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And There Goes My Sunday
Sep. 26th, 2021 11:01 pmWas having a largely decent Sunday -- had a nice lunch and some cookies, got a lot of my to-do list sorted, generally just having a good time -- and then, right before I went downstairs to work out, I hit the bathroom first --
And discovered that, for the first time in months, my period had managed to surprise me. *grumbles* I mean, I KNEW it was coming, but I was expecting a bit later in the week. Though it does explain why my internal temperature seems to have been fucked lately -- namely, that I've been running surprisingly hot. That happens a lot when I'm on my period, it's one of the most annoying things about it. *sigh* Fortunately, I'd only JUST started, and hadn't really ruined my underwear, but still. And now I get to be all tired and bleedy and cranky at work tomorrow, joy. . .
Still, like I said, until that discovery I was having a pretty decent day -- and hell, even after it, I wasn't doing too bad. Just annoyed I had to waste a pad just for the purposes of working out without getting blood all over myself. . . Anyway, quite satisfied with the to-do list:
1. Write some more on "Learn To Love Again": Check! Continuing the Victor POV chapter, he’s been interrupted in his musings about what to get Alice for a birthday present by Nell startling the crap out of him and dragging him off to meet a lawyer that William’s thinking of hiring – one Wilton J. Radcliffe! Whose name Victor knows thanks to Alice, so he’s kind of like “holy SHIT it’s her asshole family lawyer, what do I do?!” XD He’ll get his bearings shortly! If only because a new present idea has just opened itself up to him. . .
2. Watch Spiffing's latest FO4 video, some more Lore By Night, YouTube Subs, and Jon's FO4 YOLO ep: Check – even got in a bonus video from Plumbella! Though, admittedly, that’s partly because James Turner didn’t upload again today – but still! Watch Later totally cleared and Subs sorted, yay –
A) Started with the Lore By Night podcast episodes, since I’d played Bloodlines first (see below). The first one was a relisten on how to create a V5 vampire (what, I like Sexy Steve The Jazz Pianist Toreador); the second was a much newer episode on how to create a V5 ghoul (creating a ruthless corporate climber, Dominique Tenebrau). Gotta say, he talks a LOT faster in the newer episode – more like he wants to get it over with sooner. Still, it was an interesting listen, and helps me decide what Victor and Alice’s specialties and stats would be if I were to fill out a character sheet for them for funsies, or to help define something for fanfic. (Even if Alice is technically pre-V5 as a character. . .but I’ve been sewing together stuff I like from V5 onto her Bloodlines stats for a while now, soo. . .)
B) Then right after that we had The Spiffing Brit and his latest Fallout 4 video – “FALLOUT 4 But All Weapons are FULLY RANDOMIZED IS BROKEN - Can You Beat Fallout 4 With A Random Gun!” He’s actually done a video already like this in the past, but decided to come back to the concept because hell, why wouldn’t you? XD Everything is randomized in this version of the game – levels, weapons, enemies, you name it! The character running through this random hellhole is Sneaky Steve, who looks like a flattened version of Snidely Whiplash and has amazing Endurance, Agility, and Perception, and crap everything else. XD Thanks to the alt-start mod Spiff is using as well, he also got a trait that Spiff randomized using a random number generator – Night Owl, which makes him stronger at night but weaker during the day (Spiff, who hates playing FO4 at night, was not pleased) – and a random level – 97 to be precise! This meant enemies hit hard but not TOO hard – and maxing out Strength and Agility with all of his perk points helped him survive whatever was coming his way. As did finding ludicrous weapons, like a 10mm that fired so rapidly it could turn any synth in its path to Swiss cheese; a shotgun that fired radiation rounds; a rapid-fire missile launcher; and a multi-barrel pipe NUKE LAUNCHER THAT CAME WITH A LOCK-ON FEATURE. As you might imagine, he ended up abusing the hell out of THAT one as he roamed across the Commonwealth! That thing just DESTROYED Swann in the Boston Common, as well as the Gunner Commander in Mass Fusion and a number of unlucky raiders in Pickman’s Gallery. Though it’s worth noting, Steve was NOT well equipped for anything close quarters – he died a few times from trying to fire on enemies that were just too close to him. XD The capper of the episode was taking on ten Mythic Deathclaws at once – he died a horrible death the first time trying to find enough space to unleash hell, but managed to take them all out the second time! Yeah, sure, he died on the last one, but he killed it at the same time, so – victory! XD
C) From there we moved onto the Subs for a bit to watch Call Me Kevin’s latest – Sponge Glock Square Pants! Yes, this is one of those indie games that decides to take a favorite cartoon property and turn it into something dark and gruesome. In this case, you are Spongebob, you have a glock, and your new job is to murder people for Mr. Krabs, before having to take him on yourself when he mutates into his true form of “creepily photorealistic crab.” Kevin, of course, was an employee so conscientious that he was killing loads of people before even figuring out the objectives and doing it on Krabs’s behalf. XD Slaughtered an entire field of jellyfish, just because he could. He also shot Gary, Spongebob’s snail, but that was the one murder the game would not condone, leading it to reset him. XD I don’t know WHY dark drug-addicted Spongebob games are a thing, but if Kevin wants to keep playing and making fun of them on his channel, I’m game!
