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And it was indeed nice out! Little breezy, little warm, but heat is a LOT easier to take when it's not paired with enormous amounts of sticky, horrendous air. And it's supposed to be like this for the next few days! Now, granted, I do have my AC on right now, but that's just because having the windows open and the shades up means my room got hot, and it is VERY slow to cool down, so -- unless it's in the fifties overnight, I really do need the extra help from the AC. Will turn it off first thing in the morning!
As for my to-do list, some good work there --
1. Work some more on my Sims 4 challenges: Check – did some work on the Fallout 4-themed one this morning. It’s a bit difficult because I know what I want the challenge to consist of, but I’m having trouble getting it all into words. . . I made a start, though, getting down a few of the rules like what a settlement needs to be considered “good” and whatnot. Also came up with some ideas for extra challenges, like making all four factions as clubs, setting the Railroad, Institute, and Brotherhood of Steel to dislike each other, and then having the Sole Survivor come in, take over, and decide who gets to stay and who doesn’t. It’s coming together, slowly but surely!
2. Keep up on YouTube Subs, watch the OXBox video game music quiz in my Watch Later, watch Jon's latest FO4 YOLO episode: Check – again with bonus videos! Though that’s only because a) one was short and b) James Turner didn’t actually upload today because he got his first COVID shot and was feeling kinda cruddy. Still works out for me, and I’m glad to see him get vaccinated. :)
A) Started this afternoon with a short one from the Red Plumbob that dropped today – a comparison across the franchise of Miss/Mrs. Crumplebottom! Yes, what her title is kind of changes from game to game. . . Miss Agnes Crumplebottom of The Sims and Sims 3 is someone different to the Mrs. Crumplebottom of Sims 2, and Agnes Crumplebottom (no title) of Sims 4. But she’s always been against Sims having a good time, especially getting romantic in front of her. Unless there’s a bar. Or a card table. Or if you give her a romantic gift. XD What I’m saying is, she’s complex.
B) Then it was over to the OXBox video mentioned above – “Ultimate Game Music Quiz: So You Think You Know Videogame Music?” Mike and Luke went head-to-head in Andy’s music quiz to see which one of them knows video game music better! As one of the OXBox quizzes was how I found out about the gorgeous 2 AM soundtrack from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I was keen to see if they had any other hidden gems for me to discover in this video. :D They played five rounds – guess the Zelda game main theme (five out of five for both); guess the Mario sports theme (three out of five for both, and they both swapped the last two sports); guess the Street Fighter 5 character from their remixed classic theme (Luke got three out of sheer luck, while Mike got one); match the final boss theme to the boss (four out of six for both); and finally the Lightning Round (Mike got one and a half (mostly from Andy giving him the first because he guessed the first Red Dead Redemption game when the song was from the second, and a half-point for the fourth entry because he picked Spider-Man PS4 instead of Spider-Man Miles Morales), Luke four (missed a Mario Party theme, which he found amusing because he is a Nintendo lad)). So Luke won that one, and I have discovered that, apart from bosses having cool themes, I apparently like Fortnite’s lobby music. Okay then! XD
C) After supper, we moved onto Call Me Kevin and Guise Of The Wolf, another terrible indie game that he’s actually rather fond of! Mostly because it’s so stupid and broken you just have to laugh. You play as an alchemist whose traveling party is attacked by a mysterious beast, and end up in the castle of a count looking to have it killed with your potions. Only problem is, mysterious beast is a werewolf, you’ve been infected, and now if you go into the moonlight you will turn into a wolf-man. Kevin played through rescuing a guy named Filch and making a potion that lets him control his werewolf-ness to a degree – as in, he still changes if he’s under the full moon, but he can control himself. Kevin controlled him into killing a woman and some annoying guards constantly telling him “helps to have a map.” XD Yeah, it’s one of those games – terrible voice acting and animation (the characters bob up and down constantly when you talk to them), goofy model design (the other werewolf looks like a big derpy puppy and moves at a snail’s pace), and general glitchiness (killing the woman made her t-pose in an attempt to assert dominance). It’s awful but adorable at the same time – Kevin’s favorite genre! :D
D) Then it was over to Plumbella for a moment for the “worst build challenge” she’s created – basically a jigsaw puzzle house! You make every room separately, including doors and windows, then you have to fit them all together in a way that makes at least a tiny bit of sense. Plumbella did a small two-story with a very plant-themed living room, a galley kitchen with breakfast nook and attached laundry, a front hall with the stairs, a small bathroom with a platform tub, and a bedroom that she, uh, forgot to put a door on. XD The house ended up a bit weirdly shaped, especially with how long the galley kitchen was and how she placed the windows on the front, but mostly it seemed to work. Except the roof was cutting through the bathroom. And there was no access to the bedroom. She tried! XD Tempted to give it a go myself at some point, honestly. . .
