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A Less Rushed Wednesday Update
Apr. 6th, 2022 11:32 pmNo extra baking tonight, and while I was late getting to the YouTube, the reason was chocolate cake, sooo -- can't complain too much. :p Anyway, the list:
Work – Very quiet day – my coworker ended up leaving early for personal reasons, so I was on my own most of the day. Found more credit card nonsense, e-mailed people about the previous credit card nonsense, put on some gifts, looked through some returned mail. Nothing particularly special. *shrug* We’ll see what happens tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure Stream “Sect Appeal!” With Egbert just kind of holding up his knitted net in response to the Weed Goat Demon (aka Bulbasaur according to the Oxventurers, who I am pleased to see were ALSO having trouble with this monster name), Johnny ruled it was time to roll for initiative! Corazon/Andy left to get his good dice after getting a bad roll putting him at the end of the queue (just ahead of Weed Goat itself), and ended up causing some interesting technical problems when he came back – somehow, he popped into the LOWER HALF of Merilwen’s little “window,” then ended up pushing Dob and Merilwen over one by ending up in Dob’s spot, meaning everyone had the wrong name. Fortunately Mike was able to fix it, though there were some jokes about making everyone play the character they were currently labeled as. But yes, as that was ironed out, Dob – who won the initiative roll – outlined his plan – leap onto the ceiling above the Weed Goat Demon, and cast THUNDERWAVE! Not to hit it with the lightning, though – to KNOCK AS MANY STALACTITES LOOSE AS POSSIBLE TO PUMMEL IT. Johnny DID make him roll for the ceiling leap, but ruled that his rather poor ten was enough to pull the feat off, because they’d just said that was the coolest thing they’d ever heard. After some determining of where Prudence was in all this (fortunately JUST out of range; we’re not having another “Merilwen on top of the metal beetle” situation), Dob rolled damage from the Thunderwave itself – the Weed Goat got slightly zapped, but not much. But that didn’t matter, because –
FIFTEEN STALACTITES PROMPTLY PINCUSHIONED IT. Johnny decided that the damage on each was a D6, and Dob rolled well enough that the total result was 50 points of damage! As you might imagine, the Weed Goat Demon ended up pretty thoroughly pinned to the ground, roaring curses in Abyssal (and making Davey puke because apparently he understood a bit of them). And then Egbert threw the net over it. XD And then Corazon insisted on killing it because, well, it was practically dead already. He insisted that Dob write a song, and Dob immediately started making up lyrics calling him a kill-stealer. Which all the others took up with glee. XD
With all THAT sorted, the Oxventurers started immediately arguing about whether or not they should bring the black sorrel back to the cult, because – well, they didn’t actually WANT to help the cult. Chet and Davey, having lost most of their antagonism (Davey even cried for a bit on Dob’s shoulder about how he just wanted to see Wills again, aw – Dob was very pleased to get his “Steve Harrington” moment) asked why they wouldn’t want to complete the Great Work, and the Oxventurers promptly responded “what even IS the Great Work? How do you know it’s not evil? Also have you been kidnapping people” XD Chet and Davey said THEY personally hadn’t been kidnapping people, but the cult in general HAD been, uh, “forcibly introducing” people to the pleasures of serving the Blessed Lady. Though, admittedly, anyone who WASN’T into being part of the community was taken into the back room not to be seen again. . . The Oxventurers used this as evidence that the cult was probably eviling it up. Chet said that if they REALLY wanted to stop what was going on, their best bet was to bring back the black sorrel and insist on bringing it to the back themselves.
And then he grabbed Corazon and laid one on him. Corazon was – more than a little stunned, though not exactly unappreciative; Egbert was (I presume faux-) heartbroken; and Merilwen instantly derailed everything to scribble down stuff like “Chet <3 Corazon” and “Chet de Ballena.” XD Corazon said “we’re on a quest, now is not the time” (which Dob noted meant that there COULD be a time later), and everyone headed back to the caves. Johnny confirmed that they could have an extra ten minutes in the stream if they needed it, then had Miss – it sounds to me like they’re saying “Ashridge,” but TV Tropes has it as “Ashraven” – the NPC in question was shortly thereafter given the first name “Serafina,” so we’ll just call her that. Serafina greeted them and was rapturous over their success, happily acquiesing to their their request to hand-deliver the stuff into the back room and leading them, Chet, Davey, and Wills (who got to tag along as they’re up for anything) into said back room. Which contained lots of alchemist stuff, a cage of townsfolk, and a lot of tanks.
