Look at Me, Updating At A Decent Time
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crossover_chickWho knows how long it'll last, but for now, I am not scrambling to post my Standard Update Form (tm) at the last moment before slouching off to bed. I will consider this a win. So let's get to it, shall we?
Work – Little busier again, just with more phone calls from people asking about their gifts and such, and a few last-minute gifts to put on near the end of the day. Also more credit card nonsense, because there is always credit card nonsense. *sigh* But it could have been worse, and I will stick to that. Just one more day before “Summer Time” starts!
Beanbags – Nice day, so we ventured out after I got home from work and changed – and hooray, I’m no longer on a potential losing streak! In fact, today turned out to be more equitable, with each of us winning a game – final scores were me 3-W-2; Dad 2-2-W; Mom W-3-3! So that’s nice. :) Maybe we can keep it up tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure Stream “Snow Mercy!” Prudence ended up dislodging eight very pointy icicles from the frosty bridge, and (after some confusion over who was rolling the damage), managed to spear eight of the zombie kobolds (zombolds, as they shall henceforth be known) – like the fire, they’re not quite DEAD, but they’re having more trouble moving around, like vaguely mobile freeze-pops. XD Though it should be said that a few of them still managed to fall on the unzombified kobolds in the middle to try and gnaw on them. Also one attempted to slash Prudence, but thanks to a nat one on the attack, ended up just gently caressing her in a weird way, ew. Dob, fortunately, then came in with a weird plan – make a big lasso with his hempen rope, lasso one of the zombolds, and then try to gather up as many of them into a weird rope ball as possible. Johnny and Mike both warned that he’d need to roll well –
But, well, it’s Dex/Acrobatics. Dob smashed it and ended up with a zombie bindle of sorts of most of the kobolds that got speared by Prudence’s icicles. Oh, and by the way, it was never clarified or not if he’d put his clothes back on by this point. XD The flaming zombies then made a go of it – they WERE going to go for Corazon, but upon being reminded that he was hiding, they instead went for poor Merilwen, and she ended up with two on each leg, gnawing on her with their sharp little teeth. Merilwen took this as in-stride as you can get and – after confirming she could do so without destroying the bridge – took aim at the zombold bindle with her Moonbeam. They actually MADE their Constitution saving throws, funnily enough, but Johnny said that her halved damage of seven would still be enough to take them out.
And then we came around to Egbert again, and he decided he was going to make sure they were taken out and set them on fire with his fire breath. XD Fwooom~ Corazon ATTEMPTED to help Merilwen by shooting at one of the zombolds on her legs, but a low damage roll mean he just stuck a bolt through one’s nose. Which then proceeded to messily sneeze on her. Ewwwwww D: At that point, Merilwen was actually happy to get booted into the hot spring by Prudence, where the zombolds began, essentially, dissolving. Johnny described it as inventing a particularly horrible version of the bath bomb, which Merilwen dubbed the Bath Zomb, and Prudence promptly called “patent pending.” XD
It was around this time that Moonbeam exploded the zombold bindle, and those remaining zombolds gathered up what little intelligence they still had and decided “we are getting wrecked – perhaps better to wait for another day?” before shuffling off. The kobolds started tending their wounded as the Oxventurers pursued the zombolds (pursued themselves by Snicket the tailor kobold, who scolded them for doing a pretty poor job of protecting them). The Oxventurers, to their surprise, found the remaining zombolds descending into a cellar hidden underneath a trap door in the snow –
A cellar with a lot of pub stuff in it.
Yeah, it looks like our main villain is the nasty tavern landlady, Dana! Remember her, who really hated the kobolds when the party visited earlier? Seems her method of doing something about them is to zombify them for some reason. Merilwen began examining the cellar to see if she could somehow block the zombolds in with Stoneshape (no dice, partly because I think Johnny thought she was trying to Moonbeam again); while Prudence Detected Magic and found a whole ton of necromancy going on. (Also an amorous vampire, Vlad, born from Johnny going “just like an amorous vampire, there’s a lot of necromancy going on in here” – he was okay, but not very good with his pickup lines. Merilwen said she was “Vlad” to have met him, and he promptly turned into a bat, flew out into the wind, got blown above the clouds into the sun’s rays, and died. XD Apparently a new running joke is “Merilwen kills minor NPCs with puns.”) After some overly-complicated arguments about figuring out the mechanism Corazon spotted for opening the trap door “remotely” and seeing where it led, ended by Merilwen confirming there was another door that just plain led into the tavern, the Oxventurers are preparing to “breach and clear” the tavern to take on Dana. Egbert’s going to keep an eye on the front entrance, while Johnny prepares to detail the other points of ingress. Tomorrow, the big finale! We’ll see how tough this kobold-racist pub owner really is. . .
