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crossover_chick) wrote2022-07-18 11:26 pm
crossover_chick) wrote2022-07-18 11:26 pm
In Distinct Contrast To Yesterday, Starting This At A Decent Hour
Though admittedly that might be because I a) wasn't watching things into the ten o'clock hour and b) wasn't trying to answer a message and getting ticked off because it was "too long" as per DW rules. But yes, not here mere minutes before midnight like some sort of weird reverse Cinderella, with a to-do list:
Work – Busier day than the last few weeks have been – with the processing freeze officially over, our credit card company is dumping into our system all the backlogged payments, and that makes for a longer GL! And it’s even longer when you’re juggling credit card update requests, and coworkers asking for your help, and having to make up a new GL template because you reach the end of the current one. . .and then this afternoon was mostly a QC file for a new billing. I mean, it made the day go by, but it wasn’t exactly nice. *sigh* Getting a late start on my commute in because of a last-minute clothing change (Mom gave me a new skirt from her old wardrobe that matched the shirt I was wearing better) and then having a longer-than-usual ride home because it was POURING most of the afternoon didn’t help.
Beanbags – Not today, due to the aforementioned “POURING most of the afternoon.” We’ll have to see if and when the boards dry out – supposed to be hot tomorrow, so fingers crossed?
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike today, and onto the next Oxventure – “Court In The Act!” Sponsored by a new beer that had just come out at the time, for unknown reasons – well, bills don’t pay themselves. :p Having spent a week fixing up Necropolis-On-Sea and painting various Corazon-themed murals with varying degrees of skill, the gang sailed off to a nearby seaside town, Otherway, to celebrate the end of all that painting with some nice seafood! And some fossil-hunting – an early nat 20 earned Dob an entire plesiosaur skeleton that he was dragging around behind him (though he did get sand EVERYWHERE – which is odd, because Otherway has a pebble beach). XD The gang was just taking in some fresh sea air for a change when they spotted a large local tavern called The Billy Club, with a big advertisement on its door asking for bards, half-orc preferred.
Naturally, Corazon decided this was the perfect opportunity to charm everyone with his musical talents, since Dob was into fossil-hunting now and all. XD The gang went in to check the place out – Corazon and Dob, thanks to middling Wis/Per rolls, saw a club with a really nice stage for performing on – fancy candles, spotlights, the works. Egbert and Prudence, with better rolls, spotted immediately that this was an organized crime den, featuring many men in fancy suits, and a fellow providing ambiance via a saxophone. And Merilwen?
Merilwen got a nat one and thought she spotted a goat going upstairs and promptly followed it in a “I love animals” haze, only to be confronted by the PERSON she’d followed about why she was up there when the upstairs bar was closed. A decent Charisma check managed to get him to at least not question her story about concentrating on her dirty fingernails and needing the bathroom. XD Oh Merilwen.
Meanwhile, downstairs, Dob joined up with the saxophonist, and thanks to a double high roll (Johnny getting a nat 20), they ended up jamming together very well! The bartender, one Mikey Smashthings, noticed the performance and asked if they’d come in because of the advertisement – Corazon promptly said yes, jumped on the stage, made a BTTF reference (specifically what Marty tells the Starlighters when he starts “Johnny B. Goode” – “All right, this is a blues riff in B, watch me for the changes and try and keep up”), and then proceeded to sing a fairly terrible song about the town. XD Mikey (who wavered between “extremely stereotypical Italian” and “Christopher Walken”) praised him for his “pipes” and Dob for his playing, and asked if they’d BOTH like to perform later that night, with Corazon as the warm-up act and Dob as the main event (Corazon kept trying to misunderstand that so he could be the main event, but Mikey was very clear), with a 70-30 cut of the evening’s takings. Dob agreed, though he did specify (after looking at Corazon for confirmation) that the cut be of the evening’s money, which greatly confused Mikey but made his Oxventurer friends happy. Corazon, however, was a touch suspicious of the generous offer – not enough to REFUSE it, but enough to start twigging that there wasn’t something quite right about the place.
