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crossover_chickOkay, it's been one of those days where I keep either getting to something late (lunch, both commutes in and out of work) or I lose track of time for whatever reason (scanning my Victor Luvs Alice tumblr for Halloween stuff). So yeah, let me get this to-do list out before I forget:
Work – Talky coworker is back and very talky. *sigh* Other than that, it was mostly a handful of calls either about credit cards or people looking to see when certain pledges will end, and me hunting down more duplicates. Nothing from the credit card people yet, which is no fucking surprise. Ugh. Two more days!
Beanbags – Yes, though a combination of cold and increasing darkness meant it wasn’t the most pleasant of games. We powered through, but it was agreed that this week will have to be the last week we do this when I get home on weekdays (weekends should still be good for a little bit, depending on weather), so expect this list item to be retired for the season after Friday. But we had three rounds, with Dad dominating the first two but Mom coming back for a win in the third. Final scores were me 2-3-2; Dad W-W-3; Mom 3-2-W. *shrug* Hopefully I can do better tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to Oxventure Orbpocalypse Episode 8, “No Way Rosé!” Having at least given Prudence the ability to happily reminisce about having Eldritch Blast, Corazon and the others checked in on Dunnican’s work – he’d actually managed to make a loveseat (one and a half chairs big) with the cursed wood, and done it quite well. He pricked his finger and used his blood to send it off to battle another one of the cursed cauldrons – it turned out to be a mutual kill, with the loveseat absolutely wrecking the cauldron and causing the wine-golems it spewed to melt into puddles on the street (which the desperate party-goers tried to scoop up with their hands), but the violence of its efforts smashed up the loveseat. So a win, but a rather minor win, unfortunately. However – Dunnican pointed out that it had gotten the job done, and he still had a bunch of cursed wood shavings. Obviously he couldn’t make another chair with those – but. He knew of a place nearby that had sprung up in the last year that sold flat-pack furniture that you could just build yourself, Chairs (only with an umlaut over the “i”). Now, of course, you get what you pay for, and the chairs there are cheap, but if they assembled a bunch of them, and he animated them with his wood shavings and his blood, they’d at least have the advantage of numbers against the dozens of cauldrons. The gang were all for this (especially if it meant getting meatballs for Corazon), and so the trip to Chairs (umlaut) was made!
Of course, in order to get the chairs, the group first had to get past the people partying IN the store. Having to pay for the chairs wasn’t really a problem – everyone was far too drunk on magic sentient wine for that – but making sure that the magic sentient wine wasn’t forced on them WAS. Fortunately, Corazon and Egbert absolutely smashed their Charisma/Performance rolls to fake drinking the wine by throwing it over their shoulders (19 and a nat 20, respectively – Egbert pretended to down a whole BUCKET of the stuff), and they, Prudence, and Merilwen in fact got the revelers to help them build a bunch of chairs by pretending it was a drinking game. Johnny rolled a d100 –
81 chairs (and other furniture bits, as was evidenced by the start of the next episode) in total! Nice! :D However, as the chairs were completed, the whole act of assembly seemed to give the Chairs (umlaut) employees an idea – why don’t they build Port Fairwind outward so they can bring the party slowly but surely to other people? So that’s what they started doing, taking all the display furniture and whatnot and trying to basically build more Port Fairwind. The gang quickly realized that this was Vocatus’s plan – turn ALL of G’eth into one giant party city! Merilwen was naturally upset about the nature, Egbert wondered if they’d have all the Scotch eggs, while Corazon pointed out all the people Prudence wanted to kill would be in there partying (Prudence: “Corazon, I’m ALREADY always pissed off with the loss of my magic, you don’t need to wind me up more.”) So there was a lot riding on these chairs! Dunnican, having already gotten the evil shavings into all the various pieces of furniture, began bringing them all to life – there was a slight hiccup at the beginning where Corazon was like “let’s just get the blood out of him to do this faster” and Dunnican bolted for the safety of a rug, but in the end they all got done. Dunnican got some fortifying jam/sauce stuff from the canteen from the girls, then commanded his furniture army to go destroy the cauldrons, leading them out of the store and into the streets with the Oxventurers (Corazon shouting “CHARGE!” through a mouthful of reasonably-priced hot dogs).