A lot of EGBERT CLONE TANKS. Yup, Merilwen’s already guessed who this “Blessed Lady” is. :D Seems the experiments in creating an Egbert Kidney Army have moved onto injecting people with a special serum to turn them into Evilberts, as growing them from scratch is just too slow, and they needed the sorrel for their serum. Dob managed to stop the staff in there from contacting the Blessed Lady via scrying pool until AFTER they’d injected someone and seen what happened, and the delighted Serafina said that they could have the honor of the first injections. Which – I’m pretty sure means GIVING them. . .well, we have just under a half-hour to go in this stream, so we’ll find out tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “Learn To Love Again”: Check! Victor’s learned about his other small magical ability, Quickstep – basically, he can teleport himself six feet in any direction so long as it doesn’t involve going over a cliff or into something solid. And, being Victor – who loves butterflies, and has two women close to him who are tied closely to them – he does this via a variation on Alice’s dodge move. XD He’s very happy with his spells. Now we’re moving onto Alice’s small stuff, the first of which is Simple Illusions – aka, Bumby is ALWAYS gonna be freaked out by genuinely seeing Alice in Wonderland mode in MY canons. XD
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – another easy night with only two videos to watch –
A) Firstly, a video I’ve been expecting to see for a while – Call Me Kevin’s video on that stream he and Anna did together for Ukraine, where he served as her coach in Minecraft and they completed a Minecraft Bingo card together! Via copious sheep and cow murder, robbing villagers, pathing through the world in the most awkward way possible, and throwing a campfire into the ocean to extinguish it. XD Poor Anna, constantly having to deal with Kevin’s murderous impulses and the occasional troll, like “the cats explode.” XD It was funny the first time when I watched her video, and it was funny this time too – mostly because in this one, we could see some of Kevin’s reactions and get some additional commentary. XD Good times. . .
B) And secondly, GrayStillPlays doing some unusual GTA V parkour courses, as indicated by the title – “I Paid Fiverr to Build IMPOSSIBLE GTA Challenges!” Specifically, what he did was find a selection of creators, and paid them, in order, $1, $10, $100, $500, and $1,000 to make GTA V parkour boards for him. How did that turn out?
$1: Simple board that didn’t even have the road leveled (which hilariously added some unexpected challenge) and had a random ramp leading off to nowhere. Do a few jumps across a circular area, hit the win, no big deal.
$10: Creator actually did more than expected with a “climb out of the box with this parachute car” board, where Gray had to carefully leap from platform to platform. The creator fully admitted to not testing it, and as a result Gray had a bit of a time actually managing to land on some of the platforms. There were a lot of tire marks left on pink plastic, and a lot of near-misses, but eventually Gray made it to the top, around all four corners, and into the win.
$100: Motorcycle windmill hell! AKA this creator watches Gray’s videos. XD Gray had to drive down a narrow “tunnel” while dodging windmill blades, then make a quick choice before going down the Smiler tunnel and then riding along an even NARROWER ledge, while dodging all the windmills in the world before a boosted jump into the win. Took Gray a few tries, and he had to resist the urge to cheat when a windmill smacked him on TOP of the board, but he did make it!
$500: Creator said “I want to create the first board Gray does not finish” and thus made SATAN’S INFINITE LOOP WALL RIDE. This thing was a twisty-turny mess of sideways banks and loop-de-loops and wall rides and wall transfers crossing over on themselves before a giant vertical leap into the win. The only way to beat this board was to memorize the pattern.
GRAY IS FUCKING EXCELLENT AT MEMORIZING THE PATTERN. In an unparalleled display of masochism, Gray just KEPT GOING until he learned all the various curves and turns and whatnot. Yes, okay, he damn near cried when he got the single checkpoint near the middle, but why shouldn’t he? This was Wall Ride Ninth Circle Of Hell. The important thing is, after much blood, sweat, and tears, he conquered it, this putting the lie to the board’s name. :p
$1,000: The max amount of money. The most anyone has been paid to torment Gray. This creator looked at this money, then looked at Gray and said:
“Hey, ever wonder what a ‘Don’t Move’ board looks like in GTA?”
Yup, the last creator showed Gray something he has never seen before – MERCY. He wanted Gray to look like the most amazing parkour artist in this game, so he designed a board that would automatically lead the car into a number of amazing turns, wall rides, roof slides, chassis slides, you name it. All Gray had to do was hit the gas and hit the boosts! The sheer JOY in his voice as he got to watch his car do all sorts of amazing stuff WITHOUT him needing to torture himself to make it happen. . . $1,000 well spent. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – finished up the write-up on my Song Saturday post in the queue, and just did a quick write up of the notes on my potential “Holistic Assassin Valice AU” sequel featuring them and the other Alton Tower coasters for the drafts, so that’s good.
