Messy Cold Snowy Distracted Monday
Jan. 16th, 2024 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickThe "messy cold snowy" part being, obviously, from the weather -- it was snowing this morning when I got up, and was either snowing or raining or both pretty much the entire day. The world was a horrible snowy/slushy mess and I hated it. >( And the "distracted" part is, of course, from my period -- been a bit hard to keep focus sometimes, especially tonight! But I did well enough to hit all the items on my to-do list --
Work – Well, it wasn’t the greatest day – we kept getting little bursts of credit card calls/roster maintenance calls right on top of each other, meaning I kept having whatever I was trying to do at the moment interrupted – but at least it was a little shorter than normal thanks to the weather being absolute shit. I personally came in about an hour late because I wanted to wait for someone to plow our road before going (they didn’t come until AFTER I gave up and left, irritatingly), and we all got out an hour earlier because we were dealing with freezing rain and slush and all that fun stuff on the roads and they wanted to make our commute easier. So yeah – made it in, made it through, made it out, no major problems. And now we just have to see how much of an ice rink we’ll be dealing with tomorrow after all this wet freezes overnight. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Oxventure: Deadlands – “Running Them Down!” After Garnet and Delacey had their chat about her past (with her saying she grew up in a frontier town with her pa, and she’s traveled all over as a croupier/occasional bounty hunter), and Edie got a benny for putting up with Nate’s sleep apnea, the gang arrived at their destination – the bend in the track right by Brittle Brook! Silas took a look around to see if there was anything that could be used to block the track (ignoring Nate wiggling his eyebrows in a very “pick me, pick me” fashion) – he rolled well to notice things, but all he saw were a bunch of very mature, very thick trees on one side of the track, and some rocks on a high ridge on the other. Garnet thus suggested they put the stagecoach itself across the track and fake that Delacey had gotten it stuck there – Delacey, using his new incredible skills at stagecoach driving, managed to drift it easily across the tracks. XD From there, it was agreed that they should do this as quietly as possible (Delacey was okay with going loud if they didn’t have to kill anyone, but Nate pointed out that would be hard with armed guards around), and the plan became that Garnet would ride on ahead once they heard the train and let the driver know there was a stuck stagecoach so they’d have to stop; Delacey would sit on the stagecoach as the “confused kid” who’d gotten them stuck in the first place (though Luke didn’t think Delacey would be a very good actor, so he had him sitting there looking mean as always); Nate would wander around as the “doddering fool” for extra distraction power; and Edie and Silas would hide nearby to sneak onto the train – Edie in the trees on one side, Silas among the rocks on the other. This seemed to be an excellent plan –
Except for the fact that Garnet’s ability to ride horses had gone the way of her old character sheet. As they had some time before the train came, though, Delacey offered to help get her used to one of the stagecoach horses. Andy let them both roll riding –
And they basically both rolled multiple crits, with Luke in particular ending up with three in a row! XD Delacey immediately became the world’s greatest horse whisperer, getting the horse Humble Ned bonded with Garnet and even getting it to do a dressage bow (all while Silas looked on from his place in the rocks in comingled disgust and terror). Garnet was thus able to hop up and hold on without issue when the time came to ride out –
Which was good, because the time to ride out was right then! Yes, dawn was just starting to break, and the sound of the train coming up the line (very slowly, as to not jostle the treasures) alerted everyone to the fact it was showtime. Garnet rode to meet the train and – after a bit of a tense conversation with the driver – managed to persuade him to stop (though there were a LOT of hand gestures indicating he and his assistant HAD been thinking of just going straight through the stagecoach). The train screeched to a halt just shy of the coach, and three armed guards came out of the fourth carriage down the line (just past the two windowless carriages holding the treasures and the tender for the “ghostrock” that fuels the train) to see what was what. Two went around Edie’s side of the train to talk to Garnet about this stuck stagecoach, while one remained on Silas’s side. Silas thus decided to make his move and sneak down to the train –
And rolled SNAKE EYES! AKA a critical fail! Cue Silas, drunk and nervous (from the horses), accidentally causing a very minor landslide and tumbling down the ridge. The guard instantly had him at gunpoint, asking what the hell he was doing there – Silas immediately said that he was being pursued by a white horse with eyes as black as pitch. The guard, as you might imagine, was confused. XD He kept up this story as the other guard went around to see what the hell was going on, and was juuust persuasive enough that the guards believed he was more of a weirdo than a robber and ordered him to run off, which he did. After forcing them to say “please.” XD Edie decided that she might as well try her luck, now that there was only one guard on her side and he was distracted by Garnet, and tried to sneak out –
And, well, she didn’t roll a CRITICAL fail, but she kept rolling normal ones until she was out of bennies. She was thus caught by the head guard, talking to Garnet, who immediately became deeply suspicious of everything going on. Edie tried to claim that she was walking to Brittle Brook for an important meeting, but the guard wasn’t buying it, and insisted on taking both her and Garnet into custody. Delacey looked over at Garnet to see if she needed any assistance, but she gave him a wave and let the guard get her and Edie onto the train, where they were put into a cage (meant to hold valuables, now repurposed as a makeshift jail). They continued trying to make a fuss, but again, the guard wasn’t having it. Damn.
