All Right Wednesday
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crossover_chickI'm past the worst point of my period, happily, meaning the brain meats are starting to work normally again, and as days go, while it was fucking cold (seriously, never got above freezing), it wasn't too bad otherwise --
Work – Both a quieter AND a noisier day today – quieter in the sense that we had had less phone calls (I only took two credit card gifts), so I spent most of the day on obituaries; noisier in the sense that the Talky Coworker, who didn’t come in yesterday, was back and yakking up a storm. *sigh* Annoying, but I wouldn’t call the day a complete shitshow, at least. Still glad that it’s a short week and we’re already one day closer to the weekend, though.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, back with Oxventure: Deadlands – “Running Them Down!” Silas did indeed decide to climb atop the curator’s carriage, and fortunately the curse of Snake Eyes was broken long enough for him to use a ladder on the side of the carriage to avoid the big windows and get atop without incident. He lay flat for a moment, getting the lay of the land as he prepared to get over to the carriage where Edie and Garnet were being kept. . .
Cut to Delacey and Nate, being approached by the three guards sent to help them get the stagecoach off the tracks. The guards ordered the two to help them move the coach, and the pair decided to play-act being as helpfully-unhelpful as possible in order to get the guards to do it themselves (in the process, having to put their repeater rifles down). Nate, despite having an advantage in that he was already a hammered doddering old man, did not succeed despite spending a benny (though Andy ruled that his performance, if unconvincing, was also irritating to the guards) –
Delacey, meanwhile, fucking rolled a QUADRUPLE CRIT. His performance was so incredible the guards immediately dismissed him as useless and told him and Nate to stand back as they moved the coach. The guards got into position –
And Delacey immediately pulled his gun on them. He introduced the startled guards to said gun, which he calls Rooster – Mike said “because you just cocked it?” and Luke had to admit that was better than his, which was “when it crows, I know it’s going to be a beautiful morning.” Nate quickly backed him up by unslinging his shotgun, and after a moment where one of the guards thought about going for the rifles and Delacey just BARELY intimidated him into not trying anything, they got some rope out of Nate’s bindle, got one of the guards to tie the other two up, then Nate tied up the third. Nate then NEARLY went to the guard carriage to tell the two remaining guards that one of the guards, Amos, needed help with the coach – fortunately, Johnny realized this was a dumb plan while they were talking, and instead Delacey forced Amos to call the other two out, and bring rope. The remaining two guards were thus lured out, and once again Delacey managed to BARELY intimidate them into giving up their weapons (had to spend a benny for it, though). Nate tied them up as the girls called out their thanks (Garnet did, anyway – Edie hedged her bets and pretended still not to know them XD), and Silas hopped off the roof and went into the guard carriage to free them with the key in there. (It was also established around this point that the train drivers, being old hands at being robbed and caring more about not getting shot than protecting the treasures, had bunked off for a smoke until the robbery was done. XD) Delacey and Nate kept their guns on the guards while Edie, Garnet, and Silas went to try and break into one of the treasure carriages. . .
Only to find it didn’t have a regular door on it – instead, there was a roll-up door, locked with a combination lock. Silas promptly tried 1-2-3-4, reasoning that just MAYBE they hadn’t changed the standard lock combination for whatever reason. He did not roll well enough for this to be the case, and the gang immediately started wondering how he was going to end up blaming horses. XD Garnet wandered over to the captain of the guards to ask him for the combination, but he told her (while wriggling in his bonds) that he didn’t have it – only the curators knew that information. Silas volunteered to get the information, saying he’d handle it with social graces.
