Busy End Of Tuesday
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crossover_chickAs you will see from my to-do list --
Work – Another very quiet day, which kind of surprised me – I’d expected more action after a holiday! But nope, just a couple of credit card calls and one call to look up a missing payment, and the rest of the day was largely just obituaries and tracking down duplicates. *shrug* A bit boring, but as I told Dad while drying dishes, I’d rather it be boring than stressful!
As for beanbags, we did play three rounds this afternoon, and – as is now usual – I struggled a bit at first (had a TERRIBLE first game), but managed to pull out one win; Dad was great until he suddenly completely fell apart in the third game; and Mom just tried her best and managed to get second twice, so that’s something. Final scores were me 3-2-W; Dad W-W-3; Mom 2-3-2. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, with the following –
A) Finishing off the Live Oxventure “Snow Escape!” With most of the gang ready to ride their horrible corpse sled down the mountains and to the glass wall of the snow globe (with some vague ideas of trying to use Egbert’s pointy nose to break it), Prudence took a moment to examine the cut-in-half-corpses that they’d found earlier. Luke’s response to her asking if the wounds looked like they were made by fangs or claws was “yes.” XD Concerned, the group decided speed should be of the essence and started off on the sled (with Merilwen flying overhead in giant eagle form), with Luke having everyone on the sled roll to help keep the sled together. They all rolled well –
Except Millie and Ori themselves, who were having some doubts now about taking up the adventurer lifestyle. XD Corazon eyeing them up as potential replacements for any future missing sled parts didn’t help, I’m sure. :p Anyway, the sled held together, but Millie and Ori not being able to keep the feet from flopping around meant that they went a little off course and ended up in the middle of a frozen tundra, about a mile off from the wall. Merilwen, from the sky, spotted a little family of polar bears nearby –
A little family of polar bears that, moments later, were GOBBLED by a horrific praying-mantis-terrible-burning-centipede thing. O.O This was apparently a remorhaz, a terrible arctic predator that has an intense internal flame – nobody in the group had ever seen one, but high History rolls from Merilwen and Corazon meant that they’d at least seen them on maps or heard them described, so they knew what they were up again. Panicking ensued, along with the roll for combat initiative! Including Millie and Ori at Corazon’s insistence. XD Merilwen got the highest and went in for an attack on the remorhaz’s horrible bulging eyes with her beak and talons –
Only to roll a crit one. Luke decided she clipped an antennae with her wing and instead went full SPLAT against its nose, tumbling off with singed feathers as just being NEAR this thing causes two D6 fire damage. Corazon was next, and Sneak Attacked with his new crystal sword (Luke saying he imagined him doing a cool knee slide) – he did well, getting 21 points of damage, but also getting lightly singed before managing to hide himself in the snow. The remorhaz got to go then, and furiously chomped down on Prudence, inflicting TWENTY points of damage from both its terrible teeth and its horrible heat before flinging her into a snowdrift with things very bad re: her ribs. On the plus side, though, as she was flung, she managed to pull off a Hellish Rebuke, giving the thing a taste of its own medicine with a spurt of hellfire bursting from her pointed finger. This brought them around to Egbert, who used Misty Step to teleport onto the remorhaz’s head and attempted to pull out the antennae – a roll of twelve didn’t do it, but Luke ruled that he probably HAD managed to fuck up its sense of direction just by grabbing them –
Cue Egbert asking if he could steer it. Luke went, “There comes a time in every Oxventure. . .” XD Better yet, Egbert revealed that he could try to steer it right now, as he always gets to attack TWICE per turn – he just usually doesn’t bother. XD Luke decided to take that revelation as a compliment, proving he’d done well in designing his combat encounter if Egbert/Mike was actually busting out the magic spells and the bonus attacks. XD He let Egbert roll –
