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Somewhat More Stressful Tuesday
Feb. 16th, 2021 11:09 pmYeah, the talky coworker is back, though she actually wasn't that chatty. Unfortunately, that was because she was in a bit of a mood, and that didn't exactly make for a great office atmosphere. Also it was generally a bit busier, especially on the credit card front -- had to update a few cards, reschedule a few pledges, all that sort of thing. At least it helped the afternoon go by? Could have done without needing to look some stuff up for people while needing to use the toilet, though. . .
Well, survived the day and got home in decent time. How'd my afternoon go, as per my Now In The Order In Which I Actually Do This Stuff Checklist?
1. Get in a workout: Check! More bike time, and more time with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! I caught up again with Grills as he attempted the Captain’s Dance, and – it did not go great. XD He was kind of surprised by how fast the initial round of ordinary Mirelurks (two regular and a Softshell) came at him, and thus wasn’t able to use his Lucky Lorenzo gun to take them to the moon for risk of murdering himself as well. So he defaulted to Slightly Excited, which took them out. A moment to breathe (and accidentally collect tons of rads) later, he dumped some Gulper innards in the water and found himself facing a Mirelurk King, another Softshell, and a Legendary Albino Hunter. Not great, not great at all – poor Grills found himself needing his Martyr’s gear and its “slow time at low health” effect to make it through the mess and murder them all. And then, of course, the Queen reared her head – and surprise surprise, she was a Legendary too! Grills yanked out the Gauss Rifle, but all his criticals were to no avail – he died as a result of her poisonous spit (though possibly at the same time she died to his Gauss rounds so. . .).
Of course, Jon and Grills weren’t about to give up that easily – they immediately plunged in for round two, with Jon deciding to try and use his Crippling Plasma gun on the regular Mirelurks, despite not having much ammo. He got down to seven shots, but managed to take them all out. For the Legendary Albino Hunter and his friends, he decided to try the Tesla Rifle – and whoo boy, did that sucker do some DAMAGE! Possibly because, you know, electricity against creatures IN THE WATER. XD At any rate, he evaporated the Hunter and killed the King and Mirelurk pretty easily, backing off to a nearby sunken boat for a better vantage point. And then the Queen appeared, and Jon despaired of his lack of criticals to take out her poison spouts as he fired a Gauss shot. . .
And then his “sneak attack” bonus kicked in and the damn girl went down in one hit, to Jon’s shocked relief. XD And she had some decent gear for him too – an Assassin’s Pack (as in the Nuka World raider gang; they’re animal-themed and have brightly-colored fluffy armor) right arm! Jon happily had that as a reward for completing the quest, and headed STRAIGHT back to Rayburn Point to drop a fresh save and end the episode.
Episode 54 started with Grills hydrating at the water’s edge before retaking his antibiotics to get rid of his illnesses (he hadn’t bothered to take them again after “Captain’s Dance” reload), then setting off east to start knocking off a few more quests. First stop – carefully coming from the top to avoid getting too irradiated – Atom’s Spring, to complete his initiation rite for the Children of Atom! The Mother of the Fog appeared and took him on a little trip (I was – expecting a bit more in the way of creepy imagery than just a shadowed figure running ahead of him, I must say) back to that location he’d technically already discovered, but wasn’t allowed to appear on his map before now. He found the sacred texts that hadn’t spawned in before, got the password to the terminal, and unlocked it to grab the Mother’s Idol. Yay creepy cult quests?
After that, he pondered for a moment if he wanted to try heading south to take care of Cassie’s last quest, but decided it wasn’t worth the risk (since, you know, pretty heavily irradiated and whatnot) and instead retraced his steps to the spring so he could make a beeline for the Nucleus. Grand Zealot Richter (yeah, I confused him and Tektus) welcomed him back, rather in awe over Grills being able to see the Fog Mother and get her idol. Grills was welcomed into the cult, given some nice new dirty rags, and sent inside to listen to Grand Confessor Tektus rant about how they’re going to use DiMA’s old memories to wipe out Far Harbor. Lovely man. I left with Grills admiring the submarine and the toxic glowing water beneath it, on the verge of talking to all the people to get all the subquests. Because even if Grills intends to blow them up (I’m not sure at the moment – I know Acadia’s doomed, this is a Brotherhood run), might as well get all the XP from them first!
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Another page has brought us through Fish’s execution (to his own surprise – he was such a narcissist he didn’t believe he was actually going to be killed for illegally Embracing Alice) and up to the point where Nines stands up to save her life. Poor Alice still has no idea what’s going on, but at least she no longer has to worry about having her head chopped off! In the immediate future, anyway.
