Happy Valicertine's Day!
Feb. 14th, 2023 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickIt's actually been pretty nice, all things considered -- my day at work wasn't too stressful, my parents liked the e-card I sent them, I got a nice physical card from them this morning, I got to have ice cream with chocolate sauce and whipped cream thanks to Mom tonight, and people seemed to like my Valicertines, and especially my Polyam Shipping Day post. XD Good stuff! Here is the official breakdown for you all:
Work – As stated, pretty decent day, if I’m honest – while it was busy, it wasn’t the annoying kind of busy I got yesterday. Instead, I feel like I got a lot done – certainly knocked a lot of people I needed to call back for credit card reasons off the list! Also sorted through the latest batch of exceptions, helped my coworkers talk through some roster maintenance issues they were having, and dove into a rabbit hole of a lot of dead people with similar names. You know, just a typical day at the Diocese. :p
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure “Battle for Bardcon!” Corazon actually managed to get a thirteen on his roll for telling the crowd about his adventures, which is better than when he was actually singing! This is mostly because, while he was telling them of the hurricane that brought him to a world of extreme tallness and smallness, and how he became their king because he was medium height, the bards realized this was the guy with the boat that served them rum and started arguing among themselves regarding the “secret knock” to get in. XD Similarly, Egbert getting the burning metal plates off Chadworth’s back went surprisingly well too – Johnny ruled that Chadworth had a very prominent spine as a toad-person, and that the plates basically clipped on, so Egbert could just “ping” them off. A couple of Cure Wounds from both Egbert and Dob (who did indeed get in Chadworth’s mouth at some point), and he was right as rain, hooray! He thanked them for their assistance (Dob telling him it was fine, and mumbling that maybe they could collab together later), then asked Dob if he and his adventurer friends could, you know, figure out who the assassin was and stop them from trying again. Because, well, understandably, the whole experience had shaken him up some, and he wasn’t going to perform unless he knew he was safe. And he only gets HALF-pay if he DOESN’T perform, so he had a vested interest in getting up on stage!
Fortunately, Prudence was already WAY ahead of the others in tracking down this assassin – having successfully crowdsurfed over, she dropped into a menacing stance in front of the source of the metal-heating magic, a half-gnome woman in a rather druidic outfit. Their eyes met, and the woman took off, just barely missing Prudence’s lunge by getting a condiment table for the [insert stupid description of hamburgers here] between them. Prudence threw it aside, getting ketchup and onions all over herself, and chased the assassin to a soup stall, where the assassin ATTEMPTED to wang a bowl of bisque at her –
Only to fall victim to 2022’s first crit 1! So instead she just spilled the soup all over herself – and then was thoroughly humiliated when Prudence followed up with a nat 20, grabbed the soup bowl, and properly panged her about the head with it. Unfortunately, this DID summon a bunch of bards to start an impromptu drumming circle around Prudence, tearing at her last nerve. XD It also apparently inspired Corazon to start drumming and chanting randomly on stage, having run out of stories – Johnny ruled the crowd was, irritatingly, loving it. XD He also tried to play some random bard’s fife, before blowing all the goodwill he’d accumulated by INSISTING on rapping the Wild Wild West theme song. XD Chadworth gathered up his copper plates to reattach to himself and bounded his way over to his trailer (a giant mobile swamp), Dob filled in Corazon on what was going on (with Corazon only hearing that a headline spot might open up if Copperspine doesn’t perform), and the three went to catch up with Prudence and her captive!
