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Usual Late Sunday Update
Mar. 6th, 2022 11:36 pmYou know how it is, running around getting those last few things done online. . .but hey, I can happily say that I had a very productive Sunday as well!
1. Keep up with the FO4 Progression Playthrough: Check – did the full write-up after supper this time. Victor’s doing pretty good overall, though – as you will see below – he did have to deal with a briefly broken leg after running across a mined bridge without looking. (Sorry, Victor!) He and Preston have successfully gotten Graygarden to join up with the Minutemen now that their water problem is solved, though – and better yet, Starlight Drive-In is now six people strong! Yes, that involved hastily building some new metal shacks and beds and making sure everyone had enough food with some new crops and a hunter’s outpost, but hey! Place is coming together nicely. :) Now Victor just has to find his way back to the main plot. . .
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and Jon's F:NV "Utter Chaos" video: Check – three in, three out with the Subs, plus Jon AND a bonus video, yay –
A) Started after lunch with the latest from James Turner – “I tried to earn $1,000,000 Simoleons with no expansions!” The miniseries of “trying out the ‘Makin’ Money’ scenario under different conditions” continues – and this time, James decided to see how quick it was when you went purely base game! Semaj’s traits were shuffled to be “Loner,” “Perfectionist,” and “Kleptomaniac,” and his aspiration to “Bestselling Author” for the “Muser” trait to get skill boosts while inspired. James stuck him in Oasis Springs just because he rarely uses the world, and he decided that probably the best option for getting a million simoleons in base game was gardening – specifically, grafting dragonfruit. So after going around and gathering some plants, then hitting Willow Creek’s Magnolia Park to get the necessary snapdragons and strawberries, he headed back home and started his mega-garden! It took a while to get going (he had LOADS of flowers and fruit to plant, and tending to them all was a chore), and he made some mistakes (like getting rid of his grafted plants in favor of directly planting the dragonfruit at first – he quickly realized that he could have gotten more dragonfruit daily if he’d kept the grafted stuff and did that the next time he had to graft for the “Freelance Botanist” aspiration), but after some blood, sweat, tears, and money spent paying a gardener to help out, the farm eventually transitioned to majority dragonfruit, with some lilies for fertilizing purposes, and Semaj was making bank! Eked out by paintings and the fact that he never got a proper house (don’t need a roof without seasons! Though James did eventually get him some nice kitchen stuff for better-quality food and the trash can that gives you money for throwing shit away), and by day 16, he’d made his million. Took him exactly the same amount of time as the Realm of Magic “Copypasto the money trees” attempt did, in fact! :) Now he’s looking for new ways that might be quicker. . .collectibles, maybe? He just wants to do stuff that’s more interesting than “seduce a rich Sim.” We’ll see where things go from here!
B) Then it was over to Plumbella as she had a new video out – “I have fully renovated this section of Willow Creek (yes, there's drama)!” More of her new “base-game-centric” save file, with her updating the various bits of Willow Creek right now. This was the lower-rent district of the neighborhood, where the Pancakes live – she’s had Eliza and Bob move from a romantic relationship to a purely platonic, "co-parenting their little toddler but just as friends" one and updated their house accordingly; built a tiny park next door for their toddler Iggy to play in; built one new house and renovated another; and then created a new family, Liam Thompson, who moved here after a stint in the big city and built a modern home that Eliza, his next-door neighbor, hates. It’s all interesting stuff, and I like seeing how a save file actually comes together! Next up is either the business district or the mansion district – intrigued to see how she tackles either!
