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Freakin' Pouring Sunday
Mar. 28th, 2021 10:57 pmSeriously -- today could not have been more different from yesterday. Cool temperatures, absolutely pouring rain from time to time, some fog at one point. . .good thing we got our fresh air yesterday, because there was NO getting any today.
That doesn't mean I didn't get stuff done though:
1. Free Writing Day -- write something of my choosing or organize a notes document: Check, though what I did was really prep for item 4 on my Standard Weekday To-Do List – “Get my tumblr queues sorted.” I had an idea for an AU Thursday post for “Fallout of Darkness,” with some new ideas I’ve had for the whole “Victor and Alice are going to get Ug-Qualtoth’s help in curing Alice’s ‘sunlight allergy’” thing, so I wrote that up to later paste into a draft on Victor Luvs Alice. I mean, I feel it still counts more than me writing this to-do list itself. XD And it’s one less thing to worry about this week.
2. Watch the next part of "Marvel Meets The Eye" from Atop The Fourth Wall, Call Me Kevin, and Jon's Fallout 4 YOLO episode: Check! Got all of the above watched, hooray~
A) Started with the three-parter second episode of “Marvel Meets The Eye,” Linkara’s Transformers retrospective! This one had cosmic-powered Starscream going on a rampage, a change in writers, the awakening of Primus, Galvatron being plucked from an alternate timeline because the new writer really liked writing him, part of Cybertron being eaten by Unicron, Optimus making a more heroic sacrifice than video game deletion (and coming back YET AGAIN), and the horror that is Ratchet and Megatron fused together – Linkara had about a dozen jokes to make about that bit of body horror. Also, the mini-Transformers line had a brief career in wrestling. Could we have had more of that? It looked like fun and easier to understand. XD As usual, don’t expect me to follow the plot, but Linkara always makes these things enjoyable. (Also, very first part had the joke commercial about the “OfficeBots” parody from Bloodlines, so I was happy with that.)
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and Dysmantle, a zombie survival game with a variety of survival sim elements. You can make a farm at one place, go fishing in another, craft a variety of supplies, weapons, and other useful items, upgrade your backpack for carry capacity. . . Kevin chose to take off all his clothes, run away from zombies whenever possible, accidentally reach the later, more difficult areas of the game before even properly finishing the tutorial, and keep eating the suicide pills because he originally didn’t read what they were and then refused to take them off the hot button. Also he walked into deep water and into a giant crack in the road just to see what would happen. He and Microsoft Sam (the characters are all voiced via text-to-speech) spent a lot of time respawning at the campfires. XD Though he DID manage to set up a successful (we assume) farm in the end, so. . .progress? XD
C) And then, this evening, it was of course time for Jon's Fallout 4 YOLO Playthrough! We caught back up with Finalley just outside Poseidon Energy on a foggy morning, on the hunt for the Endurance Bobblehead. Jon bemoaned her lack of lockpicking and the need to go in through the maintenance tunnel, facing Mirelurks and a bunch of raiders – but actually, things went really well! Finalley’s Staggering Combat Rifle took care of the Mirelurks pretty easily; she was able to do some sharp shooting through the walkways (plus a nice trick throw with a grenade) to take out most of the raiders, and shot down almost every turret before it could detect her – there was one SINGLE turret that got a shot off, simply because it went active behind her due to her opening a certain door, and it did less than half a hit point’s worth of damage. Not only that, beyond the Endurance Bobblehead, she got an issue of Tesla Science (for better crits with energy weapons), and a piece of Powered armor for her left arm off a Legendary Raider – the only arm which had no legendary gear on it! So now she’s back up to double Powered, plus her doubled Cunning – go Finalley!
