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crossover_chickMe in the work toilet mid-morning: Almost the weekend, yay. . .though yeah, gotta remember to look out for my period next week. Damn thing's coming up again!
My period, when I sit down on the toilet: SURPRISE BITCH
Yeaaaah -- I actually don't know if this is early or not (it FEELS early, but my math might be off), but it was a horrible shock to get halfway through the short work day! Fortunately I always try to have two pads in my work bag to handle situations like this, so I was able to fix it without any harm coming to my clothes (it had JUST started, I guess), but still! Hasn't made this day any easier -- which is probably gonna become obvious when you look at my to-do list:
Work – Quietish day – did the GL, did some roster maintenance stuff, helped my coworker add up some numbers, called a lady back about her pledge, FINALLY managed to leave a voicemail for someone else I’ve been trying to contact. . .it was a little busier than it has been, but not by much. Good thing, considering the whole “surprise period in the middle of the morning” thing. . .
Beanbags – Warm but less humid afternoon, so out we went for another five-round day! Where, as usual, Mom won the first game, Dad won the second, and I won the third. XD Dad then proceeded to make champion while Mom just couldn’t pull it together again, but hey – we did at least all win one! Final scores were me 2-3-W-2-2; Dad 3-W-2-W-W; Mom W-2-3-3-3. I’ll take it!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – one last evening on the bike, one last evening with the Oxventure Hallowstream “Unreal Estate!” As it turns out, when faced with a killer mimic toy chest trying to eat his children and his wife screaming, Claude’s response is to demand that Corazon knock something off the price. XD They actually spent a good couple of minutes arguing about it (Claude insisting he couldn’t go above 175,000 gold; Corazon insisting he couldn’t go below 225,000 gold) –
And then Dob failed the Dexterity saving throw Johnny set him with a nat one. Meaning that, rather than managing to steer the mimic away from Claude, he instead spurred it toward him, allowing the mimic to leap onto Claude and just swallow him from the top down, chomping him roughly in half at the waist. Claude ended up very dead VERY fast – and WITHOUT filling out his check. Corazon desperately looked around for a hand that he could use to sign the document, citing the “ten second” rule (if a deceased person’s hand signs something ten seconds after their death, it’s still binding) – and while Johnny was willing to canonize the rule, he said that no, there was no dead hand Corazon could use to write himself a check. All that was left was half a leg. XD The mimic returned to its spot, sated, while Julia grabbed her (still vomiting) children and BOOKED it down the stairs and out the front door. Egbert yelled for Bismuth to put down the crossbow just in time. XD
So yeah – another buyer dead, another sale ruined. Even Corazon was starting to wonder if it was time to cut his losses when there was another heavy knock at the door. The others sent Bismuth to do her hold music while they argued about whether or not to let them in (Dob was like “what if we’re extraordinarily lucky?” prompting everyone else to start making up scenes of even more buyers getting absolutely savaged by the house), but in the end Merilwen figured it would be rude not to at least answer the door, so she went to greet whoever it was.
“Whoever it was” was a strange cloaked man in a spooky metal mask! Everyone was naturally a little “uh” about this, especially when he started saying that he was prepared to pay more than Corazon was asking for the place – after the satisfactory completion of a tour, that is. Everyone decided just to be honest this time and warn him that previous showings had ended in a lot of bad things, but he was undeterred, so they showed him around. Brought him into the drawing room – he stuck his head into the fireplace grate. . .which did not chew him. Into the art gallery – he bared his neck to the deadly clown painting – nothing. Into the nursery – he (at Dob’s suggestion) gave the mimic a hearty kick – and while it woke up with teeth nashing, once he had it sniff his hand, it settled right back down. Everyone was shocked but – well, if the house likes the guy! And then he said that the price was DEFINITELY too little and that he would pay Corazon with a check for a MILLION gold. Corazon was like “You drive a hard bargain, sirrah :D :D :D” –
Until he actually got the check. And took a moment to read it. And realized that he recognized the handwriting. And the signature.
