Juggling Things Tonight
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crossover_chickWriting something with a friend, catching up on my webcomics, working my way through my ask replies on Valice Multiverse. . . Let's just get the to-do list up so I can get back to it:
Work – Another quiet day in the office itself, but fortunately the credit card people dumped a week’s worth of updates into the database yesterday, so I had the GL to occupy me all morning, then a QC file most of the afternoon, along with the last of the address updates. Probably the worst part of the day was the drive home, since we had the usual cast of idiots on the road. *huffs* Don’t like.
Beanbags – Yes, thanks to it being nice (if kinda buggy) – and it proved to be a very equitable day, with me coming up from a slow start to a strong finish, while Dad faltered after a good first round and Mom got it together in the middle. Final scores were me 3-2-W; Dad W-3-2; Mom 2-W-3. *nods* I approve of this spread.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, finishing off the Oxventure “Brine and Punishment!” Having arrived at Port Morecow, Corazon went to go question the local criminal element about where the guy lived. He only rolled middlingly well on his Charisma roll, however, and thus was only able to narrow it down to three houses on the left “arm” of the horseshoe-shaped cliffs that surrounded the port. With at least a vague idea of where to go, the group started arguing AGAIN about how best to get an at least semi-public confession out of him, from Merilwen offering to pretend to be a sea god with the help of Prudence’s Thaumaturgy, to Corazon suggesting that they perfectly recreate his bedroom in the town square and put on a ghostly play to terrify him, to Prudence saying they should kidnap the local magistrate. XD They eventually settled on “let’s just find his house and pretend we’re the ghosts of the crew so we can terrify him into running somewhere public to confess,” and Merilwen went back on the ship to gather supplies (namely, whatever old clothing she could find (using Destroy Water to dry them out) and some flour for the right ghostly look). She also found a note – turns out while all this was happening, Rust went ahead and signed on with another crewto cut down on the number of NPCs for the whopping sum of a gold piece! XD Everyone was like “awww, good, hopefully he comes back again for another visit.”
Anyway – ghost time! Puckett was on-board with helping, especially as he was an actual crew member and thus might actually be recognizable to Revelstoke (as per TV Tropes – it did sound like Rebelstoke, but those two letters do sound similar, so), so everyone floured and dressed up. Dob even got some chains for everyone to rattle, and some cutlasses to break apart so he could pretend they were stuck in everyone with his disguise kit – Merilwen protested that there were weapons strewn all OVER the ship, there was no need to buy NEW ones, but Dob was like “those are DIRTY, Merilwen! Tetanus is the silent killer.” XD Corazon even Minor Illusioned up an unearthly glow for everybody. They tromped up the cliffs and looked over the three potential houses – fortunately, they all had postboxes, so it wasn’t TOO hard to find Revelstoke’s. And better yet, as they investigated the place, they discovered he was having a party! Mmmm. . . A dinner party, to be precise, as Merilwen discovered looking in a window. Dob, having already come up with a fun plan to scare this guy out the front door and into the street, turned invisible and slipped inside, while Merilwen used Druidcraft to do a bit of spooky whispering to prime the pump, as it were – Revelstoke was appropriately freaked out. :p The others hid around the front garden, with Corazon getting a description of a fellow crew member from Puckett and disguising himself as Bilgey, the bilge guy. So well that Puckett briefly believed he WAS the ghost and apologized to him for the others making fun of him all the time – they reminded him that it was still Corazon, but Corazon let him get it out anyway so he could get some closure. He can be decent sometimes. :)
In the dinner party, Dob made it into the room and lurked invisibly against a wall while Revelstoke made a toast to the fallen, joking how the insurance money lessened the sting of losing his ship, the jerk. Merilwen commented that he didn’t even know that the ship was in the harbor – I don’t know if that was meant to be Druidcraft or a whisper to her friends that he ended up overhearing, but it unnerved Revelstroke to the point where he went to the front door to check it out. He was indeed shocked to see the Baying Hound aground in the port –
And that’s when Dob, having followed him, just went HAM, smashing a nearby mirror, throwing things around, grabbing Revelstroke and demanding if the money was enough for their souls, screaming in his face as he dropped the invisibility and then smashing him in the nose before throwing him outside. As you can imagine, Revelstoke was, uh, TERRIFIED by this turn of events. XD The others lurched out of their hiding spots to frighten him further (well, mostly lurched, Puckett jumped out like an overeager understudy), and Revelstoke, fully spooked, promptly started screaming his confession to get them to leave him alone.
