Pre-Work Sunday, Meh

And we actually got a few light snow showers this afternoon, so that was great. >.< Nothing that stuck or would cause any problems, but. . .meh. Always a touch depressing to see the first few flakes of the season.

Anyway -- as usual for a Sunday night, I'm running a bit late, so let's get the to-do list up so I can hit the sheets

1. Start asking about gift fic ideas from people: Check, though I really could have asked a few more people than I did. ^^; Just distracted – but I did get a specific idea from one of my tumblr friends, and I just left a comment for you, Gigs, on your last comment to me (or you could reply to this post if you like too, I’m easy). I’ll keep asking people as this week goes on – I mean, I can always just make up something if someone doesn’t give me specifics, but I find it helpful to have a prompt to work off of in these cases.

2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and watch Jon's FO4 YOLO episode: Check! Even got in a tiny bit of bonus video fun –

A) Started with a quick clip from one of Call Me Kevin’s streams (from user “ClippyClipClip”) with Kevin and a couple of his friends, including RTGame/Dan, talking about Twitter drama, and RT bringing up a picture he once posted of “you and me kissing” – the picture itself looks more like RT’s about to smooch Kevin’s cheek, and Kevin is like “you know you just LIED there” XD Suddenly Anna joking in a previous video about a meme someone made where she was introducing RT as Kevin’s “boyfriend” makes a bit more sense. XD

B) Then, after gaming (below), moved onto a Plumbella speed-build where she made over an ugly build over in Oasis Springs (managing to get an entire second bedroom in where the kitchen used to be!), and caught everyone up on her life (namely the fact that she’s officially in therapy, working through some of her past traumas, and talking about her complicated relationship with religion and how she’s more agnostic and is only gonna play nice with Jesus if he plays nice with the fact she’s agender). Good to hear she’s working on herself and doing well, and the renovation came out quite nice, so yay. :)

C) Then it was over to the subs for Call Me Kevin and more GTA San Andreas Definitive Edition – namely, trying to break the buggy, glitchy mess. XD He did a handful of missions with his Pirate Underpants CJ – taking his ex-girlfriend to a bank robbery (with a few detours along the way to see how high a building she would fling herself off to follow him when he fell off of something – pretty damn high, is the answer! Also, this game will let you drive along the bottom of a riverbed and even chat with a passenger while you’re ACTIVELY DROWNING) and shooting up some ATMs for horse racing cash; doing a street race against a guy who has a sock on his head (and winning easily because, for some reason, the other racers kind of just disappeared from the track); helping a drug dealer torch his weed farm and shoot down a police chopper (complete with CJ rising from the grave as he gets to hear his own death animation); and starting up some sort of business with the weed guy and some of his buddies, picking them up from various locations to go and clean up what looks like some sort of garage (running them over thanks to awkward car placement in cutscenes optional XD). Featuring weird arms, missing chest models, 90s cell phones getting glued to hands, pedestrians panicking for no good reason, and CJ drinking gallons of Sprunk. XD Ah, Kevin can make any bad game just that little bit better.

D) And then it was over to GrayStillPlays for another GTA V ridiculous story board! A BTTF-ish story board, in fact! Somebody got the models for the Telltale Doc and Marty into the game, and thus was born a board where they conscript Gray for a scheme where they use a giant toilet to travel to the distant future of 3069 to steal shit and then sell it in the present. Unfortunately, it turns out there isn’t much to steal, so they attempt to kidnap a bunch of humans via the medium of Gray shoveling them into an open-topped truck with a bulldozer. XD And then they’re caught by the police before they can make it back to the toilet portal, and the mayor gives them the option to go back in time and steal some “anusaurus” eggs to help them find a cure for colon cancer in exchange for a pardon and money. So they end up at the end of the Cretaceous period, where Doc is all about stealing the eggs and going back to the present to make a Jurassic Park. XD Gray is not exactly on board with this plan, but commandeers a deer anyway (which he names “Meaty Bits”) and gets the eggs, including some in a random bush. . .which prove to be T-Rex eggs, leading to Gray having to to flee a derpy T-Rex on the back of Meaty Bits through the falling meteors signaling the end of the dinosaurs. And then they go back to the present, only to find that the T-Rex eggs they stole were supposed to eat the only dinosaurs that survived the meteors, leading to an LA where the dominant species is a hybrid of anusaurs and dicksaurs. XD It was so stupid and yet so wonderful. But then again, I’m easily swayed by anything that includes a reference to one of my favorite film series. XD

