Another Bit of a Rush
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crossover_chickThough this one's less my fault and more me being hamstrung briefly by the weather -- you'll see down there in the to-do list:
Work – Another quiet day – couple of calls about credit card updates, but that was really it. I spent most of my day reviewing old credit card bullshit and figuring out what still has not been fixed. *shrug* Fills the time!
Beanbags – Hot and windy this afternoon, but we still ventured out – less equitable day today, though, as I slowly slid downhill while Mom struggled to get up it. Final scores were me W-2-3; Dad 2-W-W; Mom 3-3-2. Better luck tomorrow (if we play, supposed to be a scorcher).
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, finishing off the first episode of the Oxventure Hallowstream “Unreal Estate!” We picked up with Bismuth continuing to complain about the Oxventurers not appreciating all her work in moving the mountain of bones out of the house and whatnot – causing Dob to try and calm things down by saying this wasn’t the bone hill he wanted to die on. XD (Got inspiration for that!) Corazon decided to roll with the punches and designated Egbert as tour guide, since he didn’t believe in the ghosts. Of course, that just led into the argument about who among them wanted to sell – Corazon yes, Prudence no, Dob – well, he was on board, but now he’s getting sentimental. . . There was a vote on it that morphed into a vote about whether or not Corazon owned the house – which he ended up winning by producing the title and deed. Prudence was not pleased. XD
Around this time, the first buyer started knocking on the door – Egbert ran to greet them, and the house actually put on its best illusory face for the prospective new tenant as he did! (You know, like how all the Oxventurers had a room that was supposedly perfectly tailored for them, only it was all a lie? And Corazon didn’t catch on for the longest time, drinking sludge and smoking fingers and eating human tongues? XD) Said buyer was retired adventurer Arthur Benburton, he of the fine suit and dapper mustache, who was quite pleased to see the house in such good repair. The others caught up, and Dob gave the guy a champagne flute of ocean water, which Benburton managed to choke down, along with one of Corazon’s ship’s biscuits. Snacks out of the way, the started the tour with the drawing room, which they were keen on telling him he could do all his drawing in –
With Dob demonstrating by drawing Corazon. Naked. XD Benburton naturally was like “what’s the next room like?” XD After some struggling with one of the doors (which for some reason refused to open? Perhaps we shall come back to that), Prudence led him into the library – except, for him, it appeared as a magnificent training room, full of a variety of amazing weapons, mannequins with armor, and even a training dummy in the middle of the room. Benburton got super-excited, unthinkingly manhandling poor Merilwen’s head a bit, and decided to try out the dummy against his rapier. He demonstrated decent but perhaps a little out-of-date form against it –
Up until the moment it stabbed him clean through the throat. Causing blood to gout EVERYWHERE. Dob rushed in to seal the wound with Cure Wounds, rolling quite well – but the plot must plot, and Benburton had already lost too much blood. Cue one dead buyer on their floor. Dob, concerned, decided to talk to the house directly about its behavior, gently suggesting that, if it wants to be sold, it not kill the prospective buyers after wowing them with the illusions. Corazon picked up the line of questioning then and asked the house if it even wanted to be sold.
Cue Benburton’s corpse being catapulted into the empty fireplace by the floorboards, where the fire grate proceeded to chew him up and then vomit him around the room. This is when Bismuth showed up, to find the group absolutely covered in gore. Corazon was like “okay I don’t think this house wants to be sold,” but Bismuth urged them not to give up – they’d find someone who loved it! (Meanwhile poor Merilwen was just about having a panic attack because she was NOT PREPARED for this level of gore and murder.) After a bit of discussion, it was decided they would let in the next potential buyer, but they’d kit them up in chainmail and a helmet, claiming they’d set off a bug bomb or something. (Prudence, of course, was all for just letting people in to be murdered for as long as it took, but luckily for Merilwen’s sanity, Corazon said he was only willing to risk ONE more buyer getting exploded.) Bismuth even found them a whole load of chainmail inside one of the library books (you know, “plot armor”), which Egbert gathered up – and Corazon insisted on testing by shooting his crossbow at the now-arguably-more-protected Egbert. And thanks to a good roll, hit him. Fortunately for only two points of damage, so it MOSTLY did the job.