With that all taken care of, she looped her way back to the Atom Cats garage and called in a vertibird to head back to the Castle briefly to pick up some “artillery creation” supplies. Which turned into an overnight stay when some random robot started firing at her when the vertibird flew over it, forcing her to sleep there in order to get it to lose interest and allow her to use the water pump and cooking station. She was overtired, though, so this was arguably a good plan. Next morning, she got herself fed and watered, stopped by the Prydwen to pick up some supplies and drop off some technical documents and viable blood samples, did her best to ignore all the textures on the Prydwen and the Boston Airport glitching out, and headed out on a trip north, starting at Country Crossing and slowly making her way back to Sanctuary. This trip almost immediately went wrong as, after building some artillery at County Crossing and heading up off the road, she found a Black Bloatfly in her way. She killed it, getting some criticals thanks to her Luck perks –
And then a Radscorpion just appeared. Right next to her.
Cue Jon swearing up a STORM as he criticalled it in the head and ran back to the settlement. XD Suddenly his carefully-planned out route, and his sanity, were in shambles. After plucking up his courage and finding an alternate way for Finalley to go, the following happened on the trip back up to Sanctuary –
I. Finalley found the first dead Knight from the “Lost Patrol” quest and got Brandis’s bunker tagged on her Pip-Boy. So if she and Jon ever are up that way, she can finish that quest! Yay?
II. Finalley found herself in Malden, started picking off ferals for crits – and found herself swarmed after missing a Legendary rather close to her. She managed to kill them all without damage, but the Legendary item she found on the corpse? Enraging Rolling Pin. Jon was pissed. XD
III. Finalley took a detour into the Med-Tek research building (normally the spot where you take MacCready on his personal quest) because Jon mistook it for the OTHER major hospital in the general area and thought he could get her a new perk magazine. Not only was he wrong about which magazine, he later realized that the magazine is actually locked behind the spot you can only get to with MacCready. Fortunately there was nothing more dangerous than some more ghouls in the area (though some were harder to hit than others – if you’re firing at something behind a railing in this game, bear in mind the railing COULD block your shots), and the one Legendary yielded the better drop of a Rapid Gamma Gun, which Jon admits is fun if nothing else.
IV. Finalley found herself in the area of both West Everett Estates and Taffington Boathouse and decided to call an artillery strike on the Super Mutant camp in the former from the latter. Said strike managed to kill one Super Mutant at best. And while getting away from the potential danger, Finalley upset a LOT of Bloodbug Hatchlings. She was able to take down most and hide from the rest, but it was fairly nerve-wracking for a bit there!
Lucky for Jon’s continued sanity, that was kind of the last of the bad stuff – swinging by Covenant put Finalley back on safe roads, and she was able to get by any other danger without consequence, making it back to Sanctuary, where Trashcan Carla and Mama Murphy waited. Finalley did some trading with the former, then built the latter her chair and handed over some mentats to get the much-needed hint I’ve been waiting for Jon to pick up – the vision that gives the player the recall code for the Greentech Genetics courser. The second of the two reasons to give Mama Murphy drugs, according to Jon (the first is to get the sentence about Lilly June to tell Skinny Malone in Vault 114 so he’ll give you and Nick a chance to leave peacefully; he also concedes that if you’re not tactically nuking Kellogg like Finalley did, it’s probably worth it to get her vision that gives you some bonus damage resistance against Kellogg in the fight). So with that in hand, some decent adrenaline on offer, and no exhaustion or other ill effects from thirst or hunger – yeah. Easter’s episode is Finalley heading into Greentech Genetics. That’ll be a treat. :D
3. Play some Alice: Madness Returns and at least get to the beginning of the Mysterious East: Check! I actually managed to complete the Vale of Doom (with proper amounts of Physx, of course) and get through the first third of the Mysterious East, through the ransacked village and the first Sacred Scroll. Not too shabby, right? :) I should have collected everything along the way too – that missed snout in the Deluded Depths is gonna bug me, but I can at least make sure I’ve got everything else! The game does round up. . . So, yeah, productive bit of Alice-ing. Think I’ll prioritize upgrading the Hobby Horse next – that and the Teapot Cannon are pretty important to fighting the enemies in this portion of the game!