Eighteen! Egbert promptly wheeled the remorhaz around and steered it right into the glass – just in time to break the globe before Dob could touch it. One brilliant flash of light later, everyone who had been trapped in the snow globe and was still alive ended up in an undignified heap. They all got untangled (with Corazon taking a moment to stomp the now-tiny remorhaz), and Khobess genuinely thanked them for their efforts as all the bandits she’d been trapped with started stealing all of her stuff. XD She rewarded Egbert in particular by letting him LEGITIMATELY take an artifact – he ended up choosing a strange frostbitten skeletal finger, which Luke informed him would let him cast the cantrip Chill Touch five times. Corazon also got a reward, in that he managed to very successfully steal a sapphire earring from the artifacts that were left – an Earring of Message, as it turns out, which allowed him to cast the cantrip Message five times! He was very pleased with that. And so the Oxventure ended, with the Oxventurers freed (and probably having to explain things to Dob), Dwayne dead, and – oh, wait. At the beginning of this adventure, Luke promised a death AND a marriage. So he had Millie and Ori reveal they weren’t actually siblings (just cousins), and Egbert, as an ordained minister, married them. XD This is how we fulfill our promises here at the Oxventure! And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
B) “San Myshuno World Secrets And Features | The Sims 4 Guide” by Petey Plays It! Another one of his looks at a Sims 4 world, showing off some of the features you may not have noticed. I didn’t expect there to be much new information for me to learn in this video, though, given City Living was such an early pack –
Boy was I wrong! Did you know that the park lot has LOADS of places you can wander off into and look at around it? There’s a whole food court, formal gardens, fishable lakes, a basketball court, even a little hidden bar area! I’ve really gotta take the Valicer trio over there sometime. . .the other, more actually city-based neighborhoods don’t have as much cool hidden stuff, but there’s neat bits of graffiti to find in the Spice Quarter, a special podium that your politician or debate-loving Sims can use in Uptown, secret Japanese-inspired (or I guess now Komorebi-inspired!) gardens in the Fashion District, and a fishing spot in the big old water feature in the Arts Quarter! It was pretty cool, informative stuff – even if it really makes me want to take my Sims all over the world instead of focusing on their new grocery store. XD
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice has successfully infiltrated Grout’s house, taking care of the woman in the opening foyer room by giving her a chomp and leaving her partially-drained and semi-conscious on the floor (and taking her knife as a spare). She’s currently using Obfuscate to get into the next room undetected by the ghouls milling around in there, though Cheshire’s pointed out that the best way to learn about Grout is to listen to him – aka, she’s got to get across the room now and activate the tape recorder there. We’ll see if she can do it bloodlessly or not – my money is on not, but you never know! Either way, Alice is going to get VERY mad VERY quickly as she sees and hears the kind of bullshit Grout’s been up to. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – two-in, two-out –
A) First up, the latest from Josh Way – “SKETCHY: Beetlejuice!” Which, as you might imagine, was Josh drawing the famous Michael Keaton character perched on a gravestone, while talking about how this was one of his top five movies as a kid, how when he was younger he was really into Tim Burton and people like him (though he fell away from Tim himself around the time of his first Alice In Wonderland movie), and how his sensitivity as a child to spooky stuff is probably was caused him to be so fascinated with spooky cinema in the first place. Good talk and good art! :)
B) And second, we had the latest from GrayStillPlays – “$1 vs $1,000 Happy Wheels Levels!” No, despite the title, Gray has not turned to playing people on Fiverr to make him Happy Wheels levels – this was just the usual collection of nonsense, with the title coming from the Dylan Snider board at the very end. (Though I don’t think Dylan would say no to a paycheck. XD) The boards today included the usual bottle flip (with Gray disdaining getting his super-special trick area and the win to pursue the shoutout area until he got it); a survival box featuring both harpoons and cannon balls (he lost most of his limbs in the end, but managed to hang on until victory); an extreme rope swing with some tricky flips and a surprise jet fall at the end (though Gray had more trouble getting that first flip done than he did with the jet fall); a dangerous pogo fight against animated opponents, including a couple of different karate kids, a guy who threw a sword in his own face, a magician who summons blades and a meteor, and Mario (also thumbnail holes both real and fake); a sword jump with Gray having to dump over and through various blades – mostly spinning like in a blender (also