A Late Wednesday
Jan. 11th, 2023 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickWrapping up answering Moose's messages and catching up on webcomics and all that. . .not helped by my period, which finally PROPERLY started today after yesterday's "bit of blood then nothing" weirdness. *shakehead* But here's how my day went:
Work – Another fairly-quiet day – few phone calls to answer (people looking for reports or telling us we had information wrong, stuff like that), with the rest of my day basically being taken up with obituaries. *shrug* Given I am now fully and properly on my period, I will take it.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the 2021 Oxventure Holiday Special, “Hog Wild!” Having reached the clearing at the end of the first half, the second half had Egbert checking for signs of wild pig, getting a twelve on his roll, and only finding some probable signs. And also not being able to identify if any of the droppings around are pig or not. :p Corazon, for his part, did well enough on a nature roll to find one truffle (as in the mushroom), and declared it proof that a pig had NOT been here. XD After some talk, the Oxventurers remembered that Cesuira said that the pig is territorial and would likely find THEM, and Egbert and Dob decided a good way to lure it in would to make themselves look as delicious as possible. Corazon reluctantly grated some truffle on Dob’s rock-hard abs while he did a bridge pose –
And cue an absolutely GINORMOUS boar, fifteen foot at the shoulder, showing up and snuffling around. Egbert belatedly realized they probably should have set a trap. XD Fortunately, the roll for initiative put Dob first, and in a move that quite impressed Johnny, he cast Shatter on the ground right at the boar’s feet, to create a crater for it to either fall in or maneuver around. Not bad for an half-orc hanging out in a g-string! XD Egbert followed up by using his shiny shiny shield to try and confuse the boar into thinking there was another pig in the area (taking the heat off Dob, whose g-string is basically a NEGATIVE armor class because it’s cutting into his butt XD). Corazon, for his part, scouted for beehives and (thanks to Johnny get a nat 20 on their roll to determine if he found any or not) grabbed a nice big one with Mage Hand and SMASHED it onto the boar’s head to honey-glaze it. XD And also to sting it with angry bees (Johnny ruled the bees didn’t actually do much damage, though). Prudence went next and, having already scanned the clearing for magic, tried using it on the boar –
And found lots of little “hot spots” of magic within it, which – isn’t normal. She decided to use her action to amp up the power and figure out what schools of magic the hot spots were. . .only for the spots to become the shapes of PEOPLE, pulling various levers and managing various pulleys and whatnot. The boar was a fake! Prudence relayed this to her team, and the boar attempted to come for her –
Only to fall down the hole Dob made, like a dog plunging into a super-deep puddle. Merilwen promptly climbed on and Flamebladed her way in like an eager Jedi with a lightsaber, revealing some fairly terrified people within. And also setting the boar on fire. Dob, not wanting the boar to burn up because oooo cool new team vehicle!, grabbed some mud to smother what he could of the flames; Egbert attempted to help by shoveling snow with his shield, but a bad roll meant he was mostly just flinging snow around with wild abandon. XD Corazon, for his part, just stayed out of it and snacked on his truffle. XD Prudence took the direct route of yanking a man out of the boar, and as the others piled out to escape the fire, the story came out – they’re a group of people with a common cause, and that cause is to protect the woods with their mechanical boar. Specifically, to protect it from Cesuira and his group, because they’re not humble traders, they’re PROPERTY DEVELOPERS, here to build the G’eth equivalent of luxury condos – their actual aim was to sell some of those to the Oxventurers later. Corazon was pissed, both at the trick and there being no honey-glazed ham for him to eat. XD The gang were all for getting their own back, and a few plans were floated – Dob was all for just buying the mechanical pig off the group of forest protectors and simply doing their job for the rest of their lives; Corazon suggested pre-ruining the forest by building a pirate theme park, Corazonland, there; Dob brought up getting rid of the traders and then turning the mechanical boar into a MAGIC mechanical boar that would protect the woods on its own (and kill indiscriminately); Corazon said they could just get Cesuira into the forest by saying they needed extra help getting the pig out of there and then killing him – but the plan that won was Egbert’s very simple “why don’t we just get in the boar and run Cesiura and his group over?” XD He and Dob clambered inside to try and figure out the workings with Merilwen, doing doughnuts and such –
When Argyle and his friends showed up, ready to take the reward! Fortunately, Corazon, in a rare show of diplomacy, quickly told him what was actually going on – pig not real, Cesuira evil property developer person, they’ve all been duped – and Argyle was actually all right with teaming up to get one back on Cesuira. Prudence managed to Message this to Egbert, but Egbert insisted on doing a cool hard handbrake drift in front of Argyle to show he meant business –
One eight later, Argyle had flown at least a hundred feet into the forest and taken a LOAD of damage, smashing through some trees and possibly getting concussed. On the other hand, they’d definitely shown that the boar was combat ready! XD As Argyle said when he limped back five in-universe minutes later. XD One half-hour to go – let’s wreck up some property developer guys!
