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Jul. 13th, 2022 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickAs you can see this one is SUPER late -- I'm going to blame this on it being the 13th, along with every other annoyance of the day (the heat, all the things that pissed me off at work, the fact that I woke up an hour early for no reason and couldn't really get back to sleep, my mouse going dark AGAIN (as in, it's doing that thing where it's still working but not glowing). I have GOT to rearrange my evenings. . .well, I did get most shit done:
Work – Bit of an annoying day, though still very quiet – the credit card people FINALLY got back to us to show what stuff had been fixed. . .good portion of it was stuff that we already KNEW was fixed back in March, some of it was actually fixed now, and one thing was very much NOT fixed because I dunno, somebody didn’t bother to do their job? Fortunately, after I proved it was not fixed via screenshot, it actually DID get fixed by the end of the day. And then I had the Fiscal department calling me about OTHER credit card related nonsense (this related to deposit dates) during my lunch break, which was irritating, and – yeah, it was just kind of a bad mood day. At least I have some obituaries now to keep me occupied between crises!
Beanbags – Despite the heat (and me knocking my water bottle into the dirt at one point), we did end up playing – and weirdly enough, I had a couple of good games, with Dad trailing me by a point the whole way through the second one. :P Mom couldn’t quite get it together for a win, but at least she did come second more often than not – final scores were me 3-W-W; Dad W-2-3; Mom 2-3-2. *shrug* I’ll take that!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and onto Episode 2 of the Oxventure Hallowstream “Unreal Estate!” The situation, when we joined back up with our heroes, was thus – they were in a giant art gallery with their prospective buyer in the plot armor, Cecilia, facing down eight wolves with cartoony rat heads (thanks to Dob) who had just leapt out of a painting. What do? Well, Merilwen won the initiative roll with a nat 20, so she got to go first –
And promptly whipped out Animal Friendship. XD Johnny was initially not going to allow this because these were technically PAINTINGS of animals (that had been painted over themselves), but then realized Merilwen managing to get one of the rat-wolves on side would probably be funnier and changed their mind. XD And indeed, Merilwen did indeed manage to tame a rat-wolf to be her friend! Yay! That still left seven, though. Prudence stepped up next –
And promptly climbed onto the ceiling with her Spiderclimb, settling in for a good view of the carnage! Refused to help at all! XD This is when the badly freaked out Cecilia decided to try and make a run for it, and four of the remaining enemy rat-wolves took off in pursuit of her. Dob, your turn is next – what are you going to do?
Dob’s first question: “Can I jump in the painting?” XD To be fair, after confirming that this WAS an option, he said that what he’d like to do is run and grab Cecilia, backflip over the rat-wolves, and get them both into the painting, as he figured it would be safer now that the wolves were no longer in it. A roll of 15 had Johnny declare that he did manage this, but not without cost – one of the rat-wolves managed to get its teeth into his ankle and got dragged into the painting with them. . .and also, the hunter figure with the knife that the wolves were originally pursuing? Yeah, he’s not friendly either. And, even creepier, since he was never meant to be seen close up, his face looks like a potato with some crude scribbles for eyes and mouth on it. Everyone declared him absolutely terrifying. XD
This did inspire Corazon to try his luck with one of the OTHER paintings in the gallery, though! Namely, after determining all the positions of the rat-wolves – two scrabbling at the snowy painting, four being menacing, one in the snowy painting, one on-sides – he erected an illusory wall to keep the two at the painting separated from the others, then dove into the painting of a village fete to hide. Where hurdy-gurdy music promptly began playing, and what sounded like oversized footfalls accompanied by soft honks joined it. . .
Anyway, this brought us to the rat-wolves’ turn – the one in the painting ended up tripping and gagging on its own comically-elongated ears thanks to a nat 1; the two who’d been trying to get into the painting found the illusory wall and, unable to realize it wasn’t real, just peed on it; the remaining – three? Four? I feel like we lost a rat-wolf at some point – well, they TRIED attacking Merilwen and Egbert, but one just bounced off Egbert’s armor, and the other two got Merilwen’s arm in their mouths but just gummed it because their teeth, being crudely painted, aren’t very strong; and Merilwen TRIED to send the friendly one to help Dob and Cecilia in the painting with the “knife man” – but her description, plus the fact that Corazon was picking his nails with his own knife in HIS painting, led to the friendly rat-wolf running to Corazon instead (though it didn’t actually attack, fortunately – and even got the evil clown to stop advancing briefly out of sheer “wtf”). This left us with Egbert, who’d rolled a nat 1 when doing initiative –
And proceeded to live UP to that nat 1 by choosing to try and paint fire on the Potato Hunter (who had fortunately missed on stabbing Dob and Cecilia) using Dob’s dropped paint kit, rolling a four, and basically putting a few big slashes of fiery color on the guy while shouting “FIRE!” Johnny DID rule that this ended up paralyzing the man by stabbing him with painted crystals that rapidly heated up, but this did put Dob and Cecilia very close to a man who was going to explode soon. . .
