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You'll see some of this in my to-do list, but -- my entire afternoon has felt a bit off thanks to having to stop for gas on the way home, then wait for Dad to finish watering so we could play beanbags, then going long on my writing. . . I have both having my routine interrupted and the fact that I have a routine that will annoy me so much when it's interrupted. I hate feeling like I'm a slave to the clock and that if I don't get THESE things done in THIS order then I haven't succeeded for the night. *grumbles* This is why I need a time stop power.

But in lieu of that, here is my to-do list with what I accomplished:

Work – Another quiet day – couple of credit card update calls, then pretty much the rest of the day was going through obituaries. *shrug* I’ll take it, especially with the clock ticking down toward my vacation!

Beanbags – Yes, though later than we usually do it, as Dad ended up watering before I got home instead of after we played, and that caused a delay. Meh. I ended up having basically the opposite of the great game I had yesterday, while Mom finally pulled out a win – final scores were me 3-2-2, Dad W-W-3; Mom 2-3-W. Hopefully I can do better tomorrow!

To-Do List

1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to the Oxventure Stream “Heir Superiority!” Prudence was working the very drunk Gwendolyn the Wise for information, and trying to steer her toward killing Linton (Gwen was not quite up for it, but said that if they gave her a little more time to get hammered. . .) when Dob ended up Messaging her to tell her what he’d learned from Linton. Prudence agreed that the whole “replacing the pin with a bone only he knew how to break” plan was pretty smart, but what did they do now? Dob was like “well, we know Linton is a bad king, we know CORAZON is going to be a bad king” – cut to Corazon choreographing a dance routine, complete with fireworks and whatnot, about how cool he is – “so can you hit up someone for information about how the town USED to govern itself and we’ll try and reestablish like a wise council of elders or something.” Prudence was not exactly keen on having to do work, but said she’d ask Gwen. And then a lot of things happened at once:

A) Corazon, exhausted by the dance routine and the continual parading everyone was asking for, managed to sneak off to the mead hall (pausing only to catch a hot dog in his mouth from Egbert’s crossbow) for a drink, found Prudence, and admitted that while he liked the IDEA of being king, he wasn’t actually all that hot on Dunbridge itself and was all for just stealing as much as he could from the treasury, declaring that the town should become a republic, and then leaving. Gwen immediately drunkenly propositioned him for the position of his girlfriend-in-crime, which rather flustered him. XD

B) Merilwen finally finished her statue, which had a last-minute adjustment made to it so it showed Corazon catching the hot dog in its mouth. As per Johnny, it also had lots of cavities in which to burn incense, and a pull-chain on the back that spouts off Corazon’s new catch phrase “Hot dog, what a cruel thing I’ve done” (inspired by him earlier using the term “hot dog” to refer to the sausages inna bun instead of the increasingly-tortured alternate names everyone else was coming up with, and Johnny ruling he bit a passing actual dog instead) and then makes the statue breathe fire. XD With that out of the way, she sprayed Dob and Linton with a bunch of skunk smell (wrongly believing that Dob genuinely wanted to help Linton) before heading off to the mead hall.

C) Dob, doing his best to ignore the skunk stink, finally managed – with a good Charisma check and some persuasive words – to talk Linton around to the idea of returning to his life as the butcher’s boy and giving up the idea of being king. He did assure him that they WOULD try to topple Corazon/Swordsman Jones as monarch, though, and – after some tortured Les Miserables references and Dob briefly wondering if they should storm city hall and build some barricades – just picked up Linton and carried him to the mead hall.

D) Egbert, who was having a fucking EXCELLENT time just firing sausages into the crowd and not doing any rolls apart from the one to look at the sword, decided to head to the mead hall. XD

So, yes, everyone did end up at the mead hall! Dob and Merilwen made Linton apologize properly to Gwen, and then – feeling the tiniest bit of sympathy for the little twerp, simply because he was a teenager – said that if he wanted, they could go hunting and maybe use it as a test of character to see if he could get a trial position on the eventual council of elders. Linton was extremely whiny about it, but eventually admitted he DID want to go on a hunt and at least LOOK at some animals (Egbert suggested Merilwen just turn into something to make it easier, but Merilwen was unkeen) – the others gathered to prepare, and Dob was like “look, I just want to do some sort of test to see if he’s in any way redeemable or not. Help me come up with a good moral dilemma!”

