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crossover_chickMuch drier, for a start -- both in rain terms and humidity terms. I am here for it, especially when it's cool enough to sleep properly. :) Also warm, but not boiling -- but that seems set to change as the week goes on. Must watch that. In the meantime, though, have a to-do list:
Work – Fairly quiet day – couple of credit card calls (working through some stuff that was on my to-do list), more spreadsheet stuff, obituaries. Most annoying thing was getting interrupted during my lunch break because the shredding company guy had shown up, and finding he’d asked for the wrong person. *sigh* But yeah, overall, pretty calm day at work. We’ll see if this trend continues for the final two days!
Beanbags – Yup – back to nice weather today, so out we went to play! :p I managed a squeaky win by a point in the first game, but just slid downward from there – Mom tried to rally in the third, but couldn’t quite make it. Final scores were me W-2-3; Dad 2-W-W; Mom 3-3-2. We’ll see how we all do tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and onto the next Oxventure, “Mule Be Sorry!” The Oxventurers have finally found their way down toward the base of the mountain, having managed to go from one side to the other during their previous adventures, and we opened with them finding the town of – crap, I’m not quite how you spell it. Let’s call it BH because I know those letters were in there. XD Anyway, it was a nice, affluent little hamlet, just ripe for Oxventure chaos – hell, there was even a very obvious town crier ringing his bell as an adventure hook!
The Oxventurers promptly started debating whether they wanted to play bowls (with Egbert’s bombs and Prudence’s orb, no less) on the village green instead. They decided they might as well hear the town crier out and went to see what he wanted – adventurers! Dob, Corazon, and Egbert immediately went into “impress the man” mode, with Dob doing a series of awesome backflips over some fancy swordwork from Corazon and Egbert juggling his bombs! Except that Egbert’s roll meant that one of those bombs got lit on fire from his breath and then dropped on the ground. . .Egbert dived to cover it, and the gang leapt back, all making their saving throws –
But the town crier instead walked forward, and while he didn’t get hurt badly, there was some comical shirt-shredding and burns. Egbert apology-healed him (for more points than he got hurt, curing the man’s back crick) while Dob Mended his busted bell. XD The crier promptly stopped Corazon before he could try to demonstrate another trick by slicing an apple balanced on the crier’s head in twain and said he believed them and offered them the job on-hand – killing a troll in a nearby cave that’s been stealing and eating the local livestock! Dob “searched his memory” to figure out what trolls are like in this universe, and heard the voice of the DM telling him that they’re big, nasty, always Chaotic Evil monsters with regenerative flesh, so this was gonna be a hard one. However, it came with a comparable reward – 600 gold pieces for bringing back a token of the troll’s demise, like a toe or a tooth. The gang huddled and started discussing plans, and Dob threw everything into disarray by insisting they try “hard mode” and not have someone dress up as a sheep to be kidnapped. Corazon and Egbert protested loudly. XD It was eventually decided they would go up to the cave and check things out, and if they could somehow get a body part without having to go through a long terrible fight, they would try that. The crier gave them a decorative-tea-towel map (telling them NOT to sell it on, it’s property of BH and they don’t have permission; Corazon promptly began planning bootleg merchandise), and the gang headed of, hiking to the cave and then using Merilwen’s “Pass Without Trace” to sneak inside without issue.
And then things got interesting, as the cave, rather than being the dank den of a troll, was actually rather warm and cozy, complete with a nice, if threadbare, rug, and a pen for a bunch of sheep and a goat. And someone humming further inside. The puzzled Oxventurers began wondering what was up, and Corazon reminded Prudence she could scout ahead with her Clairvoyance. Quietly annoyed he knew more about her spells than she did and swearing esoteric revenge, Prudence did so, using the magical eye –
And showed it was not a troll living here, but a cyclops. Who seemed civilized enough, as he was making tea. Prudence was all for just going in and cutting off one of his toes anyway, but the others figured that they should approach in a spirit of friendship and maybe get his side of the story. Dob and Corazon ended up pretending that they were new neighbors who had moved into a nearby cave and had come along with a bottle of rosé (actually just some water in a wineskin flavored with Prestidigitation) to meet their fellow cave people. The cyclops, Norman, saw through this nonsense pretty quickly and asked them straightforwardly if they’d been sent by the people of BH to kill him, promising he wouldn’t be mad if the answer was yes. The boys admitted that they had and that the people there thought Norman was a troll – though Dob insisted on sticking to the “we have moved into the cave nearby” story, despite hearing there were damn basilisks in it. XD So I guess we’ll see if the gang is doing a quest now for Norman next time!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – actually made it to the end of Chapter 3! Which features a biker named Icarus trying to rob the diner at the end of Victor and Alice’s meal, Alice killing the guy via a fork in the eye and a shotgun to the chin, then Victor managing to get her to at least run back to the car and head away from the murder scene – causing her to miss seeing that the dude had friends. XD Alice’s blasé murdering and Victor’s panicked reaction to same was a lot of fun to write, I have to admit. Poor Victor, he didn’t sign up for this. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check plus! As I’d hoped, Gray was the only one who uploaded today, allowing me to catch up AND sneak in a bonus video. . .