IT WAS CORAZON’S FUCKING FATHER. LORD MILQUETOAST IN DISGUISE. He took off the mask and stopped disguising his voice when he saw that Corazon had recognized his handwriting, saying that he’d hoped he won’t notice until he’d already left. Corazon demanded to know what the hell he was doing, and as it turned out, the guy had met a genealogist and learned of the Milquetoast’s piratical heritage and decided to become a world-famous pirate! And buy back the old family manor! So he could be a proper pirate king!
Corazon, as you might imagine, was LIVID about all of this. Quite a lot of arguing about how being a world-famous pirate was his thing and that his father tried to have him killed for being one before (he did, it was the SECOND Oxventure, the one where Egbert joined) ensued, with Lord Milquetoast insisting he didn’t remember that and trying to placate Corazon by saying that he was happy to buy the house and write him back into the will so he’d inherit it after he died, and that hey, maybe Corazon could teach him how to be a pirate! They could be a father-son duo! The other Oxventurers were initially egging on this father-son bonding for “Percy,” but it soon became rather apparent that this whole thing was just kind of the equivalent of a mid-life crisis for Lord Milquetoast, rather than an attempt to actually bond with his son. He was easily steered onto the idea of instead buying a leather jacket and a really fast horse, let’s just say. XD After some more discussion about how Corazon was not exactly happy about his father doing this 180 after all they’d been through, and Dob TRYING to foster a deeper connection, Lord Milquetoast decided that this was probably all rather silly and returned the deed to the house (no one knows how he got it in the first place), asking only that they make sure Bismuth didn’t shoot him when he left. Corazon was obviously reluctant, but told her to hold her fire, and Lord Milquetoast left.
Corazon promptly told everyone to get painting, because now he was going to LIVE in this giant middle finger-he means mansion. XD Everyone, realizing that Corazon was not doing well with his daddy issues, just got some paint and started fixing the place up. XD Bismuth was allowed to use her crossbow to inform anyone else who might come by the open house was over, and the episode ended with everyone trying to get Corazon to feel his feelings, or at least sing a bit of a pirate song to cheer himself up (he finally relented on the latter at the very end). XD And that is how they failed to sell a house, as Johnny put it. Good Halloween Oxventure – looking forward to the next one!
(Oh, and I did watch the beginning of a Pixelade video on the “Trendi” app that’s coming with High School Years, showing off a video on it that the Sims team posted on their Instagram, but this was at the very end of the workout and I wasn’t paying that much attention, so. . .)
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – yeah, I kept going with this today! Mostly because it was largely just rewriting a bit I’d already written before (which is good when the period brain fog starts setting in) and because I wanted to get to the end of the chapter, since it was just about a page away. Victor has considered running, but doesn’t think he’d be able to get away from Alice if the universe itself is helping her, so. . .yeah. It’s back on the road for them, with neither of them really feeling good about what happened out there in the woods. Awww. :( Well, fortunately things start picking up again next chapter – which might be a short one, depending on whether or not I choose to put the next two snippets together or not. . .hmmm. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check, but on something of a technicality. You see, when I came home this afternoon, I was pleased to find that James Turner HADN’T uploaded another hour-long episode of “Rage to Riches” to vex my period-reduced sanity! And I figured that if I took the afternoon (despite wanting to purchase and play some of Superliminal), I could catch up.
And then the Livestream for High School Years happened. And right after that – James uploaded a Build/Buy overview (one hour nine minutes) and a world tour (forty-three minutes), because I guess that was when the Game Changers could reveal they had the early access version of the pack.
. . .I am done not being able to keep up. I like James’s content, but having all those long videos sitting in my Subs – for a pack I’m not even that excited about – was just stressing me out too much at this time. I unsubscribed from him after my workout and shower. We’ll see how long it lasts – I do intend to see if I can at least keep up with the end of the “Rage to Riches” series.