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – Victor has finished up his story about what happened prom night with him, Victoria, and Emily (namely, he and Emily had to help save Victoria from being kidnapped by one Barkis Bittern, and he and Victor had a scrap in the school kitchen so I could keep Victor fighting him with a fork; aftermath led to Victoria and Emily getting closer and deciding to get together), and he and Alice have basically finished their food. Time for a biker named Icarus to bust in and try to rob the joint! XD Oh, honey, you got a storm comin’, let me tell you. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Bleh, one-third check – both Kevin and James uploaded today, but I didn’t have the time to get to either, I did, however, manage to catch up on the second episode of James Turner’s Werewolves LP – and as of Episode 2, the “official” title is “RAGE to Riches,” so we’ll be using that from now on. (Though I did like “Ruffs to Riches.”) Highlights of this episode included:
I. Nina finishing her transformation (relying HEAVILY on the Moonwood Collective’s grill to ward off pre-werewolf-transformation starvation) and going on her very first rampage! James is already having her lean heavily into being a mean and ferocious werewolf, intimidating Sims in the hopes that they’ll drop their wallets, snarling at her own brother, and scratching up all the furniture in the library. XD He is also thrilled by the werewolf “skill tree,” because basically everything on it is perfect for a Sim in a “Rags to Riches” LP – stuff like being able to pee wherever, lick yourself clean (even in human form), and scavenge for collectibles no matter where you are! It’s pretty useful stuff! Especially for Nina, who – thanks to her and her brother spending their first couple of days in Moonwood Mill stinky and miserable – wants DESPERATELY to be clean, lest her Fury rise uncontrollably. Tongue baths are suddenly very important for her! As is being anti-capitalist, because she picked up THAT temperament too. XD Well, James already said you guys aren’t getting proper jobs, so no worries there, okay? XD
II. Angus struggling to be cool and accepted by the Moonwood Collective and having a REALLY hard time of it. I mean, Kristopher just keeps running off every time Angus wants to have a conversation. XD And James actually REFUSED to use the picture trick for a change, so Angus was forced to put in the work to actually become a friend of the pack. He DID succeed, in the end, gaining access to their magical tree hideout (so he no longer need sleep or pee in filthy bushes), but it was a journey! He also became good enough friends with Kristopher to request the cursed bite, so in the recently-uploaded Episode 3, we should see him turn for the first time as well (it takes less time if you get it direct from a friend werewolf).
III. The two just trying to make it in the world – Angus picked up enough random dog presents and piles of feathers, and Nina a cool new wolf statue, to fund the purchase of a couple of bikes, a tent for sleeping, and a shower that James move-objectsed onto the side of their debug factory, but they still don’t have a proper house. Or even a panic room for Nina to try and control her transformations in. They also keep running into random family members – Nina met Reginald Bigwallet, Column’s spellcaster son and their – second cousin three times removed? – in the library (and James started talking the possibility of romance, which – a little bit ew?), and Brodie, her vampire grandfather, while she was hanging out the with Wildfangs and getting to know their leader, Rory. Nina attempted to have a civil conversation, but the natural enmity between vampires and werewolves plus Brodie having the weaknesses that make other Sims really dislike him, it didn’t go well. Hazel also asked to drop by, but when Nina was unable to convince her that having a werewolf in the family was a good thing, really, she ended up just scaring her mom off. Shame. But she and Angus may end up having a new family member of a sort soon – there’s a stray poodle named Cupcake that is wandering Moonwood Mill and has picked up some diseases, and James has decided the siblings should rescue the dog, even if they don’t keep it permanently. Again, we’ll see how that goes in Episode 3!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – two ask replies on Valice Multiverse, nice and easy.