A) Started with a bit of Plumbella and an episode of their pre-official-review Werewolves LP – Lupisn’t is starting to come to grips with being a(n invisible) werewolf! They learned how to scavenge the ground for goodies; took a few trips through the underground tunnels and found the one that connects the sewer grate to the bunker in the woods; unearthed some werewolf books and had a Lunar Epiphany, allowing them to read the secret writings in the books and translate the runes on the slabs they kept picking up, unlocking what is best described as a “metric fuckton” of lore (I SOO want there to be books like these for the other occults, or at least vampires and spellcasters); learned how to Hunt For Food and get some of that good raw meat in their system; picked some moonpetal and tried to catch the lunar fish; had their first full moon rampage; ate a moonpetal and accidentally reset all their werewolf points; and finally completed the “Initiate” aspiration and chose to join the Wildfangs and attempt Werewolf World Domination! (Yes, that is actually an aspiration goal if you go for the Wildfangs-based one.) Plumbella is so excited to go around biting EVERYONE. XD Next episode should be interesting!
B) And then it was time to catch up on GrayStillPlays –
I. Playing To Heaven, a weird mobile game where you play as a character climbing their way to Heaven up a giant staircase through each stage of their life. Along the way, you are confronted with moral choices, which can increase or decrease various stats (like kindness and honesty) and move you up or down steps. You can die early if you do poorly enough, or make it to Heaven if you do well enough.
Gray, as you might imagine, did his best to be a monster. XD His first character snapped his sister’s leg for laughing at him for falling down (then blamed her for wetting HIS bed), hired a hitman to take out a bully, and ended up dying early for his misdeeds. He moderated his behavior a bit for his second character (who was born to the wealthiest family in the world, for flavor), but the guy still sicced his pet tiger on his teacher (twice! Once as a kid, once at prom!), continued seeing hot models behind his girlfriend’s back after she called him out on it, and wrote his will to fund immortality research instead of leaving anything to charity or his family. :p This character DID get to Heaven – only to find the place wrecked, with God demanding that he use his own in-game money to decorate the place. Forcing Gray to spend REAL money to purchase all the upgrades for just the lounge area. XD Yeah, this feels like an accurate representation of the GrayStillPlays Cinematic Universe’s afterlife, not gonna lie.
II. Playing Move Animals, another one of those “manipulate this person into this position” games – only instead of people, you’re moving animals! Specifically, you are moving dogs, cats, and deer into the correct positions to progress and gain gems, which can then be used to unlock things in a specific “love story” mini-game about a girl adopting a stray dog. Gray, of course, tried to twist these animals into the most ludicrous positions possible – oh, this doberman wants to hug a crying girl? Gray’s gonna make it do the demonic upside-down crabwalk over to her first. This deer wants to battle another deer? Gray’s gonna make it nope out of there through the ground. This cat wants to jump on its owner’s head? Gray is going to FLING IT AROUND AND STRETCH IT OUT INTO SOME HORRIBLE EXPLODED SLENDERMAN CAT. XD There were many spines broken, many paws put through people’s torsos, and many deer that will haunt your nightmares for years to come. You know – typical GrayStillPlays game. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – dropped my Chill Save Wednesday update and a reblog of some very nice Going Postal art in the queue on Victor Luvs Alice, and two ask replies in the queue for Valice Multiverse! Nice and simple here.