Anyway – with the gig set, Mikey told them the rules – no covers, and they had to perform wearing fancy tuxes. Dob promptly tried to change into his at the bar, with a startled Mikey telling him it wasn’t THAT sort of club. XD Corazon got him in a back room to change as Merilwen was thrown down the stairs after making one too many puns upstairs, and the gang settled in to wait for the actual performance. Prudence, Egbert, and Merilwen got a fancy table near the stage with snacks and drinks – Prudence and Egbert informed Merilwen that they were in a crime den, and reassured her that it would be fine so long as she looked the other way while all the crime was happening (Merilwen decided to close her eyes so she literally couldn’t see it); while Dob and Corazon got a “green room,” also with snacks and drinks (Egbert, lured by the smell of more snacks, wandered in for a bit – Corazon and Dob suggested adding him to the act briefly to dance, but Mikey shot it down) – and some hidden weapons on the walls. Dob promptly tried to play a crossbow like a lute as he talked about how he wanted to handle the gig, and fired a bolt into a beam, prompting a guy to come in and ask where the “stiff” was. Corazon and Dob quickly said that they’d like some “stiff” drinks, and the guy, realizing there was no body, said he’d get them some. Corazon, by this point, had finally realized this place was the equivalent of a mob hangout, and explained thus to Dob, who was surprised but – well, still willing to play. He’s played to lots of criminals before. Corazon was just trying to figure out the angle. . .all while Prudence and Merilwen got rather drunk discussing whether they were criminals and how lucrative crime could be and suchlike. XD Fun adventure so far, even if I don’t think I’ve fully appreciated a couple of the jokes that have made them crack up laughing so far. On the other hand, due to the sponsorship, they are DRINKING during this particular livestream, so maybe it’s not me, it’s them. XD Either way, BTTF reference for the win, and I look forward to seeing where this particular adventure goes! My personal guess so far is that this is a trap of some kind, with Dob in particular being made to look like someone else who might be in trouble with the law. . .
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – we have officially started Chapter Two, aka the return of Victor! :D He’s now earned major character status, and we’re joining back up with him as he’s slowly going mental trying to figure out what happened to him a few days ago, who his mysterious savior was, and why he can’t get the taste of her blood out of his head. :p Fortunately, in an attempt to clear his head, he happens to have wandered into a certain Santa Monica nightclub, where a certain former-bounty-hunter-turned-Nossie-ghoul is going to have a very easy time finding him. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check, though that was easy as there was only one today. So I took the opportunity to get something short out of my Watch Later too –
A) That being the latest from Simmer Erin: “WATCH THIS BEFORE BUYING THE SIMS 4 HIGH SCHOOL YEARS EXPANSION PACK (GAMEPLAY, BB, CAS & GLITCHES)” This video aimed to clear up a few things about the new pack now that information is coming out pretty fast (such as the clothing items not being locked to teens; being able to build your own boba tea shop – and not necessarily with thrift store items; and how the school year works – it’s tied to however long teen lifespans are to allow the maximum number of teens to experience high school) and also warn of an already-known glitch (namely, graduations don’t seem to be working correctly – apparently no one Erin knows who got Early Access was able to attend a graduation). And to recommend a few reviews from Simmers, top of the list being Plumbella. :p Some nice bits of clarifying information here, even if it didn’t serve to get me any more excited about the pack. In fact, the report of that graduation bug is making it less and less likely I’ll buy it. . .we’ll see what happens, I suppose!
B) And then it was over to GrayStillPlays in the Subs for “When you can lift the entire universe,” aka Gray Still Plays Muscle Rush! This is another terrible mobile game where you play one of a selection of characters – ranging from “generic dude” and “generic lady” to “the Genie from Aladdin, living subsections of space and lava, discount Hulk, and John Rambo himself” – and have to run them across an obstacle course, picking up “power” to make them stronger and more muscled while avoiding various hazards that might reduce their bulk, such as backwards-running treadmills and electrified walls. There are also people in your path, but you can just smack them out of your way (and even use them to break obstacles). Each level either ends with your character smashing through as many multiplier walls as possible, or arm-wrestling a random character (from a grandma, to an alien, to a freaking alligator – Gray was actually sorry to win that fight). It’s completely weird and ridiculous, so Gray of course had to play the hell out of it and show off both how good he could get at the game AND how badly he could play it (because seeing the weeny little versions of the characters is fun too). Typical Gray mobile nonsense!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: I didn’t actually touch anything in my actual drafts, BUT I caught up on all the days I missed of Moose’s McFlyJuly stories over on Victor Luvs Alice, so I’m gonna count that as a check, w00.