A) Speaking of which, I did watch the latest episode of that this afternoon before beanbags. This episode was focused on finishing off the other two werewolf aspirations for our brother/sister pair – “Lone Wolf” for Nina, who wanted to beat up Greg and become the most powerful werewolf out there (before bearing Greg’s child), and “Cure Seeker” for Angus, who basically had had enough of all this and was ready to get out of the life. How did that go?
Easier for Nina than Angus, and Nina had the crap beaten out of her by Greg on the regular. :p Mostly because James wouldn’t stop spamming the “Werewolf Brawl!” interaction between them until it actually worked and she beat him. It took about halfway through the episode (and many workouts, as James kept hoping that her being Energized and/or swole would help) before it did – and then Nina used the camera trick to become friends again, only to find Greg very much not into the idea of romance. XD It is very hard to become Gregnant in this game, it appears! XD (Yes, this is what everyone, including Sims Gurus, calls trying for a baby with Greg.) At least she had the pleasure of kicking his ass once! (Even if James is pretty certain that was Greg, in a moment of pity, letting her beat him.) And between marking her territory, scratching up a few objects at the bar, sparring with her brother and some of the Moonwood Collective, learning the Lunar Howl to mix up her temperaments (even getting a couple of the cool blue ones one night!), and Ferociously Intimidating more Sims (gaining enough money to pay the bills in the process, yay), she completed her aspiration and become the true Alpha Apex Predator of Moonwood Mill! The Lone Wolf to beat all Lone Wolves (even if she is still alpha of the Wildfangs).
Angus, meanwhile, sat around and read the same book over and over for much of the episode. XD Well, okay, he did a FEW other things: searched the world for wolfsbane to gather for the cure, picked up the “Enhanced Smell” ability so he could sniff out new treasures to even FIND the book he needed (which is Greggorius Lunvik’s diary, by the way), went to the peak of the Howling Point to pick the moonpetal for the cure – and then abused traveling to make it spawn multiple times (though I get the feeling it blooms multiple times per night regardless?), and surrendered control of the Moonwood Collective to Kristopher’s actual chosen heir, his son Jacob, before leaving, explaining he was taking the cure and being sent off in good standing. :) But mostly he was sitting around constantly reading that diary in a desperate attempt to find the page that actually had the recipe for the cure. He read a lot of cool new lore – the history of the spellcasters, vampires, and werewolves, along with Greg’s personal history with his wife – and even picked up some other cool stuff, like a DIFFERENT drink recipe that helps calm werewolf moodiness, and the secret of the enchanted room in the underground tunnels (though James ended up finding that a bit underwhelming, I’m afraid) – but the damn cure recipe eluded him!
And then Nina found another copy of the diary right outside their house. And learned the recipe on her very first time reading it. XD Unfortunately, Angus had to be the one to craft the cure, so while Nina could at least confirm how many ingredients it needed and pick a little extra wolfsbane for her brother, he was stuck at the bar rereading said book until he finally found the right page too. XD All worth it in the end, though – he made the cure, returned to human form, then drank it and became once more pure human! (Well, uh, semi-pure, he’s still part-alien from his Dad. . .you know what I mean.) So he and Nina have completed all the werewolf stuff now! But there’s still the matter of them actually becoming rich and turning their debug factory lot into a real house. Also Nina’s desired Gregnancy. Also also adopting Cupcake, as James had a chance but lost it as Cupcake despawned before he could click the option, and it’s just not available on dogs you invite to your lot. So I guess we’re due an epilogue sometime in the next couple of weeks! We’ll see how that goes.
