. XD This brought us to Merilwen’s turn – how the hell was she going to top that?
Well – after making sure the ceiling didn’t contain any acid or any other deadly traps that might be triggered by a forty-foot cylinder of light punching through it, she cast Moonbeam. Directly on Shoelacey’s panic room. The light ended up all inside of said panic room, with only a little, extremely bright bit escaping through the peephole – which perfectly illuminated the screaming face of Shoelacey. XD Johnny immediately nicknamed this particular maneuver “Merilwen’s Microwave.” XD Merilwen ended up deciding she didn’t want to kill the guy though, if only because they needed him to help restore Prudence, and so she moved the Moonbeam to the corner of the room, intending to use it on the mummies on her next turn. She didn’t get the chance, though, as Hengist, seeing how things were going, used his anvil holy symbol and the spell Turn Undead to chase Merrit and her minion back out into the hall to get them away from baby Prudence –
Right into Corazon. Who was allowed to use his new super-strength to just absolutely WRECK the pair (I mean, he rolled well, but Luke said that no matter what he rolled, it would work, so that was just a bonus). Merrit’s head came clean off, as planned, while Corazon accidentally smashed out Nine Foot’s ribcage and spine, leaving his head resting on his pelvis. Not for long, though, as the sheer power of the attack left both mummies dust shortly thereafter. Corazon promptly ran in to help deal with Shoelacey –
And found the man whimpering and crying in his panic room, clawing at the glass with his burned hands and leaving bits of flesh on the glass. Yikes. Corazon ripped open the panic room with the help of his bracers and held him aloft, demanding an answer on how to make Prudence an adult again as Shoelacey just whimpered in pain. Hengist, horrified by the guy’s state, ended up using some sacred healing power on him through his holy anvil symbol just to give him a bit of a boost, and Shoelacey (still very much aware of Merilwen’s Moonbeam in the corner) managed to tell them what button to press and how to unwind the watch to restore their friend. Corazon followed instructions, and Prudence once again became an adult, yay! :D Corazon was still a little peeved though and gave Shoelacey a kick for good measure –
HE FUCKING DIED. SERIOUSLY, HE ROLLED POORLY AND CORAZON HAS KICKED ANOTHER MAN TO DEATH. Everyone promptly blamed it on the bracers. XD At least Prudence was restored before Corazon did any kicking. . .however, it quickly dawned on everyone that now they probably had no hope of finding where he’d stashed the money for the reward. At least Corazon got those four rubies early! And his ten gold for the watch melted earlier. XD And Merilwen, for her part, was able to do a sweep of the room and find 100 gold hidden around the place, plus a nice emerald worth about 300 gold, so they came out ahead. So long as Dob never finds any of it. XD The group made a hasty exit from the museum, and Hengist promptly told the others “Goodbye forever, I’m off to the pub to drink myself insensate after a very bad day.” Merilwen JUST managed to convince him to take Silky and give him to the landlady so he could be a pub cat and get his belly scritches, though. XD And so the others left Ransom, content in a job well done. XD Everyone applauded Luke for an excellent first adventure too, awww. I think he’s gonna be happy to be back on the other side of the DM screen for the next one, though!
