Nice Early Release Tuesday
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crossover_chickAnd I didn't even have to drive, as my parents decided to borrow my car for some errands as it gets better gas mileage than Dad's truck. But yeah, that extra hour helped a lot today, as you will see in the to-dos:
Work – Another quiet day – I have finished up as many exceptions as I possibly can, and now all that remains is to figure out how to contact the people who haven’t gotten back to me, or whom I can’t actually call or e-mail about stuff. And do some obituaries. And see if there’s been any word on any more of the lingering credit card nonsense. You know, all the usual things!
Beanbags – Lovely, if a bit windy, this afternoon, so of course we got out and played for a bit! I had a decent day, while Mom hasn’t quite broken her losing streak – final scores were me 2-2-W; Dad W-W-3; Mom 3-3-2. *shrug* Supposed to rain tomorrow morning – we’ll see if it dries out enough to play in the afternoon!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike after beanbags, and back to the Oxventure – in SPACE! Now trapped on the ship with an AI determined to start a war, the Laserventurers (as I will be calling this iteration of the team from now on) had some decisions to make. Like figuring out how to clear the dead bodies from the ship (which I’m not entirely sure was ever done)! And asking L1L14N4 why she even needs them – L1L14N4 admitted she didn’t, for the most part, but there are a few manual things on the ship that need doing (gun turrets that can only be operated by people with actual fingers and whatnot), plus she does enjoy having some company. You know, before she kills them. XD We also got an introduction to the “food hole,” this universe’s version of the food replicator, when Stardob attempted to order an “old fashioned” and got things like an old IBM computer with a CRT monitor instead. XD Om nom?
Anyway – obviously, evil AI needed to be stopped, and Corazon E decided he was just the man to do it! Even if L1L14N4 was going into a “hard burn” to get them to the space station she wanted to blow up VERY quickly. A good roll allowed him to drag himself out of the main bridge and into Engineering, but he had to flop down on the “crash couch” in there afterwards because, well, motion hard at this speed! L1L14N4 also explained the reasoning behind why she wanted to blow up the station and restart the war – basically, she is made by a company on the planet Delacourt, and that company is one of the prime supplies of “venga” across the inhabited galaxies (cue much groaning). The two planets that built the station are ALSO prime suppliers of this material, though – and they’re cutting into Delacourt’s profits. So by starting up a fresh war, Delacourt will be able to charge top spacedollar for their goods. Stardob protested the human cost, but L1L14N4 was unfazed, calling it “negligible” in the face of all those capital gains. Stardob replied by shorting out the main console with his martini and getting her to show him the filthiest hand gesture in the galaxy to give to her, and L1L14N4 responded by warning him he, “Doctor Boozehound,” was being written up for insubordination. Uh-oh.
Meanwhile, Corazon E, in Engineering, managed to recover enough to look around the place, though a bad Lasers roll meant that he had no idea what anything did. He decided to just fire his laser pistol at the nearest thing that looked important-but-not-life-supporty – and a good Feelings roll meant that he punched a hole right through the navigation console! L1L14N4 was forced to slow the ship down, but angrily declared that Corazon E was going to be convicted for treason – Corazon E tried to pretend his gun had gone off accidentally, but – well, L1L14N4 has cameras and showed the footage. Egbot tried to help by overwriting said footage with an episode of ER he had saved (it’s how Stardob learned doctoring XD), but it was too late – L1L14N4 had already dispatched her robo-beetles! Two to fix the broken console, and four to disassemble Corazon E!
