Late Wednesday Night
Oct. 12th, 2022 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickMostly because I was surprised by the reappearance of someone who used to do a bunch of Valice fanart on tumblr (different username, but I was tipped off by the nickname they used for me) -- between this and Moose's reappearance, seems people I used to know and lost touch with are crawling out of the woodwork! XD Though in a good way. :) Anyway, don't have that much time, so here's the to-do list round-up:
Work – Very quiet day – which was actually kind of annoying, as we ran into some issues with posting stuff and merging accounts on the credit card side of things, and never got a reply back on either. Also one of my supervisors has apparently been fired for mysterious HR reasons. So a quietly stressful day, is probably the best way to describe it. I’m not a fan.
Beanbags – Yup – certainly nice enough to get out there today! And I managed to do both better and worse than I did yesterday, in that I both lost a game and won a game. XD I ALMOST won the second game, but Dad sniped me on the last throw, but he couldn’t pull it off twice! Which I am thankful for, as those last-minute one-point-more wins kinda grind my gears, I gotta admit. :p Final scores were me 3-2-W; Dad W-W-2; Mom 2-3-3. Ah well!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to the Oxventure Orbpocalypse! Finished off “Twin It To Win It” with the Oxventurers deciding what to do about the Mirror Oxventurers (aka The True Heroes Of Geth – Harmony, the elven warlock with the fluffy patron Caresalot; Cora De Leonessa, the rogue who loves reading; Bridget, the gnome paladin who is timid as fuck; and Bogheck, the druid who cannot cast Moonbeam). Corazon came to the conclusion that the best thing to do would be to just hang around the MirrorOxers and see what happens – they can jump in and proclaim themselves the new heroes or steal the shard off them as they see fit then. Merilwen agreed, pointing out Katy had described the monks as “weirdos” and thus this whole thing might be a con to get some human sacrifices. (She also said they could totally “legalese” the prophecy if necessary – point out EGBERT doesn’t go boom, his BOMBS do; get Prudence to befriend someone named All; etc.)The True Heroes broke huddle around the same time as they did and offered the “tourists” (as the Oxventurers had claimed to be) their protection, with the group accepted.
The group also accepted eating as much of their mirror selves’ provisions as they could stuff down their gullet, Corazon in particular taking the time to make some artisanal meat and cheese platters. XD The True Heroes weren’t EXACTLY happy about all this, but said it wasn’t an issue, they were rich enough to buy more. Merilwen muttered something about their bard not throwing all their money in a lake – which did bring up the question of, hang on a second, if this group has a mirror of everyone in the guild, surely they must have a Mirror Dob (even if their Dob is off possibly fighting a volcano at the moment)? Where’s their bard?
They don’t talk about their bard. Hmmm. Interesting. (Merilwen happily seized upon this as proving Harmony isn’t really a “friend to all” as her part of the prophecy says). Anyway, the trip continued with, well, some tension – namely Corazon getting into a rogueish lounge-off with Cora (manspreading in an attempt to claim victory), Egbert scaring Bridget with an offer of cheese (and then her scaring herself by closing her helmet too loudly), and Merilwen catching Bogheck trying and failing to cast Moonbeam, attempting to offer some genuine assistance (which degenerated rapidly into hippie-adjacent nonsense and – when Bogheck couldn’t remember her name – painful puns). That rounded out episode 5. . .
And so it was on to episode 6, “Monky Business!” After a short rest and a LOT of food, the two groups of heroes came across the “mouth” of the river – really, a place where two forks join up, with a very silty island in between. And on that silty island was a big old ruin of a monastery, with a bunch of monks in grey robes and fashionable wallet chains wading out into the surf to greet them. Harmony striking a heroic pose as she declared her group to be the one in their prophecy set off Corazon’s ego, and he immediately did his own heroic pose and said his group was the one in the prophecy. Cue some sniping between the two groups as the True Heroes realized that the Oxventurers were in fact rivals and not cute tourists they’d picked up. Prudence mocked Harmony’s god, while Harmony nearly got sick over the fact that Prudence has a pact with Cthulhu; Corazon claimed to have seen Bogheck trying to make out with the moon, only for Cora to whisper that she’d seen him essentially making out with a wheel of edam cheese the other night – Corazon got her back by managing to successfully pickpocket one of her books of lore and reading it right in front of her; Merilwen and Prudence aggressively hugged when Harmony accused Prudence of having no friends, and then Bogheck made a crab his friend with Animal Friendship, only for Merilwen to Animal Friendship it away from him; and Egbert – well, Egbert just continued feeling sorry for poor Bridget, honestly. XD The leader of the monks, Claudet, got everyone to calm down and said that tomorrow they could determine who the actual Heroes of Prophecy were, and brought them all inside – well, after pointing out his wallet chain of office was made of “new metal,” sparking at least a couple of minutes of various band jokes in the vein of “links in the park” and “it slipped the knot” (Linkin Park and Slipknot, in case you aren’t familiar – I didn’t get all the bands they mentioned!).