Round again! Merilwen, unable to figure out which of her friends in the paintings to help, decided to focus on the immediate problem and Poison Sprayed a rat-wolf – it suffered a direct hit and basically became a mostly-inanimate blob of paint (though technically it had ONE hit point left). Prudence decided just watching wasn’t fun anymore and instead decided to Eldritch Blast the two peeing – she missed with one, but fried up the other pretty good! Cecilia, seeing the Potato Hunter about to explode, gracefully dove into a snowbank; Dob dove on top of her (getting an angry protest from Egbert), then cast good old Thunderwave to knock both the Potato Hunter and the rat-wolf away. This succeeded beautifully, with the rat wolf ending up an embarrassing smear of paint up the tree, and Potato Hunter exploding from a safe enough distance that Dob (and presumably Cecilia) were unharmed. This DID mean that the whole oil painting landscape was on fire now. . .but that didn’t stop Dob from trying to spot if Necropolis-on-Sea was in the painting (presumably assuming this was the snowy mountain from “Peak Performance”), then start going on about how he wanted to find the painting versions of everyone in there. XD Johnny managed to talk him out of it by explaining it would have to be a six-episode spin-off series, and also everything is on fire, so he’s promised to come out of the painting next round. XD We pick up tomorrow with Corazon and what I presume is an evil and possibly-poorly-painted clown. XD
2. Write the first draft of this month’s birthday gift fic: Check – this is for SlyCooperAndCarlosFox, a former RP partner who now just pokes me from time to time with various things of interest. They also share my interest in VTMB, so they’ve asked me to have their OC Phillianne Tropy (yes – also her universe of origin is in fact Ducktales) in her Ventrue vampire form confront Therese Voerman about the fake charity behind the art gallery exhibition the fledgling ruins. Completed the first draft today – it’s a little rough, but that’s only to be expected. Got to have some fun writing someone chewing Therese out, anyway! :p
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Two-thirds check out of necessity – James uploaded an HOUR-LONG video today for “Rage to Riches,” possibly to wrap it up as much as possible since the High School Years pack comes out in about two weeks. So I focused on the shorter stuff –
A) First, we had Call Me Kevin and “3 years of Stardew Valley without leaving the farm” – aka, it’s time for another episode of “Hermit the Island Farmer in Stardew Valley!” The conceit of this series is that Hermit is only allowed to leave his farm ONCE per year to get supplies and actually speak to people – the rest of the time, he must farm and do other things on his deserted island. This year, Hermit had the following happen:
I. Built a recycling machine and recycled tons of broken glasses and old CDs for quartz, smelted lots of iron bars, then farmed a billion potatoes to get his farming skill up to the point where he could make good sprinklers! Only to discover they’re not usable on sand. Fortunately he found and cleared a spot in the overgrowth to make a mini-farm, and eventually started putting down paths everywhere to stop more stuff growing, so at least they’re not TOTALLY useless!
II. Witnessed the appearance of a strange capsule with some sort of alien life form in it (which later broke out and has not yet been seen again), then had a meteorite hit the farm – as he couldn’t break or blow it open, he instead decided to worship it. XD
III. Got more into fishing, much against his will, because damn the repetitiveness – good money in the fish, though!
IV. Discovered that making jam from his oranges and checking his little mushroom cave every day would actually net him loads of money, yay! Hooray for lots of ways to passively earn income when you’re a hermit!