C) Then, after supper and my writing, it was time for Call Me Kevin and – oh dear. Kevin, why did you get the My Wedding Stories pack? Isn’t your game broken enough from what you personally do to it? XD Well, with Jim having caused quite a bit of chaos in Henford-On-Bagley, and with Turg having somehow DIED off camera and now is taking care of all of Jim’s babies as a ghost, Kevin decided that having Jim move to the lovely coastal town of Tartosa to get married would be a great way to give him a fresh start! After having no luck summoning the Grim Reaper for a proposal by burning to death an old flame after turning her into a vampire and trapping her out in the yard on a sunny day, Jim decided to randomly choose from the locals for his new bride – and chose CAMILLA FROM THE TRAILER of all people! XD After wooing her with an Enchanting introduction (DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF HER SPOUSE) and convincing her to leave Dom (not directly in front of her spouse this time), Jim broke his own random engagement, cleared the curses he’d picked up as a spellcaster, and started setting up his wedding! First up was an engagement dinner, at a Windenburg cafe, with a bunch of random people. And no bride. XD Jim ate one scone to fulfill the “Celebration Feast” requirement, then started setting fires, killing off the winner of his “Squid Games” episode in the process. Next up was a “bach party” for Jim and his soon-to-be wife, with Jim stealing a couch from the Evergreen Harbor bar they visited. And finally we had the wedding at the local wedding venue! This involved more fires, more death, Jim forcing everyone to blow bubbles and throw rice (I’m surprised he got THAT much to work), and then everyone getting confused at which wedding arch they’re supposed to congregate at, with Jim running across the lot in his pretty new wedding gown. I THINK he and Cam did actually exchange vows, but it didn’t go great, and Cam refused to stick around for the spousal kiss. Poor Kevin was like “is this the pack or my screwed-up game?” Kevin – in this case, it’s the pack. I’d actually stick with the mods, they’re probably more stable.
D) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Today was dominated by two long boards – the opening bottle flip, full of yeet and with three ways to die (touch the Yeetasaurus and get fast-tracked straight into its jaws; find your way into Hell itself; or just knock loose the cleaver waiting at the top of the board and hope it gets deflected by a bottle), and the final level, where Gray had to take control of Chaddicus the baby and drive a toy car through the world’s deadliest, meme-ist daycare (complete with flag identification lessons from the Duolingo Owl, math problems with an Among Us crewmate and Baldi, and a final boss fight with The Trunchbull from Matilda, where you just had to drive under her and watch her fall into the lava a la Bowser). XD In between we had a meteor run with Discount Indiana Jones in a minecart (too slow and you got crushed; too fast and you got slammed into spikes at the end – it took Gray a while to find the right speed); a magic mushroom pogo fight (where Gray’s deadliest enemies were random angry trees, a living rock with spikes on it, and dandelions which flung themselves at him); a “don’t move” board of Segway Nixon being taken to his own funeral (Gray was like “don’t you cry” at the mourners); and a rope swing with anti-cheating methods (aka spikes underneath the little vehicle that carries you to the win – Gray actually nearly won WITHOUT HIS ARMS thanks to some lucky falls, but then his head detached). This community is so weird and I love it. XD
E) And finally, as we have every Sunday, we had Jon of Many A True Nerd and his “Utter Chaos” F:NV series! Jon had a handful of goals today:
I. Disable Mr. House to get back in good with the NCR and get some level-ups and Speech increases to help with Ulysses in Lonesome Road. This was a bit tricky, as Jon wanted to do it the fun way with a holy hand grenade but kept blowing himself up in the process, or getting owned by Jane the Securitron. But he did manage it in the end with loads of grenades. He found the giant Mr. House in the inner chamber and disabled him, then had Yes Man turn a nightstalker back into a computer console so he could upload himself into it. Yes Man is in place for his ending if needs be; the NCR like Jon a lot more again; and he got the Speech points he needed and the “Hit The Deck” perk which will hopefully stop him dying so much to his own explosives. Also, he raided the rooms at the Lucky 38 and got some VERY nice riot gear armor as well, so that’s awesome. XD
II. Complete Lonesome Road by cheesing it via going to the final room and hopefully talking Ulysses down. At first, the game LOOKED like it was going to cooperate – Jon got the perk you get from leaving your companion for the DLC, ED-E, behind when the little eyebot apparently gets kidnapped during the regular plot, was able to talk Ulysses down, and managed to kill the Marked Men who came to attack them. Then it was just a matter of redirecting the missile strike at Caesar’s Legion and trying to get the hell out of Dodge –
Only to find himself teleported outside, unable to move because the game thought he was in “watching the ending slides” mode. He went back and tried to teleport HIMSELF outside on his own, and while he was able to move, the game wasn’t spawning enemies in correctly, and he found himself facing a radscorpion queen with an invisible health bar. Basically, the actual ENDING of the DLC is so broken thanks to the randomizer (someone in the comments pointed out the game might be getting confused by the shuffling of the NPCs who handle narration and the actual slideshow) that it’s completely wrecking the game. Jon loaded back to a safe save and said they’d finished the DLC in spirit.