2. Continue writing “The Joker And The Queen:” Check – I did indeed go back to Chapter Three (forgot where I was thanks to a copy-paste accident) and start redoing Victor’s introduction to the Coaster Gang with a few edits here and there (adjusting Smiler’s description, for starters, and cleaning up dialogue a little bit). Something nice and simple for a day where I’m dealing with the period brain-fog! I’ll continue on that track Friday, since I REALLY want to redo the scene where the Coasters show off their powers (I feel like I went through that WAY too fast), and then I will continue onward with Chapter Four next week! Which I think might start off with the group watching TV, a certain couple appearing on-screen, and a scene I’ve kind of wanted to write for a while happening. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Two-thirds check out of necessity – Gray’s upload today was one of his compilation videos – this one of Solar Smash – that are generally an hour and a half long, so that one HAS to be saved for the weekend. So I focused on the other two –
A) First up, today’s Josh Way – “SKETCHY: Quack-Up (Hanna-Barbera character)!” A very quick SKETCHY showing a character from the Yogi’s Space Race show (don’t ask me, never saw it) who is a duck in a strait-jacket. Not exactly politically correct. XD But a good goofy design that Josh had fun drawing, and he got to shill his upcoming attempts at half-tone classic comic coloring, so that’s something to look forward to!
B) And second up, yesterday’s GrayStillPlays – “When you jump out of orbit,” aka Gray plays Hoop World! A mobile game all about dunking those basketballs in increasingly improbable locals in increasingly complex ways, trying to get as many flips as possible. You start off in a basketball court atop some boxes, and move to incorporating trampolines, slides, and PORTALS as you travel through such locales as the nearby parking lot and beach, a campground, the frozen Arctic (with a brief trip under water), a dragon’s cave, and finally a medieval town, the courses getting more and more difficult the further you go. Also there’s a bonus level where you can ride a roller coaster and flip your way into loads of coins. Gray was determined to get the maximum flips possible every level, and was generally equally delighted and baffled to see what exactly his headphone-wearing dude was flipping into next. Not to mention all those times he cause the physics of the hoop or nearby objects to start glitching out, or accidentally tossed himself through the void. . . You love to see it. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Reset the Victor Luvs Alice queue speed to one per day, and found a good Song Saturday from back in 2018 to reblog (was looking for something with an at least potential Valicer vibe, found it in “This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman, a song my tumblr friend Squid recommended ages ago). So that’s all set for the rest of the week, yay!
*nods* Not too shabby -- and I just finished the messages, so I shall be off. :P Night all!
Work – Another fairly-quiet day – few phone calls to answer (people looking for reports or telling us we had information wrong, stuff like that), with the rest of my day basically being taken up with obituaries. *shrug* Given I am now fully and properly on my period, I will take it.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the 2021 Oxventure Holiday Special, “Hog Wild!” Having reached the clearing at the end of the first half, the second half had Egbert checking for signs of wild pig, getting a twelve on his roll, and only finding some probable signs. And also not being able to identify if any of the droppings around are pig or not. :p Corazon, for his part, did well enough on a nature roll to find one truffle (as in the mushroom), and declared it proof that a pig had NOT been here. XD After some talk, the Oxventurers remembered that Cesuira said that the pig is territorial and would likely find THEM, and Egbert and Dob decided a good way to lure it in would to make themselves look as delicious as possible. Corazon reluctantly grated some truffle on Dob’s rock-hard abs while he did a bridge pose –
And cue an absolutely GINORMOUS boar, fifteen foot at the shoulder, showing up and snuffling around. Egbert belatedly realized they probably should have set a trap. XD Fortunately, the roll for initiative put Dob first, and in a move that quite impressed Johnny, he cast Shatter on the ground right at the boar’s feet, to create a crater for it to either fall in or maneuver around. Not bad for an half-orc hanging out in a g-string! XD Egbert followed up by using his shiny shiny shield to try and confuse the boar into thinking there was another pig in the area (taking the heat off Dob, whose g-string is basically a NEGATIVE armor class because it’s cutting into his butt XD). Corazon, for his part, scouted for beehives and (thanks to Johnny get a nat 20 on their roll to determine if he found any or not) grabbed a nice big one with Mage Hand and SMASHED it onto the boar’s head to honey-glaze it. XD And also to sting it with angry bees (Johnny ruled the bees didn’t actually do much damage, though). Prudence went next and, having already scanned the clearing for magic, tried using it on the boar –
And found lots of little “hot spots” of magic within it, which – isn’t normal. She decided to use her action to amp up the power and figure out what schools of magic the hot spots were. . .only for the spots to become the shapes of PEOPLE, pulling various levers and managing various pulleys and whatnot. The boar was a fake! Prudence relayed this to her team, and the boar attempted to come for her –