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check! And had some interesting stuff in there too --
A) A surprise upload from James Turner – a new episode of his Animal Crossing: New Horizons LP! That fell by the wayside sometime in 2020, but he’s apparently discovered three unreleased episodes, so up they go! This one is from April 2020, and features him becoming a multi-millionaire by selling so many turnips on a friend’s island when her turnip prices were amazing. XD And then, by scattering random decorations around his island (including a fun little teacup ride! . . .Behind a tree!), he managed to get his island up to a three-star rating, catch the attention of K.K. Slider, and get Tom to pull him in for a concert! :D So that’s kind of the main goal of the game done! James also bought a new room for his house, visited a couple of Nook Miles islands to get goodies (no dice beyond some iron nuggets and clay), and tried fishing up some new catches (also no dice). This is a weird blast from the past, but it’s very wholesome, so I’m not complaining in the slightest. :)
B) Less wholesome is Call Me Kevin and his game – Rustler, which his title called “Grand Theft Auto but it's medieval” XD And it really is – you play a ruffian who is tasked with doing things like stealing horses, murdering knights, sneakily trading water for wine for the church, and tracking down the treasure of the Holy Grail by chopping all the limbs off a knight in black – and finding it’s an illegal booze operation. And you have to help them take down another illegal booze operation done by the French. Who say they will insult you again if you don’t stop attacking them. Yes, there are a lot of Monty Python references in this game, thank you for asking! XD Kevin had a whale of a time, running around with a stolen lute and hiring bards to play with him as he farted and burped to the song. XD Good times, very good times! I’m totally up for more if he is!
C) And of course, we had to end on GrayStillPlays and Happy Wheels! Bottle flip with a jet fall to unlock the win? Gray will smoothly drop a bottle down it, and accidentally do a couple of perfect flips to sync up with his intro and commentary! A pogo course where you must battle people ranging from Tom Hardy to Santa? Gray may get a battle ax up his butt a few times, but he will bounce his way to that win area! A meteor run that is ten million miles long, over multiple levels? Gray will pedal like the dickens all the way down to “pro” and zip past the bombs to the finish line. A spike fall that forces you to yeet right before going down? Gray will get the perfect position to complete it third try! A jet fall that then flings you into a baby wall? Gray will explode a few times, then get the bright idea to tear the handle off his Segway and fling it at the babies to collect the shiny shiny coin! Basically, as usual, you can’t do ANYTHING to stop this man. (As a bonus, the pogo course doubled as a birthday celebration – and his birthday apparently IS in February, so that’s sweet!)
And I did my queue in Valice Multiverse, so that's all good too -- just now gotta answer le comment and head to bed. Two more days, because the snow looks like it's coming in late Thursday now. . .but I guess we'll know more for certain Wednesday night the exact track and whatnot. *shrug* Just glad we're apparently not being hammered like the rest of the country. Night all!
Well, survived the day and got home in decent time. How'd my afternoon go, as per my Now In The Order In Which I Actually Do This Stuff Checklist?
1. Get in a workout: Check! More bike time, and more time with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! I caught up again with Grills as he attempted the Captain’s Dance, and – it did not go great. XD He was kind of surprised by how fast the initial round of ordinary Mirelurks (two regular and a Softshell) came at him, and thus wasn’t able to use his Lucky Lorenzo gun to take them to the moon for risk of murdering himself as well. So he defaulted to Slightly Excited, which took them out. A moment to breathe (and accidentally collect tons of rads) later, he dumped some Gulper innards in the water and found himself facing a Mirelurk King, another Softshell, and a Legendary Albino Hunter. Not great, not great at all – poor Grills found himself needing his Martyr’s gear and its “slow time at low health” effect to make it through the mess and murder them all. And then, of course, the Queen reared her head – and surprise surprise, she was a Legendary too! Grills yanked out the Gauss Rifle, but all his criticals were to no avail – he died as a result of her poisonous spit (though possibly at the same time she died to his Gauss rounds so. . .).
Of course, Jon and Grills weren’t about to give up that easily – they immediately plunged in for round two, with Jon deciding to try and use his Crippling Plasma gun on the regular Mirelurks, despite not having much ammo. He got down to seven shots, but managed to take them all out. For the Legendary Albino Hunter and his friends, he decided to try the Tesla Rifle – and whoo boy, did that sucker do some DAMAGE! Possibly because, you know, electricity against creatures IN THE WATER. XD At any rate, he evaporated the Hunter and killed the King and Mirelurk pretty easily, backing off to a nearby sunken boat for a better vantage point. And then the Queen appeared, and Jon despaired of his lack of criticals to take out her poison spouts as he fired a Gauss shot. . .
And then his “sneak attack” bonus kicked in and the damn girl went down in one hit, to Jon’s shocked relief. XD And she had some decent gear for him too – an Assassin’s Pack (as in the Nuka World raider gang; they’re animal-themed and have brightly-colored fluffy armor) right arm! Jon happily had that as a reward for completing the quest, and headed STRAIGHT back to Rayburn Point to drop a fresh save and end the episode.