4. Get in a workout: Check! On the treadmill today, so I got through the majority of episode 70 of Jon's Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Grills went to Hallucingen, Inc. this episode, after a small detour to kill a Legendary Raider (who had a Wounding pipe weapon – decent legendary effect, crap gun, Jon left it behind). Inside was full of fairly low-level Gunners fighting each other under the influence of the gas all over the place – Jon theorized that Grills wasn’t being affected thanks to his trusty bandanna over his face. (Grills Bears wears his mask, kids – please wear yours!) It wasn’t any trouble to take them out, nor to get the research Barstow needed. And, as a bonus, Grills picked up some of the gas canisters in the final lab and took them over to Goodneighbor (high on Buffout so his legs didn’t snap) to turn in one to Fred Allen! Ages ago he got a miscellaneous quest from him to get something from Hallucingen, and he’s finally delivered, getting a few caps and the ability to make Hallucingen grenades in the process. Yaaay.
Anyway, after a trip home to Hangman’s Alley (getting there JUST as the Buffout ran out) to make the grenades, and taking a moment to take a few pot shots at some Rust Devil robots hanging around, Grills flew back to Vault 88, where he handed over the research and proceeded onto the next experiments – the soda fountain, the optometry machine, and the slot machine! As usual, Grills took the nice option for all three (extra caffeine and taste for the soda, better eye exams for the eye test, and giving people better chances to win big bucks on the slot machine – that last wasn’t from Ted, by the way. Barstow came up with the slot machine herself, and put in the “people can win more often” for a “control” for some reason. Vault-Tec, ladies, gentlemen, and non-binaries!). He may not have bothered to actually create a proper VAULT for the residents, but he’ll be damned if he tortures them any more than that! XD Along the way there were a couple of very explodey raider attacks because of the massive amount of water production – Grills eventually put up a few heavy machine gun turrets to at least TRY to keep the residents (and himself) alive!
At any rate, the experiments were all completed to the happiness of Clem and the disgust of Barstow. She quit the “cheery purgatory” of the place, giving Grills the “Legend of Vault 88” suit because, well, I guess she doesn’t want it. (No use to her anyway – it gives you extra protection against ghouls, and being a ghoul herself, she doesn’t need it). Grills promptly gifted it to Clem, naming him the new Overseer before running away, leaving them to a constantly-attacked cave full of diesel fumes. Our hero, everyone! XD
With the Vault 88 speedrun done (about an episode and a half! Nice), Grills turned his attention to another location in the south – Suffolk County Charter School! Apparently none of Jon’s characters have been here before, and Jon wanted to see what was inside, as schools generally have good stuff. What was inside was a lot of hot pink Feral Ghouls, a lot of hot pink “food paste,” and a story about a principal who accepted a lot of money in exchange for forcing her students and faculty to eat the stuff constantly – no real food allowed, even at the bake sale! At least one teacher disagreed with the program, noting the kids were becoming restless and rowdy from the samey diet. . .and everyone was getting just that little bit pinker too. . . There was also a mysterious note in someone’s room about not meeting quotas – of people eating paste? Got me. I left it with Grills having mostly cleared the place out, having taken down all the ferals, unchained all the doors, and found a book return machine that also sold pink paste. Om nom. Good times!
Additionally:
-->Quiet night on Valice Multiverse – just one ask, and a friend sent me a funny picture that I decided was worthy of being reblogged. Cool beans with me!
-->Because of the above, I was able to get all my pictures for my next Newcrest Adventures update sorted! So my posts are drafted and ready to be completed tomorrow. :D Though I did nearly accidentally draft the first on VALICE MULTIVERSE instead of Victor Luvs Alice – the dangers of having both your tumblrs open at the same time!
. . .okay, this was actually a more productive Sunday than I first thought. o.O I mean, I'm glad, I'm just a little surprised. Definitely a good start to this short workweek, though! Just three days to make it through. . .and tomorrow, hopefully, will go relatively fast. Just gotta keep my sanity until Thursday! Hopefully I can manage. . .night all!
