Slightly Less Rainy Tuesday
Sep. 6th, 2022 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickIt finally started tapering off today -- some periods of heavy rain still, but by the time I left work, it was starting to become more "misty" than anything else. Which is good, because I'm not sure the ground could have taken much more -- we must have gotten a good MONTH'S worth of rain over the past two days. What the hell even is WITH this weather? Sheesh. . .
Well, anyway, I did have a pretty productive day, all things considered:
Work – The rain situation had improved marginally by the time I woke up (at the very least, all the flooding had been taken care of), so I did have work, and it was all right. Kind of a busy day on the phones, with me calling people, people calling me back, people calling me on their own – fair amount of credit card stuff. Not much going on beyond that, though. We will see how the rest of the week progresses!
Beanbags – It’s been raining almost nonstop for two days straight, soooo. . .honestly, I’m not sure WHEN we’ll get to play again – the boards are under the eaves, but I suspect they and the beanbags are still going to need some time to dry out.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike today, and back with the Oxventure for the next episode – “Brine and Punishment!” Having escaped the Inevitability fifteen hours ago, the crew had managed to work their way through the coral reef that they’d hidden in and make it back to open water – all the while listening to Corazon workshop various jokes about how poorly the Inevitability was named. XD For poor Dob, spotting Merilwen climbing up the side of the boat as a giant octopus was an intense relief – at least, until she responded to Rust’s attempt to turn her into calamari (having never seen her octopus form) with a pun about “calamar-me” and he went straight back to Corazon. XD Corazon, meanwhile, decided to just drop “oh hey, we learned Egbert can cast Moonbeam” on her right away, leading to her wondering how the hell the PALADIN picked up what she thought was a DRUID spell exclusive to the order she’s in, the Circle Of The Moon. Egbert wasn’t sure – it was just one of those things, you know? And then Corazon decided to give casting it HIMSELF a go because he’s Corazon – a decent performance roll on his part, a bad roll on Merilwen’s, and an assist from Egbert meant that he “pulled it off” and the Moonbeam fried a passing school of mackerel. XD Rust promptly got excited about the fish, and Dob dove in and got 39 of them for him to snack on, with Rust kindly allowing Corazon to have six to make some pate and toast. XD
Anyway, Merilwen brought news – while the couples’ therapy had gone decently well, things were still a little rough between Panniers and the whale. Said whale did not really feel like their needs were being met, starting with the fact that Panniers was calling them “Panniers II” instead of a unique name (does anyone in the actual cast remember that the whale’s name is Henry?), and so the two had gone off together to do sort of a couples’ retreat thing and reconnect. Panniers thus asked Corazon to hold off for the moment on actually lifting the curse, as he wanted to be around for that. Corazon was fine with that, and Rust cheerfully said that they should go looking for adventure instead! Dob instantly hopped up on the bow and undid one button while striking a dramatic pose. XD The others were fine with adventure, though Merilwen had to be coaxed out of a “Moonbeam isn’t my special cool unique spell anymore” funk by Rust, who got her to help him out with the capstan with the bribe of a mackerel. XD Johnny had the group roll to try and find adventure. Everyone rolled pretty well –
Except Egbert, who thanks to his -1 modifier, got a 2. XD Johnny thus ruled that he went into a panic about the ship going over a waterfall and off the side of Geth. When the other protested that there was no waterfall and that Geth is ROUND, Egbert said that he’d been talking to some groups and that the “famous twin suns of Geth” (famous as of this and last episode, anyway) are just lights people project into the sky or something. Corazon was instantly swayed. XD
For the rest of the people working on the plane of reality, there was a ship on the horizon! A mysterious ship with sails loose, just bobbing about in the water. Prudence declared it a ghost ship, and Corazon and Rust instantly got excited about the prospect of salvage. The Joyful Damnation thus sailed its way over to the – BH (I want to say Baying Hound, but I’m not 100% on the name) and boarded. Corazon put down the gangplank for anyone who wanted to use that (Egbert proceeded over carefully, Merilwen sulkily, and Prudence glidingly), but he and Dob insisted on doing dramatic pirate stuff, with Corazon ziplining over with the help of a rope harpoon, and Dob leaping onto the main mast and ripping his way down the sail with a dagger. XD The BH proved to be a pretty nice and big merchant’s ship, heavy in the water, which the gang hoped meant lots of good loot. Dob and Merilwen elected to check the hold; Egbert went in search of snacks; and Corazon and Prudence raced to the captain’s cabin (Corazon winning by mere seconds, though he made it up to Prudence by naming her First Mate). In order of how Johnny handled their adventures:
Egbert got a nat 20 and just Kool-Aid-Manned his way into the galley, which was full of cured meats and other preserved items – and an entire barrel of pickles, which he plonked Seal Gaiman into (Seal Gaiman was delighted). There was also a cold pot on the stove with the burned remains of SOME kind of meal, suggesting that someone had left the kitchen in a hurry and forgotten about dinner. Hmm.
