Time Getting Away From Me Night
Oct. 5th, 2022 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickI mean, I had some time get away from me in the morning hours too, but it was really bad this evening -- I kept getting distracted by stuff! As will be exemplified by my to-do list:
Work – More calls today, following up with people to see if they’re coming to The Event – so far I’ve either had to leave messages or just gotten nos, with one guy needing a call-back in the morning because he asked about the family-friendliness of The Event (which – I don’t THINK it is but the execs want people to come to fill the place up. . .) *shrug* Also had a few duplicates, but that was about it. Traffic SLOWLY getting better in the afternoon too – this morning was surprisingly fast, and this afternoon wasn’t IMMEDIATELY horrible – yeah, there was a massive tangle getting onto the highway, but it wasn’t as bad as it COULD have been. Got home slightly BEFORE five this time! We’ll see how it goes tomorrow. . .
Beanbags – More rainy and generally horrible and cold weather, so nope! At least tomorrow is supposed to get nicer again, so that’s something. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, finishing off the Oxventure Orbpocalypse episode “Epic Jail!” When I picked up, the gang was heading down the stairs to try and find Hella, the time-shifting prisoner to try and recruit her for the cause. As previously stated, the first floor was all right, if quiet. The SECOND floor was also quiet, and had a little pool of blood by the stairs. The gang got somewhat concerned by this –
And then got REALLY concerned when they made it down to Hella’s floor and found a LOT of blood ALL OVER the floor. Prudence decried it as a slipping hazard. XD The guards were all missing, but the prisoners were all okay – Corazon asked what happened, and a brown-haired woman said that Sully was going around doing the murder. Whoops. XD Dob confirmed that she was Hella (aka Discount Max Caulfield from Life Is Strange), and she proceeded to freak Corazon out by using her time-shift powers to learn his real name and profession. The gang was able to pretty easily recruit her to their side to cause a distraction on the upper floors (while also making jokes about how her dialogue sounds like a forty-year-old man wrote it and how she’s a bit creepy with the time-winding), though she declined to at one point go see the performing apes with Dob. He offered up “The Tempest” instead, but she said that was more her ex-girlfriend’s thing, before heading upstairs to do some terrible dance moves and tell everyone their own darkest secrets to cause a fuss. XD Corazon promptly sounded a bigger alarm to get more guards coming upstairs – Egbert pointed out that if their exfil plan (currently: steal an airship) required them to go back up, that could be a problem. Corazon was like “we’ll figure that out as we go,” and Dob added, “come on, we could totally take them,” which was enough to convince Egbert. Prudence also suggested an easy way to get down to the bottom level of the tower without worrying about the guards coming up – take advantage of the dumbwaiter shaft and use Corazon’s Featherfall spell! Corazon was all for it and said they could pretend they’d been thrown down the shaft by rioting prisoners. Egbert was like “wait, hold on, how many people can you cast that spell on?” but everyone else was already throwing themselves into the shaft, so. . . XD Fortunately it IS five people, and Corazon got everyone to the bottom safely. There were a couple of guards there – one they convinced the shaft was full of dead prisoners and that’s how they survived getting out (Corazon was able to Charisma him into getting a mop without looking with a nat 20 – the guy in fact got two mops, as per his nickname); the other got left behind to continue guarding and was about to show Corazon how to properly beat up “prisoner” Dob –
When a blade just went shunk through his chest, killing him near-instantly. Hi Sully! Corazon was like “why all the murder?!” and Sully was like “you SAID to create a distraction!” While RAISING THE GUARD HE’D JUST KILLED FROM THE DEAD. And then threatening to kill Prudence, Corazon, and Egbert because they were guards so they could join his growing army of the undead. Yeah, as it turns out, “Sully” is in fact “Sulpigius, The Scourge of Man, The Most Powerful Necromancer You’ve Ever Seen!” Corazon wasn’t particularly impressed. XD The others tried to get him to understand that they were doing a sting operation and that Corazon, Prudence, and Egbert weren’t really guards (Corazon and Prudence both changing clothes to sell it), but Sully was having none of it – he had an undead army to make so he could take over Geth, damn it. So Dob pretended to defect, going around to “join” Sully –
