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Happy Fuck Columbus Day
Oct. 11th, 2021 11:27 pmSince we're all pretty well agreed at this point he was a bastard. . .but a day off is a day off, and I've had a pretty decent one, all things considered:
1. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check! Got a really good chunk done too – Alice has looked up everything relevant on the Krime-puter (and some not-so-relevant things, like one Vandal Cleaver’s entry – it is so lucky for him that Wonderland tells her NOT to kill him), and discovered Rolf Toten’s bond was apparently Lily’s car, still in town, and that Virgil Crumb is on ice in the clinic. Time to see if she can hunt down the former and discover if it holds any more keys to finding out where Lily is!
2. Watch some more Oxventures, and keep up on YouTube Subs: Check! Even got in a bonus video --
A) Actually started with Plumbella’s latest today – “why are we allowing Don Lothario to exist??” It’s kind of a follow-up to her “rating Sims by toxicity” video, where she decided to do a quick-dive into what a scumbag the Dons of Sims 2 and Sims 4 are, being cheaters who leave women at the altar and move in with their latest conquest to try and romance the daughters who just became legal. And then she decided to use the Extreme Violence mod to kill S4 Don, only to find him SHOCKINGLY hard to murder! He easily repelled both Dina and Katrina’s attempts to kill him (kicking Dina in the booty and then straight-up shooting her), before finally getting his neck snapped by Nina. Fun times! XD
B) Then, after beanbags (below) I watched Call Me Kevin’s latest – another trip to the Sims 2 save file! Which – well. Kevin, having learned he CAN clone Sims, made an attempt to clone himself and deage the clone. But when that didn’t work (and neither did cloning a random Sim on the street), he instead deaged poor Vidcund into a toddler and then made a whole bunch of clones of him as a toddler, sealing them all away in his new barn! Just to see what would happen, you know?
Mainly them fighting Sim!Kevin and each other is what happened. Along with having mental breakdowns and acting distressingly like adult Sims, floating in midair all the while. XD Kevin also locked Mrs. Crumplebottom and Bigfoot in there to complete his “petting zoo,” then romanced and hired a random old guy with no talents or skills off the street to make food for them, shoving him in a fig leaf outfit. XD And then he locked him in a pen to starve him, only to release him when his constant “I want to leave” messages got too annoying. And THEN he aged up Vidcund to see what would happen (throwing him a disaster of a birthday party) – and upon seeing none of the clones aged up with him, made some clones of his child self. Who promptly started fighting. XD All is chaos and corruption, and I think we’re all just here to see how long it is before the save file breaks completely. XD
C) Then, after supper, it was time for GrayStillPlays and Date Master – yup another of his beloved shitty mobile games! This one is all about dating – designing your perfect red-headed woman to take to a movie (Gray WANTED to take her to the circus, but the game insisted on a romantic morning matinee) and a fancy pizza restaurant (Gray did not get his Chicago deep dish and accidentally stabbed her in the boob trying to feed her); taking a perky blond to the beach, slathering her in sunscreen, making her a giant sundae, and then abandoning her on an island after stealing a yacht; and then getting together with a tough rocker whose ex-boyfriend shows up on the date and makes you play rock-paper-scissors for her (Gray chose rock, which is apparently what he personally always wins with). Also in between there’s an alternate universe where everyone’s playing truth or date, and you can tell the girl you’re across from to slap your friend into another dimension or lick the other girl’s foot. XD Ridiculous stupidity like this being Gray’s bread-and-butter, I expect to see more of this game in future!
