Meeh Wednesday
Dec. 7th, 2022 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickAnother warmish-but-rainy day weather-wise, and as for the rest of it -- well, let me give you the usual to-do list for a weekday --
Work – Another annoying day, sadly – some exceptions from our processor came in while I was gone, consisting of a bunch of writeoffs and such. . .and I was able to determine from the numbers of the remits they’ve been holding onto these for at least a month. Like, why wouldn’t you send these back SOONER? Add in my coworkers being particularly loud and irritating today, and trying my best to catch up on stuff and make sure I had all my ducks in a row (plus some trouble with an accidental overpayment) and – yeah. Not a great day at work!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure “A Fete Worse Than Death!” Your reminder that this is the body-swap episode, so: Merilzon is Merilwen-in-Corazon, Corabert is Corazon-in-Egbert, Egwen is Egbert-in-Merilwen, Dudence is Dob-In-Prudence, and Prob is Prudence-in-Dob. You should only have to put up with that for one more night!
Anyway – when I left off, Merilzon had successfully snatched the key they need for the reset lever off its owner, Rufus, due to him being distracted by a giant demonic duck (not actually a goose, as Johnny had originally said) summoned by Dudence. The problem with this was that there was now a giant demonic duck hanging around. And, as per Johnny, it would be hanging around for an hour – unless its hit points were reduced to zero. Johnny put it to the group – would you like to roll for initiative?
Egwen IMMEDIATELY said yes and rolled a 17. XD Everyone else rolled as well, and hilariously Corabert and Prob tied with him (with Dudence coming fourth, and Merilzon last after the duck itself). The order sorted it out pretty quickly, though, as Corabert promptly grabbed a holy symbol (a cheese triangle with La Vauche Mauve’s face) and tried to cast Turn the Faithless on the demon! Technically, it only works on fae or fiends, but Johnny was prepared to allow it because Egbert’s spells get used SO LITTLE. Unfortunately, the duck successfully saved against it, and Corabert’s attempt to hide as a bonus action resulted in him just picking up a barrel. XD Also he ate the cheese, which Egwen and the duck were both rather sour about. XD Egwen’s turn came next, and he decided to stick with the familiar when it came to combat –
And cast Moonbeam. XD He nailed the duck pretty damn good, though obviously the actual searing damage of the ghostly flames came later. Prob then jumped in and, making it clear that she was not paying attention at ALL to where her allies were, cast Thunderwave and its 15-foot cube of electric death. Johnny rolled a die to see how many of the others she caught as well –
None. Thunderwave only affected the duck – and for freaking twenty-eight points of damage no less. Prob immediately bragged to Dudence about how much better she was at Thunderwave than him. XD Dudence decided he wanted to do something cool on his turn and insisted on using Hellish Rebuke on the duck, despite the fact that this required him to get hit by the duck. And possibly be in the path of the terrible Moonbeam, meaning he MIGHT end up Rebuking Egwen instead. (Luke was like “How have I Don’t-Be-A-Dob-ed this?!”) XD Dudence wanted to take the chance, though, and after some rolls Johnny ruled he avoided the Moonbeam and took a nasty bite on the shin from the duck. Dudence furiously declared to the duck that “at least I HAVE shins,” causing the duck a mild existential crisis as it thought about where ITS shins actually were (as the bit WE would consider a knee is actually its ANKLE, so. . .). This caused a decent amount of fire damage to the duck, so it proved to be worth. XD
And then it was Merilzon’s turn, and, like Egwen, she decided to try and stick with what was familiar and pulled out Corazon’s long-disused short bow to nail the duck with an arrow! Unfortunately, a roll of two meant that the bow was in no shape to actually be used and the arrow just flopped to the ground in front of her. The duck was more puzzled than anything else by this.
And so then combat came back around to Corabert, who set aside the barrel and – having decided, much like Egbert himself, that the paladin stuff was kind of shit – grabbed a bomb and slam-dunked it into the demonic duck’s beak as it howled (well, QUACKED) in pain from the Moonbeaming. Thanks to high strength, this went very well, and the duck ended up full-on swallowing the bomb and taking some nasty internal fire damage. Prob decided to dig out Dob’s rapier (Luke wasn’t sure if Dob actually did have one or not at this point; it was decided Dob had shoved the new one in a pack and started using it as a kebab) and try to attack with that, as Egwen did not seem to be keeping up the Moonbeam – it hit, but a middling roll meant she just sliced off an already-cooked bit of duck instead of doing any real damage. So she gave that bit to Egwen to eat and help with the drunkenness. XD Egwen, in turn, decided to not try and maintain Moonbeam and instead turned into a bear and lashed out twice at the duck, trying to uppercut it with his mighty claws twice in a row! (Well, after Ellen reminded him how said attacks worked.) The first swipe hit and caused some comedic cartoony neck extension – the second swipe missed, but due to being a 7 and not a 1 (it was hard to read on the die he used), he at least did not smack himself in the face. Dudence, feeling the werebear inside him stir at this beastly battle and – still refusing to use Eldritch Blast despite everyone’s HEAVY HINTS – ran at the duck on all fours and tried to impale it with his horns.