And just in time too, as the next buyer had arrived – Cecilia Last-Name-I-Didn’t-Get, who is a woman made of angles, paleness, and authority. Egbert immediately fell in love because that’s his thing. XD They managed to convince her to put the chainmail on (which after a quick smoothing looked divine on her), though she ended up choosing her own helmet because she didn’t think the one on offer suited. She also found Dob’s sketches of the naked Corazon and actually thought they were quite good – at least, until Dob “signed” them with a big inky handprint right in the middle. XD After an abortive attempt to lead her to the library (which Bismuth was busy cleaning), Prudence decided that, since the woman was an art collector, maybe the painting gallery would be a good idea? So they headed on down there, and hey – there was the gallery, just looking like a nicer version of itself. Cecilia was VERY impressed with all the paintings (which Dob claimed as his own, in his previous “Unruined And Also People Are Wearing Clothes” phase) – particularly this one of a beautiful snowy mountainside.
With a figure on it being menaced by wolves. As Prudence eagerly urged Cecilia to get a close-up look on it, Dob snatched up some paints and attempted to paint OVER the wolves so they were instead adorable little rats!
All this did was make the wolves look like they had terrible cartoon rat heads (like maybe they were at the world’s worst version of Disneyland) when they inevitably leapt from the painting and began menacing Cecilia and the others. Episode One ended with a roll for initiative – I guess we’ll see how long THIS buyer is allowed to live! She is wearing the plot armor, after all. . .
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – I have gotten Victor and Alice through Biff Tannen fixing their car and into the third big snippet I wrote previously – “Bullet Time,” where Tannen pulls a gun on them (because his actual aim was to fix up the car so he could sell it, kill them, and then sell their organs) and Alice gets to show off how those don’t work on her anymore! Left it off with Tannen missing his first shot – next time, he misses all the others too. :p
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – really helped that all I had in there was a couple of relatively short GrayStillPlays videos. Especially because I got interrupted in my computer time right after my writing thanks to a gnarly thunderstorm that blew up! But I had just enough time to clear these out –
A) First up, we had The Toilet Chronicles – an indie horror game about being in a public toilet! You play as a pair of legs and one hand with telekinetic powers, using a public bathroom somewhere in Boston, and your goal is to escape said public bathroom while discovering some of its mysteries. (It’s only a demo right now, so there’s not much more than that.) Right off the bat, Gray noticed the broken hand dryer with the snapped cord, insisted on touching it twice, and died. XD And the minute he noticed that there were TWELVE available endings, he was all about finding all the worst ones! Those included “crying on the toilet for a while (yes, there is a dedicated button for that), then leaving the guy next to him stranded without toilet paper and just exiting the bathroom in the normal manner” (Ending ZERO), “throwing things over the top of the stall next to him, getting a warning message from the developers that that could break the game, and upon replying he could not be stopped, getting murdered by a blood tentacle” (Ending 6, I believe), “finally giving the guy toilet paper but not understanding that he had to wet the note he got in return, running out of time to solve the puzzle, and getting tentacle-murdered again,” “figuring out the ‘wet note’ puzzle and discovering an apparently either extremely filthy or extremely gory Polaroid that had to be censored XD – also grenades, leading to him blowing himself up,” “blowing his way out of the suddenly-doorless bathroom and winning the demo,” and “trying repeatedly to blow up the person in the other stall and succeeding after an embarrassing misfire.” XD It’s a very weird little game, but I’m eager to see Gray play more, just because it looks to be in the same comedic horror vein as The Baby In Yellow. Just don’t jumpscare the shit out of me, and we’ll be fine, TTC.