III. Try to complete some missions WITHOUT causing a genocide – namely, find the location into the main office of the Brotherhood’s secret bunker and do some missions for them so he could talk them into helping or at least not getting in the NCR’s way, instead of killing them like the NCR wants. This involved finding some bodies around the Mojave – two of them were easy enough to locate, especially with Jon’s upgraded 25mm grenade launcher having some INCREDIBLE range when it comes to killing enemies, but the third. . .well, the third is in REPCONN, and Jon hasn’t got a door yet to the area where the body is. He tried going in through one of the lower levels, fighting his way to a security keycard and opening some doors, but do you know what he found instead?
A DOOR TO PICK UP ED-E FOR LONESOME ROAD. He was very sour. XD He did go in and free the little eyebot from her tube, but then she just teleported away, and Jon realized it was probably because she thought that she was in her “kidnapped” state thanks to the broken DLC, so – hmmm. Well, can’t do anything about that! Or the Brotherhood, right now. . .unfortunately, blowing them all up might be the only way to go.
IV. Explore the last, most eastern road on the map looking for fun new doors and caves to explore before hitting Bitter Springs and turning in some missions. This involved nuking a Legion assassin squad, fighting off some killer robots and a venomous tunneler, before exploding quite a lot of giant critters along some train tracks, finding yet another cave into Dead Money, and finding a cave into the North Sewers, which lead to Hoover Dam Power Plant 1, which led to the X-8 Testing facility in Old World Blues, where Jon accidentally started falling through the world because it’s a Fallout game – from what I’ve heard, while it’s worst with Bethesda, they’re ALL glitchy messes. But he was able to find his way into someone’s rooms at a certain hotel and get the evidence to solve a murder! Unfortunately, he can’t get into the place where he needs to drop off said evidence. Always one step forward, two steps back with this mod. XD Ah well. . .he’s completed some things, even if only in spirit. Next time, we see if he ends up exploding the Brotherhood!
3. Play Fallout 4, fix Victor's encumbrance issue, finish off Graygarden quest, revisit Starlight Drive-In: Check! Caught up with Victor and Preston still in the Weston Water Treatment Plant, with me trying to figure out how best to fix Victor’s over-encumbrance. The solution, once I figured it out (aka, place fire, THEN pot)? Cooking! Yeah, I basically cooked as much of the meat, produce, and eggs he was carrying, which not only FINALLY got him JUST underweight, it also got him a level up! I took the first rank of Rifleman as I have been favoring the shotgun and sniper rifle when I can, then he and Preston camped out in the front office again for the night.
The next morning, it was back on the road, to get to Graygarden and turn in the quest to White! This involved me foolishly running across a bridge with mines all over it, but fortunately I was able to get Victor away from the worst of the blast, and all he needed was a stimpack to take care of his broken leg. Sorry buddy! ^^; Anyway, got back to Graygarden without any further issue, where Victor turned in the quest to White and got some produce and 104 bottle caps, nice. He spent a little time there adding some defenses for the farm – while they only had enough oil for one turret, turns out Mr. Handys ARE valid “settlers” to assign to guard posts, so Victor built a couple of those and assigned a couple of the workers to keep an eye on them (including, accidentally, one of the supervisors – ah well, Green’s earning his caps now XD). I then checked on Starlight Drive-In on the “workshops” tab and – yeah, the place had six people, but only three beds. Time to go back, turn off the recruitment beacon, and get them some more places to sleep! So Victor and Preston started the hike across the Commonwealth. Along the way, they encountered:
I. A trio of brahmin – and a damn radscorpion! Fortunately Victor was right by some rocks and was able to leap on them before the radscorpion could get him, and was able to blast at the thing with his shotgun while Preston basically kept it distracted.