And put him in a headlock with an easy 21 Dex check. XD Johnny forced the gang to roll for initiative for the upcoming fight – and then immediately regretted it, as they rolled a crit 1 for the zombie army and an eight for Sully himself, while every Oxventurer save Prudence rolled higher. In fact, Egbert, got a nat 20, so he went first –
And promptly used his Command word to get Sully to surrender. And Johnny BIFFED SULLY’S DEFENSE ROLL, meaning – yeah, on Sully’s turn, he’d surrender. Merilwen then called on her elemental abilities, intending to make a wall of wind but instead making a wall of fire to pen in and cook the zombies (the way she phrased it, though – between that and her feeling weird when she touched the orb, I’m worried she might have been affected by it). Johnny failed their saving throws, and Merilwen ended up rolling twenty points of fire damage for them all –
Exactly the number of their hit points. Johnny was just so annoyed that their first attempt at a “training wheels come off” combat encounter ended with the Oxventurers once again steamrolling their opponent. XD At least they got a little revenge when Dob, in order to make sure that Egbert’s Command went off properly (attacking Sully would cancel the effect), slowly undid the headlock and stepped back into the fire (a la Homer disappearing into the hedge in The Simpsons) and was promptly hit by 20 points of fire damage. XD (Corazon, by the by, used his turn to eat two chicken thighs – one for his regular action, one for his bonus action.) Sully angrily surrendered and was put into a cell (he attempted to woo Prudence into being his world-ending queen instead, but she didn’t find him attractive enough), while Two Mops the guard showed back up with his mops and started cleaning up the zombie ashes. XD This left only finding the cone –
Which Sully pointed out was on a nearby plinth. Corazon checked for traps and got a nat 20, meaning he was able to easily circumvent the pressure plate trap that would rain acid down on anyone who tried to remove the cone. The prison was plunged into darkness (good thing four out of the five Oxventurers have darkvision! Prudence high-fived them all and ended up high-fiving Corazon’s face), and the gang had to put into action their escape plan –
Next time! Yeah, apparently the next episode, “Escaped Crusaders,” is at least partly ABOUT the escape, which makes sense. We’ll start that one tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – I have in fact finished Chapter 2! :D Alice has realized who exactly Victor is to her (namely, the one other person Rosa said she could fully trust), and made it back to the Skyeline to regroup with him. So far, he’s fine as per the CDC, though he’ll need another check-up later. Alice has decided their best use of the remaining night hours is to head back to Santa Monica and at least prepare to move into the apartment together, so I ended it with them heading out to do just that. (And then went back to confirm that I was still on Chapter 2 and got caught up rereading my own writing with the opening Victor section and them learning about each other. *facepalm*) So that’s all sorted! Next night – Alice will be focusing on Fat Larry for the moment, and possibly Venus too. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Half check, but not in the way I wanted – yeah, the fact that I started my writing/to-do list write-ups late (and then, as above, got distracted rereading my own writing) meant that instead of the long Kevin video I’d hoped to watch, I had to watch instead GrayStillPlay’s much shorter upload today: “When you evolve humans for 1,314,672 years!” AKA him playing Merge Animals 3D – Mutant race, a stupid mobile racing game (again, I can’t tell if you’re against bots or other actual humans) where you take on courses with running, climbing, balancing/flying, and swimming sections (plus the occasional wall to punch through) as strange featureless Ken-doll people who inject themselves with the essences of various animals you unlock and thus gain some of their features and their powers. “Animals” as defined by the game includes not only alligators, rhinos, butterflies, and octopi, but also T-Rex, LEGO, bionic limbs of all stripes, and demon gargoyles. As you might imagine, this lead to some pretty freaky-looking creations (the mecha-cheetah deer, the LEGO-headed octopus-armed gargoyle-winged man, etc) as Gray experimented to find the best combinations to max out all his stats so he could keep winning and unlocking more weirdness. XD Pro tip – those gargoyle wings help a LOT, and with more than just flying. XD Very weird, but very fun, little video! I love when Gray finds a baffling mobile game and gives it his own Gray twist. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, fortunately – I reset the queue speed to one on Victor Luvs Alice and got up a post containing links to both halves of the Wyrd Sisters Podcast finale for Saturday. At least THAT blog is set for the rest of the week!