D) Then after supper, we moved onto Plumbella’s latest upload today – “trying to fix an EA build without spending any money :///” Yes, being in a renovation mood, Plumbella crawled out of her sickbed today to renovate the Roomie house in Oasis Springs – but she had to do it so it had either the same lot value at the end of the day – $65,596 – or less than. No going over and spending money the family doesn't have! And despite turning their shared home into a set of four little condo apartments (with shared kitchens and a little themed room for each of the Roomies based on their personalities – a work-out-themed room for the athletic one, a movie-themed room for the lazy one, a clean green creative room for the creative one, and a hot pink and purple polka-dot room for the cheerful one), she did exactly that! Final lot value was $57,736, so she in fact SAVED money in the long run! Nice work, Plumbella! :D
E) And then it was onto GrayStillPlays and some GTA V super hero action! Specifically, we had a challenge board themed around going on adventures with some of Marvel’s greatest super heroes! In order, we had Florida Man and Black Widow getting drunk and shooting up a bar instead of stopping an alien invasion (with Florida Man apparently impregnating her along the way); Florida Man and the Incredible Hulk actually stopping the alien invasion with Florida Man’s rocket fists of power; Florida Man taking a drunk Thor home via a shortcut that involved a lot of boosts, and at one point a car that could drive under other cars and flip them (Gray went full evil-Gray-cackle there); Florida Man infiltrating a Hydra Base with Rocket Raccoon to steal a super weapon (with them driving a car with a turret on top – Gray initially manned the turret, but switched to driving once it became apparent Rocket Racoon couldn’t see over the steering wheel) – which proved to be A GUN THAT SHOOTS SHARKS; and finally Florida Man getting “jumping lessons” from Spider-Man, whereupon he was yeeted into the air to kill a bunch of Green Goblins and their minions. XD You know, your average day for the Avengers in Florida. XD
F) And finally, we had Jon’s Fallout 4 “You Only Live Once” episode! Miss Finalley had a mission today – go back to Nuka-World and FINALLY finish off reclaiming the lands. If, you know, she could get away from all the vertibirds acting weird nearby. o.O Two circling over Hangman’s Alley while she was trying to get her new souped-up power armor and some supplies (both confirmed to be Brotherhood, so who knows what they were doing), and one on the way over to the transit center that had apparently gotten stuck on the overpass (Jon was just like “WTF is going on with my game today?”). XD But she made it in her new flamey armor over to the Nuka-World train without any issue, and after a trip to the market to load up on ammo, drugs, and grenades, she skirted some Cave Crickets and got her butt over to the Safari Zone! Killed the Gatorclaw at the entrance, talked briefly to Cito –
And then left him behind for a while while she jetpacked her way over to the wall surrounding the park. Because Jon had a two-step plan, and step one of that plan was to go around the park along the wall and take out as many enemies (mostly Gatorclaws, but he also took out a few ants and Stingwings) as possible from the safety of a high-up area that they can’t get to. ...er, mostly, Jon discovered a spot where anyone, including him, could have climbed up on the wall normally, which he admitted he would have loved to have known earlier. Honestly, Jon, I think you’re better off having gone back home, leveled up, and gotten some power armor and a jetpack – when you first came to the park, you were WAAAY too overconfident for your own good. XD But yes, Finalley did a big old loop of the park and took out as many Gatorclaws as she could, both in the park and the surrounding area. No real trouble, lots of meat, easy peasy.
