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Wiped Out Monday
Apr. 26th, 2021 11:20 pmKind of a "hit the ground running" day at work, at least to start. . .and it didn't help that I had more issues with the credit card stuff. . .and then I had to get gas on the way home and that was a pain in the ass, and -- yeah. I'm tired and grouchy and not looking forward to the rest of the week. Always a great way to end a Monday!
As for the to-do list. . .
1. Get in a workout: Check – more time on the bike, more time spent with “Nuka-World Level One Survival!” Caught up with Minnie as she finished looting the corpses from the Battle of the Dry Rock Gulch Employees Only Area and got back up on the walls surrounding this park. From there, she wandered around, seeing what routes she could take to best avoid Bloodworms and whatnot (and sniping a Larva that appeared near the other gate). Jon even discovered he could get her partway up the roller coaster if necessary – lots of little hiding places for an acrobatic sort! And Minnie’s getting quite acrobatic, given he used her latest level-up on another rank of Agility. . .
In fact, between her new agileness and her Strength being boosted by all sorts of things now, Jon decided to try an experiment. He sent her home, had her spend a bunch of caps to get them below 100, then checked her strength in and out of power armor. Fourteen in the armor, and nine outside of it – plus some other bonuses from the armor she could wear when not in the big old Overboss gear (such as her new Sentinel’s gear! Sadly it’s the same arm as the Ghoul Slayer’s, but happily since she’s already taken care of the ghouls near Dry Rock. . .). Jon decided that was sufficient to test her out as a melee build, and had her run back with her Rocket Bat, ignoring the game brewing up a rainstorm to discourage him. Minnie went to handle the Giddyup Kid and his area first, taking out the Bloodworm Larva and regular old Bloodworm in the nearby cemetery in a few home-run-worthy hits (she put the Bloodworm up a tree!). And she got the Cappy in there, which was handy. :) And she managed to pass the hard speech check to get the Giddyup Kid to just give her his part of the combination without doing his little mini-quest –
And then she was promptly murdered by the nearby Cave Crickets. Jon was miffed. Miffed enough to seek revenge at the beginning of Episode 6. Not willing to give up Minnie’s melee ways, he headed into the park and started figuring out ways to lure the Crickets into a frag mine trap. He accidentally lured them over by amphitheater first (sprinting like hell to keep ahead of them), but wasn’t able to lure them inside to meet his mines – so instead he had Minnie mine up their way back to their “home” area and loot the corpses they’d apparently been eating. Unfortunately, a lack of XP as the mines started exploding cued Jon into the fact that the Crickets were a LOT harder to kill than expected – fortunately, the mines plus a frag grenade crippled them to the point where they couldn’t run. Jon finished them off with a molotov, a few swings of his bat, and – for the Hunter – the rest of his 10mil ammo. And apparently he only got 11 XP for finishing the damn thing off! Come on, game, give him a break here!
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! And yes, "Londerland Bloodlines" -- with the completion of the second draft of "In A World Of His Own," I'm swapping its schedule with "Londerland Bloodlines." If I'm announcing new chapters on "In A World Of His Own" on Fridays, it just makes sense to actually work on posting it on Thursdays. :p
Anyway, Alice has gotten her note from Mecurio (plus $100 bucks, because he’s a good egg) and has cracked into her e-mail, dumping the spam, reading the important stuff, and getting puzzled over the first mysterious “a friend” message. Nothing too major, but then we are only just starting the first “main” quest – she’ll be going out into adventure soon enough!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check, plus a bonus video! Always nice --
A) Actually started with a video from one Anna Rudolf, aka Call Me Kevin’s girlfriend, with a highlights video of her and Kevin doing a Minecraft stream together. Said highlights were mostly of her dying or nearly dying to monsters, because, by her own admission, Anna is not good at video games. XD Though the best bit was Anna taking a bathroom break during the stream, and Kevin immediately taking advantage of her afk status to shove her character into a dark room and wall her up. And then claim she’d been taken by “Ralph the Darkness” when she returned. The look of absolute BAFFLEMENT on her face when she got back and saw her character’s POV and her chat. . . XD Other than that, though, it was easily the most wholesome I’ve ever SEEN Kevin during a Minecraft video. They really are cute together.
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin himself and an early access life sim, Wobbly Life! You control a little yellow wobbly person, kicked out of the house to get a job by Mama, and take on various little tasks for money to buy outfits and whatnot. Kevin, of course, happily made a pig’s ear out of most of the tasks he was assigned – finding jelly (he never did); finding trash (he sank the trash truck in a lake); getting rid of radioactive waste (he drove the truck down to the drop-off point WITHOUT any of the barrels – and then kept breaking them and going radioactive); and harvesting crops (okay, he managed to get a FEW tomatoes to the fast-food restaurant, but spent entirely too much time trying to pack his pick-up truck with them). He did at least earn enough to buy himself a sweet egg hat and chicken legs. And go on the caterpillar ride at the carnival. XD It’s the little things, you know?
C) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays versus another GTA V stunt board – this one literally called “The Devil.” As you might imagine, it was a rather difficult and very long parkour board. You like making 90-degree turns on narrow platforms? This board’s got that. You like wall rides that almost immediately go into a transfer? This board’s got that. You like unevenly-spaced platforms sending you down into the depths of the ocean when you misjudge their distance? This board’s got that. You like tightroping in a car with no suspension around curves? THIS BOARD’S GOT THAT YOU BITCH. Gray, naturally, managed to complete the course, but I do believe his sanity took another solid beating. Ow.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A -- I didn't get anything done here, but with my Newcrest Adventures posts for the week already sorted, I didn't actually need to. Given how tired I am right now, I'm glad of it.