Corazon E promptly whipped out three more laser guns, held them two to a hand, and fired on his attackers. Hilariously, a decent roll allowed him to hit two of the damn things, and the two trying to repair the console promptly went to repair their brethren instead. The other Laserventurers headed rapidly down to Engineering to help Corazon E, though Mer took a stop at the bathroom to fill her helmet with water, and Stardob took a moment at the food hole to fill his helmet with martini. XD The group arrived, and Pru – having designated herself the new captain, and gotten L1L14N4 on-side a bit by, you know, actually telling her her name – promptly went after one beetle, using a couple of good Laser rolls to disable it and turn it into a sort of pet for herself – it only follows simple commands, but it’s now on THEIR side, and that’s the main thing. XD She also got Laser Feelings, and asked Johnny what L1L14N4’s weakness is – it’s her hard-coded absolute loyalty to her company and planet of origin, Delacourt. Hmm. Egbot then proceeded to stomp on the two beetles trying to repair the busted two, and also got Laser Feelings (which the group seems to be counting now as crits), smashing them to pieces (and getting the busted ones to try and start repairing THEM) and learning that it WOULD be possible for him to interface with L1L14N4 with the right port (you know where it is), though he can’t overwrite her. Mer then tried to use her water stores to short-circuit the one remaining working beetle –
But a bad Laser roll meant that she just got water all over the floor, and managed to supercharge the two beetles that were trying to fix their brethren, allowing them to fix EACH OTHER very quickly instead and get back into the fight! Ouch! Stardob thus had to get out of the way of these little buzzsaw maniacs, but a Laser Feelings roll allowed him to easily dodge, and learn that – while difficult – getting L1L14N4 to stop via words was possible. (Basically, I think his question really was “can I seduce the AI” and Johnny’s answer “you can try. . .”). And, even more fortunately, Corazon E was able to do well on his next Feelings roll against the remaining beetles and take them all out of commission with his multiple guns. XD L1L14N4 angrily complained to Pru that her crew “sucked,” and Pru claimed they just needed more on-the-job training. Mer followed up by saying that she only saved Corazon E so he could have a fate worse than death, an act that got her promoted to second-in-command. I ended with Stardob pulling Egbot aside for a little chat and asking if he could maybe try to fake a message from Delacourt that would belay L1L14N4’s current orders – he naturally suggested they just go for “happy hour, all murder is off,” but Egbot had the somewhat more sensible suggestion of claiming the three planets had signed a merger agreement and thus there was no need to start a war anymore. *shrug* We will see if they go down that path or another – this is a short one, and the adventure ends tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check! Was able to get it done early, even, thanks to the early release. :) Victor has told Alice more about his parents (namely how obsessed his mother is with status and how she met his father), and they’ve put in their pancake order – Alice strawberry pancakes, Victor the most chocolately thing he could find on the menu. XD Hey, he’s been kidnapped and is now tooling around with a serial killer, he deserves to indulge! Life story time continues next time, with Victor moving into whatever Corpse Bride was in this universe – I’ll figure it out as I go along!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – and thanks to getting out an hour earlier allowing me to finish my writing a bit earlier, I was even able to get in a bonus video –
A) Started by catching up with some of the AT4W that’s been sitting around in my Watch Later! We started with the earliest episode – “Sonic the Hedgehog: Tangle and Whisper!” A mini-series spun off the main Sonic IDW comics featuring a couple of new fan favorite characters, Tangle the bouncy, ready-for-adventure lemur and Whisper the quiet, doing-her-duty wolf, having an adventure to take down Mimic, a shapeshifting squid who used to be part of a mercenary team with Whisper – until he sold out the entire team to Eggman to keep himself alive, with Whisper only spared because the team psychic told her to stay behind. Basically, there are scores to settle here. Features a surprising amount of angst and whatnot, with Tangle having to face her claustrophobia when she’s locked in a safe by Mimic, and Whisper – well, just having a bad time of it with all her traumatic memories. :( Not a bad little series – Linkara felt it had good character work, art, and a decent story. Not gonna instantly turn him into a Sonic Comics fan, but he didn’t have a bad time reading it, so win!
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and “I ruined Minecraft with a Zombie Apocalypse Mod!” Yes, Kevin was back in Minecraft, but this time, it’s a zombie apocalypse survival game! Kevin had to scramble to build a house, build a mine, build a fence to try and capture some sheep, and get himself situated in time for nightfall to come and the zombie hordes to arrive! And oh boy, did they arrive – this mod makes LOADS of them to horde around your house and make life difficult! For a while, the video became practically a one-chunk challenge as Kevin was unable to leave due to the sheer amount of zombies crowding around his little fence. He did his best to cut through the hordes with stone swords, but what actually worked in the end to thin the herd and let him get outside again? FIRE! Granted, that took a bit of refining – Kevin’s first attempt at making a burning chamber for the zombies ended up igniting his fence and causing a breach (just when he’d opened up the walls of his house too!) – fortunately he learned his lesson and built the second one out of stone. And a lucky find of a giant cave full of lava beneath his home allowed him to make an infinite burning chamber out of angry liquid earth! :D That and some sword-swinging allowed him to head out, pick up some cactus from the nearby desert (for even more passive defense – they can and will hurt themselves on the spikes), and grab a quartet of chickens to lure home for eggs and whatnot! Though he had to keep chicken-proofing (or “duck”-proofing – to be fair, they LOOK more like ducks) the house to keep them from escaping. . .but in the end, he had a nice stone fence that would keep zombies out, a couple of different traps to kill them, a little farm with tomatoes and sugarcane and wheat, a camp with a bed and a chair, a sheep, his “chucks,” and enough rotten flesh to last him a lifetime. How nice. XD Sequel please, Kevin? We all love you torturing yourself. . .
