Look At That, I Caught It
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crossover_chickHappy October 25th, aka the -- well, it's not ACTUALLY the start of all of Marty's adventures through time, that's tomorrow, but it is the start of the original BTTF, and that's good enough. :)
Anyway, I've left this entry sitting around for long enough (yeah, I wrote that first sentence at like 10:05, and it's 11:42 now), so let me give you the skinny:
Work – Okay, so, ride in was fairly crappy and long, and I had trouble both getting across the last intersection and into the actual parking lot (please, if there are sidewalks in a place, USE THEM); morning was fairly quiet with mostly duplicates; afternoon some bitchy lady called in and started yelling at my coworkers (and me through the medium of my voicemail inbox), which REALLY set talky coworker off, so that was great; then the drive home was extra trafficky and involved having to pull over for a police car almost the moment I made it onto my offramp. Not great, in other words! *sigh* Three more days. . .at least I got my flu shot for free at the clinic today!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, and onto Oxventure Orbpocalypse Episode 11, “Dine Hard!” We’re in the home stretch with this one, folks! And the home stretch currently looks like shenanigans. XD To recap: The two enemies of the Oxventurers, Vocatus the Party Demon and Liliana the Drow Sorceress, are both at Necropolis-On-Sea – Liliana to wreck the place, Vocatus to try and lure Liliana into an alliance, probably so he can steal her magic. The Oxventurers have decided the best plan to stop their two enemies from getting close is to pull off two simultaneous fake dinners – one where Dob, as a fake Vocatus, charms Liliana while Merilwen watches over him from the rafters (or, actually, the mezzanine level Corazon had put in so he could raise the chandelier for proper swashbuckling swinging upon it); one where Prudence, as a fake Liliana, hears out Vocatus while Corazon keeps an eye on her under the guise that he is a shirtless portrait of himself (with multiple painted-on abs). Egbert, meanwhile, is helping Bismuth out in the kitchen and serving as waiter – he managed to find a suit that KIND OF fit him (Corazon pointing out the house MUST have a “Lurch” (earning inspiration from it)), but as said Lurch was lanky, it wasn’t really made for Egbert’s bulk, and. . .well. Basically he’s wearing the suit like a backless hospital gown. He also made himself a pencil mustache as a disguise. XD So that is the setting – how did the dinners go?
So far, nobody’s been murdered. XD We started with Dob as fake Vocatus, greeting Liliana and her army as they reached the house and inviting Liliana in for dinner in the goofiest manner possible. Liliana was like “who the fuck are you and why are you in the way of my house razing,” but Dob managed to sell having a meal with him with a decent-enough Charisma roll (reminiscent of how she decided not to immediately kill him when they first met and he declared he’d wrote her a love song), saying that he had a proposition for her and all that. They headed inside (Liliana literally leaving her army on the doorstep) and headed toward their dining room (Dob saying the other one was being fumigated; they could get high off the fumes later), with Dob playing up his role as a demon of pleasure by rakishly slinging his fake-chicken legs over the arm of the chair and devouring grapes before offering her (not-poisoned, apparently) wine. Liliana for some reason continued hearing him out, possibly thinking that it was just as easy as killing him. XD Dob outlined how he could give her a method to bring people under her control without even needing to subjugate them by force – Liliana was like “I’ve already cooked my army, I don’t MIND doing it by force,” but Dob countered with it being easier and more fun to use mind control – and he could already show how well it’s worked for him! Cue him summoning Egbert up with some lobster bisque (which Bismuth wouldn’t stop making “bisque-muth” jokes about), then pretending he had Egbert fully under his command by ordering him to do a pratfall. They both made middling Performance checks, but I think Liliana was too distracted by the sight of more Egbert butt (I assume she’s seen plenty, growing all her clones) to really question it. Dob then had him do star-jumps while he told Liliana he’d happily give her the method of control if she did something for him, before trying to get him to leave. Liliana, however, ordered Egbert to stay (which Dob quickly echoed), then told Dob that okay, fine, there’s a price, but he was going to tell it to her now so she could see if she was actually interested – otherwise she was just gonna mince Egbert with a dagger cloud because she REALLY wanted to kill an Oxventurer today.
Cut to Vocatus kicking in the front door and calling for Bismuth! XD Bismuth directed him to his dining room, saying the other was being bug-bombed – Vocatus said they could get high off the fumes later and went to meet Prudence as Liliana, rakishly draping his legs over a chair and ATTEMPTING to pop grapes into his mouth but failing because the bowl was slightly too far away. XD Seems like Dob, even with having known him so little time, has got his number! Prudence was like “dude, I’ve been waiting here for ages, you wanna tell me what this is all about?” Vocatus happily began bragging about how he’d already subjugated several cities without any bloodshed (well, without any FIGHTING – if people had accidents on account of being too drunk, that wasn’t really his concern), and saying that her way of taking over Geth – with an army, putting down rebellions, going up against heroes with embarrassingly long goodbye speeches (using the painted Corazon as an example, Prudence happily ragging on her friend) – was going to be so boring. Wouldn’t it be nicer if they could combine forces?