E) Then we had GrayStillPlays and more GTA V stunt board masochism! It’s apparently Godzilla week down at Gray HQ, as today’s board was themed around flying out to Godzilla, surfacing off the coast of Los Santos, and throwing yourself down his gullet as a sacrifice to the Yeet Gods to stop him. Naturally, this involved a lot of Gray flailing around in a plane through various terrible obstacles, such as a variety of tubes with pizza-slice cut-outs, a number of different thumbnail holes (some put at interesting angles), and doing plane wall rides. Yes, you heard right, this creator figured out a way to do wall rides WITH A PLANE. TWICE – once with a normal prop plane, once with a seaplane half-submerged in the ocean as an alternative to wiggling yourself through yet another thumbnail hole. And the Godzilla at the end was appropriately nuclear, breathing out a set of fiery hoops you had to fling yourself down. Gray loved and hated it in equal measure, as he does with most of these boards. XD But he beat it, and as he himself said, Godzilla’s now due to die of food poisoning, yay. XD
F) And finally, of course, we had the wonder that is Jon’s Fallout 4 “You Only Live Once” run! We caught back up with Miss Finalley on Far Harbor, preparing to finally take out Far Harbor, justifying it to herself as “they’re the real monsters” so she can’t feel bad about becoming an Inquisitor of Atom and getting a perk to up her damage output with her weapons the more irradiated she becomes. :p But, of course, in order to get that perk – first, she had to actually take out Far Harbor. Which involved leaving the town, and going up to the wind farm’s control center. Which has two Assaultrons in it. And Finalley, as you might recall, abandoned her power armor when she went for her grand swim back to the town in a rather nasty place. Leaving her with only one option to brave the rads between her and the control center –
The fucking hazmat suit. The suit, I may remind you all, that Finalley was wearing to take on Kiddie Kingdom – and which more or less helped facilitate The Hit That Nearly Ended The Run.
FORTUNATELY, history did not repeat itself, as Jon took things slow, took things careful, and made sure to follow a route that he already knew was largely safe. Finalley made it to the control center without issue, restored the power with a not-really-a-puzzle (FO4 seems to have a fair number of those), then carefully took out the turrets and the two Assaultrons – which, to everyone’s relief, was one basic model and one Invader. No more of this terrifying invisible Dominator nonsense! She found her control computer, put in the code – and with that, Far Harbor was overrun by the Fog and the monsters within. Fantastic.
Of course, part two of getting the perk was reporting her success to Tektus, which meant getting back to the Nucleus. Which involved more careful creeping along the land in a hazmat suit, terrified of being murdered at every moment. Finalley took a moment along the way to swing by Acadia, however, to get lectured by DiMA about being a mass murderer (Jon keen to point out the kill switch was actually DIMA’S in case HE wanted to commit the mass murder), then talk to Kasumi. Hilariously, “murder everyone” Jon considered the option of convincing Kasumi she’s not a synth, bringing her home, then telling her father she is a synth so he’ll kick her out and she’ll have to live in Goodneighbor to be “monstrous,” so instead Finalley convinced her to stay with her new synth friends to close out that part of the DLC. Finalley’s morality is, uh, FLEXIBLE, shall we say. :p Whatever keeps her alive and gives her the least trouble!
With that sorted, Finalley made it over to the Nucleus with no more trouble than nuking one Fog Crawler along the way, getting herself some nice irradiated meat before reporting in to Tektus, getting praised for spreading the glory of Atom, and nearly getting over-encumbered by the nice set of armor he tried to give her. XD But she got her perk, meaning all that remained –
Was to get over to Beaver Creek Lanes and get Haylen’s haptic drive. Yes, waaaay back near the beginning of this run, Haylen told Finalley about this thing over here because her stupid “Quartermastery” quest can choose ANYWHERE in the game to spawn the item she needs, and it choosing DLC areas is a genuine problem people have tried to mod out. Jon was happy enough to ignore her at first – but now that he was ON Far Harbor, he decided that getting that was an easy way to pick up a bunch of XP for levels that would get him closer to a power armor jetpack and thus a return to Nuka-World. His last hurrah before leaving this godforsaken island!