Only to fall down the hole Dob made, like a dog plunging into a super-deep puddle. Merilwen promptly climbed on and Flamebladed her way in like an eager Jedi with a lightsaber, revealing some fairly terrified people within. And also setting the boar on fire. Dob, not wanting the boar to burn up because oooo cool new team vehicle!, grabbed some mud to smother what he could of the flames; Egbert attempted to help by shoveling snow with his shield, but a bad roll meant he was mostly just flinging snow around with wild abandon. XD Corazon, for his part, just stayed out of it and snacked on his truffle. XD Prudence took the direct route of yanking a man out of the boar, and as the others piled out to escape the fire, the story came out – they’re a group of people with a common cause, and that cause is to protect the woods with their mechanical boar. Specifically, to protect it from Cesuira and his group, because they’re not humble traders, they’re PROPERTY DEVELOPERS, here to build the G’eth equivalent of luxury condos – their actual aim was to sell some of those to the Oxventurers later. Corazon was pissed, both at the trick and there being no honey-glazed ham for him to eat. XD The gang were all for getting their own back, and a few plans were floated – Dob was all for just buying the mechanical pig off the group of forest protectors and simply doing their job for the rest of their lives; Corazon suggested pre-ruining the forest by building a pirate theme park, Corazonland, there; Dob brought up getting rid of the traders and then turning the mechanical boar into a MAGIC mechanical boar that would protect the woods on its own (and kill indiscriminately); Corazon said they could just get Cesuira into the forest by saying they needed extra help getting the pig out of there and then killing him – but the plan that won was Egbert’s very simple “why don’t we just get in the boar and run Cesiura and his group over?” XD He and Dob clambered inside to try and figure out the workings with Merilwen, doing doughnuts and such –
When Argyle and his friends showed up, ready to take the reward! Fortunately, Corazon, in a rare show of diplomacy, quickly told him what was actually going on – pig not real, Cesuira evil property developer person, they’ve all been duped – and Argyle was actually all right with teaming up to get one back on Cesuira. Prudence managed to Message this to Egbert, but Egbert insisted on doing a cool hard handbrake drift in front of Argyle to show he meant business –
One eight later, Argyle had flown at least a hundred feet into the forest and taken a LOAD of damage, smashing through some trees and possibly getting concussed. On the other hand, they’d definitely shown that the boar was combat ready! XD As Argyle said when he limped back five in-universe minutes later. XD One half-hour to go – let’s wreck up some property developer guys!
2. Continue writing “The Joker And The Queen:” Check – I did indeed go back to Chapter Three (forgot where I was thanks to a copy-paste accident) and start redoing Victor’s introduction to the Coaster Gang with a few edits here and there (adjusting Smiler’s description, for starters, and cleaning up dialogue a little bit). Something nice and simple for a day where I’m dealing with the period brain-fog! I’ll continue on that track Friday, since I REALLY want to redo the scene where the Coasters show off their powers (I feel like I went through that WAY too fast), and then I will continue onward with Chapter Four next week! Which I think might start off with the group watching TV, a certain couple appearing on-screen, and a scene I’ve kind of wanted to write for a while happening. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Two-thirds check out of necessity – Gray’s upload today was one of his compilation videos – this one of Solar Smash – that are generally an hour and a half long, so that one HAS to be saved for the weekend. So I focused on the other two –
A) First up, today’s Josh Way – “SKETCHY: Quack-Up (Hanna-Barbera character)!” A very quick SKETCHY showing a character from the Yogi’s Space Race show (don’t ask me, never saw it) who is a duck in a strait-jacket. Not exactly politically correct. XD But a good goofy design that Josh had fun drawing, and he got to shill his upcoming attempts at half-tone classic comic coloring, so that’s something to look forward to!
B) And second up, yesterday’s GrayStillPlays – “When you jump out of orbit,” aka Gray plays Hoop World! A mobile game all about dunking those basketballs in increasingly improbable locals in increasingly complex ways, trying to get as many flips as possible. You start off in a basketball court atop some boxes, and move to incorporating trampolines, slides, and PORTALS as you travel through such locales as the nearby parking lot and beach, a campground, the frozen Arctic (with a brief trip under water), a dragon’s cave, and finally a medieval town, the courses getting more and more difficult the further you go. Also there’s a bonus level where you can ride a roller coaster and flip your way into loads of coins. Gray was determined to get the maximum flips possible every level, and was generally equally delighted and baffled to see what exactly his headphone-wearing dude was flipping into next. Not to mention all those times he cause the physics of the hoop or nearby objects to start glitching out, or accidentally tossed himself through the void. . . You love to see it. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Reset the Victor Luvs Alice queue speed to one per day, and found a good Song Saturday from back in 2018 to reblog (was looking for something with an at least potential Valicer vibe, found it in “This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman, a song my tumblr friend Squid recommended ages ago). So that’s all set for the rest of the week, yay!
*nods* Not too shabby -- and I just finished the messages, so I shall be off. :P Night all!
