Shitty End To My Long Weekend
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crossover_chickYeah, uh, this was FAR from a relaxing President's Day off, let me tell you. Managed to get everything important done, but -- well, you'll see when you see the second entry on my to-do list:
Tumblr: Being as it was Monday today, I only had Victor Luvs Alice to worry about, and I spent my morning there productively – caught up on my dash and my tracked tags (nothing new I wanted to reblog in any of them, though – in fact, I spent more time reporting more porn bots lurking in a few of them), then headed into my drafts and got the image alt text done on my remaining three Chill Valicer Save update posts! :) So those are now all ready to go for Wednesday, yay. AND, since I had a little extra time, I was also able to draft out the “happy birthday here is fic” post for my RP partner Marie for her birthday on Friday. :) So that’s most of this week’s queueing more or less sorted – just gotta pick stuff for Thursday and Saturday now!
Oil Change/Taxes: Well, I’m glad I got my tumblr stuff done before lunch, because the oil change was a shitshow. >( Mom and I got to the dealership shortly before my 1:20 PM appointment, figuring that we’d just sit there and wait until the job was done. The guy said it SHOULD take about a half hour, but they’d gotten really busy, so it was going to be more like an hour, so we found chairs and got on our phones. . .
And didn’t end up leaving until around 3:30 PM because apparently they’d gotten THAT BACKED UP. >( And they couldn’t rotate my tires because they couldn’t find the wheel lock (a special key for a special lugnut on the tires – you can’t take them off without it. Meaning they made us think briefly they’d sold us a car that didn’t come with one, meaning we couldn’t take the tires off if necessary – fortunately Mom found it in the trunk at home). AND, worst of all, the asshole we spoke to insisted on charging me $108 dollars for the oil change because apparently I hadn’t put enough mileage on the car between visits, when I knew that they’d promised me five years of FREE oil changes when I bought the car. I had to pay to get out of the dealership, but once we got home I got all my paperwork and was able to PROVE that they had promised me the free oil changes for five years, no mileage requirements needed, and had NOT charged me for the two previous ones. So Mom called the manager, and the manager will be sending a check for $108 to refund me. >( As you might imagine, we’re NEVER stepping foot in that fucking dealership ever again – I’ll go to another place for any future oil changes. Or let Dad show me how to do one.
As for the taxes – well, the whole thing with the oil change nonsense took up most of the afternoon, but I was able to get those sorted and filed in the five o’clock hour, right before my workout. I’m lucky that my taxes tend to be fairly simple, so it doesn’t take long to get them done. Just glad to have them out of the way so I don’t have to worry about them during any upcoming weekends!
Writing: Got another page of edits on “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland” tonight, with Alice finishing her elevator ride with Van and Terrence (and learning that while Anarchs probably don’t CALL “Elysium” that, they probably do still have it – and that her haven counts as one) and finding herself once again getting into a certain cabbie’s cab to get back to Santa Monica to go snooping on the Dane. She is already like “is this dude the only cabbie in the city.” XD Next up, a VERY cheerful reunion with a VERY grateful Mercurio – dude is going to make sure to hook her up with the good stuff going forward. :)
YouTube: Only got in my one Subs video tonight – GrayStillPlays and “How far can a car with wings climb up the steps in GTA 5?” Yes, we had a return to the stair-based Alex Torture Boards this evening, featuring an array of normal cars (including my beloved Wastelander), one horrific super-car/jet hybrid (basically the pink super-car with wings and a jet engine boost strapped to the back), and the following sets of stairs –
I. Uneven Hay Stairs – Exactly what it said on the tin, a staircase made up of unevenly-stacked hale bales (and four cows that very much did not want to be there). Murder on the tires of most vehicles unless they were made for off-roading!
