Slightly Scattered Tuesday
Jun. 11th, 2024 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickBeen getting to a lot of stuff later than expected tonight, but I HAVE gotten to it all, more or less --
Work – Very quiet Tuesday at work, though that did mean plenty of having to listen to the coworkers yap on about shit. *sigh* But I got through it, getting through the two QC files I got in the afternoon yesterday, then doing some obituaries. And dragging some plants home at the end of the day because a coworker offered Mom some flowers she dug out of her garden and Mom never says no to that. But yeah, not too bad overall, I suppose. We’ll see what Wednesday brings!
Beanbags Update: Had a really great day here today, throwing nines and eights and generally just doing good. :D Nice to finally have my feet back under me! By contrast, Dad did great at first and then just sort of collapsed, while Mom muddled her way through each game, doing OKAY but never spectacular. Final scores were me 2-W-W; Dad W-3-3; and Mom 3-2-2. Would have liked each of us to get a win, but – not to be! I’ll take the double Ws. :p
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with “Oxventure's D&D But...Everyone's a Kobold LIVE from London's MCM (May 2024)!” I left things off yesterday with the two kobolds played by Ellen and Jane (“The Quiet” and “The Miniature,” as we primarily refer to kobolds by their defining characteristics around here – though for what it’s worth, Ellen’s full name is “Gorsh The Quiet” (and yes, there were Goofy jokes)) having escaped a cave full of bears and made it outside in their quest to find the leaf to cure their Wyrm Queen, while the kobolds being played by Mike (in costume), Andy, and Johnny were in various stages of being eaten by said bears. XD How did things go from there? Here are the highlights:
A) The world’s clumsiest eagle attempted to carry off Ellen and Jane’s kobolds, only to smash into a rock and die beside them, adding its corpse to their inventory (Ellen ended up carrying it with its head over one shoulder while Jane’s tiny kobold sat on the other).
B) Andy got a new kobold from the vending machine who had the characteristic “THE BEAR IMPERSONATOR” of all things (it was legit too!) – unfortunately, his attempts to impersonate bears was somewhat hampered by a bad dice roll and the fact that he’d never seen a bear before, meaning he showed up to try and convince the other bears not to eat his friends in what was essentially a crude gummy bear costume. The bears were nonplussed. XD
C) After a mass death in the bear cave, Mike got a kobold with the characteristic “The Tinkerer,” Andy “The Annoying,” and Johnny “The Showboat.” Johnny’s kobold proceeded to get the bears to run at their red loincloth by waving it like one might wave a cape in front of a bull – this worked well enough in that it got the bears to run into a wall and daze themselves, but not so well that Johnny wasn’t trampled underfoot in the attempt. XD Meanwhile, “The Annoying” tried to trip “The Tinkerer,” failed, and got his loincloth tinkered with so it fell off. XD And then “The Annoying” and Johnny’s next kobold were both carried off by an eagle once they all got out of the cave, a fate narrowly avoided by Mike with a nat 20. XD
D) Ellen and Jane’s kobolds, while walking through the woodlands on their way to the weird “square caves” they could see in the distance, encountered a couple of poachers bagging a deer and asked them for help in getting the leaf they needed (well, JANE asked for help while Ellen mumbled – “The Quiet,” remember?). One of the poachers, Jerome, told them that they needed to ask the apothecary in the village, but then informed them that they wouldn’t get the chance as he was going to have his buddy Roderick here smash them flat so they couldn’t snitch on the poaching –
Cue Jane doing the world’s cutest “Nooo!” in her little “The Miniature” voice and rolling well enough to stay Roderick’s hand. Earning the duo a free trip to the village as they were tucked under Roderick’s arm to be thrown down a well. XD Better than dying immediately!
E) Andy pulled “Velocity The Weird” from the kobold vending machine as Luke moved the action along by having Mike, Andy, and Johnny’s kobolds find the area where the poachers were, well, poaching – and got WAAAY too into character by feeling up Luke’s head, scooting into his personal space, eating snacks, and passing him notes about making out with pumpkins. XD Despite this, Velocity is in fact still alive – while Mike and Johnny’s kobolds both died encountering bear traps in the poacher’s poaching area, Velocity managed to just get his foot stuck in one (which he deliberately pried back open to do), and failed to wound himself fatally after Johnny’s new kobold, “The Bad Influence” rocked up and dared him to try cutting his own head off. XD
F) Ellen’s kobold Gorsh showed that, while quiet, she is actually a force to be reckoned with by quietly calling for help when the group entered the village – and then, when Roderick brought her up to his head to try and hear what she was saying, biting off his ear. “Can you hear me NOW?” she growled, prompting Luke to call for a “one weird kobold at a time” limit. XD She then avoided having her head kicked off by the fleeing Jerome and declared herself immortal. XD
G) Jane’s kobold “The Miniature” got it into her head to dive into an open sewer for some reason and, because she was two centimeters tall, she immediately drowned in the sewage. Everyone was like “why did you DO that” and Jane was like “I had a plan! I didn’t know swimming would be involved!” XD
So – yeah. XD Lot of delightful weirdness going on there still! And things are probably only going to get weirder in the final half-hour, as “The Bad Influence” and Mike’s new kobold “The Librarian” are still working out how to get Velocity the Weird out of the bear trap, while Gorsh, in wandering around the village street looking for the apothecary, has gotten her arm stuck in a mail slot. XD We’ll see what happens when Jane rejoins the action and how this misadventure will wrap up tomorrow!
