All Right Tuesday
May. 23rd, 2023 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickIn that it was mostly fine, though there was a bit of rough stuff:
Work – Complete opposite of yesterday – it was DEAD at work. Like, maybe three phone calls all day? None of which were for credit cards? *shrug* I mean, works for me – I spent the day working through obituaries and other roster maintenance tasks. I’ll take a quiet, slightly-boring day over a busy, stressed one! A shame that the ride HOME from work was such a pain in the ass – traffic everywhere. And so many assholes just trying to shove their way practically into the side of my car. . .ugh. I hate driving, I really do.
As for beanbags, I didn’t have a GREAT day, but I didn’t have a HORRIBLE one either – in fact, I was quite consistent, coming second every game. XD Dad squeaked past me in the first two rounds, while Mom got it together enough to win the third. Final scores were me 2-2-2; Dad W-W-3; Mom 3-3-W. Mom and Dad are talking about getting new boards to remake the game tomorrow (the ones we’re using have seen some wear and are incredibly bouncy at this point), so we’ll see if we play tomorrow or not!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, continuing on with the Oxventure One-Shot Wonder “You Awaken In A Strange Place!” As it turned out, Liv’s attempt to get the Queen to be one of the judges of the melee had gone so poorly that not only was she NOT on the panel, everyone was judging HER for not finding the Royal Thermostat and doing something about the fact that everyone was too hot all the time! XD Lord Hortingly assured her that he wouldn’t have wanted her to try and rig the vote in his favor anyway, that’s unseemly. Queen Beatrice decided instead to try another tack – talk to Lady Bella Bellington (of the Berkshire Bellingtons) on Lord Hortingly’s behalf and maybe point her in the direction of marrying him. Lord Hortingly was very appreciative that Her Majesty would do that for him, and to make it easier for Queen Beatrice and Lady Bella to meet each other, Luke spoke into lore that everyone in this world has to go to the bathroom every five minutes (rolling well enough to make it truth, with the complication that not only is there always a queue, there’s also a very annoying bathroom attendant). Queen Beatrice thus went to join the toilet queue, figuring she could get Lady Bella’s attention by offering her her spot, while the two men headed to join the melee now that the sawdust had been sprinkled and the announcer had announced it.
And that’s when Jasper decided to try speaking into truth Lady Bella JOINING THE MELEE. XD He rolled well enough for this to indeed be truth, with Johnny complicating matters by making her a fighter of high renown and power. Jasper was thrilled. XD Johnny also decided to have her be part of the “Royal Rumble” group, a set of reserve fighters who came in after the melee had started, and sent her over to the bathroom line so she could prepare before joining the group. Queen Beatrice met her and offered her a spot in front of her – and, fortunately, rolled super well at Quietly Panicking about Bella not taking her up on her offer that Bella immediately got into line and started reassuring her. Many curtsies were made (though they’re actually squats in this world, as per a joke of Jasper’s that Johnny liked so much they immediately canonized it), and as they made their way up the line and into the bathroom, Queen Beatrice asked about Bella’s widow’s weeds (Bella explaining that her husband exploded after a “very brief illness” and that everyone considered it rather rude of him, really) and did her best to push her toward considering remarriage to a man like Lord Hortingly (a man who is – 43, as apparently not even Luke knows what this guy really looks like XD). Bella seemed open to the idea, at least, but said she had to deal with the melee first –
Stripping off her black dress to reveal black oxidized armor underneath. Queen Beatrice was like “sick.” XD Having achieved her aims, at least for the moment, Queen Beatrice went to join the crowd watching the melee, while Gad got himself a mace and Lord Hortingly attempted to Inherit a pair of meteorite katanas – a middling roll meant that they were actually purchased from a nearby shopping center, not true family heirlooms. Luke admitted this fit very well with Hortingly only THINKING he’s good at swordfighting. XD Everyone also rolled to Drink – Gad To Excess, Lord Hortingly and Queen Beatrice In Moderation. Gad did very well on his roll and got pleasantly plastered and just a little gassy, while Hortingly and Beatrice did very poorly and both got drunk on absinthe. Oops. XD
And thus began the melee! Lord Hortingly decided to conserve his energy by Lounging near the sidelines, obviously fending off comers but otherwise trying to be unobtrusive – a decent roll meant the managed this, but DID catch the attention of a knave with a sword and buckler shield. Gad Ticklebottom was GOING to Vogue his way through the crowd, Borrowing weapons where he could – but this is when the “Oh, you said BORROWING, we heard BURROWING” bit came up, and Jasper was like “that’s WAY better Gad’s just gonna fucking dig a pit.” XD Again, a decent roll meant that Gad did indeed dig a pit, but he WAS joined in said pit by a spirited youth with a pair of daggers. And Queen Beatrice, on the sidelines, attempted to point at Lord Hortingly and Laugh in such a way as to let Lady Bella know that this is the 43-year-old she was talking about before. . .