. . .One bad roll later, and he was instead stuck in a tree by the horns, having missed. XD And this brought us back to Merilzon, who decided that it was time to lean into Corazon’s strengths, grabbed his rapier, and tried to sneak attack the duck’s vulnerable neck!
. . .CRIT 1. Merilzon proceeded to fling away Corazon’s sword, one of the best he’s ever owned. Merilzon immediately hid from the wrath of both the duck and Corabert, and I left it on Corabert booking it after the sword. XD I mean, even Johnny was understanding of THAT! We’ll see if I can finish off this fight and see the gang get their own bodies (and character sheets) back tomorrow. XD
2. Continue writing gift fics: Check, though today I moved on to editing gift fics, in fact. Cleaned up the initial draft of the first one I wrote for Mary, about her Victor/Victoria child OC Lily going with Victor, Victoria, and Emily (in an all-alive 80s AU) to see Back To The Future in theaters. Think it turned out quite nicely in the end – so that’s one fully down! Eight more to go. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check! Two in, two out, and a bonus video to boot –
A) First up, a nice OXBox list – “7 Honest Hitman Kills Where Agent 47 Confronted His Targets!” Turns out there’s a number of assassinations where 47 can get up close and personal with his target. Really want Jordan Cross to suffer before he dies? Get the recording of him killing his girlfriend Hannah, play it in his room, and wait for him to follow the noise before coldly revealing yourself and letting him beg for his life before shooting him. Want an easy way to get rid of most of the ICA agents on your tail in the Berlin nightclub? Pretend to be the owner and call one of them in for a meeting – he won’t be fooled, but he DOES want to meet the legend that is 47 – and he brings a bunch of his friends with him! Unfortunately, he doesn’t know that the club owner has a shotgun hidden under his desk, meaning that when the talk ends. . . And of course, if you’re interested in a challenge, you can always confront one Erich Soders in his operating room at the Hokkaido hospital in your 47 suit, causing him to just up and die of shock (to be fair, he’s there for critical heart surgery, and you do walk in mid-operation to boot). Fun times! XD
B) Second, the latest from Josh Way – “SKETCHY: Count Duckula!” Another entry in his “Duckember” advent calendar, drawing the British cartoon of a vampire duck who apparently got his start in Danger Mouse before getting his own spin-off show. Josh was annoyed by him being “Frankenstein Green” as a kid, but as an adult thinks “okay, maybe that’s just because he’s a mallard.” XD
C) And third, the latest from GrayStillPlays – “I scammed the biggest criminals,” aka Gray plays Gas Station Inc.! Yes, it was another dumb mobile game, this time about owning a gas station – Death Master Gas, in Gray’s case (where the gasoline tastes like candy!). The fun part about this one is that you earn money passively as the game is open, so Gray actually started out with a load of money from accidentally leaving the app open for a week, allowing him to automatically add things like a grocery store, a mechanic bay, a proper car wash, more pumps, and staff wiggling and grooving in front of each of these things. XD He also did things like fill people’s tanks with the wrong type of fuel; give them the wrong coffee orders in the grocery shop; avoid being robbed by calling a policeman to berate the robber; force cars trying to park to crash into each other, the gas pumps, and the store; drive his gas refueling truck into the people parked nearby; fry people’s batteries; and replace tires that looked to be full of bullet holes. All for frankly absurd amounts of money. Just a typical day at your local Florida gas station, really. XD I don’t know how he makes these stupid mobile games so fun, but he does.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed on Victor Luvs Alice to one, and got myself a Song Saturday! Anyone remember the OTHER famous Christmassy song from the Trans Siberian Orchestra, “Wizards In Winter?”
. . . If I share this cool video of a house’s Christmas lights lighting up in time with the song, will it stir your memory?
Yup, THAT song – and to my surprise, when I went looking, I found I’d never put it on my blog! So yeah, that’s getting rectified this Saturday. Better than yet ANOTHER rendition of “Let It Snow!”
So yeah, work itself not that great (and we're not even adding in the commutes being worse because of the wet weather), but after work was pretty good and productive, so I'm happy there. And now I get ANOTHER day off, w00. XD Gonna try not to stay up too late because I don't want to full-on wreck my sleep schedule, but we'll see what happens. :p And tomorrow. . .loose plans for the day are to catch up on AT4W and keep up on YouTube Subs; do some Build Mode in the Chill Save and fix up the house some more so it's actually in a semi-finished state; and continue working on gift fic stuff (maybe see if I can get my friend Marie's prompt, if she has one). *nods* Night all!