Prudence promptly counterpointed that “uh, I like the bloody subjugation of innocents, I don’t know you, and I actually already find you kind of annoying, so why would I ever join up with you?” Both Vocatus and Johnny were rendered speechless for a second. XD Vocatus admitted that, okay, maybe they had a rough start, but he could bring her around, and summoned the bisque. And then, upon sampling it, asked Prudence to pass the salt. Prudence, immediately guessing he was trying to get close enough to use his magic steal, told him that’s what the servants were for and got Bismuth to pass it over instead. A grumpy Vocatus salted his food, while Prudence tried the bisque – a bad Wisdom roll meant it tasted fine, and she didn’t glean anything interesting about Vocatus’s annoyance. Corazon, taking advantage of a moment when the demon was distracted, whispered to her about how the demon would be undone by appetite, and that she should make him eat like 100 bowls of bisque. And then quickly painted on more abs before resuming position. XD Vocatus continued trying to sell the whole “we can rule together” thing, then offered capers with their bisque – and pretended he couldn’t get the cap off, asking if she could. After all, they couldn’t ask Bismuth, she was far too old and fragile! Prudence quickly said that’s why this place has a Lurch and said he should be summoned – and fortunately, thanks to Vocatus rolling low on a Wisdom roll, was able to spin her knowing the place had a Lurch as “well, you just EXPECT it with houses like these, don’t you?” Vocatus accepted that, and they settled in to wait for the “Lurch” –
Back over to Dob and Liliana! Dob, proving he’s possibly a touch smarter than Vocatus, said he wasn’t about to try and offer to rule side-by-side with Liliana – all that paperwork! Too boring. No, he just wanted one little island to create a party utopia on – the island of Alcataz, in fact! Surely she could give him one little principality of fun in exchange for his mind control stuff? Also she should try this honeyed bread he’s stuffing his face with, it’s delicious. XD Liliana abstained from the honeyed bread, but a nat 20 on Dob’s Charisma roll indicated she was at least willing to PRETEND to go along with this – and let Egbert leave to “inhale bug bomb fumes and hurt his lungs a lot.” Tomorrow, we finish off the dinners, before moving straight into the SEASON FINALE! :D Exciting!
2. Continue writing “The Joker And The Queen”: Check – scene break (for now; it may become a chapter break in future), and Victor and Alice have just lost the song they were singing along to in the car, and nearly been run off the road by another car. Who just so happened to be their next target! Alice has got the speedster to crash and is going in to check on their status, while Victor waits in their car. . .but he’s just noticed something or someone rustling in the bushes. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check on today’s upload from GrayStillPlays – “I found a restaurant where regret is the main course!” Otherwise known as Order Please!, a game about – well, MOSTLY about running a restaurant. There’s also a subplot about the owner’s love life, where she hooks up with a customer. The conceit of the game is that you write down customers’ orders on your pad like a real waitress and then make sure to pick the right thing from your ever-changing menu. Gray, of course, spent his time doing dumb drawings (stick figures getting murdered was popular) and deliberately picking the wrong stuff whenever he could. And fighting with the game’s own giant NEXT button, which was often covering most of his drawing area, or causing him to misclick when he tried to put in orders. Great UI, folks! :P Highlights of the game included Gray calling 911 when the romantic customer gave the owner his number – and the game actually had the police call up and scold her for a prank call (Gray was delighted); Gray deliberately messing up the vows in the wedding scene and the potential husband collapsing to the ground in a furious, broken heap; Gray getting a visit from “John Wick” and, despite the giant NEXT button covering the pad, managing to get him to give her an “autograph” that was a VERY poor picture of a dog; and Gray laughing his ass off over the owner and her new husband honeymooning on DINOSAUR ISLAND and making sure to get them murdered by T-Rex. XD Ah, terrible mobile games are so much better when Gray plays them. :P
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – on Victor Luvs Alice, I’ve got the five-part Chill Save update for Smiler’s graduation in the queue (and I know what I want to do for the three days afterward, I just gotta get the posts ready); on Valice Multiverse, I did two ask replies. Nothing too difficult, thankfully! And I kept up on my VLA dash, if not the tags – hopefully I can catch up on the latter tomorrow morning!
