More Late Nights
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crossover_chickAnd I just finished up replying to Moose's messages, so let's get the to-do list out here --
Work – Another quiet day – had one big credit card gift, but that was kind of the extent of my excitement, as I spent the rest of the time cleaning up duplicates. *shrug* At least I wasn’t fighting with the printer like my coworkers! (We’ve got a big print job going for an event and I think it’s wrecking the fuser.) One more day to get through!
Beanbags – Yes – slightly warmer than yesterday, though perhaps slightly darker because of the shortening days. . .still, we got out there regardless, and I managed to do better than I did yesterday by scoring a win, while poor Mom did much worse and lost every game. Though a couple of them WERE pretty tight, at least! Final scores were me 2-2-W; Dad W-W-2; Mom 3-3-3. Hopefully tomorrow’s final regular weekday game will prove better for her!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Oxventure Orbpocalypse Episode 9, “Fools of Engagement!” Having won Corazon over on him marrying Katy Pearlhead with the promise that he could be the world’s most self-absorbed best man, Dob then proceeded to get Egbert on-sides by promising a buffet. XD The girls were left to try and be sensible about this, with Prudence turning to Katy and asking if she was REALLY willing to give up her role as Thief Queen to marry “this” (“no offense, Dob”). Katy said sure she was, Dob was amazing and also LOADED. Merilwen attempted to interject that the treasure belonged to ALL of them, but Katy was of the opinion that since Dob threw it in the lake, and was the only one who knew the location of said lake, it was his. And also they’d ALREADY moved it all to another secure location because she’d convinced him it might not be safe there – what if a Message had gone astray? (Corazon attempted to make a “pier to pier” joke, but was cut off by Merilwen’s rage over all this.) Corazon then said that if Katy wanted the treasure, she’d have to marry all FIVE of them –
Katy was, uh, down with that. As was Dob a bit, though he wanted to establish a baseline relationship between the two of them before opening things up to the others (though Katy was fine with Corazon jumping in right away). Cue ten million fanfics being written. XD A frustrated Corazon managed to successfully pickpocket a book off of Katy – a book of plant life, with some dog-eared pages in the poisonous plants section. . .though the book was old enough that it might have come that way. Katy stating she could go hit the apothecary while Dob was having it out with his friends about the engagement to pick up more poison wasn’t exactly exonerating, though. . .
Anyway, cue Prudence and Dob arguing, with Prudence furiously demanding to know if Dob told Katy that the rest of the team had negative vibes, and Dob shooting back that Prudence didn’t have as many as she did before and she wasn’t allowed to go look at chair backs with them! Prudence, emotional from the loss of her magic, started crying, and Merilwen went to comfort her; Dob, feeling bad, said she could look at swatches, but Merilwen told him not to talk to her and pointed at him, casting Dispel Magic as she did!
No effect. Merilwen, who had been hoping for something big and dramatic to happen, began to cry too. XD Dob began complaining that he was hoping they’d be COOL and accept his engagement – a stranger said that yes, weren’t engagements supposed to be happy occasions? Dob spun around to agree with him –
Oh, hi, Vocatus. A furious Corazon immediately turned on our rooster-legged trickster, demanding that he stop the eternal partying nonsense and give Prudence back her magic – and when Vocatus started to protest that he was just cheering everybody up, went and full-on TACKLED him. Roll for initiative, everybody! Corazon won and successfully grappled the guy, yelling for everyone to pile on. Vocatus manged to summon the wine to himself to act as armor, while Egbert set up a massive powerbomb on the guy –
And got a crit 1, smashing into the cobbles on the other side of Vocatus and smacking his head hard enough that he had Disadvantage on the next couple of rounds. Dob decided to try and do the one-two punch with Katy and flung himself dramatically into the air – Johnny told him that Katy was actually LAST in the order, so Dob was left hanging as they turned to Prudence! She entered Rage Mode again and tore a bagel rack (or, as Johnny put it, a “seedy rack” (CD rack, thank you TV Tropes)) in half and TRIED to smash in Vocatus’s face – she rolled poorly, though, and missed with both, instead just slamming them into the ground on either side of his head. Things passed to Merilwen, who decided to make use of her Control Water spell to try and make all the enchanted wine go down Vocatus’s throat – sadly, Vocatus and the wine rolled a nat 20 to resist her, and she couldn’t quite force it in! Dunnican then showed up astride a lovely wingback chair and attempted to have it stomp on Vocatus’s face – again, a poor attack roll meant that he instead just stomped around Vocatus’s head.