B) And then we had the glorious return of Happy Wheels! Yeah, according to the comments, the last couple of HW videos got age-restricted, which might be why we haven’t seen it in a bit, but it’s back now baby! We had the traditional bottle-flip starter (this one packed so full of stuff Gray barely knew where to start – and then he learned how to unleash maximum alcoholism, pineapples, and watermelons everywhere and let them do the work of getting all the cool stuff, including his beloved shoutout – with a WATERMELON no less); then an “impossible” dungeon with the requisite harpoons and disappearing platforms (where the trick was timing Pogo Man’s bounces perfectly – oh, and NOT getting the key, because that was a lie); a “no-win” board where the trick was to get to the park by clicking on things (except not really because instead you deactivated a harpoon and went into the manufacturing room – looks like this was a demo level for something else); a tank ride where Gray got to shoot up ALL the things (only too happy to destroy Santa if it meant he could run over whoever he wanted); a nearly-impossible obstacle course level featuring a harpoon from below, the run through the spiky stars of death, pedaling your way out of a ball pit while avoiding the toilets being crunched just beyond on the flipper, before being rocketed to the end (this one took a few tries, as you might imagine); the “construction destruction” where you had to smash up a bunch of people on a construction site (and then get the coin before Tom Hardy harpooned you in the chest); the downhill harpoon run (where Gray basically disintegrated at the end from the speed but still got the win!); and the solar system run, starting from Neptune and going all the way to – well, I ASSUME Mercury, Gray flew over most of it too fast to see (when he wasn’t blowing up or getting stuck in the gravity of the outer planets, that is). XD Good stuff, and I hope this means it’s back to being a regular feature. :)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! On Victor Luvs Alice, I’ve got the Wednesday Chill Save two-parter, some Thursday not-incorrect Valicer quotes, and some Friday Smiler headcanons (though admittedly those last two are currently in the wrong order in the queue – I’ll have to switch them when I adjust the queue speed back down to one tomorrow afternoon!); on Valice Multiverse, I’ve got two ask replies, and two OOC comments for my friend who plays her version of Victor and Alice’s kid, Madeline (one about a headcanon she had regarding a misbehaving Maddie getting sent to her grandmother for a summer and coming back an angel to avoid the experience ever again; one about a Tik-Tok she might make about Malk!Alice and the Voerman Sisters fighting over custody of her Malk!Maddie). Whew!
So yeah, all set for another night, just took longer than usual because I had to just play games on my iPad for an hour in the middle of it. On the plus side, at least it only started AFTER I'd finished my writing for the day. :p So now it's off to bed again, to see what Wednesday brings. Besides a whole lot of humidity, blech. Night all!
Work – Another quiet day – couple of calls about credit card updates, but that was really it. I spent most of my day reviewing old credit card bullshit and figuring out what still has not been fixed. *shrug* Fills the time!
Beanbags – Hot and windy this afternoon, but we still ventured out – less equitable day today, though, as I slowly slid downhill while Mom struggled to get up it. Final scores were me W-2-3; Dad 2-W-W; Mom 3-3-2. Better luck tomorrow (if we play, supposed to be a scorcher).
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, finishing off the first episode of the Oxventure Hallowstream “Unreal Estate!” We picked up with Bismuth continuing to complain about the Oxventurers not appreciating all her work in moving the mountain of bones out of the house and whatnot – causing Dob to try and calm things down by saying this wasn’t the bone hill he wanted to die on. XD (Got inspiration for that!) Corazon decided to roll with the punches and designated Egbert as tour guide, since he didn’t believe in the ghosts. Of course, that just led into the argument about who among them wanted to sell – Corazon yes, Prudence no, Dob – well, he was on board, but now he’s getting sentimental. . . There was a vote on it that morphed into a vote about whether or not Corazon owned the house – which he ended up winning by producing the title and deed. Prudence was not pleased. XD
Around this time, the first buyer started knocking on the door – Egbert ran to greet them, and the house actually put on its best illusory face for the prospective new tenant as he did! (You know, like how all the Oxventurers had a room that was supposedly perfectly tailored for them, only it was all a lie? And Corazon didn’t catch on for the longest time, drinking sludge and smoking fingers and eating human tongues? XD) Said buyer was retired adventurer Arthur Benburton, he of the fine suit and dapper mustache, who was quite pleased to see the house in such good repair. The others caught up, and Dob gave the guy a champagne flute of ocean water, which Benburton managed to choke down, along with one of Corazon’s ship’s biscuits. Snacks out of the way, the started the tour with the drawing room, which they were keen on telling him he could do all his drawing in –
With Dob demonstrating by drawing Corazon. Naked. XD Benburton naturally was like “what’s the next room like?” XD After some struggling with one of the doors (which for some reason refused to open? Perhaps we shall come back to that), Prudence led him into the library – except, for him, it appeared as a magnificent training room, full of a variety of amazing weapons, mannequins with armor, and even a training dummy in the middle of the room. Benburton got super-excited, unthinkingly manhandling poor Merilwen’s head a bit, and decided to try out the dummy against his rapier. He demonstrated decent but perhaps a little out-of-date form against it –
Up until the moment it stabbed him clean through the throat. Causing blood to gout EVERYWHERE. Dob rushed in to seal the wound with Cure Wounds, rolling quite well – but the plot must plot, and Benburton had already lost too much blood. Cue one dead buyer on their floor. Dob, concerned, decided to talk to the house directly about its behavior, gently suggesting that, if it wants to be sold, it not kill the prospective buyers after wowing them with the illusions. Corazon picked up the line of questioning then and asked the house if it even wanted to be sold.