Step two of the plan? Actually follow Cito (from above, jetpacking onto the cages) and get the main story mission going! Because the main story mission actually ends in “murder all the Gatorclaws,” meaning that any Finalley wasn’t able to get previously would be tagged! And because enemies don’t typically show up on the compass in Survival mode unless you’re in real shit, this would be of great benefit to Finalley for figuring out where the last of the bastards were. She got to the primate house with Cito and asked him to stay behind and protect his family so he didn’t get in the way or drag any enemies toward her, then did a bit of light sequence breaking to grab the password she needed from by the old roller coaster before heading into the cloning labs and – with careful stealth, patience, and a fuckton of mines to take out the last two who spawn in after you switch off the cloner – took out all the Gatorclaws within. And reset the cloners to gazelles because food glorious food. XD And from there, it was just a matter of killing the few remaining Gatorclaws (thanks to her previous good work, there were like three, and one a Legendary Yao Guai killed for her – she then killed it and got a Junkie’s Pipe Wrench, which Jon was unimpressed by), then going over to Cito and – after a failed attempt to ask him to share the park with the newcomers – asking him to leave for his and his family’s own safety. Over to the flagpole, assign the park to the Pack (because why wouldn’t you), and then back over to the Overboss headquarters to drop off some stuff and cook so much meat she got a level up and the “Quick Hands” perk out of it. XD So the episode ended with a beautiful, beautiful victory! Hooray forever, right?
. . .yeah, Jon reminded us all that his least-favorite park, The Galactic Zone, full of the deadliest of robots, is next up. We’ll see what comes of that next week. XD
3. Play more Bloodlines and complete more of the Hollywood missions: Check – after checking to see if Heather had anything new and interesting to say (nope), I had Crystal head back down to Hollywood to let VV know that everything was all sorted with Hatter and his source and get her photograph as a reward. XD With that all sorted, Crystal then swung by the Asp Hole to check in with Ash, learn his story, and escort him through the sewers past the hunters stalking his club. He, uh, took things VERY LEISURELY in this playthrough – dude, you have Celerity, I’ve seen it. Maybe pick up the pace a little? *shrug* Ah well, I only died once, that was was only from attracting a lot of enemies at once after refusing to back off to cover after exploding a guy. On that note, “Blood Boil” is VERY USEFUL. Not even the advanced hunters, who can shake off “Blood Theft” without a sweat, can resist THAT one! And it’s got a really good blast radius. Can recommend as a horrific way to take out your enemies. XD
Anyway, got Ash to safety (for now), then snuck through the sewers to reach aboveground again, swung by the Asp Hole AGAIN to pick up the Blood Doll there (Crystal was running low), and then hit Ground Zero to investigate the secret porn studios and kill the monsters infesting the place. “Blood Boil” sadly does NOT seem to work on them, though “Blood Theft” does at least seem to stun them. Also discovered that two shots from the SPAS can take them down if I aim right, so Crystal finally has a reason to use some of her guns. XD She cleared out the monsters, found the completed tape, got back out, and took it to Isaac. After some discussion about Ash and VV (and Isaac refusing to help any with Ash escaping the hunters), they watched the tape together, and Isaac gave her the address she needed to go to. I decided to save actually going there for next time, however, and sent Crystal Downtown first to see if Venus had any cash for her (not yet), get some blood from that Blood Doll, and sell a watch to Fat Larry. Left her standing by the cab – I may actually swing by the Last Round first to see if Jack has any comments on Isaac, but other than that, next week, time to meet Andrei!
4. Get in a workout: Check – another thirty on the bike, and coming close to wrapping up Jon’s Original FO4 playthrough! I caught up with Miss Jon as she descended back into the catacombs that make up Railroad HQ to kill the rest of the main named characters (Deacon, Glory, Dr. Carrington, Tinker Tom) as per her Pip-Boy. Past!Jon claimed that this would be painless, and then proceeded to pepper the first few agents he saw with bullets. XD To his credit, after taking out everyone the game TOLD him to take out, he left whoever remained alive – which, in this case, was Drummer Boy (whom he DID have to shoot in the arms to stop getting shot while he looted the corpses for stuff like Tinker Tom’s hat) and PAM. He was just kind of desperate to say “I didn’t kill the WHOLE Railroad,” I think. Yeah, I am strongly suspecting that this is the reason his next playthrough with Bacon went Railroad. Though he mentioned later being pleased that, depending on which characters you listen to and what kind of player you are, Fallout 4 makes siding with any of the factions a viable choice – and at the same time makes you think there are no good answers. I’d say the vastly differing opinions I’d seen on all of the factions just on tumblr bears that out. (Me, I’m totally a Minutemen girl, with a side of “Railroad but maybe dial back the memory wiping a bit.”)
