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Running Late Tonight
Nov. 30th, 2021 11:38 pmWhich was kind of a theme of today -- you'll understand once I throw the to-do list at you --
Work – Ugh – work itself wasn’t too bad (a mostly quiet day with a few phone calls, combing through some duplicates and deceased, and FINALLY getting some credit card stuff fixed), but my commute was a shitshow. Two accidents this morning tied up traffic so bad I got in about a half-hour late, and getting home was a crawl to every red light because of how many cars were blocking each intersection out of the city. At least I didn’t have to stop for gas tonight. . .though I do have to tomorrow, bleeeeh. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Oxventure and “Plunder Siege!” After the great Toppling of the Bookcases (and Dob running down to heal Corazon, only for Corazon to insist Egbert use some of his lovely Paladin “laying of hands” to do it because HE shoved the bookcases too hard), Corazon went to grab some more loot from upstairs, while Prudence got her hands on a new little grimoire (a snappy one too – Cthulhu was pleased), before everyone started into the next room. Corazon luckily spotted an arrow trap that could have badly hurt before letting everyone through the door – unluckily, it turned out to be a feasting room, and there was already a group of eight thieves in there doing just that. Corazon attempted to be “hey, nice to see you, we’re just passing through,” but the leader of the other thieves was pretty insistent they couldn’t just walk through his room – not even falling for the bait of “there’s a fun secret door in the library with more treasure than we can carry and also we’re cowards.” So Dob took over and – well, he borrowed Prudence’s new book, got the leader of the thieves to agree to have some soup with him (as there was a bubbling stewpot in the room), and then slipped the grimoire into the soup after getting himself a flagon of such, hoping it would do something.
It did – it turned the leader of the thieves into a goblin. XD Unfortunately, Dob was NOT then able to convince the rest of the gang to attack said goblin and leave them alone, and combat began, our heroes versus the thieves! Corazon promptly ducked into cover, then used some of his new magic to make an invisible spectral hand to “borrow” a bomb from Egbert, light it at his nose, and then fling it toward the back wall, where the blast killed four thieves in one go (one was able to fling himself to safety). Dob then got Merilwen to turn back to human again, used his new magic Heat Metal on the head of one of her arrows, and had her shoot it at the remaining thieves – she rolled well, Johnny rolled poorly, and one more thief died, and two more were badly hurt (including the goblin, who ended up with the arrow in its chest). And I left with Prudence Agonizing Blasting the goblin for being a dick. XD This group is DnD chaos personified and I love it.
2. Draft out first gift fic: Check! Got my friend Nebby’s first draft done – she wanted a movie night for Victor and Alice based on a “they get shoved into the modern day” AU RP we’re doing on tumblr, and so I have provided, with them watching Plan 9 From Outer Space. XD It’s just a bit of fun! And it feels good to have a start on that already – I want to try and get all these done early enough to leave myself a bit of time for getting Chapter 3 of “Santa Monica’s Vale of Tears” up around Christmas too!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – standard two-in, two-out, one bonus –
A) Started with the Tuesday OXtra list – “7 Save Points That Tried to Kill You!” Yes, a list of tricky trap save points that could be lethal if you didn’t spot their knavery. From a shapeshifting save point that reveals itself to be a monster to defeat in Undertale, to the sound of a save point summoning a trio of fishmen to do battle with in Chrono Trigger, to the fact that beds – normally your self-set respawn point – explode in the Nether if you try to set one down in Minecraft, you can’t always trust a save! Though I’m not sure I’d count the last item on their list, which is the Final Bonfire after Gwyn, Lord of Cinder in Dark Souls. I’m reasonably certain that most people would have at least noticed “Link The Fire” and been a bit suspicious? But then again, who knows, I’ve never watched a playthrough from someone who was a total noob at the game, so. . .
B) Then it was into the Subs to see Call Me Kevin play GTA V – with a randomizer mod! This is distinct from the Chaos Mod in that it just randomizes EVERYTHING – player character models, what vehicles people are driving, character dialogue, what you have to do in missions, all that good shit. XD Kevin did a jewelry store heist with the gang, and the characters were literally changing models every cutscene. Not to mention, prepping for the job involved stealing shit in a submarine, visiting the strip club to see Franklin both fawning over a guy AND tending bar, getting into a fight with a random woman for trying to recover her stolen item, hunting down a guy with an absolutely TERRIFYING version of Chop the dog (ever want to see a police woman compressed into a dog model? With her head facing SIDEWAYS?), and picking up drugs with your clone-son and getting abducted by aliens in a wooden crate. The actual heist itself went off semi-normally, though Michael DID fly there in a helicopter, and the getaway vehicle was a car made from all the other cars piling onto each other. It was absolute plane-exploding blimp-rolling bird-people chaos, and I kind of love it. XD Hopefully there shall be more. . .