And so Episode 8 ended, with Episode 9, “Fools of Engagement,” opening with The Battle of Chairs And Cauldrons! Johnny had each Oxventurer take a cohort of furniture and roll to see how well they did. Poor Egbert did very poorly on a roll of 6 – turns out the dude had literally eaten some of the dowels meant to hold the chairs together, and they’d run themselves to pieces trying to attack a cauldron. Prudence, Merilwen, and Corazon all did much better, though – Corazon getting his chairs to form a wrestling pyramid so he could powerbomb a cauldron; Merilwen riding a table and getting legs from the chairs to fire into the cauldrons and gnaw through with their tiny leg-teeth; Prudence using an L-shaped sofa to scissor an unfortunate cauldron in twain. And Dunnican did the best of all, leading his chairs on a massive charge and destroying LOADS of the damn things (and having the time of his life in the process). The one problem, of course, was that all this wine destruction was riling up the party-goers, leaving the gang facing a mob. Nobody wanted to take on Dunnican, who was REALLY getting into the whole thing (rending of shirt-style), but they seemed ready to fall on the Oxventurers. “Oh, if only we had someone who could cast Calm Emotions!” Corazon cried –
Oh, LOOK WHO IS FINALLY BACK! :D Yes, Dob had finally found his way back to the group, and was – rather puzzled and annoyed with everything going on. XD He did Calm the crowd, telling them this was all pre-drinks and there would be more wine later, which placated them. (And then they found an undamaged cauldron and queued up to drink from it, using whatever was at hand – hats, hands, a cat. . .) Dob then turned on his friends, asking Prudence why she’d blanked him when he Messaged her after telling them where the shard was. Prudence explained that she’d lost her magic (after Luke lead Jane on a bit to that end), and the gang brought Dob up to speed on Vocatus, which made him feel better, because at least now he knew that his friends weren’t actually ignoring him. He informed them all that he had fantastic news – well, they had fantastic news, more accurately. He called someone out of hiding, who came up and hooked her arm around his. A someone sporting a new ring from the treasure haul in the lake (one that Corazon had stolen on Crim’s Night so long ago) –
And a papier-mache pearl head. Yes, apparently the stuff that Dob and Katy had to work out had taken an enemies-to-lovers turn! Everyone’s expressions reacting to these sickeningly sweethearts telling them all about what happened and the special night when they got engaged were HILARIOUS. XD Though the story did happen to include an important detail – Katy talking to some lawyer guy about inheritance law and what happens when a spouse dies on that special night. . .and that she proposed after he took her to the lake. Hmmm. Prudence, Egbert, Merilwen, and Corazon managed to break away for a huddle – Prudence thought one or both might be enchanted, but Merilwen pointed out that Katy probably saw the treasure and decided to marry Dob for it, not realizing it’s technically split five ways. Corazon wondered if they could then split Katy five ways. XD Prudence said that it was either that, them being enchanted, OR they were shockingly actually in love, which would be worst of all. She attempted to Detect Magic on the couple –
Cue the sad Cthulhu trombone because, oh yeah, no magic. Merilwen comforted her and said she’d keep Dispel Magic on-call just in case (I thought for sure she was finally going to be able to turn “I have that spell too” around on someone else for a change XD). Dob came over, having been asked by Katy to make sure the guild didn’t hate her, and told everyone to please be cool. And then told Corazon that he could be the best man, and make a long-winded speech mostly about himself, and get first dance on the dance floor. I left it with Corazon asking “why should we stand in the way of true love?” XD Next time, more wedding preparations I guess! And perhaps a better look at Katy’s motives. . .
