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Cooler Wednesday
Jun. 1st, 2022 11:39 pmYeah, temperatures stayed in the mid-to-high 60s today, with lots of clouds and whatnot. Supposed to warm up a little tomorrow -- we'll see how much. In the meantime, had a productive-enough day:
Work – Well, more credit card bullshit to deal with (also trying to figure out how a certain report displays things), but other than that, not too bad. Took a few credit card calls, cleared up a few items, started working on exceptions again – pretty standard stuff. Two more days!
Beanbags – Not today – kept looking like it was going to rain (we actually had a 50% chance of thunderstorms today, though they never materialized), so we didn’t head out. Perhaps tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike tonight, and back with the Oxventure Stream “Watch Out!” Simes just arrived and threatened the group with a letter opener to keep his treasure in the safe – Corazon just kicked the guy for a healthy amount of damage (as he is rather old and spindly) and tied him up with his Standard Adventurer’s Hempen Rope while Hengist healed up Merilwen and Prudence. Interestingly, though, with the object in their grasp, Corazon of all people started to have second thoughts, because while he does very much want all the money and the rubies, he doesn’t really trust Professor Shoelacey. The guy’s giving him a bad vibe. Hengist, seeing him dithering, steered him around so he couldn’t see the safe, telling him it was gonna be fine, just chill –
And then used the Spirit Weapon spell to conjure an astral hammer-hammer and smash open the safe with one massive blow. XD Corazon was like “dude if I turn around and that safe is smashed” and Hengist was just like :3c XD So everyone crowded around for a look at the deeply magical pocket watch within –
Which suddenly snapped open. And (with the help of a D4) noted Prudence as someone with a direct line to some pretty intense magical power. My initial thought was that “oh no, Prudence is getting another evil magical baby to take care of–”
Nope – the watch turned Prudence into an evil magical baby! Everyone was appropriately shocked to see a sudden baby Prudence tangled up in her own cloak with one fang peeping out of her mouth. Prudence – still with her adult consciousness and spells but lacking the power of speech unless she really tries (yes, there are official fucking rules for being a baby in this game, apparently) – was like “wtf I’m baby” and everyone was like “WTF YOU ARE BABY!” Corazon immediately started interrogating Simes, who professed to know nothing except that the watch was valuable, and kept trying to get Corazon to untie him. A frustrated Corazon kicked him again –
HE FUCKING DIED. LUKE ROLLED A TWO AND HE DIED. Corazon was immediately on the defensive, claiming anyone who died from a kick that light was practically dead from natural causes. Merilwen changed back to an elf to see if she could get anything from Simes’s cat now that their main lead was dead, but the cat, Silky, was just annoyed that the watch had taken up so much of Simes’s time and left him with a distinct lack of belly scritches. Meanwhile, Hengist and Corazon tried to contain Prudence, who was making the most of being baby by making scary faces at them, clawing them with her baby claws, and notably leaping off Corazon’s shoulders to Spider Climb around on the ceiling. Unfortunately, she fluffed the roll to stop Corazon getting her off the ceiling with a broomstick, and he promptly imprisoned her in a baby sling made from her own cloak. She was not happy. XD
So – with no more leads in Simes’s shop, it was agreed that their best option for getting Prudence back to her own age was to take the watch back to Professor Shoelacey. Merilwen invited Silky along, who consented only because, well, his owner was dead now, and she promised him they’d find him a new owner. Hengist picked up the watch carefully in a cloth and put it in a pocket, and the gang trekked back to the now very dark and spooky museum. However, before they met up with the professor, Corazon INSISTED on disguising one of the gift shop pocket watches he’d snatched to look like the actual cursed watch, because he still didn’t trust Shoelacey and wanted to see how he’d react. Shoelacey was waiting for them in the cursed objects wing, and was absolutely delighted to learn that the watch could turn people into babies, though he continually apologized because yes, Prudence being a baby isn’t great, but he’s going to write such a great paper on this! XD Merilwen tried to convince Corazon that Shoelacey was just a big old nerd and probably didn’t have any designs on them or the watch, but he still handed over the fake watch first –