And so Finalley ended up swimming the long way around the island (it would have been a shorter route had an angler or gulper not scared the shit out of Jon), getting out near town, then proceeding over to the bowling alley to carefully take out the ghouls both inside and out. Outside happened to have THREE COCKING LEGENDARIES around it – but none of them had anything Jon wanted, sadly (a “Mutant’s Slayer Flamer,” which is very situation and best against an enemy Jon isn’t even trying to engage unless he HAS to; a “Powered Raider Left Arm,” which Jon was like “why always POWERED;” and a “Cavalier’s Pool Cue” which – you could practically SEE the sarcasm coming through the screen). Inside was just regular old ghouls, taken out with Finalley’s much stronger weapons and grenades. No problems, no nothing – in, got the Haptic Drive, out, panic because she forgot to put on her hazmat suit for a moment and she’s not QUITE ready to irradiate herself down to 24% health just yet. XD
With Drive in hand, Finalley snuck her way around the ruins of Far Harbor, hopped on the boat, and FINALLY got the flip out of Maine. She told Kenji that Kasumi was all right, fully human, but had found a family in Acadia, which he took with good grace and gave Finalley the key to a chest full of his explorer father’s stuff. This has a randomized Legendary in it – in fact, if you play in Quicksave Land, you can save right before digging it up to constantly reroll the Legendary and see what comes up. This of course was not a thing for Finalley, and she had to be content with a Deadeye Automatic Improved Laser Rifle, which Jon was less-than-impressed by but decided he could take to sell. ...And then took the giant pile of caps in the chest as well because he’d be near a merchant soon, heedless of the fact that bumps Finalley’s Endurance down so much. Jon, if you die early next episode because of your caps, that is SOLELY ON YOU.
3. Play more Bloodlines and start the Downtown stuff: Check! I have indeed started the Downtown stuff – Crystal has met up with Max Strauss and learned about the pyramid (and gotten a hint that it is possible for her to join if she proves herself worthy) and the plague going around Downtown; met up with the Anarchs, played nice with Nines for the extra Brawl point, and gotten the Anarchs’ half of the plaguebearer’s quest from Damsel; stopped by where the Slasher’s next victim WILL be once I actually listen to the message at the apartment (got ahead of myself there!); and hit up LaCroix’s tower to get the Elizabeth Dane quest. From there it was back to Santa Monica to meet up with Mercurio on the beach and get Officer Heinz’s help in breaking into the boat (DEFINITELY not trying to get close to the sarcophagus without Obfuscate!) and pick up all the items for LaCroix, before going back Downtown, meeting Heather, turning in the Dane stuff, and getting the Grout quest. Also realizing too late that I didn’t need to be nearly as nice to LaCroix as I was, because – Tremere. I don’t get the Skyelines apartment. :( Darn it. Ah well, Crystal can start cuddling up more to Strauss later. I’ve left her at the entrance to the hospital, as I might as well meet Pisha and pick up HER quest before heading to the apartment building – take care of everything in there in one go!
4. Get in a workout: Check – a little over thirty on the treadmill today, and with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! I picked up with Miss Jon and Dogmeat escaping Vault 114 with Nick Valentine. They shot their way through the remaining goons (Past!Jon noting that Nick isn’t great with a gun, thanks companion AI) and confronted Skinny and his moll Darla. Miss Jon, who’d just picked up a swanky tuxedo, was able to future-knowledge Charisma her way out of bloodshed – and then nearly got her and her companions shot anyway because she was too overloaded to actually run and couldn’t get Dogmeat to stand still long enough to trade. XD Fortunately she was able to finally dump some stuff off on him and run after Nick, and they escaped the vault without being pumped full of holes. She agreed to meet Nick back at his Diamond City office, then traveled to Sanctuary to drop off her junk and do some more crafting (like turning her new Exterminator’s 10mm into her standard weapon, upgrading Righteous Authority, and improving a few other weapons) before ending Episode 11.