Dob and Merilwen got decent rolls and found a good chunk of the cargo – barrels of spices, precious metals, fine fabrics. Nothing too exciting, though the fabrics in particular seemed to have stuff all over them. . .and then they lit the lamps and discovered said stuff was BLOOD. A massive amount of it, all over the place. Along with weapons showing signs of a massive struggle. . .but no bodies. A completely freaked Merilwen said to Dob they should go upstairs and tell Corazon and Prudence, and they put out the lamps and just booked it out of there.
Corazon and Prudence also got decent rolls – and ALSO found the captain’s cabin to be full of blood. (Plus a nice drinks cabinet with brandy, which they each took a big glass of.) Specifically, blood all over the desk. The two went all CSI: Ocean and were able to determine, despite getting drunker by the minute, that the cause of this blood had been the captain being shot in the head through the window that looked onto the little gangway and just hitting the desk. Dob and Merilwen showed up to report their own findings then, and the question about where the hell all the corpses were was raised again. Not that Prudence and Corazon cared, now thoroughly in their cups. XD Dob went out to see if he could find any further clues as to who had shot the captain out on the gangway, while Egbert – deciding he ought to go check up on the others – had to pop an EXTREMELY overstuffed Seal Gaiman out of the pickle barrel. XD That’s where I left it – we’ll see where this mystery takes us tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – I have gotten past the scene break, with the group now curled up for the night in the car, trying to get some sleep before Alice takes Victor, Victoria, and Emily all back to Hill Valley. Except Victor feels like he needs to clear the air with Alice first. . .cue the “Are We Out Of The Woods Yet” snippet, with Victor apologizing for the “not your murder buddy” comment and explaining that he just can’t put the fact that he murdered someone to one side, and Alice explaining she gets it, she really does. Cue some more very heartfelt conversation coming up, and more Valice angst. :(
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – simple two-in, two-out today –
A) First up, we had Call Me Kevin and “Trying to beat the Sims 1 made me go insane” – more of Jim “Gladiator” Pickens in the original The Sims game! Kevin decided he, Jim, and Jim’s new wife Cornelia, henceforth known as “Corn,” hadn’t suffered enough. XD And things got pretty chaotic this episode – Jim hired a butler and bought a load of nice appliances, random fun things (including a giant fish tank and an oxygen bar), and new decorations (including a giant terrifying clown statue) with Corn’s money – but then the butler blocked him in the doorway of his bedroom and kept him from going to work two days in a row, meaning he was fired. Jim managed to get a new and better job as a TEACHER, of all things, and progressed really well through the career, becoming a college professor – but ended up killing Corn’s cats accidentally (basically Kevin never got them any food bowls or anything) and Corn very deliberately (locking her in the “jail cell” lined with dancing cages when he got tired of her). And then putting all the graves off on the edge of the lot. Jim got the money to afford a genie lamp – and never got anything good out of the genie. Hell, the genie nearly killed him and Corn (pre-premeditated murder) once by burning up the vibrating bed! O.O Jim used red potions to cause loads of people to fall in love with him and thus get family friends for promotions – but he was never able to KEEP those friends because, well, he’s Jim. The minute he tried to talk to anyone – or, worse, take them on a date Downtown – it all went to shit. Even locking them in a room with a blue potion from the “meth lab” to improve their mood didn’t help, because suddenly no one wanted to drink it! (They all just wanted to use the oxygen bar.) Jim FINALLY managed to get one of his many celebrity loves, one Loretta Somebody, to agree to marry him – only for her to lose her fame as Kevin wasn’t interested in keeping up her career and grow to hate Jim because, again, he’s Jim. And he got them, via many many kisses (both successful and rejected) to have a baby boy, Corn The 2nd, only for Kevin to quickly learn just how annoying Sims 1 babies are and banish it to the meth lab. We’ll see if the kid lasts long enough to age up into a child! XD