And then, finally, it was Katy’s turn, to finish off Dob’s one-two punch! Which did not actually involve punching – instead, he threw his dagger at her, and she did a cool spin kick (courtesy of a nat 20) to wang it back at Vocatus – not quite hitting him, but cutting his face as the dagger landed in the cobbles beside him. Not too bad. . . Combat then returned to Corazon, who decided the best way to handle his problems was to drag Vocatus to his feet and beat him in the face with the pommel of his rapier – taking full advantage of Rakish Audacity to Sneak Attack the guy while, you know, having him grappled. XD Vocatus ended up getting a decent number of bruises, but tried to retaliate via forming his wine armor into a mech suit of sorts (“Optimus Wine,” Merilwen said, with Dob later coming up with “Neon Genesis Evan-sauvignon,” netting them both Inspiration) and rocket-punching Corazon’s head. He rolled a crit 1, however, and the rocket punch went wide and splashed against a nearby building. This brought it back to Egbert –
Who was like “is there any part of this imp/demon I can set on fire with my breath WITHOUT roasting Corazon?” XD After some very careful deliberation, it was determined that yes, he could set the rooster legs on fire if he aimed well enough. He did so, boiling off most of the wine, and Corazon began complaining about how he’s never going to get to Evade any area-of-effect attacks. (Johnny offered up hot wine steam to escape, but Corazon didn’t want a pity evasion – though he would happily inhale the steam.) Combat then passed to Dob, who decided that he had just the spell to give Corazon a chance to Evade things – Shatter! The portable version of Thunderwave that he can center on a point of his choosing!
As promised in the level-up video before this, Dob centered it on Vocatus’s groin. XD Sadly, though, since it was a CONSTITUTION saving throw, not a Dexterity one, Corazon’s Evasion didn’t actually apply, aww. Egbert tried to help with his paladin spells, and managed to get an aura of protection up to halve the damage Corazon (and he himself, since he was close enough to do this) would take from the spell. That plus Corazon making his saving throw PLUS his Uncanny Dodge mean that Corazon only took 4 points of damage from the 29 points Dob had rolled – Egbert and Vocatus (the former having the protection, the latter having passed his saving throw) both took 15.