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice has Obfuscated her way into the parking garage, and made it past level one without incident as a result! (Probably doesn’t help that the guards in my universe are either squabbling or playing whatever handheld consoles were available at the time. XD) She’s down on level two, having just listened to one of the Tong complain to his partner that he’s sure something is watching them. . .might be time to escape into the vents for a while, Alice! You’re already sus. :P
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Technical check – Kevin’s back to uploading hour-long videos, and I didn’t have the time to watch his today. But I was able to get something out of the Watch Later before moving onto Gray’s upload, so that’s all right then! We’ll see what the Kevin situation is tomorrow – in the meantime –
A) Firstly, the second of the two AT4Ws I had to catch up on – “Mr. T and the T-Force #7!” Yes, Linkara goes back to this series to make sure to avert disaster (the one year he didn’t review an issue of a Mr. T comic was I believe the same year Trump got into office, soooo. . .) This one was pretty simple – there’s a new gang of thieves in town, hitting places like a diamond vault and a bakery with a high payroll, and one of Mr. T’s teenage friends, Lester, has gotten mixed up with them and their parkoury evil ways. It’s up to Mr. T to get him to see the error of his ways. It’s a bit short on plot and has the VERY unfortunate opening of a security guard shooting a black kid (granted, in THIS particular instance, the guard didn’t know the guy was a kid, and he’s actually sick to his stomach when he realizes what happened), but it has some good action with Mr. T chasing the gang across some rooftops – and crashing through one when it can’t support his weight. Cue him slamming all the way to the basement where an unimpressed janitor tells him it’s a bit late to be making all that noise. XD Not perfect, but not horrible either – Linkara’s hoping for a better resolution next year with the next issue, though!
B) Then the GrayStillPlays of the day – “Jumping MOON RAMP With SUPER BIKES in GTA 5!” Alex is back with a new bike-themed board. . .a board about which he said “okay, this one might be too difficult.” XD But he and Gray decided to keep it as is, and so Gray plunged himself into yet another era of pain for our amusement. After attempting to make the first big ramp to the board itself on a special modded bike Alex gave him (which kept jerking and gyrating off to the side), Gray got one of the actual good bikes given to him and started on the board proper. Said board came in the following chunks:
I. Driving along a terrible small ledge on the side of a wall, racing to get a checkpoint before the big wall rotating above the course turned enough to block the ledge and knock Gray off to his death. There was a lot of knocking Gray off to his death before he finally managed to wrangle this with the fastest of his three bikes.
II. A timed course – 40 seconds to jump across a series of tilted walls sticking up out of the ground (in blue and red), then into a bunch of diverging roads, where he had to jump and get the ramps in the middle of each pair of roads to make it onto the correct ramp and to the checkpoint before the wall came up. Oh, and on the final pair of roads, there was no middle ramps, only windmills. Gray REALLY struggled with the last ramp (which was smaller than the others and in the middle of a bigger gap) and the windmills bit, but in the end he managed to pour on the speed with the Shinobi bike and leap over the blades to victory!
III. Another timed course – 30 seconds to run another series of roads, this time having to use the thin gray-and-pink ramps on the sides to leap over the barriers in his way. And just to make things extra confusing, they went left-left-right-left-left. . .and then a big jump in the middle to the checkpoint. Took Gray a bit to both learn the pattern and get enough speed to do all the jumps in time to make the checkpoint, but he did it!
IV. The final timed course – 20 seconds to navigate a bunch of black-and-purple grid platforms connected at the corners in ways that force him to make some pretty tight turns to get to the final teleporter before the barrier comes up. Took a few tries, but Gray busted out the Tron bike for the Tron flooring, and with some cool drifts, managed to make it work!
And his reward? The Moon Bike, a bike with rockets instead of wheels that he could take into space. XD He accidentally crashed it into a mountain the first time he took it off the ramp, but left the atmosphere and the video on his second attempt. :p Godspeed, Gray! See you on Friday!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though it took me longer than I thought – mostly because I wasn’t sure what to do for Song Saturday. After a long look through anything that mentioned Halloween on Victor Luvs Alice, I went looking in my YouTube Likes instead for anything that felt right. . .
And stumbled across the old “Bad Idea” (by Lemon Demon) music video I enjoyed ages ago. :D Watched it again and – after resetting the queue speed to one – put it into the rotation! Hopefully the rest of my tumblr watchers will also enjoy it. :)
Yeah, that last one is the real reason I lost so much time tonight -- distraction city, that blog troll! Time to finish up catching up on webcomics and get to bed -- night all!