All right, not too shabby, honestly - though I wish I could have gotten something out of the Watch Later along with Gray, but what can you do. Time to finish up catching up on webcomics, then head to bed. Night all!
Anyway, I've left this entry sitting around for long enough (yeah, I wrote that first sentence at like 10:05, and it's 11:42 now), so let me give you the skinny:
Work – Okay, so, ride in was fairly crappy and long, and I had trouble both getting across the last intersection and into the actual parking lot (please, if there are sidewalks in a place, USE THEM); morning was fairly quiet with mostly duplicates; afternoon some bitchy lady called in and started yelling at my coworkers (and me through the medium of my voicemail inbox), which REALLY set talky coworker off, so that was great; then the drive home was extra trafficky and involved having to pull over for a police car almost the moment I made it onto my offramp. Not great, in other words! *sigh* Three more days. . .at least I got my flu shot for free at the clinic today!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, and onto Oxventure Orbpocalypse Episode 11, “Dine Hard!” We’re in the home stretch with this one, folks! And the home stretch currently looks like shenanigans. XD To recap: The two enemies of the Oxventurers, Vocatus the Party Demon and Liliana the Drow Sorceress, are both at Necropolis-On-Sea – Liliana to wreck the place, Vocatus to try and lure Liliana into an alliance, probably so he can steal her magic. The Oxventurers have decided the best plan to stop their two enemies from getting close is to pull off two simultaneous fake dinners – one where Dob, as a fake Vocatus, charms Liliana while Merilwen watches over him from the rafters (or, actually, the mezzanine level Corazon had put in so he could raise the chandelier for proper swashbuckling swinging upon it); one where Prudence, as a fake Liliana, hears out Vocatus while Corazon keeps an eye on her under the guise that he is a shirtless portrait of himself (with multiple painted-on abs). Egbert, meanwhile, is helping Bismuth out in the kitchen and serving as waiter – he managed to find a suit that KIND OF fit him (Corazon pointing out the house MUST have a “Lurch” (earning inspiration from it)), but as said Lurch was lanky, it wasn’t really made for Egbert’s bulk, and. . .well. Basically he’s wearing the suit like a backless hospital gown. He also made himself a pencil mustache as a disguise. XD So that is the setting – how did the dinners go?
So far, nobody’s been murdered. XD We started with Dob as fake Vocatus, greeting Liliana and her army as they reached the house and inviting Liliana in for dinner in the goofiest manner possible. Liliana was like “who the fuck are you and why are you in the way of my house razing,” but Dob managed to sell having a meal with him with a decent-enough Charisma roll (reminiscent of how she decided not to immediately kill him when they first met and he declared he’d wrote her a love song), saying that he had a proposition for her and all that. They headed inside (Liliana literally leaving her army on the doorstep) and headed toward their dining room (Dob saying the other one was being fumigated; they could get high off the fumes later), with Dob playing up his role as a demon of pleasure by rakishly slinging his fake-chicken legs over the arm of the chair and devouring grapes before offering her (not-poisoned, apparently) wine. Liliana for some reason continued hearing him out, possibly thinking that it was just as easy as killing him. XD Dob outlined how he could give her a method to bring people under her control without even needing to subjugate them by force – Liliana was like “I’ve already cooked my army, I don’t MIND doing it by force,” but Dob countered with it being easier and more fun to use mind control – and he could already show how well it’s worked for him! Cue him summoning Egbert up with some lobster bisque (which Bismuth wouldn’t stop making “bisque-muth” jokes about), then pretending he had Egbert fully under his command by ordering him to do a pratfall. They both made middling Performance checks, but I think Liliana was too distracted by the sight of more Egbert butt (I assume she’s seen plenty, growing all her clones) to really question it. Dob then had him do star-jumps while he told Liliana he’d happily give her the method of control if she did something for him, before trying to get him to leave. Liliana, however, ordered Egbert to stay (which Dob quickly echoed), then told Dob that okay, fine, there’s a price, but he was going to tell it to her now so she could see if she was actually interested – otherwise she was just gonna mince Egbert with a dagger cloud because she REALLY wanted to kill an Oxventurer today.
Cut to Vocatus kicking in the front door and calling for Bismuth! XD Bismuth directed him to his dining room, saying the other was being bug-bombed – Vocatus said they could get high off the fumes later and went to meet Prudence as Liliana, rakishly draping his legs over a chair and ATTEMPTING to pop grapes into his mouth but failing because the bowl was slightly too far away. XD Seems like Dob, even with having known him so little time, has got his number! Prudence was like “dude, I’ve been waiting here for ages, you wanna tell me what this is all about?” Vocatus happily began bragging about how he’d already subjugated several cities without any bloodshed (well, without any FIGHTING – if people had accidents on account of being too drunk, that wasn’t really his concern), and saying that her way of taking over Geth – with an army, putting down rebellions, going up against heroes with embarrassingly long goodbye speeches (using the painted Corazon as an example, Prudence happily ragging on her friend) – was going to be so boring. Wouldn’t it be nicer if they could combine forces?