And, at that point, Vocatus was DONE. XD The wine mech suit began to flee as he cried for clemency – tomorrow, we see what happens in the final ten or so minutes of this episode! Will we figure out for sure if Katy is genuinely in love with Dob or not? Will Vocatus truly surrender? Will the Oxventurers embrace polyamory? XD Tune in next time to find out! XD
2. Continue writing “The Joker And The Queen”: Check – Victor and Alice have finished both their reminiscing and their lunch, deposing of their containers in the proper trash receptacle. . .and the corpse of the crooked cop they ran over in the dumpster on the side of the strip mall they’re parked at. XD Look, they didn’t want to leave him in the road, is all! Next time, we finish off this scene with them back on the road. . .and the reveal that they’re being watched. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – turned out to be a No Upload Thursday, so I took advantage of the opportunity to catch up on the long Call Me Kevin video uploaded yesterday that I wasn’t able to watch then: “This mod turns Minecraft into Stardew Valley!” It’s called “Farming Valley” and it does basically turn a lot of the game into something a lot closer to Stardew Valley. You have to summon the Harvest Goddess (with flowers, water, and possibly the sacrifice of a zombie – or maybe that was just Kevin), who provides you with your starting capital and the building for the carpenter and his buddy who will give you turnip seeds in exchange for flowers, and it’s up to you to earn the money to get the carpenter to build more buildings for more people (like a general store, a blacksmith shop, an animal ranch, a poultry farm), mostly by planting and watering loads of crops. To the point where Kevin’s character was damn near ready to pass out from exhaustion, given how many turnips and corn plants that he ended up growing. XD It was a tough life – working around the villagers’ schedules, trying to get enough flowers to gift to the Turnip Lady, trying to earn enough money to get all the different stores and such he needed, fending off the constant monster attacks on his land (seriously, there were SO many skeletons and creepers ready to put an arrow in him or blow up chunks of his farm – many with googly eyes for some reason), tending his overly-large farm (see the aforementioned “watering well past the point of exhaustion”), attempting to explore the world on his new bike only to lose it ramping off a mountain into the ocean, trying to find good places to build stuff on his rather lumpy spawn, and trying and failing SO many times to kill the pirates on the nearby pirate ship. BUT it had some good wins – Kevin did manage to place all the buildings he wanted and make the town layout work! He worked with some of the monster attacks and actually got a cool waterfall out of a creeper explosion! His massive farm of corn made him tons and tons of money! He enjoyed the bike while he had it! He found a cool tower nearby and ended up turning it into his home for him and his dog! And he finally successfully attacked the pirate ship, looted all its treasures (including its flags for his tower) and burnt it to the – uh, water. XD Basically, there was a lot of effort involved, but it all paid off in the end. :) We’re very proud of you, Kevin! And hopeful for a second episode sometime in the future. (When I can watch hour-long stuff again.)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – three ask replies on Valice Multiverse, easy-peasy lemon squeezy. *nods*
Whew! So that's all sorted at least. And now it's time to head to bed in preparation for doing it all again tomorrow. At least tomorrow's Friday! And a BTTF day on top of that...we'll see if I manage to get a 10:04 update in! Night all!
Work – Another quiet day – had one big credit card gift, but that was kind of the extent of my excitement, as I spent the rest of the time cleaning up duplicates. *shrug* At least I wasn’t fighting with the printer like my coworkers! (We’ve got a big print job going for an event and I think it’s wrecking the fuser.) One more day to get through!
Beanbags – Yes – slightly warmer than yesterday, though perhaps slightly darker because of the shortening days. . .still, we got out there regardless, and I managed to do better than I did yesterday by scoring a win, while poor Mom did much worse and lost every game. Though a couple of them WERE pretty tight, at least! Final scores were me 2-2-W; Dad W-W-2; Mom 3-3-3. Hopefully tomorrow’s final regular weekday game will prove better for her!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Oxventure Orbpocalypse Episode 9, “Fools of Engagement!” Having won Corazon over on him marrying Katy Pearlhead with the promise that he could be the world’s most self-absorbed best man, Dob then proceeded to get Egbert on-sides by promising a buffet. XD The girls were left to try and be sensible about this, with Prudence turning to Katy and asking if she was REALLY willing to give up her role as Thief Queen to marry “this” (“no offense, Dob”). Katy said sure she was, Dob was amazing and also LOADED. Merilwen attempted to interject that the treasure belonged to ALL of them, but Katy was of the opinion that since Dob threw it in the lake, and was the only one who knew the location of said lake, it was his. And also they’d ALREADY moved it all to another secure location because she’d convinced him it might not be safe there – what if a Message had gone astray? (Corazon attempted to make a “pier to pier” joke, but was cut off by Merilwen’s rage over all this.) Corazon then said that if Katy wanted the treasure, she’d have to marry all FIVE of them –
Katy was, uh, down with that. As was Dob a bit, though he wanted to establish a baseline relationship between the two of them before opening things up to the others (though Katy was fine with Corazon jumping in right away). Cue ten million fanfics being written. XD A frustrated Corazon managed to successfully pickpocket a book off of Katy – a book of plant life, with some dog-eared pages in the poisonous plants section. . .though the book was old enough that it might have come that way. Katy stating she could go hit the apothecary while Dob was having it out with his friends about the engagement to pick up more poison wasn’t exactly exonerating, though. . .