He promptly just strode into the caboose car and demanded the information from the three ladies working inside. XD The ladies were naturally rather shocked to find themselves part of a robbery, and it took a couple of tries (and Silas going “don’t make me explain the whole thing about my cage and rattling it” to them) before he was able to successfully intimidate the code out of one of them – 1-2-3-5, as it turns out. An annoyed Silas immediately asked if any of them were horses in disguise. XD He then insisted the lady who gave him the code come and actually open the lock – she was very huffy about it, but did as she was told, revealing a VERY dark room beyond. Silas tried to ask her what the least valuable thing inside was (as he wasn’t really fond of the fact that he was stealing anything, being a former lawman, and wanted to minimize the damage) – the lady refused to help him, though, saying she just hoped he got what was coming to him. He and Edie thus ventured a little farther inside the dark car, Edie lighting a match to illuminate the place a little better. The match revealed a plaque on the wall indicating it was for livestock, a poster indicating that one of the exhibitions was in fact an eight-foot-tall Sasquatch –
AND THE EIGHT-FOOT-TALL SASQUATCH, which was VERY much alive and VERY pissed at having been dragged out of its normal Pacific Northwest habitat to be paraded around on a train. Cue Silas yelling for Nate and Delacey to come help them, and the beginning of combat! Andy drew from a deck of cards to determine initiative order – Edie got the highest card and thus went first.
She immediately screamed in terror and whipped out a tiny derringer pistol to shoot it (making Johnny crack up over how she was using such a small gun on such a big target). While she TECHNICALLY hit the monster, her wimpy little pistol couldn’t penetrate its toughness, and she began babbling apologies while the Sasquatch glared at her. Fortunately, Silas was up next, and he had a PAIR of Colt Peacemakers that he could fire in the same round without penalty. His first shot suffered the same fate as Edie’s – a technical hit, but it didn’t really do any damage (Mike described it as bouncing off the shoulder blade) –
The SECOND hit saw him rolling multiple criticals on his wild die and doing twenty points of damage, inflicting two Wounds on the creature as he shot it straight in the gut. *wince* So the Sasquatch is TECHNICALLY still in the game, but it is very fucked up. We’ll see what happens with Nate, Delacey, and Garnet tomorrow – though I’m pretty sure I saw what Garnet’s going to do to this poor creature in the end-of-year video on everyone’s greatest achievement’s in gaming, and it is NOT pretty. . . XD
2. Continue writing “Start At The Beginning. . .Sort Of”: Check – almost done with editing in the “Discoveries” snippet I posted before, with Nanny having informed everyone (after a tender moment between Victor and Emily) that Victoria’s new husband is a “Lord Barkis” – and Emily being immediately like “Barkis was my murderer’s name, I feel like we should check this out.” And since Alice and Smiler are immediately ride-or-die for this rando they just met and his ghost wife, they’re offering to come along – Smiler to pay for the gondola and help smooth things over with the Everglots; Alice as extra muscle should anything go down. Which, we know it will, but not in the way they’re expecting. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just the one GrayStillPlays video today, “Crossing 100 miles of ice on a bike in GTA 5!” Another Alex Torture Board, though given that it was bicycle-themed, I feel like Danny was at least there in spirit. Gray had to find which of four weirdass bicycles – the Baby-Doll-Head bike, the Chain Treads bike, the Sawblade Wheels bike, or the Spiky Ornament Wheels bike – could make it past a challenge filled with ice, snow, and pain. Specifically, he had to make it past –
I. Revenge Of The Crazy RC Snowmen – a length of road with some Christmas trees at the end, firing RC card snowmen at Gray at such high speeds he would be immediately smacked off the board if hit by one. And there were a LOT of RC snowmen to dodge. And they were at least SOMEWHAT heat-seeking. And a helicopter showed up at one point and started shooting him for reasons unknown to God or man. XD Lot to deal with here for poor Gray!
II. Windmill Blizzard – a length of road shrouded in an inescapable blizzard, where Gray had to dodge both regular humps in the road AND whirling windmill blades to get to the end and turn the nice weather back on. Of course, the miserable weather made it hard to see anything until he was nearly on top of it, and the windmills were scattered all over the place for maximum life ruinage – and oh, did I mention this course was timed? And he had to do it in 45 seconds? XD Damn, Alex. . .
III. Growing Rapid Icy Gaps – a bunch of closely-spaced, gradually-getting-bigger gaps that Gray had to jump. This one was actually pretty simple compared to what came before and after – Gray got the timing of the jumps down pretty much immediately, and got it done first try the first time he got there. Little breather level for him!