Prudence promptly counterpointed that “uh, I like the bloody subjugation of innocents, I don’t know you, and I actually already find you kind of annoying, so why would I ever join up with you?” Both Vocatus and Johnny were rendered speechless for a second. XD Vocatus admitted that, okay, maybe they had a rough start, but he could bring her around, and summoned the bisque. And then, upon sampling it, asked Prudence to pass the salt. Prudence, immediately guessing he was trying to get close enough to use his magic steal, told him that’s what the servants were for and got Bismuth to pass it over instead. A grumpy Vocatus salted his food, while Prudence tried the bisque – a bad Wisdom roll meant it tasted fine, and she didn’t glean anything interesting about Vocatus’s annoyance. Corazon, taking advantage of a moment when the demon was distracted, whispered to her about how the demon would be undone by appetite, and that she should make him eat like 100 bowls of bisque. And then quickly painted on more abs before resuming position. XD Vocatus continued trying to sell the whole “we can rule together” thing, then offered capers with their bisque – and pretended he couldn’t get the cap off, asking if she could. After all, they couldn’t ask Bismuth, she was far too old and fragile! Prudence quickly said that’s why this place has a Lurch and said he should be summoned – and fortunately, thanks to Vocatus rolling low on a Wisdom roll, was able to spin her knowing the place had a Lurch as “well, you just EXPECT it with houses like these, don’t you?” Vocatus accepted that, and they settled in to wait for the “Lurch” –
Back over to Dob and Liliana! Dob, proving he’s possibly a touch smarter than Vocatus, said he wasn’t about to try and offer to rule side-by-side with Liliana – all that paperwork! Too boring. No, he just wanted one little island to create a party utopia on – the island of Alcataz, in fact! Surely she could give him one little principality of fun in exchange for his mind control stuff? Also she should try this honeyed bread he’s stuffing his face with, it’s delicious. XD Liliana abstained from the honeyed bread, but a nat 20 on Dob’s Charisma roll indicated she was at least willing to PRETEND to go along with this – and let Egbert leave to “inhale bug bomb fumes and hurt his lungs a lot.” Tomorrow, we finish off the dinners, before moving straight into the SEASON FINALE! :D Exciting!
2. Continue writing “The Joker And The Queen”: Check – scene break (for now; it may become a chapter break in future), and Victor and Alice have just lost the song they were singing along to in the car, and nearly been run off the road by another car. Who just so happened to be their next target! Alice has got the speedster to crash and is going in to check on their status, while Victor waits in their car. . .but he’s just noticed something or someone rustling in the bushes. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check on today’s upload from GrayStillPlays – “I found a restaurant where regret is the main course!” Otherwise known as Order Please!, a game about – well, MOSTLY about running a restaurant. There’s also a subplot about the owner’s love life, where she hooks up with a customer. The conceit of the game is that you write down customers’ orders on your pad like a real waitress and then make sure to pick the right thing from your ever-changing menu. Gray, of course, spent his time doing dumb drawings (stick figures getting murdered was popular) and deliberately picking the wrong stuff whenever he could. And fighting with the game’s own giant NEXT button, which was often covering most of his drawing area, or causing him to misclick when he tried to put in orders. Great UI, folks! :P Highlights of the game included Gray calling 911 when the romantic customer gave the owner his number – and the game actually had the police call up and scold her for a prank call (Gray was delighted); Gray deliberately messing up the vows in the wedding scene and the potential husband collapsing to the ground in a furious, broken heap; Gray getting a visit from “John Wick” and, despite the giant NEXT button covering the pad, managing to get him to give her an “autograph” that was a VERY poor picture of a dog; and Gray laughing his ass off over the owner and her new husband honeymooning on DINOSAUR ISLAND and making sure to get them murdered by T-Rex. XD Ah, terrible mobile games are so much better when Gray plays them. :P
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – on Victor Luvs Alice, I’ve got the five-part Chill Save update for Smiler’s graduation in the queue (and I know what I want to do for the three days afterward, I just gotta get the posts ready); on Valice Multiverse, I did two ask replies. Nothing too difficult, thankfully! And I kept up on my VLA dash, if not the tags – hopefully I can catch up on the latter tomorrow morning!
All right, not too shabby, honestly - though I wish I could have gotten something out of the Watch Later along with Gray, but what can you do. Time to finish up catching up on webcomics, then head to bed. Night all!