C) And then we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Today we had the Latvian bottle flip (where you could put your bottles in the bathtub, and had to sneak past the bouncer to become a true Latvian – also Gray learned more about the parks of Latvia than he ever wished to know); a survival board where you had to get past the crossbows shooting about TWENTY MILLION BOLTS into you (plus a harpoon at the end – this one took quite a few tries, and I’m pretty sure he got past on sheer luck); the Qual 2, a board of random trickery and pain (like spikes falling on you if you linger in the starting area, and a yeeter that can stop you from ever seeing the second half of the board – plus more crossbows XD); the Impossible Games (choose the right ball in Plinko, take out all the randos in a sword throw, then survive the ball and jet fall – Gray eventually managed to avoid being crushed to death by super-jets!); a death fall (basically just manage to survive a long fall with inconvenient spikes and whatnot – Gray lost both legs and an arm, but made it!); Gray’s Quest 2 (featuring sliding Reginald, the spasming yeetaconda, flying jet-knives, the Dorito of Doom, an alternate path that shall just murder you carelessly, and an ending with an invisible yeeter and alcoholism!); and finally a trip to space (where getting into the airlock was arguably the hardest part – and at the end, Gray managed to survive a fall back to earth that had previously mulched Pogo Man every other time). You know, just the usual nonsense. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though I had more to do than expected. Victor Luvs Alice was easy – one Chill Save update, one Fallout of Darkness timeline, one cute meme about the smaller person being the big spoon. I also have an idea for Song Saturday, but I didn’t have time to put it in the actual QUEUE, so my half-finished reblog is in my drafts.
Valice Multiverse. . .one ask reply, four thread replies, and a TikTok meme someone made and tagged me to watch. And the thread replies were all multi-paragraph affairs. @.@ Juggle that with trying to converse with tumblr friends, and – yeah. See why I’m updating this late tonight?
Yeah, was expecting a bit of a quieter night. . .well, at least everything that had to get done, got done. And I have more gift fic prompts, so that's good too! Continue working on those as December starts tomorrow. But for now, bed. Night all!
Work – Ugh – work itself wasn’t too bad (a mostly quiet day with a few phone calls, combing through some duplicates and deceased, and FINALLY getting some credit card stuff fixed), but my commute was a shitshow. Two accidents this morning tied up traffic so bad I got in about a half-hour late, and getting home was a crawl to every red light because of how many cars were blocking each intersection out of the city. At least I didn’t have to stop for gas tonight. . .though I do have to tomorrow, bleeeeh. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Oxventure and “Plunder Siege!” After the great Toppling of the Bookcases (and Dob running down to heal Corazon, only for Corazon to insist Egbert use some of his lovely Paladin “laying of hands” to do it because HE shoved the bookcases too hard), Corazon went to grab some more loot from upstairs, while Prudence got her hands on a new little grimoire (a snappy one too – Cthulhu was pleased), before everyone started into the next room. Corazon luckily spotted an arrow trap that could have badly hurt before letting everyone through the door – unluckily, it turned out to be a feasting room, and there was already a group of eight thieves in there doing just that. Corazon attempted to be “hey, nice to see you, we’re just passing through,” but the leader of the other thieves was pretty insistent they couldn’t just walk through his room – not even falling for the bait of “there’s a fun secret door in the library with more treasure than we can carry and also we’re cowards.” So Dob took over and – well, he borrowed Prudence’s new book, got the leader of the thieves to agree to have some soup with him (as there was a bubbling stewpot in the room), and then slipped the grimoire into the soup after getting himself a flagon of such, hoping it would do something.
It did – it turned the leader of the thieves into a goblin. XD Unfortunately, Dob was NOT then able to convince the rest of the gang to attack said goblin and leave them alone, and combat began, our heroes versus the thieves! Corazon promptly ducked into cover, then used some of his new magic to make an invisible spectral hand to “borrow” a bomb from Egbert, light it at his nose, and then fling it toward the back wall, where the blast killed four thieves in one go (one was able to fling himself to safety). Dob then got Merilwen to turn back to human again, used his new magic Heat Metal on the head of one of her arrows, and had her shoot it at the remaining thieves – she rolled well, Johnny rolled poorly, and one more thief died, and two more were badly hurt (including the goblin, who ended up with the arrow in its chest). And I left with Prudence Agonizing Blasting the goblin for being a dick. XD This group is DnD chaos personified and I love it.