Utter failure. Woman came off like she was laughing at the plight of her subjects, and she looked so good doing it that she accidentally convinced three people she knew EXACTLY where the lost Royal Thermostat was and that she LIKED it “balmy!” As Johnny put it, the Doomsday Clock of violent revolution just ticked forward one minute. XD And things just got worse from there, as in round two of the melee, Lord Hortingly faced off against the man with the sword and buckler (a Marine looking for an opportunity to assault an officer). Luke took the opportunity to explain that Lord Hortingly doesn’t KNOW he can explode people with his mind – rather, it just kind of happens whenever he shows emotion, because the whole Hortingly line has been SO repressed for SO long it’s resulted in spontaneous psychic powers – and then had Hortingly subconsciously blow the guy up with his mind. XD As for Gad, his attempt to Gossip his way out of being stabbed (pretending he’d seen the youth’s father with the Queen) went poorly, and he took a knife to the chest as the youth told him his father had exploded on a boat once. Which resulted in Liv saying Queen Beatrice had invited the children of those blown up by Hortingly to the event (Luke was like “WHY THEY’RE THE ENEMY”) and rolled double sixes to speak it into truth, resulting in a lot of crying children suddenly understanding very well how their fathers died. XD Oh, and as for Queen Beatrice herself, she decided, “it’s the Royal Rumble, I’m the Queen, I should join in, damn it.” And so she did –
Riding the shoulders of some random dude, with a child on her shoulders (armed with invulnerability lip balm and a sword), because Liv wanted the Queen to join in via getting into a mecha, rolled poorly to find resources, and Johnny decided this was the best she could do. It did not impress the crowd – not because she’d conscripted two random strangers into being her mech, but because she had the child FAN her. XD
And, of course, this was around the time that Lady Bella joined the fight! She and Hortingly shared a VERY significant look (though Hortingly couldn’t tell if she was examining him for weak points or trying to figure out his age or possibly even remembering his face). And Luke realized that Lord Hortingly, a character so repressed his plan for convincing Bella to marry him was “play her a beautiful piece of music and see how she feels about it – if she loves it, great, if not, I walk into the sea,” would be overcome with emotion with seeing his lady love face-to-face –
Meaning he had to roll Quietly Panicking to avoid exploding her with his mind. Jasper was all like “oh, I hope she pops.” XD Fortunately, Hortingly DID roll well enough to not subconsciously explode her, but Johnny did demand SOME display of emotion from the normally utterly-starched Hortingly – I left it on Luke deciding that would be a ginormous burp. XD We’ll see how the end of the melee goes tomorrow, and if Lord Hortingly shall be wed or walk into the sea!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – I have officially started Chapter Five, with Alice kitting herself up for her trip to Grout’s (she’s taking her new shotgun out of an abundance of caution – she still has a few shells for it, after all, and I can have her swing by Fat Larry before she goes) and saying goodbye to Victor (who is gorging himself on fun-sized chocolate XD). She’s not quite out the door yet, as they insisted on sharing their favorite desserts with each other, but she’s almost there! . . .too bad knowing what I know about how this chapter is going to go down makes me want to tell her to delay as long as possible. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – kept it simple tonight with just the GrayStillPlays video of the day, “When Legos cause unlimited pain,” aka Gray plays more Happy Wheels! :D Boards tonight included the customary bottle flip (with Gray going specifically for the “save your replay if you get it on this specific ball back here,” though he also got Epic Squared and “Nice”); a pogo fight featuring angry children, couples with spears, and Santa and his elves (and also cars dropping from the ceiling if Gray didn’t move fast enough); Gray kicking a goal via the medium of a rope swing (Gray actually won on the first attempt by getting HIMSELF into the goal, but refused to quit until he actually kicked the ball in); a dangerously orange obstacle course (with Gray having to avoid a ceiling of swords and a bunch of mines, make it over the violent Doritos, and finally invade an office building to attend a speaker’s lesson on economics); an impossible pogo jump board full of unfairness (that Gray won