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Uuuuugh Thursday
Mar. 11th, 2021 11:39 pmYou know a day is going to be fun when your morning commute slows to a crawl because of roadwork -- and almost the minute you get in, you're already fielding phone calls about payments gone wrong. And there was yet more credit card system fun to be had for a good portion of the day. . . *facepalm* I managed to clear up SOME of it, and get some big important gifts on, but it really felt like "oh, let's just put everything on Victoria" for a while there. *heavy sigh* I do not need a hell day at work to make me appreciate my days off, universe!
Well, I made it through, got home without too much issue, had a cookie, then started on the evening to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check – another round on the bike, and some more time with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught up with Grills as he was reading the tech’s note next to the original Overseer’s old terminal (Olivette, her name was) – tech said the password was corrupted and they couldn’t get in, and there was probably nothing of importance on there anyway. As you might expect, Jon immediately decided there was something super-important on there. XD However, it being Master-locked meant that Jon wasn’t figuring out what anytime soon. It’s okay, Jon – I didn’t crack it either.
Instead, Grills went back upstairs, where he stopped off by Dr. Penske’s hydroponics and got roped into eating an example of her own personal strain of Fresh Mutfruit. Grills pronounced it good, and Dr. Penske thanked him and let him know she was in the fertilizer-buying business. 25 caps a bag, not a bad deal. With that sorted, Grills found nothing else in the Vault to amuse him, so he and Preston headed outside to find Ashes. The cat was fortunately nearby, chilling by the local lake – Jon was deeply amused by Grills’s dramatic declaration to the cat to go home. He also revealed that shooting the cat is a guaranteed way to get Preston to hate you – fortunately, he didn’t demonstrate.
Cat returned, Grills returned to the vault to get his XP from Erin, then went to see the suddenly-very-sick Austin and start “Hole In The Wall,” the quest all about investigating the secret Vault 81 and slaughtering its population of terrible infectious mole rats! Bobby DeLuca led him to the secret door, and Grills and Preston plunged in! Grills made pretty good work of the mole rats with the Tesla shotgun – yay cool electrical death! – but unfortunately wasn’t quick enough on his feet to avoid being bitten and picking up the disease. Ah well – it’s a pain in the ass, but it’s ultimately only ten hit points, so Grills decided he’d still do the thing that allowed Preston to keep liking him. He also took the time to pick up the story of the vault, which is basically “Vault-Tec makes horrible double-vault that is designed to create disease-resistant humans by using the residents as test subjects, then makes the mistake of choosing an Overseer with a conscience who locks the already-reluctant scientists in the secret vault to die quietly and turns Vault 81 into an actually good place to live.” Jon was very impressed and kept calling Olivette a big damn hero, which she really is. :)
Once he’d hit all the terminals and cleared out the mole rats, Grills finally found his way to Curie’s lab, and the bodies of her colleagues (something else Jon hadn’t noticed on his previous “speedrun” of the quest). He happily played along with Curie asking if he was Vault-Tec security and accepted the cure! He also grabbed the Medicine Bobblehead and took a moment to look at the terminals – left him reading one of Curie’s last entries on her own terminal, detailing the death of the last original scientist (and incidentally, if you’re wondering why one of the “coffin” lockers has a vase while the other two have bones, turns out the last guy to die asked to be cremated – vase contains his ashes). Good stuff – I have some fond memories of completing this quest in my “mod testing” days. And now Curie gets to go hang out with everyone at Hangman’s Alley, yay! Well, eventually – Grills has to give the cure to Austin first!
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Alice has successfully picked her first door – only for Jack to bust into the office through the window anyway. XD Don’t worry, Alice, he does that with every fledgling. She’s also been bullied into keeping the lockpick by both Jack and Wonderland – I figured it would be at least a little in character for her to resist taking it at first, since that’s stealing, and she’s trying to be at least somewhat law-abiding. That’s not really going to last the tutorial, just because you have to kill some of the Sabbat – but on the other hand, that’s more self-defense, so Alice is more okay with that. She’s still going to go for sneaky, less violent options when she can, though.
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Though, given that it’s a Thursday where James Turner didn’t upload, that wasn’t exactly difficult. XD So I managed to grab something out of the Watch Later too –
A) Started with the latest Atop The Fourth Wall to hit our screens – the four-issue miniseries Stanley And His Monster, by Phil Foglio! This was based off an earlier property about a kid who befriended a monster from the sewers and their adventures – Phil updated it so the monster, Spot, was an unnamed demon from Hell who was exiled for choosing goodness and ended up friends with the kid, Stanley. The miniseries focuses on the new management of Hell, a couple of angels (Lucifer had apparently quit at the time), trying to reclaim Spot because they don’t know of his heel-face turn. Shenanigans ensue, including the reappearance of Spot’s still-evil ex, Nyx, and Ambrose Bierce, a not-John Constantine, showing up thinking he’s got a demon to exorcise. Along the way, Stanley’s parents learn Spot is real, and Stanley manages to cartoonify Hell with childlike innocence. Also a tree fort is built with the help of the “Heterodyne Boys Big Book Of Fun.” How long was that name bouncing around Phil’s head, I wonder. . . Anyway, it was cute and fun – a nice change from some of the shittier comics that often feature on this show.