And that's about it for the moment -- time to run off to bed before I am distracted YET AGAIN and try and get some sleep. Two more days! Night all!
Work – More calls today, following up with people to see if they’re coming to The Event – so far I’ve either had to leave messages or just gotten nos, with one guy needing a call-back in the morning because he asked about the family-friendliness of The Event (which – I don’t THINK it is but the execs want people to come to fill the place up. . .) *shrug* Also had a few duplicates, but that was about it. Traffic SLOWLY getting better in the afternoon too – this morning was surprisingly fast, and this afternoon wasn’t IMMEDIATELY horrible – yeah, there was a massive tangle getting onto the highway, but it wasn’t as bad as it COULD have been. Got home slightly BEFORE five this time! We’ll see how it goes tomorrow. . .
Beanbags – More rainy and generally horrible and cold weather, so nope! At least tomorrow is supposed to get nicer again, so that’s something. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, finishing off the Oxventure Orbpocalypse episode “Epic Jail!” When I picked up, the gang was heading down the stairs to try and find Hella, the time-shifting prisoner to try and recruit her for the cause. As previously stated, the first floor was all right, if quiet. The SECOND floor was also quiet, and had a little pool of blood by the stairs. The gang got somewhat concerned by this –
And then got REALLY concerned when they made it down to Hella’s floor and found a LOT of blood ALL OVER the floor. Prudence decried it as a slipping hazard. XD The guards were all missing, but the prisoners were all okay – Corazon asked what happened, and a brown-haired woman said that Sully was going around doing the murder. Whoops. XD Dob confirmed that she was Hella (aka Discount Max Caulfield from Life Is Strange), and she proceeded to freak Corazon out by using her time-shift powers to learn his real name and profession. The gang was able to pretty easily recruit her to their side to cause a distraction on the upper floors (while also making jokes about how her dialogue sounds like a forty-year-old man wrote it and how she’s a bit creepy with the time-winding), though she declined to at one point go see the performing apes with Dob. He offered up “The Tempest” instead, but she said that was more her ex-girlfriend’s thing, before heading upstairs to do some terrible dance moves and tell everyone their own darkest secrets to cause a fuss. XD Corazon promptly sounded a bigger alarm to get more guards coming upstairs – Egbert pointed out that if their exfil plan (currently: steal an airship) required them to go back up, that could be a problem. Corazon was like “we’ll figure that out as we go,” and Dob added, “come on, we could totally take them,” which was enough to convince Egbert. Prudence also suggested an easy way to get down to the bottom level of the tower without worrying about the guards coming up – take advantage of the dumbwaiter shaft and use Corazon’s Featherfall spell! Corazon was all for it and said they could pretend they’d been thrown down the shaft by rioting prisoners. Egbert was like “wait, hold on, how many people can you cast that spell on?” but everyone else was already throwing themselves into the shaft, so. . . XD Fortunately it IS five people, and Corazon got everyone to the bottom safely. There were a couple of guards there – one they convinced the shaft was full of dead prisoners and that’s how they survived getting out (Corazon was able to Charisma him into getting a mop without looking with a nat 20 – the guy in fact got two mops, as per his nickname); the other got left behind to continue guarding and was about to show Corazon how to properly beat up “prisoner” Dob –
When a blade just went shunk through his chest, killing him near-instantly. Hi Sully! Corazon was like “why all the murder?!” and Sully was like “you SAID to create a distraction!” While RAISING THE GUARD HE’D JUST KILLED FROM THE DEAD. And then threatening to kill Prudence, Corazon, and Egbert because they were guards so they could join his growing army of the undead. Yeah, as it turns out, “Sully” is in fact “Sulpigius, The Scourge of Man, The Most Powerful Necromancer You’ve Ever Seen!” Corazon wasn’t particularly impressed. XD The others tried to get him to understand that they were doing a sting operation and that Corazon, Prudence, and Egbert weren’t really guards (Corazon and Prudence both changing clothes to sell it), but Sully was having none of it – he had an undead army to make so he could take over Geth, damn it. So Dob pretended to defect, going around to “join” Sully –
And put him in a headlock with an easy 21 Dex check. XD Johnny forced the gang to roll for initiative for the upcoming fight – and then immediately regretted it, as they rolled a crit 1 for the zombie army and an eight for Sully himself, while every Oxventurer save Prudence rolled higher. In fact, Egbert, got a nat 20, so he went first –