Anyway, Episode 33 ended with Miss Jon leaving Drummer Boy and PAM to flail in the catacombs, then heading back to the Institute to report to Father and receive her next mission – more murder! Though this was murder that Past!Jon was okay with – time to take out the Brotherhood of Steel! She reported to Dr. Li to get her mission at the beginning of episode 34, and startled the hell out of Past!Jon by having “Liberty Prime” be an available option in her dialogue. Bit of an oversight by the developers there – as Past!Jon hadn’t done much with the Brotherhood, he had no idea a resurrected Liberty Prime was even back in the game! But he was happy to get the scoop, and to listen to Li and her fellow scientist’s plan to take out the generators guarding the airport from synth teleportation intrusion, and then upload a virus to Liberty Prime to make it see the Prydwen as a Communist target. Fun stuff, at least if you like giant robots blowing up airships. Which I suspect Jon does. XD
So yeah, the Institute relayed Miss Jon to a little broken-down barn near the airport, where she began sniping off as many targets as she could, before moving in and sneaking through a side entrance to start some more close-quarters combat. Her deciding to nuke a vertibird up a set of stairs took out one of the generators she was meant to break, and by the time I left it, she’d gotten down another one from simple collateral damage and had paired up with all sorts of synths and coursers to mow down Brotherhood knights and scribes. Basically, it’s a laser gun fest, and everyone is invited. XD Tomorrow should see the end-game with Liberty Prime (and Miss Jon needing to take on Elder Maxson), and then I just have to finish off with the stream highlights episode! Amazing. . .
5. Get more done with tumblr queues: Check – took a moment after supper to get the initial drafts with pictures and a bit of starter text done for my Newcrest Adventures update this Wednesday. Was hoping to get more done with the text, but given my period started today, right before I started the drafts. . . Also, nothing happening with threads or asks on Valice Multiverse, so reblogged a few things from the fandoms that intersect with my crossovers (Portal 2, Fallout 4, and Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines). Nothing too difficult!
Yeah, very good for a Sunday. :) And now I just have four days of work to get through before I get my Friday off, yay. Though I do have to get through them with my period. . .ah well, done it before, will do it again. Night all!
And discovered that, for the first time in months, my period had managed to surprise me. *grumbles* I mean, I KNEW it was coming, but I was expecting a bit later in the week. Though it does explain why my internal temperature seems to have been fucked lately -- namely, that I've been running surprisingly hot. That happens a lot when I'm on my period, it's one of the most annoying things about it. *sigh* Fortunately, I'd only JUST started, and hadn't really ruined my underwear, but still. And now I get to be all tired and bleedy and cranky at work tomorrow, joy. . .
Still, like I said, until that discovery I was having a pretty decent day -- and hell, even after it, I wasn't doing too bad. Just annoyed I had to waste a pad just for the purposes of working out without getting blood all over myself. . . Anyway, quite satisfied with the to-do list:
1. Write some more on "Learn To Love Again": Check! Continuing the Victor POV chapter, he’s been interrupted in his musings about what to get Alice for a birthday present by Nell startling the crap out of him and dragging him off to meet a lawyer that William’s thinking of hiring – one Wilton J. Radcliffe! Whose name Victor knows thanks to Alice, so he’s kind of like “holy SHIT it’s her asshole family lawyer, what do I do?!” XD He’ll get his bearings shortly! If only because a new present idea has just opened itself up to him. . .
2. Watch Spiffing's latest FO4 video, some more Lore By Night, YouTube Subs, and Jon's FO4 YOLO ep: Check – even got in a bonus video from Plumbella! Though, admittedly, that’s partly because James Turner didn’t upload again today – but still! Watch Later totally cleared and Subs sorted, yay –
A) Started with the Lore By Night podcast episodes, since I’d played Bloodlines first (see below). The first one was a relisten on how to create a V5 vampire (what, I like Sexy Steve The Jazz Pianist Toreador); the second was a much newer episode on how to create a V5 ghoul (creating a ruthless corporate climber, Dominique Tenebrau). Gotta say, he talks a LOT faster in the newer episode – more like he wants to get it over with sooner. Still, it was an interesting listen, and helps me decide what Victor and Alice’s specialties and stats would be if I were to fill out a character sheet for them for funsies, or to help define something for fanfic. (Even if Alice is technically pre-V5 as a character. . .but I’ve been sewing together stuff I like from V5 onto her Bloodlines stats for a while now, soo. . .)