E) And then, finally, it was time for Jon’s FO4 YOLO episode – the Grand Finale episode, in fact. Yes, this was the episode where he and Finalley did the end-game – blowing up the Institute with the Minutemen. Which, uh, was rather involved, because the Minutemen, needing to sneak into the Institute via an old sewer, have to do an extra little dungeon to even make it to the Institute proper (as opposed to the Railroad, where you teleport in and start a synth rebellion, or the Brotherhood, where you just rip open the roof with Liberty Prime). Hell, in Jon’s case, since he plays on Survival, he couldn’t even fast-travel back to his base at Hangman’s Alley – he had to walk there, and dodge some Disciples along the way. Fortunately he succeeded in doing so, got the plans from Sturges, took what he needed from his weapons locker, got to the pipe in the river, popped on the hazmat suit, and got into the old ruined sewer. From there it was just a case of sneaking around, taking out the few turrets and enemies in the place (a Mole Rat Brood Mother, a couple of synths, and a few ghouls more than he was expecting (a few of which were a lot CLOSER to poor Finalley than he thought – no damage, though), and working his way up to the relay room through the old pipes. He brought in the Minutemen (derisively noting their fragile shirts and pipe weaponry), and then –

Well. Everything from that point was a terrifying game of “will Finalley be shoved into the action by the other Minutemen as she tries to be sneaky about her murder?” XD There were a few hair-raising moments as they worked their way through Old Robotics (taking out loads of synths, a sentry-bot, and lots and lots of turrets) and Bioscience (Finalley TRIED to shut down the turrets and release the gorillas, but no dice – instead, the gorillas were released on THEM, though fortunately the Minutemen proved to be the perfect distraction while she killed them), but they made it to the main room, killed the most dangerous people in it (using a Fat Man shot and LOADS of Psycho-Jet), then Finalley mined up the main doors before getting the director’s code out of Father to shut down a few enemies and get all the doors open. And very notably NOT issue the evacuation order, because Jon was feeling petty and Preston already hated him anyway (though he did note that this also meant Finalley could never go back to the Railroad, because they’d be hostile apparently). She killed a few more synths, listened to some others get blown up, got pissed off at the only Instigating weapon she ever got being, of all things, a BOXING GLOVE on a Legendary synth, then proceeded through Advanced Systems and into the reactor room! More Fat-Manning and more Psycho-Jet took care of the enemies in that room, and then she slapped on the hazmat suit (as she was taking so much radiation damage it was actually eating into her health), got the fusion pulse on the reactor, left Synth Shaun behind, and teleported to the top of Mass Fusion to hit the big button, blow up the Institute, and roll the ending cutscenes! Bam! Fallout 4 officially done, and the YOLO run is complete!

. . .Or is it? Because, apparently, Jon isn’t sure if he does consider the game complete without finishing all the “main” Minutemen missions – and taking out the Brotherhood post-main-quest is one of them. Which is why he’s so intent on starting the war with them. Though, first, Finalley had to survive getting home from finishing off the Institute – Preston refused to finish off his dialogue properly so they could get down the Mass Fusion elevator all together, so Finalley was forced to grab the password from the director’s desk – and when she got down there, she found the Gunners had respawned. And that there was a junkbot right outside the entrance. Jon chose to interpret this as Preston, angry and disappointed Finalley left everyone in the Institute to die, trying to get her murdered. XD Unfortunately for him, she has Stealth Boys galore and good guns, so she made it back to Hangman’s Alley unscathed. Free to plan a hell of a fireworks show next week! Next time – the ACTUAL finale of YOLO, with the “Blowing Up The Brotherhood” epilogue! Sheesh – as I noted in my comment on this week’s ep, between pissing off Preston and the Minutemen by becoming Overboss of the Nuka-World raiders, pissing off the Nuka-World raiders by killing some of their own in the Commonwealth, pissing off the Railroad by refusing to evacuate the innocent synths when blowing up the Institute, and preparing to piss off the Brotherhood by blowing up the Prydwen, the YOLO run’s subtitle might as well be “Speed Run To Piss Off The Commonwealth.” XD