Meanwhile, Silas, having figured he was far enough away that he could come back without incident, tried running up to the train to get a look inside the final caboose car, with its giant windows and lovely observation deck out the back. He promptly rolled snake eyes AGAIN and ran straight into a tree. XD He managed to peel himself off the ground and take a PROPER look inside the caboose, though, and discovered that it was populated by three “curator” types, writing things down and working on desks and suchlike. Nothing valuable in there with them, though. . . I left it with Silas mulling over this information, and presumably whether or not he wanted to climb atop their train carriage to try and get on the roof (as that was his stated goal before he made his “notice” roll). We’ll see how all THAT goes tomorrow!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – after a little trouble with the weird twisty-turny magical hallways, Alice has actually made it to Regent Strauss’s library – though she’s not quite in yet, I left it with her knocking on the doors. But soon she’ll be inside and get to meet the man in person. *nods* Things coming along slowly but surely!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – easy two-in, two-out today –
A) First up, before my workout, we had Josh Way and his latest – “Fun With Shorts: How the Eye Functions!” A short video on, well, guess. XD It was pretty standard 40s/50s sciencey stuff, talking about the placement of the eye in the eye socket, all the various parts of the eye (Josh was like “isn’t it full of jelly?” and was very pleased to learn he was right – the technical term is “vitreous body”), and how the lens of the eye deforms and changes shape so that we always get a clear picture on the retina on the back of the eye. Nothing too exciting, though Josh’s riffs remained very fun (especially the ending, where he asked if looking at a bright tiny screen inches away from your face for hours at a time counted as taking care of your eyes XD).
B) And second up, after my writing and hot chocolate, we had GrayStillPlays and his latest – “When you kick your boss with 15,000,000 pounds of pressure,” aka Gray plays My “Dear” Boss! This is one of those games where the objective is to kick something and see how far it goes, earning money along the way – in this case, you are a disgusted employee kicking their boss straight out of the office high-rise and as far down the street as he’ll bounce. Along the way, the boss may encounter certain things that may bounce him further and higher – fire hydrants spewing water, cars with crushable hoods, bulldogs with the power of Satan, angry ex-employees armed with bats, protesters looking for a fight, birds with the power of turbo, dynamite attached to balloons for some reason – and the employee can pay to both upgrade these things (making them occur more frequently) and himself (increasing his kick power and equipping new shoes to make his boss’s life even more miserable). The level objectives are first to kick him all the way back to his house, then all the way to the ICU in the hospital, and then finally STRAIGHT INTO HIS OWN GRAVE. XD It’s basically the “had a bad day at work? Then play this” game, and Gray delighted in getting all of the upgrades and marveling at how fast and how far the boss would go. We love to see it! XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Good solid check here –
Victor Luvs Alice – Since I took a personal hour’s delay this morning because of the snow, I used the extra time to catch up on my dash and tracked tags, then finished up my thoughts on using For Rent to turn Alice into the caretaker of Houndsditch in my hypothetical Valicer In The Dark Challenge Save on a reblog of the original post on the subject in my drafts. And then, this afternoon before my workout, I dropped that reblog, my next set of Modern!AU Not Incorrect Valicer quotes, a reblog of someone’s post about how their brain is “you could make an AU out of this” at all times (HARD SAME), and a reblog of someone’s video of some very cool dancing into my queue to cover Wednesday through Saturday! So my queue for this week is all set, yay~
Valice Multiverse – Nothing happening over here, so I found another RP meme to throw into the queue – one particularly well-suited to this blog, as it involves people sending in questions about a muse, and then comparing the answers across different universes. XD We’ll see if anyone decides to hop on that or not!
