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Early End of 2021 Post
Dec. 31st, 2021 06:56 pmHappy New Year's Eve, everybody! We're on the verge of having supper and starting what will hopefully be our marathon for this year, so let me just give you a quick update on how the last day of 2021 has been for me:
1. Continue my weird AU writing stuff: Check – with bonuses! Apparently my long break from proper writing over this week and a half off left me feeling a little extra creative today – or at least, more organizational –
A) I was smart and updated my “gift fics” master doc for 2022 so I’ve got everyone’s names and birthdates already listed, PLUS I made good use of headings so I can easily navigate around to specific names and dates for a change (seriously, guys, make use of headings and navigation panes for your writing, it makes shit so much easier). Plus plus, my friend on FF.net, DarkCountess, already gave me an idea for what she wants to see for her NEXT Christmas fic, so I was able to write down that prompt right away! Yay! :D
B) Updated my “Fallout of Darkness” master doc as well – finished adding descriptions of the Disciplines I know that version of Malkavian!Alice has; updated Victor’s perks list and added a “Magical Abilities/Artifacts” section to his half of the “protagonists” heading so I could note down Kremvh’s Tooth for later; reorganized the “personality memes” section to be a sub-heading under “Protagonists” and gave each separate meme a sub-sub heading; made a “game-specific” heading for my mod list and my notes on my playthrough progression, which I updated with the most current information from my current playthrough (admittedly, the first portion of this (up to 10/28/2287) is from one of my EARLIER playthroughs, but as I have the same perks and the write-ups of what happened per-day more reflect what would happen in any fanfic stuff that resulted than a one-to-one of actual gameplay, I think this is fine); and added proper headings and subheadings to the fanfic snippets I’ve done.
C) And yes, I did some more work on my weird AU bullshit involving The Smiler – namely, some stuff on how I’d put in a humanization/robotization into some other canons, because apparently I have COMPLETELY lost my mind here. (For example, VTMB? Malkavian with a talent for emotion manipulation Disciplines and really addictive vitae, being used by the Ministry (the Setites under a new name) to control people and bring them into their cult.) My only saving grace is that I’m not the only one making these sorts of – Smilersonas? I dunno, call it what you with, the roller coaster appears to be here to stay for a while is all I’m saying.
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – easy two-in, two-out today –
A) First up, Call Me Kevin with a new Project Zomboid challenge for himself – using only CUTLERY as weapons. Possibly because he keeps picking up butter knives anyway? XD Anyway, he created Spoon Small, an agoraphobic, adrenaline junkie chef who smokes and is always thirsty but is also strong and inconspicuous, gave him a silly haircut, and sent him out into the world!
The world was – strangely lacking in cutlery, for some reason! Kevin got a damn car key right off the bat for a very nice, very fast car (probably because he started at his work), but finding forks, spoons, and knives he was allowed to fight with? A shockingly difficult proposition! And when he DID find them, he found that for some reason SPOONS were better to fight zombies with than KNIVES. O.o The hell. Well, Spoon Small managed to survive for just under two days, killing sixteen zombies as he wandered around the neighborhood, looking for cutlery, food, and fun dance magazines (that Kevin realized too late he couldn’t read because he made the guy illiterate). And burning down his place of work and at least two houses, because that’s Kevin for you. It really is amazing he survived that long with a survival strategy of “lead hordes around by shouting at them when I’m really tired” and “kill the undead with spoons.” XD What can I say, Kevin is a military genius.
