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crossover_chickBut I had a lot of social stuff and whatnot to catch up on, soo -- let's get the to-do list up and then head to bed:
Work – Another fairly quiet day, though there was some frustration in the morning from dealing with my updated computer (resetting bookmarks, getting the driver for the remote scanner settled, that sort of thing). Other than that, though – couple of credit card updates, a QC file, boxing up more GL paperwork, and looking at a few returns got me through the day. *shrug* We’ll see how it goes tomorrow!
Beanbags – Another nice (if gradually getting hotter and stickier) day out, so we played three rounds – and had a surprisingly equitable day, thanks to Dad coming back in the first game, me managing to put it away in the second, and Mom roaring ahead in the third. Final scores were me 2-W-3; Dad W-3-2; Mom 3-2-W. Nice!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike again, to start the Oxventure Hallowstream “Unreal Estate!” Yes, this is their Halloween episode from 2020, and despite being a stream, it actually functions a lot more like a regular episode by being split into two parts AND by having the character sprite art come back! :D I’d missed the little (sort-of-) animated sequences showing off their adventures! Anyway, things picked up right after the end of “Mule Be Sorry” and the burning of Brunhelm, with everyone working their way along the trail and dealing with the consequences in their own way – namely, Prudence was thrilled, Corazon just straight up not-bothered, Merilwen not really feeling one way or another, Egbert fully aware of the negative atonement points (and talking about how many old ladies he’d have to help across the street to earn those back, leading to a discussion of increasingly-violent ways he could accomplish that goal, to the point where it seemed easier just to take the atonement hit), and Dob haunted by Lady Macbeth-type dreams of blood on his hands (with the others instructing him on proper hand-washing techniques to help).
And then a crow appeared, flew around them a couple of times, landed on the path – and when Merilwen tried to speak to it, OPENED ITS MOUTH A FULL 180 DEGREES (causing Corazon to try punting it – he missed) – then started speaking with the voice of Bismuth! Turns out she’d gotten what I HOPE is a mechanical crow (though you never know in this damn world) to find them and relay a prerecorded message (not that anyone seemed to pick up on that part, given all the rambling she was doing about what kind of messages you can get with different birds) stating that she’d gotten their house on Necropolis-On-Sea fixed up, and set up an open house for potential buyers for four days from now, so they’d better get back so they can help with making snacks for the guests. XD And then the crow exploded. Right after Dob picked it up to try and talk to Bismuth. XD Fortunately Corazon made his saving throw to smack it away from Dob’s face, and it ended up crashing into a tree trunk, exploding THERE and knocking over the tree. Better than Dob!
Anyway! Corazon was all for getting back and getting his damn spooky house sold, while Prudence was all for getting back and NOT selling the spooky house of doom because she loves it. Either way, they had to get back, which meant figuring out transportation. Fortunately, with a little prompting from Dob, Corazon was able to recall that he’d left his ship, the Joyful Damnation, parked in the Cove of Calamity (it’s just a name, keeps the tourists out) with a valet to look after it (which ended up really upsetting Egbert as he thought about how the valets were probably all joyriding in it). They went to the Cove to retrieve it (which took some doing on the valet’s part, and ended with him doing some ridiculous pratfall stunts after he’d gotten his silver piece tip from Merilwen – Dob promptly suggested they just follow this guy from now on XD), and began working on appropriate home-showing snacks for their guests as they set sail! Dob gathered seaweed and filled a bottle up with fancy ocean water; Corazon grabbed a bunch of sea cucumbers (ignoring Prudence telling him they’re animals, not plants) and baked up some genuinely amazing (roll of 23) sea biscuits; Merilwen went scouting for shellfish as an octopus, but didn’t do great on her Nature roll (after waiting so long to use that stat!) and ended up with a bunch of mussels and oysters and whelks that all smelled – fine; and Egbert just decided to pick up some Scotch eggs once they got there. XD Oh, and Prudence – again, who doesn’t want to sell the house – grabbed some cockroaches for “protein.” Om nom.