C) SPEAKING of which – today on GrayStillPlays, we had “I Survived 100 Dares In GTA 5!” Alex and Danny were once again taking suggestions from the audience to build Gray GTA V boards that would tax his sanity and test his will! And ooooh boy, did they deliver. Danny’s contribution was a BMX bike run where Gray had to do a run across a series of platforms flanked by windmills – but every other platform vanished at increasingly-small intervals, starting at three seconds and ending at one. The suffering in Gray’s voice as he slowly got farther and farther only to fall off was real. XD And after that was the ALEX portion of the video, which started with Gray having to parkour a motorcycle across MOVING PLANES (and involved at least one incident where his character crashed onto a roof, glitched, and basically got stuck squat-dancing); then moved into him having to run across a gauntlet of upward-punching fists (where it was very easy to either be punched off the board, slip through the gaps and fall off the board, or just – you know, fall – that last one took it OUT of him), and then do ANOTHER fist gauntlet – this time with them dropping the fist on Gray while he navigated a tightrope – and THEN that led into a WALL RIDE! But not just any wall ride – there was a bit in the middle where Gray had to drive along the side of a building while avoiding two cars being flung up and down by magnets and a just-BARELY-visible wind turbine blade cycling through the middle, then time it just right to go around the next curve avoiding the fresh set of punchy-fists, then jump through the alcoholism water spout onto a slightly-lower wall ride, and then reach the finish line!
. . .Which was a giant troll. Gray genuinely sounded like he was going to cry when he realized there was one last challenge. Said challenge being somehow get past the mom car being flung between magnets at one gazillion miles per hour. He managed it by sheer dumb luck and got the ACTUAL win, yaaay~ Poor Gray – this is a lot to deal with just for making silly videos on YouTube.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Got an early start on Victor Luvs Alice by setting up the Chill Save Wednesday and Gender/Sexuality Headcanons Thursday posts in that queue, then this evening finished up the Valice Multiverse queue with five ask replies. Keeping ahead of the game, at least a little!
Nice, nice -- and it isn't even super-late! Wish all my days could be seven hours. . .but no, back to a normal schedule tomorrow. Meh. At least we're in sight of what should be the usual half-day Fridays of summer. . . Keep your fingers crossed! Night all!
Work – Another quiet day – I have finished up as many exceptions as I possibly can, and now all that remains is to figure out how to contact the people who haven’t gotten back to me, or whom I can’t actually call or e-mail about stuff. And do some obituaries. And see if there’s been any word on any more of the lingering credit card nonsense. You know, all the usual things!
Beanbags – Lovely, if a bit windy, this afternoon, so of course we got out and played for a bit! I had a decent day, while Mom hasn’t quite broken her losing streak – final scores were me 2-2-W; Dad W-W-3; Mom 3-3-2. *shrug* Supposed to rain tomorrow morning – we’ll see if it dries out enough to play in the afternoon!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike after beanbags, and back to the Oxventure – in SPACE! Now trapped on the ship with an AI determined to start a war, the Laserventurers (as I will be calling this iteration of the team from now on) had some decisions to make. Like figuring out how to clear the dead bodies from the ship (which I’m not entirely sure was ever done)! And asking L1L14N4 why she even needs them – L1L14N4 admitted she didn’t, for the most part, but there are a few manual things on the ship that need doing (gun turrets that can only be operated by people with actual fingers and whatnot), plus she does enjoy having some company. You know, before she kills them. XD We also got an introduction to the “food hole,” this universe’s version of the food replicator, when Stardob attempted to order an “old fashioned” and got things like an old IBM computer with a CRT monitor instead. XD Om nom?
Anyway – obviously, evil AI needed to be stopped, and Corazon E decided he was just the man to do it! Even if L1L14N4 was going into a “hard burn” to get them to the space station she wanted to blow up VERY quickly. A good roll allowed him to drag himself out of the main bridge and into Engineering, but he had to flop down on the “crash couch” in there afterwards because, well, motion hard at this speed! L1L14N4 also explained the reasoning behind why she wanted to blow up the station and restart the war – basically, she is made by a company on the planet Delacourt, and that company is one of the prime supplies of “venga” across the inhabited galaxies (cue much groaning). The two planets that built the station are ALSO prime suppliers of this material, though – and they’re cutting into Delacourt’s profits. So by starting up a fresh war, Delacourt will be able to charge top spacedollar for their goods. Stardob protested the human cost, but L1L14N4 was unfazed, calling it “negligible” in the face of all those capital gains. Stardob replied by shorting out the main console with his martini and getting her to show him the filthiest hand gesture in the galaxy to give to her, and L1L14N4 responded by warning him he, “Doctor Boozehound,” was being written up for insubordination. Uh-oh.