Also, interestingly enough, that didn’t take up my entire bike ride – I’d forgotten for a second that they tend to do long padded outros (just the logo floating to some music). So once I was done Oxventuring, I watched a compilation of B. Dylan Thomas recipes (including the good of apple cider cookies, the bad of Spaghetti-Os Jello rings, and the ugly of straight-up hardtack), then the first half of a video about tips to keep in mind when visiting Alton Towers (like take advantage of the lockers around the park if you must bring a bag, and don’t actually beeline straight to The Smiler – everyone else will have that same idea, and you’ll be in a long queue regardless. Better to maybe go around midday! And to check out the single riders queue if you can.) Good stuff all around! :)
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – though the scene with Nines and Alice is actually going a bit differently than I anticipated. My initial thought was that Alice was going to use one of the lines about being “prince of a shitty bar” or similar as a joke, only for Nines to take it wrong. . .but it hasn’t come up at all. Instead, she’s getting annoyed with Nines for acting like she has no idea how to fight when she’s successfully fought and killed a number of people at this point – including no small number of Sabbat on her first night as a vampire. Interesting. . .and now Damsel is coming in when she’s asking why she didn’t even get directions from him post-saving to say he doesn’t need to justify himself to her, and – I’m starting to think it’s gonna be less “upsetting Nines” and more “being pissed with the company he keeps” that turns Alice off the Anarchs. Hmmm. . . (I mean, that was always gonna be a factor, but I expected her accidentally pissing him off being one of the major early breaks. . .) We’ll see how things develop!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – three in, three out, bang bang bang –
A) First up, the latest Fun With Shorts: “Alone at Home,” Part 1! The first bit of a short from the 70s, teaching kids and parents how to handle leaving kids on their own at home. Stuff like “knowing how to use your key, and how to keep it hidden,” “knowing all the emergency phone numbers,” “learning basic first aid,” things like that. Informational, but very 70s. And Josh had his share of good riffs as per usual. XD
B) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin and the question “Can you play Minecraft without ever leaving a desert chunk?” Yes, Minecraft One Chunk Challenge is back, and this time, it’s in the desert! :D The horrible, horrible desert with basically no resources. Except sand, and a handful of sticks that Kevin was able to tease away from some nearby bushes. Poor Kevin spent most of his time either fending off the mobs, or trying to lure certain ones in (Endermen to see if they had any useful blocks, and Creepers to get them to explode-mine for him – got him a handful of iron ore!) He managed to get down pretty deep with this method, even if he did keep dying and having to pick up his stuff, and even found water – but a distinct lack of ANY wood meant that, to actually progress, he had to cheat and get himself a crafting bench from “Creative” mode. And then he chose to make a fishing rod instead of a pickaxe because he was hoping he could fish things in from outside his chunk. And then, after making a furnace, he accidentally burned his fishing rod while trying to store both it and some iron in there. XD He cheated it back and told everyone not to report him to Kotaku. XD EVENTUALLY he was able to get the Creepers to explode-mine enough iron ore for him to make a bucket, smelted it by burning the bow he picked up off a skeleton and wool he made from spider silk, made his bucket, gathered water from the underground river he tapped, and made himself a lake up-top, where he could fish to his heart’s content! Not that I think his heart was very content with this challenge. XD He’s looking for new biomes to One Chunk in for future videos – I’m intrigued to see where he ends up next!
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays with “I promoted people for all the wrong reasons” in the terrible mobile game Boss Life! Firing people who steal office supplies but not those who poop in his office? Sure! Promoting only the people with the lowest intelligence scores? Definitely. Signing on new employees who won’t work for wages or take any benefits? Let him draw you a nice picture of the devil, or a car running over someone. Abusing the copy machine to take pictures of his face? Why not – he’ll even throw in a promo from a newsreading puppet for his coffee company while he’s at it! Spin the wheel of rewards? He’ll take a bonus – and a super-speed CEO chair if you’ve got it! Basically it was the same goofy mobile shit as always. Good times. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – no Wyrd Sisters Podcast episode on tumblr, so I instead pulled the other Skillet song out of my archives to reblog. And nothing much happening on Valice Multiverse either, so I just slapped up a reblog from wasteland-photography of Piper and called it a night. *shrugs* I gotta get off earlier tonight for my dentist appointment, I’m allowed to be lazy.
And that's about it for today! At least I've kept up on all the important stuff. . .and now, as bedtime nears, it's time to handle the Saturday to-do list, at least for after said dentist appointment:
1. Write the first draft of the birthday fic for tumblr friend Nebby
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and get what I can out of the Watch Later
3. Play Sims 4 and get Smiler through Winter Sunday
4. Work on tumblr drafts
Yeah, no cleaning -- dentist appointment overrides that! I don't think my room will suffer too much. Though there has been a LOT of pollen in the air as of late. . .I'll dust extra-hard next weekend. :p As it stands, though, I gotta make sure I wrap things up early enough so I can get to bed at a decent hour, get up at a decent hour, and have breakfast and get my sheets changed before the appointment. Night all!