B) And then second, GrayStillPlays messing around some more with Room Smash! Creating sawblades capable of slashing a commuter subway to pieces (when they’re not just sticking in a random dummy because apparently it’s only when they ricochet that they cause problems on purpose); the world’s slowest crossbow bolt, followed by the world’s fastest to fuck up the local watering hole (neither of which is capable of taking out knees, meaning none of these dummies are going to be hired by Skyrim anytime soon); a magnet so powerful that it can not only create essentially a localized black hole in a supermarket, but SPIN THE POV CAMERA AROUND SO YOU CAN’T EVEN SEE THE ROOM (seriously, you get flung off into a brown void, and by the time the camera resettles, the room is destroyed); and tornadoes that will send gravity-less dancers flying (not to mention eat subways alive once he decided to put in ALL the 9s). XD As usual, delightful chaos from Gray – though sometimes I think I like his “let’s wimp this up” weaponry more than the room-wreckers. It’s just so amusing to see a crossbow bolt fail to penetrate anything at all. XD
3. Playeither Sims 4 and handle Winterfest, or Fallout 4 and go visit Tenpines Bluff: Check to the latter, thanks to me updating the relevant LibreWriter doc I have for it earlier – and LeahTheUnknown updating her “AppleTree Bakery” mod again the other day, now adding peanuts, walnuts, and a few different kinds of bread and sandwiches! My Sole!Victor has ALL the food options these days. . .anyway, Victor set out early on 10/31/2287 with Codsworth and encountered the following:
A) The vacuum-sealed stashes by the river, complete with a subnosed .44 pistol (great, but the ammo for it is currently in VERY short supply) and a number of toothbrushes – he and Codsworth also killed the molerats and small raider camp nearby
B) Thicket Excavations, aka the lovely Glitch Quarry (though it wasn’t glitching out for me) – after a little wandering around the general area, I had Victor go ahead and help Sully with his “Pull the Plug” quest (ignoring the Charisma checks, because Victor probably had no chance in hell of passing them). Took two goes to complete, mostly because the FIRST time I fixed all the leaks and the Mirelurks spawned, one of them was a LEGENDARY and just wiped out Victor. The second go, it was two Softshells, and I laid down a mine where they were likely to scuttle, which murderlated them. Victor got 50 caps, lots of loot, and some new food out of the deal – though we’ll have to swing by later and kill the raiders that try to set up camp here.
C) Moss and Mikey, a random encounter where you find two camping settlers arguing about the definition of a sandwich, hanging out in the parking lot near the back of Concord. I listened to their conversation and took some random junk in the area.
D) Concord – swung back into the city to loot a few places, including the church, one of the general stores (killing a garbage squirrel on the roof), and a house on the edge of town which had a nice pipe-bolt-action sniper rifle. :)
E) A little hut in the middle of nowhere – after completing “Pull the Plug,” it started bucketing down in-game, so I had Victor look for somewhere with a roof. Found one after killing some dogs near an open raider camp – had a few bugs in it, but Victor and Codsworth managed to dispatch them. Victor did some on-the-fly gun improvement, then set up his tent and went to bed for the night.
F) USAF Station Olivia, after waking up to a misty morning and getting on the move again! He and Codsworth killed some squirrels, bloatflies, and a radstag doe on the way (and I got some rennet from the radstag! Cheese can be made now!), and the experience from finding Olivia got Victor up to Level 8! I promptly had him take the first rank of the “Science!” perk for later. :) He’s currently parked in some bushes outside the main structure, ready to start killing some raiders next time I play. :)
4. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike today, finishing off the Oxventure “Spell Check!” Turns out Egbert’s mace DIDN’T break the vat, though it did leave a big crack. And the noise DID finally convince Corazon and Prudence to dive into said vat, where they ended up supercharged with magical energy! Corazon spent some time conjuring sandwiches, then punched the vat with a magical hand, which rocked it, but didn’t actually break it. Merilwen tried to shoot the crack Egbert had left, and managed to widen it a bit – but it wasn’t until Prudence poured all her dark Cthulhu magics (and Corazon’s sandwiches) into a mega Agonizing Blast that the damn thing shattered. Lilianna teleported down to try and deal with this nonsense (as her scientists and guards were blown into the walls by the explosion) – Egbert, knocked prone, tried to get her to surrender via magical command, but she was able to resist (partially because he was eating a sandwich at the time XD). Merilwen DID get an arrow into her arm, but she seemed more annoyed that her dress was ruined than by the injury. So what did finally get her to stop?
Dob, acrobatically knocking Egbert and Corazon out of the way with a natural 20, hitting her with a Thunderwave for five D20s worth of damage (because Johnny decided to roll with Luke’s joke after he couldn’t remember how many D8s of damage it ACTUALLY was, on the basis of the room WAS just supercharged with magic). She ended up hit for 60 points of damage, and while, incredibly, it didn’t kill her, it did convince her that a tactical retreat was necessary – though she made sure to show off Egbert’s kidney, apparently still on her person, before teleporting away via magical amulet. The other lackeys in the room had no interest in continuing the fight, and Christopher Engelbert The Seventeenth in particular was only too happy to lead them out of the secret facility, into a wine cellar of some description. The gang promptly decided to go burn down the pub that caused all this mess. XD w000, Oxventure!
. . .and then I had a bit of time after all that, so I watched a video of the Smiler exit hall (which is appropriately trippy), and a few B. Dylan Hollis recipe Tik-Toks, which are always fun. :) Good way to ring in the new year!