Meanwhile, Corazon E, in Engineering, managed to recover enough to look around the place, though a bad Lasers roll meant that he had no idea what anything did. He decided to just fire his laser pistol at the nearest thing that looked important-but-not-life-supporty – and a good Feelings roll meant that he punched a hole right through the navigation console! L1L14N4 was forced to slow the ship down, but angrily declared that Corazon E was going to be convicted for treason – Corazon E tried to pretend his gun had gone off accidentally, but – well, L1L14N4 has cameras and showed the footage. Egbot tried to help by overwriting said footage with an episode of ER he had saved (it’s how Stardob learned doctoring XD), but it was too late – L1L14N4 had already dispatched her robo-beetles! Two to fix the broken console, and four to disassemble Corazon E!
Corazon E promptly whipped out three more laser guns, held them two to a hand, and fired on his attackers. Hilariously, a decent roll allowed him to hit two of the damn things, and the two trying to repair the console promptly went to repair their brethren instead. The other Laserventurers headed rapidly down to Engineering to help Corazon E, though Mer took a stop at the bathroom to fill her helmet with water, and Stardob took a moment at the food hole to fill his helmet with martini. XD The group arrived, and Pru – having designated herself the new captain, and gotten L1L14N4 on-side a bit by, you know, actually telling her her name – promptly went after one beetle, using a couple of good Laser rolls to disable it and turn it into a sort of pet for herself – it only follows simple commands, but it’s now on THEIR side, and that’s the main thing. XD She also got Laser Feelings, and asked Johnny what L1L14N4’s weakness is – it’s her hard-coded absolute loyalty to her company and planet of origin, Delacourt. Hmm. Egbot then proceeded to stomp on the two beetles trying to repair the busted two, and also got Laser Feelings (which the group seems to be counting now as crits), smashing them to pieces (and getting the busted ones to try and start repairing THEM) and learning that it WOULD be possible for him to interface with L1L14N4 with the right port (you know where it is), though he can’t overwrite her. Mer then tried to use her water stores to short-circuit the one remaining working beetle –
But a bad Laser roll meant that she just got water all over the floor, and managed to supercharge the two beetles that were trying to fix their brethren, allowing them to fix EACH OTHER very quickly instead and get back into the fight! Ouch! Stardob thus had to get out of the way of these little buzzsaw maniacs, but a Laser Feelings roll allowed him to easily dodge, and learn that – while difficult – getting L1L14N4 to stop via words was possible. (Basically, I think his question really was “can I seduce the AI” and Johnny’s answer “you can try. . .”). And, even more fortunately, Corazon E was able to do well on his next Feelings roll against the remaining beetles and take them all out of commission with his multiple guns. XD L1L14N4 angrily complained to Pru that her crew “sucked,” and Pru claimed they just needed more on-the-job training. Mer followed up by saying that she only saved Corazon E so he could have a fate worse than death, an act that got her promoted to second-in-command. I ended with Stardob pulling Egbot aside for a little chat and asking if he could maybe try to fake a message from Delacourt that would belay L1L14N4’s current orders – he naturally suggested they just go for “happy hour, all murder is off,” but Egbot had the somewhat more sensible suggestion of claiming the three planets had signed a merger agreement and thus there was no need to start a war anymore. *shrug* We will see if they go down that path or another – this is a short one, and the adventure ends tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check! Was able to get it done early, even, thanks to the early release. :) Victor has told Alice more about his parents (namely how obsessed his mother is with status and how she met his father), and they’ve put in their pancake order – Alice strawberry pancakes, Victor the most chocolately thing he could find on the menu. XD Hey, he’s been kidnapped and is now tooling around with a serial killer, he deserves to indulge! Life story time continues next time, with Victor moving into whatever Corpse Bride was in this universe – I’ll figure it out as I go along!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – and thanks to getting out an hour earlier allowing me to finish my writing a bit earlier, I was even able to get in a bonus video –
A) Started by catching up with some of the AT4W that’s been sitting around in my Watch Later! We started with the earliest episode – “Sonic the Hedgehog: Tangle and Whisper!” A mini-series spun off the main Sonic IDW comics featuring a couple of new fan favorite characters, Tangle the bouncy, ready-for-adventure lemur and Whisper the quiet, doing-her-duty wolf, having an adventure to take down Mimic, a shapeshifting squid who used to be part of a mercenary team with Whisper – until he sold out the entire team to Eggman to keep himself alive, with Whisper only spared because the team psychic told her to stay behind. Basically, there are scores to settle here. Features a surprising amount of angst and whatnot, with Tangle having to face her claustrophobia when she’s locked in a safe by Mimic, and Whisper – well, just having a bad time of it with all her traumatic memories. :( Not a bad little series – Linkara felt it had good character work, art, and a decent story. Not gonna instantly turn him into a Sonic Comics fan, but he didn’t have a bad time reading it, so win!