And, naturally, since step one of determining the magical potential of the watch was to put it into the purple liquid bath of doom, it dissolved. Shoelacey was heartbroken, and Hengist and Corazon promptly went in HARD to see if he’d honor their original contract and hand over the gold and jewels. Prudence was rather put out that they might actually KEEP HER A BABY in favor of this extended “feeling the professor out,” and Merilwen got so fed up with their antics that she tried to pickpocket the actual watch away from Corazon. XD A poor roll meant that he noticed her reaching into his pocket – fortunately, Shoelacey noticed too, and has started inquiring if, by some strange accident, they gave him the wrong watch? It looks like Hengist is about to snap and admit they still have the real watch – come on guys, there’s only an hour left! You gotta unbaby Prudence, and if that means a second battle with a nerdy professor, so be it!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – took a while, as per usual, to gather all the dialogue I needed, but Alice has gotten past Skelter’s initial hostility and upstairs to where Nines is giving her the skinny on how he feels the Camarilla operates (pyramid scheme) and how they need to get rid of the rich fucks controlling everything. Which is a good sentiment that Alice agrees with, but unfortunately she’s on the verge of making a poorly-timed joke. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – another two-in, two-out tonight –
A) First up, Call Me Kevin with “I Forced Sims To Live In A One Tile Wide House!” Yes, we return to The Sims 4 and Kevin’s self Sim, as he set himself a building challenge where he would create a house where every room was only one tile wide! He could have MULTIPLE rooms, mind, but they all had to be one tile wide. As you might imagine, things got weird very quickly. XD Like, he had no room for a useable bed in the house, so he just put couches in their own little L-shaped corners so Sims could nap on the one usable seat. And when he decided to add a chess table, he ended up making this huge weird loop-de-loop hallway so that two Sims could sit down on either side – one taking the direct route, the other a rather more scenic route. And as he moved more and more people in, the place just kept getting more and more labyrinthine. . .and yes, he moved lots of people in! I mean, he started with his prisoner, Sara the pub owner, and then – to get a much-needed infusion of cash – he went ahead and invited over a familiar face from the Gallery!
Jim Pickens! XD Yup, Jim is back, though oddly he’s not being very murdery just yet. I mean, people started dying around him very quickly, but that’s just because Kevin held a house party in the middle of Winterfest and three people froze to death outside (including SimKevin’s fiancee/wife (I forget which, and I think Kevin did too)) rather than brave the house. XD And then, when Kevin decided to move in the entire Spencer-Kim-Lewis family, the father Eric ended up drowning because Kevin put a pool in one hallway to make them keep fit but still refused to try and fit a bed anywhere. And then the infant they’d had recently who’d been cordoned off at the edge of the pool got taken away. And then he accidentally followed matriarch Vivian to work and just killed her via Mother Plant at the police station so he could be sent home. And then, just because he discovered he could, he walled up the kid Olivia while she was sleeping on a couch. XD Basically, Jim things are happening, but they’re not happening because of Jim. Yet. XD But I’m looking forward to where this new save file takes us now! (And if he’ll ever figure out how to work the generator in his off-the-grid tangle-house. . .)
B) And then it was onto GrayStillPlays and “Karen's vs dangerous waterslides” in more Happy Wheels! We started with a bottle flip so packed with stuff (like “GSP-” and “Masocholism”) that he couldn’t figure out the win (turns out it was at the bottom of a ball-and-jet fall!), then moved onto a watermelon fall (where the multiplying watermelons got so bad that the moment he won, he also crashed his game); “Pogo Fight Neon” with the world’s most harpoon-laden secret win at the front and opponents like Tom Hardy, an old man, Steve from Minecraft, and a Florida Man with many MANY jets for the actual fight (Gray managed to get both wins, though it took many harpoons up the butt and at least one pulverizing from the jets); a perfectly-timed jump challenge where Pogo Man had to survive a cannon shot up a spike tunnel before performing a massive leap off the wall for the win (took many tries, but with an acrobatic leap akin to an eagle piloting a blimp, Gray eventually made it); a segway bottle fall where Gray had to take Nixon across a short bottle run, then go up before surviving the fall to the bottom (SOMEHOW he managed to leap high enough with Nixon he circumvented the ENTIRE BOARD and exploded upon contact with the win); a simple “Get in the Box Gray” challenge (that still took Gray a couple of tries to complete); a red-and-black rope swing with extra wrecking balls, skates, and spikes (Nixon kept losing his legs and Gray his mind); and finally a deadly superspeed water slide with so many obstacles it wasn’t even funny (except it was totally funny when Gray finally made it past with limbless pogo guy and said “Oh my God!” the moment it also popped up on the win XD). Delightful nonsense that I worry is going to inspire Danny and Alex over in GTA V. . .
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, in that I reset the queue speed back to one a day for my next couple of Victor Luvs Alice posts. No sign yet of the latest Wyrd Sisters Podcast episode on their tumblr, so I may be doing something different for Song Saturday – we shall see!