IV. Shifting Iceberg Roards (misspelling Alex's) – and then it was back to hell, with a bunch of spinning and twisting road sections that Gray had to figure out how to cross (pedaling like mad to avoid being thrown off the side and minced up in the interior of the board), followed by a giant gap that could only be crossed in the ten seconds that a rotating chunk of road came up from the ground and spun into place. Or, if you’re Gray, by falling off the side on your first attempt, then realizing that you could bike to the end and find a way to ride the rising road up and transfer onto the actual road surface at the end to make the final gap and finish the challenge. XD We do love it when Gray finds a legit way to cheat!
V. Reverse Avalanche – the grand finale, a big ass hill that Gray had to bike down while festive cars and trucks were shot up at him at light speed from a UFO platform at the bottom. Think the bigger, meaner brother of the RC snowmen at the beginning. This one often sent him straight up flying off the board – good thing Alex didn’t put any invisible walls around the course so he could run to wherever his bike had ended up, grab it, and then bike back to the spot where the final chunklet of road rose up at the end of the Shifting Iceberg Roads section to ride that back up to victory (and avoid having to reset and do the entire board again).
So, which bike actually won the day? Well, Chain Treads and Baby-Doll-Head were both eliminated early – while they could make it past the snowmen, neither had the speed to beat the Windmill Blizzard in the time limit. The Sawblade Wheels bike did pretty well, getting all the way to the Shifting Iceberg Roads. . .but it simply didn’t have the speed to keep up with all of the shifting sections AND actually make it across the path. Meaning the winner, with its BMX frame and thus best handling, was the Spiky Ornament Wheels bike! Though there was VERY NEARLY an upset when Gray, having been flung off the board near some people on motorized dirt bikes, shot one and stole his bike to try and complete the challenge. He got to the hill, and it got knocked out from under him VERY quickly. XD But he had to give it a go, for Science! And to say “screw you, Alex!” XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A on the actual queuing of posts – I just had to worry about Victor Luvs Alice tonight, and I’m all set on that for the week – but I DID manage to get all of my pictures sorted for the upcoming Chill Valicer Save update next week! Bit of a shorter one at just 65 pictures – yeah, just 65 pictures. XD But hey, now they’re all set!
*nods* I'm pretty pleased with that, all things considered. :) And now it is time for me to head to bed and snuggle under the covers away from this cold until it's time to get up and do the whole song-and-dance again. Hopefully tomorrow it warms up a little bit. . .night all!
Work – Both a quieter AND a noisier day today – quieter in the sense that we had had less phone calls (I only took two credit card gifts), so I spent most of the day on obituaries; noisier in the sense that the Talky Coworker, who didn’t come in yesterday, was back and yakking up a storm. *sigh* Annoying, but I wouldn’t call the day a complete shitshow, at least. Still glad that it’s a short week and we’re already one day closer to the weekend, though.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, back with Oxventure: Deadlands – “Running Them Down!” Silas did indeed decide to climb atop the curator’s carriage, and fortunately the curse of Snake Eyes was broken long enough for him to use a ladder on the side of the carriage to avoid the big windows and get atop without incident. He lay flat for a moment, getting the lay of the land as he prepared to get over to the carriage where Edie and Garnet were being kept. . .
Cut to Delacey and Nate, being approached by the three guards sent to help them get the stagecoach off the tracks. The guards ordered the two to help them move the coach, and the pair decided to play-act being as helpfully-unhelpful as possible in order to get the guards to do it themselves (in the process, having to put their repeater rifles down). Nate, despite having an advantage in that he was already a hammered doddering old man, did not succeed despite spending a benny (though Andy ruled that his performance, if unconvincing, was also irritating to the guards) –
Delacey, meanwhile, fucking rolled a QUADRUPLE CRIT. His performance was so incredible the guards immediately dismissed him as useless and told him and Nate to stand back as they moved the coach. The guards got into position –
And Delacey immediately pulled his gun on them. He introduced the startled guards to said gun, which he calls Rooster – Mike said “because you just cocked it?” and Luke had to admit that was better than his, which was “when it crows, I know it’s going to be a beautiful morning.” Nate quickly backed him up by unslinging his shotgun, and after a moment where one of the guards thought about going for the rifles and Delacey just BARELY intimidated him into not trying anything, they got some rope out of Nate’s bindle, got one of the guards to tie the other two up, then Nate tied up the third. Nate then NEARLY went to the guard carriage to tell the two remaining guards that one of the guards, Amos, needed help with the coach – fortunately, Johnny realized this was a dumb plan while they were talking, and instead Delacey forced Amos to call the other two out, and bring rope. The remaining two guards were thus lured out, and once again Delacey managed to BARELY intimidate them into giving up their weapons (had to spend a benny for it, though). Nate tied them up as the girls called out their thanks (Garnet did, anyway – Edie hedged her bets and pretended still not to know them XD), and Silas hopped off the roof and went into the guard carriage to free them with the key in there. (It was also established around this point that the train drivers, being old hands at being robbed and caring more about not getting shot than protecting the treasures, had bunked off for a smoke until the robbery was done. XD) Delacey and Nate kept their guns on the guards while Edie, Garnet, and Silas went to try and break into one of the treasure carriages. . .
