And Happy October 27th!
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crossover_chickThe shenanigans have wrapped up for Marty and company (at least in the canon trilogy -- all the expanded universe stuff, not so much), and I have successfully timestamped this entry! Now to go complete everything I was doing tonight.
. . .And I'm back having finished the video I was watching and all my current tumblr stuff. Here is the round-up of my day for all of you who are curious:
Work – Well, talky coworker wasn’t quite so talky, so that was a bit better. Another day spent mostly cleaning up duplicates, though the morning had some credit card stuff right off the bat (write-offs and rescheduling stuff), and then I got another call this afternoon that required me to do some annoying workarounds to get it done. *sigh* At least tomorrow’s Friday!
Beanbags – The sudden return! Yeah, it was nice enough and light enough when I got home that Mom decided we were playing. So out we trotted, and I had a pretty good day – two seconds and a win in the middle. :) Dad won the ones on either side, and Mom tried, but. . . Final scores were me 2-W-2; Dad W-3-W; Mom 3-2-3. We’ll see if we get out there tomorrow – supposed to be sunny, but much chillier, so. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back to Oxventure Orbpocalypse Episode 12, “The Finale,” to see how things are going with Liliana and Vocatus! The answer?
Not well for Vocatus. Liliana opened things up by asking if she thought sending her to confront a dragon was funny, then literally slapped the wine glass out of his hand and him out of his chair. A terrified Vocatus managed to stumble his way out of the front door and toward the beach, with Liliana following behind like a cat toying with its prey. Vocatus eventually collapsed halfway down the beach and just started vomiting wine from EVERY conceivable orifice as Liliana and the Clonebert army caught up, staining the sand scarlet and mixing it with the seawater.
The seawater, which suddenly began to move on its own. Yes, the wine golems were back, and ready to rumble! Dob, wanting to see what the hell was happening outside, tugged on the Fulton return mechanism, and the gang hauled him butt-first up the chimney (with only some minor scratches that might turn into weird tattoos thanks to the soot) just in time to see the battle commence (and to offer him popcorn and marshmallows, fresh-toasted by Egbert XD). The Cloneberts and the wine golems proved to be almost evenly matched, with the Cloneberts fighting with a lot more precision than the wine golems (MANY jokes were made about them acting more like paladins and using more paladin powers than Egbert), but the wine golems simply having the advantage of numbers. Liliana, seeing this, went up to Vocatus and had her special Butler Clonebert fetch her a goblet, so she could taste the wine just pouring out of Vocatus. My first thoughts were “Ew” and “oh, here it comes, he’s gonna steal her magic–”
Uh, no. Liliana sampled the wine, and not only no-selled the addictive effects, she used her consumption of it to bring the wine golems under HER control. AKA, she basically stole his magic. And then had his own wine creations tear him to literal pieces before turning them all into puffs of steam. It was – kind of genuinely chilling. O.o But hey, Vocatus is dead! That at least means Prudence gets her magic back, right?
Um – well. Slight complication. You see, Vocatus, after his destruction, left something behind – a “winestone,” as rich and red as his magical vintage – but with suggestions of inky blackness and roiling green tentacles within. Prudence, having finally done DECENTLY on a Wisdom roll, could immediately sense that her magical connection with Cthulhu was held within –
And thus was very cross when Liliana chose to take it as a trophy – specifically, getting a thong to tie it around her neck as a necklace. Prudence was even crosser when she realized it looked really good on Liliana. XD Liliana ordered the Cloneberts to make camp on the beach, saying they’d stay the night to see if the Oxventurers showed up, then headed inside to check out Corazon’s bedroom (Corazon: “Sheesh, buy me dinner first.” Johnny cracked up XD) and make herself at home. So, yes – Vocatus dead, but now Liliana (hopefully unknowingly) in possession of Prudence’s magic, and Necropolis-On-Sea. What do?