Cue Benburton’s corpse being catapulted into the empty fireplace by the floorboards, where the fire grate proceeded to chew him up and then vomit him around the room. This is when Bismuth showed up, to find the group absolutely covered in gore. Corazon was like “okay I don’t think this house wants to be sold,” but Bismuth urged them not to give up – they’d find someone who loved it! (Meanwhile poor Merilwen was just about having a panic attack because she was NOT PREPARED for this level of gore and murder.) After a bit of discussion, it was decided they would let in the next potential buyer, but they’d kit them up in chainmail and a helmet, claiming they’d set off a bug bomb or something. (Prudence, of course, was all for just letting people in to be murdered for as long as it took, but luckily for Merilwen’s sanity, Corazon said he was only willing to risk ONE more buyer getting exploded.) Bismuth even found them a whole load of chainmail inside one of the library books (you know, “plot armor”), which Egbert gathered up – and Corazon insisted on testing by shooting his crossbow at the now-arguably-more-protected Egbert. And thanks to a good roll, hit him. Fortunately for only two points of damage, so it MOSTLY did the job.
And just in time too, as the next buyer had arrived – Cecilia Last-Name-I-Didn’t-Get, who is a woman made of angles, paleness, and authority. Egbert immediately fell in love because that’s his thing. XD They managed to convince her to put the chainmail on (which after a quick smoothing looked divine on her), though she ended up choosing her own helmet because she didn’t think the one on offer suited. She also found Dob’s sketches of the naked Corazon and actually thought they were quite good – at least, until Dob “signed” them with a big inky handprint right in the middle. XD After an abortive attempt to lead her to the library (which Bismuth was busy cleaning), Prudence decided that, since the woman was an art collector, maybe the painting gallery would be a good idea? So they headed on down there, and hey – there was the gallery, just looking like a nicer version of itself. Cecilia was VERY impressed with all the paintings (which Dob claimed as his own, in his previous “Unruined And Also People Are Wearing Clothes” phase) – particularly this one of a beautiful snowy mountainside.
With a figure on it being menaced by wolves. As Prudence eagerly urged Cecilia to get a close-up look on it, Dob snatched up some paints and attempted to paint OVER the wolves so they were instead adorable little rats!
All this did was make the wolves look like they had terrible cartoon rat heads (like maybe they were at the world’s worst version of Disneyland) when they inevitably leapt from the painting and began menacing Cecilia and the others. Episode One ended with a roll for initiative – I guess we’ll see how long THIS buyer is allowed to live! She is wearing the plot armor, after all. . .