2. Write tumblr friend Nebby’s birthday gift fic: Check – Nebby suggested doing something with her Modern AU versions of Dan and Kiya from the MediEvil games, visiting a museum and talking about stuff relating to their minors in Medieval Studies (Dan) and Egyptology (Kiya), so I banged out a story about Dan telling Kiya about some ridiculous medieval polearms and Kiya telling him about ancient Egyptian weaponry in turn. Because I remembered another tumblr post about said medieval polearms and had to run with it. XD It is a VERY rough draft at the moment, I admit, but I’ve got the basics down, and I can refine it next Tuesday so it’s post-ready for the 22nd.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Half-check, but that’s only half my fault – yes, I got to the Subs very late, but Josh Way UPLOADED very late, so, not really a surprise I didn’t get to his video. Instead we just had GrayStillPlays and “Evolving tanks every minute,” aka Gray plays Age Of Tanks! Which – you’re probably thinking of a game where you go around as a tank and blow stuff up to earn money for upgrades, right? A free-roaming game where the more destruction you cause, the more points you get? Possibly with a slight historical bent as you can upgrade to more and more modern tanks as you earn more and more cash?
Nope, this was one of those games where you’re sending waves of guys out of a base to destroy the computer opponent’s base before they can do the same to you, only in this case the guys you’re sending out are cute cartoony tanks. Wielding whatever conventional weapons are common for the time period you’re in. And you have to earn money by killing your opponents and beating up their base in order to unlock new unit types, increase food production so you can spawn tanks more often (tanks eat hunks of meat in this universe, by the way), and increase the base health of your tanks until you can beat up your opponents base and move onto the next age. You start in the Stone Age (with stone tanks wielding clubs and spears), and move through the Farm Age (with wood tanks waving around hoes, pitchforks, and scythes), the Spartan Age (with armor-wearing tanks with swords and long spears), the Renaissance (with metal tanks with swords and simple guns), the Modern Age (with green tanks with proper guns – and one “General” tank that actually had A REAL TANK TURRET), and the Star Age (with tanks cosplaying as Star Wars clone troopers with light sabers and blasters – the ultimate tank was a Kylo Ren tank called “Starlord”). As you might imagine, Gray had a lot of fun with the weirdness of the premise, and delighted in killing his enemies, collecting their coins, and upgrading his own guys so they were nearly invincible. Once he got into the ages where killing enemies netted you thousands of coins, he was damn near unstoppable. He even managed to initially beat the Star Age level with some modern “General” tanks because he’d buffed them up so much. And then he beat it again with a single Kylo Ren tank, just to see if he could. XD Good times, good times~
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check and check, though very last minute –
Victor Luvs Alice – Got my Chill Valicer Save update (five posts of celebrating SimCity Founding in Chestnut Ridge) queued up for Wednesday; an Alice: Madness Returns gifset of Alice waking up in the asylum (recreated from the original game) for Thursday; and a Corpse Bride gifset of Scraps popping out of his gift box and assembling himself, much to Victor’s “????” for Friday! We’ll figure out Song Saturday tomorrow. :) Also had a good chat with my friend Nebby over there, who was nice enough to actually leave me a comment on “Start At The Beginning...Sort Of” on AO3 after I told her about how I had nothing on it yet. So that makes me feel better about life too. :)
Valice Multiverse – Had one anon ask for the queue, talking about how it’s ridiculous to say that you “loved” someone you lost, because grieving someone is all about coming to grips with the fact that you STILL love someone who you’ll never see again. Forgotten Vows!Alice thought the ask was lovely and profound, though she admitted that perhaps it was undercut a little in her case by her having access to magic that allows her dead family to sometimes visit her. XD Still, good stuff!