Her captive – who had already confessed readily to trying to murder Chadworth, no problem. Prudence was slightly discombobulated because she’d planned a proper interrogation with violence and everything. XD Once the group had come back together and gotten away from the drum circle, the woman introduced herself as Maria Stevenson, member of NIMBR – Not In My Back Realm, a group that absolutely LOATHES bards because of the damage bards have done to their lives. Maria proudly explained that she was just the advance scout, and that the battalions of NIMBR had the place surrounded, ready to absolutely destroy Bardcon and all the bards there! Dob was horrified – the others, having endured three days of Bardcon and its various drum circles, were like, “we understand where you’re coming from, but as we’re in the middle of the festival we would prefer you don’t attack and kill US too.” XD
And then Maria threw an absolute spanner in the works by mentioning the reason SHE hates bards – namely, one and his adventurer friends destroyed the giant mechanical beetle her grandfather made! AKA, guess who’s related to one M. Channail? The gang had a quick huddle to discuss the fact that THEY were the ones to destroy that beetle and how Maria must never find out. . .and then Dob immediately went and called her “Miss Channail” while trying to apologize on behalf of all bard-kind. XD Fortunately Dob and Corazon are master bullshitters (aka rolled well on their Charisma rolls) and managed to convince her that he’d said “mmm chainmail” instead. XD Oh man, if the dice were not on your side, you two. . .
Anyway – time to figure out how to repel this attack on all bard-dom in G’eth, as for some reason Dob didn’t want to sneak out and become the only bard left in the land. XD Dob mentioned Prudence’s “eye on a stick” (aka her Clairvoyance spell) and asked if it could be used to maybe get a bird’s eye view of the whole con so they could see what they were up against – Prudence initially was like “it is an ancient art and not a drone” – but then she looked up the range, saw that it was a mile, and was like “okay, maybe it is a drone” and cast it in the sky. XD (Prompting a discussion of how high the atmosphere is on G’eth – Johnny eventually said it’s about the same height as Earth’s, but the space beyond is actually WARM because G’eth has twin suns.) From above, she was able to see Bardcon was a big old circle, and NIMBR a big old square around it. A good Arcana roll even let her zoom in to see the different battalions on all four sides – the barmen who’d been put out of business by unpaid bar tabs (polishing glasses to hit people with); those who had been seduced and then left cold, with no call the next day or breakfast in the morning (eating ice cream and looking generally disheveled); the guards who had been fired after being hit with sleeping spells (wearing rusty armor and wielding ill-kept swords); and the heroes who’d been dragged off to adventure before being thrown aside (actually a pretty well-kitted-out bunch, given they’d all gone on at least one good quest; they were promptly nicknamed the “Bob” brigade (never mind PRUDENCE is the one who accidentally summoned Bob pre-Orbpocalypse)). Discussion commenced on what to do. Corazon was all for putting on such a rocking stage show that even NIMBR would enjoy it, while Egbert wanted to get the Joyful Damnation rolling, put the best sound system they could find on it, and then have Dob cast lots of Thunderwaves off it (no, he doesn’t want to use the cannons, it’s not ironic if they use the cannons, Corazon!). I ended my workout before a decision was made – we’ll see what the final plan is tomorrow! XD
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland:” Check – Chapter Four is underway, with Alice and Victor having some banter as Alice prepares for the night (Alice reminding him that he doesn’t have to turn nocturnal with her, only for Victor to reveal he likes it, and Victor asking her to be careful against the plaguebearers, since he already considers her a friend). It’s very cute, with Carpenter noting that they’ve settled into a rapport with each other rather quickly. Nature of the fanfic, Carpenter. . .though I suppose in his canon Victor does form emotional connections pretty damn fast, so. . .look, I just want my Victor and Alice friendship moments. Writing them bantering and just being comfortable around each other gives me the serotonins. :p
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – I got to this rather late (with writing and having dessert a bit early thanks to Mom making it), so it’s lucky I only had the one video – GrayStillPlays and “Evolving dinosaurs in unpredictable ways,” aka Dino Evolution Run 3D! You know the drill – running mobile game where you have to pick up certain “elements” to power up your character to fight an end-boss and unlock more elements (including lightning, stone, wood, space, and tornadoes) and characters (including a T-Rex, a triceratops, a stegosaurus, a gorilla, and Godzilla). Also guns. You could unlock flamethrowers, miniguns, and taser guns to use at your leisure. Gray was at his leisure a lot. XD Seriously, it’s always fun to see what counts as an “element” in these games, and what counts as a “dinosaur.” (Seriously, a gorilla? Godzilla you could JUST ABOUT make a case for, but a GORILLA?)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed to one per day on Victor Luvs Alice and decided on some nice Alice fanart and a Corpse Bride gifset to throw in there for Thursday and Friday, and put two ask replies in the queue on Valice Multiverse. All sorted for a few days more!