B) Then, after supper, we started on my new, truncated Subs with Fun With Shorts – “Millions of Cats!” A short that was basically a reading of a short story by one Wanda Gag about an old couple who want a cat, so the old man goes out to find one, comes across a whole MOUNTAINFUL, can’t decide which one he wants, takes them all home, then upon asking which one is the prettiest, starts a giant cat fight where the only survivor ends up a little kitten who considered himself homely, which the couple take in and make their pretty cat. Standard little kid fare, and not any weirder than your average Lone Ranger cartoon, really. XD Though Josh, as usual, had some good riffs, mostly involving how he personally isn’t a cat person. :p
C) Then it was on to Call Me Kevin, playing a different entry in The Sims series – The Sims 2! Yes, he was back to that one again, because he’d gotten the old Prima game guide for the base game (explaining how it was essentially his favorite book when he was a little Kevin, waiting for his parents to get a new computer for him to actually play Sims 2 on) and wanted to try playing the game according to the guide! This included buying all of the guide’s weirdly specific items for a Sim in a new house (which, in Sim!Kevin’s case, was the one right next to his previous deeply-cursed lot with Bigfoot and the cats); giving Sim!Kevin the Romance aspiration and a thing for blond people and making sure to get him the “Love Tub” to make romantic interactions easier; inviting someone in and promptly doing as much love-tubbing with them as possible (which did not actually result in any love); trying to consult the guide on a work chance card, only for it to cancel itself when he tabbed back into the game; throwing two New Year’s Bashes in a row to get as many blond people into his orbit as possible (the first one had a great score thanks to Kevin consulting the guide and making sure to have fun activities, but also ended with Sim!Kevin making an enemy of someone in the housewares business and having to pay more for everything in the build catalog; the second one arguably was more fun, with Sim!Kevin woohooing his new squeeze Gary with his new double bed while the other guests played darts, but ended with a score of only “Not Bad”); trying to go on a date with someone, only to be stood up – and finding Gary dining with someone else at the club; fortunately discovering Gary was only too happy to make out and have some public woohoo in the photo booth (with everyone cheering them on – except one Sim who was obsessed with poking Sim!Kevin); and finally making some late-night salmon, only for Sim!Kevin to leave it to burn so he could eat rotten pancakes, starting a kitchen fire. Which Sim!Kevin refused to stop freaking out about so he could call the fire department. And then he ran THROUGH the fire when directed to run outside, and died on his back porch in flames. ...You know, Kevin opened the video admitting his very first Sims 2 Sim ALSO died while he was following the game guide on how to live his life. . .
D) And finally, we had GrayStillPlays and the return of Long Neck Run! That game where you have to give your character a neck longer than most known skyscrapers. Apparently because your character has to eventually save their loved one from a tower using only the power of their neck. O.o Yeah, I was surprised to hear this game had even a shred of plot myself. We weren’t interested in plot, though – just making the neck as long as possible! And as Gray hadn’t actually figured out how to cheese it (yet) he had to rely on skill – which he actually had some of! He went through a king with donuts for necks, a bunny with flowers for necks, and a dinosaur with tires for necks, and the end result was a creature with a neck higher than a wind turbine, the Eiffel Tower, what I presume to be the Titanic or similar cruise liner stood on its end, and A FREAKING TSUNAMI. Gray was very pleased with this turn of events. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – pretty easy so far, as I just had the one ask reply for Valice Multiverse. Which is good, as, again, period.
Yeaaaah, I think the YouTube section makes it clear that I'm still fairly cranky. But I just. . .I dunno. I LIKE the videos, it's just I have such limited free time during weekdays that having hour-long stuff just appearing on the regular in the Subs was -- yeah. Better if it isn't sitting there taunting me.
Anyway -- I'm still doing the social thing and trying to catch up on stuff, so let me wrap up here with the Saturday non-cleaning to-do list:
1. Write the second draft of the gift fic
2. Keep up on YouTube Subs and see if I can clear out the Watch Later
3. Play Sims 4 and send Smiler to Henford-on-Bagley for "Night On The Town"
4. Work on tumblr drafts
We'll see how it all goes! I AM gonna be on the second day of my period, and that tends to hit the hardest. . . Night all!