But anyway, after some further sniping, the two groups got inside and were shown to their quarters. After some discussion, the Oxventurers picked the two rooms in the middle of the row of six, so the other party would be split up – Bogheck chose the one closest to the toilets, and Corazon immediately told Egbert to wreck it at the first opportunity. XD Prudence, for her part, tried to do something useful and Detect Magic – and yes, there are some very magical bits in this ruined monastery! Specifically, there’s a magical platform in the courtyard outside, and something humming like a powerful artifact somewhere else in the main building – she can’t pinpoint where yet. So that’s where I’ve left out heroes – next time, I imagine there is going to be more arguments with the mirror guild. XD
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – having taken a moment to admire Victor’s butterfly BioBots, Alice is off into the wilds of Downtown to locate Fat Larry and procure some weaponry! Step one is, as always, to follow the White Rabbit. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Technical check – Call Me Kevin just makes long videos now, I guess, and I didn’t quite have the time for his latest hour-long outing. But I got something out of the Watch Later instead, so I’m counting that – and this week is a “no-uploads Thursday,” so HOPEFULLY I can catch up a bit on Kevin then. In the meantime –
A) First up, from OXtra, we had “You Get One Wish: Which Game Gets a Sequel?” All about what video game sequels the gang would ask for if they found a genie capable of getting them made. In order, Andy wanted a second Sleeping Dogs (calling it basically “GTA but so much better, with a better story and better combat and a more likable lead”); Mike wanted a second Alien: Isolation (having loved the atmosphere and how well it fit into the original movie’s universe, and cursing IGN giving it a 5.9 review); Ellen wanted Valve to count to 3 in the Portal series (having just recently played Portal 2 and fallen in love with the puzzles and characters – fortunately James was on hand to recommend she play the fan-made Portal Reloaded); Jane wanted the ever-elusive Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 (having adored the original and its moody, atmospheric city, she is grumpy that the sequel is STILL in development hell after four years); and Luke wanted a proper follow-up to F-Zero X (a racing game, for the unaware, with the famous Captain Falcon and his motley band of weirdos – Luke thinks it would do good as a free-to-play evolving game with different seasons and mini-storylines and the like). Interesting choices – I personally would prefer that Valve finish the Half-Life story for those fans over artificially extending the Portal one, and I’m not sure I want VTMB2 after so long in vaporware status, but another Alien: Isolation? If you guys are willing to play it for me. . .
B) And then it was over to the Subs for GrayStillPlays and “$10 vs $5000 Water Slides in GTA 5!” Yes, we are back to this – and back with Danny, who did the first board as a $10 water slide! :D His was just tricky enough to be evil – a slide down a slick bit of curved concrete to jump into an under-construction building into the checkpoint, then down another slide on the other side, dodging wind turbines and a wall that regularly moved up and down to block the second slide he had to transfer to, then a big jump into a really small fountain with a twerking woman statue – which Gray had to climb and jump off of to land in bed with a random NPC in a bikini before moving onto Alex’s board. (Danny admitted he hoped Gray’s wife didn’t watch the videos – I think after interrupting him during Kyle Is Famous, she’s used to this kind of weirdness. XD)
And then we got to Alex’s “$5,000 water slide” board, and *whistles* Now this was waterslide hell. First Gray had to skydive from a high point and figure out which waterslide in a whole flower’s worth of slides didn’t lead out into the greater world, but instead led into the flower’s tube “stem,” which brought him to a teleporter. From there he was teleported to the first of a series of slide jumps onto targets. Each one added an extra slide he had to jump to, and a different expensive thing falling from the sky – first was just one slide, with falling money; second added a second slide with falling diamonds; third added a third slide with falling piled gold bars; fourth added a fourth slide with falling GOLD-PLATED CARS; and the fifth added a fifth slide, a punchy fist punching UP, and made the target super-small to increase Gray’s chances of overshooting it. Gray struggled quite a lot, especially on the four-jumps falling-cars slide combo, but he actually got past the fifth one without THAT much trauma! Though, of course, Alex couldn’t make it too easy for him, and before he could get his win, he had to blow up the blocking wall with a rocket launcher before sliding down one final slide into the ocean. Where he punched a shark and ended up killing it in one hit. The video ended with sad music because he felt guilty about that. XD Quality Gray torture, and it’s great to see Danny return to the fold! Hopefully he sticks around a while. :)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed on Victor Luvs Alice to one per day and found the music video that I wanted to reblog for Song Saturday (a mash-up of “Thiller” and “Heads With Roll” that I really enjoy).