II. The “hey, it’s your neighbors as feral ghouls” random encounter by a general store where a raider had been living – Victor and Preston took out the ghouls without too much trouble, and got a few goodies out of the old store.
III. Mass Gravel and Sand, a location I didn’t know about before! It’s basically a giant gravel and sand pile (natch), and when we came upon it, it had a raider fighting mole rats. Preston and Victor managed, with some trouble, to kill all the enemies (including the two bloatflies that felt they needed to join in, blech) and did some looting – there was even a Legendary Mole Rat the raider managed to kill, who had a Sentinel’s Oak Bat on it. Another good item to sell, I think. . .there was also a weapon’s work bench, which Victor used to scrap a bunch of weapons that were cluttering up Preston’s inventory. This still meant he needed to eat some grilled radstag to get back to the settlement, because DAMN – somehow, over three hundred pounds of carry weight just isn’t enough!
Anyway, after that, they managed to get back to the settlement – Victor turned off the radio beacon, and then started building new houses and beds for everyone. We now have two large metal shacks, each with two beds, a small metal shack with one bed, and the bed in the little space beneath the screen, so that’s good for everybody. Victor also planted a few more crops (including a strawberry bush!), built a guard tower and a hunter’s outpost for food and defense, and a weapon’s workbench to start improving his kit some more –
But then a radstorm moved in, and as he was already tired, I sent him to the bed underneath the screen to sleep away the night. Currently saved right after waking up on 11/13/2287 at 6 AM in-game. Next time, probably should talk to Preston and clear out the Graygarden quest for good, then do some more Starlight stuff before FINALLY heading toward Diamond City! Main plot, here I come!
4. Work on tumblr drafts: Check! Another early start, which involved me catching up on tumblr posts and tags, then right before and right after lunch, doing the posts for this week’s Smiler Always Chill Save update! :) So Wednesday’s all set, and Thursday should be all set as well – just gotta figure out some more stuff for Friday and Saturday, and we’ll be golden. :)
5. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike tonight, and with a look at the full “behind the scenes” vlog the OXBoxtra team did for the “Literally Everyone Else In The World” music video! :) Pretty much all of the beginning was the clips they showed during the livestream, but there was some newer stuff after the initial forest shoots of the band and Droney getting Prudence’s sick guitar solo – like filming all the shots that occurred on that one path by the forest (where poor Producer Jon kept stepping in dog shit); showing how the shot of them all singing into the microphone was done (was supposed to be a day shot, but they overran, so it had to be filmed at night); and watching everyone get loopy as they tried to finish everything up with the shots of them in “Johnny’s” house (with Johnny praising their new bear feet slippers and everyone messing around on Dob’s keyboard). It was just kind of fun and nice, and a good way to end my look at all the OxSong stuff. Tomorrow, might start a short break from Oxventure with a look at Jon of Many A True Nerd going over the history of VATS across the Fallout series – then we’ll move onto “Peak Performance!”
Additionally:
-->Finally got some proper use out of one of my Christmas presents (or possibly a birthday present?) – the “Mr. Fusion” decal Mom got for my car! Yes, today it was at last warm enough, with decent enough weather (gloomy morning with rain around lunchtime, but then it cleared up and just got windy), that we could actually stick it on my car. Took a little bit to get it on there – first it didn’t want to properly peel off the backing, and then we had to leave it on for 45 minutes to make sure it properly stuck, but it’s on there now, just above my gas flap because it didn’t quite fit ON it. :) Hooray!
So yeah -- still completely caught up on videos, doing well on tumblr stuff, having fun with FO4, keeping up with writing. I am content. :) Now we just have to see how long that mood lasts upon contact with my job. . .well, hoping I can get a day off next Monday to keep my spirits up. Night all!