That doesn't mean I didn't get stuff done though:
1. Free Writing Day -- write something of my choosing or organize a notes document: Check, though what I did was really prep for item 4 on my Standard Weekday To-Do List – “Get my tumblr queues sorted.” I had an idea for an AU Thursday post for “Fallout of Darkness,” with some new ideas I’ve had for the whole “Victor and Alice are going to get Ug-Qualtoth’s help in curing Alice’s ‘sunlight allergy’” thing, so I wrote that up to later paste into a draft on Victor Luvs Alice. I mean, I feel it still counts more than me writing this to-do list itself. XD And it’s one less thing to worry about this week.
2. Watch the next part of "Marvel Meets The Eye" from Atop The Fourth Wall, Call Me Kevin, and Jon's Fallout 4 YOLO episode: Check! Got all of the above watched, hooray~
A) Started with the three-parter second episode of “Marvel Meets The Eye,” Linkara’s Transformers retrospective! This one had cosmic-powered Starscream going on a rampage, a change in writers, the awakening of Primus, Galvatron being plucked from an alternate timeline because the new writer really liked writing him, part of Cybertron being eaten by Unicron, Optimus making a more heroic sacrifice than video game deletion (and coming back YET AGAIN), and the horror that is Ratchet and Megatron fused together – Linkara had about a dozen jokes to make about that bit of body horror. Also, the mini-Transformers line had a brief career in wrestling. Could we have had more of that? It looked like fun and easier to understand. XD As usual, don’t expect me to follow the plot, but Linkara always makes these things enjoyable. (Also, very first part had the joke commercial about the “OfficeBots” parody from Bloodlines, so I was happy with that.)
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and Dysmantle, a zombie survival game with a variety of survival sim elements. You can make a farm at one place, go fishing in another, craft a variety of supplies, weapons, and other useful items, upgrade your backpack for carry capacity. . . Kevin chose to take off all his clothes, run away from zombies whenever possible, accidentally reach the later, more difficult areas of the game before even properly finishing the tutorial, and keep eating the suicide pills because he originally didn’t read what they were and then refused to take them off the hot button. Also he walked into deep water and into a giant crack in the road just to see what would happen. He and Microsoft Sam (the characters are all voiced via text-to-speech) spent a lot of time respawning at the campfires. XD Though he DID manage to set up a successful (we assume) farm in the end, so. . .progress? XD
C) And then, this evening, it was of course time for Jon's Fallout 4 YOLO Playthrough! We caught back up with Finalley just outside Poseidon Energy on a foggy morning, on the hunt for the Endurance Bobblehead. Jon bemoaned her lack of lockpicking and the need to go in through the maintenance tunnel, facing Mirelurks and a bunch of raiders – but actually, things went really well! Finalley’s Staggering Combat Rifle took care of the Mirelurks pretty easily; she was able to do some sharp shooting through the walkways (plus a nice trick throw with a grenade) to take out most of the raiders, and shot down almost every turret before it could detect her – there was one SINGLE turret that got a shot off, simply because it went active behind her due to her opening a certain door, and it did less than half a hit point’s worth of damage. Not only that, beyond the Endurance Bobblehead, she got an issue of Tesla Science (for better crits with energy weapons), and a piece of Powered armor for her left arm off a Legendary Raider – the only arm which had no legendary gear on it! So now she’s back up to double Powered, plus her doubled Cunning – go Finalley!