My period, when I sit down on the toilet: SURPRISE BITCH
Yeaaaah -- I actually don't know if this is early or not (it FEELS early, but my math might be off), but it was a horrible shock to get halfway through the short work day! Fortunately I always try to have two pads in my work bag to handle situations like this, so I was able to fix it without any harm coming to my clothes (it had JUST started, I guess), but still! Hasn't made this day any easier -- which is probably gonna become obvious when you look at my to-do list:
Work – Quietish day – did the GL, did some roster maintenance stuff, helped my coworker add up some numbers, called a lady back about her pledge, FINALLY managed to leave a voicemail for someone else I’ve been trying to contact. . .it was a little busier than it has been, but not by much. Good thing, considering the whole “surprise period in the middle of the morning” thing. . .
Beanbags – Warm but less humid afternoon, so out we went for another five-round day! Where, as usual, Mom won the first game, Dad won the second, and I won the third. XD Dad then proceeded to make champion while Mom just couldn’t pull it together again, but hey – we did at least all win one! Final scores were me 2-3-W-2-2; Dad 3-W-2-W-W; Mom W-2-3-3-3. I’ll take it!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – one last evening on the bike, one last evening with the Oxventure Hallowstream “Unreal Estate!” As it turns out, when faced with a killer mimic toy chest trying to eat his children and his wife screaming, Claude’s response is to demand that Corazon knock something off the price. XD They actually spent a good couple of minutes arguing about it (Claude insisting he couldn’t go above 175,000 gold; Corazon insisting he couldn’t go below 225,000 gold) –
And then Dob failed the Dexterity saving throw Johnny set him with a nat one. Meaning that, rather than managing to steer the mimic away from Claude, he instead spurred it toward him, allowing the mimic to leap onto Claude and just swallow him from the top down, chomping him roughly in half at the waist. Claude ended up very dead VERY fast – and WITHOUT filling out his check. Corazon desperately looked around for a hand that he could use to sign the document, citing the “ten second” rule (if a deceased person’s hand signs something ten seconds after their death, it’s still binding) – and while Johnny was willing to canonize the rule, he said that no, there was no dead hand Corazon could use to write himself a check. All that was left was half a leg. XD The mimic returned to its spot, sated, while Julia grabbed her (still vomiting) children and BOOKED it down the stairs and out the front door. Egbert yelled for Bismuth to put down the crossbow just in time. XD
So yeah – another buyer dead, another sale ruined. Even Corazon was starting to wonder if it was time to cut his losses when there was another heavy knock at the door. The others sent Bismuth to do her hold music while they argued about whether or not to let them in (Dob was like “what if we’re extraordinarily lucky?” prompting everyone else to start making up scenes of even more buyers getting absolutely savaged by the house), but in the end Merilwen figured it would be rude not to at least answer the door, so she went to greet whoever it was.
“Whoever it was” was a strange cloaked man in a spooky metal mask! Everyone was naturally a little “uh” about this, especially when he started saying that he was prepared to pay more than Corazon was asking for the place – after the satisfactory completion of a tour, that is. Everyone decided just to be honest this time and warn him that previous showings had ended in a lot of bad things, but he was undeterred, so they showed him around. Brought him into the drawing room – he stuck his head into the fireplace grate. . .which did not chew him. Into the art gallery – he bared his neck to the deadly clown painting – nothing. Into the nursery – he (at Dob’s suggestion) gave the mimic a hearty kick – and while it woke up with teeth nashing, once he had it sniff his hand, it settled right back down. Everyone was shocked but – well, if the house likes the guy! And then he said that the price was DEFINITELY too little and that he would pay Corazon with a check for a MILLION gold. Corazon was like “You drive a hard bargain, sirrah :D :D :D” –
Until he actually got the check. And took a moment to read it. And realized that he recognized the handwriting. And the signature.