Cue the invention of the trolley problem in the kingdom of Geth, as Johnny was only too happy to give them a tram system to work with when Corazon suggested tying Dob to some minecart tracks to see if Linton would save him. XD What happened was this – they found one of those switchtracks with two roughly parallel lanes, tied Dob to the left one, and the Lawn Ornament Sword of Kingship to the right one, to force Linton to choose between saving someone who’d actually been at least somewhat nice to him and the thing that could possibly put him back in power. Poor Merilwen ended up in the trolley itself, at the mercy of Gwen, who had already broken into the treasury and stolen all the gold, and was VERY keen on driving this thing pell-mell for leather. The others got Linton, showed him the scene, and told him that he was closest to the switch track and had to choose – his friend, or the symbol of his monarchy! Linton dithered for a while, but then was like “sometimes you gotta be a hero! Sometimes it’s about more than one life!,” switched the track to the right to spare Dob –

AND THEN TRIED TO DIVE TOWARD THE SWORD. As Johnny had just admitted to hating Linton, I think this was an attempt to just kill off the annoying NPC, but Egbert quickly stepped in and gave him a hard shove – and a failed saving throw meant that Linton just got PUNTED out of the way of the runaway tram. XD With the sword destroyed, Gwen threw herself and Merilwen from the tram, executed a beautiful combat roll, and then staggered off into the sunset with all the gold, while Linton refused to help actually UNTIE Dob simply because Dob was no longer in any actual mortal danger (PRUDENCE ended up doing it, which says a lot about Linton). Corazon decided this was the perfect moment to gather everyone and renounce his kingship, reminding everyone of how they suffered for two weeks under Linton and pointing out the destroyed sword –

Only for one dude to go “but we like our traditions here in Dunbridge! And the monarchy is a tradition, even if it is only two weeks old.” Dob promptly sold the man a commemorative plate, which the man paid triple the price for. XD And what was Corazon’s reaction?

Throwing the mock-up he made of the “royal baby” (a couple of cantaloupes in a blanket) at the man before headbutting him and breaking his nose. The man confessed Corazon made an excellent counterpoint. XD This is where I left off, with just over ten minutes to go in the Oxventure. . .

. . .and later this evening, while having my pudding, I was like “oh come on, there’s THAT little time left? Let’s just wrap this up!” XD So I went ahead and watched the last bit of it – with Corazon having headbutted the man who had objected to him giving up the monarchy, Egbert stepped up and made a speech about how they had to make sure to let go of the traditions that might be holding them back, and how to embrace only those that were joyous and made them happy. :) And then he attempted a crowd-surf –

And rolled a critical one (Mike’s SECOND roll of the whole session), stacking it like he’d piledrived himself. Oof. A kindly old lady told him to keep still until help arrived, and he handed over Seal Gaiman to her and asked her to take care of him just in case. Seal Gaiman was only too happy to be taken by someone else. XD The headbutted man then started talking about how they SHOULD give up the monarchy, and also give up trading to all the other towns in the area – Corazon headbutted him again, knocking him out. XD Fortunately the rest of the town was like “no, it’s okay, we think that’s a stupid idea too.” And then Dob tried to lead everyone in a rousing chorus of “Can You Hear The People Sing,” only to be derailed when he started singing about Corazon being overthrown – Corazon promptly jumped in with his OWN verse about how he abdicated and was great and all –

And it turns out all the townspeople were done with this nonsense and headed home. Save for the hot dog seller, who had FINALLY decided to call them hot dogs. So the episode ended with everyone filling up on those (while Prudence put a cone on Egbert to stop him hurting himself any more). XD And with Johnny admitting that they’d derailed this whole thing WAY early on – they’d been hoping to get the adventurers to actually go make hot chocolate for Linton and take him on a hunt, but Corazon having access to Mage Hand scarped THAT idea real quick. XD Ah, I do love these folks and their chaos. . .

2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice has gotten her apartment from LaCroix (initially stunned by the generosity – until Wonderland pointed out having her close makes it easier to keep an eye on her) and remet Victor! I actually ended up going long because I wanted to rewrite the whole actual reunion snippet, since it’s not that long. :) But yes, they are finally together, and off to visit Alice’s new Skyeline digs! And chat a bit about their lives, which is gonna be interesting. . .