With that all taken care of, she looped her way back to the Atom Cats garage and called in a vertibird to head back to the Castle briefly to pick up some “artillery creation” supplies. Which turned into an overnight stay when some random robot started firing at her when the vertibird flew over it, forcing her to sleep there in order to get it to lose interest and allow her to use the water pump and cooking station. She was overtired, though, so this was arguably a good plan. Next morning, she got herself fed and watered, stopped by the Prydwen to pick up some supplies and drop off some technical documents and viable blood samples, did her best to ignore all the textures on the Prydwen and the Boston Airport glitching out, and headed out on a trip north, starting at Country Crossing and slowly making her way back to Sanctuary. This trip almost immediately went wrong as, after building some artillery at County Crossing and heading up off the road, she found a Black Bloatfly in her way. She killed it, getting some criticals thanks to her Luck perks –
And then a Radscorpion just appeared. Right next to her.
Cue Jon swearing up a STORM as he criticalled it in the head and ran back to the settlement. XD Suddenly his carefully-planned out route, and his sanity, were in shambles. After plucking up his courage and finding an alternate way for Finalley to go, the following happened on the trip back up to Sanctuary –
I. Finalley found the first dead Knight from the “Lost Patrol” quest and got Brandis’s bunker tagged on her Pip-Boy. So if she and Jon ever are up that way, she can finish that quest! Yay?
II. Finalley found herself in Malden, started picking off ferals for crits – and found herself swarmed after missing a Legendary rather close to her. She managed to kill them all without damage, but the Legendary item she found on the corpse? Enraging Rolling Pin. Jon was pissed. XD
III. Finalley took a detour into the Med-Tek research building (normally the spot where you take MacCready on his personal quest) because Jon mistook it for the OTHER major hospital in the general area and thought he could get her a new perk magazine. Not only was he wrong about which magazine, he later realized that the magazine is actually locked behind the spot you can only get to with MacCready. Fortunately there was nothing more dangerous than some more ghouls in the area (though some were harder to hit than others – if you’re firing at something behind a railing in this game, bear in mind the railing COULD block your shots), and the one Legendary yielded the better drop of a Rapid Gamma Gun, which Jon admits is fun if nothing else.
IV. Finalley found herself in the area of both West Everett Estates and Taffington Boathouse and decided to call an artillery strike on the Super Mutant camp in the former from the latter. Said strike managed to kill one Super Mutant at best. And while getting away from the potential danger, Finalley upset a LOT of Bloodbug Hatchlings. She was able to take down most and hide from the rest, but it was fairly nerve-wracking for a bit there!
Lucky for Jon’s continued sanity, that was kind of the last of the bad stuff – swinging by Covenant put Finalley back on safe roads, and she was able to get by any other danger without consequence, making it back to Sanctuary, where Trashcan Carla and Mama Murphy waited. Finalley did some trading with the former, then built the latter her chair and handed over some mentats to get the much-needed hint I’ve been waiting for Jon to pick up – the vision that gives the player the recall code for the Greentech Genetics courser. The second of the two reasons to give Mama Murphy drugs, according to Jon (the first is to get the sentence about Lilly June to tell Skinny Malone in Vault 114 so he’ll give you and Nick a chance to leave peacefully; he also concedes that if you’re not tactically nuking Kellogg like Finalley did, it’s probably worth it to get her vision that gives you some bonus damage resistance against Kellogg in the fight). So with that in hand, some decent adrenaline on offer, and no exhaustion or other ill effects from thirst or hunger – yeah. Easter’s episode is Finalley heading into Greentech Genetics. That’ll be a treat. :D
3. Play some Alice: Madness Returns and at least get to the beginning of the Mysterious East: Check! I actually managed to complete the Vale of Doom (with proper amounts of Physx, of course) and get through the first third of the Mysterious East, through the ransacked village and the first Sacred Scroll. Not too shabby, right? :) I should have collected everything along the way too – that missed snout in the Deluded Depths is gonna bug me, but I can at least make sure I’ve got everything else! The game does round up. . . So, yeah, productive bit of Alice-ing. Think I’ll prioritize upgrading the Hobby Horse next – that and the Teapot Cannon are pretty important to fighting the enemies in this portion of the game!
