Running Late Tuesday
Feb. 27th, 2024 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickMostly because tumblr's partnering up wit AI Art people and forcing you to opt-out of having your content scraped instead of opt-in, and everybody is mad about it including me, and -- bleh. *shakehead* I'm getting really tired of their bullshit. . . Anyway, here's how the rest of my day went --
Work – Quiet Tuesday – not only was Talky Coworker not in (she wasn’t feeling well), there just wasn’t a lot going on – not a lot of phone calls, nor a lot of maintenance tasks to do. I cleaned up what I could from the returned mail, cataloged more credit card nonsense, took a guy’s credit card update, told my boss about the aforementioned credit card nonsense, and did some obituaries. *shrug* We’ll see what it’s like tomorrow, other than miserably rainy and windy. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Oxventure Deadlands, “More Wonders Than There Are In The Heavens, Part II!” I picked up with Delacy, Edie, and Bison Billie entering the “EAT FOR HEALTH: THE MERRY-GO-ROUND OF NUTRITION” attraction, and finding that it was a giant auditorium, with rows and rows of seats and a stage with a curtain, upon which was being projected “MERRY-GO-ROUND OF NUTRITION.” Edie was thinking that she and Delacy could hide while Billie did his big call-out to Hildy, but Delacy wanted to know what was going on with the stage and hopped up on it to check it out –
And got a Notice roll of fucking twenty-three. Jasper joked that Delacy just got handed the blueprints to the whole attraction. But yes, Delacy was able to see via peeking under the curtain and nosing around that the stage was a weird wedge-shaped thing, and seemed to be mechanical in nature –
Right before the attraction sprang to life, with an announcer telling everyone to take their seats for the show. Bison Billie, appreciating some good showmanship, took a seat in the center of the front row with his Winchester across his lap; Edie went and hid behind some other seats, peeking out; and Delacy refused to move until the section of stage he was on suddenly started rotating into the wall, forcing him to step off lest he get crushed. Yes, the stage itself was the “merry-go-round,” and it rotated to show different scenes! Delacy hopped back on as a kitchen scene came in front and center, with the announcer talking about the importance of good nutrition as four steampunk animatronics of an apple, carrot, broccoli, and banana danced on stage, chanting “Fruits and veggies, meats and grains, feed your body, feed your brain.” Everyone found it very off-putting, with Delacy particularly freaked out by the banana and the broccoli, kicking the latter as he didn’t know what it was (Edie tried to explain that it was a veggie and that it was good, but Billie was like “Broccoli’s terrible!” and Delacy pointed out she “lied” about the mermaid, so he didn’t exactly trust her on this either). Still, everything seemed appropriately carnival-like –
And then the animatronics stopped dancing. And turned and faced Delacy. CUE DEALING OUT INITIATIVE! Yes, it appears that the trio were locked in their own food-based Freddy Fazbear hell, with the apple taking a swing at Delacy with the fork it was carrying as part of its little dance. Fortunately, it missed – unfortunately, the carrot, going next, was able to use its mini-carrot nunchacku to slap poor Delacy across the face and stun him briefly. A furious Bison Billie shot the carrot in retaliation, blasting off a decent portion of its head and leaving it sprawled on the floor as it ran down, while Delacy was able to shake off the slap (taking advantage of the opportunity to spit out an already-loose baby tooth in a badass way), scramble atop the fake kitchen counters for the high ground, and take out the banana (coming at him with a rolling pin) with a single explosive shot. The broccoli attempted to get him back by wrenching the kitchen chair off the floor and swinging at him, but Delacy was able to hop over it. Edie, seeing her opportunity, popped out of cover, spat out about how she’s always wanted to visit the “big apple,” then fired on the apple –
Aaaand missed. Billie was like “you can’t miss when you say a line like that,” and Edie was like, “I know, I know!” XD Fortunately Delacy got first go in the next round and took out the broccoli – the apple tried to launch another, smaller apple at him in response, but Andy rolled a one, so it lost control of its projectile as it reared its arm back and lost it before it could even try throwing. Edie thus got another chance to kill the apple, and THIS time she succeeded, yay. XD With all the animatronics down, the stage began rotating again – Bison Billie was curious to see if there was a meat show, but Delacy urged him and Edie to join him on the stage and see if going “backstage” would get them any closer to their goal. The pair decided it wasn’t a bad idea, and they rode the stage around to the back –
