Busy Rainy Monday
Oct. 24th, 2022 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickYeah, weather was miserable today -- we even had some thunder and lightning around 3 PM! That was unexpected -- well, mostly, it does explain why we're having a sudden warm streak for the next few days. . . Anyway, here's the usual to-do report:
Work – Boring morning, stressful afternoon – while I spent the morning focusing on my duplicates list, the afternoon brought a call from a donor that has revealed that our processing team might be doing something WEIRD with those billings from donors trying to set up credit cards. . .I’ve fixed the immediate problem, but we’ll see where that goes tomorrow. Also the credit card people themselves have not gotten back to us about anything in a while. I am getting very annoyed. *huffs* Four days left!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, back to Oxventure Orbpocalypse Episode 10, “Plan-demonium!” Having made it back to Necropolis-on-Sea, met Bismuth, and discovered Vocatus’s plan to either woo Liliana into an alliance or steal her magic over a nice dinner for two (with Bismuth having made enough food for sixty people as Vocatus didn’t specify a menu), the Oxventurers (after being denied their own plate) began discussing what they should do about this meeting, if anything. Dob was all for jumping out of a cake (or possibly escaping into one of the painted worlds of the art gallery), but Corazon was all for mega-impressive trap dining room – poison the food, rig the chandelier to drop, put spikes in the walls, have swords fall onto the diners, paint him to look like he’s part of a painting so he could jump out with his cutlasses at a key moment, have the others keep tabs on things through painting peepholes, all that shebang. Dob tried to point out with Prudence’s help that this might not work well against Liliana (as her immense magical power would probably allow her to avoid the traps), but Corazon was of the opinion that as long as it all happened at once, it should be fine.
And then Prudence brought up trying to get the house to play along with its illusory powers, and suddenly the idea of splitting the two up and having them each have a SEPARATE dinner with someone DISGUISED as their intended partner – Liliana meeting a fake Vocatus (or whoever, since she hadn’t actually met him yet – Dob suggested just going up to her as THEMSELVES, but the others pointed out she’d definitely kill them, and Katy was like “oh sure, ask her out to dinner” which made him walk it WAAAY BACK) and Vocatus meeting a fake Liliana – was on the table. Corazon loved this Mrs. Doubtfire-style plan and refused to let it go, even with Merilwen trying to point out the rather more sensible alternative of “send her an anonymous Message warning her of Vocatus’s tricks and see what happens from there” and Dob eventually realizing there was a little hole in their plan – namely, what did they actually hope to ACCOMPLISH with this? (Johnny was just making SO many hilarious reaction faces throughout this whole thing, I want you to all know, but the best one was in response to that.) After MUCH discussion, the gang ended up combining the two plans – Dob made up Prudence to look like a fake Liliana to meet Vocatus (because if he tries to steal her magic, he won’t get anything; Katy wasn’t exactly pleased to see how well Dob recalled what Liliana looked like, and Dob tried to redo the eyes to be a little too far apart in response), with Merilwen painting Corazon up to match a portrait of himself in that dining room so he could be her back-up (as she rolled a ten, Corazon was showing just a bit of skin, instead of being one of Dob’s full “tasteful nudes”); and in turn Corazon made up Dob to look like a fake Vocatus to meet Liliana – well, from the waist up, with Dob using his Major Illusion powers to provide the rooster legs from the waist down (this is a concentration spell, so it’s a bit tricky, but everyone figured it would be fine once they were seated and the legs were out of sight), with Merilwen lurking in the rafters to provide back-up. They also rigged up some emergency escape systems (Dob with a hook to pull him up the chimney), the falling chandelier trap, and instructed a grouchy Bismuth to poison all the food EXCEPT the breadsticks. XD That only left the problem of Egbert, who was only too happy to help Bismuth in the kitchen – their options so far are “throw a sheet over him and pretend he’s a ghost” or “have him attend Dob-as-Vocatus’s dinner as his enthralled butler.” Neither of which Egbert was keen on. XD
However, the time to plan was soon over, as Bismuth announced that there was an angry mob coming up to the house – and when the gang told her to tell them to shove off and wait their turn, it was revealed that the angry mob was part of Liliana’s retinue. In fact, they were a whole bunch of new Cloneberts! Egbert promptly declared they did NOT have enough food to feed all these people. XD So yes, seems like the plan is to have two simultaneous dinners and try to keep these two powerful magic users away from each other as long as possible while sussing out their plans. Tomorrow – Episode 11, “Dine Hard!”