4. Get in a workout: Check! On the treadmill today, so I got through the majority of episode 70 of Jon's Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Grills went to Hallucingen, Inc. this episode, after a small detour to kill a Legendary Raider (who had a Wounding pipe weapon – decent legendary effect, crap gun, Jon left it behind). Inside was full of fairly low-level Gunners fighting each other under the influence of the gas all over the place – Jon theorized that Grills wasn’t being affected thanks to his trusty bandanna over his face. (Grills Bears wears his mask, kids – please wear yours!) It wasn’t any trouble to take them out, nor to get the research Barstow needed. And, as a bonus, Grills picked up some of the gas canisters in the final lab and took them over to Goodneighbor (high on Buffout so his legs didn’t snap) to turn in one to Fred Allen! Ages ago he got a miscellaneous quest from him to get something from Hallucingen, and he’s finally delivered, getting a few caps and the ability to make Hallucingen grenades in the process. Yaaay.
Anyway, after a trip home to Hangman’s Alley (getting there JUST as the Buffout ran out) to make the grenades, and taking a moment to take a few pot shots at some Rust Devil robots hanging around, Grills flew back to Vault 88, where he handed over the research and proceeded onto the next experiments – the soda fountain, the optometry machine, and the slot machine! As usual, Grills took the nice option for all three (extra caffeine and taste for the soda, better eye exams for the eye test, and giving people better chances to win big bucks on the slot machine – that last wasn’t from Ted, by the way. Barstow came up with the slot machine herself, and put in the “people can win more often” for a “control” for some reason. Vault-Tec, ladies, gentlemen, and non-binaries!). He may not have bothered to actually create a proper VAULT for the residents, but he’ll be damned if he tortures them any more than that! XD Along the way there were a couple of very explodey raider attacks because of the massive amount of water production – Grills eventually put up a few heavy machine gun turrets to at least TRY to keep the residents (and himself) alive!
At any rate, the experiments were all completed to the happiness of Clem and the disgust of Barstow. She quit the “cheery purgatory” of the place, giving Grills the “Legend of Vault 88” suit because, well, I guess she doesn’t want it. (No use to her anyway – it gives you extra protection against ghouls, and being a ghoul herself, she doesn’t need it). Grills promptly gifted it to Clem, naming him the new Overseer before running away, leaving them to a constantly-attacked cave full of diesel fumes. Our hero, everyone! XD
With the Vault 88 speedrun done (about an episode and a half! Nice), Grills turned his attention to another location in the south – Suffolk County Charter School! Apparently none of Jon’s characters have been here before, and Jon wanted to see what was inside, as schools generally have good stuff. What was inside was a lot of hot pink Feral Ghouls, a lot of hot pink “food paste,” and a story about a principal who accepted a lot of money in exchange for forcing her students and faculty to eat the stuff constantly – no real food allowed, even at the bake sale! At least one teacher disagreed with the program, noting the kids were becoming restless and rowdy from the samey diet. . .and everyone was getting just that little bit pinker too. . . There was also a mysterious note in someone’s room about not meeting quotas – of people eating paste? Got me. I left it with Grills having mostly cleared the place out, having taken down all the ferals, unchained all the doors, and found a book return machine that also sold pink paste. Om nom. Good times!
Additionally:
-->Quiet night on Valice Multiverse – just one ask, and a friend sent me a funny picture that I decided was worthy of being reblogged. Cool beans with me!
-->Because of the above, I was able to get all my pictures for my next Newcrest Adventures update sorted! So my posts are drafted and ready to be completed tomorrow. :D Though I did nearly accidentally draft the first on VALICE MULTIVERSE instead of Victor Luvs Alice – the dangers of having both your tumblrs open at the same time!
. . .okay, this was actually a more productive Sunday than I first thought. o.O I mean, I'm glad, I'm just a little surprised. Definitely a good start to this short workweek, though! Just three days to make it through. . .and tomorrow, hopefully, will go relatively fast. Just gotta keep my sanity until Thursday! Hopefully I can manage. . .night all!