Work – Talky coworker is back and very talky. *sigh* Other than that, it was mostly a handful of calls either about credit cards or people looking to see when certain pledges will end, and me hunting down more duplicates. Nothing from the credit card people yet, which is no fucking surprise. Ugh. Two more days!
Beanbags – Yes, though a combination of cold and increasing darkness meant it wasn’t the most pleasant of games. We powered through, but it was agreed that this week will have to be the last week we do this when I get home on weekdays (weekends should still be good for a little bit, depending on weather), so expect this list item to be retired for the season after Friday. But we had three rounds, with Dad dominating the first two but Mom coming back for a win in the third. Final scores were me 2-3-2; Dad W-W-3; Mom 3-2-W. *shrug* Hopefully I can do better tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to Oxventure Orbpocalypse Episode 8, “No Way Rosé!” Having at least given Prudence the ability to happily reminisce about having Eldritch Blast, Corazon and the others checked in on Dunnican’s work – he’d actually managed to make a loveseat (one and a half chairs big) with the cursed wood, and done it quite well. He pricked his finger and used his blood to send it off to battle another one of the cursed cauldrons – it turned out to be a mutual kill, with the loveseat absolutely wrecking the cauldron and causing the wine-golems it spewed to melt into puddles on the street (which the desperate party-goers tried to scoop up with their hands), but the violence of its efforts smashed up the loveseat. So a win, but a rather minor win, unfortunately. However – Dunnican pointed out that it had gotten the job done, and he still had a bunch of cursed wood shavings. Obviously he couldn’t make another chair with those – but. He knew of a place nearby that had sprung up in the last year that sold flat-pack furniture that you could just build yourself, Chairs (only with an umlaut over the “i”). Now, of course, you get what you pay for, and the chairs there are cheap, but if they assembled a bunch of them, and he animated them with his wood shavings and his blood, they’d at least have the advantage of numbers against the dozens of cauldrons. The gang were all for this (especially if it meant getting meatballs for Corazon), and so the trip to Chairs (umlaut) was made!
Of course, in order to get the chairs, the group first had to get past the people partying IN the store. Having to pay for the chairs wasn’t really a problem – everyone was far too drunk on magic sentient wine for that – but making sure that the magic sentient wine wasn’t forced on them WAS. Fortunately, Corazon and Egbert absolutely smashed their Charisma/Performance rolls to fake drinking the wine by throwing it over their shoulders (19 and a nat 20, respectively – Egbert pretended to down a whole BUCKET of the stuff), and they, Prudence, and Merilwen in fact got the revelers to help them build a bunch of chairs by pretending it was a drinking game. Johnny rolled a d100 –
81 chairs (and other furniture bits, as was evidenced by the start of the next episode) in total! Nice! :D However, as the chairs were completed, the whole act of assembly seemed to give the Chairs (umlaut) employees an idea – why don’t they build Port Fairwind outward so they can bring the party slowly but surely to other people? So that’s what they started doing, taking all the display furniture and whatnot and trying to basically build more Port Fairwind. The gang quickly realized that this was Vocatus’s plan – turn ALL of G’eth into one giant party city! Merilwen was naturally upset about the nature, Egbert wondered if they’d have all the Scotch eggs, while Corazon pointed out all the people Prudence wanted to kill would be in there partying (Prudence: “Corazon, I’m ALREADY always pissed off with the loss of my magic, you don’t need to wind me up more.”) So there was a lot riding on these chairs! Dunnican, having already gotten the evil shavings into all the various pieces of furniture, began bringing them all to life – there was a slight hiccup at the beginning where Corazon was like “let’s just get the blood out of him to do this faster” and Dunnican bolted for the safety of a rug, but in the end they all got done. Dunnican got some fortifying jam/sauce stuff from the canteen from the girls, then commanded his furniture army to go destroy the cauldrons, leading them out of the store and into the streets with the Oxventurers (Corazon shouting “CHARGE!” through a mouthful of reasonably-priced hot dogs).