V. Got annoyed enough with the villagers constantly letting him know about events they KNEW he was not going to attend to, on his one day into the village, BUY A JOJOMART MEMBERSHIP AND ALLOW THEM TO TAKE OVER THE TOWN. Apparently Kevin has NEVER done this before, but needs must – especially since they have the GREENHOUSE. XD Which they would build for him –
VI. Starting the next day. Kevin, desperate not to have to wait an ENTIRE YEAR for his greenhouse, decided to bend his rule and split his once-yearly visit across two days just so he could purchase the greenhouse, a shed, a bunch of new ores, donate a bunch of stuff to the museum, and mine as much as he could. He did NOT buy chickens, though, as he was annoyed the woman who sold them is not open on Mondays, which is his actual “go to town” day. XD
So yeah, busy year on the island! But now Kevin has honey, jam, mushrooms – and a whole greenhouse full of beans! (Because he couldn’t get blueberries.) Year Four of only talking to the scarecrow and maybe the cat is looking good. XD
B) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and “I Busted 100 Movie Myths in GTA 5!” Gray, Alex, and Danny are back, this time with movie (and TV, and comic)-related myths to bust in the medium of GTA V! We had the Top Gun-inspired “you can’t blow up a helicopter using non-homing missiles while in the jet” (it took a fair number of tries, but Gray was delighted to actually manage it a lot sooner than he thought); the Morbius-inspired “you can’t fly under all the bridges in the main Los Santos area” (Alex had to mess with gravity, and Gray smashed into either the bridges or the ground a LOT, but he did it in the end); the Knight Rider-inspired “you can’t blow up a semi-truck head-on with missile and then jump it without blowing yourself up” (Gray did end up ROLLING the car, but it didn’t blow up!) and “you can’t do a 360 no-scope with a missile on a criminal you’ve overtaken while simultaneously jumping off a ledge” (this one took SOO many tries – Gray rated it a 9 on the Gray Pain-o-Meter because the missile was SO HARD TO AIM); the Home Alone 2-inspired “you can’t kill a person by throwing a brick on them from the top of a building” (due to rendering issues, Gray just spammed bricks on a dude until one actually connected); and the Spider-Man-inspired “you can’t rescue Gwen Stacy after she falls off the tower without her dying” (this being Gray and GTA, he actually pushed her off the tower, then skydived after her to activate a weird “sticky” effect that would allow him to save her, courtesy of Alex – this, again, took many tries as she reached terminal velocity FAST and kept spinning away from him – but eventually he managed to stick her to himself. . .and then get CATAPULTED INTO THE AIR ON HER BOUNCY BODY WHEN THEY BOTH HIT THE PAVEMENT. XD To be fair, I think a previous Gwen lived despite the fall, so I’m giving this to him). Oh, and just because someone suggested it and Alex is all for new ways to torture Gray, “you can’t skydive through twenty wind turbines and then go through a thumbnail hole.” XD He did it, of course, but he wasn’t happy about it. He never is when it comes to Alex.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though all it was was resetting the queue speed to one and swapping the order of my posts. . .though looking at the titles, I realize I never specified either of them as Thursday or Friday. O.o Well, they’re in that order now, so that’s how they’ll stay!
Okay, good, that's all sorted. And now it's immediately off to bed, and here's hoping I don't wake up at 5:54 again! Night all!
Work – Bit of an annoying day, though still very quiet – the credit card people FINALLY got back to us to show what stuff had been fixed. . .good portion of it was stuff that we already KNEW was fixed back in March, some of it was actually fixed now, and one thing was very much NOT fixed because I dunno, somebody didn’t bother to do their job? Fortunately, after I proved it was not fixed via screenshot, it actually DID get fixed by the end of the day. And then I had the Fiscal department calling me about OTHER credit card related nonsense (this related to deposit dates) during my lunch break, which was irritating, and – yeah, it was just kind of a bad mood day. At least I have some obituaries now to keep me occupied between crises!
Beanbags – Despite the heat (and me knocking my water bottle into the dirt at one point), we did end up playing – and weirdly enough, I had a couple of good games, with Dad trailing me by a point the whole way through the second one. :P Mom couldn’t quite get it together for a win, but at least she did come second more often than not – final scores were me 3-W-W; Dad W-2-3; Mom 2-3-2. *shrug* I’ll take that!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and onto Episode 2 of the Oxventure Hallowstream “Unreal Estate!” The situation, when we joined back up with our heroes, was thus – they were in a giant art gallery with their prospective buyer in the plot armor, Cecilia, facing down eight wolves with cartoony rat heads (thanks to Dob) who had just leapt out of a painting. What do? Well, Merilwen won the initiative roll with a nat 20, so she got to go first –
And promptly whipped out Animal Friendship. XD Johnny was initially not going to allow this because these were technically PAINTINGS of animals (that had been painted over themselves), but then realized Merilwen managing to get one of the rat-wolves on side would probably be funnier and changed their mind. XD And indeed, Merilwen did indeed manage to tame a rat-wolf to be her friend! Yay! That still left seven, though. Prudence stepped up next –
And promptly climbed onto the ceiling with her Spiderclimb, settling in for a good view of the carnage! Refused to help at all! XD This is when the badly freaked out Cecilia decided to try and make a run for it, and four of the remaining enemy rat-wolves took off in pursuit of her. Dob, your turn is next – what are you going to do?