2. Draft out first gift fic: Check! Got my friend Nebby’s first draft done – she wanted a movie night for Victor and Alice based on a “they get shoved into the modern day” AU RP we’re doing on tumblr, and so I have provided, with them watching Plan 9 From Outer Space. XD It’s just a bit of fun! And it feels good to have a start on that already – I want to try and get all these done early enough to leave myself a bit of time for getting Chapter 3 of “Santa Monica’s Vale of Tears” up around Christmas too!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – standard two-in, two-out, one bonus –
A) Started with the Tuesday OXtra list – “7 Save Points That Tried to Kill You!” Yes, a list of tricky trap save points that could be lethal if you didn’t spot their knavery. From a shapeshifting save point that reveals itself to be a monster to defeat in Undertale, to the sound of a save point summoning a trio of fishmen to do battle with in Chrono Trigger, to the fact that beds – normally your self-set respawn point – explode in the Nether if you try to set one down in Minecraft, you can’t always trust a save! Though I’m not sure I’d count the last item on their list, which is the Final Bonfire after Gwyn, Lord of Cinder in Dark Souls. I’m reasonably certain that most people would have at least noticed “Link The Fire” and been a bit suspicious? But then again, who knows, I’ve never watched a playthrough from someone who was a total noob at the game, so. . .
B) Then it was into the Subs to see Call Me Kevin play GTA V – with a randomizer mod! This is distinct from the Chaos Mod in that it just randomizes EVERYTHING – player character models, what vehicles people are driving, character dialogue, what you have to do in missions, all that good shit. XD Kevin did a jewelry store heist with the gang, and the characters were literally changing models every cutscene. Not to mention, prepping for the job involved stealing shit in a submarine, visiting the strip club to see Franklin both fawning over a guy AND tending bar, getting into a fight with a random woman for trying to recover her stolen item, hunting down a guy with an absolutely TERRIFYING version of Chop the dog (ever want to see a police woman compressed into a dog model? With her head facing SIDEWAYS?), and picking up drugs with your clone-son and getting abducted by aliens in a wooden crate. The actual heist itself went off semi-normally, though Michael DID fly there in a helicopter, and the getaway vehicle was a car made from all the other cars piling onto each other. It was absolute plane-exploding blimp-rolling bird-people chaos, and I kind of love it. XD Hopefully there shall be more. . .
C) And then we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Today we had the Latvian bottle flip (where you could put your bottles in the bathtub, and had to sneak past the bouncer to become a true Latvian – also Gray learned more about the parks of Latvia than he ever wished to know); a survival board where you had to get past the crossbows shooting about TWENTY MILLION BOLTS into you (plus a harpoon at the end – this one took quite a few tries, and I’m pretty sure he got past on sheer luck); the Qual 2, a board of random trickery and pain (like spikes falling on you if you linger in the starting area, and a yeeter that can stop you from ever seeing the second half of the board – plus more crossbows XD); the Impossible Games (choose the right ball in Plinko, take out all the randos in a sword throw, then survive the ball and jet fall – Gray eventually managed to avoid being crushed to death by super-jets!); a death fall (basically just manage to survive a long fall with inconvenient spikes and whatnot – Gray lost both legs and an arm, but made it!); Gray’s Quest 2 (featuring sliding Reginald, the spasming yeetaconda, flying jet-knives, the Dorito of Doom, an alternate path that shall just murder you carelessly, and an ending with an invisible yeeter and alcoholism!); and finally a trip to space (where getting into the airlock was arguably the hardest part – and at the end, Gray managed to survive a fall back to earth that had previously mulched Pogo Man every other time). You know, just the usual nonsense. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though I had more to do than expected. Victor Luvs Alice was easy – one Chill Save update, one Fallout of Darkness timeline, one cute meme about the smaller person being the big spoon. I also have an idea for Song Saturday, but I didn’t have time to put it in the actual QUEUE, so my half-finished reblog is in my drafts.
Valice Multiverse. . .one ask reply, four thread replies, and a TikTok meme someone made and tagged me to watch. And the thread replies were all multi-paragraph affairs. @.@ Juggle that with trying to converse with tumblr friends, and – yeah. See why I’m updating this late tonight?
Yeah, was expecting a bit of a quieter night. . .well, at least everything that had to get done, got done. And I have more gift fic prompts, so that's good too! Continue working on those as December starts tomorrow. But for now, bed. Night all!