With the food all set, they sailed up to Necropolis-On-Sea, where Bismuth was waiting to greet them, proudly stating how she cleaned out the house and showing them the absolute MOUNTAIN of bones that she pulled out of the place. They wound their way up to the house itself, which – really did not look any different from how it did when they left, frankly. XD Bismuth assured them that it was ready for viewing, stating that everyone would be coming in one at a time so they wouldn’t have any uncouth bidding wars (which DOB pointed out sometimes gets you more money – Dob, you feeling okay? XD). She cheerfully declared that they’d have the place sold in no time –
Roll Wisdom/Perception, everybody! Dob rolled decently well and was mildly freaked out by a rumbling beneath the floorboards; Egbert rolled pretty darn well and got the sensation that the damn walls were breathing; Corazon and Merilwen rolled very well and got the full “room temperature drops as the screams of the damned echo around the place” treatment –
And Prudence rolled a one, missed all of this, and became convinced that Bismuth was on her side and didn’t want to sell the house. XD Dob and Egbert took all the treats down to the kitchen with Bismuth while Corazon and Merilwen conducted a terrified investigation of the room and found the damn place was even more haunted than before! A furious Corazon raced to the kitchen to confront Bismuth (followed closely by the badly-freaked Merilwen), unwisely telling Egbert (who’d been trying to sneak food) that he could eat as much as he liked in the process. XD Bismuth, after some prodding, confessed that, okay, ONE ghost had joined the usual group lurking in the halls – our old friend Henry Charles Fauntleroy Stripworth Colquhoun The Third At Your Service (from here on out, as before, known as Hank), the undead real estate agent who’d been trying to shift the places for ages before the Oxventurers showed up and won the challenge to claim it (partly by dint of Corazon being related to the ghost who originally built the place). The gang taking the house had technically freed him, but he hadn’t chosen to move on, having instead settled in. Corazon was upset because he was hoping the place was LESS haunted after he’d had his chat with great-granddad, while Bismuth was annoyed that they didn’t appreciate her hard work and weren’t “cool” anymore with the hauntings. All the while spreading some frankly worrying pate on toast triangles for Prudence. XD Oh, and yes, Egbert’s “delightful quirk” of not believing in ghosts has reappeared, causing him to be perhaps less-than-helpful in this situation. XD We’ll see where this all goes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check! Wrapped up the first chapter with Alice getting off the Dane without any further issues, and making it back to shore in time to hide out in Mercurio’s sun-proofed car trunk (as the horizon is looking PRET-TY light when you actually end that mission, I have to say). 29 pages for Alice’s first night, which is pretty good in “Londerland Bloodlines” terms. XD
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: As per usual, two-thirds check – I had to skip GrayStillPlays because I just didn’t have the time. Meh. But I did have fun with the two I did watch –
A) Started with James Turner and the latest episode of “Rage To Riches!” Angus and Nina spent the video working on their aspirations and getting ready to challenge their pack alphas for leadership of The Moonwood Collective and The Wildfangs respectively! Here are the highlights:
I. Nina, in a quest for more werewolf ability points, visited Caleb Vatore’s place, terrified him out of his own house, ate his stove, fridge, and microwave, then peed in all his bedrooms to assert dominance. XD This DID complete the “Werewolf World Domination” aspect of her aspiration! And probably rightly so. XD
II. James built a “panic room” for his werewolves for when their fury overwhelmed them, complete with a fancy keycard door, a shatterproof window, and a warning light. XD Nina got locked in during one of her rampages. . .
III. Only to be let OUT when Angus, trying Werewolf Diplomacy on a random passer-by, happened to ask if the lady wanted to be a werewolf – and she said yes! Even asked to be turned! However, of the siblings, only NINA has the actual “Cursed Bite” ability, so – yeah. Angus let his rampaging sister out and had HER bite the lady. XD Probably not exactly what that Sim wanted, but hey, enjoy the curse! Try not to starve to death off-camera!
IV. Nina tried twice to desperately get through to Greg and improve their relationship – it STARTED working in the first conversation, getting them from absolutely despising each other to just disliking each other. . .but then, in the second conversation, Nina said something that set him off, and they had another brawl and ended up hating each other again. James finally resorted to his favorite camera trick to get the relationship back to where it was, at least. XD Damn – it seems like the only thing that really gets through to him is trash-talking vampires. Which I guess makes sense, he was on the front lines of the damn war. . .
V. Nina and Angus both continued working out and brawling or sparring with other werewolves to get up their fitness – they’re both putting on some serious muscle, but Angus is still a little pudgy, so James thinks it’s time to swap over to cardio. They also tried brawling each other – only for Nina to suddenly end up FLIRTY in the middle of it and make things awkward. XD James cheat-canceled the fight and sent her into the underground to stop the weirdness.