And so Episode 8 ended, with Episode 9, “Fools of Engagement,” opening with The Battle of Chairs And Cauldrons! Johnny had each Oxventurer take a cohort of furniture and roll to see how well they did. Poor Egbert did very poorly on a roll of 6 – turns out the dude had literally eaten some of the dowels meant to hold the chairs together, and they’d run themselves to pieces trying to attack a cauldron. Prudence, Merilwen, and Corazon all did much better, though – Corazon getting his chairs to form a wrestling pyramid so he could powerbomb a cauldron; Merilwen riding a table and getting legs from the chairs to fire into the cauldrons and gnaw through with their tiny leg-teeth; Prudence using an L-shaped sofa to scissor an unfortunate cauldron in twain. And Dunnican did the best of all, leading his chairs on a massive charge and destroying LOADS of the damn things (and having the time of his life in the process). The one problem, of course, was that all this wine destruction was riling up the party-goers, leaving the gang facing a mob. Nobody wanted to take on Dunnican, who was REALLY getting into the whole thing (rending of shirt-style), but they seemed ready to fall on the Oxventurers. “Oh, if only we had someone who could cast Calm Emotions!” Corazon cried –
Oh, LOOK WHO IS FINALLY BACK! :D Yes, Dob had finally found his way back to the group, and was – rather puzzled and annoyed with everything going on. XD He did Calm the crowd, telling them this was all pre-drinks and there would be more wine later, which placated them. (And then they found an undamaged cauldron and queued up to drink from it, using whatever was at hand – hats, hands, a cat. . .) Dob then turned on his friends, asking Prudence why she’d blanked him when he Messaged her after telling them where the shard was. Prudence explained that she’d lost her magic (after Luke lead Jane on a bit to that end), and the gang brought Dob up to speed on Vocatus, which made him feel better, because at least now he knew that his friends weren’t actually ignoring him. He informed them all that he had fantastic news – well, they had fantastic news, more accurately. He called someone out of hiding, who came up and hooked her arm around his. A someone sporting a new ring from the treasure haul in the lake (one that Corazon had stolen on Crim’s Night so long ago) –
And a papier-mache pearl head. Yes, apparently the stuff that Dob and Katy had to work out had taken an enemies-to-lovers turn! Everyone’s expressions reacting to these sickeningly sweethearts telling them all about what happened and the special night when they got engaged were HILARIOUS. XD Though the story did happen to include an important detail – Katy talking to some lawyer guy about inheritance law and what happens when a spouse dies on that special night. . .and that she proposed after he took her to the lake. Hmmm. Prudence, Egbert, Merilwen, and Corazon managed to break away for a huddle – Prudence thought one or both might be enchanted, but Merilwen pointed out that Katy probably saw the treasure and decided to marry Dob for it, not realizing it’s technically split five ways. Corazon wondered if they could then split Katy five ways. XD Prudence said that it was either that, them being enchanted, OR they were shockingly actually in love, which would be worst of all. She attempted to Detect Magic on the couple –
Cue the sad Cthulhu trombone because, oh yeah, no magic. Merilwen comforted her and said she’d keep Dispel Magic on-call just in case (I thought for sure she was finally going to be able to turn “I have that spell too” around on someone else for a change XD). Dob came over, having been asked by Katy to make sure the guild didn’t hate her, and told everyone to please be cool. And then told Corazon that he could be the best man, and make a long-winded speech mostly about himself, and get first dance on the dance floor. I left it with Corazon asking “why should we stand in the way of true love?” XD Next time, more wedding preparations I guess! And perhaps a better look at Katy’s motives. . .