simply by exploding himself and surviving long enough as a torso to get the win); a table race as one of a pair of hobos (again, Gray won just by making it to the end, but refused to quit until he actually got ahead of the other guy); Gray taking his pet alligator Methica to check on her nest, fend off a hungry iguana, and move her to a new lake full of beer and watermelons (petition to add Methica to the Official GrayStillPlays Pets Roster); a pogo bounce across a bunch of Legos (which was surprisingly nice in covering the katanas up there with an invisible wall); a Spanish bottle run of increasing difficulty (which was very hard because not only were there increasingly large gaps between bottles, you hit the end at such force you got mulched against the invisible wall – Gray had to weaponize “you can survive long enough as a torso to actually win” again); a “Don’t Move” where the joke was Pogo Guy got mulched at the end while winning (Gray was like ???); a ball throw with hungry knives that Gray won on the SECOND THROW (he was very proud of this); a tricky death course involving avoiding swinging axes and bouncing through a corridor of katanas (Gray having to be VERY CAREFUL not to impale himself on the ceiling); a 99.9% impossible rope swing upward through a tunnel of spikes onto a VERY SMALL win area (Gray kept trying until he finally got that 0.1% chance to land on the ceiling spikes butt-first and thus wiggle himself to victory); and a Lego-themed rope swing with full animation on the NPCs and lots of tricky rope swinging (including a barrier that suddenly turned into a rope – took Gray a few tries to master that one!). Good stuff, as always – I do love Happy Wheels and its bloody, bloody chaos. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – finally finished up the last three posts of the nine-part Chill Valicer Save Love Day update and chucked all nine of them into the Victor Luvs Alice queue! Whew – hopefully next week’s will be a little shorter! I also have an ask reply in the Valice Multiverse queue, so I’m set there as well.
*shrug* An acceptable enough day, I suppose -- I just wish the damn traffic and burgeoning PMS didn't keep trying to drag down my mood. Time to head to bed I think and see how Wednesday fares. . .night all!
Work – Complete opposite of yesterday – it was DEAD at work. Like, maybe three phone calls all day? None of which were for credit cards? *shrug* I mean, works for me – I spent the day working through obituaries and other roster maintenance tasks. I’ll take a quiet, slightly-boring day over a busy, stressed one! A shame that the ride HOME from work was such a pain in the ass – traffic everywhere. And so many assholes just trying to shove their way practically into the side of my car. . .ugh. I hate driving, I really do.
As for beanbags, I didn’t have a GREAT day, but I didn’t have a HORRIBLE one either – in fact, I was quite consistent, coming second every game. XD Dad squeaked past me in the first two rounds, while Mom got it together enough to win the third. Final scores were me 2-2-2; Dad W-W-3; Mom 3-3-W. Mom and Dad are talking about getting new boards to remake the game tomorrow (the ones we’re using have seen some wear and are incredibly bouncy at this point), so we’ll see if we play tomorrow or not!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, continuing on with the Oxventure One-Shot Wonder “You Awaken In A Strange Place!” As it turned out, Liv’s attempt to get the Queen to be one of the judges of the melee had gone so poorly that not only was she NOT on the panel, everyone was judging HER for not finding the Royal Thermostat and doing something about the fact that everyone was too hot all the time! XD Lord Hortingly assured her that he wouldn’t have wanted her to try and rig the vote in his favor anyway, that’s unseemly. Queen Beatrice decided instead to try another tack – talk to Lady Bella Bellington (of the Berkshire Bellingtons) on Lord Hortingly’s behalf and maybe point her in the direction of marrying him. Lord Hortingly was very appreciative that Her Majesty would do that for him, and to make it easier for Queen Beatrice and Lady Bella to meet each other, Luke spoke into lore that everyone in this world has to go to the bathroom every five minutes (rolling well enough to make it truth, with the complication that not only is there always a queue, there’s also a very annoying bathroom attendant). Queen Beatrice thus went to join the toilet queue, figuring she could get Lady Bella’s attention by offering her her spot, while the two men headed to join the melee now that the sawdust had been sprinkled and the announcer had announced it.