Not bad, not bad -- and now it's time to head to bed so I can do this all over again tomorrow, with variations. :p Night all!
Work – Very quiet day – which was actually kind of annoying, as we ran into some issues with posting stuff and merging accounts on the credit card side of things, and never got a reply back on either. Also one of my supervisors has apparently been fired for mysterious HR reasons. So a quietly stressful day, is probably the best way to describe it. I’m not a fan.
Beanbags – Yup – certainly nice enough to get out there today! And I managed to do both better and worse than I did yesterday, in that I both lost a game and won a game. XD I ALMOST won the second game, but Dad sniped me on the last throw, but he couldn’t pull it off twice! Which I am thankful for, as those last-minute one-point-more wins kinda grind my gears, I gotta admit. :p Final scores were me 3-2-W; Dad W-W-2; Mom 2-3-3. Ah well!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to the Oxventure Orbpocalypse! Finished off “Twin It To Win It” with the Oxventurers deciding what to do about the Mirror Oxventurers (aka The True Heroes Of Geth – Harmony, the elven warlock with the fluffy patron Caresalot; Cora De Leonessa, the rogue who loves reading; Bridget, the gnome paladin who is timid as fuck; and Bogheck, the druid who cannot cast Moonbeam). Corazon came to the conclusion that the best thing to do would be to just hang around the MirrorOxers and see what happens – they can jump in and proclaim themselves the new heroes or steal the shard off them as they see fit then. Merilwen agreed, pointing out Katy had described the monks as “weirdos” and thus this whole thing might be a con to get some human sacrifices. (She also said they could totally “legalese” the prophecy if necessary – point out EGBERT doesn’t go boom, his BOMBS do; get Prudence to befriend someone named All; etc.)The True Heroes broke huddle around the same time as they did and offered the “tourists” (as the Oxventurers had claimed to be) their protection, with the group accepted.
The group also accepted eating as much of their mirror selves’ provisions as they could stuff down their gullet, Corazon in particular taking the time to make some artisanal meat and cheese platters. XD The True Heroes weren’t EXACTLY happy about all this, but said it wasn’t an issue, they were rich enough to buy more. Merilwen muttered something about their bard not throwing all their money in a lake – which did bring up the question of, hang on a second, if this group has a mirror of everyone in the guild, surely they must have a Mirror Dob (even if their Dob is off possibly fighting a volcano at the moment)? Where’s their bard?
They don’t talk about their bard. Hmmm. Interesting. (Merilwen happily seized upon this as proving Harmony isn’t really a “friend to all” as her part of the prophecy says). Anyway, the trip continued with, well, some tension – namely Corazon getting into a rogueish lounge-off with Cora (manspreading in an attempt to claim victory), Egbert scaring Bridget with an offer of cheese (and then her scaring herself by closing her helmet too loudly), and Merilwen catching Bogheck trying and failing to cast Moonbeam, attempting to offer some genuine assistance (which degenerated rapidly into hippie-adjacent nonsense and – when Bogheck couldn’t remember her name – painful puns). That rounded out episode 5. . .
And so it was on to episode 6, “Monky Business!” After a short rest and a LOT of food, the two groups of heroes came across the “mouth” of the river – really, a place where two forks join up, with a very silty island in between. And on that silty island was a big old ruin of a monastery, with a bunch of monks in grey robes and fashionable wallet chains wading out into the surf to greet them. Harmony striking a heroic pose as she declared her group to be the one in their prophecy set off Corazon’s ego, and he immediately did his own heroic pose and said his group was the one in the prophecy. Cue some sniping between the two groups as the True Heroes realized that the Oxventurers were in fact rivals and not cute tourists they’d picked up. Prudence mocked Harmony’s god, while Harmony nearly got sick over the fact that Prudence has a pact with Cthulhu; Corazon claimed to have seen Bogheck trying to make out with the moon, only for Cora to whisper that she’d seen him essentially making out with a wheel of edam cheese the other night – Corazon got her back by managing to successfully pickpocket one of her books of lore and reading it right in front of her; Merilwen and Prudence aggressively hugged when Harmony accused Prudence of having no friends, and then Bogheck made a crab his friend with Animal Friendship, only for Merilwen to Animal Friendship it away from him; and Egbert – well, Egbert just continued feeling sorry for poor Bridget, honestly. XD The leader of the monks, Claudet, got everyone to calm down and said that tomorrow they could determine who the actual Heroes of Prophecy were, and brought them all inside – well, after pointing out his wallet chain of office was made of “new metal,” sparking at least a couple of minutes of various band jokes in the vein of “links in the park” and “it slipped the knot” (Linkin Park and Slipknot, in case you aren’t familiar – I didn’t get all the bands they mentioned!).