B) And second on the list, we had GrayStillPlays and “When criminals have 0 IQ,” otherwise known as Gray Plays Car Cop! One of those awful mobile games where you play as a cop (or, perhaps a “cop” – the outfit did tend to veer toward “Officer Naughty”) and check cars as they go through some sort of traffic stop. And, as typical for these mobile games, things got weird very fast – weird as in “discount Ghostface passes the check at the stop to blow up some cops” weird. XD Gray, of course, enabled this behavior as best he could – taking bribes, disabling bombs and then letting the potential bomber go, letting through people whose two-year-old had drawn their license, and refusing to arrest Batman despite the fact that he was carrying a gun AND a grenade and thus was clearly in fact Crazy Steve. XD He was also very disappointed in the lack of people shoved into the trunks of cars – he only had ONE hostage he had to rescue. (Well, there was also the dance party in the back of some guy’s truck, but Gray had NO idea what to make of that.) But he did get to enable a lot of chaos, and he did get to do it all while wearing a bear mascot’s head, a maid’s outfit, or an Elsa from Frozen-style dress, so he was happy in the end. :P
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got the Chill Save update and the two tag game posts into my queue on Victor Luvs Alice, and one ask reply into the Valice Multiverse queue. Nothing too strenuous!
*nods* Good, good. Hopefully I can keep this up for the rest of the week. . .should get easier as my period wanes, of course. Stupid red curse. . .night all!
Well, anyway, I did have a pretty productive day, all things considered:
Work – The rain situation had improved marginally by the time I woke up (at the very least, all the flooding had been taken care of), so I did have work, and it was all right. Kind of a busy day on the phones, with me calling people, people calling me back, people calling me on their own – fair amount of credit card stuff. Not much going on beyond that, though. We will see how the rest of the week progresses!
Beanbags – It’s been raining almost nonstop for two days straight, soooo. . .honestly, I’m not sure WHEN we’ll get to play again – the boards are under the eaves, but I suspect they and the beanbags are still going to need some time to dry out.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike today, and back with the Oxventure for the next episode – “Brine and Punishment!” Having escaped the Inevitability fifteen hours ago, the crew had managed to work their way through the coral reef that they’d hidden in and make it back to open water – all the while listening to Corazon workshop various jokes about how poorly the Inevitability was named. XD For poor Dob, spotting Merilwen climbing up the side of the boat as a giant octopus was an intense relief – at least, until she responded to Rust’s attempt to turn her into calamari (having never seen her octopus form) with a pun about “calamar-me” and he went straight back to Corazon. XD Corazon, meanwhile, decided to just drop “oh hey, we learned Egbert can cast Moonbeam” on her right away, leading to her wondering how the hell the PALADIN picked up what she thought was a DRUID spell exclusive to the order she’s in, the Circle Of The Moon. Egbert wasn’t sure – it was just one of those things, you know? And then Corazon decided to give casting it HIMSELF a go because he’s Corazon – a decent performance roll on his part, a bad roll on Merilwen’s, and an assist from Egbert meant that he “pulled it off” and the Moonbeam fried a passing school of mackerel. XD Rust promptly got excited about the fish, and Dob dove in and got 39 of them for him to snack on, with Rust kindly allowing Corazon to have six to make some pate and toast. XD