Dob’s first question: “Can I jump in the painting?” XD To be fair, after confirming that this WAS an option, he said that what he’d like to do is run and grab Cecilia, backflip over the rat-wolves, and get them both into the painting, as he figured it would be safer now that the wolves were no longer in it. A roll of 15 had Johnny declare that he did manage this, but not without cost – one of the rat-wolves managed to get its teeth into his ankle and got dragged into the painting with them. . .and also, the hunter figure with the knife that the wolves were originally pursuing? Yeah, he’s not friendly either. And, even creepier, since he was never meant to be seen close up, his face looks like a potato with some crude scribbles for eyes and mouth on it. Everyone declared him absolutely terrifying. XD
This did inspire Corazon to try his luck with one of the OTHER paintings in the gallery, though! Namely, after determining all the positions of the rat-wolves – two scrabbling at the snowy painting, four being menacing, one in the snowy painting, one on-sides – he erected an illusory wall to keep the two at the painting separated from the others, then dove into the painting of a village fete to hide. Where hurdy-gurdy music promptly began playing, and what sounded like oversized footfalls accompanied by soft honks joined it. . .
Anyway, this brought us to the rat-wolves’ turn – the one in the painting ended up tripping and gagging on its own comically-elongated ears thanks to a nat 1; the two who’d been trying to get into the painting found the illusory wall and, unable to realize it wasn’t real, just peed on it; the remaining – three? Four? I feel like we lost a rat-wolf at some point – well, they TRIED attacking Merilwen and Egbert, but one just bounced off Egbert’s armor, and the other two got Merilwen’s arm in their mouths but just gummed it because their teeth, being crudely painted, aren’t very strong; and Merilwen TRIED to send the friendly one to help Dob and Cecilia in the painting with the “knife man” – but her description, plus the fact that Corazon was picking his nails with his own knife in HIS painting, led to the friendly rat-wolf running to Corazon instead (though it didn’t actually attack, fortunately – and even got the evil clown to stop advancing briefly out of sheer “wtf”). This left us with Egbert, who’d rolled a nat 1 when doing initiative –
And proceeded to live UP to that nat 1 by choosing to try and paint fire on the Potato Hunter (who had fortunately missed on stabbing Dob and Cecilia) using Dob’s dropped paint kit, rolling a four, and basically putting a few big slashes of fiery color on the guy while shouting “FIRE!” Johnny DID rule that this ended up paralyzing the man by stabbing him with painted crystals that rapidly heated up, but this did put Dob and Cecilia very close to a man who was going to explode soon. . .
Round again! Merilwen, unable to figure out which of her friends in the paintings to help, decided to focus on the immediate problem and Poison Sprayed a rat-wolf – it suffered a direct hit and basically became a mostly-inanimate blob of paint (though technically it had ONE hit point left). Prudence decided just watching wasn’t fun anymore and instead decided to Eldritch Blast the two peeing – she missed with one, but fried up the other pretty good! Cecilia, seeing the Potato Hunter about to explode, gracefully dove into a snowbank; Dob dove on top of her (getting an angry protest from Egbert), then cast good old Thunderwave to knock both the Potato Hunter and the rat-wolf away. This succeeded beautifully, with the rat wolf ending up an embarrassing smear of paint up the tree, and Potato Hunter exploding from a safe enough distance that Dob (and presumably Cecilia) were unharmed. This DID mean that the whole oil painting landscape was on fire now. . .but that didn’t stop Dob from trying to spot if Necropolis-on-Sea was in the painting (presumably assuming this was the snowy mountain from “Peak Performance”), then start going on about how he wanted to find the painting versions of everyone in there. XD Johnny managed to talk him out of it by explaining it would have to be a six-episode spin-off series, and also everything is on fire, so he’s promised to come out of the painting next round. XD We pick up tomorrow with Corazon and what I presume is an evil and possibly-poorly-painted clown. XD
2. Write the first draft of this month’s birthday gift fic: Check – this is for SlyCooperAndCarlosFox, a former RP partner who now just pokes me from time to time with various things of interest. They also share my interest in VTMB, so they’ve asked me to have their OC Phillianne Tropy (yes – also her universe of origin is in fact Ducktales) in her Ventrue vampire form confront Therese Voerman about the fake charity behind the art gallery exhibition the fledgling ruins. Completed the first draft today – it’s a little rough, but that’s only to be expected. Got to have some fun writing someone chewing Therese out, anyway! :p
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Two-thirds check out of necessity – James uploaded an HOUR-LONG video today for “Rage to Riches,” possibly to wrap it up as much as possible since the High School Years pack comes out in about two weeks. So I focused on the shorter stuff –
A) First, we had Call Me Kevin and “3 years of Stardew Valley without leaving the farm” – aka, it’s time for another episode of “Hermit the Island Farmer in Stardew Valley!” The conceit of this series is that Hermit is only allowed to leave his farm ONCE per year to get supplies and actually speak to people – the rest of the time, he must farm and do other things on his deserted island. This year, Hermit had the following happen:
I. Built a recycling machine and recycled tons of broken glasses and old CDs for quartz, smelted lots of iron bars, then farmed a billion potatoes to get his farming skill up to the point where he could make good sprinklers! Only to discover they’re not usable on sand. Fortunately he found and cleared a spot in the overgrowth to make a mini-farm, and eventually started putting down paths everywhere to stop more stuff growing, so at least they’re not TOTALLY useless!