II. L Turn Staircase – A timed challenge where Gray had to get down and around an L-shaped staircase in a mere nine seconds. This one was all about the drift, baby – except for those times where it was all about climbing over the final wall in defiance of God and Alex. XD
III. Steepering Stairs – A set of stairs that started out at the bottom tall and wide, and gradually got smaller and smaller until Gray was basically trying to get up a sheer wall at the very top, the stairs too shallow to admit even a single tire. THIS one was the run killer for all but two cars, and Gray loudly made his displeasure known. Both about the difficulty of the challenge and the stupid name. XD
IV. Chassis Grind Staircase – This one was mean – basically, this one was a chassis slide tightrope that was also a set of stairs – that is, it bumped down periodically on the way to the checkpoint and the final challenge. For this one, if you stopped anywhere on the tightrope, you weren’t going ANYWHERE unless you had a boost.
V. Scooping Staircase – And the final challenge, beyond the checkpoint – a set of stairs that was constantly “scooping” the asphalt at the top of the course, meaning they kept moving forward and up, then backward and down as Gray tried to ascend them. And if you know anything about GTA, you know it’s very hard to stay on a platform that is moving under you! Oh, and did I mention this one was timed? If Gray didn’t get up there within the (unknown) limit, he was faced with a big old red wall between him and the win. Very frustrating!
So – how far CAN a car with wings climb up the steps in GTA V? The answer is “all the way, though we can’t really call what this thing does ‘climbing.’” XD Yes, after getting almost every car stuck at the top of the Steepering Stairs (they defeated the Wastelander! The fucking WASTELANDER!), and then leaping the pick-up truck over the top of them, only to get it stuck on the chassis grind, Gray cracked and used the horrible jet-car he hadn’t wanted to touch. Getting it to the end of the challenge was an experience, as every time it boosted, it basically tried to fly off in a random direction, but once Gray managed to get it aimed up and going the way he wanted it to go – well, why worry about walls when you can just fly over them? XD Even the final, taller wall going up at the end of the Scooping Stairs couldn’t stop him – he just hopped back on the staircase, rode it to the top, and hit the boost to fly over it and into the win! So, basically, this was a board that could really only be won by cheating. XD Well, it’s certainly a different way to conquer those stairs, that’s for certain!
Workout: Another night on the bike, starting the next episode of Oxventure: Deadlands, “More Wonders Than There Are In The Heavens, Part I!” This was the first part of the final bounty, and started with Delacy wandering around trying to find Nate in Victoria’s house and stumbling across Edie instead. She informed him that she hadn’t seen him recently, then recalled that he’d gone with Silas and Garnet to Fort Parker to check off another bounty (as per the previous two episodes) – and that Delacy probably wasn’t going to be able to catch up with him. Delacy was rather worried about his new substitute grandfather figure, but Edie assured him that she was sure Nate could pull himself out of any scrape he found himself in, and Delacy had to agree – after all, Nate had pulled himself out of his own damn coffin. He was struggling to find a way to end the conversation (not always being sure how to talk to grown-ups – remember, Delacy’s canonically thirteen) –
When Victoria walked in, ready to tell them about the final bounty! After a few rounds of “obliged” from an awkward Delacy, she unrolled the wanted poster to reveal a pale, angular woman with long straight black hair called Hildegarde – or, these days, “Aunt Hildy.” Yes, in a twist, Victoria knew EXACTLY where Hildy was, and what she was doing – the brains of the old Red Hand gang had gotten into marketing after leaving the overtly-criminal life, and was now the face of the Fulton family of products, ranging from pancake mix to spray cleaners. Their main way of making money was to undercut all competition with their prices and drive other brands out of business – mostly because their actual products weren’t very good (at least if you believed Victoria, who said she tried the pancake mix and was hungry again twenty minutes later). But they did a lot of marketing with Aunt Hildy – and as luck would have it, their biggest event, The World Hyperion Fair (with “more wonders than there are in the heavens”) was happening over in New Geth (not the full name of the town, but I wasn’t able to make out the last word) that very day! Giving the pair a perfect opportunity to murder Aunt Hildy, who apparently otherwise never leaves the corporate offices. Victoria had even secured them some help in the form of a contact who would be near the fair –