Anyway, Merilwen brought news – while the couples’ therapy had gone decently well, things were still a little rough between Panniers and the whale. Said whale did not really feel like their needs were being met, starting with the fact that Panniers was calling them “Panniers II” instead of a unique name (does anyone in the actual cast remember that the whale’s name is Henry?), and so the two had gone off together to do sort of a couples’ retreat thing and reconnect. Panniers thus asked Corazon to hold off for the moment on actually lifting the curse, as he wanted to be around for that. Corazon was fine with that, and Rust cheerfully said that they should go looking for adventure instead! Dob instantly hopped up on the bow and undid one button while striking a dramatic pose. XD The others were fine with adventure, though Merilwen had to be coaxed out of a “Moonbeam isn’t my special cool unique spell anymore” funk by Rust, who got her to help him out with the capstan with the bribe of a mackerel. XD Johnny had the group roll to try and find adventure. Everyone rolled pretty well –
Except Egbert, who thanks to his -1 modifier, got a 2. XD Johnny thus ruled that he went into a panic about the ship going over a waterfall and off the side of Geth. When the other protested that there was no waterfall and that Geth is ROUND, Egbert said that he’d been talking to some groups and that the “famous twin suns of Geth” (famous as of this and last episode, anyway) are just lights people project into the sky or something. Corazon was instantly swayed. XD
For the rest of the people working on the plane of reality, there was a ship on the horizon! A mysterious ship with sails loose, just bobbing about in the water. Prudence declared it a ghost ship, and Corazon and Rust instantly got excited about the prospect of salvage. The Joyful Damnation thus sailed its way over to the – BH (I want to say Baying Hound, but I’m not 100% on the name) and boarded. Corazon put down the gangplank for anyone who wanted to use that (Egbert proceeded over carefully, Merilwen sulkily, and Prudence glidingly), but he and Dob insisted on doing dramatic pirate stuff, with Corazon ziplining over with the help of a rope harpoon, and Dob leaping onto the main mast and ripping his way down the sail with a dagger. XD The BH proved to be a pretty nice and big merchant’s ship, heavy in the water, which the gang hoped meant lots of good loot. Dob and Merilwen elected to check the hold; Egbert went in search of snacks; and Corazon and Prudence raced to the captain’s cabin (Corazon winning by mere seconds, though he made it up to Prudence by naming her First Mate). In order of how Johnny handled their adventures:
Egbert got a nat 20 and just Kool-Aid-Manned his way into the galley, which was full of cured meats and other preserved items – and an entire barrel of pickles, which he plonked Seal Gaiman into (Seal Gaiman was delighted). There was also a cold pot on the stove with the burned remains of SOME kind of meal, suggesting that someone had left the kitchen in a hurry and forgotten about dinner. Hmm.
Dob and Merilwen got decent rolls and found a good chunk of the cargo – barrels of spices, precious metals, fine fabrics. Nothing too exciting, though the fabrics in particular seemed to have stuff all over them. . .and then they lit the lamps and discovered said stuff was BLOOD. A massive amount of it, all over the place. Along with weapons showing signs of a massive struggle. . .but no bodies. A completely freaked Merilwen said to Dob they should go upstairs and tell Corazon and Prudence, and they put out the lamps and just booked it out of there.
