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On Time Friday
Aug. 5th, 2016 11:33 pmAs in, thanks to me taking a way earlier bus on the half day, I actually got home ON TIME. And this is WITH some slowdown on the highway (I think they were fixing one of the lampposts). It's a nice feeling, I gotta say. If only I could get it during the week too. . .well, I don't have to worry about buses for a whole three days, so that's something.
Work wasn't much of anything -- just maintenance, mostly. I filled the time as best I could. Home, however, was busy:
-->Came home to a huge stack of laundry that needed to be folded, joy
-->Played some DragonVale -- the elusive Triple Rings Day has shown up, along with the ability to earn rings from the Dragon Track! So that's nice, at least. Helps make up a bit for having to buy the Cerebus dragon. . .of course, DV already made up for that some by giving me the Labradorite I needed from the Crystallines as one of the free dragon prizes. (The first was a Victory, which I already had, but at least now I can display the egg.) And I'm attempting to breed a Thunderbolt through the co-op cave -- we'll see if I have any luck!
-->Wrote some more on the next chapter of "In The Land of the Dead" -- redid the bit where they get to the tower, have their climb, look out over the village, and encounter the living ravens. Pretty happy with it -- it's nice to have Arthur and Lorina around. I also came up with an acceptable way to keep them out of the search for Alice -- I'd love to have them helping their daughter, but FOUR people looking for her? Too much chance of success, sadly. Can't go changing the timeline in the middle of a side story. But at least I can show that they WOULD have gone up.
-->Played some Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines -- I talked to Vandal and got the "Replanting a Lily" (aka find him a new victim) quest. The idea is to send an Asylum patron to him, but I have good intel that you can send him another character who's part of a different sidequest, so I'll wait until that pops up. (Actually, there's a couple of different characters you can send him, but I already killed the other one -- Stanley Gimble. Probably for the best, Vandal likely would have gotten along with him.) I also finished up the "Thinned Blood" quest with Lily and E, gave Lily back her things, and paid Rosa $20 for her to tell me my future (aka talk about game plot points in an amusingly cryptic manner). And then I went back to the clinic and wandered around trying to find this damn werewolf blood, failing miserably to the point of consulting various FAQs and walkthroughs on my iPad --
And then I finally found the set of stairs that goes up to the hospital's second floor, where the guard and room I was looking for exists. Which I'd probably gone by tons of times because I WAS LOOKING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.
And then I proceeded to get caught by the guard three times, which gave me a criminal violation and got me shot at by both the guard and a surprisingly-rapid-response police officer and made me throw up my hands and revert to my last save. Harold's now parked just outside the door to the second floor, and I think he's just going to kill the guard (refreshing his blood supply in the meantime) because it's easier that way. He's at 10 Humanity currently, he can afford a few black marks there. Plus I really want to clear up that Masquerade violation. (Though I successfully nommed Pee Man again while coming back from the beach XD Yes, I totally plan for him to be my go-to guy in Santa Monica. It's tradition, damn it.)
And then the rest of my afternoon was mainly catching up on comics and tumblr and all the usual jazz. Typical Friday, really. But I'm all set now, and ready for the weekend! Mostly I'm ready to just play video games, watch lots of internet videos, and go for walks, but hey. They can't all be adventures. XD Night all!
Work wasn't much of anything -- just maintenance, mostly. I filled the time as best I could. Home, however, was busy:
-->Came home to a huge stack of laundry that needed to be folded, joy
-->Played some DragonVale -- the elusive Triple Rings Day has shown up, along with the ability to earn rings from the Dragon Track! So that's nice, at least. Helps make up a bit for having to buy the Cerebus dragon. . .of course, DV already made up for that some by giving me the Labradorite I needed from the Crystallines as one of the free dragon prizes. (The first was a Victory, which I already had, but at least now I can display the egg.) And I'm attempting to breed a Thunderbolt through the co-op cave -- we'll see if I have any luck!
-->Wrote some more on the next chapter of "In The Land of the Dead" -- redid the bit where they get to the tower, have their climb, look out over the village, and encounter the living ravens. Pretty happy with it -- it's nice to have Arthur and Lorina around. I also came up with an acceptable way to keep them out of the search for Alice -- I'd love to have them helping their daughter, but FOUR people looking for her? Too much chance of success, sadly. Can't go changing the timeline in the middle of a side story. But at least I can show that they WOULD have gone up.
-->Played some Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines -- I talked to Vandal and got the "Replanting a Lily" (aka find him a new victim) quest. The idea is to send an Asylum patron to him, but I have good intel that you can send him another character who's part of a different sidequest, so I'll wait until that pops up. (Actually, there's a couple of different characters you can send him, but I already killed the other one -- Stanley Gimble. Probably for the best, Vandal likely would have gotten along with him.) I also finished up the "Thinned Blood" quest with Lily and E, gave Lily back her things, and paid Rosa $20 for her to tell me my future (aka talk about game plot points in an amusingly cryptic manner). And then I went back to the clinic and wandered around trying to find this damn werewolf blood, failing miserably to the point of consulting various FAQs and walkthroughs on my iPad --
And then I finally found the set of stairs that goes up to the hospital's second floor, where the guard and room I was looking for exists. Which I'd probably gone by tons of times because I WAS LOOKING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.
And then I proceeded to get caught by the guard three times, which gave me a criminal violation and got me shot at by both the guard and a surprisingly-rapid-response police officer and made me throw up my hands and revert to my last save. Harold's now parked just outside the door to the second floor, and I think he's just going to kill the guard (refreshing his blood supply in the meantime) because it's easier that way. He's at 10 Humanity currently, he can afford a few black marks there. Plus I really want to clear up that Masquerade violation. (Though I successfully nommed Pee Man again while coming back from the beach XD Yes, I totally plan for him to be my go-to guy in Santa Monica. It's tradition, damn it.)
And then the rest of my afternoon was mainly catching up on comics and tumblr and all the usual jazz. Typical Friday, really. But I'm all set now, and ready for the weekend! Mostly I'm ready to just play video games, watch lots of internet videos, and go for walks, but hey. They can't all be adventures. XD Night all!