One “Bison Billie” Joe, lead of one of the best Wild West shows in the, well, west! Delacy, who had a poster of one of Bison Billie’s shows above his bed back at the farm and had heard a LOT about the guy from his relatives growing up, was immediately starstruck to the point where Edie and Victoria worried he’d taken ill from how pale he’d gotten from the shock of being able to meet his idol. He assured them that he’d be fine, and Victoria provided them with train tickets and told them that she hoped they got a chance to enjoy the fair before they got on with their deadly business. Edie said she hoped so too, as she was looking forward to having some cotton candy –
Cue Delacy being like “what’s that?” And then being so suspicious of her description of the stuff that Andy had them make opposed rolls to see if Edie could convince Delacy that was a thing. XD One good Persuasion roll from Edie later, she HAD convinced Delacy it was real, but Delacy was now like “well, if this stuff is so good, why can’t we eat it all the time, why am I bothering eating chicken–”
Cut to Edie and Delacy on the train, with Edie STILL trying to explain to Delacy that cotton candy is NOT the kind of food that actually fills you up properly and you still needed to eat other things. XD Fortunately they reached their stop before the argument could progress any further, and the pair got off at the fair, which was a big, sprawling thing complete with temporary buildings and tents for exhibits and a Ferris Wheel over by the water (which Delacy mistook for a poorly-designed windmill). The pair got their tickets to go in (Delacy insisting on paying an adult price, just glaring at the ticketman who tried to get him to admit he was a kid until he gave up and accepted their dollar), then began looking around at everything on display. In addition to various vendors for Fulton products wandering around and sharing samples, there were stands for the usual carnival games and displays and whatnot –
Including a Hall of Oddities, which claimed to include Wild Bill Hickok’s severed hand. An astonished Delacy was VERY excited and insisted that they go in, but Edie tried to calm him down by saying that it might not be the REAL hand at all. Much like telling him about cotton candy, this was a mistake, as he was then very upset that the barker was apparently just allowed to lie about such things. He muscled his way up to said barker and accused him of not having the real hand – the barker assured him and Edie that they did, and got them to pay ten cents each for a look inside the tent (Edie very annoyed there was an additional fee to go inside; Delacy promising the barker that if he determined that hand was a fake. . .well, the barker just shouldn’t be there when he came out). They thus headed inside, passing by things like the Fiji mermaid (a monkey skeleton welded to a fish skeleton) and Insect Lad (a plaster cast of someone with three legs) before coming across a severed hand floating in alcohol, holding a poker hand. Delacy hopped the rope and examined the hand for the kind of calluses you got by doing fancy shooting –
Aaand – yeah, the hand did indeed have the calluses in the right spot! Delacy was like “huh” and then got upset with Edie for apparently lying to him about them NOT having the hand. Edie defended herself by saying she only said they MIGHT not have it, and pointed out the Fiji mermaid as an obvious hoax they were peddling. . .only to run up against Delacy demanding to know what mermaids DID look like then. XD Fortunately the shout of someone selling cotton candy outside gave her the perfect excuse to grab Delacy and drag him out of there before she had to answer any more awkward questions. She got them each a bag – and since the foodstuff was new to Delacy, Andy made him do a Vigor roll to see how he handled eating pure sugar.