B) Then right after that we had The Spiffing Brit and his latest Fallout 4 video – “FALLOUT 4 But All Weapons are FULLY RANDOMIZED IS BROKEN - Can You Beat Fallout 4 With A Random Gun!” He’s actually done a video already like this in the past, but decided to come back to the concept because hell, why wouldn’t you? XD Everything is randomized in this version of the game – levels, weapons, enemies, you name it! The character running through this random hellhole is Sneaky Steve, who looks like a flattened version of Snidely Whiplash and has amazing Endurance, Agility, and Perception, and crap everything else. XD Thanks to the alt-start mod Spiff is using as well, he also got a trait that Spiff randomized using a random number generator – Night Owl, which makes him stronger at night but weaker during the day (Spiff, who hates playing FO4 at night, was not pleased) – and a random level – 97 to be precise! This meant enemies hit hard but not TOO hard – and maxing out Strength and Agility with all of his perk points helped him survive whatever was coming his way. As did finding ludicrous weapons, like a 10mm that fired so rapidly it could turn any synth in its path to Swiss cheese; a shotgun that fired radiation rounds; a rapid-fire missile launcher; and a multi-barrel pipe NUKE LAUNCHER THAT CAME WITH A LOCK-ON FEATURE. As you might imagine, he ended up abusing the hell out of THAT one as he roamed across the Commonwealth! That thing just DESTROYED Swann in the Boston Common, as well as the Gunner Commander in Mass Fusion and a number of unlucky raiders in Pickman’s Gallery. Though it’s worth noting, Steve was NOT well equipped for anything close quarters – he died a few times from trying to fire on enemies that were just too close to him. XD The capper of the episode was taking on ten Mythic Deathclaws at once – he died a horrible death the first time trying to find enough space to unleash hell, but managed to take them all out the second time! Yeah, sure, he died on the last one, but he killed it at the same time, so – victory! XD
C) From there we moved onto the Subs for a bit to watch Call Me Kevin’s latest – Sponge Glock Square Pants! Yes, this is one of those indie games that decides to take a favorite cartoon property and turn it into something dark and gruesome. In this case, you are Spongebob, you have a glock, and your new job is to murder people for Mr. Krabs, before having to take him on yourself when he mutates into his true form of “creepily photorealistic crab.” Kevin, of course, was an employee so conscientious that he was killing loads of people before even figuring out the objectives and doing it on Krabs’s behalf. XD Slaughtered an entire field of jellyfish, just because he could. He also shot Gary, Spongebob’s snail, but that was the one murder the game would not condone, leading it to reset him. XD I don’t know WHY dark drug-addicted Spongebob games are a thing, but if Kevin wants to keep playing and making fun of them on his channel, I’m game!
D) Then after supper, we moved onto Plumbella’s latest upload today – “trying to fix an EA build without spending any money :///” Yes, being in a renovation mood, Plumbella crawled out of her sickbed today to renovate the Roomie house in Oasis Springs – but she had to do it so it had either the same lot value at the end of the day – $65,596 – or less than. No going over and spending money the family doesn't have! And despite turning their shared home into a set of four little condo apartments (with shared kitchens and a little themed room for each of the Roomies based on their personalities – a work-out-themed room for the athletic one, a movie-themed room for the lazy one, a clean green creative room for the creative one, and a hot pink and purple polka-dot room for the cheerful one), she did exactly that! Final lot value was $57,736, so she in fact SAVED money in the long run! Nice work, Plumbella! :D
E) And then it was onto GrayStillPlays and some GTA V super hero action! Specifically, we had a challenge board themed around going on adventures with some of Marvel’s greatest super heroes! In order, we had Florida Man and Black Widow getting drunk and shooting up a bar instead of stopping an alien invasion (with Florida Man apparently impregnating her along the way); Florida Man and the Incredible Hulk actually stopping the alien invasion with Florida Man’s rocket fists of power; Florida Man taking a drunk Thor home via a shortcut that involved a lot of boosts, and at one point a car that could drive under other cars and flip them (Gray went full evil-Gray-cackle there); Florida Man infiltrating a Hydra Base with Rocket Raccoon to steal a super weapon (with them driving a car with a turret on top – Gray initially manned the turret, but switched to driving once it became apparent Rocket Racoon couldn’t see over the steering wheel) – which proved to be A GUN THAT SHOOTS SHARKS; and finally Florida Man getting “jumping lessons” from Spider-Man, whereupon he was yeeted into the air to kill a bunch of Green Goblins and their minions. XD You know, your average day for the Avengers in Florida. XD