Dob was like “okay.” XD The others revealed the ruse and promised that he would go away for a long, long time – Revelstoke tried to claim there were no witnesses, but obviously his guests and his neighbors had been attracted by the noise. Plus Dob produced their rat friend as “star” witness. XD Revelstoke then started doing the mental math of how many people he’d have to kill to shush this up –
And that’s when Merilwen turned into a bear and pinned him. Revelstoke decided he was done and swore revenge if he ever got out of prison (which even he wasn’t sure was going to happen), while Corazon tied him up and he was led off. Another job well done by the Oxventurers! There was just one thing left to do. . . Egbert asked if he could have the rat –
AND THEN CAST SPEAK WITH ANIMALS TO THANK IT.
I have NO fucking clue if that was a joke or if Egbert GENUINELY fucking has that spell too, but oh my GOD, the look on Merilwen’s/Ellen’s face. XD There was a lot of joking about them being rightfully mauled to death by a bear with bad bangs as they closed out the episode. XD Oh cripes. . .
And once again, I also had a little extra time at the end to fill before my workout was done, so I snuck in another Petey Plays It video – eight ideas on how to improve your Sims 4 libraries! It was basically a matter of “add in some rooms that are dedicated to different things – a children-specific area, a club hangout room, an archaeology-focused space, private study rooms, a debate room, even a science lab if you are so inclined.” Activities activities activities, people! Always give your Sims something to do.
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – the pair have found their way into Paul’s apartment, only to find one very dead Paul in the kitchen. Victor fortunately noticed that he had a message on his phone, so they’re aware of Hannah’s existence and the fact that she’s almost certainly where Paul got it from – now they’re on their way up to the sixth floor to see if she’s the mysterious “H. Glazer” from the mailboxes. And about to stumble into some distinct sadness in the process. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – nice easy two-in, two-out –
A) First up, the latest Fun With Shorts – “Butterflies” Part 2! The second nugget of this short science film, covering the life cycle of the butterfly (from hungry hungry caterpillar, to pupa, to fully-formed wet-winged adult) and starting to cover the anatomy (like how the wings are covered in fine scales to provide color and camouflage). Josh seemed to consider most of it fairly gross. XD And there were a fair few comments saying that the wavering synth soundtrack made it feel a bit like a weird horror movie, which, fair. XD
B) And second up, GrayStillPlays with “When you literally drain the world,” aka Gray plays Happy Glass! This is one of those puzzle games where you have to draw the solution – in this case, you’re drawing things to help direct a flow of mysterious liquid (either orange or pink) into a sad-looking glass in order to fill it to the dotted line. Your star rating is dependent on how much ink you used during said drawing. Gray, of course, completely ignored for the most part that he was supposed to conserve his ink and instead did things like drawing drunk stickmen projectile-vomiting to direct the liquid over obstacles; a ‘gator closing its jaws on a glass to hold it up under the faucet; the world’s saddest palm tree to stop giant oranges from falling into the glass and stopping it from being filled; and Tom Cruise yelling “YEET” hanging from the “ceiling” to both direct liquid and stop an orange. Please note that none of these things looked anywhere NEAR what they were supposed to be. XD Always great to see Gray putting those art skills to good use!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check-in-progress – I’ve got three ask replies that I’m working on getting into my queue on Valice Multiverse, as noted!
Whew, busy night. . .and tomorrow has some surprise busy times as well, as my mother was able to book us all appointments today to get the newest COVID booster (and possibly the flu shot) tomorrow evening. So that's something to prepare for! I mean, I'm only too happy to get the new shot, but at the same time, needles, ah. *wince* Also on the to-do list:
1. Continue writing "As Long As You Love Me"
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and the Plumbella video in my Watch Later
3. Play Sims 4 and get Alice's werewolf form properly sorted; if possible also play through Love Day
4. Work on tumblr drafts
Feels reasonable for a non-cleaning Saturday! We'll see how it all goes. . .night all!