Where they found a little empty warehouse area. With the only door leading back into the auditorium. Whoops. However, they were currently hidden from anything and anyone trying to find out what the hell was going on in the exhibit, at least. Billie crept over to the door and peeked through to see what was going on, and saw that a bakery scene had replaced the kitchen, with a weird animatronic bread-man (with baguettes for arms and a sourdough loaf body) –
And a very much human baker, who, upon seeing Billie poking his head around the door, took a shot at him with his gun. Fortunately, it missed, and a furious Billie began charging the baker as Andy dealt out a fresh set of initiative cards! The baker tried again to shoot Billie as he charged, fanning his revolver’s hammer to quick-fire all of his bullets – one did hit Billie in the shoulder, but didn’t do enough damage to properly wound him, only shake him up a bit. Then it was Delacy’s turn –
And he proceeded to use the sound of the shots on the other side of the wall to fire through said wall and kill the baker. And Luke described Delacy doing this with his eyes closed. This kid is TERRIFYING with a gun. O.O Anyway, that took care of the baker, leaving only the weird-ass bread-man robot – Edie attempted to take it down with her Winchester, but somehow only did two damage, which didn’t even manage to shake (or sift!) the bread-man. Fortunately Billie, seeing his original target was already dead, managed to adjust his charge to take down the bread man –
And “Bison Punch” its sourdough loaf torso out of the rest of it. Delacy was absolutely thrilled, watching through his bullet-hole peephole. XD The stage then rotated again, bringing up the meat-themed section that Billie had been so eager to see, with a butcher shop background, a dude in a cow suit –
AND A MAXIM BELT-FED MACHINE GUN. Delacy was of course still behind the wall, but the cow-guy swept the room in an attempt to get Edie and Billie down – Billie managed to protect himself using the sourdough loaf as a makeshift shield, but Edie took her first Wound by taking a bullet to the collarbone. Billie then ran at the cow guy, wrestled him off the gun, slammed him down in a chair, and just BELLOWED right in his face about how he was going to help them. The cow-guy was very appropriately intimidated. XD I left it with Billie and Delacy noticing Edie’s wound as the cow-guy cried that he hadn’t wanted to do it, it was just the orders from Aunt Hildy. Who apparently doesn’t fuck around. XD We’ll see how this all wraps up tomorrow – I don’t know if Andy can top any of these fights for sheer weird chaos, but I’m eager to find out!
2. Work on the OT3 Week Valicer prompts: Check – got to this one a bit late, but I ended up working on the “The cool kid, the jock, and the nerd” prompt today, which naturally lent itself to being a High School AU. And ended up being the trio sitting in the cafeteria, with Victor asking why Smiler hung out with him and Smiler having thus to remind him, and Alice, that they like them for being them, and it’s as simple as that. With a bit of surprise feelings at the end. :p I don’t feel like this one came out very well, though, mostly because I was still grumpy about tumblr’s latest business decisions while I was writing it. It just feels – off, to me. Suspect it might be completely reworked into something else when I come back to the prompt – we’ll see!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – had two videos to get through tonight in the old Subs –
A) “SCREEN TIME: Lisa Frankenstein Review” by Josh Way! The latest in his movie review series, this one tackled the new horror-comedy to hit the screens lately, about a girl who befriends a recently-arisen dead dude. . .and then starts getting him the body parts he needs to complete himself. By any means possible. XD Josh’s verdict was that he enjoyed it, but that he thought it was kinda held back by its rating (it’s a PG-13 movie that apparently really, REALLY wants to be an R movie) and that it was definitely going to be a divisive, love-it-or-hate-it movie (as proved by the crowd he watched it with, where the teenage girls seemed to eat it up but the teenage boys were a little O.o about it all). It’s also definitely the kind of movie where you want to know what you’re going to see beforehand, because this type of dumb horror-comedy that doesn’t care so much about plot as much as moments and leaves a lot of stuff hanging is not going to be for everyone. But if you can accept the movie on its own terms, you should have a good time. *shrug* Something new for the horror fans out there, I guess!