II. Witnessed the appearance of a strange capsule with some sort of alien life form in it (which later broke out and has not yet been seen again), then had a meteorite hit the farm – as he couldn’t break or blow it open, he instead decided to worship it. XD
III. Got more into fishing, much against his will, because damn the repetitiveness – good money in the fish, though!
IV. Discovered that making jam from his oranges and checking his little mushroom cave every day would actually net him loads of money, yay! Hooray for lots of ways to passively earn income when you’re a hermit!
V. Got annoyed enough with the villagers constantly letting him know about events they KNEW he was not going to attend to, on his one day into the village, BUY A JOJOMART MEMBERSHIP AND ALLOW THEM TO TAKE OVER THE TOWN. Apparently Kevin has NEVER done this before, but needs must – especially since they have the GREENHOUSE. XD Which they would build for him –
VI. Starting the next day. Kevin, desperate not to have to wait an ENTIRE YEAR for his greenhouse, decided to bend his rule and split his once-yearly visit across two days just so he could purchase the greenhouse, a shed, a bunch of new ores, donate a bunch of stuff to the museum, and mine as much as he could. He did NOT buy chickens, though, as he was annoyed the woman who sold them is not open on Mondays, which is his actual “go to town” day. XD
So yeah, busy year on the island! But now Kevin has honey, jam, mushrooms – and a whole greenhouse full of beans! (Because he couldn’t get blueberries.) Year Four of only talking to the scarecrow and maybe the cat is looking good. XD
B) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and “I Busted 100 Movie Myths in GTA 5!” Gray, Alex, and Danny are back, this time with movie (and TV, and comic)-related myths to bust in the medium of GTA V! We had the Top Gun-inspired “you can’t blow up a helicopter using non-homing missiles while in the jet” (it took a fair number of tries, but Gray was delighted to actually manage it a lot sooner than he thought); the Morbius-inspired “you can’t fly under all the bridges in the main Los Santos area” (Alex had to mess with gravity, and Gray smashed into either the bridges or the ground a LOT, but he did it in the end); the Knight Rider-inspired “you can’t blow up a semi-truck head-on with missile and then jump it without blowing yourself up” (Gray did end up ROLLING the car, but it didn’t blow up!) and “you can’t do a 360 no-scope with a missile on a criminal you’ve overtaken while simultaneously jumping off a ledge” (this one took SOO many tries – Gray rated it a 9 on the Gray Pain-o-Meter because the missile was SO HARD TO AIM); the Home Alone 2-inspired “you can’t kill a person by throwing a brick on them from the top of a building” (due to rendering issues, Gray just spammed bricks on a dude until one actually connected); and the Spider-Man-inspired “you can’t rescue Gwen Stacy after she falls off the tower without her dying” (this being Gray and GTA, he actually pushed her off the tower, then skydived after her to activate a weird “sticky” effect that would allow him to save her, courtesy of Alex – this, again, took many tries as she reached terminal velocity FAST and kept spinning away from him – but eventually he managed to stick her to himself. . .and then get CATAPULTED INTO THE AIR ON HER BOUNCY BODY WHEN THEY BOTH HIT THE PAVEMENT. XD To be fair, I think a previous Gwen lived despite the fall, so I’m giving this to him). Oh, and just because someone suggested it and Alex is all for new ways to torture Gray, “you can’t skydive through twenty wind turbines and then go through a thumbnail hole.” XD He did it, of course, but he wasn’t happy about it. He never is when it comes to Alex.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though all it was was resetting the queue speed to one and swapping the order of my posts. . .though looking at the titles, I realize I never specified either of them as Thursday or Friday. O.o Well, they’re in that order now, so that’s how they’ll stay!
Okay, good, that's all sorted. And now it's immediately off to bed, and here's hoping I don't wake up at 5:54 again! Night all!