Work – Another annoying day, sadly – some exceptions from our processor came in while I was gone, consisting of a bunch of writeoffs and such. . .and I was able to determine from the numbers of the remits they’ve been holding onto these for at least a month. Like, why wouldn’t you send these back SOONER? Add in my coworkers being particularly loud and irritating today, and trying my best to catch up on stuff and make sure I had all my ducks in a row (plus some trouble with an accidental overpayment) and – yeah. Not a great day at work!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure “A Fete Worse Than Death!” Your reminder that this is the body-swap episode, so: Merilzon is Merilwen-in-Corazon, Corabert is Corazon-in-Egbert, Egwen is Egbert-in-Merilwen, Dudence is Dob-In-Prudence, and Prob is Prudence-in-Dob. You should only have to put up with that for one more night!
Anyway – when I left off, Merilzon had successfully snatched the key they need for the reset lever off its owner, Rufus, due to him being distracted by a giant demonic duck (not actually a goose, as Johnny had originally said) summoned by Dudence. The problem with this was that there was now a giant demonic duck hanging around. And, as per Johnny, it would be hanging around for an hour – unless its hit points were reduced to zero. Johnny put it to the group – would you like to roll for initiative?
Egwen IMMEDIATELY said yes and rolled a 17. XD Everyone else rolled as well, and hilariously Corabert and Prob tied with him (with Dudence coming fourth, and Merilzon last after the duck itself). The order sorted it out pretty quickly, though, as Corabert promptly grabbed a holy symbol (a cheese triangle with La Vauche Mauve’s face) and tried to cast Turn the Faithless on the demon! Technically, it only works on fae or fiends, but Johnny was prepared to allow it because Egbert’s spells get used SO LITTLE. Unfortunately, the duck successfully saved against it, and Corabert’s attempt to hide as a bonus action resulted in him just picking up a barrel. XD Also he ate the cheese, which Egwen and the duck were both rather sour about. XD Egwen’s turn came next, and he decided to stick with the familiar when it came to combat –
And cast Moonbeam. XD He nailed the duck pretty damn good, though obviously the actual searing damage of the ghostly flames came later. Prob then jumped in and, making it clear that she was not paying attention at ALL to where her allies were, cast Thunderwave and its 15-foot cube of electric death. Johnny rolled a die to see how many of the others she caught as well –
None. Thunderwave only affected the duck – and for freaking twenty-eight points of damage no less. Prob immediately bragged to Dudence about how much better she was at Thunderwave than him. XD Dudence decided he wanted to do something cool on his turn and insisted on using Hellish Rebuke on the duck, despite the fact that this required him to get hit by the duck. And possibly be in the path of the terrible Moonbeam, meaning he MIGHT end up Rebuking Egwen instead. (Luke was like “How have I Don’t-Be-A-Dob-ed this?!”) XD Dudence wanted to take the chance, though, and after some rolls Johnny ruled he avoided the Moonbeam and took a nasty bite on the shin from the duck. Dudence furiously declared to the duck that “at least I HAVE shins,” causing the duck a mild existential crisis as it thought about where ITS shins actually were (as the bit WE would consider a knee is actually its ANKLE, so. . .). This caused a decent amount of fire damage to the duck, so it proved to be worth. XD
And then it was Merilzon’s turn, and, like Egwen, she decided to try and stick with what was familiar and pulled out Corazon’s long-disused short bow to nail the duck with an arrow! Unfortunately, a roll of two meant that the bow was in no shape to actually be used and the arrow just flopped to the ground in front of her. The duck was more puzzled than anything else by this.
And so then combat came back around to Corabert, who set aside the barrel and – having decided, much like Egbert himself, that the paladin stuff was kind of shit – grabbed a bomb and slam-dunked it into the demonic duck’s beak as it howled (well, QUACKED) in pain from the Moonbeaming. Thanks to high strength, this went very well, and the duck ended up full-on swallowing the bomb and taking some nasty internal fire damage. Prob decided to dig out Dob’s rapier (Luke wasn’t sure if Dob actually did have one or not at this point; it was decided Dob had shoved the new one in a pack and started using it as a kebab) and try to attack with that, as Egwen did not seem to be keeping up the Moonbeam – it hit, but a middling roll meant she just sliced off an already-cooked bit of duck instead of doing any real damage. So she gave that bit to Egwen to eat and help with the drunkenness. XD Egwen, in turn, decided to not try and maintain Moonbeam and instead turned into a bear and lashed out twice at the duck, trying to uppercut it with his mighty claws twice in a row! (Well, after Ellen reminded him how said attacks worked.) The first swipe hit and caused some comedic cartoony neck extension – the second swipe missed, but due to being a 7 and not a 1 (it was hard to read on the die he used), he at least did not smack himself in the face. Dudence, feeling the werebear inside him stir at this beastly battle and – still refusing to use Eldritch Blast despite everyone’s HEAVY HINTS – ran at the duck on all fours and tried to impale it with his horns.