F) And finally, we had Jon’s Fallout 4 “You Only Live Once” episode! Miss Finalley had a mission today – go back to Nuka-World and FINALLY finish off reclaiming the lands. If, you know, she could get away from all the vertibirds acting weird nearby. o.O Two circling over Hangman’s Alley while she was trying to get her new souped-up power armor and some supplies (both confirmed to be Brotherhood, so who knows what they were doing), and one on the way over to the transit center that had apparently gotten stuck on the overpass (Jon was just like “WTF is going on with my game today?”). XD But she made it in her new flamey armor over to the Nuka-World train without any issue, and after a trip to the market to load up on ammo, drugs, and grenades, she skirted some Cave Crickets and got her butt over to the Safari Zone! Killed the Gatorclaw at the entrance, talked briefly to Cito –
And then left him behind for a while while she jetpacked her way over to the wall surrounding the park. Because Jon had a two-step plan, and step one of that plan was to go around the park along the wall and take out as many enemies (mostly Gatorclaws, but he also took out a few ants and Stingwings) as possible from the safety of a high-up area that they can’t get to. ...er, mostly, Jon discovered a spot where anyone, including him, could have climbed up on the wall normally, which he admitted he would have loved to have known earlier. Honestly, Jon, I think you’re better off having gone back home, leveled up, and gotten some power armor and a jetpack – when you first came to the park, you were WAAAY too overconfident for your own good. XD But yes, Finalley did a big old loop of the park and took out as many Gatorclaws as she could, both in the park and the surrounding area. No real trouble, lots of meat, easy peasy.
Step two of the plan? Actually follow Cito (from above, jetpacking onto the cages) and get the main story mission going! Because the main story mission actually ends in “murder all the Gatorclaws,” meaning that any Finalley wasn’t able to get previously would be tagged! And because enemies don’t typically show up on the compass in Survival mode unless you’re in real shit, this would be of great benefit to Finalley for figuring out where the last of the bastards were. She got to the primate house with Cito and asked him to stay behind and protect his family so he didn’t get in the way or drag any enemies toward her, then did a bit of light sequence breaking to grab the password she needed from by the old roller coaster before heading into the cloning labs and – with careful stealth, patience, and a fuckton of mines to take out the last two who spawn in after you switch off the cloner – took out all the Gatorclaws within. And reset the cloners to gazelles because food glorious food. XD And from there, it was just a matter of killing the few remaining Gatorclaws (thanks to her previous good work, there were like three, and one a Legendary Yao Guai killed for her – she then killed it and got a Junkie’s Pipe Wrench, which Jon was unimpressed by), then going over to Cito and – after a failed attempt to ask him to share the park with the newcomers – asking him to leave for his and his family’s own safety. Over to the flagpole, assign the park to the Pack (because why wouldn’t you), and then back over to the Overboss headquarters to drop off some stuff and cook so much meat she got a level up and the “Quick Hands” perk out of it. XD So the episode ended with a beautiful, beautiful victory! Hooray forever, right?
. . .yeah, Jon reminded us all that his least-favorite park, The Galactic Zone, full of the deadliest of robots, is next up. We’ll see what comes of that next week. XD
3. Play more Bloodlines and complete more of the Hollywood missions: Check – after checking to see if Heather had anything new and interesting to say (nope), I had Crystal head back down to Hollywood to let VV know that everything was all sorted with Hatter and his source and get her photograph as a reward. XD With that all sorted, Crystal then swung by the Asp Hole to check in with Ash, learn his story, and escort him through the sewers past the hunters stalking his club. He, uh, took things VERY LEISURELY in this playthrough – dude, you have Celerity, I’ve seen it. Maybe pick up the pace a little? *shrug* Ah well, I only died once, that was was only from attracting a lot of enemies at once after refusing to back off to cover after exploding a guy. On that note, “Blood Boil” is VERY USEFUL. Not even the advanced hunters, who can shake off “Blood Theft” without a sweat, can resist THAT one! And it’s got a really good blast radius. Can recommend as a horrific way to take out your enemies. XD
Anyway, got Ash to safety (for now), then snuck through the sewers to reach aboveground again, swung by the Asp Hole AGAIN to pick up the Blood Doll there (Crystal was running low), and then hit Ground Zero to investigate the secret porn studios and kill the monsters infesting the place. “Blood Boil” sadly does NOT seem to work on them, though “Blood Theft” does at least seem to stun them. Also discovered that two shots from the SPAS can take them down if I aim right, so Crystal finally has a reason to use some of her guns. XD She cleared out the monsters, found the completed tape, got back out, and took it to Isaac. After some discussion about Ash and VV (and Isaac refusing to help any with Ash escaping the hunters), they watched the tape together, and Isaac gave her the address she needed to go to. I decided to save actually going there for next time, however, and sent Crystal Downtown first to see if Venus had any cash for her (not yet), get some blood from that Blood Doll, and sell a watch to Fat Larry. Left her standing by the cab – I may actually swing by the Last Round first to see if Jack has any comments on Isaac, but other than that, next week, time to meet Andrei!