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice has Obfuscated her way into the parking garage, and made it past level one without incident as a result! (Probably doesn’t help that the guards in my universe are either squabbling or playing whatever handheld consoles were available at the time. XD) She’s down on level two, having just listened to one of the Tong complain to his partner that he’s sure something is watching them. . .might be time to escape into the vents for a while, Alice! You’re already sus. :P
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Technical check – Kevin’s back to uploading hour-long videos, and I didn’t have the time to watch his today. But I was able to get something out of the Watch Later before moving onto Gray’s upload, so that’s all right then! We’ll see what the Kevin situation is tomorrow – in the meantime –
A) Firstly, the second of the two AT4Ws I had to catch up on – “Mr. T and the T-Force #7!” Yes, Linkara goes back to this series to make sure to avert disaster (the one year he didn’t review an issue of a Mr. T comic was I believe the same year Trump got into office, soooo. . .) This one was pretty simple – there’s a new gang of thieves in town, hitting places like a diamond vault and a bakery with a high payroll, and one of Mr. T’s teenage friends, Lester, has gotten mixed up with them and their parkoury evil ways. It’s up to Mr. T to get him to see the error of his ways. It’s a bit short on plot and has the VERY unfortunate opening of a security guard shooting a black kid (granted, in THIS particular instance, the guard didn’t know the guy was a kid, and he’s actually sick to his stomach when he realizes what happened), but it has some good action with Mr. T chasing the gang across some rooftops – and crashing through one when it can’t support his weight. Cue him slamming all the way to the basement where an unimpressed janitor tells him it’s a bit late to be making all that noise. XD Not perfect, but not horrible either – Linkara’s hoping for a better resolution next year with the next issue, though!
B) Then the GrayStillPlays of the day – “Jumping MOON RAMP With SUPER BIKES in GTA 5!” Alex is back with a new bike-themed board. . .a board about which he said “okay, this one might be too difficult.” XD But he and Gray decided to keep it as is, and so Gray plunged himself into yet another era of pain for our amusement. After attempting to make the first big ramp to the board itself on a special modded bike Alex gave him (which kept jerking and gyrating off to the side), Gray got one of the actual good bikes given to him and started on the board proper. Said board came in the following chunks:
I. Driving along a terrible small ledge on the side of a wall, racing to get a checkpoint before the big wall rotating above the course turned enough to block the ledge and knock Gray off to his death. There was a lot of knocking Gray off to his death before he finally managed to wrangle this with the fastest of his three bikes.
II. A timed course – 40 seconds to jump across a series of tilted walls sticking up out of the ground (in blue and red), then into a bunch of diverging roads, where he had to jump and get the ramps in the middle of each pair of roads to make it onto the correct ramp and to the checkpoint before the wall came up. Oh, and on the final pair of roads, there was no middle ramps, only windmills. Gray REALLY struggled with the last ramp (which was smaller than the others and in the middle of a bigger gap) and the windmills bit, but in the end he managed to pour on the speed with the Shinobi bike and leap over the blades to victory!
III. Another timed course – 30 seconds to run another series of roads, this time having to use the thin gray-and-pink ramps on the sides to leap over the barriers in his way. And just to make things extra confusing, they went left-left-right-left-left. . .and then a big jump in the middle to the checkpoint. Took Gray a bit to both learn the pattern and get enough speed to do all the jumps in time to make the checkpoint, but he did it!
IV. The final timed course – 20 seconds to navigate a bunch of black-and-purple grid platforms connected at the corners in ways that force him to make some pretty tight turns to get to the final teleporter before the barrier comes up. Took a few tries, but Gray busted out the Tron bike for the Tron flooring, and with some cool drifts, managed to make it work!
And his reward? The Moon Bike, a bike with rockets instead of wheels that he could take into space. XD He accidentally crashed it into a mountain the first time he took it off the ramp, but left the atmosphere and the video on his second attempt. :p Godspeed, Gray! See you on Friday!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though it took me longer than I thought – mostly because I wasn’t sure what to do for Song Saturday. After a long look through anything that mentioned Halloween on Victor Luvs Alice, I went looking in my YouTube Likes instead for anything that felt right. . .
And stumbled across the old “Bad Idea” (by Lemon Demon) music video I enjoyed ages ago. :D Watched it again and – after resetting the queue speed to one – put it into the rotation! Hopefully the rest of my tumblr watchers will also enjoy it. :)
Yeah, that last one is the real reason I lost so much time tonight -- distraction city, that blog troll! Time to finish up catching up on webcomics and get to bed -- night all!
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