Well, first things first – Dob and Katy had a conversation about Liliana, with Dob admitting that he’d only spoken to the woman twice and that both times he was trying to deceive her. Yes, fine, there’s a very one-sided crush, but he wants to devote himself to Katy, and he wants their relationship to be honest. Katy was like, “Sure, I’ll continue being honest with you” (cue outraged Merilwen) and Dob tried to prompt her into possibly admitting that she’s planning on killing him after the wedding for his gold, but all Katy said was that she wanted to wear the pearl head at the wedding – she liked that he thought she was pretty, but it was her thing now, so. . . Dob allowed that and said they could get back to wedding planning once they got the stone back for Prudence. Merilwen was just “Dob nooooo.” XD
And then cue the argument about how the hell they were going to get the stone back (namely so Prudence could do magical fireworks at the wedding – a hurt Corazon was like “I can literally do magic fireworks, it’s one of my six spells,” but Dob said that he wanted him to use Mage Hand to be the ring bearer, and besides he’d probably be busy with his best man speech. Egbert promptly made a joke about Corazon making a PowerPoint, cuing Johnny to make a “Mage Hand is the original PowerPoint” joke that nearly left Dob/Luke helpless XD). Everyone agreed that they should wait until Liliana sleeps (or “trances” like Merilwen, as Liliana is a Drow and thus a kind of elf), but there was a lot of bickering about whether they let Katy or Corazon do it – and Corazon was not about to back down because of his ginormous ego. While he and Katy traded barbs about “Thief Queen” being a ceremonial position and him getting audited for his paltry tithe back when they first entered her city, Merilwen decided to go scouting using one of her new Wildshapes – rat! She located Liliana in Corazon’s suite, lounging in a pile of cushions, drinking white wine and wearing the brown tricorn with the phoenix feather while listening to her Butlerbert read her shipping reports. Corazon was horrified when Merilwen came back and reported about the hat, as he’d totally planned to wear that one to the wedding to take attention off Dob. XD (Dob also asked if Merilwen had jumped into Liliana’s mouth and turned into a bear – answer was no.) Dob suggested trying to sneak something into Liliana’s room for her to wear instead of the stone, but Prudence said that she seemed like someone to just wear multiple trophies at once, so that was a no go. Merilwen was all for Katy going first to try and steal the necklace as the “guinea pig,” but Prudence was like “we get ONE SHOT at this and I’d prefer it go well,” so insisted both Corazon and Katy go. Corazon was very grumpy about this, treating it like his friends not trusting his abilities. Merilwen loved the passive aggression. XD
So yeah – tomorrow, we finish this whole saga off with Corazon and Katy attempting to steal the stone containing Prudence’s magic off Liliana! I suspect there will be a sudden but inevitable betrayal from Katy, though I don’t know when – will she try to abscond with the stone, or will she just offer the Oxventurers to Liliana? We shall see. . .
2. Continue writing “The Joker And The Queen”: Check – having spotted some sort of weird quasi-military man in the bushes stalking Alice, Victor has gotten a baseball bat and knocked the guy out. . .only to be grabbed and knocked out in turn by another person wielding a cloth of Hollywood Chloroform. Poor guy’s been dragged off to who knows where. . .and next time, I start my first Alice POV section! The entire first story is from Victor’s perspective only, so this should be interesting. :P
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – thanks to Kevin and Gray’s schedules today was No Upload Thursday, so I took the opportunity to catch up on Call Me Kevin’s video from yesterday: “The weirdest game on steam!” Which is a bold claim, but the game Kevin played in this nearly-hour-long video is called Jazzpunk (The Director’s Cut, no less), and – it pretty much does its absolute best to EARN that title. It’s basically a series of bizarre minigames held together with a loose plot about being a secret agent in an alternate 1950s Cold War where Japan ended up taking over most of the USA. Your character, Polyblank, does things like infiltrate the Soviet Consulate, steal a cowboy’s mechanical kidney, and go on a fake vacation to spy on supervillain The Editor – but these missions also include things like “degaussing” pigeons to get pigeon essence to spray on people and smashing a guy’s hot pigeon pie into his face; helping a frog try to get free wifi from “Starbux” by playing Frogger with him to get his data collection thing from across a road and then collecting the random data you can see flying in the air; collecting spiders in a sushi restaurant and then throwing them at the chef; doing a random wrestling minigame on the roofs (complete with health bars and a CRT TV filter); hacking into an ATM and helping the virtual people in there rob a bank; fighting some random Honda in a parking lot fighting-game style; doing a wedding-themed Quake-style deathmatch; discovering on vacation after being captured by the Editor that YOUR world is fake and needing to transverse cyberspace, zipping up random data’s jeans and spilling coffee on a computer to reset everything; and losing multiple games to the Editor and having to give him loads of prizes so he inflates like a balloon from the power of his ego. And trust me, that’s like only a HANDFUL of the bizarre events that occur in this game. I really don’t know what to make of it. Other than it was genuinely pretty amusing to see Kevin try to make sense of it. Whatever sense there is, anyway. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – just the one thread reply on Valice Multiverse today. Though I also made sure to keep up on my Moose fic reblogs too on Victor Luvs Alice – got the latest two commented, Moose!