4. Get in a workout: Check – another thirty on the bike, and coming close to wrapping up Jon’s Original FO4 playthrough! I caught up with Miss Jon as she descended back into the catacombs that make up Railroad HQ to kill the rest of the main named characters (Deacon, Glory, Dr. Carrington, Tinker Tom) as per her Pip-Boy. Past!Jon claimed that this would be painless, and then proceeded to pepper the first few agents he saw with bullets. XD To his credit, after taking out everyone the game TOLD him to take out, he left whoever remained alive – which, in this case, was Drummer Boy (whom he DID have to shoot in the arms to stop getting shot while he looted the corpses for stuff like Tinker Tom’s hat) and PAM. He was just kind of desperate to say “I didn’t kill the WHOLE Railroad,” I think. Yeah, I am strongly suspecting that this is the reason his next playthrough with Bacon went Railroad. Though he mentioned later being pleased that, depending on which characters you listen to and what kind of player you are, Fallout 4 makes siding with any of the factions a viable choice – and at the same time makes you think there are no good answers. I’d say the vastly differing opinions I’d seen on all of the factions just on tumblr bears that out. (Me, I’m totally a Minutemen girl, with a side of “Railroad but maybe dial back the memory wiping a bit.”)
Anyway, Episode 33 ended with Miss Jon leaving Drummer Boy and PAM to flail in the catacombs, then heading back to the Institute to report to Father and receive her next mission – more murder! Though this was murder that Past!Jon was okay with – time to take out the Brotherhood of Steel! She reported to Dr. Li to get her mission at the beginning of episode 34, and startled the hell out of Past!Jon by having “Liberty Prime” be an available option in her dialogue. Bit of an oversight by the developers there – as Past!Jon hadn’t done much with the Brotherhood, he had no idea a resurrected Liberty Prime was even back in the game! But he was happy to get the scoop, and to listen to Li and her fellow scientist’s plan to take out the generators guarding the airport from synth teleportation intrusion, and then upload a virus to Liberty Prime to make it see the Prydwen as a Communist target. Fun stuff, at least if you like giant robots blowing up airships. Which I suspect Jon does. XD
So yeah, the Institute relayed Miss Jon to a little broken-down barn near the airport, where she began sniping off as many targets as she could, before moving in and sneaking through a side entrance to start some more close-quarters combat. Her deciding to nuke a vertibird up a set of stairs took out one of the generators she was meant to break, and by the time I left it, she’d gotten down another one from simple collateral damage and had paired up with all sorts of synths and coursers to mow down Brotherhood knights and scribes. Basically, it’s a laser gun fest, and everyone is invited. XD Tomorrow should see the end-game with Liberty Prime (and Miss Jon needing to take on Elder Maxson), and then I just have to finish off with the stream highlights episode! Amazing. . .
5. Get more done with tumblr queues: Check – took a moment after supper to get the initial drafts with pictures and a bit of starter text done for my Newcrest Adventures update this Wednesday. Was hoping to get more done with the text, but given my period started today, right before I started the drafts. . . Also, nothing happening with threads or asks on Valice Multiverse, so reblogged a few things from the fandoms that intersect with my crossovers (Portal 2, Fallout 4, and Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines). Nothing too difficult!
Yeah, very good for a Sunday. :) And now I just have four days of work to get through before I get my Friday off, yay. Though I do have to get through them with my period. . .ah well, done it before, will do it again. Night all!