VI. Angus made it to Apex werewolf, and he and Nina both picked up some new abilities! Namely, Angus can now “Tunnel Here” on diggable terrain to basically teleport around the world, while Nina has finally learned how to regain control when she rages to stop rampaging every five seconds. XD Leading to them having a nice family moment atop the Howling Point, awww. :) So yeah – next episode, I suspect we’ll start to see some challenges to Rory and Kristopher!
B) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin for Far Cry Primal, the Far Cry game no one talks about because it’s basically a caveman simulator. o.O You play as the last survivor of a group of Wenja tribespeople, Tekkar, looking for the land of Oros and trying to help re-establish your people there with the help of a woman you find in a cave and save from a sabertooth tiger – or, well, that’s what’s SUPPOSED to happen. With KEVIN of control of the main character, you instead get situations like “Tekkar running into the mammoth hunt with no care at all and getting himself killed in the first couple of minutes of the game,” “Tekkar refusing to help his tribespeople when they’re attacked by the tiger that kills them all after stealing their mammoth,” “Tekkar repeatedly discovering fire by STANDING ON TOP OF IT,” “Tekkar thinking that the new land he is trying to colonize is full of Oreos,” “Tekkar does not trust this wise man who makes him drink blood and forces him on a drug trip where he has to fly after an owl,” “Tekkar has gotten WAY overconfident after learning how to tame one wolf and is going after bears without even reading the tooltips,” “Tekkar is gonna do a magnificent swan dive into this pool of water WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT A CROCODILE” (admittedly, he actually WON that fight by mashing A enough), “Tekkar does not understand how he keeps getting headshots that are nowhere near the head with his bow but he’s not going to argue hitboxes with the game,” and “Tekkar doesn’t want to get involved with this war with the Udam tribe you’ve got going on, everyone, I’m going to hide down here at the bottom of the pretty waterfall instead.” XD It’s very weird, but Tekkar WAS doing pretty well on the whole “being a powerful caveman” thing! Except for constantly standing on fire. XD Oh Kevin, never change.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A tonight, as I have plenty to work with in the drafts. . .and I was busy catching up on some fandom reblogging from Moose *waves* We’ll see what happens tomorrow!
Yeah, it was those reblogs plus juggling some chatting that got me -- one of these days I will learn proper time management! As it stands, it's time for bed -- night all!
Work – Another fairly quiet day, though there was some frustration in the morning from dealing with my updated computer (resetting bookmarks, getting the driver for the remote scanner settled, that sort of thing). Other than that, though – couple of credit card updates, a QC file, boxing up more GL paperwork, and looking at a few returns got me through the day. *shrug* We’ll see how it goes tomorrow!
Beanbags – Another nice (if gradually getting hotter and stickier) day out, so we played three rounds – and had a surprisingly equitable day, thanks to Dad coming back in the first game, me managing to put it away in the second, and Mom roaring ahead in the third. Final scores were me 2-W-3; Dad W-3-2; Mom 3-2-W. Nice!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike again, to start the Oxventure Hallowstream “Unreal Estate!” Yes, this is their Halloween episode from 2020, and despite being a stream, it actually functions a lot more like a regular episode by being split into two parts AND by having the character sprite art come back! :D I’d missed the little (sort-of-) animated sequences showing off their adventures! Anyway, things picked up right after the end of “Mule Be Sorry” and the burning of Brunhelm, with everyone working their way along the trail and dealing with the consequences in their own way – namely, Prudence was thrilled, Corazon just straight up not-bothered, Merilwen not really feeling one way or another, Egbert fully aware of the negative atonement points (and talking about how many old ladies he’d have to help across the street to earn those back, leading to a discussion of increasingly-violent ways he could accomplish that goal, to the point where it seemed easier just to take the atonement hit), and Dob haunted by Lady Macbeth-type dreams of blood on his hands (with the others instructing him on proper hand-washing techniques to help).
And then a crow appeared, flew around them a couple of times, landed on the path – and when Merilwen tried to speak to it, OPENED ITS MOUTH A FULL 180 DEGREES (causing Corazon to try punting it – he missed) – then started speaking with the voice of Bismuth! Turns out she’d gotten what I HOPE is a mechanical crow (though you never know in this damn world) to find them and relay a prerecorded message (not that anyone seemed to pick up on that part, given all the rambling she was doing about what kind of messages you can get with different birds) stating that she’d gotten their house on Necropolis-On-Sea fixed up, and set up an open house for potential buyers for four days from now, so they’d better get back so they can help with making snacks for the guests. XD And then the crow exploded. Right after Dob picked it up to try and talk to Bismuth. XD Fortunately Corazon made his saving throw to smack it away from Dob’s face, and it ended up crashing into a tree trunk, exploding THERE and knocking over the tree. Better than Dob!