And that's that! Time to wrap things up and head to bed to continue with the week. Night all, hope you all had a good one! :)
Work – As stated, pretty decent day, if I’m honest – while it was busy, it wasn’t the annoying kind of busy I got yesterday. Instead, I feel like I got a lot done – certainly knocked a lot of people I needed to call back for credit card reasons off the list! Also sorted through the latest batch of exceptions, helped my coworkers talk through some roster maintenance issues they were having, and dove into a rabbit hole of a lot of dead people with similar names. You know, just a typical day at the Diocese. :p
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure “Battle for Bardcon!” Corazon actually managed to get a thirteen on his roll for telling the crowd about his adventures, which is better than when he was actually singing! This is mostly because, while he was telling them of the hurricane that brought him to a world of extreme tallness and smallness, and how he became their king because he was medium height, the bards realized this was the guy with the boat that served them rum and started arguing among themselves regarding the “secret knock” to get in. XD Similarly, Egbert getting the burning metal plates off Chadworth’s back went surprisingly well too – Johnny ruled that Chadworth had a very prominent spine as a toad-person, and that the plates basically clipped on, so Egbert could just “ping” them off. A couple of Cure Wounds from both Egbert and Dob (who did indeed get in Chadworth’s mouth at some point), and he was right as rain, hooray! He thanked them for their assistance (Dob telling him it was fine, and mumbling that maybe they could collab together later), then asked Dob if he and his adventurer friends could, you know, figure out who the assassin was and stop them from trying again. Because, well, understandably, the whole experience had shaken him up some, and he wasn’t going to perform unless he knew he was safe. And he only gets HALF-pay if he DOESN’T perform, so he had a vested interest in getting up on stage!
Fortunately, Prudence was already WAY ahead of the others in tracking down this assassin – having successfully crowdsurfed over, she dropped into a menacing stance in front of the source of the metal-heating magic, a half-gnome woman in a rather druidic outfit. Their eyes met, and the woman took off, just barely missing Prudence’s lunge by getting a condiment table for the [insert stupid description of hamburgers here] between them. Prudence threw it aside, getting ketchup and onions all over herself, and chased the assassin to a soup stall, where the assassin ATTEMPTED to wang a bowl of bisque at her –
Only to fall victim to 2022’s first crit 1! So instead she just spilled the soup all over herself – and then was thoroughly humiliated when Prudence followed up with a nat 20, grabbed the soup bowl, and properly panged her about the head with it. Unfortunately, this DID summon a bunch of bards to start an impromptu drumming circle around Prudence, tearing at her last nerve. XD It also apparently inspired Corazon to start drumming and chanting randomly on stage, having run out of stories – Johnny ruled the crowd was, irritatingly, loving it. XD He also tried to play some random bard’s fife, before blowing all the goodwill he’d accumulated by INSISTING on rapping the Wild Wild West theme song. XD Chadworth gathered up his copper plates to reattach to himself and bounded his way over to his trailer (a giant mobile swamp), Dob filled in Corazon on what was going on (with Corazon only hearing that a headline spot might open up if Copperspine doesn’t perform), and the three went to catch up with Prudence and her captive!
Her captive – who had already confessed readily to trying to murder Chadworth, no problem. Prudence was slightly discombobulated because she’d planned a proper interrogation with violence and everything. XD Once the group had come back together and gotten away from the drum circle, the woman introduced herself as Maria Stevenson, member of NIMBR – Not In My Back Realm, a group that absolutely LOATHES bards because of the damage bards have done to their lives. Maria proudly explained that she was just the advance scout, and that the battalions of NIMBR had the place surrounded, ready to absolutely destroy Bardcon and all the bards there! Dob was horrified – the others, having endured three days of Bardcon and its various drum circles, were like, “we understand where you’re coming from, but as we’re in the middle of the festival we would prefer you don’t attack and kill US too.” XD
And then Maria threw an absolute spanner in the works by mentioning the reason SHE hates bards – namely, one and his adventurer friends destroyed the giant mechanical beetle her grandfather made! AKA, guess who’s related to one M. Channail? The gang had a quick huddle to discuss the fact that THEY were the ones to destroy that beetle and how Maria must never find out. . .and then Dob immediately went and called her “Miss Channail” while trying to apologize on behalf of all bard-kind. XD Fortunately Dob and Corazon are master bullshitters (aka rolled well on their Charisma rolls) and managed to convince her that he’d said “mmm chainmail” instead. XD Oh man, if the dice were not on your side, you two. . .