Corazon and Prudence also got decent rolls – and ALSO found the captain’s cabin to be full of blood. (Plus a nice drinks cabinet with brandy, which they each took a big glass of.) Specifically, blood all over the desk. The two went all CSI: Ocean and were able to determine, despite getting drunker by the minute, that the cause of this blood had been the captain being shot in the head through the window that looked onto the little gangway and just hitting the desk. Dob and Merilwen showed up to report their own findings then, and the question about where the hell all the corpses were was raised again. Not that Prudence and Corazon cared, now thoroughly in their cups. XD Dob went out to see if he could find any further clues as to who had shot the captain out on the gangway, while Egbert – deciding he ought to go check up on the others – had to pop an EXTREMELY overstuffed Seal Gaiman out of the pickle barrel. XD That’s where I left it – we’ll see where this mystery takes us tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – I have gotten past the scene break, with the group now curled up for the night in the car, trying to get some sleep before Alice takes Victor, Victoria, and Emily all back to Hill Valley. Except Victor feels like he needs to clear the air with Alice first. . .cue the “Are We Out Of The Woods Yet” snippet, with Victor apologizing for the “not your murder buddy” comment and explaining that he just can’t put the fact that he murdered someone to one side, and Alice explaining she gets it, she really does. Cue some more very heartfelt conversation coming up, and more Valice angst. :(
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – simple two-in, two-out today –
A) First up, we had Call Me Kevin and “Trying to beat the Sims 1 made me go insane” – more of Jim “Gladiator” Pickens in the original The Sims game! Kevin decided he, Jim, and Jim’s new wife Cornelia, henceforth known as “Corn,” hadn’t suffered enough. XD And things got pretty chaotic this episode – Jim hired a butler and bought a load of nice appliances, random fun things (including a giant fish tank and an oxygen bar), and new decorations (including a giant terrifying clown statue) with Corn’s money – but then the butler blocked him in the doorway of his bedroom and kept him from going to work two days in a row, meaning he was fired. Jim managed to get a new and better job as a TEACHER, of all things, and progressed really well through the career, becoming a college professor – but ended up killing Corn’s cats accidentally (basically Kevin never got them any food bowls or anything) and Corn very deliberately (locking her in the “jail cell” lined with dancing cages when he got tired of her). And then putting all the graves off on the edge of the lot. Jim got the money to afford a genie lamp – and never got anything good out of the genie. Hell, the genie nearly killed him and Corn (pre-premeditated murder) once by burning up the vibrating bed! O.O Jim used red potions to cause loads of people to fall in love with him and thus get family friends for promotions – but he was never able to KEEP those friends because, well, he’s Jim. The minute he tried to talk to anyone – or, worse, take them on a date Downtown – it all went to shit. Even locking them in a room with a blue potion from the “meth lab” to improve their mood didn’t help, because suddenly no one wanted to drink it! (They all just wanted to use the oxygen bar.) Jim FINALLY managed to get one of his many celebrity loves, one Loretta Somebody, to agree to marry him – only for her to lose her fame as Kevin wasn’t interested in keeping up her career and grow to hate Jim because, again, he’s Jim. And he got them, via many many kisses (both successful and rejected) to have a baby boy, Corn The 2nd, only for Kevin to quickly learn just how annoying Sims 1 babies are and banish it to the meth lab. We’ll see if the kid lasts long enough to age up into a child! XD
B) And second on the list, we had GrayStillPlays and “When criminals have 0 IQ,” otherwise known as Gray Plays Car Cop! One of those awful mobile games where you play as a cop (or, perhaps a “cop” – the outfit did tend to veer toward “Officer Naughty”) and check cars as they go through some sort of traffic stop. And, as typical for these mobile games, things got weird very fast – weird as in “discount Ghostface passes the check at the stop to blow up some cops” weird. XD Gray, of course, enabled this behavior as best he could – taking bribes, disabling bombs and then letting the potential bomber go, letting through people whose two-year-old had drawn their license, and refusing to arrest Batman despite the fact that he was carrying a gun AND a grenade and thus was clearly in fact Crazy Steve. XD He was also very disappointed in the lack of people shoved into the trunks of cars – he only had ONE hostage he had to rescue. (Well, there was also the dance party in the back of some guy’s truck, but Gray had NO idea what to make of that.) But he did get to enable a lot of chaos, and he did get to do it all while wearing a bear mascot’s head, a maid’s outfit, or an Elsa from Frozen-style dress, so he was happy in the end. :P
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got the Chill Save update and the two tag game posts into my queue on Victor Luvs Alice, and one ask reply into the Valice Multiverse queue. Nothing too strenuous!
*nods* Good, good. Hopefully I can keep this up for the rest of the week. . .should get easier as my period wanes, of course. Stupid red curse. . .night all!