Anyway! Corazon was all for getting back and getting his damn spooky house sold, while Prudence was all for getting back and NOT selling the spooky house of doom because she loves it. Either way, they had to get back, which meant figuring out transportation. Fortunately, with a little prompting from Dob, Corazon was able to recall that he’d left his ship, the Joyful Damnation, parked in the Cove of Calamity (it’s just a name, keeps the tourists out) with a valet to look after it (which ended up really upsetting Egbert as he thought about how the valets were probably all joyriding in it). They went to the Cove to retrieve it (which took some doing on the valet’s part, and ended with him doing some ridiculous pratfall stunts after he’d gotten his silver piece tip from Merilwen – Dob promptly suggested they just follow this guy from now on XD), and began working on appropriate home-showing snacks for their guests as they set sail! Dob gathered seaweed and filled a bottle up with fancy ocean water; Corazon grabbed a bunch of sea cucumbers (ignoring Prudence telling him they’re animals, not plants) and baked up some genuinely amazing (roll of 23) sea biscuits; Merilwen went scouting for shellfish as an octopus, but didn’t do great on her Nature roll (after waiting so long to use that stat!) and ended up with a bunch of mussels and oysters and whelks that all smelled – fine; and Egbert just decided to pick up some Scotch eggs once they got there. XD Oh, and Prudence – again, who doesn’t want to sell the house – grabbed some cockroaches for “protein.” Om nom.
With the food all set, they sailed up to Necropolis-On-Sea, where Bismuth was waiting to greet them, proudly stating how she cleaned out the house and showing them the absolute MOUNTAIN of bones that she pulled out of the place. They wound their way up to the house itself, which – really did not look any different from how it did when they left, frankly. XD Bismuth assured them that it was ready for viewing, stating that everyone would be coming in one at a time so they wouldn’t have any uncouth bidding wars (which DOB pointed out sometimes gets you more money – Dob, you feeling okay? XD). She cheerfully declared that they’d have the place sold in no time –
Roll Wisdom/Perception, everybody! Dob rolled decently well and was mildly freaked out by a rumbling beneath the floorboards; Egbert rolled pretty darn well and got the sensation that the damn walls were breathing; Corazon and Merilwen rolled very well and got the full “room temperature drops as the screams of the damned echo around the place” treatment –
And Prudence rolled a one, missed all of this, and became convinced that Bismuth was on her side and didn’t want to sell the house. XD Dob and Egbert took all the treats down to the kitchen with Bismuth while Corazon and Merilwen conducted a terrified investigation of the room and found the damn place was even more haunted than before! A furious Corazon raced to the kitchen to confront Bismuth (followed closely by the badly-freaked Merilwen), unwisely telling Egbert (who’d been trying to sneak food) that he could eat as much as he liked in the process. XD Bismuth, after some prodding, confessed that, okay, ONE ghost had joined the usual group lurking in the halls – our old friend Henry Charles Fauntleroy Stripworth Colquhoun The Third At Your Service (from here on out, as before, known as Hank), the undead real estate agent who’d been trying to shift the places for ages before the Oxventurers showed up and won the challenge to claim it (partly by dint of Corazon being related to the ghost who originally built the place). The gang taking the house had technically freed him, but he hadn’t chosen to move on, having instead settled in. Corazon was upset because he was hoping the place was LESS haunted after he’d had his chat with great-granddad, while Bismuth was annoyed that they didn’t appreciate her hard work and weren’t “cool” anymore with the hauntings. All the while spreading some frankly worrying pate on toast triangles for Prudence. XD Oh, and yes, Egbert’s “delightful quirk” of not believing in ghosts has reappeared, causing him to be perhaps less-than-helpful in this situation. XD We’ll see where this all goes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check! Wrapped up the first chapter with Alice getting off the Dane without any further issues, and making it back to shore in time to hide out in Mercurio’s sun-proofed car trunk (as the horizon is looking PRET-TY light when you actually end that mission, I have to say). 29 pages for Alice’s first night, which is pretty good in “Londerland Bloodlines” terms. XD
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: As per usual, two-thirds check – I had to skip GrayStillPlays because I just didn’t have the time. Meh. But I did have fun with the two I did watch –
A) Started with James Turner and the latest episode of “Rage To Riches!” Angus and Nina spent the video working on their aspirations and getting ready to challenge their pack alphas for leadership of The Moonwood Collective and The Wildfangs respectively! Here are the highlights:
I. Nina, in a quest for more werewolf ability points, visited Caleb Vatore’s place, terrified him out of his own house, ate his stove, fridge, and microwave, then peed in all his bedrooms to assert dominance. XD This DID complete the “Werewolf World Domination” aspect of her aspiration! And probably rightly so. XD
II. James built a “panic room” for his werewolves for when their fury overwhelmed them, complete with a fancy keycard door, a shatterproof window, and a warning light. XD Nina got locked in during one of her rampages. . .