3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Half check – after wrapping up “Heir Superiority,” I only had time for one of the two videos in my Subs today, meeh. This is what happens when I don’t start watching the YouTubes until 9 PM. . . But once I was done finishing my Oxventure, it was over to Call Me Kevin for “I obeyed the law in GTA Online and this happened…” AKA, a return to GTA Online with a new character, a redheaded idiot in a fedora and a cat t-shirt called “NiceGuy!” NiceGuy, being, you know, a nice guy, refused to break the law unless he was forced to. To the point of stopping at every red light while he was driving to one of the tutorial missions. And being forced out of the car by the other players, who sped off and completed the mission while he was walking the streets. XD He ended up an NPC in his own game when the cutscene started! XD Other highlights included:

A) Kevin attempting to do a minor bit of shoplifting during the “hold up the store” mission (instead of, you know, actually holding up the place) and getting murdered by the police and a random civilian with a gun (Kevin promptly claimed that the whole incident was orchestrated by his “evil twin”).

B) Kevin trying to buy a house, and instead getting dumped in the middle of the highway by the casino because he hadn’t actually unlocked buying his own property yet – also the casino was closed and some jerk outside just randomly murdered him.

C) Kevin attempting to do a treasure hunt out in the mountains, only to find that, since he hadn’t completed the tutorial mission of holding up the store, the actual treasure hunt aspect wasn’t unlocked – he did have a lovely time parasailing down to the river, though! Until he knocked over a hiker by accident. And then nearly hijacked a waiting taxi by accident. And then got a new taxi only to get stuck behind the slow hikers. And then tried getting out of the taxi and killing himself to try and respawn closer to civilization – only to end up just on the other side of the river, just in time to watch the taxi finally go AROUND the hikers. And then tried resetting into a new instance, only to STILL be in the mountains! He finally just walked to the main road and took a very slow taxi back while another player in a purple car harassed him out of curiosity.

D) Kevin FINALLY properly holding up the store and clearing the mission – and getting a ride from Purple Car Guy, who proved not to be all that bad! He dropped Kevin off at the tattoo parlor so he could get a cool tattoo of a wheel on his stomach (because he’s a wheely good guy) – Kevin HOPED it would get him some XP, but nothing doing.

E) Kevin repeatedly pretending to rob the store by just shaking his fists a little and losing the cops to rank up without actually doing the next “steal a car” mission – only to discover that, again, actually buying himself a house was locked behind a certain phone call, that he would only get if he, you know, DID THE TUTORIAL MISSIONS. So he grabbed a car that someone had left alone on the side of the road, had it spray-painted a sunny yellow, and customized it with the world’s most annoying horn, leading to him getting beat up the next time he was in traffic. XD Karmic justice to cancel out the crime?

F) Kevin being forced with another guy into a PVP battle to complete the tutorials, and apologizing profusely as the other guy got capped while Kevin tried to hide on a roof.

G) Kevin FINALLY unlocking the ability to buy his own apartment with that – and his own vehicle! He got a cheap dump under a billboard and a motor scooter with a zebra-stripe seat that went about ten miles per hour max. XD He promptly entered it into a race against a guy with a speedy Sprunk bike.

H) Kevin WINNING THE DAMN RACE DESPITE HIS SCOOTER HAVING SOO MUCH TROUBLE WITH HILLS BECAUSE THE OTHER GUY APPARENTLY WENT AFK AND NEVER EVEN MOVED. Always nice to end on a win. Even that kind of win. XD

4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed to one on Victor Luvs Alice, and reblogged my old post about the Neoni cover of “Carry On Wayward Son,” since I both love it and associate it with the “Fallout of Darkness” verse! . . .The video itself no longer works in the post, and I was unable to do an updated version (for some reason, the video just won’t embed), but now at least there’s a link to the video in the reblog? *shrug*

Okay, yes, good, I did get a lot done, I'm glad to have gotten all that writing done on "Londerland Bloodlines," and the stuff I did watch was very enjoyable. I just wish I didn't feel like I had to squeeze all that into what sometimes feels like a surprisingly short amount of time! *sigh* Vacation's coming up, Vic. . .but as it stands, I must get to bed, and try and catch up on more stuff later. Night all!
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