D) And then it was onto the next Oxventure, “Wild Wild Woods,” their first Live Oxventure! :D The gang’s attempt at having a nice, quiet picnic was rudely interrupted by Merilwen’s realization that the forest they’d picked was strangely devoid of animals, and the wizard Binbag (just go with it) suddenly showing up to inform her (and her “sarcastic, sandwich-eating companions”) that a great evil was there and responsible for the missing animals. Turns out they’d all been captured to run a logging operation by a bunch of goblins, who – courtesy of one M. Channail – had a giant mechanical stag beetle to do the heavy lifting. Highlights of the adventure include Corazon bragging that he could tie up three sleeping goblins in under a minute – and not quite making his roll (Johnny generously let him have two, with the third waking up mid-tie); Prudence killing a goblin by exploding its head with Eldritch Blast (“Cthulhu is pleased and lunch is ruined”); Merilwen turning out to be better at picking locks as a cat than firing her bow as a human (also the introduction of Ellen getting a little plush cat to use as her Wildshape form); the rampage of Michael the Very Big Goat; Egbert flame-roasting a bunch of goblins, getting shot for his troubles, and then getting shown up by Dob’s Thunderwave; Egbert smashing a goblin who just whipped Merilwen in the face so hard his head came off (and Corazon failing to bicycle-kick it away); and the boss battle, which included gems such as Merilwen leaping onto it and stabbing it, Egbert hitting a bomb into its mouth with his mace like a baseball bat (and SUCCEEDING), Dob smashing it with a Thunderwave from below (not remembering that Merilwen was in range – fortunately, being a WOOD Elf, she did not conduct the electricity and thus was fine), Prudence of course hitting it with Eldritch Blast, and Corazon initially trying to get it to tangle its legs in a simple rope trap by goading it on by rapping “Wild Wild West” at it – this did not work, but he managed to make up for this with a final rapier thrust that finally took out the power source. It was absolutely delightful chaos and I love it. :D
3. Play Bloodlines and continue finishing up some side missions: Check! Today was mostly “getting rid of all the awful stealthy missions because I don’t have Obfuscate.” XD Though I have to say, Crystal acquitted herself very well! She started out beneath the Nocturne Theater, then went up to set up the Schrecknet hub there – got up the ladder to the upper railing without issue (just jumped over the broken spotlight attempting to block the way), found the spot for the webcam, then headed over to the other ladder nearer the office doors, and snuck in while the guard was moving the other way. Took her a couple of tries to find the office with the working computer, but she got there in the end and activated the hub. Had to save and reload once when I misjudged where the guard that patrols back there was based on his footsteps, but other than that, one use of Command once he was back on the stage to make him dance and allow Crystal to get back up to the upper catwalk so she could jump back down by the exit door without being seen, and we were golden! :) Had her go back to Santa Monica briefly to check her e-mails and get the details on the Hollywood hub, then headed back to that neighborhood to, in order:
I. Take care of wiring up Tawni’s apartment with the webcams – managed this one all in one go by investing some points in sneaking early, then just carefully timing all of Crystal’s moves to plant the webcams in the appropriate spaces (that screen in the bedroom is a lifesaver, let me tell you). Still need to report to Imalia to actually finish the quest, but I can do that later.
II. Get the Metalhead Industries Schreknet hub sorted – this one was more of a pain in the ass. I got to the main office to unlock the upper office door without being seen, but had to save and reload when I was caught by a guy next to the stairs. Got up there on the second attempt and set up the hub, then went to open the safe to get the item that’s in there for Gary’s poster quest – and discovered my hacking skill, even with a quick boost from Auspex, was not up to the job! As I didn’t want to come back here because of what a pain in the ass the sneaking is, I just looked up the password on my iPad. XD Look, this is my THIRD playthrough, I’m allowed. Managed to get past everybody sneaking out and struck that off my list.
III. Took care of the Gargoyle in the Asian Theater – I decided Crystal would be more inclined to smash it than reason with it, as she’s a Tremere and she wants Max’s favor, so I kept the conversation brief and then had her wail on him with her sledgehammer. Discovered that Blood Theft didn’t work great, but Blood Boil at least did good damage! Got him smashed up, then went to go into the lower theater to grab Gary’s tape –
And got stuck on a piece of the scenery the Gargoyle had knocked down while I was trying to get to the high ground earlier. And when I reloaded, I found myself back before sneaking out of Metalhead Industries. Talk about a kick in the teeth! >( Managed to re-sneak out, SAVED, then headed back to the Theater and THIS time got the Gargoyle into the actual theater room to kill it and grab the tape without issue. Went across the street to Isaac to pick up the Pearl of Dubai as the “thanks for taking care of Andrei” gift and let him know that the Gargoyle was dead, then swung by Asp Hole for a blood doll pick-me-up before heading back Downtown and reporting to Max. He was pleased, handed over the Fae Charm (yay more Dexterity) and then offered Crystal a haven in the Chantry, which she happily accepted – after making sure Heather was welcome, of course. FINALLY, a haven downtown! :D Had her head up and check on everything (fresh blood in the fridge too, yay), then went ahead and put some of the crap she’s been carrying around in her new chest and started trading things to Gary for posters. Got Jeannette and VV so far – Ming Xiao requires something I haven’t got yet. Also have the details for the Chinatown network hub, so next time, looks like we’re back on the main plot beat!