One failed roll later, Delacy was having his very first sugar rush and going all motormouth on the poor cotton candy seller, demanding to know if he worked for Fulton (he did not, he worked for the fair itself) and if he’d heard of Bison Billie and where Bison Billie’s tent was. As it turned out, Bison Billie wasn’t actually part of the fair – he was just next to it, having set up his own tent nearby. The cotton candy seller assured the two that they could go see his show and then come back into the fair later, though – the people at the entrance would stamp their hand as they left. Delacy was like “what? No! I need this hand” until Edie managed to explain that it was RUBBER stamps. XD With that knowledge in hand, Edie asked Delacy if he wanted to go straight over to Bison Billie’s tent – Delacy, however, in an uncharacteristic display of kindness, asked Edie what SHE wanted to do first. Edie was all for getting on the Ferris wheel, saying that it would be fun AND provide a fantastic view of the place. Delacy was game, and so the two headed over and – after two excellent Athletics rolls – hopped on! Once they were at the top, they were indeed able to see over to Bison Billie’s tent – Delacy was even able to spot the figure of Billie’s famous horse Buckthorn milling in the paddock nearby! Though he got briefly confused and thought the horse was a lot tinier than he’d heard, at least until Edie reminded him that distance was a thing. XD Having seen the tent, Delacy decided he’d had enough of the ride (not being impressed) and – after trying to yell down that they were done – hopped off the ride after one rotation, telling the others waiting they could have the next rotation and to only look off to one side each go. XD Edie followed, and they headed out of the fair, with Edie snagging a sample of a Fulton beef broth drink to sample on the way. She was not impressed, as not only did the drink have a weird aftertaste, it left her feeling oddly hollow inside. . .
But it wasn’t time to worry about that now – it was time to head over and see Bison Billie! The two thus made their way over to his tent, where they met the ticket-seller at the entrance. He told them that they could pay for their tickets now, but the actual show wouldn’t be until later, as Billie was currently getting the performers ready. Edie turned on the charm and asked if, as an equestrian, she could get a bit of an early tour, adding that Delacy was a huge fan of Billie’s. The ticket-seller, taken in by her attractiveness, offered them early access for five dollars – Edie fluttering her lashes and Delacy putting a hand on his beloved gun Rooster convinced him to take three, however. XD They promised not to do anything to stop the show happening (which the ticket-seller found suspicious, understandably XD), and I left it with them entering the main tent. Looking forward to meeting Billie and seeing what shenanigans erupt!
Soo -- yeah. Lost most of my day to scammy mechanics, and now I am in a lovely bad mood for going back to work tomorrow. Which I guess at least makes me prepared for whatever nonsense I might face after being away for four days. *sigh* We'll see what happens, I guess. . .night all!
Tumblr: Being as it was Monday today, I only had Victor Luvs Alice to worry about, and I spent my morning there productively – caught up on my dash and my tracked tags (nothing new I wanted to reblog in any of them, though – in fact, I spent more time reporting more porn bots lurking in a few of them), then headed into my drafts and got the image alt text done on my remaining three Chill Valicer Save update posts! :) So those are now all ready to go for Wednesday, yay. AND, since I had a little extra time, I was also able to draft out the “happy birthday here is fic” post for my RP partner Marie for her birthday on Friday. :) So that’s most of this week’s queueing more or less sorted – just gotta pick stuff for Thursday and Saturday now!
Oil Change/Taxes: Well, I’m glad I got my tumblr stuff done before lunch, because the oil change was a shitshow. >( Mom and I got to the dealership shortly before my 1:20 PM appointment, figuring that we’d just sit there and wait until the job was done. The guy said it SHOULD take about a half hour, but they’d gotten really busy, so it was going to be more like an hour, so we found chairs and got on our phones. . .
And didn’t end up leaving until around 3:30 PM because apparently they’d gotten THAT BACKED UP. >( And they couldn’t rotate my tires because they couldn’t find the wheel lock (a special key for a special lugnut on the tires – you can’t take them off without it. Meaning they made us think briefly they’d sold us a car that didn’t come with one, meaning we couldn’t take the tires off if necessary – fortunately Mom found it in the trunk at home). AND, worst of all, the asshole we spoke to insisted on charging me $108 dollars for the oil change because apparently I hadn’t put enough mileage on the car between visits, when I knew that they’d promised me five years of FREE oil changes when I bought the car. I had to pay to get out of the dealership, but once we got home I got all my paperwork and was able to PROVE that they had promised me the free oil changes for five years, no mileage requirements needed, and had NOT charged me for the two previous ones. So Mom called the manager, and the manager will be sending a check for $108 to refund me. >( As you might imagine, we’re NEVER stepping foot in that fucking dealership ever again – I’ll go to another place for any future oil changes. Or let Dad show me how to do one.