III. Only to be let OUT when Angus, trying Werewolf Diplomacy on a random passer-by, happened to ask if the lady wanted to be a werewolf – and she said yes! Even asked to be turned! However, of the siblings, only NINA has the actual “Cursed Bite” ability, so – yeah. Angus let his rampaging sister out and had HER bite the lady. XD Probably not exactly what that Sim wanted, but hey, enjoy the curse! Try not to starve to death off-camera!
IV. Nina tried twice to desperately get through to Greg and improve their relationship – it STARTED working in the first conversation, getting them from absolutely despising each other to just disliking each other. . .but then, in the second conversation, Nina said something that set him off, and they had another brawl and ended up hating each other again. James finally resorted to his favorite camera trick to get the relationship back to where it was, at least. XD Damn – it seems like the only thing that really gets through to him is trash-talking vampires. Which I guess makes sense, he was on the front lines of the damn war. . .
V. Nina and Angus both continued working out and brawling or sparring with other werewolves to get up their fitness – they’re both putting on some serious muscle, but Angus is still a little pudgy, so James thinks it’s time to swap over to cardio. They also tried brawling each other – only for Nina to suddenly end up FLIRTY in the middle of it and make things awkward. XD James cheat-canceled the fight and sent her into the underground to stop the weirdness.
VI. Angus made it to Apex werewolf, and he and Nina both picked up some new abilities! Namely, Angus can now “Tunnel Here” on diggable terrain to basically teleport around the world, while Nina has finally learned how to regain control when she rages to stop rampaging every five seconds. XD Leading to them having a nice family moment atop the Howling Point, awww. :) So yeah – next episode, I suspect we’ll start to see some challenges to Rory and Kristopher!
B) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin for Far Cry Primal, the Far Cry game no one talks about because it’s basically a caveman simulator. o.O You play as the last survivor of a group of Wenja tribespeople, Tekkar, looking for the land of Oros and trying to help re-establish your people there with the help of a woman you find in a cave and save from a sabertooth tiger – or, well, that’s what’s SUPPOSED to happen. With KEVIN of control of the main character, you instead get situations like “Tekkar running into the mammoth hunt with no care at all and getting himself killed in the first couple of minutes of the game,” “Tekkar refusing to help his tribespeople when they’re attacked by the tiger that kills them all after stealing their mammoth,” “Tekkar repeatedly discovering fire by STANDING ON TOP OF IT,” “Tekkar thinking that the new land he is trying to colonize is full of Oreos,” “Tekkar does not trust this wise man who makes him drink blood and forces him on a drug trip where he has to fly after an owl,” “Tekkar has gotten WAY overconfident after learning how to tame one wolf and is going after bears without even reading the tooltips,” “Tekkar is gonna do a magnificent swan dive into this pool of water WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT A CROCODILE” (admittedly, he actually WON that fight by mashing A enough), “Tekkar does not understand how he keeps getting headshots that are nowhere near the head with his bow but he’s not going to argue hitboxes with the game,” and “Tekkar doesn’t want to get involved with this war with the Udam tribe you’ve got going on, everyone, I’m going to hide down here at the bottom of the pretty waterfall instead.” XD It’s very weird, but Tekkar WAS doing pretty well on the whole “being a powerful caveman” thing! Except for constantly standing on fire. XD Oh Kevin, never change.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A tonight, as I have plenty to work with in the drafts. . .and I was busy catching up on some fandom reblogging from Moose *waves* We’ll see what happens tomorrow!
Yeah, it was those reblogs plus juggling some chatting that got me -- one of these days I will learn proper time management! As it stands, it's time for bed -- night all!