Only to find it didn’t have a regular door on it – instead, there was a roll-up door, locked with a combination lock. Silas promptly tried 1-2-3-4, reasoning that just MAYBE they hadn’t changed the standard lock combination for whatever reason. He did not roll well enough for this to be the case, and the gang immediately started wondering how he was going to end up blaming horses. XD Garnet wandered over to the captain of the guards to ask him for the combination, but he told her (while wriggling in his bonds) that he didn’t have it – only the curators knew that information. Silas volunteered to get the information, saying he’d handle it with social graces.
He promptly just strode into the caboose car and demanded the information from the three ladies working inside. XD The ladies were naturally rather shocked to find themselves part of a robbery, and it took a couple of tries (and Silas going “don’t make me explain the whole thing about my cage and rattling it” to them) before he was able to successfully intimidate the code out of one of them – 1-2-3-5, as it turns out. An annoyed Silas immediately asked if any of them were horses in disguise. XD He then insisted the lady who gave him the code come and actually open the lock – she was very huffy about it, but did as she was told, revealing a VERY dark room beyond. Silas tried to ask her what the least valuable thing inside was (as he wasn’t really fond of the fact that he was stealing anything, being a former lawman, and wanted to minimize the damage) – the lady refused to help him, though, saying she just hoped he got what was coming to him. He and Edie thus ventured a little farther inside the dark car, Edie lighting a match to illuminate the place a little better. The match revealed a plaque on the wall indicating it was for livestock, a poster indicating that one of the exhibitions was in fact an eight-foot-tall Sasquatch –
AND THE EIGHT-FOOT-TALL SASQUATCH, which was VERY much alive and VERY pissed at having been dragged out of its normal Pacific Northwest habitat to be paraded around on a train. Cue Silas yelling for Nate and Delacey to come help them, and the beginning of combat! Andy drew from a deck of cards to determine initiative order – Edie got the highest card and thus went first.
She immediately screamed in terror and whipped out a tiny derringer pistol to shoot it (making Johnny crack up over how she was using such a small gun on such a big target). While she TECHNICALLY hit the monster, her wimpy little pistol couldn’t penetrate its toughness, and she began babbling apologies while the Sasquatch glared at her. Fortunately, Silas was up next, and he had a PAIR of Colt Peacemakers that he could fire in the same round without penalty. His first shot suffered the same fate as Edie’s – a technical hit, but it didn’t really do any damage (Mike described it as bouncing off the shoulder blade) –
The SECOND hit saw him rolling multiple criticals on his wild die and doing twenty points of damage, inflicting two Wounds on the creature as he shot it straight in the gut. *wince* So the Sasquatch is TECHNICALLY still in the game, but it is very fucked up. We’ll see what happens with Nate, Delacey, and Garnet tomorrow – though I’m pretty sure I saw what Garnet’s going to do to this poor creature in the end-of-year video on everyone’s greatest achievement’s in gaming, and it is NOT pretty. . . XD
2. Continue writing “Start At The Beginning. . .Sort Of”: Check – almost done with editing in the “Discoveries” snippet I posted before, with Nanny having informed everyone (after a tender moment between Victor and Emily) that Victoria’s new husband is a “Lord Barkis” – and Emily being immediately like “Barkis was my murderer’s name, I feel like we should check this out.” And since Alice and Smiler are immediately ride-or-die for this rando they just met and his ghost wife, they’re offering to come along – Smiler to pay for the gondola and help smooth things over with the Everglots; Alice as extra muscle should anything go down. Which, we know it will, but not in the way they’re expecting. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – just the one GrayStillPlays video today, “Crossing 100 miles of ice on a bike in GTA 5!” Another Alex Torture Board, though given that it was bicycle-themed, I feel like Danny was at least there in spirit. Gray had to find which of four weirdass bicycles – the Baby-Doll-Head bike, the Chain Treads bike, the Sawblade Wheels bike, or the Spiky Ornament Wheels bike – could make it past a challenge filled with ice, snow, and pain. Specifically, he had to make it past –
I. Revenge Of The Crazy RC Snowmen – a length of road with some Christmas trees at the end, firing RC card snowmen at Gray at such high speeds he would be immediately smacked off the board if hit by one. And there were a LOT of RC snowmen to dodge. And they were at least SOMEWHAT heat-seeking. And a helicopter showed up at one point and started shooting him for reasons unknown to God or man. XD Lot to deal with here for poor Gray!