*nods* Good, good. And now I just have to finish up a few things, and then I'm going to try to get to bed a little earlier too, w000. Maybe I can claw back this "time management" thing after all. We'll see. . .night all!
Work – Little busier again, just with more phone calls from people asking about their gifts and such, and a few last-minute gifts to put on near the end of the day. Also more credit card nonsense, because there is always credit card nonsense. *sigh* But it could have been worse, and I will stick to that. Just one more day before “Summer Time” starts!
Beanbags – Nice day, so we ventured out after I got home from work and changed – and hooray, I’m no longer on a potential losing streak! In fact, today turned out to be more equitable, with each of us winning a game – final scores were me 3-W-2; Dad 2-2-W; Mom W-3-3! So that’s nice. :) Maybe we can keep it up tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure Stream “Snow Mercy!” Prudence ended up dislodging eight very pointy icicles from the frosty bridge, and (after some confusion over who was rolling the damage), managed to spear eight of the zombie kobolds (zombolds, as they shall henceforth be known) – like the fire, they’re not quite DEAD, but they’re having more trouble moving around, like vaguely mobile freeze-pops. XD Though it should be said that a few of them still managed to fall on the unzombified kobolds in the middle to try and gnaw on them. Also one attempted to slash Prudence, but thanks to a nat one on the attack, ended up just gently caressing her in a weird way, ew. Dob, fortunately, then came in with a weird plan – make a big lasso with his hempen rope, lasso one of the zombolds, and then try to gather up as many of them into a weird rope ball as possible. Johnny and Mike both warned that he’d need to roll well –
But, well, it’s Dex/Acrobatics. Dob smashed it and ended up with a zombie bindle of sorts of most of the kobolds that got speared by Prudence’s icicles. Oh, and by the way, it was never clarified or not if he’d put his clothes back on by this point. XD The flaming zombies then made a go of it – they WERE going to go for Corazon, but upon being reminded that he was hiding, they instead went for poor Merilwen, and she ended up with two on each leg, gnawing on her with their sharp little teeth. Merilwen took this as in-stride as you can get and – after confirming she could do so without destroying the bridge – took aim at the zombold bindle with her Moonbeam. They actually MADE their Constitution saving throws, funnily enough, but Johnny said that her halved damage of seven would still be enough to take them out.
And then we came around to Egbert again, and he decided he was going to make sure they were taken out and set them on fire with his fire breath. XD Fwooom~ Corazon ATTEMPTED to help Merilwen by shooting at one of the zombolds on her legs, but a low damage roll mean he just stuck a bolt through one’s nose. Which then proceeded to messily sneeze on her. Ewwwwww D: At that point, Merilwen was actually happy to get booted into the hot spring by Prudence, where the zombolds began, essentially, dissolving. Johnny described it as inventing a particularly horrible version of the bath bomb, which Merilwen dubbed the Bath Zomb, and Prudence promptly called “patent pending.” XD
It was around this time that Moonbeam exploded the zombold bindle, and those remaining zombolds gathered up what little intelligence they still had and decided “we are getting wrecked – perhaps better to wait for another day?” before shuffling off. The kobolds started tending their wounded as the Oxventurers pursued the zombolds (pursued themselves by Snicket the tailor kobold, who scolded them for doing a pretty poor job of protecting them). The Oxventurers, to their surprise, found the remaining zombolds descending into a cellar hidden underneath a trap door in the snow –
A cellar with a lot of pub stuff in it.
Yeah, it looks like our main villain is the nasty tavern landlady, Dana! Remember her, who really hated the kobolds when the party visited earlier? Seems her method of doing something about them is to zombify them for some reason. Merilwen began examining the cellar to see if she could somehow block the zombolds in with Stoneshape (no dice, partly because I think Johnny thought she was trying to Moonbeam again); while Prudence Detected Magic and found a whole ton of necromancy going on. (Also an amorous vampire, Vlad, born from Johnny going “just like an amorous vampire, there’s a lot of necromancy going on in here” – he was okay, but not very good with his pickup lines. Merilwen said she was “Vlad” to have met him, and he promptly turned into a bat, flew out into the wind, got blown above the clouds into the sun’s rays, and died. XD Apparently a new running joke is “Merilwen kills minor NPCs with puns.”) After some overly-complicated arguments about figuring out the mechanism Corazon spotted for opening the trap door “remotely” and seeing where it led, ended by Merilwen confirming there was another door that just plain led into the tavern, the Oxventurers are preparing to “breach and clear” the tavern to take on Dana. Egbert’s going to keep an eye on the front entrance, while Johnny prepares to detail the other points of ingress. Tomorrow, the big finale! We’ll see how tough this kobold-racist pub owner really is. . .