And now it's time to finish up answering comments and head to bed, where I hope I'll sleep a little better tonight. At least tomorrow I can just come STRAIGHT home instead of stopping anywhere. . .night all!
As for the to-do list. . .
1. Get in a workout: Check – more time on the bike, more time spent with “Nuka-World Level One Survival!” Caught up with Minnie as she finished looting the corpses from the Battle of the Dry Rock Gulch Employees Only Area and got back up on the walls surrounding this park. From there, she wandered around, seeing what routes she could take to best avoid Bloodworms and whatnot (and sniping a Larva that appeared near the other gate). Jon even discovered he could get her partway up the roller coaster if necessary – lots of little hiding places for an acrobatic sort! And Minnie’s getting quite acrobatic, given he used her latest level-up on another rank of Agility. . .
In fact, between her new agileness and her Strength being boosted by all sorts of things now, Jon decided to try an experiment. He sent her home, had her spend a bunch of caps to get them below 100, then checked her strength in and out of power armor. Fourteen in the armor, and nine outside of it – plus some other bonuses from the armor she could wear when not in the big old Overboss gear (such as her new Sentinel’s gear! Sadly it’s the same arm as the Ghoul Slayer’s, but happily since she’s already taken care of the ghouls near Dry Rock. . .). Jon decided that was sufficient to test her out as a melee build, and had her run back with her Rocket Bat, ignoring the game brewing up a rainstorm to discourage him. Minnie went to handle the Giddyup Kid and his area first, taking out the Bloodworm Larva and regular old Bloodworm in the nearby cemetery in a few home-run-worthy hits (she put the Bloodworm up a tree!). And she got the Cappy in there, which was handy. :) And she managed to pass the hard speech check to get the Giddyup Kid to just give her his part of the combination without doing his little mini-quest –
And then she was promptly murdered by the nearby Cave Crickets. Jon was miffed. Miffed enough to seek revenge at the beginning of Episode 6. Not willing to give up Minnie’s melee ways, he headed into the park and started figuring out ways to lure the Crickets into a frag mine trap. He accidentally lured them over by amphitheater first (sprinting like hell to keep ahead of them), but wasn’t able to lure them inside to meet his mines – so instead he had Minnie mine up their way back to their “home” area and loot the corpses they’d apparently been eating. Unfortunately, a lack of XP as the mines started exploding cued Jon into the fact that the Crickets were a LOT harder to kill than expected – fortunately, the mines plus a frag grenade crippled them to the point where they couldn’t run. Jon finished them off with a molotov, a few swings of his bat, and – for the Hunter – the rest of his 10mil ammo. And apparently he only got 11 XP for finishing the damn thing off! Come on, game, give him a break here!
2. Work some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! And yes, "Londerland Bloodlines" -- with the completion of the second draft of "In A World Of His Own," I'm swapping its schedule with "Londerland Bloodlines." If I'm announcing new chapters on "In A World Of His Own" on Fridays, it just makes sense to actually work on posting it on Thursdays. :p
Anyway, Alice has gotten her note from Mecurio (plus $100 bucks, because he’s a good egg) and has cracked into her e-mail, dumping the spam, reading the important stuff, and getting puzzled over the first mysterious “a friend” message. Nothing too major, but then we are only just starting the first “main” quest – she’ll be going out into adventure soon enough!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check, plus a bonus video! Always nice --
A) Actually started with a video from one Anna Rudolf, aka Call Me Kevin’s girlfriend, with a highlights video of her and Kevin doing a Minecraft stream together. Said highlights were mostly of her dying or nearly dying to monsters, because, by her own admission, Anna is not good at video games. XD Though the best bit was Anna taking a bathroom break during the stream, and Kevin immediately taking advantage of her afk status to shove her character into a dark room and wall her up. And then claim she’d been taken by “Ralph the Darkness” when she returned. The look of absolute BAFFLEMENT on her face when she got back and saw her character’s POV and her chat. . . XD Other than that, though, it was easily the most wholesome I’ve ever SEEN Kevin during a Minecraft video. They really are cute together.
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin himself and an early access life sim, Wobbly Life! You control a little yellow wobbly person, kicked out of the house to get a job by Mama, and take on various little tasks for money to buy outfits and whatnot. Kevin, of course, happily made a pig’s ear out of most of the tasks he was assigned – finding jelly (he never did); finding trash (he sank the trash truck in a lake); getting rid of radioactive waste (he drove the truck down to the drop-off point WITHOUT any of the barrels – and then kept breaking them and going radioactive); and harvesting crops (okay, he managed to get a FEW tomatoes to the fast-food restaurant, but spent entirely too much time trying to pack his pick-up truck with them). He did at least earn enough to buy himself a sweet egg hat and chicken legs. And go on the caterpillar ride at the carnival. XD It’s the little things, you know?
C) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays versus another GTA V stunt board – this one literally called “The Devil.” As you might imagine, it was a rather difficult and very long parkour board. You like making 90-degree turns on narrow platforms? This board’s got that. You like wall rides that almost immediately go into a transfer? This board’s got that. You like unevenly-spaced platforms sending you down into the depths of the ocean when you misjudge their distance? This board’s got that. You like tightroping in a car with no suspension around curves? THIS BOARD’S GOT THAT YOU BITCH. Gray, naturally, managed to complete the course, but I do believe his sanity took another solid beating. Ow.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A -- I didn't get anything done here, but with my Newcrest Adventures posts for the week already sorted, I didn't actually need to. Given how tired I am right now, I'm glad of it.
And now it's time to finish up answering comments and head to bed, where I hope I'll sleep a little better tonight. At least tomorrow I can just come STRAIGHT home instead of stopping anywhere. . .night all!