And promptly used his Command word to get Sully to surrender. And Johnny BIFFED SULLY’S DEFENSE ROLL, meaning – yeah, on Sully’s turn, he’d surrender. Merilwen then called on her elemental abilities, intending to make a wall of wind but instead making a wall of fire to pen in and cook the zombies (the way she phrased it, though – between that and her feeling weird when she touched the orb, I’m worried she might have been affected by it). Johnny failed their saving throws, and Merilwen ended up rolling twenty points of fire damage for them all –
Exactly the number of their hit points. Johnny was just so annoyed that their first attempt at a “training wheels come off” combat encounter ended with the Oxventurers once again steamrolling their opponent. XD At least they got a little revenge when Dob, in order to make sure that Egbert’s Command went off properly (attacking Sully would cancel the effect), slowly undid the headlock and stepped back into the fire (a la Homer disappearing into the hedge in The Simpsons) and was promptly hit by 20 points of fire damage. XD (Corazon, by the by, used his turn to eat two chicken thighs – one for his regular action, one for his bonus action.) Sully angrily surrendered and was put into a cell (he attempted to woo Prudence into being his world-ending queen instead, but she didn’t find him attractive enough), while Two Mops the guard showed back up with his mops and started cleaning up the zombie ashes. XD This left only finding the cone –
Which Sully pointed out was on a nearby plinth. Corazon checked for traps and got a nat 20, meaning he was able to easily circumvent the pressure plate trap that would rain acid down on anyone who tried to remove the cone. The prison was plunged into darkness (good thing four out of the five Oxventurers have darkvision! Prudence high-fived them all and ended up high-fiving Corazon’s face), and the gang had to put into action their escape plan –
Next time! Yeah, apparently the next episode, “Escaped Crusaders,” is at least partly ABOUT the escape, which makes sense. We’ll start that one tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – I have in fact finished Chapter 2! :D Alice has realized who exactly Victor is to her (namely, the one other person Rosa said she could fully trust), and made it back to the Skyeline to regroup with him. So far, he’s fine as per the CDC, though he’ll need another check-up later. Alice has decided their best use of the remaining night hours is to head back to Santa Monica and at least prepare to move into the apartment together, so I ended it with them heading out to do just that. (And then went back to confirm that I was still on Chapter 2 and got caught up rereading my own writing with the opening Victor section and them learning about each other. *facepalm*) So that’s all sorted! Next night – Alice will be focusing on Fat Larry for the moment, and possibly Venus too. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Half check, but not in the way I wanted – yeah, the fact that I started my writing/to-do list write-ups late (and then, as above, got distracted rereading my own writing) meant that instead of the long Kevin video I’d hoped to watch, I had to watch instead GrayStillPlay’s much shorter upload today: “When you evolve humans for 1,314,672 years!” AKA him playing Merge Animals 3D – Mutant race, a stupid mobile racing game (again, I can’t tell if you’re against bots or other actual humans) where you take on courses with running, climbing, balancing/flying, and swimming sections (plus the occasional wall to punch through) as strange featureless Ken-doll people who inject themselves with the essences of various animals you unlock and thus gain some of their features and their powers. “Animals” as defined by the game includes not only alligators, rhinos, butterflies, and octopi, but also T-Rex, LEGO, bionic limbs of all stripes, and demon gargoyles. As you might imagine, this lead to some pretty freaky-looking creations (the mecha-cheetah deer, the LEGO-headed octopus-armed gargoyle-winged man, etc) as Gray experimented to find the best combinations to max out all his stats so he could keep winning and unlocking more weirdness. XD Pro tip – those gargoyle wings help a LOT, and with more than just flying. XD Very weird, but very fun, little video! I love when Gray finds a baffling mobile game and gives it his own Gray twist. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, fortunately – I reset the queue speed to one on Victor Luvs Alice and got up a post containing links to both halves of the Wyrd Sisters Podcast finale for Saturday. At least THAT blog is set for the rest of the week!
And that's about it for the moment -- time to run off to bed before I am distracted YET AGAIN and try and get some sleep. Two more days! Night all!