featured a boss fight against a stick figure with stabby pikes and a cleaver that spun around him in a big circle); a relaxing “color switch” board where you had to figure out which colors you could pass through based on the background (Gray likened it to “Simon Says”); a less-relaxing Rocket Grampa board with Wheelchair Hobo being boosted all to heck (Gray got the win both dead AND alive); a reasonably difficult jet fall – followed by a trip to the creator’s “Ultimate Race” level because the creator said at the end that nobody played the board but them, meaning Gray had to check it out (it turned out to be rather hard, with many points where you had to avoid being stabbed and a perfectly-timed leap over a gap through which a wrecking ball was swinging); Pogo Man fleeing a spiked wall of death (and learning that you have to click the special “run” if you want doors to open – either that or hit the buttons with your head); a VERY difficult spike fall where you had to fall in the EXACT right spot to hit the coin at the bottom (it took Gray a few tries and a lot of stabbing); and finally Dylan’s board at the end, featuring trash parkour, a careful glass break by the “free aw bees” house, the lesson that you should NOT give a dollar to a hobo lest he drop a van on your head, a Florida Man riding a wrecking ball shooting arrows at Gray, a wheelie under falling bags of fat cash, a stop at the GrayStillPlays mansion with a statue of Reginald out front, and a “Gold Rush” that resulted in Gray picking up exactly 69 coins. XD Good times, good times~
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though it was right down to the wire thanks to me having a lot of trouble with the wording on one of my last Chill Valicer Save update posts. >.< But I got the final three posts completed, and punted all seven into the Victor Luvs Alice queue for tomorrow, so that’s all set. And then, on Valice Multiverse, as I had no thread replies or asks, I punted the next Not-Incorrect Valicer Quotes collection into THAT queue (the “meet the parents” edition). So yeah, that’s all set too! One of these days I will either take fewer Sims 4 screenshots or learn how to manage my time better again. . .
And with that, I have to get to bed and get ready to do all this over again tomorrow -- with the twist that it is Smiler's birthday tomorrow! So I have to do something a bit special for that. And see if I own anything yellow to wear. XD Night all!
Work – Another very quiet day, which kind of surprised me – I’d expected more action after a holiday! But nope, just a couple of credit card calls and one call to look up a missing payment, and the rest of the day was largely just obituaries and tracking down duplicates. *shrug* A bit boring, but as I told Dad while drying dishes, I’d rather it be boring than stressful!
As for beanbags, we did play three rounds this afternoon, and – as is now usual – I struggled a bit at first (had a TERRIBLE first game), but managed to pull out one win; Dad was great until he suddenly completely fell apart in the third game; and Mom just tried her best and managed to get second twice, so that’s something. Final scores were me 3-2-W; Dad W-W-3; Mom 2-3-2. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, with the following –
A) Finishing off the Live Oxventure “Snow Escape!” With most of the gang ready to ride their horrible corpse sled down the mountains and to the glass wall of the snow globe (with some vague ideas of trying to use Egbert’s pointy nose to break it), Prudence took a moment to examine the cut-in-half-corpses that they’d found earlier. Luke’s response to her asking if the wounds looked like they were made by fangs or claws was “yes.” XD Concerned, the group decided speed should be of the essence and started off on the sled (with Merilwen flying overhead in giant eagle form), with Luke having everyone on the sled roll to help keep the sled together. They all rolled well –
Except Millie and Ori themselves, who were having some doubts now about taking up the adventurer lifestyle. XD Corazon eyeing them up as potential replacements for any future missing sled parts didn’t help, I’m sure. :p Anyway, the sled held together, but Millie and Ori not being able to keep the feet from flopping around meant that they went a little off course and ended up in the middle of a frozen tundra, about a mile off from the wall. Merilwen, from the sky, spotted a little family of polar bears nearby –