IT WAS CORAZON’S FUCKING FATHER. LORD MILQUETOAST IN DISGUISE. He took off the mask and stopped disguising his voice when he saw that Corazon had recognized his handwriting, saying that he’d hoped he won’t notice until he’d already left. Corazon demanded to know what the hell he was doing, and as it turned out, the guy had met a genealogist and learned of the Milquetoast’s piratical heritage and decided to become a world-famous pirate! And buy back the old family manor! So he could be a proper pirate king!
Corazon, as you might imagine, was LIVID about all of this. Quite a lot of arguing about how being a world-famous pirate was his thing and that his father tried to have him killed for being one before (he did, it was the SECOND Oxventure, the one where Egbert joined) ensued, with Lord Milquetoast insisting he didn’t remember that and trying to placate Corazon by saying that he was happy to buy the house and write him back into the will so he’d inherit it after he died, and that hey, maybe Corazon could teach him how to be a pirate! They could be a father-son duo! The other Oxventurers were initially egging on this father-son bonding for “Percy,” but it soon became rather apparent that this whole thing was just kind of the equivalent of a mid-life crisis for Lord Milquetoast, rather than an attempt to actually bond with his son. He was easily steered onto the idea of instead buying a leather jacket and a really fast horse, let’s just say. XD After some more discussion about how Corazon was not exactly happy about his father doing this 180 after all they’d been through, and Dob TRYING to foster a deeper connection, Lord Milquetoast decided that this was probably all rather silly and returned the deed to the house (no one knows how he got it in the first place), asking only that they make sure Bismuth didn’t shoot him when he left. Corazon was obviously reluctant, but told her to hold her fire, and Lord Milquetoast left.
Corazon promptly told everyone to get painting, because now he was going to LIVE in this giant middle finger-he means mansion. XD Everyone, realizing that Corazon was not doing well with his daddy issues, just got some paint and started fixing the place up. XD Bismuth was allowed to use her crossbow to inform anyone else who might come by the open house was over, and the episode ended with everyone trying to get Corazon to feel his feelings, or at least sing a bit of a pirate song to cheer himself up (he finally relented on the latter at the very end). XD And that is how they failed to sell a house, as Johnny put it. Good Halloween Oxventure – looking forward to the next one!
(Oh, and I did watch the beginning of a Pixelade video on the “Trendi” app that’s coming with High School Years, showing off a video on it that the Sims team posted on their Instagram, but this was at the very end of the workout and I wasn’t paying that much attention, so. . .)
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – yeah, I kept going with this today! Mostly because it was largely just rewriting a bit I’d already written before (which is good when the period brain fog starts setting in) and because I wanted to get to the end of the chapter, since it was just about a page away. Victor has considered running, but doesn’t think he’d be able to get away from Alice if the universe itself is helping her, so. . .yeah. It’s back on the road for them, with neither of them really feeling good about what happened out there in the woods. Awww. :( Well, fortunately things start picking up again next chapter – which might be a short one, depending on whether or not I choose to put the next two snippets together or not. . .hmmm. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check, but on something of a technicality. You see, when I came home this afternoon, I was pleased to find that James Turner HADN’T uploaded another hour-long episode of “Rage to Riches” to vex my period-reduced sanity! And I figured that if I took the afternoon (despite wanting to purchase and play some of Superliminal), I could catch up.
And then the Livestream for High School Years happened. And right after that – James uploaded a Build/Buy overview (one hour nine minutes) and a world tour (forty-three minutes), because I guess that was when the Game Changers could reveal they had the early access version of the pack.
. . .I am done not being able to keep up. I like James’s content, but having all those long videos sitting in my Subs – for a pack I’m not even that excited about – was just stressing me out too much at this time. I unsubscribed from him after my workout and shower. We’ll see how long it lasts – I do intend to see if I can at least keep up with the end of the “Rage to Riches” series.