Work – Another quiet day in the office itself, but fortunately the credit card people dumped a week’s worth of updates into the database yesterday, so I had the GL to occupy me all morning, then a QC file most of the afternoon, along with the last of the address updates. Probably the worst part of the day was the drive home, since we had the usual cast of idiots on the road. *huffs* Don’t like.
Beanbags – Yes, thanks to it being nice (if kinda buggy) – and it proved to be a very equitable day, with me coming up from a slow start to a strong finish, while Dad faltered after a good first round and Mom got it together in the middle. Final scores were me 3-2-W; Dad W-3-2; Mom 2-W-3. *nods* I approve of this spread.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, finishing off the Oxventure “Brine and Punishment!” Having arrived at Port Morecow, Corazon went to go question the local criminal element about where the guy lived. He only rolled middlingly well on his Charisma roll, however, and thus was only able to narrow it down to three houses on the left “arm” of the horseshoe-shaped cliffs that surrounded the port. With at least a vague idea of where to go, the group started arguing AGAIN about how best to get an at least semi-public confession out of him, from Merilwen offering to pretend to be a sea god with the help of Prudence’s Thaumaturgy, to Corazon suggesting that they perfectly recreate his bedroom in the town square and put on a ghostly play to terrify him, to Prudence saying they should kidnap the local magistrate. XD They eventually settled on “let’s just find his house and pretend we’re the ghosts of the crew so we can terrify him into running somewhere public to confess,” and Merilwen went back on the ship to gather supplies (namely, whatever old clothing she could find (using Destroy Water to dry them out) and some flour for the right ghostly look). She also found a note – turns out while all this was happening, Rust went ahead and signed on with another crew
Anyway – ghost time! Puckett was on-board with helping, especially as he was an actual crew member and thus might actually be recognizable to Revelstoke (as per TV Tropes – it did sound like Rebelstoke, but those two letters do sound similar, so), so everyone floured and dressed up. Dob even got some chains for everyone to rattle, and some cutlasses to break apart so he could pretend they were stuck in everyone with his disguise kit – Merilwen protested that there were weapons strewn all OVER the ship, there was no need to buy NEW ones, but Dob was like “those are DIRTY, Merilwen! Tetanus is the silent killer.” XD Corazon even Minor Illusioned up an unearthly glow for everybody. They tromped up the cliffs and looked over the three potential houses – fortunately, they all had postboxes, so it wasn’t TOO hard to find Revelstoke’s. And better yet, as they investigated the place, they discovered he was having a party! Mmmm. . . A dinner party, to be precise, as Merilwen discovered looking in a window. Dob, having already come up with a fun plan to scare this guy out the front door and into the street, turned invisible and slipped inside, while Merilwen used Druidcraft to do a bit of spooky whispering to prime the pump, as it were – Revelstoke was appropriately freaked out. :p The others hid around the front garden, with Corazon getting a description of a fellow crew member from Puckett and disguising himself as Bilgey, the bilge guy. So well that Puckett briefly believed he WAS the ghost and apologized to him for the others making fun of him all the time – they reminded him that it was still Corazon, but Corazon let him get it out anyway so he could get some closure. He can be decent sometimes. :)
In the dinner party, Dob made it into the room and lurked invisibly against a wall while Revelstoke made a toast to the fallen, joking how the insurance money lessened the sting of losing his ship, the jerk. Merilwen commented that he didn’t even know that the ship was in the harbor – I don’t know if that was meant to be Druidcraft or a whisper to her friends that he ended up overhearing, but it unnerved Revelstroke to the point where he went to the front door to check it out. He was indeed shocked to see the Baying Hound aground in the port –
And that’s when Dob, having followed him, just went HAM, smashing a nearby mirror, throwing things around, grabbing Revelstroke and demanding if the money was enough for their souls, screaming in his face as he dropped the invisibility and then smashing him in the nose before throwing him outside. As you can imagine, Revelstoke was, uh, TERRIFIED by this turn of events. XD The others lurched out of their hiding spots to frighten him further (well, mostly lurched, Puckett jumped out like an overeager understudy), and Revelstoke, fully spooked, promptly started screaming his confession to get them to leave him alone.