Episode 12 sent her back to Diamond City, to meet up with Nick! After getting payment and some spare clothes from Ellie, Miss Jon sat down and told Nick everything she knew about the kidnapping (with Past!Jon hoping that someone would pick up on the fact that, due to the cyrogenic freezing, she’d have no idea WHEN Shaun was taken). Nick eventually realized from her description that they were looking for Kellogg, a mercenary who’d lived in the city a little while back with a ten-year-old boy, and took Miss Jon over to Kellogg’s old house to try and take a look around. The lock proved too tough for either of them to crack, though, so Nick directed her to the mayor’s office to see if she could get a key.
Miss Jon, naturally, went exploring instead – though, given it was pretty much the middle of the night when she and Nick went over to the house, maybe that was understandable. XD She swung by the wall and picked up Abbott’s quest to get some more green paint; wandered through the mutfruit plantation and picked up a bunch of them (along with stealing a few items for adhesive and oil); and saw Sheng arguing with security, though she couldn’t talk to him at the time (so instead she broke into his house and stole a bunch of purified water). She then proceeded to wait until morning, where she did Sheng’s quest to get some of the crud out of the water supply (including a human skull, apparently the result of a previous helper coming across a grenade), then visited the Science! Center and learned about radiation from one of the scientists within. Left it with the scientist giving her a “field trip” to go get a bloatfly gland, yaaay. :p Past!Jon is very impressed with how much like a proper city Diamond City feels, with infrastructure (sort of), food, all that good stuff. Apparently Bethesda didn’t always go to this level of effort before, so it’s good to know they did so with this one! (Not that it’s stopped people from making add-ons – I actually have one of those mods, puts in a laundry and a few houses with unusual residents. Might even make the cut if and when I start playing myself again.)
5. Work on tumblr queues: Eh, check in the sense I got the queue for Valice Multiverse sorted – two ask replies, nothing special. I was hoping to do a little more with Victor Luvs Alice, but hey – Sunday YouTube is a cruel mistress. :p
Additionally:
-->Nice weather means playing beanbags – I got 3-2-W-3-W; Dad W-3-3-W-3, and Mom 2-W-2-2-2! Granted, my first win was sheer luck – Mom’s winning beanbag throw got stuck on the side of the hole and thus only got her one point instead of three – but I’ll take it. XD And it always amuses me when someone gets like all seconds or all thirds apart from their wins. At least we all won at least one game!
So yeah, nice, busy Sunday -- up a little later than I should be, but that's just par for the course now, isn't it? Anyway, gotta finish up here and hit the sheets for my upcoming full week of work, bleeh. Hopefully it remains fairly quiet for the time being. I would like that. Night all!
As for my to-do list, some good work there --
1. Work some more on my Sims 4 challenges: Check – did some work on the Fallout 4-themed one this morning. It’s a bit difficult because I know what I want the challenge to consist of, but I’m having trouble getting it all into words. . . I made a start, though, getting down a few of the rules like what a settlement needs to be considered “good” and whatnot. Also came up with some ideas for extra challenges, like making all four factions as clubs, setting the Railroad, Institute, and Brotherhood of Steel to dislike each other, and then having the Sole Survivor come in, take over, and decide who gets to stay and who doesn’t. It’s coming together, slowly but surely!
2. Keep up on YouTube Subs, watch the OXBox video game music quiz in my Watch Later, watch Jon's latest FO4 YOLO episode: Check – again with bonus videos! Though that’s only because a) one was short and b) James Turner didn’t actually upload today because he got his first COVID shot and was feeling kinda cruddy. Still works out for me, and I’m glad to see him get vaccinated. :)
A) Started this afternoon with a short one from the Red Plumbob that dropped today – a comparison across the franchise of Miss/Mrs. Crumplebottom! Yes, what her title is kind of changes from game to game. . . Miss Agnes Crumplebottom of The Sims and Sims 3 is someone different to the Mrs. Crumplebottom of Sims 2, and Agnes Crumplebottom (no title) of Sims 4. But she’s always been against Sims having a good time, especially getting romantic in front of her. Unless there’s a bar. Or a card table. Or if you give her a romantic gift. XD What I’m saying is, she’s complex.