4. Get in a workout: Check – on the treadmill today, and started the first episode of “L.A. By Night!” This is the series that my friend Squid is into, and stars Nosferatu Jasper, Toreador Nelli G, Ventrue Victor Temple, and upcoming Brujah Annabelle as a coterie in an Anarch-controlled L.A. now being threatened by the nearby Camarilla. This opening episode introduces the characters, especially Annabelle, who is the newest kid on the block. Right now I’m finding it – kinda slow? Jasper, Nelli, and Victor are all investigating Griffith College because there’s been six students with cases of anemia there, and they suspect a poacher in their territory. Victor and Nelli have been doing most of the social groundwork (using the Presence power “Awe” and name-dropping themselves to get access to the students’ medical records) while Jasper has done roof recon work with Obfuscate (suffering through a truly awful band performance while spotting one of the kids from records Victor texted him and locating him at the library). Victor and Nelli have, thanks to Nelli flirting quite a lot with the kid (Wan), gotten the name “Annabelle” out of him, and Jasper’s already lurking around the coffee shop where she works. Like I said, bit of a slow start, but – first episode, everyone’s getting settled in, learning the rules, all that jazz. I’ll at least watch the rest!
5. Work on tumblr queues: Check – got some new reblogs in the drafts of some nice Alice fanart and some great Corpse Bride gifs, and got the posts for this week’s Newcrest Adventures update all sorted this morning!
Additionally:
-->Weather FINALLY got nicer again (was cloudy for most of the morning, but the sun finally came out this afternoon – with some wind, but what can you do), so we got five rounds of beanbags in. I got 3-3-2-W-2; Dad got W-W-3-3-W; Mom got 2-2-W-2-3. Hooray, we each won one, just how I like it. :) And yes, Dad has noticed that he either blows us away or completely flops – he’s not sure what’s going on either. XD
So yeah, good productive time, w000. :) Of course, I'm a bit late as usual updating this, but hey. :p And now it's time to go to bed -- back to work tomorrow, meeeh. At least it's a short week. Night all!
1. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check! Got a really good chunk done too – Alice has looked up everything relevant on the Krime-puter (and some not-so-relevant things, like one Vandal Cleaver’s entry – it is so lucky for him that Wonderland tells her NOT to kill him), and discovered Rolf Toten’s bond was apparently Lily’s car, still in town, and that Virgil Crumb is on ice in the clinic. Time to see if she can hunt down the former and discover if it holds any more keys to finding out where Lily is!
2. Watch some more Oxventures, and keep up on YouTube Subs: Check! Even got in a bonus video --
A) Actually started with Plumbella’s latest today – “why are we allowing Don Lothario to exist??” It’s kind of a follow-up to her “rating Sims by toxicity” video, where she decided to do a quick-dive into what a scumbag the Dons of Sims 2 and Sims 4 are, being cheaters who leave women at the altar and move in with their latest conquest to try and romance the daughters who just became legal. And then she decided to use the Extreme Violence mod to kill S4 Don, only to find him SHOCKINGLY hard to murder! He easily repelled both Dina and Katrina’s attempts to kill him (kicking Dina in the booty and then straight-up shooting her), before finally getting his neck snapped by Nina. Fun times! XD
B) Then, after beanbags (below) I watched Call Me Kevin’s latest – another trip to the Sims 2 save file! Which – well. Kevin, having learned he CAN clone Sims, made an attempt to clone himself and deage the clone. But when that didn’t work (and neither did cloning a random Sim on the street), he instead deaged poor Vidcund into a toddler and then made a whole bunch of clones of him as a toddler, sealing them all away in his new barn! Just to see what would happen, you know?