B) “when dirt bikes reach 99.9999% lightspeed” by GrayStillPlays! AKA Gray plays MOTO X3M, a goofy motorbike game where you have to complete various weird and deadly courses full of sawblades of various sizes and shapes (including Giant and Pinwheel), various kicky and punchy things to propel you across the board, spike traps, acid traps, TNT, disappearing floors, and as many combinations of the preceding as they could think of. Fortunately, the game didn’t care if you crossed the finish line ALIVE – just that you crossed it. In fact, some boards couldn’t be completed without the board killing you and then shoving you into the ending area. XD Gray had a lot of fun both killing his character (which included three super-futuristic people and Jank Rudolph) using the more-fun obstacles AND doing his best to complete the boards (which got trickier and tricker as time went on, forcing him to get his timing PERFECT in certain areas to make it around certain extra-deadly courses), making sure to get in as many flips as possible because we all like a good flip. XD Just a bit of silly, kind deadly fun – just the sort of thing Gray likes to relax with in between soul-crushing Alex boards. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, despite my annoyance at tumblr being shitty lately –
Victor Luvs Alice – Decided to go simple this week and stuck some reblogs that were hanging around in my drafts in my queue: a post about the mixed-up The Smiler clock for Wednesday; some A:MR Alice art for Thursday; and some CB Victor art for Friday. Have yet to decide on a Song Saturday, but maybe that can be done when I’m less grumpy about the state of the tumbls.
Valice Multiverse – Two anon asks over here for the queue – one regarding the outfit meme I reblogged, asking for typical “school” outfits for the Valicer trio (as you might expect, my answer was heavily influenced by what the trio wear in my Sims game :p); one about how being a semi-feminine trans man rocks until people want to know what kind of underwear you’re wearing (both Alice and Smiler approved of those people getting stomped on). I’ll take it.
At least I'm keeping up with all I want to do this week -- I just wish something or someone being shitty didn't keep ruining my mood and thus my motivation. *sigh* Why the hell does the world have to be the way it is. . . Anyway, I have to get to bed -- we'll see what Wednesday brings. Night all.
Work – Quiet Tuesday – not only was Talky Coworker not in (she wasn’t feeling well), there just wasn’t a lot going on – not a lot of phone calls, nor a lot of maintenance tasks to do. I cleaned up what I could from the returned mail, cataloged more credit card nonsense, took a guy’s credit card update, told my boss about the aforementioned credit card nonsense, and did some obituaries. *shrug* We’ll see what it’s like tomorrow, other than miserably rainy and windy. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Oxventure Deadlands, “More Wonders Than There Are In The Heavens, Part II!” I picked up with Delacy, Edie, and Bison Billie entering the “EAT FOR HEALTH: THE MERRY-GO-ROUND OF NUTRITION” attraction, and finding that it was a giant auditorium, with rows and rows of seats and a stage with a curtain, upon which was being projected “MERRY-GO-ROUND OF NUTRITION.” Edie was thinking that she and Delacy could hide while Billie did his big call-out to Hildy, but Delacy wanted to know what was going on with the stage and hopped up on it to check it out –
And got a Notice roll of fucking twenty-three. Jasper joked that Delacy just got handed the blueprints to the whole attraction. But yes, Delacy was able to see via peeking under the curtain and nosing around that the stage was a weird wedge-shaped thing, and seemed to be mechanical in nature –
Right before the attraction sprang to life, with an announcer telling everyone to take their seats for the show. Bison Billie, appreciating some good showmanship, took a seat in the center of the front row with his Winchester across his lap; Edie went and hid behind some other seats, peeking out; and Delacy refused to move until the section of stage he was on suddenly started rotating into the wall, forcing him to step off lest he get crushed. Yes, the stage itself was the “merry-go-round,” and it rotated to show different scenes! Delacy hopped back on as a kitchen scene came in front and center, with the announcer talking about the importance of good nutrition as four steampunk animatronics of an apple, carrot, broccoli, and banana danced on stage, chanting “Fruits and veggies, meats and grains, feed your body, feed your brain.” Everyone found it very off-putting, with Delacy particularly freaked out by the banana and the broccoli, kicking the latter as he didn’t know what it was (Edie tried to explain that it was a veggie and that it was good, but Billie was like “Broccoli’s terrible!” and Delacy pointed out she “lied” about the mermaid, so he didn’t exactly trust her on this either). Still, everything seemed appropriately carnival-like –