Additionally:
-->Answered DarkCountess’s latest PM to me, as you might expect after I updated my “gift fic” doc to include her prompt for next year. :)
Nice -- now this is how you see out 2021. :) And for the start of 2022:
1. Clean my room and do the monthly wash
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs
3. Play Sims 4 and handle Winterfest
4. Get back to "Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica's Vale of Tears" Chapter 4
*nods* Good! I hope you're all doing well -- I will see you in 2022!
1. Continue my weird AU writing stuff: Check – with bonuses! Apparently my long break from proper writing over this week and a half off left me feeling a little extra creative today – or at least, more organizational –
A) I was smart and updated my “gift fics” master doc for 2022 so I’ve got everyone’s names and birthdates already listed, PLUS I made good use of headings so I can easily navigate around to specific names and dates for a change (seriously, guys, make use of headings and navigation panes for your writing, it makes shit so much easier). Plus plus, my friend on FF.net, DarkCountess, already gave me an idea for what she wants to see for her NEXT Christmas fic, so I was able to write down that prompt right away! Yay! :D
B) Updated my “Fallout of Darkness” master doc as well – finished adding descriptions of the Disciplines I know that version of Malkavian!Alice has; updated Victor’s perks list and added a “Magical Abilities/Artifacts” section to his half of the “protagonists” heading so I could note down Kremvh’s Tooth for later; reorganized the “personality memes” section to be a sub-heading under “Protagonists” and gave each separate meme a sub-sub heading; made a “game-specific” heading for my mod list and my notes on my playthrough progression, which I updated with the most current information from my current playthrough (admittedly, the first portion of this (up to 10/28/2287) is from one of my EARLIER playthroughs, but as I have the same perks and the write-ups of what happened per-day more reflect what would happen in any fanfic stuff that resulted than a one-to-one of actual gameplay, I think this is fine); and added proper headings and subheadings to the fanfic snippets I’ve done.
C) And yes, I did some more work on my weird AU bullshit involving The Smiler – namely, some stuff on how I’d put in a humanization/robotization into some other canons, because apparently I have COMPLETELY lost my mind here. (For example, VTMB? Malkavian with a talent for emotion manipulation Disciplines and really addictive vitae, being used by the Ministry (the Setites under a new name) to control people and bring them into their cult.) My only saving grace is that I’m not the only one making these sorts of – Smilersonas? I dunno, call it what you with, the roller coaster appears to be here to stay for a while is all I’m saying.
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – easy two-in, two-out today –
A) First up, Call Me Kevin with a new Project Zomboid challenge for himself – using only CUTLERY as weapons. Possibly because he keeps picking up butter knives anyway? XD Anyway, he created Spoon Small, an agoraphobic, adrenaline junkie chef who smokes and is always thirsty but is also strong and inconspicuous, gave him a silly haircut, and sent him out into the world!
The world was – strangely lacking in cutlery, for some reason! Kevin got a damn car key right off the bat for a very nice, very fast car (probably because he started at his work), but finding forks, spoons, and knives he was allowed to fight with? A shockingly difficult proposition! And when he DID find them, he found that for some reason SPOONS were better to fight zombies with than KNIVES. O.o The hell. Well, Spoon Small managed to survive for just under two days, killing sixteen zombies as he wandered around the neighborhood, looking for cutlery, food, and fun dance magazines (that Kevin realized too late he couldn’t read because he made the guy illiterate). And burning down his place of work and at least two houses, because that’s Kevin for you. It really is amazing he survived that long with a survival strategy of “lead hordes around by shouting at them when I’m really tired” and “kill the undead with spoons.” XD What can I say, Kevin is a military genius.
B) And then second, GrayStillPlays messing around some more with Room Smash! Creating sawblades capable of slashing a commuter subway to pieces (when they’re not just sticking in a random dummy because apparently it’s only when they ricochet that they cause problems on purpose); the world’s slowest crossbow bolt, followed by the world’s fastest to fuck up the local watering hole (neither of which is capable of taking out knees, meaning none of these dummies are going to be hired by Skyrim anytime soon); a magnet so powerful that it can not only create essentially a localized black hole in a supermarket, but SPIN THE POV CAMERA AROUND SO YOU CAN’T EVEN SEE THE ROOM (seriously, you get flung off into a brown void, and by the time the camera resettles, the room is destroyed); and tornadoes that will send gravity-less dancers flying (not to mention eat subways alive once he decided to put in ALL the 9s). XD As usual, delightful chaos from Gray – though sometimes I think I like his “let’s wimp this up” weaponry more than the room-wreckers. It’s just so amusing to see a crossbow bolt fail to penetrate anything at all. XD
3. Play
A) The vacuum-sealed stashes by the river, complete with a subnosed .44 pistol (great, but the ammo for it is currently in VERY short supply) and a number of toothbrushes – he and Codsworth also killed the molerats and small raider camp nearby
B) Thicket Excavations, aka the lovely Glitch Quarry (though it wasn’t glitching out for me) – after a little wandering around the general area, I had Victor go ahead and help Sully with his “Pull the Plug” quest (ignoring the Charisma checks, because Victor probably had no chance in hell of passing them). Took two goes to complete, mostly because the FIRST time I fixed all the leaks and the Mirelurks spawned, one of them was a LEGENDARY and just wiped out Victor. The second go, it was two Softshells, and I laid down a mine where they were likely to scuttle, which murderlated them. Victor got 50 caps, lots of loot, and some new food out of the deal – though we’ll have to swing by later and kill the raiders that try to set up camp here.