3. Play Fallout 4 and at least clear out the Red Rocket's mole rats: Check – did exactly that today! Victor headed on down to the Red Rocket near Sanctuary, where he met up with Dogmeat, killed a bunch of mole rats with him, and then – after reading about the cave under the shop on the terminal – cleared out the mole rats from under there too, picking up loads of junk in the meantime. After that was all sorted, I had him go around his new base, clearing up ten tons of tires and reorganizing his workbenches so they were all in convenient places (and replacing the dead campfire under the cooking spit with one that actually burns). Made some food, plopped down a sleeping bag and a bed for his new pet in the office, did a little tooling around on the chemistry workbench before his exhaustion overcame him and he had to head to bed. Next morning, headed back toward the river, where I tried out the fishing mechanic that came with the updated “Appletree Bakery and Creamery” mod (this one combines my old Apple Trees mod with a couple of others by the same creator, including a fishing mod), and Victor ended up catching a few fish! He also encountered a mongrel – for a second, I thought it was the Wounded Mongrel, aka Mutt, but no, sadly this one was unfriendly. On the plus side, this provided me with enough mongrel dog meat to make one of the specialty foods I downloaded. XD And it let Victor level up, meaning he’s Level 3 with a rank of “Gun Nut” now – ended up running back to Sanctuary briefly so he could pump his 10mm all the way up to a Powerful Receiver. Next time – we brave Concord! (Er, after I have him drop the fusion core he’s got in his inventory at the Red Rocket – want to do the Museum of Freedom the “right” way!)

4. Get in a workout: Check – another thirty on the bike! And, as indicated yesterday, I have gone back to watching Oxventure on my workouts. :) Started “Plunder Siege” today, a Live Oxventure that sees our merry band going to the town of Redcastle, only to discover from some brigands going the same way that it’s All Crim’s Night, where the Lord of Redcastle invites all thieves and whatnot to try and break into his castle as a training exercise for his guards. Anybody who makes it to the inner chamber gets a handshake and permission to take what they like! Obviously, you can’t kill the guards, as that defeats the “training” part of all this, but fellow thieves? Yeah, they’re totally fair game. XD The Oxventure Guild has chosen to take part in this, and are currently working on the best way to get into the great manor house that gives the town its name. Dob’s attempt to throw Merilwen in cat form onto one of the higher floors did not go as expected, instead landing her in a recently-composted flower bed. Corazon, despite being rather drunk (to explain Andy’s bad rolls and not quite understanding some of Johnny’s narration), has successfully used a grappling hook to get himself, Prudence, and Dob up and over – but Egbert, being played by Mike, is INSISTING on exploding his way over via the medium of riding a bomb blast over the wall on his shield. XD We’ll see what he has to beat on his rolls to actually do that next time!

5. Work on tumblr queues: Check – spent some time after supper on Victor Luvs Alice, and got both this Wednesday’s “Chill Save” post (covering Victor’s trip to Windenburg with the Garden Gnomes) sorted, along with a timeline post I’ve had half-done for a while now that can now go up on Thursday! So that’s fairly awesome. :D And over on Valice Multiverse, one thread reply, two ask replies, so that’s good for a Monday. :)

Yeah, not too shabby, huh? Though I do need to get on asking for gift fic prompts so I can hit the ground running on those. . . Well, I've got two days until December starts, so I can make use of that, at least. :p Night all!