*nods* Not bad, not bad. Especially glad that I'm all set with my VLA queue for the rest of the week. :) And now it's time to head to bed -- supposed to be really fucking cold tomorrow, so, that'll be fun. *sigh* Seems like a lot of schools are doing a delay too -- guess that'll cut down on traffic in the morning. Assuming our road doesn't freeze and I can actually get to work. We'll see. Night all!
Work – Well, it wasn’t the greatest day – we kept getting little bursts of credit card calls/roster maintenance calls right on top of each other, meaning I kept having whatever I was trying to do at the moment interrupted – but at least it was a little shorter than normal thanks to the weather being absolute shit. I personally came in about an hour late because I wanted to wait for someone to plow our road before going (they didn’t come until AFTER I gave up and left, irritatingly), and we all got out an hour earlier because we were dealing with freezing rain and slush and all that fun stuff on the roads and they wanted to make our commute easier. So yeah – made it in, made it through, made it out, no major problems. And now we just have to see how much of an ice rink we’ll be dealing with tomorrow after all this wet freezes overnight. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Oxventure: Deadlands – “Running Them Down!” After Garnet and Delacey had their chat about her past (with her saying she grew up in a frontier town with her pa, and she’s traveled all over as a croupier/occasional bounty hunter), and Edie got a benny for putting up with Nate’s sleep apnea, the gang arrived at their destination – the bend in the track right by Brittle Brook! Silas took a look around to see if there was anything that could be used to block the track (ignoring Nate wiggling his eyebrows in a very “pick me, pick me” fashion) – he rolled well to notice things, but all he saw were a bunch of very mature, very thick trees on one side of the track, and some rocks on a high ridge on the other. Garnet thus suggested they put the stagecoach itself across the track and fake that Delacey had gotten it stuck there – Delacey, using his new incredible skills at stagecoach driving, managed to drift it easily across the tracks. XD From there, it was agreed that they should do this as quietly as possible (Delacey was okay with going loud if they didn’t have to kill anyone, but Nate pointed out that would be hard with armed guards around), and the plan became that Garnet would ride on ahead once they heard the train and let the driver know there was a stuck stagecoach so they’d have to stop; Delacey would sit on the stagecoach as the “confused kid” who’d gotten them stuck in the first place (though Luke didn’t think Delacey would be a very good actor, so he had him sitting there looking mean as always); Nate would wander around as the “doddering fool” for extra distraction power; and Edie and Silas would hide nearby to sneak onto the train – Edie in the trees on one side, Silas among the rocks on the other. This seemed to be an excellent plan –
Except for the fact that Garnet’s ability to ride horses had gone the way of her old character sheet. As they had some time before the train came, though, Delacey offered to help get her used to one of the stagecoach horses. Andy let them both roll riding –
And they basically both rolled multiple crits, with Luke in particular ending up with three in a row! XD Delacey immediately became the world’s greatest horse whisperer, getting the horse Humble Ned bonded with Garnet and even getting it to do a dressage bow (all while Silas looked on from his place in the rocks in comingled disgust and terror). Garnet was thus able to hop up and hold on without issue when the time came to ride out –
Which was good, because the time to ride out was right then! Yes, dawn was just starting to break, and the sound of the train coming up the line (very slowly, as to not jostle the treasures) alerted everyone to the fact it was showtime. Garnet rode to meet the train and – after a bit of a tense conversation with the driver – managed to persuade him to stop (though there were a LOT of hand gestures indicating he and his assistant HAD been thinking of just going straight through the stagecoach). The train screeched to a halt just shy of the coach, and three armed guards came out of the fourth carriage down the line (just past the two windowless carriages holding the treasures and the tender for the “ghostrock” that fuels the train) to see what was what. Two went around Edie’s side of the train to talk to Garnet about this stuck stagecoach, while one remained on Silas’s side. Silas thus decided to make his move and sneak down to the train –
And rolled SNAKE EYES! AKA a critical fail! Cue Silas, drunk and nervous (from the horses), accidentally causing a very minor landslide and tumbling down the ridge. The guard instantly had him at gunpoint, asking what the hell he was doing there – Silas immediately said that he was being pursued by a white horse with eyes as black as pitch. The guard, as you might imagine, was confused. XD He kept up this story as the other guard went around to see what the hell was going on, and was juuust persuasive enough that the guards believed he was more of a weirdo than a robber and ordered him to run off, which he did. After forcing them to say “please.” XD Edie decided that she might as well try her luck, now that there was only one guard on her side and he was distracted by Garnet, and tried to sneak out –
And, well, she didn’t roll a CRITICAL fail, but she kept rolling normal ones until she was out of bennies. She was thus caught by the head guard, talking to Garnet, who immediately became deeply suspicious of everything going on. Edie tried to claim that she was walking to Brittle Brook for an important meeting, but the guard wasn’t buying it, and insisted on taking both her and Garnet into custody. Delacey looked over at Garnet to see if she needed any assistance, but she gave him a wave and let the guard get her and Edie onto the train, where they were put into a cage (meant to hold valuables, now repurposed as a makeshift jail). They continued trying to make a fuss, but again, the guard wasn’t having it. Damn.