C) Moss and Mikey, a random encounter where you find two camping settlers arguing about the definition of a sandwich, hanging out in the parking lot near the back of Concord. I listened to their conversation and took some random junk in the area.
D) Concord – swung back into the city to loot a few places, including the church, one of the general stores (killing a garbage squirrel on the roof), and a house on the edge of town which had a nice pipe-bolt-action sniper rifle. :)
E) A little hut in the middle of nowhere – after completing “Pull the Plug,” it started bucketing down in-game, so I had Victor look for somewhere with a roof. Found one after killing some dogs near an open raider camp – had a few bugs in it, but Victor and Codsworth managed to dispatch them. Victor did some on-the-fly gun improvement, then set up his tent and went to bed for the night.
F) USAF Station Olivia, after waking up to a misty morning and getting on the move again! He and Codsworth killed some squirrels, bloatflies, and a radstag doe on the way (and I got some rennet from the radstag! Cheese can be made now!), and the experience from finding Olivia got Victor up to Level 8! I promptly had him take the first rank of the “Science!” perk for later. :) He’s currently parked in some bushes outside the main structure, ready to start killing some raiders next time I play. :)
4. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike today, finishing off the Oxventure “Spell Check!” Turns out Egbert’s mace DIDN’T break the vat, though it did leave a big crack. And the noise DID finally convince Corazon and Prudence to dive into said vat, where they ended up supercharged with magical energy! Corazon spent some time conjuring sandwiches, then punched the vat with a magical hand, which rocked it, but didn’t actually break it. Merilwen tried to shoot the crack Egbert had left, and managed to widen it a bit – but it wasn’t until Prudence poured all her dark Cthulhu magics (and Corazon’s sandwiches) into a mega Agonizing Blast that the damn thing shattered. Lilianna teleported down to try and deal with this nonsense (as her scientists and guards were blown into the walls by the explosion) – Egbert, knocked prone, tried to get her to surrender via magical command, but she was able to resist (partially because he was eating a sandwich at the time XD). Merilwen DID get an arrow into her arm, but she seemed more annoyed that her dress was ruined than by the injury. So what did finally get her to stop?
Dob, acrobatically knocking Egbert and Corazon out of the way with a natural 20, hitting her with a Thunderwave for five D20s worth of damage (because Johnny decided to roll with Luke’s joke after he couldn’t remember how many D8s of damage it ACTUALLY was, on the basis of the room WAS just supercharged with magic). She ended up hit for 60 points of damage, and while, incredibly, it didn’t kill her, it did convince her that a tactical retreat was necessary – though she made sure to show off Egbert’s kidney, apparently still on her person, before teleporting away via magical amulet. The other lackeys in the room had no interest in continuing the fight, and Christopher Engelbert The Seventeenth in particular was only too happy to lead them out of the secret facility, into a wine cellar of some description. The gang promptly decided to go burn down the pub that caused all this mess. XD w000, Oxventure!
. . .and then I had a bit of time after all that, so I watched a video of the Smiler exit hall (which is appropriately trippy), and a few B. Dylan Hollis recipe Tik-Toks, which are always fun. :) Good way to ring in the new year!
Additionally:
-->Answered DarkCountess’s latest PM to me, as you might expect after I updated my “gift fic” doc to include her prompt for next year. :)
Nice -- now this is how you see out 2021. :) And for the start of 2022:
1. Clean my room and do the monthly wash
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs
3. Play Sims 4 and handle Winterfest
4. Get back to "Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica's Vale of Tears" Chapter 4
*nods* Good! I hope you're all doing well -- I will see you in 2022!