And that’s when Jasper decided to try speaking into truth Lady Bella JOINING THE MELEE. XD He rolled well enough for this to indeed be truth, with Johnny complicating matters by making her a fighter of high renown and power. Jasper was thrilled. XD Johnny also decided to have her be part of the “Royal Rumble” group, a set of reserve fighters who came in after the melee had started, and sent her over to the bathroom line so she could prepare before joining the group. Queen Beatrice met her and offered her a spot in front of her – and, fortunately, rolled super well at Quietly Panicking about Bella not taking her up on her offer that Bella immediately got into line and started reassuring her. Many curtsies were made (though they’re actually squats in this world, as per a joke of Jasper’s that Johnny liked so much they immediately canonized it), and as they made their way up the line and into the bathroom, Queen Beatrice asked about Bella’s widow’s weeds (Bella explaining that her husband exploded after a “very brief illness” and that everyone considered it rather rude of him, really) and did her best to push her toward considering remarriage to a man like Lord Hortingly (a man who is – 43, as apparently not even Luke knows what this guy really looks like XD). Bella seemed open to the idea, at least, but said she had to deal with the melee first –
Stripping off her black dress to reveal black oxidized armor underneath. Queen Beatrice was like “sick.” XD Having achieved her aims, at least for the moment, Queen Beatrice went to join the crowd watching the melee, while Gad got himself a mace and Lord Hortingly attempted to Inherit a pair of meteorite katanas – a middling roll meant that they were actually purchased from a nearby shopping center, not true family heirlooms. Luke admitted this fit very well with Hortingly only THINKING he’s good at swordfighting. XD Everyone also rolled to Drink – Gad To Excess, Lord Hortingly and Queen Beatrice In Moderation. Gad did very well on his roll and got pleasantly plastered and just a little gassy, while Hortingly and Beatrice did very poorly and both got drunk on absinthe. Oops. XD
And thus began the melee! Lord Hortingly decided to conserve his energy by Lounging near the sidelines, obviously fending off comers but otherwise trying to be unobtrusive – a decent roll meant the managed this, but DID catch the attention of a knave with a sword and buckler shield. Gad Ticklebottom was GOING to Vogue his way through the crowd, Borrowing weapons where he could – but this is when the “Oh, you said BORROWING, we heard BURROWING” bit came up, and Jasper was like “that’s WAY better Gad’s just gonna fucking dig a pit.” XD Again, a decent roll meant that Gad did indeed dig a pit, but he WAS joined in said pit by a spirited youth with a pair of daggers. And Queen Beatrice, on the sidelines, attempted to point at Lord Hortingly and Laugh in such a way as to let Lady Bella know that this is the 43-year-old she was talking about before. . .
Utter failure. Woman came off like she was laughing at the plight of her subjects, and she looked so good doing it that she accidentally convinced three people she knew EXACTLY where the lost Royal Thermostat was and that she LIKED it “balmy!” As Johnny put it, the Doomsday Clock of violent revolution just ticked forward one minute. XD And things just got worse from there, as in round two of the melee, Lord Hortingly faced off against the man with the sword and buckler (a Marine looking for an opportunity to assault an officer). Luke took the opportunity to explain that Lord Hortingly doesn’t KNOW he can explode people with his mind – rather, it just kind of happens whenever he shows emotion, because the whole Hortingly line has been SO repressed for SO long it’s resulted in spontaneous psychic powers – and then had Hortingly subconsciously blow the guy up with his mind. XD As for Gad, his attempt to Gossip his way out of being stabbed (pretending he’d seen the youth’s father with the Queen) went poorly, and he took a knife to the chest as the youth told him his father had exploded on a boat once. Which resulted in Liv saying Queen Beatrice had invited the children of those blown up by Hortingly to the event (Luke was like “WHY THEY’RE THE ENEMY”) and rolled double sixes to speak it into truth, resulting in a lot of crying children suddenly understanding very well how their fathers died. XD Oh, and as for Queen Beatrice herself, she decided, “it’s the Royal Rumble, I’m the Queen, I should join in, damn it.” And so she did –
Riding the shoulders of some random dude, with a child on her shoulders (armed with invulnerability lip balm and a sword), because Liv wanted the Queen to join in via getting into a mecha, rolled poorly to find resources, and Johnny decided this was the best she could do. It did not impress the crowd – not because she’d conscripted two random strangers into being her mech, but because she had the child FAN her. XD