Anyway, cue Prudence and Dob arguing, with Prudence furiously demanding to know if Dob told Katy that the rest of the team had negative vibes, and Dob shooting back that Prudence didn’t have as many as she did before and she wasn’t allowed to go look at chair backs with them! Prudence, emotional from the loss of her magic, started crying, and Merilwen went to comfort her; Dob, feeling bad, said she could look at swatches, but Merilwen told him not to talk to her and pointed at him, casting Dispel Magic as she did!
No effect. Merilwen, who had been hoping for something big and dramatic to happen, began to cry too. XD Dob began complaining that he was hoping they’d be COOL and accept his engagement – a stranger said that yes, weren’t engagements supposed to be happy occasions? Dob spun around to agree with him –
Oh, hi, Vocatus. A furious Corazon immediately turned on our rooster-legged trickster, demanding that he stop the eternal partying nonsense and give Prudence back her magic – and when Vocatus started to protest that he was just cheering everybody up, went and full-on TACKLED him. Roll for initiative, everybody! Corazon won and successfully grappled the guy, yelling for everyone to pile on. Vocatus manged to summon the wine to himself to act as armor, while Egbert set up a massive powerbomb on the guy –
And got a crit 1, smashing into the cobbles on the other side of Vocatus and smacking his head hard enough that he had Disadvantage on the next couple of rounds. Dob decided to try and do the one-two punch with Katy and flung himself dramatically into the air – Johnny told him that Katy was actually LAST in the order, so Dob was left hanging as they turned to Prudence! She entered Rage Mode again and tore a bagel rack (or, as Johnny put it, a “seedy rack” (CD rack, thank you TV Tropes)) in half and TRIED to smash in Vocatus’s face – she rolled poorly, though, and missed with both, instead just slamming them into the ground on either side of his head. Things passed to Merilwen, who decided to make use of her Control Water spell to try and make all the enchanted wine go down Vocatus’s throat – sadly, Vocatus and the wine rolled a nat 20 to resist her, and she couldn’t quite force it in! Dunnican then showed up astride a lovely wingback chair and attempted to have it stomp on Vocatus’s face – again, a poor attack roll meant that he instead just stomped around Vocatus’s head.
And then, finally, it was Katy’s turn, to finish off Dob’s one-two punch! Which did not actually involve punching – instead, he threw his dagger at her, and she did a cool spin kick (courtesy of a nat 20) to wang it back at Vocatus – not quite hitting him, but cutting his face as the dagger landed in the cobbles beside him. Not too bad. . . Combat then returned to Corazon, who decided the best way to handle his problems was to drag Vocatus to his feet and beat him in the face with the pommel of his rapier – taking full advantage of Rakish Audacity to Sneak Attack the guy while, you know, having him grappled. XD Vocatus ended up getting a decent number of bruises, but tried to retaliate via forming his wine armor into a mech suit of sorts (“Optimus Wine,” Merilwen said, with Dob later coming up with “Neon Genesis Evan-sauvignon,” netting them both Inspiration) and rocket-punching Corazon’s head. He rolled a crit 1, however, and the rocket punch went wide and splashed against a nearby building. This brought it back to Egbert –
Who was like “is there any part of this imp/demon I can set on fire with my breath WITHOUT roasting Corazon?” XD After some very careful deliberation, it was determined that yes, he could set the rooster legs on fire if he aimed well enough. He did so, boiling off most of the wine, and Corazon began complaining about how he’s never going to get to Evade any area-of-effect attacks. (Johnny offered up hot wine steam to escape, but Corazon didn’t want a pity evasion – though he would happily inhale the steam.) Combat then passed to Dob, who decided that he had just the spell to give Corazon a chance to Evade things – Shatter! The portable version of Thunderwave that he can center on a point of his choosing!