1. Keep up with the FO4 Progression Playthrough: Check – did the full write-up after supper this time. Victor’s doing pretty good overall, though – as you will see below – he did have to deal with a briefly broken leg after running across a mined bridge without looking. (Sorry, Victor!) He and Preston have successfully gotten Graygarden to join up with the Minutemen now that their water problem is solved, though – and better yet, Starlight Drive-In is now six people strong! Yes, that involved hastily building some new metal shacks and beds and making sure everyone had enough food with some new crops and a hunter’s outpost, but hey! Place is coming together nicely. :) Now Victor just has to find his way back to the main plot. . .
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and Jon's F:NV "Utter Chaos" video: Check – three in, three out with the Subs, plus Jon AND a bonus video, yay –
A) Started after lunch with the latest from James Turner – “I tried to earn $1,000,000 Simoleons with no expansions!” The miniseries of “trying out the ‘Makin’ Money’ scenario under different conditions” continues – and this time, James decided to see how quick it was when you went purely base game! Semaj’s traits were shuffled to be “Loner,” “Perfectionist,” and “Kleptomaniac,” and his aspiration to “Bestselling Author” for the “Muser” trait to get skill boosts while inspired. James stuck him in Oasis Springs just because he rarely uses the world, and he decided that probably the best option for getting a million simoleons in base game was gardening – specifically, grafting dragonfruit. So after going around and gathering some plants, then hitting Willow Creek’s Magnolia Park to get the necessary snapdragons and strawberries, he headed back home and started his mega-garden! It took a while to get going (he had LOADS of flowers and fruit to plant, and tending to them all was a chore), and he made some mistakes (like getting rid of his grafted plants in favor of directly planting the dragonfruit at first – he quickly realized that he could have gotten more dragonfruit daily if he’d kept the grafted stuff and did that the next time he had to graft for the “Freelance Botanist” aspiration), but after some blood, sweat, tears, and money spent paying a gardener to help out, the farm eventually transitioned to majority dragonfruit, with some lilies for fertilizing purposes, and Semaj was making bank! Eked out by paintings and the fact that he never got a proper house (don’t need a roof without seasons! Though James did eventually get him some nice kitchen stuff for better-quality food and the trash can that gives you money for throwing shit away), and by day 16, he’d made his million. Took him exactly the same amount of time as the Realm of Magic “Copypasto the money trees” attempt did, in fact! :) Now he’s looking for new ways that might be quicker. . .collectibles, maybe? He just wants to do stuff that’s more interesting than “seduce a rich Sim.” We’ll see where things go from here!
B) Then it was over to Plumbella as she had a new video out – “I have fully renovated this section of Willow Creek (yes, there's drama)!” More of her new “base-game-centric” save file, with her updating the various bits of Willow Creek right now. This was the lower-rent district of the neighborhood, where the Pancakes live – she’s had Eliza and Bob move from a romantic relationship to a purely platonic, "co-parenting their little toddler but just as friends" one and updated their house accordingly; built a tiny park next door for their toddler Iggy to play in; built one new house and renovated another; and then created a new family, Liam Thompson, who moved here after a stint in the big city and built a modern home that Eliza, his next-door neighbor, hates. It’s all interesting stuff, and I like seeing how a save file actually comes together! Next up is either the business district or the mansion district – intrigued to see how she tackles either!