. . .One bad roll later, and he was instead stuck in a tree by the horns, having missed. XD And this brought us back to Merilzon, who decided that it was time to lean into Corazon’s strengths, grabbed his rapier, and tried to sneak attack the duck’s vulnerable neck!
. . .CRIT 1. Merilzon proceeded to fling away Corazon’s sword, one of the best he’s ever owned. Merilzon immediately hid from the wrath of both the duck and Corabert, and I left it on Corabert booking it after the sword. XD I mean, even Johnny was understanding of THAT! We’ll see if I can finish off this fight and see the gang get their own bodies (and character sheets) back tomorrow. XD
2. Continue writing gift fics: Check, though today I moved on to editing gift fics, in fact. Cleaned up the initial draft of the first one I wrote for Mary, about her Victor/Victoria child OC Lily going with Victor, Victoria, and Emily (in an all-alive 80s AU) to see Back To The Future in theaters. Think it turned out quite nicely in the end – so that’s one fully down! Eight more to go. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check! Two in, two out, and a bonus video to boot –
A) First up, a nice OXBox list – “7 Honest Hitman Kills Where Agent 47 Confronted His Targets!” Turns out there’s a number of assassinations where 47 can get up close and personal with his target. Really want Jordan Cross to suffer before he dies? Get the recording of him killing his girlfriend Hannah, play it in his room, and wait for him to follow the noise before coldly revealing yourself and letting him beg for his life before shooting him. Want an easy way to get rid of most of the ICA agents on your tail in the Berlin nightclub? Pretend to be the owner and call one of them in for a meeting – he won’t be fooled, but he DOES want to meet the legend that is 47 – and he brings a bunch of his friends with him! Unfortunately, he doesn’t know that the club owner has a shotgun hidden under his desk, meaning that when the talk ends. . . And of course, if you’re interested in a challenge, you can always confront one Erich Soders in his operating room at the Hokkaido hospital in your 47 suit, causing him to just up and die of shock (to be fair, he’s there for critical heart surgery, and you do walk in mid-operation to boot). Fun times! XD
B) Second, the latest from Josh Way – “SKETCHY: Count Duckula!” Another entry in his “Duckember” advent calendar, drawing the British cartoon of a vampire duck who apparently got his start in Danger Mouse before getting his own spin-off show. Josh was annoyed by him being “Frankenstein Green” as a kid, but as an adult thinks “okay, maybe that’s just because he’s a mallard.” XD
C) And third, the latest from GrayStillPlays – “I scammed the biggest criminals,” aka Gray plays Gas Station Inc.! Yes, it was another dumb mobile game, this time about owning a gas station – Death Master Gas, in Gray’s case (where the gasoline tastes like candy!). The fun part about this one is that you earn money passively as the game is open, so Gray actually started out with a load of money from accidentally leaving the app open for a week, allowing him to automatically add things like a grocery store, a mechanic bay, a proper car wash, more pumps, and staff wiggling and grooving in front of each of these things. XD He also did things like fill people’s tanks with the wrong type of fuel; give them the wrong coffee orders in the grocery shop; avoid being robbed by calling a policeman to berate the robber; force cars trying to park to crash into each other, the gas pumps, and the store; drive his gas refueling truck into the people parked nearby; fry people’s batteries; and replace tires that looked to be full of bullet holes. All for frankly absurd amounts of money. Just a typical day at your local Florida gas station, really. XD I don’t know how he makes these stupid mobile games so fun, but he does.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed on Victor Luvs Alice to one, and got myself a Song Saturday! Anyone remember the OTHER famous Christmassy song from the Trans Siberian Orchestra, “Wizards In Winter?”
. . . If I share this cool video of a house’s Christmas lights lighting up in time with the song, will it stir your memory?
Yup, THAT song – and to my surprise, when I went looking, I found I’d never put it on my blog! So yeah, that’s getting rectified this Saturday. Better than yet ANOTHER rendition of “Let It Snow!”
So yeah, work itself not that great (and we're not even adding in the commutes being worse because of the wet weather), but after work was pretty good and productive, so I'm happy there. And now I get ANOTHER day off, w00. XD Gonna try not to stay up too late because I don't want to full-on wreck my sleep schedule, but we'll see what happens. :p And tomorrow. . .loose plans for the day are to catch up on AT4W and keep up on YouTube Subs; do some Build Mode in the Chill Save and fix up the house some more so it's actually in a semi-finished state; and continue working on gift fic stuff (maybe see if I can get my friend Marie's prompt, if she has one). *nods* Night all!