Yes, time management is still not exactly my best skill, but at least I got everything checked off, yay. And now it is time for me to head to bed so I can do all this (with some variations) over again tomorrow. Night all!
Work – Well, more credit card bullshit to deal with (also trying to figure out how a certain report displays things), but other than that, not too bad. Took a few credit card calls, cleared up a few items, started working on exceptions again – pretty standard stuff. Two more days!
Beanbags – Not today – kept looking like it was going to rain (we actually had a 50% chance of thunderstorms today, though they never materialized), so we didn’t head out. Perhaps tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike tonight, and back with the Oxventure Stream “Watch Out!” Simes just arrived and threatened the group with a letter opener to keep his treasure in the safe – Corazon just kicked the guy for a healthy amount of damage (as he is rather old and spindly) and tied him up with his Standard Adventurer’s Hempen Rope while Hengist healed up Merilwen and Prudence. Interestingly, though, with the object in their grasp, Corazon of all people started to have second thoughts, because while he does very much want all the money and the rubies, he doesn’t really trust Professor Shoelacey. The guy’s giving him a bad vibe. Hengist, seeing him dithering, steered him around so he couldn’t see the safe, telling him it was gonna be fine, just chill –
And then used the Spirit Weapon spell to conjure an astral hammer-hammer and smash open the safe with one massive blow. XD Corazon was like “dude if I turn around and that safe is smashed” and Hengist was just like :3c XD So everyone crowded around for a look at the deeply magical pocket watch within –
Which suddenly snapped open. And (with the help of a D4) noted Prudence as someone with a direct line to some pretty intense magical power. My initial thought was that “oh no, Prudence is getting another evil magical baby to take care of–”
Nope – the watch turned Prudence into an evil magical baby! Everyone was appropriately shocked to see a sudden baby Prudence tangled up in her own cloak with one fang peeping out of her mouth. Prudence – still with her adult consciousness and spells but lacking the power of speech unless she really tries (yes, there are official fucking rules for being a baby in this game, apparently) – was like “wtf I’m baby” and everyone was like “WTF YOU ARE BABY!” Corazon immediately started interrogating Simes, who professed to know nothing except that the watch was valuable, and kept trying to get Corazon to untie him. A frustrated Corazon kicked him again –
HE FUCKING DIED. LUKE ROLLED A TWO AND HE DIED. Corazon was immediately on the defensive, claiming anyone who died from a kick that light was practically dead from natural causes. Merilwen changed back to an elf to see if she could get anything from Simes’s cat now that their main lead was dead, but the cat, Silky, was just annoyed that the watch had taken up so much of Simes’s time and left him with a distinct lack of belly scritches. Meanwhile, Hengist and Corazon tried to contain Prudence, who was making the most of being baby by making scary faces at them, clawing them with her baby claws, and notably leaping off Corazon’s shoulders to Spider Climb around on the ceiling. Unfortunately, she fluffed the roll to stop Corazon getting her off the ceiling with a broomstick, and he promptly imprisoned her in a baby sling made from her own cloak. She was not happy. XD
So – with no more leads in Simes’s shop, it was agreed that their best option for getting Prudence back to her own age was to take the watch back to Professor Shoelacey. Merilwen invited Silky along, who consented only because, well, his owner was dead now, and she promised him they’d find him a new owner. Hengist picked up the watch carefully in a cloth and put it in a pocket, and the gang trekked back to the now very dark and spooky museum. However, before they met up with the professor, Corazon INSISTED on disguising one of the gift shop pocket watches he’d snatched to look like the actual cursed watch, because he still didn’t trust Shoelacey and wanted to see how he’d react. Shoelacey was waiting for them in the cursed objects wing, and was absolutely delighted to learn that the watch could turn people into babies, though he continually apologized because yes, Prudence being a baby isn’t great, but he’s going to write such a great paper on this! XD Merilwen tried to convince Corazon that Shoelacey was just a big old nerd and probably didn’t have any designs on them or the watch, but he still handed over the fake watch first –