So that's all good, at least. And now I just have to finish up and see about making it through one more day. . .then four-day Halloween weekend, w000~ Hopefully it will be good. Night all!
. . .And I'm back having finished the video I was watching and all my current tumblr stuff. Here is the round-up of my day for all of you who are curious:
Work – Well, talky coworker wasn’t quite so talky, so that was a bit better. Another day spent mostly cleaning up duplicates, though the morning had some credit card stuff right off the bat (write-offs and rescheduling stuff), and then I got another call this afternoon that required me to do some annoying workarounds to get it done. *sigh* At least tomorrow’s Friday!
Beanbags – The sudden return! Yeah, it was nice enough and light enough when I got home that Mom decided we were playing. So out we trotted, and I had a pretty good day – two seconds and a win in the middle. :) Dad won the ones on either side, and Mom tried, but. . . Final scores were me 2-W-2; Dad W-3-W; Mom 3-2-3. We’ll see if we get out there tomorrow – supposed to be sunny, but much chillier, so. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back to Oxventure Orbpocalypse Episode 12, “The Finale,” to see how things are going with Liliana and Vocatus! The answer?
Not well for Vocatus. Liliana opened things up by asking if she thought sending her to confront a dragon was funny, then literally slapped the wine glass out of his hand and him out of his chair. A terrified Vocatus managed to stumble his way out of the front door and toward the beach, with Liliana following behind like a cat toying with its prey. Vocatus eventually collapsed halfway down the beach and just started vomiting wine from EVERY conceivable orifice as Liliana and the Clonebert army caught up, staining the sand scarlet and mixing it with the seawater.
The seawater, which suddenly began to move on its own. Yes, the wine golems were back, and ready to rumble! Dob, wanting to see what the hell was happening outside, tugged on the Fulton return mechanism, and the gang hauled him butt-first up the chimney (with only some minor scratches that might turn into weird tattoos thanks to the soot) just in time to see the battle commence (and to offer him popcorn and marshmallows, fresh-toasted by Egbert XD). The Cloneberts and the wine golems proved to be almost evenly matched, with the Cloneberts fighting with a lot more precision than the wine golems (MANY jokes were made about them acting more like paladins and using more paladin powers than Egbert), but the wine golems simply having the advantage of numbers. Liliana, seeing this, went up to Vocatus and had her special Butler Clonebert fetch her a goblet, so she could taste the wine just pouring out of Vocatus. My first thoughts were “Ew” and “oh, here it comes, he’s gonna steal her magic–”
Uh, no. Liliana sampled the wine, and not only no-selled the addictive effects, she used her consumption of it to bring the wine golems under HER control. AKA, she basically stole his magic. And then had his own wine creations tear him to literal pieces before turning them all into puffs of steam. It was – kind of genuinely chilling. O.o But hey, Vocatus is dead! That at least means Prudence gets her magic back, right?
Um – well. Slight complication. You see, Vocatus, after his destruction, left something behind – a “winestone,” as rich and red as his magical vintage – but with suggestions of inky blackness and roiling green tentacles within. Prudence, having finally done DECENTLY on a Wisdom roll, could immediately sense that her magical connection with Cthulhu was held within –
And thus was very cross when Liliana chose to take it as a trophy – specifically, getting a thong to tie it around her neck as a necklace. Prudence was even crosser when she realized it looked really good on Liliana. XD Liliana ordered the Cloneberts to make camp on the beach, saying they’d stay the night to see if the Oxventurers showed up, then headed inside to check out Corazon’s bedroom (Corazon: “Sheesh, buy me dinner first.” Johnny cracked up XD) and make herself at home. So, yes – Vocatus dead, but now Liliana (hopefully unknowingly) in possession of Prudence’s magic, and Necropolis-On-Sea. What do?