Mainly them fighting Sim!Kevin and each other is what happened. Along with having mental breakdowns and acting distressingly like adult Sims, floating in midair all the while. XD Kevin also locked Mrs. Crumplebottom and Bigfoot in there to complete his “petting zoo,” then romanced and hired a random old guy with no talents or skills off the street to make food for them, shoving him in a fig leaf outfit. XD And then he locked him in a pen to starve him, only to release him when his constant “I want to leave” messages got too annoying. And THEN he aged up Vidcund to see what would happen (throwing him a disaster of a birthday party) – and upon seeing none of the clones aged up with him, made some clones of his child self. Who promptly started fighting. XD All is chaos and corruption, and I think we’re all just here to see how long it is before the save file breaks completely. XD
C) Then, after supper, it was time for GrayStillPlays and Date Master – yup another of his beloved shitty mobile games! This one is all about dating – designing your perfect red-headed woman to take to a movie (Gray WANTED to take her to the circus, but the game insisted on a romantic morning matinee) and a fancy pizza restaurant (Gray did not get his Chicago deep dish and accidentally stabbed her in the boob trying to feed her); taking a perky blond to the beach, slathering her in sunscreen, making her a giant sundae, and then abandoning her on an island after stealing a yacht; and then getting together with a tough rocker whose ex-boyfriend shows up on the date and makes you play rock-paper-scissors for her (Gray chose rock, which is apparently what he personally always wins with). Also in between there’s an alternate universe where everyone’s playing truth or date, and you can tell the girl you’re across from to slap your friend into another dimension or lick the other girl’s foot. XD Ridiculous stupidity like this being Gray’s bread-and-butter, I expect to see more of this game in future!
D) And then it was onto the next Oxventure, “Wild Wild Woods,” their first Live Oxventure! :D The gang’s attempt at having a nice, quiet picnic was rudely interrupted by Merilwen’s realization that the forest they’d picked was strangely devoid of animals, and the wizard Binbag (just go with it) suddenly showing up to inform her (and her “sarcastic, sandwich-eating companions”) that a great evil was there and responsible for the missing animals. Turns out they’d all been captured to run a logging operation by a bunch of goblins, who – courtesy of one M. Channail – had a giant mechanical stag beetle to do the heavy lifting. Highlights of the adventure include Corazon bragging that he could tie up three sleeping goblins in under a minute – and not quite making his roll (Johnny generously let him have two, with the third waking up mid-tie); Prudence killing a goblin by exploding its head with Eldritch Blast (“Cthulhu is pleased and lunch is ruined”); Merilwen turning out to be better at picking locks as a cat than firing her bow as a human (also the introduction of Ellen getting a little plush cat to use as her Wildshape form); the rampage of Michael the Very Big Goat; Egbert flame-roasting a bunch of goblins, getting shot for his troubles, and then getting shown up by Dob’s Thunderwave; Egbert smashing a goblin who just whipped Merilwen in the face so hard his head came off (and Corazon failing to bicycle-kick it away); and the boss battle, which included gems such as Merilwen leaping onto it and stabbing it, Egbert hitting a bomb into its mouth with his mace like a baseball bat (and SUCCEEDING), Dob smashing it with a Thunderwave from below (not remembering that Merilwen was in range – fortunately, being a WOOD Elf, she did not conduct the electricity and thus was fine), Prudence of course hitting it with Eldritch Blast, and Corazon initially trying to get it to tangle its legs in a simple rope trap by goading it on by rapping “Wild Wild West” at it – this did not work, but he managed to make up for this with a final rapier thrust that finally took out the power source. It was absolutely delightful chaos and I love it. :D
3. Play Bloodlines and continue finishing up some side missions: Check! Today was mostly “getting rid of all the awful stealthy missions because I don’t have Obfuscate.” XD Though I have to say, Crystal acquitted herself very well! She started out beneath the Nocturne Theater, then went up to set up the Schrecknet hub there – got up the ladder to the upper railing without issue (just jumped over the broken spotlight attempting to block the way), found the spot for the webcam, then headed over to the other ladder nearer the office doors, and snuck in while the guard was moving the other way. Took her a couple of tries to find the office with the working computer, but she got there in the end and activated the hub. Had to save and reload once when I misjudged where the guard that patrols back there was based on his footsteps, but other than that, one use of Command once he was back on the stage to make him dance and allow Crystal to get back up to the upper catwalk so she could jump back down by the exit door without being seen, and we were golden! :) Had her go back to Santa Monica briefly to check her e-mails and get the details on the Hollywood hub, then headed back to that neighborhood to, in order:
I. Take care of wiring up Tawni’s apartment with the webcams – managed this one all in one go by investing some points in sneaking early, then just carefully timing all of Crystal’s moves to plant the webcams in the appropriate spaces (that screen in the bedroom is a lifesaver, let me tell you). Still need to report to Imalia to actually finish the quest, but I can do that later.