C) Then, after supper and my writing, it was time for Call Me Kevin and – oh dear. Kevin, why did you get the My Wedding Stories pack? Isn’t your game broken enough from what you personally do to it? XD Well, with Jim having caused quite a bit of chaos in Henford-On-Bagley, and with Turg having somehow DIED off camera and now is taking care of all of Jim’s babies as a ghost, Kevin decided that having Jim move to the lovely coastal town of Tartosa to get married would be a great way to give him a fresh start! After having no luck summoning the Grim Reaper for a proposal by burning to death an old flame after turning her into a vampire and trapping her out in the yard on a sunny day, Jim decided to randomly choose from the locals for his new bride – and chose CAMILLA FROM THE TRAILER of all people! XD After wooing her with an Enchanting introduction (DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF HER SPOUSE) and convincing her to leave Dom (not directly in front of her spouse this time), Jim broke his own random engagement, cleared the curses he’d picked up as a spellcaster, and started setting up his wedding! First up was an engagement dinner, at a Windenburg cafe, with a bunch of random people. And no bride. XD Jim ate one scone to fulfill the “Celebration Feast” requirement, then started setting fires, killing off the winner of his “Squid Games” episode in the process. Next up was a “bach party” for Jim and his soon-to-be wife, with Jim stealing a couch from the Evergreen Harbor bar they visited. And finally we had the wedding at the local wedding venue! This involved more fires, more death, Jim forcing everyone to blow bubbles and throw rice (I’m surprised he got THAT much to work), and then everyone getting confused at which wedding arch they’re supposed to congregate at, with Jim running across the lot in his pretty new wedding gown. I THINK he and Cam did actually exchange vows, but it didn’t go great, and Cam refused to stick around for the spousal kiss. Poor Kevin was like “is this the pack or my screwed-up game?” Kevin – in this case, it’s the pack. I’d actually stick with the mods, they’re probably more stable.
D) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! Today was dominated by two long boards – the opening bottle flip, full of yeet and with three ways to die (touch the Yeetasaurus and get fast-tracked straight into its jaws; find your way into Hell itself; or just knock loose the cleaver waiting at the top of the board and hope it gets deflected by a bottle), and the final level, where Gray had to take control of Chaddicus the baby and drive a toy car through the world’s deadliest, meme-ist daycare (complete with flag identification lessons from the Duolingo Owl, math problems with an Among Us crewmate and Baldi, and a final boss fight with The Trunchbull from Matilda, where you just had to drive under her and watch her fall into the lava a la Bowser). XD In between we had a meteor run with Discount Indiana Jones in a minecart (too slow and you got crushed; too fast and you got slammed into spikes at the end – it took Gray a while to find the right speed); a magic mushroom pogo fight (where Gray’s deadliest enemies were random angry trees, a living rock with spikes on it, and dandelions which flung themselves at him); a “don’t move” board of Segway Nixon being taken to his own funeral (Gray was like “don’t you cry” at the mourners); and a rope swing with anti-cheating methods (aka spikes underneath the little vehicle that carries you to the win – Gray actually nearly won WITHOUT HIS ARMS thanks to some lucky falls, but then his head detached). This community is so weird and I love it. XD
E) And finally, as we have every Sunday, we had Jon of Many A True Nerd and his “Utter Chaos” F:NV series! Jon had a handful of goals today:
I. Disable Mr. House to get back in good with the NCR and get some level-ups and Speech increases to help with Ulysses in Lonesome Road. This was a bit tricky, as Jon wanted to do it the fun way with a holy hand grenade but kept blowing himself up in the process, or getting owned by Jane the Securitron. But he did manage it in the end with loads of grenades. He found the giant Mr. House in the inner chamber and disabled him, then had Yes Man turn a nightstalker back into a computer console so he could upload himself into it. Yes Man is in place for his ending if needs be; the NCR like Jon a lot more again; and he got the Speech points he needed and the “Hit The Deck” perk which will hopefully stop him dying so much to his own explosives. Also, he raided the rooms at the Lucky 38 and got some VERY nice riot gear armor as well, so that’s awesome. XD
II. Complete Lonesome Road by cheesing it via going to the final room and hopefully talking Ulysses down. At first, the game LOOKED like it was going to cooperate – Jon got the perk you get from leaving your companion for the DLC, ED-E, behind when the little eyebot apparently gets kidnapped during the regular plot, was able to talk Ulysses down, and managed to kill the Marked Men who came to attack them. Then it was just a matter of redirecting the missile strike at Caesar’s Legion and trying to get the hell out of Dodge –
Only to find himself teleported outside, unable to move because the game thought he was in “watching the ending slides” mode. He went back and tried to teleport HIMSELF outside on his own, and while he was able to move, the game wasn’t spawning enemies in correctly, and he found himself facing a radscorpion queen with an invisible health bar. Basically, the actual ENDING of the DLC is so broken thanks to the randomizer (someone in the comments pointed out the game might be getting confused by the shuffling of the NPCs who handle narration and the actual slideshow) that it’s completely wrecking the game. Jon loaded back to a safe save and said they’d finished the DLC in spirit.