Well, first things first – Dob and Katy had a conversation about Liliana, with Dob admitting that he’d only spoken to the woman twice and that both times he was trying to deceive her. Yes, fine, there’s a very one-sided crush, but he wants to devote himself to Katy, and he wants their relationship to be honest. Katy was like, “Sure, I’ll continue being honest with you” (cue outraged Merilwen) and Dob tried to prompt her into possibly admitting that she’s planning on killing him after the wedding for his gold, but all Katy said was that she wanted to wear the pearl head at the wedding – she liked that he thought she was pretty, but it was her thing now, so. . . Dob allowed that and said they could get back to wedding planning once they got the stone back for Prudence. Merilwen was just “Dob nooooo.” XD
And then cue the argument about how the hell they were going to get the stone back (namely so Prudence could do magical fireworks at the wedding – a hurt Corazon was like “I can literally do magic fireworks, it’s one of my six spells,” but Dob said that he wanted him to use Mage Hand to be the ring bearer, and besides he’d probably be busy with his best man speech. Egbert promptly made a joke about Corazon making a PowerPoint, cuing Johnny to make a “Mage Hand is the original PowerPoint” joke that nearly left Dob/Luke helpless XD). Everyone agreed that they should wait until Liliana sleeps (or “trances” like Merilwen, as Liliana is a Drow and thus a kind of elf), but there was a lot of bickering about whether they let Katy or Corazon do it – and Corazon was not about to back down because of his ginormous ego. While he and Katy traded barbs about “Thief Queen” being a ceremonial position and him getting audited for his paltry tithe back when they first entered her city, Merilwen decided to go scouting using one of her new Wildshapes – rat! She located Liliana in Corazon’s suite, lounging in a pile of cushions, drinking white wine and wearing the brown tricorn with the phoenix feather while listening to her Butlerbert read her shipping reports. Corazon was horrified when Merilwen came back and reported about the hat, as he’d totally planned to wear that one to the wedding to take attention off Dob. XD (Dob also asked if Merilwen had jumped into Liliana’s mouth and turned into a bear – answer was no.) Dob suggested trying to sneak something into Liliana’s room for her to wear instead of the stone, but Prudence said that she seemed like someone to just wear multiple trophies at once, so that was a no go. Merilwen was all for Katy going first to try and steal the necklace as the “guinea pig,” but Prudence was like “we get ONE SHOT at this and I’d prefer it go well,” so insisted both Corazon and Katy go. Corazon was very grumpy about this, treating it like his friends not trusting his abilities. Merilwen loved the passive aggression. XD
So yeah – tomorrow, we finish this whole saga off with Corazon and Katy attempting to steal the stone containing Prudence’s magic off Liliana! I suspect there will be a sudden but inevitable betrayal from Katy, though I don’t know when – will she try to abscond with the stone, or will she just offer the Oxventurers to Liliana? We shall see. . .
2. Continue writing “The Joker And The Queen”: Check – having spotted some sort of weird quasi-military man in the bushes stalking Alice, Victor has gotten a baseball bat and knocked the guy out. . .only to be grabbed and knocked out in turn by another person wielding a cloth of Hollywood Chloroform. Poor guy’s been dragged off to who knows where. . .and next time, I start my first Alice POV section! The entire first story is from Victor’s perspective only, so this should be interesting. :P
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – thanks to Kevin and Gray’s schedules today was No Upload Thursday, so I took the opportunity to catch up on Call Me Kevin’s video from yesterday: “The weirdest game on steam!” Which is a bold claim, but the game Kevin played in this nearly-hour-long video is called Jazzpunk (The Director’s Cut, no less), and – it pretty much does its absolute best to EARN that title. It’s basically a series of bizarre minigames held together with a loose plot about being a secret agent in an alternate 1950s Cold War where Japan ended up taking over most of the USA. Your character, Polyblank, does things like infiltrate the Soviet Consulate, steal a cowboy’s mechanical kidney, and go on a fake vacation to spy on supervillain The Editor – but these missions also include things like “degaussing” pigeons to get pigeon essence to spray on people and smashing a guy’s hot pigeon pie into his face; helping a frog try to get free wifi from “Starbux” by playing Frogger with him to get his data collection thing from across a road and then collecting the random data you can see flying in the air; collecting spiders in a sushi restaurant and then throwing them at the chef; doing a random wrestling minigame on the roofs (complete with health bars and a CRT TV filter); hacking into an ATM and helping the virtual people in there rob a bank; fighting some random Honda in a parking lot fighting-game style; doing a wedding-themed Quake-style deathmatch; discovering on vacation after being captured by the Editor that YOUR world is fake and needing to transverse cyberspace, zipping up random data’s jeans and spilling coffee on a computer to reset everything; and losing multiple games to the Editor and having to give him loads of prizes so he inflates like a balloon from the power of his ego. And trust me, that’s like only a HANDFUL of the bizarre events that occur in this game. I really don’t know what to make of it. Other than it was genuinely pretty amusing to see Kevin try to make sense of it. Whatever sense there is, anyway. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – just the one thread reply on Valice Multiverse today. Though I also made sure to keep up on my Moose fic reblogs too on Victor Luvs Alice – got the latest two commented, Moose!
So that's all good, at least. And now I just have to finish up and see about making it through one more day. . .then four-day Halloween weekend, w000~ Hopefully it will be good. Night all!
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