II. Get the Metalhead Industries Schreknet hub sorted – this one was more of a pain in the ass. I got to the main office to unlock the upper office door without being seen, but had to save and reload when I was caught by a guy next to the stairs. Got up there on the second attempt and set up the hub, then went to open the safe to get the item that’s in there for Gary’s poster quest – and discovered my hacking skill, even with a quick boost from Auspex, was not up to the job! As I didn’t want to come back here because of what a pain in the ass the sneaking is, I just looked up the password on my iPad. XD Look, this is my THIRD playthrough, I’m allowed. Managed to get past everybody sneaking out and struck that off my list.
III. Took care of the Gargoyle in the Asian Theater – I decided Crystal would be more inclined to smash it than reason with it, as she’s a Tremere and she wants Max’s favor, so I kept the conversation brief and then had her wail on him with her sledgehammer. Discovered that Blood Theft didn’t work great, but Blood Boil at least did good damage! Got him smashed up, then went to go into the lower theater to grab Gary’s tape –
And got stuck on a piece of the scenery the Gargoyle had knocked down while I was trying to get to the high ground earlier. And when I reloaded, I found myself back before sneaking out of Metalhead Industries. Talk about a kick in the teeth! >( Managed to re-sneak out, SAVED, then headed back to the Theater and THIS time got the Gargoyle into the actual theater room to kill it and grab the tape without issue. Went across the street to Isaac to pick up the Pearl of Dubai as the “thanks for taking care of Andrei” gift and let him know that the Gargoyle was dead, then swung by Asp Hole for a blood doll pick-me-up before heading back Downtown and reporting to Max. He was pleased, handed over the Fae Charm (yay more Dexterity) and then offered Crystal a haven in the Chantry, which she happily accepted – after making sure Heather was welcome, of course. FINALLY, a haven downtown! :D Had her head up and check on everything (fresh blood in the fridge too, yay), then went ahead and put some of the crap she’s been carrying around in her new chest and started trading things to Gary for posters. Got Jeannette and VV so far – Ming Xiao requires something I haven’t got yet. Also have the details for the Chinatown network hub, so next time, looks like we’re back on the main plot beat!
4. Get in a workout: Check – on the treadmill today, and started the first episode of “L.A. By Night!” This is the series that my friend Squid is into, and stars Nosferatu Jasper, Toreador Nelli G, Ventrue Victor Temple, and upcoming Brujah Annabelle as a coterie in an Anarch-controlled L.A. now being threatened by the nearby Camarilla. This opening episode introduces the characters, especially Annabelle, who is the newest kid on the block. Right now I’m finding it – kinda slow? Jasper, Nelli, and Victor are all investigating Griffith College because there’s been six students with cases of anemia there, and they suspect a poacher in their territory. Victor and Nelli have been doing most of the social groundwork (using the Presence power “Awe” and name-dropping themselves to get access to the students’ medical records) while Jasper has done roof recon work with Obfuscate (suffering through a truly awful band performance while spotting one of the kids from records Victor texted him and locating him at the library). Victor and Nelli have, thanks to Nelli flirting quite a lot with the kid (Wan), gotten the name “Annabelle” out of him, and Jasper’s already lurking around the coffee shop where she works. Like I said, bit of a slow start, but – first episode, everyone’s getting settled in, learning the rules, all that jazz. I’ll at least watch the rest!
5. Work on tumblr queues: Check – got some new reblogs in the drafts of some nice Alice fanart and some great Corpse Bride gifs, and got the posts for this week’s Newcrest Adventures update all sorted this morning!
Additionally:
-->Weather FINALLY got nicer again (was cloudy for most of the morning, but the sun finally came out this afternoon – with some wind, but what can you do), so we got five rounds of beanbags in. I got 3-3-2-W-2; Dad got W-W-3-3-W; Mom got 2-2-W-2-3. Hooray, we each won one, just how I like it. :) And yes, Dad has noticed that he either blows us away or completely flops – he’s not sure what’s going on either. XD
So yeah, good productive time, w000. :) Of course, I'm a bit late as usual updating this, but hey. :p And now it's time to go to bed -- back to work tomorrow, meeeh. At least it's a short week. Night all!