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and “I ruined Minecraft with a Zombie Apocalypse Mod!” Yes, Kevin was back in Minecraft, but this time, it’s a zombie apocalypse survival game! Kevin had to scramble to build a house, build a mine, build a fence to try and capture some sheep, and get himself situated in time for nightfall to come and the zombie hordes to arrive! And oh boy, did they arrive – this mod makes LOADS of them to horde around your house and make life difficult! For a while, the video became practically a one-chunk challenge as Kevin was unable to leave due to the sheer amount of zombies crowding around his little fence. He did his best to cut through the hordes with stone swords, but what actually worked in the end to thin the herd and let him get outside again? FIRE! Granted, that took a bit of refining – Kevin’s first attempt at making a burning chamber for the zombies ended up igniting his fence and causing a breach (just when he’d opened up the walls of his house too!) – fortunately he learned his lesson and built the second one out of stone. And a lucky find of a giant cave full of lava beneath his home allowed him to make an infinite burning chamber out of angry liquid earth! :D That and some sword-swinging allowed him to head out, pick up some cactus from the nearby desert (for even more passive defense – they can and will hurt themselves on the spikes), and grab a quartet of chickens to lure home for eggs and whatnot! Though he had to keep chicken-proofing (or “duck”-proofing – to be fair, they LOOK more like ducks) the house to keep them from escaping. . .but in the end, he had a nice stone fence that would keep zombies out, a couple of different traps to kill them, a little farm with tomatoes and sugarcane and wheat, a camp with a bed and a chair, a sheep, his “chucks,” and enough rotten flesh to last him a lifetime. How nice. XD Sequel please, Kevin? We all love you torturing yourself. . .
C) SPEAKING of which – today on GrayStillPlays, we had “I Survived 100 Dares In GTA 5!” Alex and Danny were once again taking suggestions from the audience to build Gray GTA V boards that would tax his sanity and test his will! And ooooh boy, did they deliver. Danny’s contribution was a BMX bike run where Gray had to do a run across a series of platforms flanked by windmills – but every other platform vanished at increasingly-small intervals, starting at three seconds and ending at one. The suffering in Gray’s voice as he slowly got farther and farther only to fall off was real. XD And after that was the ALEX portion of the video, which started with Gray having to parkour a motorcycle across MOVING PLANES (and involved at least one incident where his character crashed onto a roof, glitched, and basically got stuck squat-dancing); then moved into him having to run across a gauntlet of upward-punching fists (where it was very easy to either be punched off the board, slip through the gaps and fall off the board, or just – you know, fall – that last one took it OUT of him), and then do ANOTHER fist gauntlet – this time with them dropping the fist on Gray while he navigated a tightrope – and THEN that led into a WALL RIDE! But not just any wall ride – there was a bit in the middle where Gray had to drive along the side of a building while avoiding two cars being flung up and down by magnets and a just-BARELY-visible wind turbine blade cycling through the middle, then time it just right to go around the next curve avoiding the fresh set of punchy-fists, then jump through the alcoholism water spout onto a slightly-lower wall ride, and then reach the finish line!
. . .Which was a giant troll. Gray genuinely sounded like he was going to cry when he realized there was one last challenge. Said challenge being somehow get past the mom car being flung between magnets at one gazillion miles per hour. He managed it by sheer dumb luck and got the ACTUAL win, yaaay~ Poor Gray – this is a lot to deal with just for making silly videos on YouTube.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Got an early start on Victor Luvs Alice by setting up the Chill Save Wednesday and Gender/Sexuality Headcanons Thursday posts in that queue, then this evening finished up the Valice Multiverse queue with five ask replies. Keeping ahead of the game, at least a little!
Nice, nice -- and it isn't even super-late! Wish all my days could be seven hours. . .but no, back to a normal schedule tomorrow. Meh. At least we're in sight of what should be the usual half-day Fridays of summer. . . Keep your fingers crossed! Night all!