Episode 54 started with Grills hydrating at the water’s edge before retaking his antibiotics to get rid of his illnesses (he hadn’t bothered to take them again after “Captain’s Dance” reload), then setting off east to start knocking off a few more quests. First stop – carefully coming from the top to avoid getting too irradiated – Atom’s Spring, to complete his initiation rite for the Children of Atom! The Mother of the Fog appeared and took him on a little trip (I was – expecting a bit more in the way of creepy imagery than just a shadowed figure running ahead of him, I must say) back to that location he’d technically already discovered, but wasn’t allowed to appear on his map before now. He found the sacred texts that hadn’t spawned in before, got the password to the terminal, and unlocked it to grab the Mother’s Idol. Yay creepy cult quests?
After that, he pondered for a moment if he wanted to try heading south to take care of Cassie’s last quest, but decided it wasn’t worth the risk (since, you know, pretty heavily irradiated and whatnot) and instead retraced his steps to the spring so he could make a beeline for the Nucleus. Grand Zealot Richter (yeah, I confused him and Tektus) welcomed him back, rather in awe over Grills being able to see the Fog Mother and get her idol. Grills was welcomed into the cult, given some nice new dirty rags, and sent inside to listen to Grand Confessor Tektus rant about how they’re going to use DiMA’s old memories to wipe out Far Harbor. Lovely man. I left with Grills admiring the submarine and the toxic glowing water beneath it, on the verge of talking to all the people to get all the subquests. Because even if Grills intends to blow them up (I’m not sure at the moment – I know Acadia’s doomed, this is a Brotherhood run), might as well get all the XP from them first!
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Another page has brought us through Fish’s execution (to his own surprise – he was such a narcissist he didn’t believe he was actually going to be killed for illegally Embracing Alice) and up to the point where Nines stands up to save her life. Poor Alice still has no idea what’s going on, but at least she no longer has to worry about having her head chopped off! In the immediate future, anyway.
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check! And had some interesting stuff in there too --
A) A surprise upload from James Turner – a new episode of his Animal Crossing: New Horizons LP! That fell by the wayside sometime in 2020, but he’s apparently discovered three unreleased episodes, so up they go! This one is from April 2020, and features him becoming a multi-millionaire by selling so many turnips on a friend’s island when her turnip prices were amazing. XD And then, by scattering random decorations around his island (including a fun little teacup ride! . . .Behind a tree!), he managed to get his island up to a three-star rating, catch the attention of K.K. Slider, and get Tom to pull him in for a concert! :D So that’s kind of the main goal of the game done! James also bought a new room for his house, visited a couple of Nook Miles islands to get goodies (no dice beyond some iron nuggets and clay), and tried fishing up some new catches (also no dice). This is a weird blast from the past, but it’s very wholesome, so I’m not complaining in the slightest. :)
B) Less wholesome is Call Me Kevin and his game – Rustler, which his title called “Grand Theft Auto but it's medieval” XD And it really is – you play a ruffian who is tasked with doing things like stealing horses, murdering knights, sneakily trading water for wine for the church, and tracking down the treasure of the Holy Grail by chopping all the limbs off a knight in black – and finding it’s an illegal booze operation. And you have to help them take down another illegal booze operation done by the French. Who say they will insult you again if you don’t stop attacking them. Yes, there are a lot of Monty Python references in this game, thank you for asking! XD Kevin had a whale of a time, running around with a stolen lute and hiring bards to play with him as he farted and burped to the song. XD Good times, very good times! I’m totally up for more if he is!
C) And of course, we had to end on GrayStillPlays and Happy Wheels! Bottle flip with a jet fall to unlock the win? Gray will smoothly drop a bottle down it, and accidentally do a couple of perfect flips to sync up with his intro and commentary! A pogo course where you must battle people ranging from Tom Hardy to Santa? Gray may get a battle ax up his butt a few times, but he will bounce his way to that win area! A meteor run that is ten million miles long, over multiple levels? Gray will pedal like the dickens all the way down to “pro” and zip past the bombs to the finish line. A spike fall that forces you to yeet right before going down? Gray will get the perfect position to complete it third try! A jet fall that then flings you into a baby wall? Gray will explode a few times, then get the bright idea to tear the handle off his Segway and fling it at the babies to collect the shiny shiny coin! Basically, as usual, you can’t do ANYTHING to stop this man. (As a bonus, the pogo course doubled as a birthday celebration – and his birthday apparently IS in February, so that’s sweet!)
And I did my queue in Valice Multiverse, so that's all good too -- just now gotta answer le comment and head to bed. Two more days, because the snow looks like it's coming in late Thursday now. . .but I guess we'll know more for certain Wednesday night the exact track and whatnot. *shrug* Just glad we're apparently not being hammered like the rest of the country. Night all!