B) And then, over in the Subs, it was Call Me Kevin with Papers, Please! This is that game about being a border control guard in Vaguely Eastern European Country, with the game slowly ramping up just how many freaking papers you have to please day by day, while also making you deal with murderers, human traffickers, and terrorists. Kevin was, naturally, a most chaotic border guard – caring deeply about any mistakes he might make at one moment, then going all “open borders” the next. XD Though admittedly the latter was due to the fact that, due to his poor performance on the job, his family was all cold, sick, and hungry, so he didn’t expect them to last very long. On the other hand, his character DID catch a murderer and a human trafficker, so. . . And Kevin was clearly having a lot of fun with the game – I hope he does more! I have fond memories of the game myself from watching an LP of it years ago. :)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Just finished up Valice Multiverse now – four threads, three asks, so a busy night. At least it’s just a “put things in the queue” night instead of active RP – don’t think I could handle trying to handle all that on tumblr just at the minute.
So yeah, reasonably busy night. I also downloaded something from the Nexus about optimizing Fallout 4, simply because I was amused by the name of the guide PDF ("Modding Fallout 4 Is An Absolute Nightmare"), but it's already talking about downloading yet more programs to make things work, and -- I am seriously thinking that, if I ever boot up the game myself again, I'll just go back to vanilla. I like looking at all the mods and such, but -- before I started installing them, my game worked and I was actually making progress. (With Minutemen quests, admittedly, but still.) *sigh* Stupid buggy Bethesda piece of shit.
Eh, I shouldn't be grouchy -- I've finally hit my four days off. Let's do a quick to-do for tomorrow, shall we?
1. Catch up on the OXBox/OXtra videos in my Watch Later and keep up on YouTube subscriptions
2. Play some more Alice: Madness Returns (maybe try to get to the next Radula Room?)
3. Organize my various hypnofic AUs into their own document for ease-of-finding
4. Get in a workout
Yes, I'm taking a short break from "In A World Of His Own" -- I'm on a chapter break and it's a long weekend, I'm allowed. Besides, I want to do this to a) have an easy way to find all these weird little snippets I've written and b) learn how headers and such work in the navigation pane for ease of organizing other notes documents. *nods* I'll see if I can write something on one of them too, of course. . .
And that's about all for now -- still gotta answer my last DW comment, but then the night is mine, at least until I go to bed. :p Night all!
Well, I made it through, got home without too much issue, had a cookie, then started on the evening to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check – another round on the bike, and some more time with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught up with Grills as he was reading the tech’s note next to the original Overseer’s old terminal (Olivette, her name was) – tech said the password was corrupted and they couldn’t get in, and there was probably nothing of importance on there anyway. As you might expect, Jon immediately decided there was something super-important on there. XD However, it being Master-locked meant that Jon wasn’t figuring out what anytime soon. It’s okay, Jon – I didn’t crack it either.
Instead, Grills went back upstairs, where he stopped off by Dr. Penske’s hydroponics and got roped into eating an example of her own personal strain of Fresh Mutfruit. Grills pronounced it good, and Dr. Penske thanked him and let him know she was in the fertilizer-buying business. 25 caps a bag, not a bad deal. With that sorted, Grills found nothing else in the Vault to amuse him, so he and Preston headed outside to find Ashes. The cat was fortunately nearby, chilling by the local lake – Jon was deeply amused by Grills’s dramatic declaration to the cat to go home. He also revealed that shooting the cat is a guaranteed way to get Preston to hate you – fortunately, he didn’t demonstrate.
Cat returned, Grills returned to the vault to get his XP from Erin, then went to see the suddenly-very-sick Austin and start “Hole In The Wall,” the quest all about investigating the secret Vault 81 and slaughtering its population of terrible infectious mole rats! Bobby DeLuca led him to the secret door, and Grills and Preston plunged in! Grills made pretty good work of the mole rats with the Tesla shotgun – yay cool electrical death! – but unfortunately wasn’t quick enough on his feet to avoid being bitten and picking up the disease. Ah well – it’s a pain in the ass, but it’s ultimately only ten hit points, so Grills decided he’d still do the thing that allowed Preston to keep liking him. He also took the time to pick up the story of the vault, which is basically “Vault-Tec makes horrible double-vault that is designed to create disease-resistant humans by using the residents as test subjects, then makes the mistake of choosing an Overseer with a conscience who locks the already-reluctant scientists in the secret vault to die quietly and turns Vault 81 into an actually good place to live.” Jon was very impressed and kept calling Olivette a big damn hero, which she really is. :)
Once he’d hit all the terminals and cleared out the mole rats, Grills finally found his way to Curie’s lab, and the bodies of her colleagues (something else Jon hadn’t noticed on his previous “speedrun” of the quest). He happily played along with Curie asking if he was Vault-Tec security and accepted the cure! He also grabbed the Medicine Bobblehead and took a moment to look at the terminals – left him reading one of Curie’s last entries on her own terminal, detailing the death of the last original scientist (and incidentally, if you’re wondering why one of the “coffin” lockers has a vase while the other two have bones, turns out the last guy to die asked to be cremated – vase contains his ashes). Good stuff – I have some fond memories of completing this quest in my “mod testing” days. And now Curie gets to go hang out with everyone at Hangman’s Alley, yay! Well, eventually – Grills has to give the cure to Austin first!