*nods* Good, good, keeping up on stuff as best I can. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to continue doing same. . .and if I can't, well, every day pushes us a little bit closer to the long weekend. :p Night all!
Work – Fairly quiet day – couple of credit card calls (working through some stuff that was on my to-do list), more spreadsheet stuff, obituaries. Most annoying thing was getting interrupted during my lunch break because the shredding company guy had shown up, and finding he’d asked for the wrong person. *sigh* But yeah, overall, pretty calm day at work. We’ll see if this trend continues for the final two days!
Beanbags – Yup – back to nice weather today, so out we went to play! :p I managed a squeaky win by a point in the first game, but just slid downward from there – Mom tried to rally in the third, but couldn’t quite make it. Final scores were me W-2-3; Dad 2-W-W; Mom 3-3-2. We’ll see how we all do tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and onto the next Oxventure, “Mule Be Sorry!” The Oxventurers have finally found their way down toward the base of the mountain, having managed to go from one side to the other during their previous adventures, and we opened with them finding the town of – crap, I’m not quite how you spell it. Let’s call it BH because I know those letters were in there. XD Anyway, it was a nice, affluent little hamlet, just ripe for Oxventure chaos – hell, there was even a very obvious town crier ringing his bell as an adventure hook!
The Oxventurers promptly started debating whether they wanted to play bowls (with Egbert’s bombs and Prudence’s orb, no less) on the village green instead. They decided they might as well hear the town crier out and went to see what he wanted – adventurers! Dob, Corazon, and Egbert immediately went into “impress the man” mode, with Dob doing a series of awesome backflips over some fancy swordwork from Corazon and Egbert juggling his bombs! Except that Egbert’s roll meant that one of those bombs got lit on fire from his breath and then dropped on the ground. . .Egbert dived to cover it, and the gang leapt back, all making their saving throws –
But the town crier instead walked forward, and while he didn’t get hurt badly, there was some comical shirt-shredding and burns. Egbert apology-healed him (for more points than he got hurt, curing the man’s back crick) while Dob Mended his busted bell. XD The crier promptly stopped Corazon before he could try to demonstrate another trick by slicing an apple balanced on the crier’s head in twain and said he believed them and offered them the job on-hand – killing a troll in a nearby cave that’s been stealing and eating the local livestock! Dob “searched his memory” to figure out what trolls are like in this universe, and heard the voice of the DM telling him that they’re big, nasty, always Chaotic Evil monsters with regenerative flesh, so this was gonna be a hard one. However, it came with a comparable reward – 600 gold pieces for bringing back a token of the troll’s demise, like a toe or a tooth. The gang huddled and started discussing plans, and Dob threw everything into disarray by insisting they try “hard mode” and not have someone dress up as a sheep to be kidnapped. Corazon and Egbert protested loudly. XD It was eventually decided they would go up to the cave and check things out, and if they could somehow get a body part without having to go through a long terrible fight, they would try that. The crier gave them a decorative-tea-towel map (telling them NOT to sell it on, it’s property of BH and they don’t have permission; Corazon promptly began planning bootleg merchandise), and the gang headed of, hiking to the cave and then using Merilwen’s “Pass Without Trace” to sneak inside without issue.
And then things got interesting, as the cave, rather than being the dank den of a troll, was actually rather warm and cozy, complete with a nice, if threadbare, rug, and a pen for a bunch of sheep and a goat. And someone humming further inside. The puzzled Oxventurers began wondering what was up, and Corazon reminded Prudence she could scout ahead with her Clairvoyance. Quietly annoyed he knew more about her spells than she did and swearing esoteric revenge, Prudence did so, using the magical eye –
And showed it was not a troll living here, but a cyclops. Who seemed civilized enough, as he was making tea. Prudence was all for just going in and cutting off one of his toes anyway, but the others figured that they should approach in a spirit of friendship and maybe get his side of the story. Dob and Corazon ended up pretending that they were new neighbors who had moved into a nearby cave and had come along with a bottle of rosé (actually just some water in a wineskin flavored with Prestidigitation) to meet their fellow cave people. The cyclops, Norman, saw through this nonsense pretty quickly and asked them straightforwardly if they’d been sent by the people of BH to kill him, promising he wouldn’t be mad if the answer was yes. The boys admitted that they had and that the people there thought Norman was a troll – though Dob insisted on sticking to the “we have moved into the cave nearby” story, despite hearing there were damn basilisks in it. XD So I guess we’ll see if the gang is doing a quest now for Norman next time!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – actually made it to the end of Chapter 3! Which features a biker named Icarus trying to rob the diner at the end of Victor and Alice’s meal, Alice killing the guy via a fork in the eye and a shotgun to the chin, then Victor managing to get her to at least run back to the car and head away from the murder scene – causing her to miss seeing that the dude had friends. XD Alice’s blasé murdering and Victor’s panicked reaction to same was a lot of fun to write, I have to admit. Poor Victor, he didn’t sign up for this. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check plus! As I’d hoped, Gray was the only one who uploaded today, allowing me to catch up AND sneak in a bonus video. . .