Not bad, not bad -- "Sect Appeal" and GrayStillPlays were definitely highlights. :) And now there's only two more days to go this week, yay. :) Just hoping things remain okay at work, but we'll see. . .night all!
Work – Very quiet day – my coworker ended up leaving early for personal reasons, so I was on my own most of the day. Found more credit card nonsense, e-mailed people about the previous credit card nonsense, put on some gifts, looked through some returned mail. Nothing particularly special. *shrug* We’ll see what happens tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure Stream “Sect Appeal!” With Egbert just kind of holding up his knitted net in response to the Weed Goat Demon (aka Bulbasaur according to the Oxventurers, who I am pleased to see were ALSO having trouble with this monster name), Johnny ruled it was time to roll for initiative! Corazon/Andy left to get his good dice after getting a bad roll putting him at the end of the queue (just ahead of Weed Goat itself), and ended up causing some interesting technical problems when he came back – somehow, he popped into the LOWER HALF of Merilwen’s little “window,” then ended up pushing Dob and Merilwen over one by ending up in Dob’s spot, meaning everyone had the wrong name. Fortunately Mike was able to fix it, though there were some jokes about making everyone play the character they were currently labeled as. But yes, as that was ironed out, Dob – who won the initiative roll – outlined his plan – leap onto the ceiling above the Weed Goat Demon, and cast THUNDERWAVE! Not to hit it with the lightning, though – to KNOCK AS MANY STALACTITES LOOSE AS POSSIBLE TO PUMMEL IT. Johnny DID make him roll for the ceiling leap, but ruled that his rather poor ten was enough to pull the feat off, because they’d just said that was the coolest thing they’d ever heard. After some determining of where Prudence was in all this (fortunately JUST out of range; we’re not having another “Merilwen on top of the metal beetle” situation), Dob rolled damage from the Thunderwave itself – the Weed Goat got slightly zapped, but not much. But that didn’t matter, because –
FIFTEEN STALACTITES PROMPTLY PINCUSHIONED IT. Johnny decided that the damage on each was a D6, and Dob rolled well enough that the total result was 50 points of damage! As you might imagine, the Weed Goat Demon ended up pretty thoroughly pinned to the ground, roaring curses in Abyssal (and making Davey puke because apparently he understood a bit of them). And then Egbert threw the net over it. XD And then Corazon insisted on killing it because, well, it was practically dead already. He insisted that Dob write a song, and Dob immediately started making up lyrics calling him a kill-stealer. Which all the others took up with glee. XD
With all THAT sorted, the Oxventurers started immediately arguing about whether or not they should bring the black sorrel back to the cult, because – well, they didn’t actually WANT to help the cult. Chet and Davey, having lost most of their antagonism (Davey even cried for a bit on Dob’s shoulder about how he just wanted to see Wills again, aw – Dob was very pleased to get his “Steve Harrington” moment) asked why they wouldn’t want to complete the Great Work, and the Oxventurers promptly responded “what even IS the Great Work? How do you know it’s not evil? Also have you been kidnapping people” XD Chet and Davey said THEY personally hadn’t been kidnapping people, but the cult in general HAD been, uh, “forcibly introducing” people to the pleasures of serving the Blessed Lady. Though, admittedly, anyone who WASN’T into being part of the community was taken into the back room not to be seen again. . . The Oxventurers used this as evidence that the cult was probably eviling it up. Chet said that if they REALLY wanted to stop what was going on, their best bet was to bring back the black sorrel and insist on bringing it to the back themselves.
And then he grabbed Corazon and laid one on him. Corazon was – more than a little stunned, though not exactly unappreciative; Egbert was (I presume faux-) heartbroken; and Merilwen instantly derailed everything to scribble down stuff like “Chet <3 Corazon” and “Chet de Ballena.” XD Corazon said “we’re on a quest, now is not the time” (which Dob noted meant that there COULD be a time later), and everyone headed back to the caves. Johnny confirmed that they could have an extra ten minutes in the stream if they needed it, then had Miss – it sounds to me like they’re saying “Ashridge,” but TV Tropes has it as “Ashraven” – the NPC in question was shortly thereafter given the first name “Serafina,” so we’ll just call her that. Serafina greeted them and was rapturous over their success, happily acquiesing to their their request to hand-deliver the stuff into the back room and leading them, Chet, Davey, and Wills (who got to tag along as they’re up for anything) into said back room. Which contained lots of alchemist stuff, a cage of townsfolk, and a lot of tanks.