*nods* Good, that's much better when it comes to planning my time. Especially with the YouTube -- I like James Turner, but I think unsubbing from him was the right call, because when his videos are just in the Recommended it's easier for me to ignore them without feeling the stress of "must complete this thing." And I need short videos so I have time for other stuff. *nods*
Speaking of which, I've got one comment to answer, then I'm getting to bed so I can try and get a little more sleep. All other items of interest shall be handled tomorrow! Night all!
Work – Busier day than the last few weeks have been – with the processing freeze officially over, our credit card company is dumping into our system all the backlogged payments, and that makes for a longer GL! And it’s even longer when you’re juggling credit card update requests, and coworkers asking for your help, and having to make up a new GL template because you reach the end of the current one. . .and then this afternoon was mostly a QC file for a new billing. I mean, it made the day go by, but it wasn’t exactly nice. *sigh* Getting a late start on my commute in because of a last-minute clothing change (Mom gave me a new skirt from her old wardrobe that matched the shirt I was wearing better) and then having a longer-than-usual ride home because it was POURING most of the afternoon didn’t help.
Beanbags – Not today, due to the aforementioned “POURING most of the afternoon.” We’ll have to see if and when the boards dry out – supposed to be hot tomorrow, so fingers crossed?
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike today, and onto the next Oxventure – “Court In The Act!” Sponsored by a new beer that had just come out at the time, for unknown reasons – well, bills don’t pay themselves. :p Having spent a week fixing up Necropolis-On-Sea and painting various Corazon-themed murals with varying degrees of skill, the gang sailed off to a nearby seaside town, Otherway, to celebrate the end of all that painting with some nice seafood! And some fossil-hunting – an early nat 20 earned Dob an entire plesiosaur skeleton that he was dragging around behind him (though he did get sand EVERYWHERE – which is odd, because Otherway has a pebble beach). XD The gang was just taking in some fresh sea air for a change when they spotted a large local tavern called The Billy Club, with a big advertisement on its door asking for bards, half-orc preferred.
Naturally, Corazon decided this was the perfect opportunity to charm everyone with his musical talents, since Dob was into fossil-hunting now and all. XD The gang went in to check the place out – Corazon and Dob, thanks to middling Wis/Per rolls, saw a club with a really nice stage for performing on – fancy candles, spotlights, the works. Egbert and Prudence, with better rolls, spotted immediately that this was an organized crime den, featuring many men in fancy suits, and a fellow providing ambiance via a saxophone. And Merilwen?
Merilwen got a nat one and thought she spotted a goat going upstairs and promptly followed it in a “I love animals” haze, only to be confronted by the PERSON she’d followed about why she was up there when the upstairs bar was closed. A decent Charisma check managed to get him to at least not question her story about concentrating on her dirty fingernails and needing the bathroom. XD Oh Merilwen.
Meanwhile, downstairs, Dob joined up with the saxophonist, and thanks to a double high roll (Johnny getting a nat 20), they ended up jamming together very well! The bartender, one Mikey Smashthings, noticed the performance and asked if they’d come in because of the advertisement – Corazon promptly said yes, jumped on the stage, made a BTTF reference (specifically what Marty tells the Starlighters when he starts “Johnny B. Goode” – “All right, this is a blues riff in B, watch me for the changes and try and keep up”), and then proceeded to sing a fairly terrible song about the town. XD Mikey (who wavered between “extremely stereotypical Italian” and “Christopher Walken”) praised him for his “pipes” and Dob for his playing, and asked if they’d BOTH like to perform later that night, with Corazon as the warm-up act and Dob as the main event (Corazon kept trying to misunderstand that so he could be the main event, but Mikey was very clear), with a 70-30 cut of the evening’s takings. Dob agreed, though he did specify (after looking at Corazon for confirmation) that the cut be of the evening’s money, which greatly confused Mikey but made his Oxventurer friends happy. Corazon, however, was a touch suspicious of the generous offer – not enough to REFUSE it, but enough to start twigging that there wasn’t something quite right about the place.