And, naturally, since step one of determining the magical potential of the watch was to put it into the purple liquid bath of doom, it dissolved. Shoelacey was heartbroken, and Hengist and Corazon promptly went in HARD to see if he’d honor their original contract and hand over the gold and jewels. Prudence was rather put out that they might actually KEEP HER A BABY in favor of this extended “feeling the professor out,” and Merilwen got so fed up with their antics that she tried to pickpocket the actual watch away from Corazon. XD A poor roll meant that he noticed her reaching into his pocket – fortunately, Shoelacey noticed too, and has started inquiring if, by some strange accident, they gave him the wrong watch? It looks like Hengist is about to snap and admit they still have the real watch – come on guys, there’s only an hour left! You gotta unbaby Prudence, and if that means a second battle with a nerdy professor, so be it!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – took a while, as per usual, to gather all the dialogue I needed, but Alice has gotten past Skelter’s initial hostility and upstairs to where Nines is giving her the skinny on how he feels the Camarilla operates (pyramid scheme) and how they need to get rid of the rich fucks controlling everything. Which is a good sentiment that Alice agrees with, but unfortunately she’s on the verge of making a poorly-timed joke. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – another two-in, two-out tonight –
A) First up, Call Me Kevin with “I Forced Sims To Live In A One Tile Wide House!” Yes, we return to The Sims 4 and Kevin’s self Sim, as he set himself a building challenge where he would create a house where every room was only one tile wide! He could have MULTIPLE rooms, mind, but they all had to be one tile wide. As you might imagine, things got weird very quickly. XD Like, he had no room for a useable bed in the house, so he just put couches in their own little L-shaped corners so Sims could nap on the one usable seat. And when he decided to add a chess table, he ended up making this huge weird loop-de-loop hallway so that two Sims could sit down on either side – one taking the direct route, the other a rather more scenic route. And as he moved more and more people in, the place just kept getting more and more labyrinthine. . .and yes, he moved lots of people in! I mean, he started with his prisoner, Sara the pub owner, and then – to get a much-needed infusion of cash – he went ahead and invited over a familiar face from the Gallery!
Jim Pickens! XD Yup, Jim is back, though oddly he’s not being very murdery just yet. I mean, people started dying around him very quickly, but that’s just because Kevin held a house party in the middle of Winterfest and three people froze to death outside (including SimKevin’s fiancee/wife (I forget which, and I think Kevin did too)) rather than brave the house. XD And then, when Kevin decided to move in the entire Spencer-Kim-Lewis family, the father Eric ended up drowning because Kevin put a pool in one hallway to make them keep fit but still refused to try and fit a bed anywhere. And then the infant they’d had recently who’d been cordoned off at the edge of the pool got taken away. And then he accidentally followed matriarch Vivian to work and just killed her via Mother Plant at the police station so he could be sent home. And then, just because he discovered he could, he walled up the kid Olivia while she was sleeping on a couch. XD Basically, Jim things are happening, but they’re not happening because of Jim. Yet. XD But I’m looking forward to where this new save file takes us now! (And if he’ll ever figure out how to work the generator in his off-the-grid tangle-house. . .)
B) And then it was onto GrayStillPlays and “Karen's vs dangerous waterslides” in more Happy Wheels! We started with a bottle flip so packed with stuff (like “GSP-” and “Masocholism”) that he couldn’t figure out the win (turns out it was at the bottom of a ball-and-jet fall!), then moved onto a watermelon fall (where the multiplying watermelons got so bad that the moment he won, he also crashed his game); “Pogo Fight Neon” with the world’s most harpoon-laden secret win at the front and opponents like Tom Hardy, an old man, Steve from Minecraft, and a Florida Man with many MANY jets for the actual fight (Gray managed to get both wins, though it took many harpoons up the butt and at least one pulverizing from the jets); a perfectly-timed jump challenge where Pogo Man had to survive a cannon shot up a spike tunnel before performing a massive leap off the wall for the win (took many tries, but with an acrobatic leap akin to an eagle piloting a blimp, Gray eventually made it); a segway bottle fall where Gray had to take Nixon across a short bottle run, then go up before surviving the fall to the bottom (SOMEHOW he managed to leap high enough with Nixon he circumvented the ENTIRE BOARD and exploded upon contact with the win); a simple “Get in the Box Gray” challenge (that still took Gray a couple of tries to complete); a red-and-black rope swing with extra wrecking balls, skates, and spikes (Nixon kept losing his legs and Gray his mind); and finally a deadly superspeed water slide with so many obstacles it wasn’t even funny (except it was totally funny when Gray finally made it past with limbless pogo guy and said “Oh my God!” the moment it also popped up on the win XD). Delightful nonsense that I worry is going to inspire Danny and Alex over in GTA V. . .
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, in that I reset the queue speed back to one a day for my next couple of Victor Luvs Alice posts. No sign yet of the latest Wyrd Sisters Podcast episode on their tumblr, so I may be doing something different for Song Saturday – we shall see!
Yes, time management is still not exactly my best skill, but at least I got everything checked off, yay. And now it is time for me to head to bed so I can do all this (with some variations) over again tomorrow. Night all!