A lot of EGBERT CLONE TANKS. Yup, Merilwen’s already guessed who this “Blessed Lady” is. :D Seems the experiments in creating an Egbert Kidney Army have moved onto injecting people with a special serum to turn them into Evilberts, as growing them from scratch is just too slow, and they needed the sorrel for their serum. Dob managed to stop the staff in there from contacting the Blessed Lady via scrying pool until AFTER they’d injected someone and seen what happened, and the delighted Serafina said that they could have the honor of the first injections. Which – I’m pretty sure means GIVING them. . .well, we have just under a half-hour to go in this stream, so we’ll find out tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “Learn To Love Again”: Check! Victor’s learned about his other small magical ability, Quickstep – basically, he can teleport himself six feet in any direction so long as it doesn’t involve going over a cliff or into something solid. And, being Victor – who loves butterflies, and has two women close to him who are tied closely to them – he does this via a variation on Alice’s dodge move. XD He’s very happy with his spells. Now we’re moving onto Alice’s small stuff, the first of which is Simple Illusions – aka, Bumby is ALWAYS gonna be freaked out by genuinely seeing Alice in Wonderland mode in MY canons. XD
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – another easy night with only two videos to watch –
A) Firstly, a video I’ve been expecting to see for a while – Call Me Kevin’s video on that stream he and Anna did together for Ukraine, where he served as her coach in Minecraft and they completed a Minecraft Bingo card together! Via copious sheep and cow murder, robbing villagers, pathing through the world in the most awkward way possible, and throwing a campfire into the ocean to extinguish it. XD Poor Anna, constantly having to deal with Kevin’s murderous impulses and the occasional troll, like “the cats explode.” XD It was funny the first time when I watched her video, and it was funny this time too – mostly because in this one, we could see some of Kevin’s reactions and get some additional commentary. XD Good times. . .
B) And secondly, GrayStillPlays doing some unusual GTA V parkour courses, as indicated by the title – “I Paid Fiverr to Build IMPOSSIBLE GTA Challenges!” Specifically, what he did was find a selection of creators, and paid them, in order, $1, $10, $100, $500, and $1,000 to make GTA V parkour boards for him. How did that turn out?
$1: Simple board that didn’t even have the road leveled (which hilariously added some unexpected challenge) and had a random ramp leading off to nowhere. Do a few jumps across a circular area, hit the win, no big deal.
$10: Creator actually did more than expected with a “climb out of the box with this parachute car” board, where Gray had to carefully leap from platform to platform. The creator fully admitted to not testing it, and as a result Gray had a bit of a time actually managing to land on some of the platforms. There were a lot of tire marks left on pink plastic, and a lot of near-misses, but eventually Gray made it to the top, around all four corners, and into the win.
$100: Motorcycle windmill hell! AKA this creator watches Gray’s videos. XD Gray had to drive down a narrow “tunnel” while dodging windmill blades, then make a quick choice before going down the Smiler tunnel and then riding along an even NARROWER ledge, while dodging all the windmills in the world before a boosted jump into the win. Took Gray a few tries, and he had to resist the urge to cheat when a windmill smacked him on TOP of the board, but he did make it!
$500: Creator said “I want to create the first board Gray does not finish” and thus made SATAN’S INFINITE LOOP WALL RIDE. This thing was a twisty-turny mess of sideways banks and loop-de-loops and wall rides and wall transfers crossing over on themselves before a giant vertical leap into the win. The only way to beat this board was to memorize the pattern.
GRAY IS FUCKING EXCELLENT AT MEMORIZING THE PATTERN. In an unparalleled display of masochism, Gray just KEPT GOING until he learned all the various curves and turns and whatnot. Yes, okay, he damn near cried when he got the single checkpoint near the middle, but why shouldn’t he? This was Wall Ride Ninth Circle Of Hell. The important thing is, after much blood, sweat, and tears, he conquered it, this putting the lie to the board’s name. :p
$1,000: The max amount of money. The most anyone has been paid to torment Gray. This creator looked at this money, then looked at Gray and said:
“Hey, ever wonder what a ‘Don’t Move’ board looks like in GTA?”
Yup, the last creator showed Gray something he has never seen before – MERCY. He wanted Gray to look like the most amazing parkour artist in this game, so he designed a board that would automatically lead the car into a number of amazing turns, wall rides, roof slides, chassis slides, you name it. All Gray had to do was hit the gas and hit the boosts! The sheer JOY in his voice as he got to watch his car do all sorts of amazing stuff WITHOUT him needing to torture himself to make it happen. . . $1,000 well spent. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – finished up the write-up on my Song Saturday post in the queue, and just did a quick write up of the notes on my potential “Holistic Assassin Valice AU” sequel featuring them and the other Alton Tower coasters for the drafts, so that’s good.
Not bad, not bad -- "Sect Appeal" and GrayStillPlays were definitely highlights. :) And now there's only two more days to go this week, yay. :) Just hoping things remain okay at work, but we'll see. . .night all!