II. Windmill Blizzard – a length of road shrouded in an inescapable blizzard, where Gray had to dodge both regular humps in the road AND whirling windmill blades to get to the end and turn the nice weather back on. Of course, the miserable weather made it hard to see anything until he was nearly on top of it, and the windmills were scattered all over the place for maximum life ruinage – and oh, did I mention this course was timed? And he had to do it in 45 seconds? XD Damn, Alex. . .
III. Growing Rapid Icy Gaps – a bunch of closely-spaced, gradually-getting-bigger gaps that Gray had to jump. This one was actually pretty simple compared to what came before and after – Gray got the timing of the jumps down pretty much immediately, and got it done first try the first time he got there. Little breather level for him!
IV. Shifting Iceberg Roards (misspelling Alex's) – and then it was back to hell, with a bunch of spinning and twisting road sections that Gray had to figure out how to cross (pedaling like mad to avoid being thrown off the side and minced up in the interior of the board), followed by a giant gap that could only be crossed in the ten seconds that a rotating chunk of road came up from the ground and spun into place. Or, if you’re Gray, by falling off the side on your first attempt, then realizing that you could bike to the end and find a way to ride the rising road up and transfer onto the actual road surface at the end to make the final gap and finish the challenge. XD We do love it when Gray finds a legit way to cheat!
V. Reverse Avalanche – the grand finale, a big ass hill that Gray had to bike down while festive cars and trucks were shot up at him at light speed from a UFO platform at the bottom. Think the bigger, meaner brother of the RC snowmen at the beginning. This one often sent him straight up flying off the board – good thing Alex didn’t put any invisible walls around the course so he could run to wherever his bike had ended up, grab it, and then bike back to the spot where the final chunklet of road rose up at the end of the Shifting Iceberg Roads section to ride that back up to victory (and avoid having to reset and do the entire board again).
So, which bike actually won the day? Well, Chain Treads and Baby-Doll-Head were both eliminated early – while they could make it past the snowmen, neither had the speed to beat the Windmill Blizzard in the time limit. The Sawblade Wheels bike did pretty well, getting all the way to the Shifting Iceberg Roads. . .but it simply didn’t have the speed to keep up with all of the shifting sections AND actually make it across the path. Meaning the winner, with its BMX frame and thus best handling, was the Spiky Ornament Wheels bike! Though there was VERY NEARLY an upset when Gray, having been flung off the board near some people on motorized dirt bikes, shot one and stole his bike to try and complete the challenge. He got to the hill, and it got knocked out from under him VERY quickly. XD But he had to give it a go, for Science! And to say “screw you, Alex!” XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A on the actual queuing of posts – I just had to worry about Victor Luvs Alice tonight, and I’m all set on that for the week – but I DID manage to get all of my pictures sorted for the upcoming Chill Valicer Save update next week! Bit of a shorter one at just 65 pictures – yeah, just 65 pictures. XD But hey, now they’re all set!
*nods* I'm pretty pleased with that, all things considered. :) And now it is time for me to head to bed and snuggle under the covers away from this cold until it's time to get up and do the whole song-and-dance again. Hopefully tomorrow it warms up a little bit. . .night all!