A little family of polar bears that, moments later, were GOBBLED by a horrific praying-mantis-terrible-burning-centipede thing. O.O This was apparently a remorhaz, a terrible arctic predator that has an intense internal flame – nobody in the group had ever seen one, but high History rolls from Merilwen and Corazon meant that they’d at least seen them on maps or heard them described, so they knew what they were up again. Panicking ensued, along with the roll for combat initiative! Including Millie and Ori at Corazon’s insistence. XD Merilwen got the highest and went in for an attack on the remorhaz’s horrible bulging eyes with her beak and talons –
Only to roll a crit one. Luke decided she clipped an antennae with her wing and instead went full SPLAT against its nose, tumbling off with singed feathers as just being NEAR this thing causes two D6 fire damage. Corazon was next, and Sneak Attacked with his new crystal sword (Luke saying he imagined him doing a cool knee slide) – he did well, getting 21 points of damage, but also getting lightly singed before managing to hide himself in the snow. The remorhaz got to go then, and furiously chomped down on Prudence, inflicting TWENTY points of damage from both its terrible teeth and its horrible heat before flinging her into a snowdrift with things very bad re: her ribs. On the plus side, though, as she was flung, she managed to pull off a Hellish Rebuke, giving the thing a taste of its own medicine with a spurt of hellfire bursting from her pointed finger. This brought them around to Egbert, who used Misty Step to teleport onto the remorhaz’s head and attempted to pull out the antennae – a roll of twelve didn’t do it, but Luke ruled that he probably HAD managed to fuck up its sense of direction just by grabbing them –
Cue Egbert asking if he could steer it. Luke went, “There comes a time in every Oxventure. . .” XD Better yet, Egbert revealed that he could try to steer it right now, as he always gets to attack TWICE per turn – he just usually doesn’t bother. XD Luke decided to take that revelation as a compliment, proving he’d done well in designing his combat encounter if Egbert/Mike was actually busting out the magic spells and the bonus attacks. XD He let Egbert roll –
Eighteen! Egbert promptly wheeled the remorhaz around and steered it right into the glass – just in time to break the globe before Dob could touch it. One brilliant flash of light later, everyone who had been trapped in the snow globe and was still alive ended up in an undignified heap. They all got untangled (with Corazon taking a moment to stomp the now-tiny remorhaz), and Khobess genuinely thanked them for their efforts as all the bandits she’d been trapped with started stealing all of her stuff. XD She rewarded Egbert in particular by letting him LEGITIMATELY take an artifact – he ended up choosing a strange frostbitten skeletal finger, which Luke informed him would let him cast the cantrip Chill Touch five times. Corazon also got a reward, in that he managed to very successfully steal a sapphire earring from the artifacts that were left – an Earring of Message, as it turns out, which allowed him to cast the cantrip Message five times! He was very pleased with that. And so the Oxventure ended, with the Oxventurers freed (and probably having to explain things to Dob), Dwayne dead, and – oh, wait. At the beginning of this adventure, Luke promised a death AND a marriage. So he had Millie and Ori reveal they weren’t actually siblings (just cousins), and Egbert, as an ordained minister, married them. XD This is how we fulfill our promises here at the Oxventure! And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
B) “San Myshuno World Secrets And Features | The Sims 4 Guide” by Petey Plays It! Another one of his looks at a Sims 4 world, showing off some of the features you may not have noticed. I didn’t expect there to be much new information for me to learn in this video, though, given City Living was such an early pack –
Boy was I wrong! Did you know that the park lot has LOADS of places you can wander off into and look at around it? There’s a whole food court, formal gardens, fishable lakes, a basketball court, even a little hidden bar area! I’ve really gotta take the Valicer trio over there sometime. . .the other, more actually city-based neighborhoods don’t have as much cool hidden stuff, but there’s neat bits of graffiti to find in the Spice Quarter, a special podium that your politician or debate-loving Sims can use in Uptown, secret Japanese-inspired (or I guess now Komorebi-inspired!) gardens in the Fashion District, and a fishing spot in the big old water feature in the Arts Quarter! It was pretty cool, informative stuff – even if it really makes me want to take my Sims all over the world instead of focusing on their new grocery store. XD