As for the taxes – well, the whole thing with the oil change nonsense took up most of the afternoon, but I was able to get those sorted and filed in the five o’clock hour, right before my workout. I’m lucky that my taxes tend to be fairly simple, so it doesn’t take long to get them done. Just glad to have them out of the way so I don’t have to worry about them during any upcoming weekends!
Writing: Got another page of edits on “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland” tonight, with Alice finishing her elevator ride with Van and Terrence (and learning that while Anarchs probably don’t CALL “Elysium” that, they probably do still have it – and that her haven counts as one) and finding herself once again getting into a certain cabbie’s cab to get back to Santa Monica to go snooping on the Dane. She is already like “is this dude the only cabbie in the city.” XD Next up, a VERY cheerful reunion with a VERY grateful Mercurio – dude is going to make sure to hook her up with the good stuff going forward. :)
YouTube: Only got in my one Subs video tonight – GrayStillPlays and “How far can a car with wings climb up the steps in GTA 5?” Yes, we had a return to the stair-based Alex Torture Boards this evening, featuring an array of normal cars (including my beloved Wastelander), one horrific super-car/jet hybrid (basically the pink super-car with wings and a jet engine boost strapped to the back), and the following sets of stairs –
I. Uneven Hay Stairs – Exactly what it said on the tin, a staircase made up of unevenly-stacked hale bales (and four cows that very much did not want to be there). Murder on the tires of most vehicles unless they were made for off-roading!
II. L Turn Staircase – A timed challenge where Gray had to get down and around an L-shaped staircase in a mere nine seconds. This one was all about the drift, baby – except for those times where it was all about climbing over the final wall in defiance of God and Alex. XD
III. Steepering Stairs – A set of stairs that started out at the bottom tall and wide, and gradually got smaller and smaller until Gray was basically trying to get up a sheer wall at the very top, the stairs too shallow to admit even a single tire. THIS one was the run killer for all but two cars, and Gray loudly made his displeasure known. Both about the difficulty of the challenge and the stupid name. XD
IV. Chassis Grind Staircase – This one was mean – basically, this one was a chassis slide tightrope that was also a set of stairs – that is, it bumped down periodically on the way to the checkpoint and the final challenge. For this one, if you stopped anywhere on the tightrope, you weren’t going ANYWHERE unless you had a boost.
V. Scooping Staircase – And the final challenge, beyond the checkpoint – a set of stairs that was constantly “scooping” the asphalt at the top of the course, meaning they kept moving forward and up, then backward and down as Gray tried to ascend them. And if you know anything about GTA, you know it’s very hard to stay on a platform that is moving under you! Oh, and did I mention this one was timed? If Gray didn’t get up there within the (unknown) limit, he was faced with a big old red wall between him and the win. Very frustrating!
So – how far CAN a car with wings climb up the steps in GTA V? The answer is “all the way, though we can’t really call what this thing does ‘climbing.’” XD Yes, after getting almost every car stuck at the top of the Steepering Stairs (they defeated the Wastelander! The fucking WASTELANDER!), and then leaping the pick-up truck over the top of them, only to get it stuck on the chassis grind, Gray cracked and used the horrible jet-car he hadn’t wanted to touch. Getting it to the end of the challenge was an experience, as every time it boosted, it basically tried to fly off in a random direction, but once Gray managed to get it aimed up and going the way he wanted it to go – well, why worry about walls when you can just fly over them? XD Even the final, taller wall going up at the end of the Scooping Stairs couldn’t stop him – he just hopped back on the staircase, rode it to the top, and hit the boost to fly over it and into the win! So, basically, this was a board that could really only be won by cheating. XD Well, it’s certainly a different way to conquer those stairs, that’s for certain!