Dob was like “okay.” XD The others revealed the ruse and promised that he would go away for a long, long time – Revelstoke tried to claim there were no witnesses, but obviously his guests and his neighbors had been attracted by the noise. Plus Dob produced their rat friend as “star” witness. XD Revelstoke then started doing the mental math of how many people he’d have to kill to shush this up –
And that’s when Merilwen turned into a bear and pinned him. Revelstoke decided he was done and swore revenge if he ever got out of prison (which even he wasn’t sure was going to happen), while Corazon tied him up and he was led off. Another job well done by the Oxventurers! There was just one thing left to do. . . Egbert asked if he could have the rat –
AND THEN CAST SPEAK WITH ANIMALS TO THANK IT.
I have NO fucking clue if that was a joke or if Egbert GENUINELY fucking has that spell too, but oh my GOD, the look on Merilwen’s/Ellen’s face. XD There was a lot of joking about them being rightfully mauled to death by a bear with bad bangs as they closed out the episode. XD Oh cripes. . .
And once again, I also had a little extra time at the end to fill before my workout was done, so I snuck in another Petey Plays It video – eight ideas on how to improve your Sims 4 libraries! It was basically a matter of “add in some rooms that are dedicated to different things – a children-specific area, a club hangout room, an archaeology-focused space, private study rooms, a debate room, even a science lab if you are so inclined.” Activities activities activities, people! Always give your Sims something to do.
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – the pair have found their way into Paul’s apartment, only to find one very dead Paul in the kitchen. Victor fortunately noticed that he had a message on his phone, so they’re aware of Hannah’s existence and the fact that she’s almost certainly where Paul got it from – now they’re on their way up to the sixth floor to see if she’s the mysterious “H. Glazer” from the mailboxes. And about to stumble into some distinct sadness in the process. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – nice easy two-in, two-out –
A) First up, the latest Fun With Shorts – “Butterflies” Part 2! The second nugget of this short science film, covering the life cycle of the butterfly (from hungry hungry caterpillar, to pupa, to fully-formed wet-winged adult) and starting to cover the anatomy (like how the wings are covered in fine scales to provide color and camouflage). Josh seemed to consider most of it fairly gross. XD And there were a fair few comments saying that the wavering synth soundtrack made it feel a bit like a weird horror movie, which, fair. XD
B) And second up, GrayStillPlays with “When you literally drain the world,” aka Gray plays Happy Glass! This is one of those puzzle games where you have to draw the solution – in this case, you’re drawing things to help direct a flow of mysterious liquid (either orange or pink) into a sad-looking glass in order to fill it to the dotted line. Your star rating is dependent on how much ink you used during said drawing. Gray, of course, completely ignored for the most part that he was supposed to conserve his ink and instead did things like drawing drunk stickmen projectile-vomiting to direct the liquid over obstacles; a ‘gator closing its jaws on a glass to hold it up under the faucet; the world’s saddest palm tree to stop giant oranges from falling into the glass and stopping it from being filled; and Tom Cruise yelling “YEET” hanging from the “ceiling” to both direct liquid and stop an orange. Please note that none of these things looked anywhere NEAR what they were supposed to be. XD Always great to see Gray putting those art skills to good use!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check-in-progress – I’ve got three ask replies that I’m working on getting into my queue on Valice Multiverse, as noted!
Whew, busy night. . .and tomorrow has some surprise busy times as well, as my mother was able to book us all appointments today to get the newest COVID booster (and possibly the flu shot) tomorrow evening. So that's something to prepare for! I mean, I'm only too happy to get the new shot, but at the same time, needles, ah. *wince* Also on the to-do list:
1. Continue writing "As Long As You Love Me"
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and the Plumbella video in my Watch Later
3. Play Sims 4 and get Alice's werewolf form properly sorted; if possible also play through Love Day
4. Work on tumblr drafts
Feels reasonable for a non-cleaning Saturday! We'll see how it all goes. . .night all!