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Alice has successfully picked her first door – only for Jack to bust into the office through the window anyway. XD Don’t worry, Alice, he does that with every fledgling. She’s also been bullied into keeping the lockpick by both Jack and Wonderland – I figured it would be at least a little in character for her to resist taking it at first, since that’s stealing, and she’s trying to be at least somewhat law-abiding. That’s not really going to last the tutorial, just because you have to kill some of the Sabbat – but on the other hand, that’s more self-defense, so Alice is more okay with that. She’s still going to go for sneaky, less violent options when she can, though.
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Though, given that it’s a Thursday where James Turner didn’t upload, that wasn’t exactly difficult. XD So I managed to grab something out of the Watch Later too –
A) Started with the latest Atop The Fourth Wall to hit our screens – the four-issue miniseries Stanley And His Monster, by Phil Foglio! This was based off an earlier property about a kid who befriended a monster from the sewers and their adventures – Phil updated it so the monster, Spot, was an unnamed demon from Hell who was exiled for choosing goodness and ended up friends with the kid, Stanley. The miniseries focuses on the new management of Hell, a couple of angels (Lucifer had apparently quit at the time), trying to reclaim Spot because they don’t know of his heel-face turn. Shenanigans ensue, including the reappearance of Spot’s still-evil ex, Nyx, and Ambrose Bierce, a not-John Constantine, showing up thinking he’s got a demon to exorcise. Along the way, Stanley’s parents learn Spot is real, and Stanley manages to cartoonify Hell with childlike innocence. Also a tree fort is built with the help of the “Heterodyne Boys Big Book Of Fun.” How long was that name bouncing around Phil’s head, I wonder. . . Anyway, it was cute and fun – a nice change from some of the shittier comics that often feature on this show.
B) And then, over in the Subs, it was Call Me Kevin with Papers, Please! This is that game about being a border control guard in Vaguely Eastern European Country, with the game slowly ramping up just how many freaking papers you have to please day by day, while also making you deal with murderers, human traffickers, and terrorists. Kevin was, naturally, a most chaotic border guard – caring deeply about any mistakes he might make at one moment, then going all “open borders” the next. XD Though admittedly the latter was due to the fact that, due to his poor performance on the job, his family was all cold, sick, and hungry, so he didn’t expect them to last very long. On the other hand, his character DID catch a murderer and a human trafficker, so. . . And Kevin was clearly having a lot of fun with the game – I hope he does more! I have fond memories of the game myself from watching an LP of it years ago. :)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Just finished up Valice Multiverse now – four threads, three asks, so a busy night. At least it’s just a “put things in the queue” night instead of active RP – don’t think I could handle trying to handle all that on tumblr just at the minute.
So yeah, reasonably busy night. I also downloaded something from the Nexus about optimizing Fallout 4, simply because I was amused by the name of the guide PDF ("Modding Fallout 4 Is An Absolute Nightmare"), but it's already talking about downloading yet more programs to make things work, and -- I am seriously thinking that, if I ever boot up the game myself again, I'll just go back to vanilla. I like looking at all the mods and such, but -- before I started installing them, my game worked and I was actually making progress. (With Minutemen quests, admittedly, but still.) *sigh* Stupid buggy Bethesda piece of shit.
Eh, I shouldn't be grouchy -- I've finally hit my four days off. Let's do a quick to-do for tomorrow, shall we?
1. Catch up on the OXBox/OXtra videos in my Watch Later and keep up on YouTube subscriptions
2. Play some more Alice: Madness Returns (maybe try to get to the next Radula Room?)
3. Organize my various hypnofic AUs into their own document for ease-of-finding
4. Get in a workout
Yes, I'm taking a short break from "In A World Of His Own" -- I'm on a chapter break and it's a long weekend, I'm allowed. Besides, I want to do this to a) have an easy way to find all these weird little snippets I've written and b) learn how headers and such work in the navigation pane for ease of organizing other notes documents. *nods* I'll see if I can write something on one of them too, of course. . .
And that's about all for now -- still gotta answer my last DW comment, but then the night is mine, at least until I go to bed. :p Night all!