A) Started with a bit of Plumbella and an episode of their pre-official-review Werewolves LP – Lupisn’t is starting to come to grips with being a(n invisible) werewolf! They learned how to scavenge the ground for goodies; took a few trips through the underground tunnels and found the one that connects the sewer grate to the bunker in the woods; unearthed some werewolf books and had a Lunar Epiphany, allowing them to read the secret writings in the books and translate the runes on the slabs they kept picking up, unlocking what is best described as a “metric fuckton” of lore (I SOO want there to be books like these for the other occults, or at least vampires and spellcasters); learned how to Hunt For Food and get some of that good raw meat in their system; picked some moonpetal and tried to catch the lunar fish; had their first full moon rampage; ate a moonpetal and accidentally reset all their werewolf points; and finally completed the “Initiate” aspiration and chose to join the Wildfangs and attempt Werewolf World Domination! (Yes, that is actually an aspiration goal if you go for the Wildfangs-based one.) Plumbella is so excited to go around biting EVERYONE. XD Next episode should be interesting!
B) And then it was time to catch up on GrayStillPlays –
I. Playing To Heaven, a weird mobile game where you play as a character climbing their way to Heaven up a giant staircase through each stage of their life. Along the way, you are confronted with moral choices, which can increase or decrease various stats (like kindness and honesty) and move you up or down steps. You can die early if you do poorly enough, or make it to Heaven if you do well enough.
Gray, as you might imagine, did his best to be a monster. XD His first character snapped his sister’s leg for laughing at him for falling down (then blamed her for wetting HIS bed), hired a hitman to take out a bully, and ended up dying early for his misdeeds. He moderated his behavior a bit for his second character (who was born to the wealthiest family in the world, for flavor), but the guy still sicced his pet tiger on his teacher (twice! Once as a kid, once at prom!), continued seeing hot models behind his girlfriend’s back after she called him out on it, and wrote his will to fund immortality research instead of leaving anything to charity or his family. :p This character DID get to Heaven – only to find the place wrecked, with God demanding that he use his own in-game money to decorate the place. Forcing Gray to spend REAL money to purchase all the upgrades for just the lounge area. XD Yeah, this feels like an accurate representation of the GrayStillPlays Cinematic Universe’s afterlife, not gonna lie.
II. Playing Move Animals, another one of those “manipulate this person into this position” games – only instead of people, you’re moving animals! Specifically, you are moving dogs, cats, and deer into the correct positions to progress and gain gems, which can then be used to unlock things in a specific “love story” mini-game about a girl adopting a stray dog. Gray, of course, tried to twist these animals into the most ludicrous positions possible – oh, this doberman wants to hug a crying girl? Gray’s gonna make it do the demonic upside-down crabwalk over to her first. This deer wants to battle another deer? Gray’s gonna make it nope out of there through the ground. This cat wants to jump on its owner’s head? Gray is going to FLING IT AROUND AND STRETCH IT OUT INTO SOME HORRIBLE EXPLODED SLENDERMAN CAT. XD There were many spines broken, many paws put through people’s torsos, and many deer that will haunt your nightmares for years to come. You know – typical GrayStillPlays game. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – dropped my Chill Save Wednesday update and a reblog of some very nice Going Postal art in the queue on Victor Luvs Alice, and two ask replies in the queue for Valice Multiverse! Nice and simple here.
*nods* Good, good, keeping up on stuff as best I can. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to continue doing same. . .and if I can't, well, every day pushes us a little bit closer to the long weekend. :p Night all!