And then the animatronics stopped dancing. And turned and faced Delacy. CUE DEALING OUT INITIATIVE! Yes, it appears that the trio were locked in their own food-based Freddy Fazbear hell, with the apple taking a swing at Delacy with the fork it was carrying as part of its little dance. Fortunately, it missed – unfortunately, the carrot, going next, was able to use its mini-carrot nunchacku to slap poor Delacy across the face and stun him briefly. A furious Bison Billie shot the carrot in retaliation, blasting off a decent portion of its head and leaving it sprawled on the floor as it ran down, while Delacy was able to shake off the slap (taking advantage of the opportunity to spit out an already-loose baby tooth in a badass way), scramble atop the fake kitchen counters for the high ground, and take out the banana (coming at him with a rolling pin) with a single explosive shot. The broccoli attempted to get him back by wrenching the kitchen chair off the floor and swinging at him, but Delacy was able to hop over it. Edie, seeing her opportunity, popped out of cover, spat out about how she’s always wanted to visit the “big apple,” then fired on the apple –
Aaaand missed. Billie was like “you can’t miss when you say a line like that,” and Edie was like, “I know, I know!” XD Fortunately Delacy got first go in the next round and took out the broccoli – the apple tried to launch another, smaller apple at him in response, but Andy rolled a one, so it lost control of its projectile as it reared its arm back and lost it before it could even try throwing. Edie thus got another chance to kill the apple, and THIS time she succeeded, yay. XD With all the animatronics down, the stage began rotating again – Bison Billie was curious to see if there was a meat show, but Delacy urged him and Edie to join him on the stage and see if going “backstage” would get them any closer to their goal. The pair decided it wasn’t a bad idea, and they rode the stage around to the back –
Where they found a little empty warehouse area. With the only door leading back into the auditorium. Whoops. However, they were currently hidden from anything and anyone trying to find out what the hell was going on in the exhibit, at least. Billie crept over to the door and peeked through to see what was going on, and saw that a bakery scene had replaced the kitchen, with a weird animatronic bread-man (with baguettes for arms and a sourdough loaf body) –
And a very much human baker, who, upon seeing Billie poking his head around the door, took a shot at him with his gun. Fortunately, it missed, and a furious Billie began charging the baker as Andy dealt out a fresh set of initiative cards! The baker tried again to shoot Billie as he charged, fanning his revolver’s hammer to quick-fire all of his bullets – one did hit Billie in the shoulder, but didn’t do enough damage to properly wound him, only shake him up a bit. Then it was Delacy’s turn –
And he proceeded to use the sound of the shots on the other side of the wall to fire through said wall and kill the baker. And Luke described Delacy doing this with his eyes closed. This kid is TERRIFYING with a gun. O.O Anyway, that took care of the baker, leaving only the weird-ass bread-man robot – Edie attempted to take it down with her Winchester, but somehow only did two damage, which didn’t even manage to shake (or sift!) the bread-man. Fortunately Billie, seeing his original target was already dead, managed to adjust his charge to take down the bread man –
And “Bison Punch” its sourdough loaf torso out of the rest of it. Delacy was absolutely thrilled, watching through his bullet-hole peephole. XD The stage then rotated again, bringing up the meat-themed section that Billie had been so eager to see, with a butcher shop background, a dude in a cow suit –
AND A MAXIM BELT-FED MACHINE GUN. Delacy was of course still behind the wall, but the cow-guy swept the room in an attempt to get Edie and Billie down – Billie managed to protect himself using the sourdough loaf as a makeshift shield, but Edie took her first Wound by taking a bullet to the collarbone. Billie then ran at the cow guy, wrestled him off the gun, slammed him down in a chair, and just BELLOWED right in his face about how he was going to help them. The cow-guy was very appropriately intimidated. XD I left it with Billie and Delacy noticing Edie’s wound as the cow-guy cried that he hadn’t wanted to do it, it was just the orders from Aunt Hildy. Who apparently doesn’t fuck around. XD We’ll see how this all wraps up tomorrow – I don’t know if Andy can top any of these fights for sheer weird chaos, but I’m eager to find out!