Meanwhile, Silas, having figured he was far enough away that he could come back without incident, tried running up to the train to get a look inside the final caboose car, with its giant windows and lovely observation deck out the back. He promptly rolled snake eyes AGAIN and ran straight into a tree. XD He managed to peel himself off the ground and take a PROPER look inside the caboose, though, and discovered that it was populated by three “curator” types, writing things down and working on desks and suchlike. Nothing valuable in there with them, though. . . I left it with Silas mulling over this information, and presumably whether or not he wanted to climb atop their train carriage to try and get on the roof (as that was his stated goal before he made his “notice” roll). We’ll see how all THAT goes tomorrow!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – after a little trouble with the weird twisty-turny magical hallways, Alice has actually made it to Regent Strauss’s library – though she’s not quite in yet, I left it with her knocking on the doors. But soon she’ll be inside and get to meet the man in person. *nods* Things coming along slowly but surely!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – easy two-in, two-out today –
A) First up, before my workout, we had Josh Way and his latest – “Fun With Shorts: How the Eye Functions!” A short video on, well, guess. XD It was pretty standard 40s/50s sciencey stuff, talking about the placement of the eye in the eye socket, all the various parts of the eye (Josh was like “isn’t it full of jelly?” and was very pleased to learn he was right – the technical term is “vitreous body”), and how the lens of the eye deforms and changes shape so that we always get a clear picture on the retina on the back of the eye. Nothing too exciting, though Josh’s riffs remained very fun (especially the ending, where he asked if looking at a bright tiny screen inches away from your face for hours at a time counted as taking care of your eyes XD).
B) And second up, after my writing and hot chocolate, we had GrayStillPlays and his latest – “When you kick your boss with 15,000,000 pounds of pressure,” aka Gray plays My “Dear” Boss! This is one of those games where the objective is to kick something and see how far it goes, earning money along the way – in this case, you are a disgusted employee kicking their boss straight out of the office high-rise and as far down the street as he’ll bounce. Along the way, the boss may encounter certain things that may bounce him further and higher – fire hydrants spewing water, cars with crushable hoods, bulldogs with the power of Satan, angry ex-employees armed with bats, protesters looking for a fight, birds with the power of turbo, dynamite attached to balloons for some reason – and the employee can pay to both upgrade these things (making them occur more frequently) and himself (increasing his kick power and equipping new shoes to make his boss’s life even more miserable). The level objectives are first to kick him all the way back to his house, then all the way to the ICU in the hospital, and then finally STRAIGHT INTO HIS OWN GRAVE. XD It’s basically the “had a bad day at work? Then play this” game, and Gray delighted in getting all of the upgrades and marveling at how fast and how far the boss would go. We love to see it! XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Good solid check here –
Victor Luvs Alice – Since I took a personal hour’s delay this morning because of the snow, I used the extra time to catch up on my dash and tracked tags, then finished up my thoughts on using For Rent to turn Alice into the caretaker of Houndsditch in my hypothetical Valicer In The Dark Challenge Save on a reblog of the original post on the subject in my drafts. And then, this afternoon before my workout, I dropped that reblog, my next set of Modern!AU Not Incorrect Valicer quotes, a reblog of someone’s post about how their brain is “you could make an AU out of this” at all times (HARD SAME), and a reblog of someone’s video of some very cool dancing into my queue to cover Wednesday through Saturday! So my queue for this week is all set, yay~
Valice Multiverse – Nothing happening over here, so I found another RP meme to throw into the queue – one particularly well-suited to this blog, as it involves people sending in questions about a muse, and then comparing the answers across different universes. XD We’ll see if anyone decides to hop on that or not!
*nods* Not bad, not bad. Especially glad that I'm all set with my VLA queue for the rest of the week. :) And now it's time to head to bed -- supposed to be really fucking cold tomorrow, so, that'll be fun. *sigh* Seems like a lot of schools are doing a delay too -- guess that'll cut down on traffic in the morning. Assuming our road doesn't freeze and I can actually get to work. We'll see. Night all!