Anyway – time to figure out how to repel this attack on all bard-dom in G’eth, as for some reason Dob didn’t want to sneak out and become the only bard left in the land. XD Dob mentioned Prudence’s “eye on a stick” (aka her Clairvoyance spell) and asked if it could be used to maybe get a bird’s eye view of the whole con so they could see what they were up against – Prudence initially was like “it is an ancient art and not a drone” – but then she looked up the range, saw that it was a mile, and was like “okay, maybe it is a drone” and cast it in the sky. XD (Prompting a discussion of how high the atmosphere is on G’eth – Johnny eventually said it’s about the same height as Earth’s, but the space beyond is actually WARM because G’eth has twin suns.) From above, she was able to see Bardcon was a big old circle, and NIMBR a big old square around it. A good Arcana roll even let her zoom in to see the different battalions on all four sides – the barmen who’d been put out of business by unpaid bar tabs (polishing glasses to hit people with); those who had been seduced and then left cold, with no call the next day or breakfast in the morning (eating ice cream and looking generally disheveled); the guards who had been fired after being hit with sleeping spells (wearing rusty armor and wielding ill-kept swords); and the heroes who’d been dragged off to adventure before being thrown aside (actually a pretty well-kitted-out bunch, given they’d all gone on at least one good quest; they were promptly nicknamed the “Bob” brigade (never mind PRUDENCE is the one who accidentally summoned Bob pre-Orbpocalypse)). Discussion commenced on what to do. Corazon was all for putting on such a rocking stage show that even NIMBR would enjoy it, while Egbert wanted to get the Joyful Damnation rolling, put the best sound system they could find on it, and then have Dob cast lots of Thunderwaves off it (no, he doesn’t want to use the cannons, it’s not ironic if they use the cannons, Corazon!). I ended my workout before a decision was made – we’ll see what the final plan is tomorrow! XD
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland:” Check – Chapter Four is underway, with Alice and Victor having some banter as Alice prepares for the night (Alice reminding him that he doesn’t have to turn nocturnal with her, only for Victor to reveal he likes it, and Victor asking her to be careful against the plaguebearers, since he already considers her a friend). It’s very cute, with Carpenter noting that they’ve settled into a rapport with each other rather quickly. Nature of the fanfic, Carpenter. . .though I suppose in his canon Victor does form emotional connections pretty damn fast, so. . .look, I just want my Victor and Alice friendship moments. Writing them bantering and just being comfortable around each other gives me the serotonins. :p
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – I got to this rather late (with writing and having dessert a bit early thanks to Mom making it), so it’s lucky I only had the one video – GrayStillPlays and “Evolving dinosaurs in unpredictable ways,” aka Dino Evolution Run 3D! You know the drill – running mobile game where you have to pick up certain “elements” to power up your character to fight an end-boss and unlock more elements (including lightning, stone, wood, space, and tornadoes) and characters (including a T-Rex, a triceratops, a stegosaurus, a gorilla, and Godzilla). Also guns. You could unlock flamethrowers, miniguns, and taser guns to use at your leisure. Gray was at his leisure a lot. XD Seriously, it’s always fun to see what counts as an “element” in these games, and what counts as a “dinosaur.” (Seriously, a gorilla? Godzilla you could JUST ABOUT make a case for, but a GORILLA?)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed to one per day on Victor Luvs Alice and decided on some nice Alice fanart and a Corpse Bride gifset to throw in there for Thursday and Friday, and put two ask replies in the queue on Valice Multiverse. All sorted for a few days more!
And that's that! Time to wrap things up and head to bed to continue with the week. Night all, hope you all had a good one! :)