Oh, and as I had a little time left over, I watched another Petey Plays It video before the end of my workout – a bunch of ways to improve gyms! Ranging from “use fun mood lighting to enhance the space” to “maybe make a different kind of gym – here’s this basketball court I built with a little gym balcony up-top!” to “add in cafes or Spa Day stuff for extra activities for your Sims!” All good stuff, and I kind of want to find his basketball gym on the Gallery. :)
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice has worked her way down to the final level, past all the thugs (with the help of her Obfuscate and a vent here and there). Now she just has to find the handoff point and get her hands on the briefcase. . .which will be easier than expected, given both sides are intending to double-cross the other. Which includes the Tong handing over a fake briefcase. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Half check on account of Call Me Kevin posting a 38-minute long video – and GrayStillPlays posting an hour and 26-minute long video. GRAY SINCE WHEN DO YOU BETRAY ME TIME-WISE?! Well, THAT’S not getting watched until Thursday at the EARLIEST and probably more likely SATURDAY so – yeah, Call Me Kevin video, “Do not watch this bad content!” This was actually a compilation video he made of three other videos he’d recorded but not put up yet (made because he has been feeling poorly lately) –
A) “12 Spy Hacks” – Kevin vs a video on “spy hacks” a girlfriend can use to spy on her potentially-cheating boyfriend! First one? “Hire a private detective.” XD Kevin was of the opinion that the girlfriend was MAJORLY overreacting and basically psychologically torturing her poor boyfriend, and couldn’t believe the video could possibly be taking itself seriously. XD I would hope not, because it was RIDICULOUS! Using gelatin to make a cast of his finger to trick his phone’s security while he was distracted with a burger? Making a copy of his office key using a soda can? Dressing up as a very poorly-done fake man to creep on him at a party? It had to be a joke. Please let it have been a joke. XD At least Kevin’s incredulous reactions to all the nonsense was fun!
B) “The Man Man” – Kevin vs The Man Man, an ultra-short free QWOP-style browser game where you plan as “The Man Man,” a boneless serial killer who must move by twerking. Your goal is to wriggle out from under a bed and kill the occupant of said bed – but then TWIST, another serial killer has already gotten him and you must get them before they escape! As it’s one of those terrible physics puzzlers that hates you, Kevin often found himself hung up on various bits of furniture, desperately trying to twerk his way to freedom. But he did manage to complete it! His attempt at speed-running it after seeing someone manage to beat it in 40 seconds by stabbing the other killer in his hiding spot early – did not go so well. XD Poor Kevin.
C) “Mad Games Tycoon 2” – Kevin vs Mad Games Tycoon 2, another one of those “game development” Sims following the progress of video games starting in the 1970s and moving its way up to the present day. Kevin decided, if he was time traveling in this game, he was gonna steal other IPs and began making such games as “Sex” (because sex sells, of course), “Morbius: It’s Morbing Time 2” (because sequels are always better), “Call of Duty 45” (you can probably believe that’s coming, right?), and his epic Simpsons trilogy, “The Simpsons,” “The Son of Simps,” and “Simps: Jumping The Shark.” XD All of them about Romans. Most of them weird skill games with ASCII graphics. XD Two of the Simpson games did very well, but between most everything else they made losing money left and right, Kevin hiring loads of new employees despite not having much for them to do (or a bathroom for them to do it in), and getting caught leaving fake reviews on one of their games, they ended up pretty close to bankruptcy before I assume the 80s were over. Kevin promptly took out a 2.2 million dollar loan and skipped town. XD He has learned capitalism well. :P
So yeah, three mini-videos of fun stuff! I can approve of that. Especially when it’s under an hour. (Seriously, I AM looking forward to the Gray video – it’s apparently 100 GTA V waterslides, hence the length – I’m just DUDE I HAVE OTHER THINGS TO DO AT NIGHT.)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: CHECK. Though it was less “getting queues sorted” and more “catching up with a TON of reblogs I meant to do earlier, plus my tracked tags, on Victor Luvs Alice.” I have officially reblogged all of Moose’s Doctober stories and a meme made by someone working on the “eldritch hellworld Valice” story I’m following, and gotten caught up as much as possible on my tracked tags. Which DID in fact yield two Corpse Bride posts, a gif set of someone’s Sebastian LaCroix-inspired Venture character from the Bloodhunt game doing silly emotes, and a shitpost about how any guy shipped with Alice Liddell from the McGee games automatically becomes a malewife for my drafts, soooo. . . XD But yeah, I am caught up and I am glad of it. :) Now I just have to stay caught up. . .