As promised in the level-up video before this, Dob centered it on Vocatus’s groin. XD Sadly, though, since it was a CONSTITUTION saving throw, not a Dexterity one, Corazon’s Evasion didn’t actually apply, aww. Egbert tried to help with his paladin spells, and managed to get an aura of protection up to halve the damage Corazon (and he himself, since he was close enough to do this) would take from the spell. That plus Corazon making his saving throw PLUS his Uncanny Dodge mean that Corazon only took 4 points of damage from the 29 points Dob had rolled – Egbert and Vocatus (the former having the protection, the latter having passed his saving throw) both took 15.
And, at that point, Vocatus was DONE. XD The wine mech suit began to flee as he cried for clemency – tomorrow, we see what happens in the final ten or so minutes of this episode! Will we figure out for sure if Katy is genuinely in love with Dob or not? Will Vocatus truly surrender? Will the Oxventurers embrace polyamory? XD Tune in next time to find out! XD
2. Continue writing “The Joker And The Queen”: Check – Victor and Alice have finished both their reminiscing and their lunch, deposing of their containers in the proper trash receptacle. . .and the corpse of the crooked cop they ran over in the dumpster on the side of the strip mall they’re parked at. XD Look, they didn’t want to leave him in the road, is all! Next time, we finish off this scene with them back on the road. . .and the reveal that they’re being watched. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – turned out to be a No Upload Thursday, so I took advantage of the opportunity to catch up on the long Call Me Kevin video uploaded yesterday that I wasn’t able to watch then: “This mod turns Minecraft into Stardew Valley!” It’s called “Farming Valley” and it does basically turn a lot of the game into something a lot closer to Stardew Valley. You have to summon the Harvest Goddess (with flowers, water, and possibly the sacrifice of a zombie – or maybe that was just Kevin), who provides you with your starting capital and the building for the carpenter and his buddy who will give you turnip seeds in exchange for flowers, and it’s up to you to earn the money to get the carpenter to build more buildings for more people (like a general store, a blacksmith shop, an animal ranch, a poultry farm), mostly by planting and watering loads of crops. To the point where Kevin’s character was damn near ready to pass out from exhaustion, given how many turnips and corn plants that he ended up growing. XD It was a tough life – working around the villagers’ schedules, trying to get enough flowers to gift to the Turnip Lady, trying to earn enough money to get all the different stores and such he needed, fending off the constant monster attacks on his land (seriously, there were SO many skeletons and creepers ready to put an arrow in him or blow up chunks of his farm – many with googly eyes for some reason), tending his overly-large farm (see the aforementioned “watering well past the point of exhaustion”), attempting to explore the world on his new bike only to lose it ramping off a mountain into the ocean, trying to find good places to build stuff on his rather lumpy spawn, and trying and failing SO many times to kill the pirates on the nearby pirate ship. BUT it had some good wins – Kevin did manage to place all the buildings he wanted and make the town layout work! He worked with some of the monster attacks and actually got a cool waterfall out of a creeper explosion! His massive farm of corn made him tons and tons of money! He enjoyed the bike while he had it! He found a cool tower nearby and ended up turning it into his home for him and his dog! And he finally successfully attacked the pirate ship, looted all its treasures (including its flags for his tower) and burnt it to the – uh, water. XD Basically, there was a lot of effort involved, but it all paid off in the end. :) We’re very proud of you, Kevin! And hopeful for a second episode sometime in the future. (When I can watch hour-long stuff again.)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – three ask replies on Valice Multiverse, easy-peasy lemon squeezy. *nods*
Whew! So that's all sorted at least. And now it's time to head to bed in preparation for doing it all again tomorrow. At least tomorrow's Friday! And a BTTF day on top of that...we'll see if I manage to get a 10:04 update in! Night all!