Whew! Lot going on there, but at least it's all done. :) Time for me to wrap things up and hit the hay so I can do it all again tomorrow. :p Night all!
Work – Very quiet Tuesday at work, though that did mean plenty of having to listen to the coworkers yap on about shit. *sigh* But I got through it, getting through the two QC files I got in the afternoon yesterday, then doing some obituaries. And dragging some plants home at the end of the day because a coworker offered Mom some flowers she dug out of her garden and Mom never says no to that. But yeah, not too bad overall, I suppose. We’ll see what Wednesday brings!
Beanbags Update: Had a really great day here today, throwing nines and eights and generally just doing good. :D Nice to finally have my feet back under me! By contrast, Dad did great at first and then just sort of collapsed, while Mom muddled her way through each game, doing OKAY but never spectacular. Final scores were me 2-W-W; Dad W-3-3; and Mom 3-2-2. Would have liked each of us to get a win, but – not to be! I’ll take the double Ws. :p
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with “Oxventure's D&D But...Everyone's a Kobold LIVE from London's MCM (May 2024)!” I left things off yesterday with the two kobolds played by Ellen and Jane (“The Quiet” and “The Miniature,” as we primarily refer to kobolds by their defining characteristics around here – though for what it’s worth, Ellen’s full name is “Gorsh The Quiet” (and yes, there were Goofy jokes)) having escaped a cave full of bears and made it outside in their quest to find the leaf to cure their Wyrm Queen, while the kobolds being played by Mike (in costume), Andy, and Johnny were in various stages of being eaten by said bears. XD How did things go from there? Here are the highlights:
A) The world’s clumsiest eagle attempted to carry off Ellen and Jane’s kobolds, only to smash into a rock and die beside them, adding its corpse to their inventory (Ellen ended up carrying it with its head over one shoulder while Jane’s tiny kobold sat on the other).
B) Andy got a new kobold from the vending machine who had the characteristic “THE BEAR IMPERSONATOR” of all things (it was legit too!) – unfortunately, his attempts to impersonate bears was somewhat hampered by a bad dice roll and the fact that he’d never seen a bear before, meaning he showed up to try and convince the other bears not to eat his friends in what was essentially a crude gummy bear costume. The bears were nonplussed. XD
C) After a mass death in the bear cave, Mike got a kobold with the characteristic “The Tinkerer,” Andy “The Annoying,” and Johnny “The Showboat.” Johnny’s kobold proceeded to get the bears to run at their red loincloth by waving it like one might wave a cape in front of a bull – this worked well enough in that it got the bears to run into a wall and daze themselves, but not so well that Johnny wasn’t trampled underfoot in the attempt. XD Meanwhile, “The Annoying” tried to trip “The Tinkerer,” failed, and got his loincloth tinkered with so it fell off. XD And then “The Annoying” and Johnny’s next kobold were both carried off by an eagle once they all got out of the cave, a fate narrowly avoided by Mike with a nat 20. XD
D) Ellen and Jane’s kobolds, while walking through the woodlands on their way to the weird “square caves” they could see in the distance, encountered a couple of poachers bagging a deer and asked them for help in getting the leaf they needed (well, JANE asked for help while Ellen mumbled – “The Quiet,” remember?). One of the poachers, Jerome, told them that they needed to ask the apothecary in the village, but then informed them that they wouldn’t get the chance as he was going to have his buddy Roderick here smash them flat so they couldn’t snitch on the poaching –
Cue Jane doing the world’s cutest “Nooo!” in her little “The Miniature” voice and rolling well enough to stay Roderick’s hand. Earning the duo a free trip to the village as they were tucked under Roderick’s arm to be thrown down a well. XD Better than dying immediately!
E) Andy pulled “Velocity The Weird” from the kobold vending machine as Luke moved the action along by having Mike, Andy, and Johnny’s kobolds find the area where the poachers were, well, poaching – and got WAAAY too into character by feeling up Luke’s head, scooting into his personal space, eating snacks, and passing him notes about making out with pumpkins. XD Despite this, Velocity is in fact still alive – while Mike and Johnny’s kobolds both died encountering bear traps in the poacher’s poaching area, Velocity managed to just get his foot stuck in one (which he deliberately pried back open to do), and failed to wound himself fatally after Johnny’s new kobold, “The Bad Influence” rocked up and dared him to try cutting his own head off. XD
F) Ellen’s kobold Gorsh showed that, while quiet, she is actually a force to be reckoned with by quietly calling for help when the group entered the village – and then, when Roderick brought her up to his head to try and hear what she was saying, biting off his ear. “Can you hear me NOW?” she growled, prompting Luke to call for a “one weird kobold at a time” limit. XD She then avoided having her head kicked off by the fleeing Jerome and declared herself immortal. XD
G) Jane’s kobold “The Miniature” got it into her head to dive into an open sewer for some reason and, because she was two centimeters tall, she immediately drowned in the sewage. Everyone was like “why did you DO that” and Jane was like “I had a plan! I didn’t know swimming would be involved!” XD
So – yeah. XD Lot of delightful weirdness going on there still! And things are probably only going to get weirder in the final half-hour, as “The Bad Influence” and Mike’s new kobold “The Librarian” are still working out how to get Velocity the Weird out of the bear trap, while Gorsh, in wandering around the village street looking for the apothecary, has gotten her arm stuck in a mail slot. XD We’ll see what happens when Jane rejoins the action and how this misadventure will wrap up tomorrow!