Workout: Another night on the bike, starting the next episode of Oxventure: Deadlands, “More Wonders Than There Are In The Heavens, Part I!” This was the first part of the final bounty, and started with Delacy wandering around trying to find Nate in Victoria’s house and stumbling across Edie instead. She informed him that she hadn’t seen him recently, then recalled that he’d gone with Silas and Garnet to Fort Parker to check off another bounty (as per the previous two episodes) – and that Delacy probably wasn’t going to be able to catch up with him. Delacy was rather worried about his new substitute grandfather figure, but Edie assured him that she was sure Nate could pull himself out of any scrape he found himself in, and Delacy had to agree – after all, Nate had pulled himself out of his own damn coffin. He was struggling to find a way to end the conversation (not always being sure how to talk to grown-ups – remember, Delacy’s canonically thirteen) –
When Victoria walked in, ready to tell them about the final bounty! After a few rounds of “obliged” from an awkward Delacy, she unrolled the wanted poster to reveal a pale, angular woman with long straight black hair called Hildegarde – or, these days, “Aunt Hildy.” Yes, in a twist, Victoria knew EXACTLY where Hildy was, and what she was doing – the brains of the old Red Hand gang had gotten into marketing after leaving the overtly-criminal life, and was now the face of the Fulton family of products, ranging from pancake mix to spray cleaners. Their main way of making money was to undercut all competition with their prices and drive other brands out of business – mostly because their actual products weren’t very good (at least if you believed Victoria, who said she tried the pancake mix and was hungry again twenty minutes later). But they did a lot of marketing with Aunt Hildy – and as luck would have it, their biggest event, The World Hyperion Fair (with “more wonders than there are in the heavens”) was happening over in New Geth (not the full name of the town, but I wasn’t able to make out the last word) that very day! Giving the pair a perfect opportunity to murder Aunt Hildy, who apparently otherwise never leaves the corporate offices. Victoria had even secured them some help in the form of a contact who would be near the fair –
One “Bison Billie” Joe, lead of one of the best Wild West shows in the, well, west! Delacy, who had a poster of one of Bison Billie’s shows above his bed back at the farm and had heard a LOT about the guy from his relatives growing up, was immediately starstruck to the point where Edie and Victoria worried he’d taken ill from how pale he’d gotten from the shock of being able to meet his idol. He assured them that he’d be fine, and Victoria provided them with train tickets and told them that she hoped they got a chance to enjoy the fair before they got on with their deadly business. Edie said she hoped so too, as she was looking forward to having some cotton candy –
Cue Delacy being like “what’s that?” And then being so suspicious of her description of the stuff that Andy had them make opposed rolls to see if Edie could convince Delacy that was a thing. XD One good Persuasion roll from Edie later, she HAD convinced Delacy it was real, but Delacy was now like “well, if this stuff is so good, why can’t we eat it all the time, why am I bothering eating chicken–”
Cut to Edie and Delacy on the train, with Edie STILL trying to explain to Delacy that cotton candy is NOT the kind of food that actually fills you up properly and you still needed to eat other things. XD Fortunately they reached their stop before the argument could progress any further, and the pair got off at the fair, which was a big, sprawling thing complete with temporary buildings and tents for exhibits and a Ferris Wheel over by the water (which Delacy mistook for a poorly-designed windmill). The pair got their tickets to go in (Delacy insisting on paying an adult price, just glaring at the ticketman who tried to get him to admit he was a kid until he gave up and accepted their dollar), then began looking around at everything on display. In addition to various vendors for Fulton products wandering around and sharing samples, there were stands for the usual carnival games and displays and whatnot –