B) Then it was over to the OXBox video mentioned above – “Ultimate Game Music Quiz: So You Think You Know Videogame Music?” Mike and Luke went head-to-head in Andy’s music quiz to see which one of them knows video game music better! As one of the OXBox quizzes was how I found out about the gorgeous 2 AM soundtrack from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I was keen to see if they had any other hidden gems for me to discover in this video. :D They played five rounds – guess the Zelda game main theme (five out of five for both); guess the Mario sports theme (three out of five for both, and they both swapped the last two sports); guess the Street Fighter 5 character from their remixed classic theme (Luke got three out of sheer luck, while Mike got one); match the final boss theme to the boss (four out of six for both); and finally the Lightning Round (Mike got one and a half (mostly from Andy giving him the first because he guessed the first Red Dead Redemption game when the song was from the second, and a half-point for the fourth entry because he picked Spider-Man PS4 instead of Spider-Man Miles Morales), Luke four (missed a Mario Party theme, which he found amusing because he is a Nintendo lad)). So Luke won that one, and I have discovered that, apart from bosses having cool themes, I apparently like Fortnite’s lobby music. Okay then! XD
C) After supper, we moved onto Call Me Kevin and Guise Of The Wolf, another terrible indie game that he’s actually rather fond of! Mostly because it’s so stupid and broken you just have to laugh. You play as an alchemist whose traveling party is attacked by a mysterious beast, and end up in the castle of a count looking to have it killed with your potions. Only problem is, mysterious beast is a werewolf, you’ve been infected, and now if you go into the moonlight you will turn into a wolf-man. Kevin played through rescuing a guy named Filch and making a potion that lets him control his werewolf-ness to a degree – as in, he still changes if he’s under the full moon, but he can control himself. Kevin controlled him into killing a woman and some annoying guards constantly telling him “helps to have a map.” XD Yeah, it’s one of those games – terrible voice acting and animation (the characters bob up and down constantly when you talk to them), goofy model design (the other werewolf looks like a big derpy puppy and moves at a snail’s pace), and general glitchiness (killing the woman made her t-pose in an attempt to assert dominance). It’s awful but adorable at the same time – Kevin’s favorite genre! :D
D) Then it was over to Plumbella for a moment for the “worst build challenge” she’s created – basically a jigsaw puzzle house! You make every room separately, including doors and windows, then you have to fit them all together in a way that makes at least a tiny bit of sense. Plumbella did a small two-story with a very plant-themed living room, a galley kitchen with breakfast nook and attached laundry, a front hall with the stairs, a small bathroom with a platform tub, and a bedroom that she, uh, forgot to put a door on. XD The house ended up a bit weirdly shaped, especially with how long the galley kitchen was and how she placed the windows on the front, but mostly it seemed to work. Except the roof was cutting through the bathroom. And there was no access to the bedroom. She tried! XD Tempted to give it a go myself at some point, honestly. . .
E) Then we had GrayStillPlays and more GTA V stunt board masochism! It’s apparently Godzilla week down at Gray HQ, as today’s board was themed around flying out to Godzilla, surfacing off the coast of Los Santos, and throwing yourself down his gullet as a sacrifice to the Yeet Gods to stop him. Naturally, this involved a lot of Gray flailing around in a plane through various terrible obstacles, such as a variety of tubes with pizza-slice cut-outs, a number of different thumbnail holes (some put at interesting angles), and doing plane wall rides. Yes, you heard right, this creator figured out a way to do wall rides WITH A PLANE. TWICE – once with a normal prop plane, once with a seaplane half-submerged in the ocean as an alternative to wiggling yourself through yet another thumbnail hole. And the Godzilla at the end was appropriately nuclear, breathing out a set of fiery hoops you had to fling yourself down. Gray loved and hated it in equal measure, as he does with most of these boards. XD But he beat it, and as he himself said, Godzilla’s now due to die of food poisoning, yay. XD
F) And finally, of course, we had the wonder that is Jon’s Fallout 4 “You Only Live Once” run! We caught back up with Miss Finalley on Far Harbor, preparing to finally take out Far Harbor, justifying it to herself as “they’re the real monsters” so she can’t feel bad about becoming an Inquisitor of Atom and getting a perk to up her damage output with her weapons the more irradiated she becomes. :p But, of course, in order to get that perk – first, she had to actually take out Far Harbor. Which involved leaving the town, and going up to the wind farm’s control center. Which has two Assaultrons in it. And Finalley, as you might recall, abandoned her power armor when she went for her grand swim back to the town in a rather nasty place. Leaving her with only one option to brave the rads between her and the control center –
The fucking hazmat suit. The suit, I may remind you all, that Finalley was wearing to take on Kiddie Kingdom – and which more or less helped facilitate The Hit That Nearly Ended The Run.