2. Write tumblr friend Nebby’s birthday gift fic: Check – Nebby suggested doing something with her Modern AU versions of Dan and Kiya from the MediEvil games, visiting a museum and talking about stuff relating to their minors in Medieval Studies (Dan) and Egyptology (Kiya), so I banged out a story about Dan telling Kiya about some ridiculous medieval polearms and Kiya telling him about ancient Egyptian weaponry in turn. Because I remembered another tumblr post about said medieval polearms and had to run with it. XD It is a VERY rough draft at the moment, I admit, but I’ve got the basics down, and I can refine it next Tuesday so it’s post-ready for the 22nd.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Half-check, but that’s only half my fault – yes, I got to the Subs very late, but Josh Way UPLOADED very late, so, not really a surprise I didn’t get to his video. Instead we just had GrayStillPlays and “Evolving tanks every minute,” aka Gray plays Age Of Tanks! Which – you’re probably thinking of a game where you go around as a tank and blow stuff up to earn money for upgrades, right? A free-roaming game where the more destruction you cause, the more points you get? Possibly with a slight historical bent as you can upgrade to more and more modern tanks as you earn more and more cash?
Nope, this was one of those games where you’re sending waves of guys out of a base to destroy the computer opponent’s base before they can do the same to you, only in this case the guys you’re sending out are cute cartoony tanks. Wielding whatever conventional weapons are common for the time period you’re in. And you have to earn money by killing your opponents and beating up their base in order to unlock new unit types, increase food production so you can spawn tanks more often (tanks eat hunks of meat in this universe, by the way), and increase the base health of your tanks until you can beat up your opponents base and move onto the next age. You start in the Stone Age (with stone tanks wielding clubs and spears), and move through the Farm Age (with wood tanks waving around hoes, pitchforks, and scythes), the Spartan Age (with armor-wearing tanks with swords and long spears), the Renaissance (with metal tanks with swords and simple guns), the Modern Age (with green tanks with proper guns – and one “General” tank that actually had A REAL TANK TURRET), and the Star Age (with tanks cosplaying as Star Wars clone troopers with light sabers and blasters – the ultimate tank was a Kylo Ren tank called “Starlord”). As you might imagine, Gray had a lot of fun with the weirdness of the premise, and delighted in killing his enemies, collecting their coins, and upgrading his own guys so they were nearly invincible. Once he got into the ages where killing enemies netted you thousands of coins, he was damn near unstoppable. He even managed to initially beat the Star Age level with some modern “General” tanks because he’d buffed them up so much. And then he beat it again with a single Kylo Ren tank, just to see if he could. XD Good times, good times~
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check and check, though very last minute –
Victor Luvs Alice – Got my Chill Valicer Save update (five posts of celebrating SimCity Founding in Chestnut Ridge) queued up for Wednesday; an Alice: Madness Returns gifset of Alice waking up in the asylum (recreated from the original game) for Thursday; and a Corpse Bride gifset of Scraps popping out of his gift box and assembling himself, much to Victor’s “????” for Friday! We’ll figure out Song Saturday tomorrow. :) Also had a good chat with my friend Nebby over there, who was nice enough to actually leave me a comment on “Start At The Beginning...Sort Of” on AO3 after I told her about how I had nothing on it yet. So that makes me feel better about life too. :)
Valice Multiverse – Had one anon ask for the queue, talking about how it’s ridiculous to say that you “loved” someone you lost, because grieving someone is all about coming to grips with the fact that you STILL love someone who you’ll never see again. Forgotten Vows!Alice thought the ask was lovely and profound, though she admitted that perhaps it was undercut a little in her case by her having access to magic that allows her dead family to sometimes visit her. XD Still, good stuff!
Whew! Lot going on there, but at least it's all done. :) Time for me to wrap things up and hit the hay so I can do it all again tomorrow. :p Night all!