And now it's time to prepare to head to bed and see what Tuesday brings. Hopefully nothing too stressful. *nods* Just glad to be caught up. Night all!
Work – Boring morning, stressful afternoon – while I spent the morning focusing on my duplicates list, the afternoon brought a call from a donor that has revealed that our processing team might be doing something WEIRD with those billings from donors trying to set up credit cards. . .I’ve fixed the immediate problem, but we’ll see where that goes tomorrow. Also the credit card people themselves have not gotten back to us about anything in a while. I am getting very annoyed. *huffs* Four days left!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, back to Oxventure Orbpocalypse Episode 10, “Plan-demonium!” Having made it back to Necropolis-on-Sea, met Bismuth, and discovered Vocatus’s plan to either woo Liliana into an alliance or steal her magic over a nice dinner for two (with Bismuth having made enough food for sixty people as Vocatus didn’t specify a menu), the Oxventurers (after being denied their own plate) began discussing what they should do about this meeting, if anything. Dob was all for jumping out of a cake (or possibly escaping into one of the painted worlds of the art gallery), but Corazon was all for mega-impressive trap dining room – poison the food, rig the chandelier to drop, put spikes in the walls, have swords fall onto the diners, paint him to look like he’s part of a painting so he could jump out with his cutlasses at a key moment, have the others keep tabs on things through painting peepholes, all that shebang. Dob tried to point out with Prudence’s help that this might not work well against Liliana (as her immense magical power would probably allow her to avoid the traps), but Corazon was of the opinion that as long as it all happened at once, it should be fine.
And then Prudence brought up trying to get the house to play along with its illusory powers, and suddenly the idea of splitting the two up and having them each have a SEPARATE dinner with someone DISGUISED as their intended partner – Liliana meeting a fake Vocatus (or whoever, since she hadn’t actually met him yet – Dob suggested just going up to her as THEMSELVES, but the others pointed out she’d definitely kill them, and Katy was like “oh sure, ask her out to dinner” which made him walk it WAAAY BACK) and Vocatus meeting a fake Liliana – was on the table. Corazon loved this Mrs. Doubtfire-style plan and refused to let it go, even with Merilwen trying to point out the rather more sensible alternative of “send her an anonymous Message warning her of Vocatus’s tricks and see what happens from there” and Dob eventually realizing there was a little hole in their plan – namely, what did they actually hope to ACCOMPLISH with this? (Johnny was just making SO many hilarious reaction faces throughout this whole thing, I want you to all know, but the best one was in response to that.) After MUCH discussion, the gang ended up combining the two plans – Dob made up Prudence to look like a fake Liliana to meet Vocatus (because if he tries to steal her magic, he won’t get anything; Katy wasn’t exactly pleased to see how well Dob recalled what Liliana looked like, and Dob tried to redo the eyes to be a little too far apart in response), with Merilwen painting Corazon up to match a portrait of himself in that dining room so he could be her back-up (as she rolled a ten, Corazon was showing just a bit of skin, instead of being one of Dob’s full “tasteful nudes”); and in turn Corazon made up Dob to look like a fake Vocatus to meet Liliana – well, from the waist up, with Dob using his Major Illusion powers to provide the rooster legs from the waist down (this is a concentration spell, so it’s a bit tricky, but everyone figured it would be fine once they were seated and the legs were out of sight), with Merilwen lurking in the rafters to provide back-up. They also rigged up some emergency escape systems (Dob with a hook to pull him up the chimney), the falling chandelier trap, and instructed a grouchy Bismuth to poison all the food EXCEPT the breadsticks. XD That only left the problem of Egbert, who was only too happy to help Bismuth in the kitchen – their options so far are “throw a sheet over him and pretend he’s a ghost” or “have him attend Dob-as-Vocatus’s dinner as his enthralled butler.” Neither of which Egbert was keen on. XD
However, the time to plan was soon over, as Bismuth announced that there was an angry mob coming up to the house – and when the gang told her to tell them to shove off and wait their turn, it was revealed that the angry mob was part of Liliana’s retinue. In fact, they were a whole bunch of new Cloneberts! Egbert promptly declared they did NOT have enough food to feed all these people. XD So yes, seems like the plan is to have two simultaneous dinners and try to keep these two powerful magic users away from each other as long as possible while sussing out their plans. Tomorrow – Episode 11, “Dine Hard!”