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – Victor has finished up his story about what happened prom night with him, Victoria, and Emily (namely, he and Emily had to help save Victoria from being kidnapped by one Barkis Bittern, and he and Victor had a scrap in the school kitchen so I could keep Victor fighting him with a fork; aftermath led to Victoria and Emily getting closer and deciding to get together), and he and Alice have basically finished their food. Time for a biker named Icarus to bust in and try to rob the joint! XD Oh, honey, you got a storm comin’, let me tell you. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Bleh, one-third check – both Kevin and James uploaded today, but I didn’t have the time to get to either, I did, however, manage to catch up on the second episode of James Turner’s Werewolves LP – and as of Episode 2, the “official” title is “RAGE to Riches,” so we’ll be using that from now on. (Though I did like “Ruffs to Riches.”) Highlights of this episode included:
I. Nina finishing her transformation (relying HEAVILY on the Moonwood Collective’s grill to ward off pre-werewolf-transformation starvation) and going on her very first rampage! James is already having her lean heavily into being a mean and ferocious werewolf, intimidating Sims in the hopes that they’ll drop their wallets, snarling at her own brother, and scratching up all the furniture in the library. XD He is also thrilled by the werewolf “skill tree,” because basically everything on it is perfect for a Sim in a “Rags to Riches” LP – stuff like being able to pee wherever, lick yourself clean (even in human form), and scavenge for collectibles no matter where you are! It’s pretty useful stuff! Especially for Nina, who – thanks to her and her brother spending their first couple of days in Moonwood Mill stinky and miserable – wants DESPERATELY to be clean, lest her Fury rise uncontrollably. Tongue baths are suddenly very important for her! As is being anti-capitalist, because she picked up THAT temperament too. XD Well, James already said you guys aren’t getting proper jobs, so no worries there, okay? XD
II. Angus struggling to be cool and accepted by the Moonwood Collective and having a REALLY hard time of it. I mean, Kristopher just keeps running off every time Angus wants to have a conversation. XD And James actually REFUSED to use the picture trick for a change, so Angus was forced to put in the work to actually become a friend of the pack. He DID succeed, in the end, gaining access to their magical tree hideout (so he no longer need sleep or pee in filthy bushes), but it was a journey! He also became good enough friends with Kristopher to request the cursed bite, so in the recently-uploaded Episode 3, we should see him turn for the first time as well (it takes less time if you get it direct from a friend werewolf).
III. The two just trying to make it in the world – Angus picked up enough random dog presents and piles of feathers, and Nina a cool new wolf statue, to fund the purchase of a couple of bikes, a tent for sleeping, and a shower that James move-objectsed onto the side of their debug factory, but they still don’t have a proper house. Or even a panic room for Nina to try and control her transformations in. They also keep running into random family members – Nina met Reginald Bigwallet, Column’s spellcaster son and their – second cousin three times removed? – in the library (and James started talking the possibility of romance, which – a little bit ew?), and Brodie, her vampire grandfather, while she was hanging out the with Wildfangs and getting to know their leader, Rory. Nina attempted to have a civil conversation, but the natural enmity between vampires and werewolves plus Brodie having the weaknesses that make other Sims really dislike him, it didn’t go well. Hazel also asked to drop by, but when Nina was unable to convince her that having a werewolf in the family was a good thing, really, she ended up just scaring her mom off. Shame. But she and Angus may end up having a new family member of a sort soon – there’s a stray poodle named Cupcake that is wandering Moonwood Mill and has picked up some diseases, and James has decided the siblings should rescue the dog, even if they don’t keep it permanently. Again, we’ll see how that goes in Episode 3!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – two ask replies on Valice Multiverse, nice and easy.
*nods* Good, good. And now I just have to finish up a few things, and then I'm going to try to get to bed a little earlier too, w000. Maybe I can claw back this "time management" thing after all. We'll see. . .night all!