III. Try to complete some missions WITHOUT causing a genocide – namely, find the location into the main office of the Brotherhood’s secret bunker and do some missions for them so he could talk them into helping or at least not getting in the NCR’s way, instead of killing them like the NCR wants. This involved finding some bodies around the Mojave – two of them were easy enough to locate, especially with Jon’s upgraded 25mm grenade launcher having some INCREDIBLE range when it comes to killing enemies, but the third. . .well, the third is in REPCONN, and Jon hasn’t got a door yet to the area where the body is. He tried going in through one of the lower levels, fighting his way to a security keycard and opening some doors, but do you know what he found instead?
A DOOR TO PICK UP ED-E FOR LONESOME ROAD. He was very sour. XD He did go in and free the little eyebot from her tube, but then she just teleported away, and Jon realized it was probably because she thought that she was in her “kidnapped” state thanks to the broken DLC, so – hmmm. Well, can’t do anything about that! Or the Brotherhood, right now. . .unfortunately, blowing them all up might be the only way to go.
IV. Explore the last, most eastern road on the map looking for fun new doors and caves to explore before hitting Bitter Springs and turning in some missions. This involved nuking a Legion assassin squad, fighting off some killer robots and a venomous tunneler, before exploding quite a lot of giant critters along some train tracks, finding yet another cave into Dead Money, and finding a cave into the North Sewers, which lead to Hoover Dam Power Plant 1, which led to the X-8 Testing facility in Old World Blues, where Jon accidentally started falling through the world because it’s a Fallout game – from what I’ve heard, while it’s worst with Bethesda, they’re ALL glitchy messes. But he was able to find his way into someone’s rooms at a certain hotel and get the evidence to solve a murder! Unfortunately, he can’t get into the place where he needs to drop off said evidence. Always one step forward, two steps back with this mod. XD Ah well. . .he’s completed some things, even if only in spirit. Next time, we see if he ends up exploding the Brotherhood!
3. Play Fallout 4, fix Victor's encumbrance issue, finish off Graygarden quest, revisit Starlight Drive-In: Check! Caught up with Victor and Preston still in the Weston Water Treatment Plant, with me trying to figure out how best to fix Victor’s over-encumbrance. The solution, once I figured it out (aka, place fire, THEN pot)? Cooking! Yeah, I basically cooked as much of the meat, produce, and eggs he was carrying, which not only FINALLY got him JUST underweight, it also got him a level up! I took the first rank of Rifleman as I have been favoring the shotgun and sniper rifle when I can, then he and Preston camped out in the front office again for the night.
The next morning, it was back on the road, to get to Graygarden and turn in the quest to White! This involved me foolishly running across a bridge with mines all over it, but fortunately I was able to get Victor away from the worst of the blast, and all he needed was a stimpack to take care of his broken leg. Sorry buddy! ^^; Anyway, got back to Graygarden without any further issue, where Victor turned in the quest to White and got some produce and 104 bottle caps, nice. He spent a little time there adding some defenses for the farm – while they only had enough oil for one turret, turns out Mr. Handys ARE valid “settlers” to assign to guard posts, so Victor built a couple of those and assigned a couple of the workers to keep an eye on them (including, accidentally, one of the supervisors – ah well, Green’s earning his caps now XD). I then checked on Starlight Drive-In on the “workshops” tab and – yeah, the place had six people, but only three beds. Time to go back, turn off the recruitment beacon, and get them some more places to sleep! So Victor and Preston started the hike across the Commonwealth. Along the way, they encountered:
I. A trio of brahmin – and a damn radscorpion! Fortunately Victor was right by some rocks and was able to leap on them before the radscorpion could get him, and was able to blast at the thing with his shotgun while Preston basically kept it distracted.