Oh, and as I had a little time left over, I watched another Petey Plays It video before the end of my workout – a bunch of ways to improve gyms! Ranging from “use fun mood lighting to enhance the space” to “maybe make a different kind of gym – here’s this basketball court I built with a little gym balcony up-top!” to “add in cafes or Spa Day stuff for extra activities for your Sims!” All good stuff, and I kind of want to find his basketball gym on the Gallery. :)
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice has worked her way down to the final level, past all the thugs (with the help of her Obfuscate and a vent here and there). Now she just has to find the handoff point and get her hands on the briefcase. . .which will be easier than expected, given both sides are intending to double-cross the other. Which includes the Tong handing over a fake briefcase. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Half check on account of Call Me Kevin posting a 38-minute long video – and GrayStillPlays posting an hour and 26-minute long video. GRAY SINCE WHEN DO YOU BETRAY ME TIME-WISE?! Well, THAT’S not getting watched until Thursday at the EARLIEST and probably more likely SATURDAY so – yeah, Call Me Kevin video, “Do not watch this bad content!” This was actually a compilation video he made of three other videos he’d recorded but not put up yet (made because he has been feeling poorly lately) –
A) “12 Spy Hacks” – Kevin vs a video on “spy hacks” a girlfriend can use to spy on her potentially-cheating boyfriend! First one? “Hire a private detective.” XD Kevin was of the opinion that the girlfriend was MAJORLY overreacting and basically psychologically torturing her poor boyfriend, and couldn’t believe the video could possibly be taking itself seriously. XD I would hope not, because it was RIDICULOUS! Using gelatin to make a cast of his finger to trick his phone’s security while he was distracted with a burger? Making a copy of his office key using a soda can? Dressing up as a very poorly-done fake man to creep on him at a party? It had to be a joke. Please let it have been a joke. XD At least Kevin’s incredulous reactions to all the nonsense was fun!
B) “The Man Man” – Kevin vs The Man Man, an ultra-short free QWOP-style browser game where you plan as “The Man Man,” a boneless serial killer who must move by twerking. Your goal is to wriggle out from under a bed and kill the occupant of said bed – but then TWIST, another serial killer has already gotten him and you must get them before they escape! As it’s one of those terrible physics puzzlers that hates you, Kevin often found himself hung up on various bits of furniture, desperately trying to twerk his way to freedom. But he did manage to complete it! His attempt at speed-running it after seeing someone manage to beat it in 40 seconds by stabbing the other killer in his hiding spot early – did not go so well. XD Poor Kevin.
C) “Mad Games Tycoon 2” – Kevin vs Mad Games Tycoon 2, another one of those “game development” Sims following the progress of video games starting in the 1970s and moving its way up to the present day. Kevin decided, if he was time traveling in this game, he was gonna steal other IPs and began making such games as “Sex” (because sex sells, of course), “Morbius: It’s Morbing Time 2” (because sequels are always better), “Call of Duty 45” (you can probably believe that’s coming, right?), and his epic Simpsons trilogy, “The Simpsons,” “The Son of Simps,” and “Simps: Jumping The Shark.” XD All of them about Romans. Most of them weird skill games with ASCII graphics. XD Two of the Simpson games did very well, but between most everything else they made losing money left and right, Kevin hiring loads of new employees despite not having much for them to do (or a bathroom for them to do it in), and getting caught leaving fake reviews on one of their games, they ended up pretty close to bankruptcy before I assume the 80s were over. Kevin promptly took out a 2.2 million dollar loan and skipped town. XD He has learned capitalism well. :P
So yeah, three mini-videos of fun stuff! I can approve of that. Especially when it’s under an hour. (Seriously, I AM looking forward to the Gray video – it’s apparently 100 GTA V waterslides, hence the length – I’m just DUDE I HAVE OTHER THINGS TO DO AT NIGHT.)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: CHECK. Though it was less “getting queues sorted” and more “catching up with a TON of reblogs I meant to do earlier, plus my tracked tags, on Victor Luvs Alice.” I have officially reblogged all of Moose’s Doctober stories and a meme made by someone working on the “eldritch hellworld Valice” story I’m following, and gotten caught up as much as possible on my tracked tags. Which DID in fact yield two Corpse Bride posts, a gif set of someone’s Sebastian LaCroix-inspired Venture character from the Bloodhunt game doing silly emotes, and a shitpost about how any guy shipped with Alice Liddell from the McGee games automatically becomes a malewife for my drafts, soooo. . . XD But yeah, I am caught up and I am glad of it. :) Now I just have to stay caught up. . .
And now it's time to prepare to head to bed and see what Tuesday brings. Hopefully nothing too stressful. *nods* Just glad to be caught up. Night all!