2. Work on the OT3 Week Valicer prompts: Check – got to this one a bit late, but I ended up working on the “The cool kid, the jock, and the nerd” prompt today, which naturally lent itself to being a High School AU. And ended up being the trio sitting in the cafeteria, with Victor asking why Smiler hung out with him and Smiler having thus to remind him, and Alice, that they like them for being them, and it’s as simple as that. With a bit of surprise feelings at the end. :p I don’t feel like this one came out very well, though, mostly because I was still grumpy about tumblr’s latest business decisions while I was writing it. It just feels – off, to me. Suspect it might be completely reworked into something else when I come back to the prompt – we’ll see!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – had two videos to get through tonight in the old Subs –
A) “SCREEN TIME: Lisa Frankenstein Review” by Josh Way! The latest in his movie review series, this one tackled the new horror-comedy to hit the screens lately, about a girl who befriends a recently-arisen dead dude. . .and then starts getting him the body parts he needs to complete himself. By any means possible. XD Josh’s verdict was that he enjoyed it, but that he thought it was kinda held back by its rating (it’s a PG-13 movie that apparently really, REALLY wants to be an R movie) and that it was definitely going to be a divisive, love-it-or-hate-it movie (as proved by the crowd he watched it with, where the teenage girls seemed to eat it up but the teenage boys were a little O.o about it all). It’s also definitely the kind of movie where you want to know what you’re going to see beforehand, because this type of dumb horror-comedy that doesn’t care so much about plot as much as moments and leaves a lot of stuff hanging is not going to be for everyone. But if you can accept the movie on its own terms, you should have a good time. *shrug* Something new for the horror fans out there, I guess!
B) “when dirt bikes reach 99.9999% lightspeed” by GrayStillPlays! AKA Gray plays MOTO X3M, a goofy motorbike game where you have to complete various weird and deadly courses full of sawblades of various sizes and shapes (including Giant and Pinwheel), various kicky and punchy things to propel you across the board, spike traps, acid traps, TNT, disappearing floors, and as many combinations of the preceding as they could think of. Fortunately, the game didn’t care if you crossed the finish line ALIVE – just that you crossed it. In fact, some boards couldn’t be completed without the board killing you and then shoving you into the ending area. XD Gray had a lot of fun both killing his character (which included three super-futuristic people and Jank Rudolph) using the more-fun obstacles AND doing his best to complete the boards (which got trickier and tricker as time went on, forcing him to get his timing PERFECT in certain areas to make it around certain extra-deadly courses), making sure to get in as many flips as possible because we all like a good flip. XD Just a bit of silly, kind deadly fun – just the sort of thing Gray likes to relax with in between soul-crushing Alex boards. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, despite my annoyance at tumblr being shitty lately –
Victor Luvs Alice – Decided to go simple this week and stuck some reblogs that were hanging around in my drafts in my queue: a post about the mixed-up The Smiler clock for Wednesday; some A:MR Alice art for Thursday; and some CB Victor art for Friday. Have yet to decide on a Song Saturday, but maybe that can be done when I’m less grumpy about the state of the tumbls.
Valice Multiverse – Two anon asks over here for the queue – one regarding the outfit meme I reblogged, asking for typical “school” outfits for the Valicer trio (as you might expect, my answer was heavily influenced by what the trio wear in my Sims game :p); one about how being a semi-feminine trans man rocks until people want to know what kind of underwear you’re wearing (both Alice and Smiler approved of those people getting stomped on). I’ll take it.
At least I'm keeping up with all I want to do this week -- I just wish something or someone being shitty didn't keep ruining my mood and thus my motivation. *sigh* Why the hell does the world have to be the way it is. . . Anyway, I have to get to bed -- we'll see what Wednesday brings. Night all.