But anyway, after some further sniping, the two groups got inside and were shown to their quarters. After some discussion, the Oxventurers picked the two rooms in the middle of the row of six, so the other party would be split up – Bogheck chose the one closest to the toilets, and Corazon immediately told Egbert to wreck it at the first opportunity. XD Prudence, for her part, tried to do something useful and Detect Magic – and yes, there are some very magical bits in this ruined monastery! Specifically, there’s a magical platform in the courtyard outside, and something humming like a powerful artifact somewhere else in the main building – she can’t pinpoint where yet. So that’s where I’ve left out heroes – next time, I imagine there is going to be more arguments with the mirror guild. XD
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – having taken a moment to admire Victor’s butterfly BioBots, Alice is off into the wilds of Downtown to locate Fat Larry and procure some weaponry! Step one is, as always, to follow the White Rabbit. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Technical check – Call Me Kevin just makes long videos now, I guess, and I didn’t quite have the time for his latest hour-long outing. But I got something out of the Watch Later instead, so I’m counting that – and this week is a “no-uploads Thursday,” so HOPEFULLY I can catch up a bit on Kevin then. In the meantime –
A) First up, from OXtra, we had “You Get One Wish: Which Game Gets a Sequel?” All about what video game sequels the gang would ask for if they found a genie capable of getting them made. In order, Andy wanted a second Sleeping Dogs (calling it basically “GTA but so much better, with a better story and better combat and a more likable lead”); Mike wanted a second Alien: Isolation (having loved the atmosphere and how well it fit into the original movie’s universe, and cursing IGN giving it a 5.9 review); Ellen wanted Valve to count to 3 in the Portal series (having just recently played Portal 2 and fallen in love with the puzzles and characters – fortunately James was on hand to recommend she play the fan-made Portal Reloaded); Jane wanted the ever-elusive Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 (having adored the original and its moody, atmospheric city, she is grumpy that the sequel is STILL in development hell after four years); and Luke wanted a proper follow-up to F-Zero X (a racing game, for the unaware, with the famous Captain Falcon and his motley band of weirdos – Luke thinks it would do good as a free-to-play evolving game with different seasons and mini-storylines and the like). Interesting choices – I personally would prefer that Valve finish the Half-Life story for those fans over artificially extending the Portal one, and I’m not sure I want VTMB2 after so long in vaporware status, but another Alien: Isolation? If you guys are willing to play it for me. . .
B) And then it was over to the Subs for GrayStillPlays and “$10 vs $5000 Water Slides in GTA 5!” Yes, we are back to this – and back with Danny, who did the first board as a $10 water slide! :D His was just tricky enough to be evil – a slide down a slick bit of curved concrete to jump into an under-construction building into the checkpoint, then down another slide on the other side, dodging wind turbines and a wall that regularly moved up and down to block the second slide he had to transfer to, then a big jump into a really small fountain with a twerking woman statue – which Gray had to climb and jump off of to land in bed with a random NPC in a bikini before moving onto Alex’s board. (Danny admitted he hoped Gray’s wife didn’t watch the videos – I think after interrupting him during Kyle Is Famous, she’s used to this kind of weirdness. XD)
And then we got to Alex’s “$5,000 water slide” board, and *whistles* Now this was waterslide hell. First Gray had to skydive from a high point and figure out which waterslide in a whole flower’s worth of slides didn’t lead out into the greater world, but instead led into the flower’s tube “stem,” which brought him to a teleporter. From there he was teleported to the first of a series of slide jumps onto targets. Each one added an extra slide he had to jump to, and a different expensive thing falling from the sky – first was just one slide, with falling money; second added a second slide with falling diamonds; third added a third slide with falling piled gold bars; fourth added a fourth slide with falling GOLD-PLATED CARS; and the fifth added a fifth slide, a punchy fist punching UP, and made the target super-small to increase Gray’s chances of overshooting it. Gray struggled quite a lot, especially on the four-jumps falling-cars slide combo, but he actually got past the fifth one without THAT much trauma! Though, of course, Alex couldn’t make it too easy for him, and before he could get his win, he had to blow up the blocking wall with a rocket launcher before sliding down one final slide into the ocean. Where he punched a shark and ended up killing it in one hit. The video ended with sad music because he felt guilty about that. XD Quality Gray torture, and it’s great to see Danny return to the fold! Hopefully he sticks around a while. :)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed on Victor Luvs Alice to one per day and found the music video that I wanted to reblog for Song Saturday (a mash-up of “Thiller” and “Heads With Roll” that I really enjoy).
Not bad, not bad -- and now it's time to head to bed so I can do this all over again tomorrow, with variations. :p Night all!