Including a Hall of Oddities, which claimed to include Wild Bill Hickok’s severed hand. An astonished Delacy was VERY excited and insisted that they go in, but Edie tried to calm him down by saying that it might not be the REAL hand at all. Much like telling him about cotton candy, this was a mistake, as he was then very upset that the barker was apparently just allowed to lie about such things. He muscled his way up to said barker and accused him of not having the real hand – the barker assured him and Edie that they did, and got them to pay ten cents each for a look inside the tent (Edie very annoyed there was an additional fee to go inside; Delacy promising the barker that if he determined that hand was a fake. . .well, the barker just shouldn’t be there when he came out). They thus headed inside, passing by things like the Fiji mermaid (a monkey skeleton welded to a fish skeleton) and Insect Lad (a plaster cast of someone with three legs) before coming across a severed hand floating in alcohol, holding a poker hand. Delacy hopped the rope and examined the hand for the kind of calluses you got by doing fancy shooting –
Aaand – yeah, the hand did indeed have the calluses in the right spot! Delacy was like “huh” and then got upset with Edie for apparently lying to him about them NOT having the hand. Edie defended herself by saying she only said they MIGHT not have it, and pointed out the Fiji mermaid as an obvious hoax they were peddling. . .only to run up against Delacy demanding to know what mermaids DID look like then. XD Fortunately the shout of someone selling cotton candy outside gave her the perfect excuse to grab Delacy and drag him out of there before she had to answer any more awkward questions. She got them each a bag – and since the foodstuff was new to Delacy, Andy made him do a Vigor roll to see how he handled eating pure sugar.
One failed roll later, Delacy was having his very first sugar rush and going all motormouth on the poor cotton candy seller, demanding to know if he worked for Fulton (he did not, he worked for the fair itself) and if he’d heard of Bison Billie and where Bison Billie’s tent was. As it turned out, Bison Billie wasn’t actually part of the fair – he was just next to it, having set up his own tent nearby. The cotton candy seller assured the two that they could go see his show and then come back into the fair later, though – the people at the entrance would stamp their hand as they left. Delacy was like “what? No! I need this hand” until Edie managed to explain that it was RUBBER stamps. XD With that knowledge in hand, Edie asked Delacy if he wanted to go straight over to Bison Billie’s tent – Delacy, however, in an uncharacteristic display of kindness, asked Edie what SHE wanted to do first. Edie was all for getting on the Ferris wheel, saying that it would be fun AND provide a fantastic view of the place. Delacy was game, and so the two headed over and – after two excellent Athletics rolls – hopped on! Once they were at the top, they were indeed able to see over to Bison Billie’s tent – Delacy was even able to spot the figure of Billie’s famous horse Buckthorn milling in the paddock nearby! Though he got briefly confused and thought the horse was a lot tinier than he’d heard, at least until Edie reminded him that distance was a thing. XD Having seen the tent, Delacy decided he’d had enough of the ride (not being impressed) and – after trying to yell down that they were done – hopped off the ride after one rotation, telling the others waiting they could have the next rotation and to only look off to one side each go. XD Edie followed, and they headed out of the fair, with Edie snagging a sample of a Fulton beef broth drink to sample on the way. She was not impressed, as not only did the drink have a weird aftertaste, it left her feeling oddly hollow inside. . .
But it wasn’t time to worry about that now – it was time to head over and see Bison Billie! The two thus made their way over to his tent, where they met the ticket-seller at the entrance. He told them that they could pay for their tickets now, but the actual show wouldn’t be until later, as Billie was currently getting the performers ready. Edie turned on the charm and asked if, as an equestrian, she could get a bit of an early tour, adding that Delacy was a huge fan of Billie’s. The ticket-seller, taken in by her attractiveness, offered them early access for five dollars – Edie fluttering her lashes and Delacy putting a hand on his beloved gun Rooster convinced him to take three, however. XD They promised not to do anything to stop the show happening (which the ticket-seller found suspicious, understandably XD), and I left it with them entering the main tent. Looking forward to meeting Billie and seeing what shenanigans erupt!
Soo -- yeah. Lost most of my day to scammy mechanics, and now I am in a lovely bad mood for going back to work tomorrow. Which I guess at least makes me prepared for whatever nonsense I might face after being away for four days. *sigh* We'll see what happens, I guess. . .night all!