Anyway – with the gig set, Mikey told them the rules – no covers, and they had to perform wearing fancy tuxes. Dob promptly tried to change into his at the bar, with a startled Mikey telling him it wasn’t THAT sort of club. XD Corazon got him in a back room to change as Merilwen was thrown down the stairs after making one too many puns upstairs, and the gang settled in to wait for the actual performance. Prudence, Egbert, and Merilwen got a fancy table near the stage with snacks and drinks – Prudence and Egbert informed Merilwen that they were in a crime den, and reassured her that it would be fine so long as she looked the other way while all the crime was happening (Merilwen decided to close her eyes so she literally couldn’t see it); while Dob and Corazon got a “green room,” also with snacks and drinks (Egbert, lured by the smell of more snacks, wandered in for a bit – Corazon and Dob suggested adding him to the act briefly to dance, but Mikey shot it down) – and some hidden weapons on the walls. Dob promptly tried to play a crossbow like a lute as he talked about how he wanted to handle the gig, and fired a bolt into a beam, prompting a guy to come in and ask where the “stiff” was. Corazon and Dob quickly said that they’d like some “stiff” drinks, and the guy, realizing there was no body, said he’d get them some. Corazon, by this point, had finally realized this place was the equivalent of a mob hangout, and explained thus to Dob, who was surprised but – well, still willing to play. He’s played to lots of criminals before. Corazon was just trying to figure out the angle. . .all while Prudence and Merilwen got rather drunk discussing whether they were criminals and how lucrative crime could be and suchlike. XD Fun adventure so far, even if I don’t think I’ve fully appreciated a couple of the jokes that have made them crack up laughing so far. On the other hand, due to the sponsorship, they are DRINKING during this particular livestream, so maybe it’s not me, it’s them. XD Either way, BTTF reference for the win, and I look forward to seeing where this particular adventure goes! My personal guess so far is that this is a trap of some kind, with Dob in particular being made to look like someone else who might be in trouble with the law. . .
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – we have officially started Chapter Two, aka the return of Victor! :D He’s now earned major character status, and we’re joining back up with him as he’s slowly going mental trying to figure out what happened to him a few days ago, who his mysterious savior was, and why he can’t get the taste of her blood out of his head. :p Fortunately, in an attempt to clear his head, he happens to have wandered into a certain Santa Monica nightclub, where a certain former-bounty-hunter-turned-Nossie-ghoul is going to have a very easy time finding him. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check, though that was easy as there was only one today. So I took the opportunity to get something short out of my Watch Later too –
A) That being the latest from Simmer Erin: “WATCH THIS BEFORE BUYING THE SIMS 4 HIGH SCHOOL YEARS EXPANSION PACK (GAMEPLAY, BB, CAS & GLITCHES)” This video aimed to clear up a few things about the new pack now that information is coming out pretty fast (such as the clothing items not being locked to teens; being able to build your own boba tea shop – and not necessarily with thrift store items; and how the school year works – it’s tied to however long teen lifespans are to allow the maximum number of teens to experience high school) and also warn of an already-known glitch (namely, graduations don’t seem to be working correctly – apparently no one Erin knows who got Early Access was able to attend a graduation). And to recommend a few reviews from Simmers, top of the list being Plumbella. :p Some nice bits of clarifying information here, even if it didn’t serve to get me any more excited about the pack. In fact, the report of that graduation bug is making it less and less likely I’ll buy it. . .we’ll see what happens, I suppose!
B) And then it was over to GrayStillPlays in the Subs for “When you can lift the entire universe,” aka Gray Still Plays Muscle Rush! This is another terrible mobile game where you play one of a selection of characters – ranging from “generic dude” and “generic lady” to “the Genie from Aladdin, living subsections of space and lava, discount Hulk, and John Rambo himself” – and have to run them across an obstacle course, picking up “power” to make them stronger and more muscled while avoiding various hazards that might reduce their bulk, such as backwards-running treadmills and electrified walls. There are also people in your path, but you can just smack them out of your way (and even use them to break obstacles). Each level either ends with your character smashing through as many multiplier walls as possible, or arm-wrestling a random character (from a grandma, to an alien, to a freaking alligator – Gray was actually sorry to win that fight). It’s completely weird and ridiculous, so Gray of course had to play the hell out of it and show off both how good he could get at the game AND how badly he could play it (because seeing the weeny little versions of the characters is fun too). Typical Gray mobile nonsense!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: I didn’t actually touch anything in my actual drafts, BUT I caught up on all the days I missed of Moose’s McFlyJuly stories over on Victor Luvs Alice, so I’m gonna count that as a check, w00.
*nods* Good, that's much better when it comes to planning my time. Especially with the YouTube -- I like James Turner, but I think unsubbing from him was the right call, because when his videos are just in the Recommended it's easier for me to ignore them without feeling the stress of "must complete this thing." And I need short videos so I have time for other stuff. *nods*
Speaking of which, I've got one comment to answer, then I'm getting to bed so I can try and get a little more sleep. All other items of interest shall be handled tomorrow! Night all!