A) Speaking of which, I did watch the latest episode of that this afternoon before beanbags. This episode was focused on finishing off the other two werewolf aspirations for our brother/sister pair – “Lone Wolf” for Nina, who wanted to beat up Greg and become the most powerful werewolf out there (before bearing Greg’s child), and “Cure Seeker” for Angus, who basically had had enough of all this and was ready to get out of the life. How did that go?
Easier for Nina than Angus, and Nina had the crap beaten out of her by Greg on the regular. :p Mostly because James wouldn’t stop spamming the “Werewolf Brawl!” interaction between them until it actually worked and she beat him. It took about halfway through the episode (and many workouts, as James kept hoping that her being Energized and/or swole would help) before it did – and then Nina used the camera trick to become friends again, only to find Greg very much not into the idea of romance. XD It is very hard to become Gregnant in this game, it appears! XD (Yes, this is what everyone, including Sims Gurus, calls trying for a baby with Greg.) At least she had the pleasure of kicking his ass once! (Even if James is pretty certain that was Greg, in a moment of pity, letting her beat him.) And between marking her territory, scratching up a few objects at the bar, sparring with her brother and some of the Moonwood Collective, learning the Lunar Howl to mix up her temperaments (even getting a couple of the cool blue ones one night!), and Ferociously Intimidating more Sims (gaining enough money to pay the bills in the process, yay), she completed her aspiration and become the true Alpha Apex Predator of Moonwood Mill! The Lone Wolf to beat all Lone Wolves (even if she is still alpha of the Wildfangs).
Angus, meanwhile, sat around and read the same book over and over for much of the episode. XD Well, okay, he did a FEW other things: searched the world for wolfsbane to gather for the cure, picked up the “Enhanced Smell” ability so he could sniff out new treasures to even FIND the book he needed (which is Greggorius Lunvik’s diary, by the way), went to the peak of the Howling Point to pick the moonpetal for the cure – and then abused traveling to make it spawn multiple times (though I get the feeling it blooms multiple times per night regardless?), and surrendered control of the Moonwood Collective to Kristopher’s actual chosen heir, his son Jacob, before leaving, explaining he was taking the cure and being sent off in good standing. :) But mostly he was sitting around constantly reading that diary in a desperate attempt to find the page that actually had the recipe for the cure. He read a lot of cool new lore – the history of the spellcasters, vampires, and werewolves, along with Greg’s personal history with his wife – and even picked up some other cool stuff, like a DIFFERENT drink recipe that helps calm werewolf moodiness, and the secret of the enchanted room in the underground tunnels (though James ended up finding that a bit underwhelming, I’m afraid) – but the damn cure recipe eluded him!
And then Nina found another copy of the diary right outside their house. And learned the recipe on her very first time reading it. XD Unfortunately, Angus had to be the one to craft the cure, so while Nina could at least confirm how many ingredients it needed and pick a little extra wolfsbane for her brother, he was stuck at the bar rereading said book until he finally found the right page too. XD All worth it in the end, though – he made the cure, returned to human form, then drank it and became once more pure human! (Well, uh, semi-pure, he’s still part-alien from his Dad. . .you know what I mean.) So he and Nina have completed all the werewolf stuff now! But there’s still the matter of them actually becoming rich and turning their debug factory lot into a real house. Also Nina’s desired Gregnancy. Also also adopting Cupcake, as James had a chance but lost it as Cupcake despawned before he could click the option, and it’s just not available on dogs you invite to your lot. So I guess we’re due an epilogue sometime in the next couple of weeks! We’ll see how that goes.