FORTUNATELY, history did not repeat itself, as Jon took things slow, took things careful, and made sure to follow a route that he already knew was largely safe. Finalley made it to the control center without issue, restored the power with a not-really-a-puzzle (FO4 seems to have a fair number of those), then carefully took out the turrets and the two Assaultrons – which, to everyone’s relief, was one basic model and one Invader. No more of this terrifying invisible Dominator nonsense! She found her control computer, put in the code – and with that, Far Harbor was overrun by the Fog and the monsters within. Fantastic.
Of course, part two of getting the perk was reporting her success to Tektus, which meant getting back to the Nucleus. Which involved more careful creeping along the land in a hazmat suit, terrified of being murdered at every moment. Finalley took a moment along the way to swing by Acadia, however, to get lectured by DiMA about being a mass murderer (Jon keen to point out the kill switch was actually DIMA’S in case HE wanted to commit the mass murder), then talk to Kasumi. Hilariously, “murder everyone” Jon considered the option of convincing Kasumi she’s not a synth, bringing her home, then telling her father she is a synth so he’ll kick her out and she’ll have to live in Goodneighbor to be “monstrous,” so instead Finalley convinced her to stay with her new synth friends to close out that part of the DLC. Finalley’s morality is, uh, FLEXIBLE, shall we say. :p Whatever keeps her alive and gives her the least trouble!
With that sorted, Finalley made it over to the Nucleus with no more trouble than nuking one Fog Crawler along the way, getting herself some nice irradiated meat before reporting in to Tektus, getting praised for spreading the glory of Atom, and nearly getting over-encumbered by the nice set of armor he tried to give her. XD But she got her perk, meaning all that remained –
Was to get over to Beaver Creek Lanes and get Haylen’s haptic drive. Yes, waaaay back near the beginning of this run, Haylen told Finalley about this thing over here because her stupid “Quartermastery” quest can choose ANYWHERE in the game to spawn the item she needs, and it choosing DLC areas is a genuine problem people have tried to mod out. Jon was happy enough to ignore her at first – but now that he was ON Far Harbor, he decided that getting that was an easy way to pick up a bunch of XP for levels that would get him closer to a power armor jetpack and thus a return to Nuka-World. His last hurrah before leaving this godforsaken island!
And so Finalley ended up swimming the long way around the island (it would have been a shorter route had an angler or gulper not scared the shit out of Jon), getting out near town, then proceeding over to the bowling alley to carefully take out the ghouls both inside and out. Outside happened to have THREE COCKING LEGENDARIES around it – but none of them had anything Jon wanted, sadly (a “Mutant’s Slayer Flamer,” which is very situation and best against an enemy Jon isn’t even trying to engage unless he HAS to; a “Powered Raider Left Arm,” which Jon was like “why always POWERED;” and a “Cavalier’s Pool Cue” which – you could practically SEE the sarcasm coming through the screen). Inside was just regular old ghouls, taken out with Finalley’s much stronger weapons and grenades. No problems, no nothing – in, got the Haptic Drive, out, panic because she forgot to put on her hazmat suit for a moment and she’s not QUITE ready to irradiate herself down to 24% health just yet. XD
With Drive in hand, Finalley snuck her way around the ruins of Far Harbor, hopped on the boat, and FINALLY got the flip out of Maine. She told Kenji that Kasumi was all right, fully human, but had found a family in Acadia, which he took with good grace and gave Finalley the key to a chest full of his explorer father’s stuff. This has a randomized Legendary in it – in fact, if you play in Quicksave Land, you can save right before digging it up to constantly reroll the Legendary and see what comes up. This of course was not a thing for Finalley, and she had to be content with a Deadeye Automatic Improved Laser Rifle, which Jon was less-than-impressed by but decided he could take to sell. ...And then took the giant pile of caps in the chest as well because he’d be near a merchant soon, heedless of the fact that bumps Finalley’s Endurance down so much. Jon, if you die early next episode because of your caps, that is SOLELY ON YOU.