And, of course, this was around the time that Lady Bella joined the fight! She and Hortingly shared a VERY significant look (though Hortingly couldn’t tell if she was examining him for weak points or trying to figure out his age or possibly even remembering his face). And Luke realized that Lord Hortingly, a character so repressed his plan for convincing Bella to marry him was “play her a beautiful piece of music and see how she feels about it – if she loves it, great, if not, I walk into the sea,” would be overcome with emotion with seeing his lady love face-to-face –
Meaning he had to roll Quietly Panicking to avoid exploding her with his mind. Jasper was all like “oh, I hope she pops.” XD Fortunately, Hortingly DID roll well enough to not subconsciously explode her, but Johnny did demand SOME display of emotion from the normally utterly-starched Hortingly – I left it on Luke deciding that would be a ginormous burp. XD We’ll see how the end of the melee goes tomorrow, and if Lord Hortingly shall be wed or walk into the sea!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – I have officially started Chapter Five, with Alice kitting herself up for her trip to Grout’s (she’s taking her new shotgun out of an abundance of caution – she still has a few shells for it, after all, and I can have her swing by Fat Larry before she goes) and saying goodbye to Victor (who is gorging himself on fun-sized chocolate XD). She’s not quite out the door yet, as they insisted on sharing their favorite desserts with each other, but she’s almost there! . . .too bad knowing what I know about how this chapter is going to go down makes me want to tell her to delay as long as possible. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – kept it simple tonight with just the GrayStillPlays video of the day, “When Legos cause unlimited pain,” aka Gray plays more Happy Wheels! :D Boards tonight included the customary bottle flip (with Gray going specifically for the “save your replay if you get it on this specific ball back here,” though he also got Epic Squared and “Nice”); a pogo fight featuring angry children, couples with spears, and Santa and his elves (and also cars dropping from the ceiling if Gray didn’t move fast enough); Gray kicking a goal via the medium of a rope swing (Gray actually won on the first attempt by getting HIMSELF into the goal, but refused to quit until he actually kicked the ball in); a dangerously orange obstacle course (with Gray having to avoid a ceiling of swords and a bunch of mines, make it over the violent Doritos, and finally invade an office building to attend a speaker’s lesson on economics); an impossible pogo jump board full of unfairness (that Gray won simply by exploding himself and surviving long enough as a torso to get the win); a table race as one of a pair of hobos (again, Gray won just by making it to the end, but refused to quit until he actually got ahead of the other guy); Gray taking his pet alligator Methica to check on her nest, fend off a hungry iguana, and move her to a new lake full of beer and watermelons (petition to add Methica to the Official GrayStillPlays Pets Roster); a pogo bounce across a bunch of Legos (which was surprisingly nice in covering the katanas up there with an invisible wall); a Spanish bottle run of increasing difficulty (which was very hard because not only were there increasingly large gaps between bottles, you hit the end at such force you got mulched against the invisible wall – Gray had to weaponize “you can survive long enough as a torso to actually win” again); a “Don’t Move” where the joke was Pogo Guy got mulched at the end while winning (Gray was like ???); a ball throw with hungry knives that Gray won on the SECOND THROW (he was very proud of this); a tricky death course involving avoiding swinging axes and bouncing through a corridor of katanas (Gray having to be VERY CAREFUL not to impale himself on the ceiling); a 99.9% impossible rope swing upward through a tunnel of spikes onto a VERY SMALL win area (Gray kept trying until he finally got that 0.1% chance to land on the ceiling spikes butt-first and thus wiggle himself to victory); and a Lego-themed rope swing with full animation on the NPCs and lots of tricky rope swinging (including a barrier that suddenly turned into a rope – took Gray a few tries to master that one!). Good stuff, as always – I do love Happy Wheels and its bloody, bloody chaos. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – finally finished up the last three posts of the nine-part Chill Valicer Save Love Day update and chucked all nine of them into the Victor Luvs Alice queue! Whew – hopefully next week’s will be a little shorter! I also have an ask reply in the Valice Multiverse queue, so I’m set there as well.
*shrug* An acceptable enough day, I suppose -- I just wish the damn traffic and burgeoning PMS didn't keep trying to drag down my mood. Time to head to bed I think and see how Wednesday fares. . .night all!