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice has successfully infiltrated Grout’s house, taking care of the woman in the opening foyer room by giving her a chomp and leaving her partially-drained and semi-conscious on the floor (and taking her knife as a spare). She’s currently using Obfuscate to get into the next room undetected by the ghouls milling around in there, though Cheshire’s pointed out that the best way to learn about Grout is to listen to him – aka, she’s got to get across the room now and activate the tape recorder there. We’ll see if she can do it bloodlessly or not – my money is on not, but you never know! Either way, Alice is going to get VERY mad VERY quickly as she sees and hears the kind of bullshit Grout’s been up to. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – two-in, two-out –
A) First up, the latest from Josh Way – “SKETCHY: Beetlejuice!” Which, as you might imagine, was Josh drawing the famous Michael Keaton character perched on a gravestone, while talking about how this was one of his top five movies as a kid, how when he was younger he was really into Tim Burton and people like him (though he fell away from Tim himself around the time of his first Alice In Wonderland movie), and how his sensitivity as a child to spooky stuff is probably was caused him to be so fascinated with spooky cinema in the first place. Good talk and good art! :)
B) And second, we had the latest from GrayStillPlays – “$1 vs $1,000 Happy Wheels Levels!” No, despite the title, Gray has not turned to playing people on Fiverr to make him Happy Wheels levels – this was just the usual collection of nonsense, with the title coming from the Dylan Snider board at the very end. (Though I don’t think Dylan would say no to a paycheck. XD) The boards today included the usual bottle flip (with Gray disdaining getting his super-special trick area and the win to pursue the shoutout area until he got it); a survival box featuring both harpoons and cannon balls (he lost most of his limbs in the end, but managed to hang on until victory); an extreme rope swing with some tricky flips and a surprise jet fall at the end (though Gray had more trouble getting that first flip done than he did with the jet fall); a dangerous pogo fight against animated opponents, including a couple of different karate kids, a guy who threw a sword in his own face, a magician who summons blades and a meteor, and Mario (also thumbnail holes both real and fake); a sword jump with Gray having to dump over and through various blades – mostly spinning like in a blender (also featured a boss fight against a stick figure with stabby pikes and a cleaver that spun around him in a big circle); a relaxing “color switch” board where you had to figure out which colors you could pass through based on the background (Gray likened it to “Simon Says”); a less-relaxing Rocket Grampa board with Wheelchair Hobo being boosted all to heck (Gray got the win both dead AND alive); a reasonably difficult jet fall – followed by a trip to the creator’s “Ultimate Race” level because the creator said at the end that nobody played the board but them, meaning Gray had to check it out (it turned out to be rather hard, with many points where you had to avoid being stabbed and a perfectly-timed leap over a gap through which a wrecking ball was swinging); Pogo Man fleeing a spiked wall of death (and learning that you have to click the special “run” if you want doors to open – either that or hit the buttons with your head); a VERY difficult spike fall where you had to fall in the EXACT right spot to hit the coin at the bottom (it took Gray a few tries and a lot of stabbing); and finally Dylan’s board at the end, featuring trash parkour, a careful glass break by the “free aw bees” house, the lesson that you should NOT give a dollar to a hobo lest he drop a van on your head, a Florida Man riding a wrecking ball shooting arrows at Gray, a wheelie under falling bags of fat cash, a stop at the GrayStillPlays mansion with a statue of Reginald out front, and a “Gold Rush” that resulted in Gray picking up exactly 69 coins. XD Good times, good times~
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though it was right down to the wire thanks to me having a lot of trouble with the wording on one of my last Chill Valicer Save update posts. >.< But I got the final three posts completed, and punted all seven into the Victor Luvs Alice queue for tomorrow, so that’s all set. And then, on Valice Multiverse, as I had no thread replies or asks, I punted the next Not-Incorrect Valicer Quotes collection into THAT queue (the “meet the parents” edition). So yeah, that’s all set too! One of these days I will either take fewer Sims 4 screenshots or learn how to manage my time better again. . .
And with that, I have to get to bed and get ready to do all this over again tomorrow -- with the twist that it is Smiler's birthday tomorrow! So I have to do something a bit special for that. And see if I own anything yellow to wear. XD Night all!