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – I have gotten Victor and Alice through Biff Tannen fixing their car and into the third big snippet I wrote previously – “Bullet Time,” where Tannen pulls a gun on them (because his actual aim was to fix up the car so he could sell it, kill them, and then sell their organs) and Alice gets to show off how those don’t work on her anymore! Left it off with Tannen missing his first shot – next time, he misses all the others too. :p
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – really helped that all I had in there was a couple of relatively short GrayStillPlays videos. Especially because I got interrupted in my computer time right after my writing thanks to a gnarly thunderstorm that blew up! But I had just enough time to clear these out –
A) First up, we had The Toilet Chronicles – an indie horror game about being in a public toilet! You play as a pair of legs and one hand with telekinetic powers, using a public bathroom somewhere in Boston, and your goal is to escape said public bathroom while discovering some of its mysteries. (It’s only a demo right now, so there’s not much more than that.) Right off the bat, Gray noticed the broken hand dryer with the snapped cord, insisted on touching it twice, and died. XD And the minute he noticed that there were TWELVE available endings, he was all about finding all the worst ones! Those included “crying on the toilet for a while (yes, there is a dedicated button for that), then leaving the guy next to him stranded without toilet paper and just exiting the bathroom in the normal manner” (Ending ZERO), “throwing things over the top of the stall next to him, getting a warning message from the developers that that could break the game, and upon replying he could not be stopped, getting murdered by a blood tentacle” (Ending 6, I believe), “finally giving the guy toilet paper but not understanding that he had to wet the note he got in return, running out of time to solve the puzzle, and getting tentacle-murdered again,” “figuring out the ‘wet note’ puzzle and discovering an apparently either extremely filthy or extremely gory Polaroid that had to be censored XD – also grenades, leading to him blowing himself up,” “blowing his way out of the suddenly-doorless bathroom and winning the demo,” and “trying repeatedly to blow up the person in the other stall and succeeding after an embarrassing misfire.” XD It’s a very weird little game, but I’m eager to see Gray play more, just because it looks to be in the same comedic horror vein as The Baby In Yellow. Just don’t jumpscare the shit out of me, and we’ll be fine, TTC.
B) And then we had the glorious return of Happy Wheels! Yeah, according to the comments, the last couple of HW videos got age-restricted, which might be why we haven’t seen it in a bit, but it’s back now baby! We had the traditional bottle-flip starter (this one packed so full of stuff Gray barely knew where to start – and then he learned how to unleash maximum alcoholism, pineapples, and watermelons everywhere and let them do the work of getting all the cool stuff, including his beloved shoutout – with a WATERMELON no less); then an “impossible” dungeon with the requisite harpoons and disappearing platforms (where the trick was timing Pogo Man’s bounces perfectly – oh, and NOT getting the key, because that was a lie); a “no-win” board where the trick was to get to the park by clicking on things (except not really because instead you deactivated a harpoon and went into the manufacturing room – looks like this was a demo level for something else); a tank ride where Gray got to shoot up ALL the things (only too happy to destroy Santa if it meant he could run over whoever he wanted); a nearly-impossible obstacle course level featuring a harpoon from below, the run through the spiky stars of death, pedaling your way out of a ball pit while avoiding the toilets being crunched just beyond on the flipper, before being rocketed to the end (this one took a few tries, as you might imagine); the “construction destruction” where you had to smash up a bunch of people on a construction site (and then get the coin before Tom Hardy harpooned you in the chest); the downhill harpoon run (where Gray basically disintegrated at the end from the speed but still got the win!); and the solar system run, starting from Neptune and going all the way to – well, I ASSUME Mercury, Gray flew over most of it too fast to see (when he wasn’t blowing up or getting stuck in the gravity of the outer planets, that is). XD Good stuff, and I hope this means it’s back to being a regular feature. :)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! On Victor Luvs Alice, I’ve got the Wednesday Chill Save two-parter, some Thursday not-incorrect Valicer quotes, and some Friday Smiler headcanons (though admittedly those last two are currently in the wrong order in the queue – I’ll have to switch them when I adjust the queue speed back down to one tomorrow afternoon!); on Valice Multiverse, I’ve got two ask replies, and two OOC comments for my friend who plays her version of Victor and Alice’s kid, Madeline (one about a headcanon she had regarding a misbehaving Maddie getting sent to her grandmother for a summer and coming back an angel to avoid the experience ever again; one about a Tik-Tok she might make about Malk!Alice and the Voerman Sisters fighting over custody of her Malk!Maddie). Whew!
So yeah, all set for another night, just took longer than usual because I had to just play games on my iPad for an hour in the middle of it. On the plus side, at least it only started AFTER I'd finished my writing for the day. :p So now it's off to bed again, to see what Wednesday brings. Besides a whole lot of humidity, blech. Night all!