3. Play more Bloodlines and start the Downtown stuff: Check! I have indeed started the Downtown stuff – Crystal has met up with Max Strauss and learned about the pyramid (and gotten a hint that it is possible for her to join if she proves herself worthy) and the plague going around Downtown; met up with the Anarchs, played nice with Nines for the extra Brawl point, and gotten the Anarchs’ half of the plaguebearer’s quest from Damsel; stopped by where the Slasher’s next victim WILL be once I actually listen to the message at the apartment (got ahead of myself there!); and hit up LaCroix’s tower to get the Elizabeth Dane quest. From there it was back to Santa Monica to meet up with Mercurio on the beach and get Officer Heinz’s help in breaking into the boat (DEFINITELY not trying to get close to the sarcophagus without Obfuscate!) and pick up all the items for LaCroix, before going back Downtown, meeting Heather, turning in the Dane stuff, and getting the Grout quest. Also realizing too late that I didn’t need to be nearly as nice to LaCroix as I was, because – Tremere. I don’t get the Skyelines apartment. :( Darn it. Ah well, Crystal can start cuddling up more to Strauss later. I’ve left her at the entrance to the hospital, as I might as well meet Pisha and pick up HER quest before heading to the apartment building – take care of everything in there in one go!
4. Get in a workout: Check – a little over thirty on the treadmill today, and with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! I picked up with Miss Jon and Dogmeat escaping Vault 114 with Nick Valentine. They shot their way through the remaining goons (Past!Jon noting that Nick isn’t great with a gun, thanks companion AI) and confronted Skinny and his moll Darla. Miss Jon, who’d just picked up a swanky tuxedo, was able to future-knowledge Charisma her way out of bloodshed – and then nearly got her and her companions shot anyway because she was too overloaded to actually run and couldn’t get Dogmeat to stand still long enough to trade. XD Fortunately she was able to finally dump some stuff off on him and run after Nick, and they escaped the vault without being pumped full of holes. She agreed to meet Nick back at his Diamond City office, then traveled to Sanctuary to drop off her junk and do some more crafting (like turning her new Exterminator’s 10mm into her standard weapon, upgrading Righteous Authority, and improving a few other weapons) before ending Episode 11.
Episode 12 sent her back to Diamond City, to meet up with Nick! After getting payment and some spare clothes from Ellie, Miss Jon sat down and told Nick everything she knew about the kidnapping (with Past!Jon hoping that someone would pick up on the fact that, due to the cyrogenic freezing, she’d have no idea WHEN Shaun was taken). Nick eventually realized from her description that they were looking for Kellogg, a mercenary who’d lived in the city a little while back with a ten-year-old boy, and took Miss Jon over to Kellogg’s old house to try and take a look around. The lock proved too tough for either of them to crack, though, so Nick directed her to the mayor’s office to see if she could get a key.
Miss Jon, naturally, went exploring instead – though, given it was pretty much the middle of the night when she and Nick went over to the house, maybe that was understandable. XD She swung by the wall and picked up Abbott’s quest to get some more green paint; wandered through the mutfruit plantation and picked up a bunch of them (along with stealing a few items for adhesive and oil); and saw Sheng arguing with security, though she couldn’t talk to him at the time (so instead she broke into his house and stole a bunch of purified water). She then proceeded to wait until morning, where she did Sheng’s quest to get some of the crud out of the water supply (including a human skull, apparently the result of a previous helper coming across a grenade), then visited the Science! Center and learned about radiation from one of the scientists within. Left it with the scientist giving her a “field trip” to go get a bloatfly gland, yaaay. :p Past!Jon is very impressed with how much like a proper city Diamond City feels, with infrastructure (sort of), food, all that good stuff. Apparently Bethesda didn’t always go to this level of effort before, so it’s good to know they did so with this one! (Not that it’s stopped people from making add-ons – I actually have one of those mods, puts in a laundry and a few houses with unusual residents. Might even make the cut if and when I start playing myself again.)
5. Work on tumblr queues: Eh, check in the sense I got the queue for Valice Multiverse sorted – two ask replies, nothing special. I was hoping to do a little more with Victor Luvs Alice, but hey – Sunday YouTube is a cruel mistress. :p
Additionally:
-->Nice weather means playing beanbags – I got 3-2-W-3-W; Dad W-3-3-W-3, and Mom 2-W-2-2-2! Granted, my first win was sheer luck – Mom’s winning beanbag throw got stuck on the side of the hole and thus only got her one point instead of three – but I’ll take it. XD And it always amuses me when someone gets like all seconds or all thirds apart from their wins. At least we all won at least one game!
So yeah, nice, busy Sunday -- up a little later than I should be, but that's just par for the course now, isn't it? Anyway, gotta finish up here and hit the sheets for my upcoming full week of work, bleeh. Hopefully it remains fairly quiet for the time being. I would like that. Night all!