B) Then, after supper, we started on my new, truncated Subs with Fun With Shorts – “Millions of Cats!” A short that was basically a reading of a short story by one Wanda Gag about an old couple who want a cat, so the old man goes out to find one, comes across a whole MOUNTAINFUL, can’t decide which one he wants, takes them all home, then upon asking which one is the prettiest, starts a giant cat fight where the only survivor ends up a little kitten who considered himself homely, which the couple take in and make their pretty cat. Standard little kid fare, and not any weirder than your average Lone Ranger cartoon, really. XD Though Josh, as usual, had some good riffs, mostly involving how he personally isn’t a cat person. :p
C) Then it was on to Call Me Kevin, playing a different entry in The Sims series – The Sims 2! Yes, he was back to that one again, because he’d gotten the old Prima game guide for the base game (explaining how it was essentially his favorite book when he was a little Kevin, waiting for his parents to get a new computer for him to actually play Sims 2 on) and wanted to try playing the game according to the guide! This included buying all of the guide’s weirdly specific items for a Sim in a new house (which, in Sim!Kevin’s case, was the one right next to his previous deeply-cursed lot with Bigfoot and the cats); giving Sim!Kevin the Romance aspiration and a thing for blond people and making sure to get him the “Love Tub” to make romantic interactions easier; inviting someone in and promptly doing as much love-tubbing with them as possible (which did not actually result in any love); trying to consult the guide on a work chance card, only for it to cancel itself when he tabbed back into the game; throwing two New Year’s Bashes in a row to get as many blond people into his orbit as possible (the first one had a great score thanks to Kevin consulting the guide and making sure to have fun activities, but also ended with Sim!Kevin making an enemy of someone in the housewares business and having to pay more for everything in the build catalog; the second one arguably was more fun, with Sim!Kevin woohooing his new squeeze Gary with his new double bed while the other guests played darts, but ended with a score of only “Not Bad”); trying to go on a date with someone, only to be stood up – and finding Gary dining with someone else at the club; fortunately discovering Gary was only too happy to make out and have some public woohoo in the photo booth (with everyone cheering them on – except one Sim who was obsessed with poking Sim!Kevin); and finally making some late-night salmon, only for Sim!Kevin to leave it to burn so he could eat rotten pancakes, starting a kitchen fire. Which Sim!Kevin refused to stop freaking out about so he could call the fire department. And then he ran THROUGH the fire when directed to run outside, and died on his back porch in flames. ...You know, Kevin opened the video admitting his very first Sims 2 Sim ALSO died while he was following the game guide on how to live his life. . .
D) And finally, we had GrayStillPlays and the return of Long Neck Run! That game where you have to give your character a neck longer than most known skyscrapers. Apparently because your character has to eventually save their loved one from a tower using only the power of their neck. O.o Yeah, I was surprised to hear this game had even a shred of plot myself. We weren’t interested in plot, though – just making the neck as long as possible! And as Gray hadn’t actually figured out how to cheese it (yet) he had to rely on skill – which he actually had some of! He went through a king with donuts for necks, a bunny with flowers for necks, and a dinosaur with tires for necks, and the end result was a creature with a neck higher than a wind turbine, the Eiffel Tower, what I presume to be the Titanic or similar cruise liner stood on its end, and A FREAKING TSUNAMI. Gray was very pleased with this turn of events. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – pretty easy so far, as I just had the one ask reply for Valice Multiverse. Which is good, as, again, period.
Yeaaaah, I think the YouTube section makes it clear that I'm still fairly cranky. But I just. . .I dunno. I LIKE the videos, it's just I have such limited free time during weekdays that having hour-long stuff just appearing on the regular in the Subs was -- yeah. Better if it isn't sitting there taunting me.
Anyway -- I'm still doing the social thing and trying to catch up on stuff, so let me wrap up here with the Saturday non-cleaning to-do list:
1. Write the second draft of the gift fic
2. Keep up on YouTube Subs and see if I can clear out the Watch Later
3. Play Sims 4 and send Smiler to Henford-on-Bagley for "Night On The Town"
4. Work on tumblr drafts
We'll see how it all goes! I AM gonna be on the second day of my period, and that tends to hit the hardest. . . Night all!
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