II. The “hey, it’s your neighbors as feral ghouls” random encounter by a general store where a raider had been living – Victor and Preston took out the ghouls without too much trouble, and got a few goodies out of the old store.
III. Mass Gravel and Sand, a location I didn’t know about before! It’s basically a giant gravel and sand pile (natch), and when we came upon it, it had a raider fighting mole rats. Preston and Victor managed, with some trouble, to kill all the enemies (including the two bloatflies that felt they needed to join in, blech) and did some looting – there was even a Legendary Mole Rat the raider managed to kill, who had a Sentinel’s Oak Bat on it. Another good item to sell, I think. . .there was also a weapon’s work bench, which Victor used to scrap a bunch of weapons that were cluttering up Preston’s inventory. This still meant he needed to eat some grilled radstag to get back to the settlement, because DAMN – somehow, over three hundred pounds of carry weight just isn’t enough!
Anyway, after that, they managed to get back to the settlement – Victor turned off the radio beacon, and then started building new houses and beds for everyone. We now have two large metal shacks, each with two beds, a small metal shack with one bed, and the bed in the little space beneath the screen, so that’s good for everybody. Victor also planted a few more crops (including a strawberry bush!), built a guard tower and a hunter’s outpost for food and defense, and a weapon’s workbench to start improving his kit some more –
But then a radstorm moved in, and as he was already tired, I sent him to the bed underneath the screen to sleep away the night. Currently saved right after waking up on 11/13/2287 at 6 AM in-game. Next time, probably should talk to Preston and clear out the Graygarden quest for good, then do some more Starlight stuff before FINALLY heading toward Diamond City! Main plot, here I come!
4. Work on tumblr drafts: Check! Another early start, which involved me catching up on tumblr posts and tags, then right before and right after lunch, doing the posts for this week’s Smiler Always Chill Save update! :) So Wednesday’s all set, and Thursday should be all set as well – just gotta figure out some more stuff for Friday and Saturday, and we’ll be golden. :)
5. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike tonight, and with a look at the full “behind the scenes” vlog the OXBoxtra team did for the “Literally Everyone Else In The World” music video! :) Pretty much all of the beginning was the clips they showed during the livestream, but there was some newer stuff after the initial forest shoots of the band and Droney getting Prudence’s sick guitar solo – like filming all the shots that occurred on that one path by the forest (where poor Producer Jon kept stepping in dog shit); showing how the shot of them all singing into the microphone was done (was supposed to be a day shot, but they overran, so it had to be filmed at night); and watching everyone get loopy as they tried to finish everything up with the shots of them in “Johnny’s” house (with Johnny praising their new bear feet slippers and everyone messing around on Dob’s keyboard). It was just kind of fun and nice, and a good way to end my look at all the OxSong stuff. Tomorrow, might start a short break from Oxventure with a look at Jon of Many A True Nerd going over the history of VATS across the Fallout series – then we’ll move onto “Peak Performance!”
Additionally:
-->Finally got some proper use out of one of my Christmas presents (or possibly a birthday present?) – the “Mr. Fusion” decal Mom got for my car! Yes, today it was at last warm enough, with decent enough weather (gloomy morning with rain around lunchtime, but then it cleared up and just got windy), that we could actually stick it on my car. Took a little bit to get it on there – first it didn’t want to properly peel off the backing, and then we had to leave it on for 45 minutes to make sure it properly stuck, but it’s on there now, just above my gas flap because it didn’t quite fit ON it. :) Hooray!
So yeah -- still completely caught up on videos, doing well on tumblr stuff, having fun with FO4, keeping up with writing. I am content. :) Now we just have to see how long that mood lasts upon contact with my job. . .well, hoping I can get a day off next Monday to keep my spirits up. Night all!
